Parallel Army - The Sound of the Turning Tide Chapter 20 Staying Overnight
At dusk, Alexander learned the effect of the previous ring from the appraiser of Countercurrent Trading Company. If this ring is given to a woman as a token of love, it will lose all its effects. However, the appraiser used mithril and other materials to create a silver ring.
The chain can be strung together and can now be used as a necklace.
The material fee for the silver chain was one linsey and fifty paise, or if Alexander didn't want it, the merchant's house would charge him 130 linseys.
"Ah? This thing hasn't lost all its effectiveness now, has it? Forget it, we are short of money recently, one hundred and thirty Lindsay, right? Okay." Alexander decided to take the money and leave.
The appraiser told Alexander that all the effects of the ring had been lost. The original effect was very powerful, but now it was just an effect produced by using the remaining magic power.
In addition, when Alexander was walking back to go out, he saw the sailor he had seen during the day. This guy was already smiling and seemed to have made a lot of money. Alexander asked, and it turned out that the gold coin could be sold for seventy linseys.
Alexander thought about forgetting it and not buying it. The more he thought about it, the more he lost money. After the clerk gave the money, the appraiser took it away to solve the curse, and the sailor happily bought a house with Lindsay in mind.
There was still some time before dinner, so Alexander decided to go shopping and buy something to relieve her mood. She discovered from the street that, unlike the food provided in the hotel, people in this city have very strong tastes and like to add more salt, sugar and other seasonings to their food.
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Alexander bought something to eat while shopping to experience the local flavor. These things unexpectedly suited her appetite, but the street food was still too rough.
Going back in time slightly, Heath and Fageni walked towards the coastline. In that direction, the two of them remembered that they had seen a small fishing village very close to Gobendeburg when they took a steam battleship.
It takes two hours to walk there. It only takes half an hour to just go to the coast. If you go both ways, the total distance will be an extra quarter of an hour.
Fagenijean thought it would be best to go to the coast first and then go to the fishing village, but Hitz had no objection.
The two came to the bare beach, and occasionally there were one or two small white shells or red dried starfish. If you looked closely, you could see some sand holes dug by crabs. The tide had been out for a long time, and most of the sand was dry.
Fageni took a big breath of sea breeze, looked at the sea for a few times, and then took Hitz to the fishing village. The fishing village was close to here, and the people inside might have seen something strange. Hitz followed silently.
One took the other into the small fishing village. At this time, there were no fishermen working in the only single wooden bridge port on the seaside, and even the fishing boats were not out fishing. The fishermen on the road also looked listless. There was only one grocery store in the village.
Apart from a pub, there are basically private houses.
"Why do the villagers in this village look so energyless? I feel weird and a little dangerous." Heath whispered to Fageni.
"I don't know either. It's your turn to take action now." Fageni whispered back, these two cowards...
"Although you asked me to appear, do you think it would be more natural for me to ask something? After all, this place feels a bit weird." Heath couldn't help but shuddered when he heard that he was asked to come up.
"This place looks very strange. It's not strange to ask anything. For example, why are these fishermen so miserable when they don't go to sea in broad daylight?" Fageni took a few steps back. "You go to the tavern and ask, I'll go get the groceries."
Check out the store." Then he waved to the elf and walked towards the grocery store.
Hitz immediately followed Fageni. "Fageni, I am an elf girl alone in the tavern. Are you afraid that something will happen to me? Come with me~"
"...That's it...forget it, I'll go with you." Fageni thought for a while and nodded. "Then let's go to the tavern first."
"Okay, let's go to the tavern and ask around." Seeing that Fageni planned to join him, Heath took off towards the tavern.
Contrary to the village, the tavern was already full of people, and there were even many people standing drinking and chatting, but the voices were very low. Therefore, the two of them didn't hear any conversation outside the tavern. Seeing Heath open the door and these
Everyone turned their heads and looked at her, staring at her with fury.
Fageni behind him was stunned for a moment. The tavern that exuded a happy atmosphere now seemed to be like a village with an ominous atmosphere.
"It feels like the situation outside is so different from inside." Heath whispered to Fageni.
Fageni took a closer look at the boss's position. "Indeed."
"Um, hello." Hitz suppressed his fear and chose to go in and take a look.
The man dressed as the boss had been chatting with the drinkers before, but fortunately after the two of them finished talking, the villagers immediately returned to normal and started chatting quietly.
"Is that an elf?"
"It's so beautiful."
"The young man in the back is very handsome."
"I fell in love before, but now I am awakened by the cold water." And so on, after seeing these villagers, they were just surprised because they had never seen an elf.
"The boss is there, follow me." Fageni closed the door and walked forward carefully, walking up to the boss. He was still very careful, and so was Hitz.
"Young man, do you want to drink? Come and sit down. I'll treat you to a drink and tell your story." In the middle of the process, a middle-aged man who looked like a businessman and looked less like a fisherman patted the table.
, the two people next to him gave up a place side by side, and the eyes of the others seemed to be full of expectation.
Fageni looked at this man, and he didn't ask anyone anyway. "Okay." Then he sat on the chair and said, "Excuse me, what is your name? You can call me Fageni."
Hitz also nodded. "Okay, do you want to say both?" Then he sat down carefully, maybe it would be considered the elf's elegant etiquette. "You can also call me Hitz."
The man introduced himself, and the two of them learned that he was the village chief. Because there were four people in this village with ichthyosis, all fishermen here are now prohibited from fishing. Correspondingly
The royal family also gave some compensation.
In such a village, if one does not work and cannot leave the village, the only entertainment activity is drinking and chatting.
The simple fishermen felt very uncomfortable with the large amount of leisure time they had every day, which was why the pedestrians looked listless. Soon the boss personally brought wine to the two of them - because it was not a big tavern and there were no waiters.
"As far as I know, all those with ichthyosis are sent to the ward for treatment?" Fageni asked.
"That's right." A villager immediately answered.
"Although this disease has not yet been found to be harmful, there is still necessary vigilance." Alchemists can sometimes also play the role of doctors, and Heath is no exception.
Facing a few follow-up questions from the two men, the village chief briefly talked about the affairs of his village, which seemed to be nothing noteworthy. The wine was also brought over, and the two of them satisfied their curiosity.
"I used to be an ordinary alchemist in Guzhuo Town, and I was very poor because of my lack of skills. I originally thought I would spend my life like this, but I met everyone in the mercenary group. After completing the commission with them, I was supposed to stay
I'm in Guzhuo Town, but I don't know who put a curse on me."
"Not only was I seriously injured, but I was unable to return to Guzhuo Town for a long time due to the curse, but I had a great time getting along with everyone in the mercenary group, and I didn't know many people in the town. I wanted to leave here, so I joined
They joined their mercenary group. Then they went on adventures and even fought against powerful unclean creatures. At that time..." In short, Hitz talked about his adventures so far.
"That time, a group of us were exploring down from the cave and were suddenly bitten by the scorpion. It beat Mo Nan half to death with two pincer blows, and my knife was almost useless. Then Alexander killed it with one arrow.
I shot off the tail needle, and I also hit this beast." Fageni shouted while drinking: "Then I slashed its wound with a knife, and it ran away directly. The injuries our team suffered can no longer be sustained.
I chased it down and killed it, so I had no choice but to go back to Guzhuo Town and get the reward."
Fageni took another sip of wine, "This is just an ordinary battle of our Thirteenth Mad Wolf Mercenary Regiment. It has to be the sensational demon invasion. It's a pity that it's not early morning, otherwise
I can talk non-stop till the end of the night.”
Although Fageni's story is short, the plot is full of ups and downs, and has been applauded by the fishermen. Although Hitz's story telling skills are not very good, it is quite long, and it also kills a lot of time for the fishermen.
It was getting late after Hitz carefully considered the words and finally finished telling the story. Some of the fishermen got up and planned to go home. The village chief warmly invites you to stay here for a few days. If that doesn't work, you can have a meal before leaving.
Fageni, who had drunk a lot, shook his head and agreed. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to go back now. "Why don't you stay, Hiz? The princess's wedding is tomorrow anyway, so you can make it back in time."
"Okay, if you don't leave, I'll stay here." Heath didn't dare to walk at night.
"Brother." Fageni calls everyone brother now. "We can stay here for one night, but we have to leave tomorrow. Isn't this castle a princess wedding? We have to go and join in the fun."
The villager was also drunk and talking nonsense.
Heath and Fageni stayed in the fishing village and had dinner. Fageni wanted to take advantage of the wine to ask directly if he had seen any priests or bishops on the coast or anyone who did not look like they should be on the coast.
Some details of the battle in which one man stopped the Hai Clan army.
But the first question is that several villagers have never seen such a person, because if they are outsiders, they will be very conspicuous in this relatively closed fishing village.
As for the second question, these fishermen have not seen this incident with their own eyes, and the exaggerated description cannot give people a real sense of it.
Sheitz asked about the condition of the ichthyosis patients at the time and possible modes of transmission. She wanted to deduce how they were infected.
A female villager who knows patients with ichthyosis told Hitz that patients will feel slight itching at first, but the itching will intensify as the number of times of friction increases, and the more they scratch, the more uncomfortable they become. Eventually, the skin that begins to wrinkle will harden and form scales, and
If the scales are pulled off, more will grow. The transmission route is still unknown.
Unfortunately, in the end, Hitz did not find anything in common from the living habits of the four patients. It would be better to say that if the transmission route had been grasped, there would be no need to be so cautious now.
After dark for a while, most of the other fishermen turned off their lights and went to sleep, but the two of them were not tired yet.