The male elf holding Xu Yi pointed his bow at Xu Yi and coldly shouted, "Human, immediately apologize for your disrespect, otherwise don't blame me for being impolite!"
The surrounding elves all had unhappy expressions as they coldly stared at Xu Yi.
Agnes was surprised. She quickly moved to Xu Yi's side and said in a low voice, "Chairman Xu, you ….. How can you say this to the elder?"
Xu Yi smiled at her, "Relax, the elder won't be angry because I'm speaking the truth."
Everyone turned to look at elder Illusia, but they didn't see any displeasure on her face. Rather she seemed very happy because of Xu Yi's words as she said with a faint smile, "Human, I just said that meaningless compliments have no meaning to me.
Although I don't look older than you, I'm actually over three hundred years old, old enough to be your great grandmother.
Do you think there's any meaning in praising me? "
Xu Yi shook his head, "No, I think the elder has misunderstood.
Although your beauty and temperament have indeed moved my heart, what I value the most is your wisdom and knowledge.
If I can learn a few things from you, I feel that this time is worth it.
Not to mention that the elves have a value that you haven't discovered yet, for example, her ….. "Xu Yi pointed at Agnes.
The group of elves looked at Agnes in surprise. Agnes just pointed at herself in a daze, not knowing what to do.
"I heard Agnes say that you wanted to use her as a reward for helping our tribe?"
When elder Elucía said this, Xu Yi, Stiel, and Vivian suddenly felt the surrounding temperature drop by quite a bit. The surrounding elves all released killing intent.
"Human, I want to give you a serious warning.
You humans have captured many elves as slaves before and we elves abhor this kind of thing. If you want to make this kind of request, I advise you to immediately leave this place.
Even if our tribe disappears from this world, I definitely won't agree to this request of yours. "
Seeing the surrounding elves' eyes filled with hostility, Xu Yi wanted to say something with a bitter smile, but Agnes quickly waved her hand and said, "Elder, you're mistaken.
Chairman Xu doesn't want me to be his slave, he just ….. just wants me to help him work. "
"Work?" Elder Elucía looked at Xu Yi in surprise.
"What kind of work can Agnes help you with?
She is still a child. "
Xu Yi said with a smile, "Respected elder Elucía, like I just said, Agnes has a value that you haven't discovered.
Let me give an example. In the half a month that Agnes has been by my side, she has helped me design a new product for our company.
This new product has only been sold for half a month, but it has already earned over 100,000 gold coins for our company. "
"A hundred thousand gold coins?"
Not only did the surrounding elves call out in surprise, even elder Elucía couldn't help opening her eyes wide. She asked in surprise, "You're saying that Agnes has helped your company earn a hundred thousand gold coins?"
"That isn't the case." Xu Yi shook his head.
"This new product contains the hard work of many people, it isn't just Agnes' work alone.
But from what I can see, Agnes has played the biggest role.
If we split this hundred thousand gold coins, Agnes' value is at least twenty thousand gold coins. "
Hearing Xu Yi give her such a high evaluation, Agnes couldn't help revealing a look of joy. She looked at Xu Yi with a smile.
"Twenty thousand gold coins ….." Elder Elucía gave a gentle nod, "Human, although I don't like you using gold coins to measure value, I admit that this description is easy to understand.
But even if Agnes has a strong value, I won't agree to give her to you.
You humans are very unfriendly to us elves, I don't think Agnes can safely live in your human world. "
Seeing elder Elucía's serious expression, Xu Yi could only sigh in his heart.
The gap between the elves and humans was too deep and their prejudice towards humans was too deep. Wanting to change these stubborn elves' impression of humans in a short period of time was impossible.
Thinking about it, Xu Yi gave up on this topic and revealed a smile. He pointed at the box being carried over by another male elf and said, "Alright, elder Elucía, before we finish our work, discussing rewards is a very boring matter. Let us first see how we can help you."
Elder Elucía nodded with a faint smile, "It seems like you're a human who doesn't like empty words. I like it very much.
Come with me. "
Elder Elucía led the way in front and the group entered the gap between two large trees. After taking a few steps, they saw a large hole appear in the small open space in front of them.
"We tried to use underground water, but when we dug ten meters deep, we encountered a very thick layer of rock.
The rock was too hard and even with my abilities, I couldn't move it, so we could only give up in the end. "Elder Elucía pointed at the large hole and said.
Xu Yi looked down from the hole and found that even with the light above him, he couldn't see what the bottom of the hole looked like.
"Elder Elucía, do you have a long enough rope?
I want to go down and take a look at the situation. "Xu Yi said.
Stiel on the side suddenly pulled on Xu Yi's sleeve and softly shook her head at him.
Seeing her worried expression, Xu Yi said with a smile, "Relax, with so many noble elves beside me, nothing will happen to me."
Elder Elucía revealed a faint smile, "Human, you don't need to use words to force us. We elves have our own principles."
After saying this, she said something to a male elf and that male elf quickly left. After a while, he came back with a long vine.
Xu Yi took one end of the vine and forcefully pulled it. He found that this vine was incomparably tough, it was even tougher than a nylon rope of the same thickness.
Tying the other end to his waist, Xu Yi prepared to dive into the hole to see what was going on.
Seeing that Xu Yi was about to climb down, Agnes suddenly charged out.
"Elder, let me go down with him?
If something happens, I can save him. "
Elder Elucía looked at Agnes with a surprised expression. After thinking about it, she nodded and said, "That's fine, we can't let the human guest take risks alone."
Stiel had a strange expression as she watched Agnes tie herself and Xu Yi together. She opened her mouth, but nothing came out in the end.
Vivian on the side said in a somewhat annoyed voice, "It would be great if I could be as agile as big sister Agnes."
Stiel looked at her and thought to herself, how could I not think the same? But the elves' agility was not only because of their natural talent, but also because they had lived in the forest since they were young, so they trained bit by bit. How could a normal human compare to them?
The two of them could only watch as Xu Yi and Agnes were almost face to face as they were pulled into the hole.
Hearing that Agnes wanted to go down with him, Xu Yi didn't have any special thoughts at first, but as they went deeper and deeper, the surroundings became darker and darker, and he could feel the changes around him more and more.
Feeling Agnes' body close to him and even feeling the breath coming out of Agnes' nostrils, even if Xu Yi was a wooden person, his heart couldn't help beating faster.
And in this dark environment, even the sound of his heartbeat could be clearly heard.
"Chairman Xu, are you afraid?" Agnes suddenly asked.
It would have been better if she didn't speak, but once she did, a breath came out of her mouth.
Of course it wasn't bad breath. Rather, this breath had a special fragrance of grass and wood that shook Xu Yi's mind when he smelled it.
Only like this, Xu Yi felt even more awkward. Not only did his heart beat faster, even a certain part of his body couldn't help reacting.
It was a good thing that this hole was only a few dozen meters deep. Xu Yi quickly felt his feet touch the ground and his heart calmed down.
Agnes reached out a finger and a green glow came from her finger, illuminating the bottom of the hole.
The hole the elves dug was quite spacious. The bottom was close to ten square meters, so there was still a lot of space for the two of them to move around.
With the light from Agnes' hand, Xu Yi carefully looked around. Then he squatted down and used his hand to dig up the dirt on the ground, revealing the hidden rock layer below.
Xu Yi first touched it with his hand. From the feel of it, the rock layer was not dense and was rather loose, so he couldn't help nodding his head in satisfaction.
This kind of rock layer, it didn't matter if it was a bit thick. He could definitely drill through it with the tools he brought.
Actually, according to logic, for a forest like the Falling Rain Forest, there shouldn't be this kind of rock layer below a few dozen meters. Not to mention that the elves lived on such a large tree. Just the roots of these trees were enough to make normal rock layers unable to exist, so this kind of situation didn't conform to Xu Yi's common sense.
But thinking that this wasn't earth and common sense from earth couldn't be applied, Xu Yi relaxed and didn't think about this problem.
After investigating, Xu Yi forcefully pulled on the vines tied to him and had the elves above the hole pull him and Agnes back up.
Looking at the expectant gazes of the elves and elder Elucía, Xu Yi nodded, "There shouldn't be a problem."
The elves immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and even Elder Illusia's face showed a trace of joy.
Xu Yi didn't care that much and opened the box he carried, revealing a machine that had a drill that was as thick as his arm.
Xu Yi raised the machine in his hand with difficulty and said to elder Elucía with a smile, "Honourable elder, please allow me to introduce this to you. This is the magic machine that our New Flyer specially developed to solve the problem your tribe encountered, it is called the small Magic Drill."