According to Vivi, she was considered quite powerful in that world.
And Yue Ling was even stronger than her.
In a world with extraordinary powers, the value of a strong individual should be more than a thousand tons of grain, right?
Su Yi hadn't thought much about it before, since the trading platform guaranteed Vivi couldn't pull any tricks.
But now that he thought about it carefully, he still felt something was off.
Since the person in question was right there, he directly voiced his doubts.
Yue Ling wasn't surprised he would ask this, and calmly replied:
"Because continuing to stay there, with my strength alone, wouldn't provide much help to Princess Vivi and would instead be a burden."
"The allied forces attacking Mengchuan City have many reasons for starting this war, and I happen to be one of them. As long as I leave Mengchuan City, the part of the allied forces targeting me will withdraw, greatly reducing the pressure on Mengchuan City."
"Before, I had nowhere to go. Princess Vivi, out of friendship with the elves and with me personally, took me in despite the immense pressure. Now that there's a better place for me to survive and alleviate the pressure on Mengchuan City, I naturally won't ask for more."
"So, your identity is unusual?" Su Yi looked at the beautiful elf with some surprise.
He thought Yue Ling was just Vivi's maid or personal guard, someone that Vivi, as a lord, could casually sell to another world.
Now it seemed there was more to the story.
"That's another story." Yue Ling smiled helplessly and briefly explained the ins and outs of the matter.
It wasn't complicated, just a typical story of internal strife within a race.
Her Moon Elf tribe used to be the most powerful tribe in the Elf Kingdom, controlling the most important Spring of Life for the elves.
Later, a tribe called the Dark Elves, allied with the beastmen, defeated the Moon Elves and became the new masters of the Elf Kingdom.
Yue Ling being a princess of a fallen kingdom was one thing, but on the eve of the kingdom's fall, the Moon Elf tribe's high priest used magical means to seal the core of the Elf Spring of Life, something called "Vitality," within Yue Ling, and had her take away all the spring water accumulated in the Spring of Life.
What does this mean?
The water from the Spring of Life flows into the lake, diluted countless times, becoming the world-renowned Moon Lake. The water in the lake isn't called water, it's called Life Essence.
Life Essence, diluted countless times again, is the kind of Life Water that Vivi traded to Su Yi before.
It could be said that this Spring of Life was the Elf race's most precious treasure.
After losing its most essential component, it has now come to a standstill.
No wonder the new masters of the Elf Kingdom were searching high and low for her, the former princess, forcing Vivi to send her to another world.
"I understand, more or less."
After understanding Yue Ling's identity and background, Su Yi no longer had any doubts about the trade.
If he had to say something, it was that he felt he might have lost out.
He was doing Vivi a big favor by accepting Yue Ling to Blue Star, yet this woman still asked him for a thousand tons of grain.
What a terrible conscience!
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After a brief mutual understanding and explaining some precautions to Yue Ling, Su Yi left the warehouse with her.
Su Yi didn't have a very specific idea of how strong Yue Ling was.
However, after seeing her casually twist a rebar as thick as a baby's arm into a twist in the corner of the warehouse, he knew he was safe.
With Yue Ling around to protect him, those underground forces that couldn't be brought to the table definitely couldn't do anything to him.
He could safely sell all the gold he had through Lao Liu's connections.
This kind of thing should be done sooner rather than later, so Su Yi immediately contacted Lao Liu again and requested to trade twenty kilograms of gold.
This time, Lao Liu didn't dare to agree directly, only saying that he had to ask the boss above and asked Su Yi to wait for news.
This was expected, so he wasn't surprised.
After all these things were settled, Su Yi realized that he suddenly had nothing to do for a while.
It was a little after five in the evening.
He looked at Yue Ling, who was sitting quietly in the passenger seat:
"Did you bring a change of clothes? Or should I take you to buy a few sets of clothes?"
"There's a special magic circle in this dress of mine that can self-clean, so I don't need to change clothes." Yue Ling shook her head absentmindedly.
Although this was just the suburbs of Jiangcheng, the various buildings and vehicles on the road still shocked this visitor from another world.
Before coming, when she heard Vivi was going to send her to a strange world, she never expected she would come to such a strange place.
Everything here seemed different from where she used to be.
It was inevitable that she would be attracted to all kinds of novel things.
However, she was introverted. Seeing that Su Yi was constantly communicating with others on his phone and was also driving, looking very busy, she didn't directly ask.
Good stuff!
Su Yi took the time to glance at the beautiful long dress she was wearing and decided that he had to get some of these things from Vivi in the future.
Clothes that don't need to be washed will definitely sell like crazy.
But one thing is another, regarding the matter of buying clothes, Su Yi still insisted:
"Your clothes are quite different from the mainstream fashion style here. If you keep wearing this, you'll inevitably look out of place when you go out. Let's go buy you a few sets."
It was reasonable and convincing.
Yue Ling didn't have to insist on wearing her own clothes all the time, and said gently when she heard this:
"Okay, I'll listen to your arrangements."
Su Yi nodded in satisfaction when he heard this and drove straight to the mall.
Black silk, white silk, JK, OL... he couldn't imagine how good Yue Ling, who looked like a perfect clothes rack at first glance, would look wearing these.
Ahem, actually, these are just incidental. Su Yi mainly wanted to get her a few sets of clothes so she wouldn't look so out of place and help her quickly integrate and get used to modern life, that's all.
And besides clothes, he had to get her some other things.
Like a mobile phone or something.
This is a necessity for integrating into Blue Star's life. She can learn slowly if she doesn't know how to use it.
Anyway, Su Yi isn't short of money now.
As for the language barrier, it's easier to solve.
He had seen in the trading platform's points store before that there was a lower-level item than the [Universal Language Comprehension Card], called the [World Language Comprehension Card], which could allow a person to quickly master all the languages of a world after use.
It only costs 10 points.
Currently, Su Yi has completed one transaction with Vivi, and he has obtained 8 points.
At this rate, he thinks that after trading those ten tons of fruits, vegetables, and meat, or the remaining thousand tons of flour, he will have enough points.
He'll get her one then.
This is much simpler than directly teaching her how to learn Kyushu language from scratch.
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