Chapter 424 82. Torture in the Purchasing Department
The street barbecue sprinkled with spices was handed to Annan.
Annan took a bite with satisfaction and replied to Olin: "What I eat is not food, but memories."
"...I want one too."
I don’t know whether it was Annan’s emotions or "The Fall of the Wizard Tower" that touched her. Olin, who showed sadness after coming out of the theater, also asked for a copy. She and Annan stood on the side of the road, chewing like no aristocrat at all. Take a bite.
"I can't eat it."
"Because these are my memories."
Whether magical images or food, they are the few things that make Annan homesick. But just like the magic image adapted beyond recognition, the barbecue mixed with different aromas, without exception, told Annan that he could not go back.
“I always thought you were just like other lords.”
The magic image allowed Olin to see a different Annan - the charming side.
"Let's go to the purchasing department."
Annan, who has a huge sum of money, seems to have bad intentions towards everyone now.
Olin took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth gracefully, then got on her horse and headed to the Imperial Procurement Department. She occasionally slowed down a little and looked at Annan by the window, seeming to compare with the vague figure in her heart.
The appearance of the Imperial Procurement Department is like a piece of iron felt, and the footsteps of the standard leather boots of the Imperial officials passing by make people feel solemn.
Olin took Annan to the hall on the iron felt side.
This place seems less spacious than the outside, because it is divided into different reception rooms, and the figures entering and exiting the hall are either nobles or rich people.
Olin got a pale golden wood chip for Annan - what distinguished it from other wood chips was that there was no number on it.
"Just enter a room and tell the material officer what you want."
"Aren't you with me?"
"You also have one application qualification."< br>
Annan had no choice but to walk into a room by himself. Orin stopped outside and listened to Annan's voice coming from inside:
"I am Annan Reeves, and I want to apply for an arcane energy core."< br>
The supplies officer didn't even raise his head: "Please take out your number plate."
Annan handed over the light golden wood piece. The material officer's attitude became better, but he still didn't raise his head: "Please take out your high-level material order."
"What is that?"
The material officer seemed to have faced this question countless times: he answered in a formulaic and smooth manner, "The high-level material order is the voucher required to purchase high-level materials. You can apply for the high-level material order at the processing department."
Annan doesn't want to know that What is it, he just wants to get his entrance qualification to the Floating City as soon as possible.
"Do you know me?"
The material officer raised his eyelids lazily: "Champion Warlock? That's great, my daughter likes your Jack very much."
A good start.
Annan showed Jack's charming smile: "Thank you, is she also a student of the Royal Academy of Magic in Montreal?"
"No." The material officer lowered his head again, as if there was something attracting him on the parchment in front of him, "Please apply for a high-level supplies order first, and the next one-"
"I am a champion warlock..." Annan hinted.
"Sorry, this is the Imperial Procurement Department!" the material officer shouted loudly, as if Annan was the one who broke the rules, "No one has privileges in the Procurement Department!"
"Sorry... ”
Annan almost had respect for the material officer - if he hadn't seen the scene of his laziness earlier.
After exiting the room, Annan looked at Ou Lin helplessly: "You still have to come."
"I won't succeed either." Ou Lin shook her head.
"You can, because your surname is Montreal. Without you, maybe it would have taken me a few days just to queue up."
Annan has not experienced a similar situation, but Ingrid Te said many times with an expression of disgust towards moths - even Xingyue Bay at that time could not avoid it.
"How about making a bet. If he sells it to you, use your quota to buy it."
Annan, who thought it was lost if he didn't pick up the money when he went out, realized that this was a good opportunity.
But Ou Lin did not make this bet with Annan. She left briefly and came back briefly, bringing the high-end material order Annan needed.
"Actually, I won..." Annan took the high-level material order that Ou Lin got without any effort, and returned to the room without saying anything.
"I brought a high-level supplies order." Annan said.
The supplies officer didn't even raise his head: "Please take out your number plate."
"Oh damn..."
...
Annan He sat down at the table again and handed the number plate and high-level supplies order to the supplies officer in turn.
The supplies officer put a form together with the high-level supplies order: "Mr. Annan Reeves, your application has been approved. Please pay the purchase fee, 440,000 gold coins.
"Isn't it 400,000 gold coins? ! "
The material officer said formulaically: "According to the "Remote Tax Increase Act" submitted by the Ministry of Military Affairs passed by the empire on December 1, 999 in the Saint Laurent calendar, you have to pay an additional 10% tax, which is a total of It costs 440,000 gold to purchase. ”
“ Far tax imposed on the purchaser? ”
The material officer did not answer this stupid question.
"Everyone wants it?"
"Everyone wants it."
"I'll go out for a while." Annan snatched the number plate and high-level material order before the material officer could react, and returned Next to Orin.
“Did you hear everything?”
“Come in with me.”
Ou Lin directly took away Annan's things and entered the room: "I need an arcane energy core."
What made her heart sink was that the material officer who raised his head immediately prepared flatteringly, what? Neither wanted it.
"Why not give it to Annan?" she couldn't help but ask.
"Uh...Your Highness, we have to follow the rules——"
"Don't use excuses to prevaricate me."
Ou Lin has never seen it, but it’s not that she doesn’t know about it.
The material officer showed a cautiousness that Annan had never seen before: "Your Highness, his recent limelight has made some big shots dissatisfied..."
A strange sound came from the side, and Annan shook his shoulders. He let out a sinister laugh of "Ouch, Ouch, Ouch".
"Don't be like an idiot." Olin said angrily, frowning and continued to ask: "So you deliberately targeted him?"
"Absolutely not! Your Highness, I am here for everything. Follow the rules!”
"Okay, give me the proof of purchase."
"Okay, a total of four hundred thousand gold coins..."
"Four hundred thousand?"
"Yes, Your Highness, a member of the royal family No need to pay remote tax..."
Olin's eyebrows didn't even stretch until Annan successfully received the purchase certificate.
Looking at the parchment in his hand, after working for almost a whole morning, Annan finally got the purchase certificate for the arcane energy core.
"How did you know?"
Olin asked on the way to the other side of the "iron felt".
"It should be said that you don't know." Annan took the opportunity to ridicule Ou Lin, who was mocking her lack of knowledge.
“Is this common?”
"To be honest, I don't know either." Annan sighed, "Neither you nor I are ordinary people. But I know that the bottom nest has always existed."
Olin stopped talking. Rushing to the warehouse, Annan handed over the purchase certificate and paid 400,000 gold.
“We will deliver the goods to your address within one day.”
(End of Chapter)