"Bring me a Long Island iced tea, thank you."
Some time later in the evening, Wuxing Quetu, who had brought Duan Qing and others to the street area of Ya'er Street on the south side of the city, also passed through the crowd that had become sparser and deserted, skillfully pushing aside.
Looking at the wooden door of the tavern marked with the words "Blue Mountain": "What do you want?"
"It's my treat anyway, it doesn't matter what you want."
Duan Qing took the order handed over by the martial arts swordsman with an expressionless face. Duan Qing curled his lips and replied: "And there are five of us in total. Why should I be the only one here...what?"
He looked back at Asahi Dongsheng and Gedman, who had found their seats and sat down, and raised their glasses and started cheering, and his expression became a little crazy: "Why are you moving so fast?"
"Because we have no public funds at all, this burden can only be borne by you." Answering the question on behalf of the two people, Xueling Huanbing, who was also sitting on the other side of the bar, also showed a smile.
Smile: "And"
"You should be very familiar with this kind of thing, right?"
Pulling her chin and half-turning around, the white-haired woman unconsciously assumed an elegant posture, and her blinking eyes showed an expression of interest, as if she was hinting to the other party in this way.
What should I do when I get down? I stood there with my hands on my hips and looked at each other helplessly for a while. Duan Qing then flattened his mouth and brought the wine list in front of him. His originally emotionless eyes, after looking up and down for a period of time,
Dian Dian became surprised: "Here, the names of these wines don't look like wines in the free world?"
"That's right, the wine here is all wine from the real world." Having already held up his own glass of cocktail in front of him, Wu Xing Que Tu heard the sound and explained with a chuckle: "This tavern is also a tavern opened by players.
It is very famous both in Tania and other places."
"A tavern opened by players?" Duan Qing blinked his eyes hard, and began to observe the surroundings of this tavern: "Speaking of which, I seem to remember that there was a shop opened by players in Tania, and its name was
Although it’s called Blue Mountain, it seems to be a coffee shop.”
"Because coffee shops don't make much money." Wiping his wine glass, the bartender standing behind the bar then pointed to the ID above his head. While answering this question, he emphasized his identity as a player.
: "Later, we discovered more plants and materials in this world that could be used to make cocktails, so we switched to opening a tavern."
"What do the two guests need?"
He smiled at Duan Qing, and pointed at the wine list in Duan Qing's hand while wiping the wine glass. The gray-robed magician, who was reminded again, also had an embarrassed smile on his face, and he spoke again slightly hastily.
His eyes fell on the familiar names: "Pina Colada, Gin and Tonic...well, there's also Gray Goose, Jack Daniel's...Do you have such a complete range of wines?"
"I hope you like it." Shi Shiran bent down and saluted, and the bartender nodded quietly: "If it suits your taste, you are welcome to come often in the future."
"...What a nostalgic name." It seemed that because of the names on the wine list, he fell into other memories that were very far away from him. Duan Qing's eyes fell on the wine list and became much softer: "
Anyway, that’s all you have to pay.”
"Let's have a cup of White Bird." His gaze fixed on a certain place while he was looking up and down. Then he pointed in the direction of Xueling Huanbing, who was holding his arms on the side: "As for her, just give her a cup of apple caramel.
Already."
"Hey, I don't really like this kind of sweet and greasy stuff." She made a protesting voice, but Xue Ling Huan Bing still maintained an expectant smile on her face: "Why don't you give me a glass of tequila?
?”
"No, you shouldn't learn to taste this spicy taste." Shaking his head, Duan Qing turned around and sat next to the other party: "And too high a concentration is very harmful to the body, no matter how much you drink.
"
"This is a game world, and all the effects of drunkenness are simulated." Xueling Huanbing protested reluctantly: "Are you going to deprive me of my right to enjoy life here?"
"This time it's my treat, so I have the final say." He waved his hand in front of the bartender who was leaving with a smile. Duan Qing squinted his eyes and insisted, "Who just made such a show?"
I want you to have some fun with this wine? So I can only deal with it according to your little girls’ preferences.”
"Next time if you come to treat me, I won't care even if you order a glass of absinthe."
Ignoring Xue Ling Huan Bing's fist that landed on his shoulder, he forcibly put away the smile that appeared at the corner of his mouth. The action of clearing his throat also erased the nostalgia in his eyes, while looking at the five elements.
Quetu was sipping and looking at the faces here with a smile: "Okay, it's your turn."
"Do you know the whereabouts of Mengzhu?"
He put his left arm on the bar and waited quietly for the other party's answer. Wu Xing Que Tu, who had already drank half of the wine in his hand, also put away his eyes as if watching the fun and lifted the high stem of his glass.
He gently placed it on the bar: "It can't be regarded as knowing. After all, we are not roundworms in the opponent's stomach. We can only tell you the conclusions we have drawn based on the information we have learned."
"A month ago, a battle broke out at the south gate of Tania." His eyes left Duan Qing's gaze on him and fell on the wine glass he was gently spinning: "Both sides participating in the battle
It was the Fool's Adventure Group and Tingyu Tower. The purpose and reason for the war were unknown. Because of the huge gap in strength and numbers, that battle naturally ended with Tingyu Tower's victory."
"Is it... the battle to hunt down the Fool Adventure Group?" Duan Qing pinched his chin: "Sure enough, it was that guy Lou Tingyu who was responsible."
"Actually, when the battle broke out, Prince Chris' incident that shocked the principality had not yet broken out."
Waving his hand slightly, Wuxing Quetu's sight and movements remained unchanged: "Although the time is almost the same, we can basically confirm that this incident is definitely related to Tingyu Tower, so we Jianghu confirmed it
Tingyulou wanted to take advantage of the break when we were busy in the real world to take over, and then began to investigate the other party's situation."
"Then we discovered a lot of anomalies."
The finger that was spinning the wine glass stopped at this moment, and he lowered his head silently: "Contact with unknown forces, frequent visits to the underground world, order orders and shipping orders increased in number, and unknown members began to appear in the guild...
One of the archers caught our attention. That guy is very strong. I don't know if you have encountered him in previous battles. You'd better pay attention."
"If it's him, Spartak seems to have had a head-on confrontation with that archer." Shaking his head, Duan Qing's face showed an expression of memories and thoughts: "You should know that 'Four Wastes'
'Well, maybe you can ask him about the news about the archer."
"Sorry, our Jianghu is very short of manpower right now." Shaking his head, Wu Xing Que Tu dismissed Duan Qing's proposal lightly: "Let's get back to the topic. In short, the entire situation before us shows one thing.
, that is, Tingyulou is embarking on a huge conspiracy, and it is a very dark one."
"Everyone should now understand the full extent of this conspiracy."
He straightened his face, and then picked up the cocktail glass in front of him again: "But if we re-examine what we observed based on the answer to the question you want to know, some clues can still be seen.
.”
"For example, when they frequently went in and out of the underground, they once pulled out several boxes of bulk goods."
With the bartender in front of him constantly shaking the shaker at the far end, he lazily pointed his finger in a certain direction outside the pub: "There are also some orders related to Tingyulou coming in and out of Tania.
There are traces of bulk cargo among them."
"Tanya at that time should have been under the control of outsiders." After hearing these words, Xue Ling Huan Bing also frowned: "In other words, they put the other members of the Fool's Adventure Group
The members were transported outside the city? With the help of Tingyulou?"
"Where are their waybills directed to?" Duan Qing's voice immediately followed: "Can I still find out now?"
"We have already checked it."
The constant rustling sound of the shaker gradually stopped in the silent atmosphere. The player who was previously responsible for bartending returned to the three people with a polite smile. He handed over the two cocktails he had made one after another.
Arriving at the bar in front of Duan Qing and Xueling Huanbing, he turned around and left quietly as if he understood what these people were thinking: "Sorry, please continue."
"Tanya has been on high alert for nearly a month, and all goods entering and leaving the city will naturally be subject to strict inspection." Watching the bartender slowly walk back to the far end, Five Elements Que
Tu then lowered his voice and continued: "With our previous business relationship in the principality, we obtained relevant inspection records of goods entering and leaving the city. There are no traces of large-scale goods being transported, let alone sending 'people'."
"Sending people out directly in packages is very likely to be mistaken for human trafficking." Duan Qing shook his head with a serious tone: "They should not make such a low-level mistake.
"
"That's right, so we tracked down those informal channels." The voice was lowered, and Wu Xing Que Tu dropped the finger that was originally pointing outside the tavern to his feet: "There are no dark forces that can do such a thing.
Not many, and during that extraordinary period, there were even fewer forces that chose to side with Tingyulou. We eliminated some places and finally settled on two."
"One is the Shadow Club, and the other is Ronda Cosellus." He turned his downward pointing fingers into two upward pointing fingers: "I don't need to introduce the Shadow Club. Behind Ronda is the black boxer.
There, their matches involve a large number of black market boxers, so they are also very good at human trafficking."
"In the past month, several transactions have indeed appeared in this channel." He said in a low voice: "Just a few days before your arrival, there were probably one or two orders."
"The two of them are not a family, right?" Recalling the scenes he had experienced in the underground world, Duan Qing's eyes became more and more gloomy: "The master of the underground arena, and the so-called contract
…Where was the location? Where did they send the people?”
"Where else could it be?" Wu Xing Que Tu spread his hands and said, "A place that dares to accept such an order."
"Where else can there be on this continent besides the City of Freedom?"
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"So what do you want me to do?"
At night, in a corner of Tania's underground area, Duan Qing, who had been searching for a long time, sighed deeply in front of Fulla who had been walking leisurely in the darkness. At the same time, questions from the other party came to her ears without looking back.
Voice: "I did leave a way for you to find me, but this is not for you to disturb and greet me."
"You probably don't care about the red tape of us little humans." Duan Qing wiped his nose and calmed his breathing and then said with respect: "I never expected to find you in this place.
I just tried that method, but I didn’t expect that you haven’t left yet… Are you still investigating the secrets of this city?”
"The man who appeared in the illusion you described should be Jinon." Furla, who wrinkled her eyebrows and was still looking up and down the underground passages, replied in a low voice: "He
They probably transformed their own clans, which is why the dragon-man legions appeared in these places later. Perhaps due to the erosion of time, their combat effectiveness and intelligence have deteriorated too much."
"Are you going to get rid of these dragons?"
"...They are proof that Jinon is still alive in the world."
Faced with Duan Qing's subsequent questions, Fula's voice became extremely calm: "I will not destroy them with my own hands."
"As a member of the black dragon clan who can control time, Jinon is indeed very likely to be able to bring his people back to modern times after a thousand years." Duan Qing's voice became cautious: "But
Isn’t it doubtful that there is no record of Jinon left in this city except for the draconians?”
"So I'm looking." Raising her head again, Fulla started her investigation and exploration again: "Since this city is the product brought back by Jinonen from thousands of years ago, then there is no
There may not be any traces left by him. As long as there is evidence to prove this statement, I can go back and report to the Presbyterian Church."
"That, that..." Duan Qing, who was following behind, said hesitantly: "I understand how you feel now, but it may be very difficult to find such proof, if you don't mind."
"I have a proposal here, can you consider it?"
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