096 Mosal
The northern exit of the Cold Rock Pass, the snow layer that had accumulated for several years, has once again stained the footprints of humanity. After several days of cold, a five-person team finally crossed the Cold Rock Pass that was not suitable for survival and returned to the sky.
"Haha, finally came out!"
The shortest guy in the team shouted happily, took off his fur mask, revealing a tender face.
"Hey, no matter what, we are much luckier than the group of 'people' in the central cave."
The young man who was holding a long sword also took off his mask and his tone was a little heavy. Just by looking at his expression, you can know that he must have had many bad experiences in the "Central Cave".
"Hey, I should say this!"
The girl following the young man snorted and kicked the young man with a little dissatisfaction.
"Those things are not my fault!"
"But you chose the route~"
The girl ignored the young man's wry smile and kicked the young man's calf again, causing others to chuckle.
Pulling the time back two days ago, just after Sawy's team worked together to kill the snow trolls in the central cave, Rick sent out the remaining skeletons. Only after confirming that there were no other monsters in the central cave could everyone rest with confidence.
After a period of rest, Aye and Feilina, who were injured, also cleaned up their wounds, everyone began to carefully explore the central cave. However, in the entire central cave, there were stones and stones, and a nest surrounded by a few huge stones - the Snow Troll's nest.
However, the things in the nest made Filina and Rick vomited out at first sight, and Sawy and Aye, who had fought many times, had a churn in their stomachs. Perhaps only Ahuan, who was mentally abnormal, could not change her face and search for a pile of bones full of tooth marks and black blood.
After resting in the central cave for a night, the team entered the cave full of wind again. However, the third night was not so lucky. The five people did not find a suitable camping site, so they could only find a sunken place, eat a little, and then set off again. Then they walked out of the cold rock passage at noon on the fourth day.
"I just want to find a place to sleep...ha~"
A Ye was only halfway through his complaint, and he was interrupted by a long yawn, and the other three people were not much more energetic.
That's right, the other three people, the people who were in a low spirit, did not include A Huan. This guy unexpectedly had an accurate and powerful biological clock. He fell to the ground in the middle of the night and fell asleep. No matter how many others tried their best, he could not scream.
So, in the second half of the night, Ahuan was dragged by Aye. When he woke up in the early morning, Ahuan asked why his face was swollen. His confused look made several people hold their laughter and feel very hard.
However, even if we leave the Lengyan Pass, this place is still not a suitable camping place. Not to mention the howling cold wind, the giant dragon flying overhead from time to time patrolling the territory is deadly enough.
Fortunately, the north exit of the Cold Rock Pass was not far from the snow line, and the five were lucky enough to arrive at the snow line before the dragon patrolled again. The brown bearskin cloak became their best camouflage color.
After hiding and leaving the territory of the Holy Blood Peak Dragon, there was only a vast plain left from Mosal. The five people almost bumped into a group of swamp wolf packs that were hunting. Fortunately, Sawyer had been open with his hawk's eyes before he could appear in advance. Everyone hid in the distance until the wolf pack chased the deer and left, and everyone continued to set off.
As the evening approached, the exhausted group climbed over a low mountain again and finally saw Mosal's city gate.
"Ah~! Finally arrived!"
Aye barely opened his eyelids, and his long sigh was sang an aria.
"Ha~, let's go, go, go to Merced Hotel first before you go to sleep."
Sawyer also yawned and walked towards the city gate first.
"Proof of Identity!"
The gatekeeper yawned, with a hint of alcohol in his tone, his arms were exposed, and his strong muscles showed his strength.
"Well, elves, Nord, little Brighton, empire woman, and... huh, a human?"
The gatekeeper looked at A Huan carefully for a while, but in the end he still didn't recognize A Huan's race, so he had to use "a human" instead.
"Our, ha... the document."
While yawning, Sawyer handed over the identification of several people: "By the way, how to get to Merced Hotel?"
"Um..." The gatekeeper looked around and handed the ID back, pointing to the main road behind him, "Go along the road, turn left when you are almost at the bridge."
"Thank you, sir."
"Gum, don't stay in Mosal for too long."
"Soya, don't worry, the problem will be solved."
The name Gom sounded a little familiar to him, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it, so he had to make a random polite sentence.
"I borrow your good words."
Gorm waved his hand indifferently, and he didn't think a young elf could solve Mosal's problem.
Sawyer didn't say much, shrugged and walked into the city gate.
The problems Mosal faces now are nothing more than two, one is the problem of civil war and the other is the problem of vampires in the city.
The civil war issue has little to do with Sawyer now, and Sawyer doesn't want to get involved in the vampire issue too deeply. Even if you don't consider the vampire master Movas Picchien, the vampire lurking in Mosal is not easy to mess with, not to mention the subordinates of Heruga and Elite, who have played soy sauce in the game, is at least a small boss in this real world.
The city of Mosal was established at the junction of swamps and plains. It was not large in scale, with less than 10,000 residents. Including caravans and adventurers, the most people were less than 15,000. There were few small towns in the Mosal ruler it commanded. Only mines like Shishan would form a small settlement, but the number of people was pitifully small, and even the size of the countryside could not be achieved.
Compared with the pitifully small population, Mosal City covers a large area, with large open spaces within the city walls, and even a large sawmill is built. Of course, the conditions in other places may be too cruel. Instead of sending people to garrison, it is better to build it directly in the city.
There must be amazing wealth in the cruel environment. In the vast swamp north of Mosal, there are countless precious medicinal materials, countless undisclosed ancient tombs, including countless priceless burial objects, which has attracted countless medicinal merchants, adventurers, refugees and even outlaws.
With so much passenger flow, there are naturally many hotels, shops and blacksmith shops. Of course, there are troops that are enough to maintain urban security. As for protecting the city, there is no idea that the robbers will attack Mosal. Instead of killing here, it is better to go to the swamp to find an ancient tomb. As long as you can get out of the ancient tomb alive, the wealth you gain can be as much as the wealth you bring to siege.
Of course, these have little to do with Sawyer. He has no interest in both medicinal herbs and ancient tombs, and now he just wants to have a good sleep.
When passing by the Lord's Hall, Sawyer did not encounter any protests from residents, but every resident he met was in a hurry, with more or less panic in his face. Obviously, although they did not notice the existence of vampires, the recent events were enough to panic them.
"Aha, the bridge, this is the road, we should be almost here."
"Soya, how could that house be..."
As soon as he turned into the road leading to Merced Hotel, Filina grabbed Sawyer and pointed at the ruins at the end of the road with a look of surprise.
The ruins had obvious burning marks, but it can be seen that the fire that burned the house had been extinguished for at least one week. However, after so long, the ruins had not been cleaned up, which was obviously abnormal.
"Don't worry about that, it has nothing to do with us."
Sawyer paused and continued to walk towards Merced Hotel, which was the key point of the "rest" mission. He didn't want his team to be involved in the vampire incident.
"I……"
Feilina wanted to say something, but Saoya held her hand in the backhand. Her handsome little face turned red. She lowered her head and let Saoya walk into the hotel.
"Huh~"
When I opened the hotel gate, the heat and warm atmosphere in the hotel made everyone tremble and spit out a long breath of air conditioning, and my frozen body warmed up again.
"Five adjacent rooms! Some hot soup and honey wine by the way!"
Sawyer squeezed into the crowd, grabbed a waiter and shouted, stuffing a few gold coins over.
"Hold on!"
The waiter also shouted in response, took the gold coins, held up the tray and squeezed out of the crowd, while Sawyer and his men found an empty bench and sat down.
Soon, the waiter just now held the tray and squeezed behind Saoya. When he put the tray from Saoya's head on the table, he was shocked. However, for the sumptuous dinner in the tray, he still gave the change he had recovered to the waiter as a consumption.
After eating Zhou hard noodles for almost one, everyone had a good appetite. Five bowls of hot soup, a dozen white bread and a few bottles of honey wine were quickly eaten up. Aye, who had eaten the fastest, also divided the room keys. The people who were full of wine and had no interest in chatting, yawned back to their respective rooms, and soon fell asleep.
Except for two people.
"There is something wrong with that ruin?"
“Have you heard of Mosal’s ‘rest’?”
"Vampire King Mission?"
"Yes, that's it."
"No wonder you..."
"I haven't gone to bed for two days, so you'd better go to have a sleep first."
"Okay, Rick will be handed over to me, but Filina..."
"I'll do it."
"So, good night?"
"Good night."
Chapter completed!