Chapter Thirteen The Poor Magician

"If I cooperate with you to play this boring game, will you let me go?"

God knows where Ciri had the courage to say such provocative words to the devil in front of him.

Ciri's character is like this, she will never bow down to anyone.

Anyway, her life was already in Qiao Xiu's hands, and the worst outcome would be a dead end... Uh, it seems really bad.

But the problem is that Ciri tried to get along with Qiao Xiu with a respectful attitude. The behavior style of those "noble bitches who wear a well-mannered appearance but are full of thoughts on how to seduce men" in the royal court, Xili reluctantly Strong can imitate a tenth.

In exchange for her own life, she found that there was no way she could do it.

Because she couldn't feel any threat or oppression from Joshua at all... There was no demon's contempt for human beings, nor the superior's contempt for servants.

This was the reason why she talked all over the train when communicating with Joshua, and her nature was completely exposed.

"That's right, I'll let you go free after this filming is complete."

Of course, Joshua understood the truth about whips and sugar. Give her a small hope, and she will work hard for it.

"But let me correct you a little bit, the next thing we're going to do is shoot a movie, not a game."

"A demon going to save those villagers is just passing the time with such things on a whim."

Shirley whispered this sentence to herself, but she didn't deliberately control her voice, it seemed that she wanted Joshua to hear it.

I've seen a lot of this kind of idle nobleman Shirley, I really should throw them all into the wilderness to survive in the wilderness, experience the days of eating tree bark to feed their hunger, and let them understand how precious time is.

Wait... Thinking of this, Shirley suddenly remembered that he hadn't eaten for almost a day.

The hunger in her abdomen made her give up the idea of ​​continuing to bicker with Joshua, and began to flip through the small package under the magic robe she was wearing.

Ciri found nothing to eat but a bunch of useless sketches and pens.

No, there is still half a piece of dry bark under the package!

Ciri's excitement was no less than that of the demon hunter Geralt who discovered a certain Gwent master. He just took out this piece of bark from his package, and before he had time to take a bite, he realized that Joshua was looking at it. There was something strange in her eyes.

"What? Have you ever seen the bark of a cocoa tree? This tree is a delicacy in the human world... um... I mean it."

Xili couldn't make it up anymore after talking about it. The side of him who was so poor that he had no money to eat was exposed in front of others, which really made Xili feel a little embarrassed.

"What I want to ask is that you drew this?"

Joshua was holding a blank piece of paper in his hand, which fell out when Shirley was rummaging through his package just now.

What was drawn on the white paper was a sketch landscape, a stream, a grove, a simple grill, and a campfire. The black and white tones perfectly outlined the scene of a camping picnic under the night sky.

"Where did you find it! Oh no, give it back to me!"

Shirley suddenly realized that it had fallen out of her bag, and she immediately stepped forward to snatch the painting from Joshua's hand.

But her identity as a magician and the blessing of the negative state of hunger meant that the chances of Shirley snatching the painting back from Joshua's hand were basically zero.

Not only did she fail to grab it, Shirley was too excited and rushed forward too quickly, causing her body to be unable to maintain balance, and she was about to fall face-to-face on the ground.

Joshua considered that the poor girl's little breasts might also be ruined because of this problem, so he politely stretched out his arms and wrapped them around Shirley's waist, letting her body It stabilized Ciri's balance.

This hug was only released at the touch of a touch, but Shirley still trembled all over, and immediately took several steps back.

It's the first time that Ciri has been touched by a man on such a sensitive part of her stomach when she grows up so big! It's just that before Shirley had time to pay attention to this problem, she found that the bark she was holding had fallen to the ground!

She quickly ran to Qiao Xiu's side, picked up the bark on the ground and patted it a few times.

should be no problem! Ciri once heard a well-known archmage say, 'It's okay to pick up food and eat it within three seconds after dropping it on the ground. '

"I said…"

Joshua squatted down and looked at Shirley like this, and already began to have some inexplicable sympathy for this poor lady magician.

How poor is this to gnaw bark every day?

"If you painted this painting, I can consider treating you to some meat."

Joshua put the painting in front of her and said.

It might be a delusion, when Joshua said "Please eat meat", Shirley's eyes suddenly lit up, and the reluctance just now was completely gone.

"That's right, I drew it."

Judging from Xili's excited look, Joshua really shouldn't have promised to 'let her go free' just now, but should have just used the words 'follow me from now on and make sure you have meat every day'.

"Can you sketch?"

In the beginning, Joshua really planned to release the magician lady after the filming was over, so that she could return to nature.

But the painting in Joshua's hand proved that Shirley was worthwhile for Joshua to keep her.

"Sketch? What is that? I drew this with the charcoal pencil used to draw the magic circle. I caught a few fish in the creek that day. The reason for drawing it... is to have a thought."

Ciri thought about it carefully, and finally used this method to explain.

As a traveling mage apprentice, she was not very rich, and the burden of the usual spellcasting materials left her in a state of poverty.

This kind of life has allowed Ciri to develop a good craft, she is especially good at catching fish with the lightning technique, and catching rabbits with the fire fog technique.

Another unique feature is that he can draw a little bit.

"Then did you learn all this by yourself?"

"If you don't learn it by yourself, who else can teach it? The paint used by those court painters alone can cover my living expenses for 20 years. If they teach me, I guess I can't pay for it with 50 years of living expenses." rise."

"Very well, perhaps I would like to employ you formally, Miss Ciri."

Qiao Xiu didn't expect that this female magician would be a talented painter.

It is very easy to learn sketching, but it is very difficult to learn it finely. This painting of Xili undoubtedly entered the range of 'exquisite'.

You must know that if you want to learn painting and sketching, it is the most basic skill. Maybe some painting geniuses skipped the stage of sketching, but Qiao Xiu really learned painting in ten years of sketching and five years of thick painting.

Considering that Qiao Xiu will continue to develop towards game design in the future, no matter how many people can draw, there will be no shortage of talents.

"Employment? Uh... didn't you say that you would let me go after the filming was over?"

Shirley took a bite of the bark she was holding. She didn't seem to believe Joshua's various promises to her, including the phrase 'buy her to eat meat'.

And the so-called employment here must be synonymous with slavery!

"Whether you want it or not is up to you, but I think the price I offer will definitely satisfy you." Qiao Xiu said.

"What price?"

"Guarantee your food money for the rest of your life."

In order to expand his cultural invasion business in the future, he will definitely need a lot of talents. Qiao Xiu has not yet drawn up specific employment conditions, but this sentence is enough to move Xili's heart.