As for that [Advanced Backpack Blueprint] with one hundred thousand slots, it was even more expensive. One sheet actually cost 200 Dragon Coins.
The stall owner was an old woman wearing a black cloak.
Her appearance was extremely strange.
She looked a bit like an old witch, and one of her eyes was blind. Only the white of the eye was visible, with no black pupil at all.
Ethan could not even bring himself to make eye contact with her. Just one glance made him feel uncomfortable.
Since he could not afford it, Ethan did not waste any time.
He continued strolling through the free market. But soon, he discovered that throughout the entire free market, stalls selling food were extremely scarce.
Aside from the grass cake stall he saw right after entering, Ethan only spotted one other stall selling soup, with a large pot set up and some firewood placed underneath.
Inside the big iron pot on top, a pitch-black soup was being boiled.
The soup continued to heat, occasionally bubbling up with "glug! glug!" sounds and black bubbles.
But when Ethan walked closer, he smelled an overwhelmingly fishy stench.
It was like overnight raw oyster shells, so foul it made your face turn purple.
'People actually drink this stuff?'
[Nourishing Human-Faced Fish Soup: This is a kind of human-faced fish that grows in filthy ditches. Dwarves raise them in large water vats, feeding them rotten food and letting them grow freely! When there are so many human-faced fish that the vat can no longer hold them, the dwarves grind them all into mush and throw it into a big pot to boil into fish soup.]
[PS: Although the taste of this human-faced fish is quite average, its nutritional value is extremely good. Especially because it eats all kinds of rotten food year-round, it is rich in all kinds of ABCDEFG. For travelers who cannot intake various nutrients, this is a very good food supplement.]
"One bowl of fish soup!"
A goblin walked up to the dwarf who was boiling the soup and tossed it a Dragon Coin.
Only then did the dwarf hop up onto a wooden box beside the pot, grip a big ladle with both hands, and laboriously stir the soup.
Then it scooped out a huge ladleful and poured it into a large iron basin placed on the table beside it.
At that moment, Ethan even saw a human face roll up to the surface of the soup.
That face had a nose and a mouth, and even eyebrows and eyelashes. The eyeballs, having been boiled for too long, had already turned white and were bulging outward.
"Blech!"
Even though he knew this was not a real human face. The instant he saw that eerie face float to the surface of the soup, Ethan really wanted to vomit.
But the goblin beside him did not care at all. It lifted the large iron basin and gulped down the human-faced fish soup, "glug! glug! glug!" even chewing up the parts of the human face that had not been fully boiled soft before swallowing them directly.
"Burp~"
The goblin let out a satisfied burp.
Only then did it nod to the dwarf in satisfaction and leave.
"..."
Ethan could not help but suspect.
'This Mist World is probably a textbook example of a culinary wasteland.'
He even began to wonder whether the people of this world knew what good food was.
'If I can open a food shop in this world… I will probably make a fortune.'
"Milk from an Angry Cow!"
"For just 10 Dragon Coins, you can buy 10 liters of Angry Cow milk!"
A loud hawking cry rang out from the bustling free market. Ethan looked in the direction of the shout.
Sure enough, it was another dwarf.
It seemed that in the Fog World, dwarves were probably a race particularly good at doing business.
He saw a dwarf sitting on the back of a cow. The cow's entire body was fiery red, with only a single horn growing right in the middle of its head, and its face looked extremely angry.
The Angry Cow was also constantly snorting from its huge nostrils, sounding like a car with a bad engine.
Behind the Angry Cow was a wooden cart, and on it were two more Angry Cows that were chained up.
Under their bodies hung large udders, which were probably full of milk. They were so swollen that they sagged heavily beneath them, looking like water-filled balloons.
"This milk-selling method is actually kind of interesting."
Ethan sighed. The things sold in this world really were quite special.
Selling milk by dragging the cows directly to the market. Was it because they were afraid people would think the milk was not fresh?
[No, it's purely because there are no suitable containers.]
"..."
All right, once again, the people of this world win.
Then what do they plan to use to hold the milk when they buy it?
Before the system could respond, Ethan heard a gentle female voice say, "Hello, could I please have a bucket of milk? Thank you."
Ethan turned his head…
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He felt his heart suddenly skip a beat.
Because the girl buying milk in front of him was actually an elf girl, unbelievably beautiful. Not only did she have extremely fair skin, she also had a stunningly gorgeous face.
She was even more beautiful than those international superstars on television. Even the famous elf goddess Shavanna could not compare to her.
Her peerless aura could instantly melt the hearts of all men.
[Elf Race: I advise you not to provoke them. This race is famously contemptuous of humans. They believe that once elves fall, they will become humans and will no longer receive the favor of the true gods.]
[PS: Elves possess a bewitching ability. When you see him or her for the first time, it is very easy to be captivated by their appearance. But once you truly interact with them, you will discover that elves are not as simple as you imagine.]
The moment Ethan saw the prompt, he quickly snapped back to his senses.
'Women really are dangerous. Whether human or elf, I almost fell for it.'
After regaining his clarity, Ethan noticed that the elf girl was holding a weathered wooden bucket and had placed it in front of the dwarf.
Only then did the dwarf take the bucket and start milking the cow for the elf girl.
When the dwarf touched the Angry Cow's udder on the cart, the Angry Cow immediately kicked its legs in irritation and kept snorting, looking like it might erupt in anger at any moment.
And at that very moment, the elf girl merely gently stroked the Angry Cow's head, and it immediately became docile, even rubbing its head against the elf girl's hand.
But Ethan noticed that at the instant the elf girl touched the cow's head, a faint mist spread out from her hand. It was very subtle, but it still did not escape Ethan's eyes. He also noticed that the Angry Cow's gaze became somewhat vacant.
It was as if the cow was not truly no longer angry, but rather had been controlled by some kind of drug.
[Calming Flower Pollen: A type of pollen that can calm humans or beasts. Because elves are a peaceful race and dislike war, they plant large numbers of calming flowers around their residences. Whether human or beast, once they enter the range of the calming flowers, they will immediately become peaceful and serene.]
[PS: After long-term inhalation of calming flower pollen, a person will remain in a constant state of sage mode, never able to get excited again.]
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