Volume 1 Chapter 139 (1/2)
Last chance
After learning from Vivian that she got this from an elder female elf, Xu Yi immediately had Vivian bring him to find that female elf.
The answer Xu Yi received from that female elf made him very happy.
Because elves had the good relationship with plants, they had a very good understanding of how to use the characteristics of the plant. The toy made of resin was just to entertain the elves when they were bored, it wasn’t something rare at all.
This answer made Xu Yi instantly think of countless possibilities, so he went to look for elder Illusia again without any hesitation.
Xu Yi wanted to ask elder Illusia to learn the elves’ method for refining the resin, but he was told that the method they used was a magic that only the elves could use and humans couldn’t learn itk at all.
After Xu Yi tried, he learned that the magic did conform to the specialties of the elf race and humans couldn’t learn it at all, so he could only give up.
After considering it, Xu Yi decided to take a step back. He hoped that the Night Song Elf Tribe that elder Illusia was in charge of could help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce make magic machines that could be used to refine resin.
The outer layer of the magic machines wasn’t hard to make, but the most important core which was the Magic Array used to refine resin could only be made by the elves, so he needed help from the elves.
Actually it had to be said that Xu Yi had another choice, which was to follow the method from earth, putting in additives and coagulants to create a synthetic resin. But Xu Yi wasn’t familiar with making plastic and he didn’t know how to make the additives, or how much to put in. Secondly, this method had a strong polluting factor that Xu Yi didn’t like. Moreover, by using the magic of the elves, he didn’t need to add high temperatures or use complicated methods, he just simply needed to add magic. The resin would then melt into a liquid and could be freely formed.
The more important thing was that although the elves currently used this to refine small toys, Xu Yi could see that this meant the elves could research new magic that would turn the resin into different shapes.
So Xu Yi hoped that the Night Song Tribe would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce research a series of resin forming magic. It was best if they could form different Magic Arrays based on different requirements for the form.
For Xu Yi’s request, elder Illusia just considered it before agreeing.
The elves lived in the forest and it was quite boring other than hunting for food each day. Helping Xu Yi complete this research would give their tribe something to do, while it could also be considered repayment to Xu Yi.
“Elder Illusia, it isn’t enough if it is just this.” Hearing elder Illusia say that this was considered repayment, Xu Yi shook his head and laughed, “As a human merchant, I’m not that interested in the word repayment. If I had the choice, I like cooperation better.”
“Cooperation?” Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in a confused manner, “How can we elves cooperate with you humans?”
“Of course there’s a way. The so called cooperation is both sides working as per their ability and as per their needs. Look, your Night Song Tribe needs our power to change your river and solve your water problem and I also want something from you. Of the current things you have, other than the value that Agnes has, only this resing has value. Perhaps to you this resin is something that can be casually found and doesn’t have any value, but to me, this resin has a very high value. If it wasn’t for the power of your tribe, it would be very hard for me to display this value. So, we can cooperate.” Xu Yi paused before saying with a serious expression, “Elder Illusia, I sincerely hope that we can maintain a long term cooperation relationship. My goal is for both of us to profit, so whether it is me or your Night Song Tribe, we will both receive benefits from this cooperation.”
“Long term?” Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi with a bit of interest, “Chairman Xu, do you know what long term means to us elves? We elves have long lives, perhaps it can be considered a lifetime for you human.”
“Then I’ll work hard to cooperate until the day I die, what do you think?” Xu Yi said.
“The problem is that our tribe only needs to solve the problem of our water source.” Elder Illusia said with a faint smile, “Not to mention that we have already connected to the underground water, so we are not in a rush to solve this problem. To put it a bit more extreme, we can even leave the Falling Rain Forest and find another place to live. The Sines Continent is very big, we can easily find a new place to live.”
“Then if you meet the same water problem or another problem, will you move again?” Xu Yi asked back without any politeness, “Although the Sines Continent is very big, honourable elder, if you may allow me to be frank, the places you elves can live is already getting smaller and smaller. Could it be that you are planning to keep going like this?”