Time flies so fast, Braun Town has experienced a hopeful spring, a lush summer, and a fertile autumn. The business of the Adventurer's House is getting better and better day by day, year after year.
Autumn is the harvest season. Every year, adventure groups get lost in the black forest where danger and opportunity coexist, and are never heard from again. However, the adventure groups that return to Braun Town all have more or less harvests. They bring back important information.
, rare medicinal materials, amber, gems, gold sand, rare birds and animals, and even captured barbarian slaves, most of which will be taken to the Adventurer's House for valuation. If Boss Bottom's bid is suitable, it will be done on the spot.
Delivery, exchanging dead, living, and immortal treasures for gold pagodas.
Adventurers with deep pockets will of course want to spend time at the Adventurer's House.
Apart from the Adventurer's House, do they have any other choice here?
The spacious and bright hall of the hotel was bustling with people, and every table was filled with guests. They toasted and drank, complimented each other, some whispered and secretly exchanged information; some argued and made loud noises; some frowned and drank one cup after another.
Drinking wine.
It wasn't until a group of strangers opened the door and walked into the Adventurer's House that the bustling hotel lobby fell into a brief silence.
There are five of them in total, three men and two women, wearing uniforms, white silk-cotton blended hunting jackets with hoods, white cowhide cross-shoulder weapon slings with white wide belts, white deerskin gloves and
The last pair of white high-top leather boots looked lean and handsome, but compared to the adventurer dressed in gray and black, they looked particularly dazzling and attracted many malicious glances.
A few knowledgeable adventurers recognized that the visitor's spotless white uniform was woven from the cocoon silk of the gray crypt moth. It is waterproof. If it gets stained, just wipe it with a damp cloth and it will become as clean as new. It is both beautiful and beautiful.
The defensive power is certainly not cheap. Only the famous families in the main city highlands will use the silk of the Crypt Gray Moth to make hunting uniforms.
These new faces must come from famous families in the highlands. As for which famous family they belong to, the adventurers can't tell.
In a remote border town, the authority of a famous highland family cannot scare adventurers who are used to licking blood with their swords. They look at strangers who seem to be quite valuable with a strange look, like a pack of wolves eyeing their prey.
I almost stuck my tongue out and drooled.
The atmosphere in the hotel became inexplicably tense. At this time, the hotel owner behind the bar said: "Newcomers, you are not allowed to bring weapons into the Adventurer's House. Hand your weapons to the bar, and then find a table to sit down. I
I’ll give you a free can of Braun Town’s specialty wolfberry wine.”
The leader took off his hood to reveal his face. He was a man in his 30s, with short gray-brown hair and a beard. His eyes were deep and he exuded a mature and resolute temperament.
"Sir Bottom, I am Charlie, a level 2 sergeant of the fourth brigade of the Rock Giant Legion. Do you still remember me?"
The hotel owner narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the other person up and down, and suddenly said: "Charlie, the shield guard of the sixth squadron of the first squadron of the fourth squadron? It turns out to be you..."
Charlie made a fist with his right hand and put it on his forehead, and said solemnly: "Shield Guard Charlie has seen the commander!"
Bottom laughed, waved his hand and said: "I have retired a long time ago, there is no need to give me a military salute."
A smile appeared on Charlie's face, he turned sideways, gestured for his companions to hand over the weapons they carried, and whispered to Bottom: "Old sir, it's been almost eight years since I retired from the Rock Giant Legion... I
I came to Braun Town this time to ask you for a favor."
Bottom understood, nodded and said: "Okay, let's go upstairs and sit in my room." He walked out from behind the bar, patted his old subordinate Charlie on the shoulder, then turned to a bartender and ordered:
"Who is that...Piru, arrange a table for these guests, and give them a can of Braun Town's specialty wolfberry wine."
The red lion Bartome took Charlie up the stairs, and the hotel lobby returned to its usual bustle. The adventurers in Braun Town would still peek at these uninvited guests, but they did so more covertly, and their aggressive aggression was no longer obvious.
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The boy Piru found a table at the edge of the living room, dragged away the two adventurers who were drunk and unconscious, cleared the table, arranged for the guests to sit down, picked up the wine can and filled a cup of wolfberry for everyone.
Wine, asked feebly: "This bottle of wine is free, what else do you want to eat?"
These guests are all tall and vigorous young people. It may be their first time to come to a place where adventurers gather, and everything around them feels fresh. One of the rather handsome young people looked around curiously.
He said to Piru: "We won't eat for the time being. I'll call you if necessary."
The boy Piru shrugged his shoulders indifferently and took two steps back, but he had no intention of leaving in a hurry.
In the hotel, the half-elf waitress with bright makeup and slutty behavior was flirting with the male adventurers, and more than half of the adventurers were female warriors of the Hemer tribe. They all wore single ponytails, with sharp facial features and elegant temperament.
Sharp and cold, in fact, not very beautiful, but the women of the Hemo tribe have a bold and bold style. They wear a hard leather vest and a short skirt, revealing a waist without any fat and strong long legs, as if
The female leopard is full of power and has a wild charm.
The Hemer tribe is extremely rare in the main city of the Disa Alliance, but there are dozens of Hemer female warriors in the adventurer's house in Braun Town. The handsome young man was dazzled by the provocation thrown by the Hemer female warrior.
He unconsciously avoided the other person's gaze, picked up the wine glass in front of him to cover up his frivolity, and lowered his voice and said: "It is unimaginable that these brave and fighting Hemer tribe will turn into charming fairies in winter, no.
Do you know if I have a chance to be chosen by them when I participate in this year's life sacrifice ceremony..."
The male companions lowered their heads and smiled, while the two female companions rolled their eyes at him in unison. One of them, a half-elf woman with blond hair and green eyes, covered her mouth and smiled: "Karl, I hope you are selected by the Hemer tribe, we will wait.
Watch as the female warrior Hemer chases you out of her tent like a dog."
Karl chuckled, raised the glass and poured wine into his mouth. The green wine flowed into his throat. His expression suddenly changed, and his facial features wrinkled up. He finally swallowed the wolfberry wine without making a fool of himself in front of his female companion.
, opened his mouth wide again, gasped repeatedly, and couldn't help complaining: "What kind of wine is this? It's sour and spicy, it's too unpleasant to drink!"
Piru, the hotel clerk, came over and recommended without missing a moment: "Our wolfberry wine has a unique flavor, and it needs to be paired with our secret roasted mud scorpion to make it taste better."
Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, realizing that they were about to be stabbed by the hotel owner. The blond woman chuckled, took out a small bag and handed it to Piru, saying: "Okay, I will give you three golden pagodas for each of us."
I’ll order a roasted mud scorpion, and the extra money will be counted as a tip for you. If you want to thank me, please remember my name. I’m Annie from Fallen Leaf City.”
The guests were generous, and Piru, who was already very tired, suddenly became energetic. He said incoherently: "You are such a generous lady. There are a lot of guests today, and the food is served a little slower than usual. I will go to the kitchen to hurry you up."
As soon as you remind me, the roasted mud scorpion you want will be here soon, I promise..."
Watching the waiter stumble through the crowded hall and run towards the hotel's kitchen, Anne puffed up her cheeks and muttered unhappily: "A generous lady? Shouldn't it be the beautiful Miss Anne?"
Most of the young half-elf women are beautiful, and Anne can be regarded as an outstanding beauty among them. One of her male companions snorted and said: "A country bumpkin shopkeeper who has never seen the world is still a slut.
...Annie, do you need to bribe him?"
Anne pursed her lips and smiled, and said in a soft voice: "Compared to the fourth-order swordsman Lord Bartome, the little boy Piru next to him is the friend we can 'make'." Then, she leaned forward slightly and let him
The golden hair around her ears fell naturally, covering her delicate red lips, and whispered: "Now, while we are chatting, pay attention to what the adventurers in the hotel are talking about."
Several people had a tacit understanding and naturally entered the state, eavesdropping on the conversations between the adventurers and trying to find out valuable content.
Not long after, Karl suddenly murmured: "Annie, I know why the shop assistant didn't call you the beautiful Miss Anne just now..."
Annie followed Karl's gaze with confusion, her mind buzzed, and she could no longer think normally.
Pilu, the shop assistant, walked here smoothly carrying a plate filled with food. Behind him was a companion carrying a fruit plate. It was very difficult for him to pass through the crowded crowd. Those female warriors of the Hemo tribe
Everyone let Piru go, and then reached out to touch the arm, face, hair, and butt of another shop assistant, and laughed loudly, showing such enthusiasm that even the half-elf waitress in the hotel would take the opportunity to attack him.
If beauty is a kind of power that moves people, this new shop assistant has unparalleled power in the world.
He has a slender and well-proportioned figure, with common short brown hair, bright eyes like pure amber, delicate facial features like top-notch works of art, slender and straight eyebrows, and slightly pointed ears that are slightly different from the pointed ears of a half-elf.
, but it does not damage his perfect image.
...is perfect.
No matter which angle Anne looked at, every line of his body formed a perfect image. Even though he was wearing a dirty apron and was helpless in the face of the passionate teasing of the Hemer female warriors, there was something about him.
An extraordinary charm that makes people's hearts beat faster and they dare not breathe loudly.
Fortunately, this charm was short-lived. After the shock to their hearts, Anne and others recovered from their trance. The young half-elf Karl asked himself: "Is this beauty a male or a female? I...
…I bet she’s a Highland lady.”
As he said that, he actually stood up and went up to him alone.
From the corner of her eye, Anne caught a glimpse of a tall, fat figure standing in the corner of the hotel lobby. After thinking for a moment, she thought of a famous female adventurer. She was immediately frightened and her face turned pale, and she quickly shouted: "Karl, come back quickly.
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A room on the third floor of the Adventurer's House.
The hotel owner Bottom and the visitor Charlie sat opposite each other across a wooden table. He took off his clay pipe, blew out a cloud of blue smoke from his mouth, and asked slowly: "So, you are now'
The leader of the Qin and Whistle Adventure Group came to our town of Braun to recruit fellow adventurers?"
Charlie stretched out his finger and clicked on the certification document issued by the Adventurer's Guild, and said with a smile: "Old sir, I won't hide it from you, I am currently playing for the Golden Sunflower among the 16 famous families. After I retired from the Rock Giant Legion
, worked as a coachman for Master Stevenson of the Jin Sunflower family for 6 years. Last spring, Master Stevenson held a coming-of-age ceremony. According to the rules of the famous highland family, he could cultivate his own power, a private guard, and a
An armed caravan and two adventure groups. I serve as the leader of one of the adventure groups."
"I envy your luck." Boss Bottom took a puff of cigarette and nodded calmly, showing no sign of envy.
Charlie smiled and complimented again: "Mr. Stevenson dared to leave the 'Qin and Whistle Adventure Group' to me, and it's all thanks to you. The Red Lion Bottom is famous in the Fallen Leaf City Adventurer's Guild, because I
It is your old subordinate that Mr. Stevenson looks up to me."
"Those young people who came with me may not be convinced by me as the leader. They are all followers recruited by Mr. Stevenson at Coral Academy, and everyone is excellent. They each have their own strengths, and they are also
They are all formal professionals. For example, Karl among them is only 25 years old this year and is already a third-level swordsman. His martial arts skills may not be inferior to mine..."
"Compared with me, they are young, full of energy and ambition, and have outstanding talents. What they lack is experience, but experience is something that a half-elf will always have. Old sir, you know that at my level, it is difficult to
To control these young people who have graduated from the academy, I still need some subordinates who are worthy of training and willing to obey." Charlie said frankly.
Bottom held his cigarette holder and nodded with a smile, "How about the female warriors of the Hemer tribe? Their life level is naturally at the third level. Even the female warriors of the Hemer tribe with only a first-level professional level can beat that Karl with one hand.
Get down."
Charlie shook his head and said: "The relationship between the Earth Mother Temple and the Dragon King Temple is cold. It is well known that the Hemer people dislike the famous families in the city. What I want are the children who have been abandoned by the Hemer people... Only you can help me choose from them.
Find the most suitable people."
Just as he was talking, a deafening roar suddenly came from the hall downstairs, "Damn you little brat, how dare you bully my Wiltok! See if I don't slap your face as hard as your butt!"
Charlie and Bottom changed their minds at the same time and hurried downstairs, where they saw a tall, fat cook pressing a young half-elf on the table and beating him violently.
The outstanding talent graduated from Coral Academy, the third-level swordsman Carl's pants were pulled down to his knees, and the fat cook slapped his bare buttocks hard, fulfilling her promise to slap his face into a butt.
Maybe the fat cook was mistaken. However, there seems to be no difference between "the butt is spanked until it looks like a face" and "the face is spanked like a butt".
Every time the fat cook spanked his buttocks, Carl screamed like a slaughtered pig. The pride of a third-level swordsman originally did not allow the young man to scream in shame, but it was too strange that there was only the sound of spanking in the hotel lobby, so he didn't know
After screaming in shame, I felt much better. At least I got the roar of laughter from the Hemer female warrior as the background sound of being spanked, so the feeling of shame was much weaker.
It must be said that the outstanding graduates of Coral College are very adaptable and quickly learned to be thick-skinned.
"Unstoppable Sarah?! How did Carl mess with her?" Charlie recognized the identity of the fat cook and said in disbelief.
"Stop, stop, damn it, you've broken all our furniture..." Boss Bottom yelled loudly to stop the fat cook from continuing her violence.
Sarah slapped her twice more angrily, let go of the victim Carl, and complained: "This bad boy bullied poor Will, and all the broken plates and cups here are on his head."
After saying that, she picked up Wiltok, who was at a loss next to her, and walked towards the kitchen. As she walked, she comforted her with a babble: "Okay, Wiltok, I have taught that bad boy a lesson." In the hotel lobby
This job is not suitable for you, haven't you seen these ferocious she-wolves? Their minds are thinking about how to abduct you, I know it must be like this... The poor little guy, the injury he suffered has only just gotten better,
How can you be bullied by these evil-minded guys? If you want Aunt Sarah to say, if you like shelling beans, then continue to shell beans in the kitchen. When your injury is completely healed, you must at least be able to distinguish who is good to you and who is good to you.
If I treat you badly, I will come out to play again."
Wiltok had a confused look on his face and followed the fat cook Sarah obediently. He looked left and right, his eyes seemed to be unable to focus, and he looked confused and curious, but there was a touch of indifference deep in his empty eyes that others could not detect.
If he were an ordinary person, his current appearance would be called sleep-deprived to be polite, or stupid to be polite. However, because of Vertok's handsome and extraordinary figure, everyone would inevitably have a strong opinion of him.
They all had a good impression of him, especially the female warriors of the Hemer tribe. They thought this boy was young and cute. However, under the intimidation of the fat cook Sarah, they stopped teasing Wiltok.
When Charlie saw the instigator of this conflict, he was momentarily distracted. He immediately realized why Karl was beaten, and glared hard at the men who had made him uneasy.
The adventurer from the main city was beaten up in public and a lot of things were broken. What happened next had nothing to do with Wiltok. When he returned to the familiar kitchen, his restless mind calmed down without anyone else's instructions.
He took the initiative to sit on his bench, took out a handful of bean pods from the big basket in front of him, and began to concentrate on peeling the bean shells.
The fat cook Sarah didn't take the beating of the famous servant just to her heart at all. It was just that business in the hotel was booming today and she had to be busy cooking. She just complimented Wiltok a few words and then went about her work.
I don't have time to care about him.
In fact, all the kitchen servants in the hotel kitchen know that Wiltok can't speak at all, but he can understand what others mean, and he will do whatever he is told to do, and never cause trouble to others. If it weren't for the tight manpower today,
He would just stay quietly in the kitchen shelling his beans and not cause any trouble.
Everyone thinks that shelling beans is Wiltok's favorite thing to do. Apart from eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom, he can shell beans all day long in the kitchen. In fact, Wiltok doesn't feel like it or doesn't like it now.
He focused on shelling beans for another reason.
Wiltok was in a coma for more than 2 months at the Adventurer's House Hotel in Braun Town. From the outside, except for physiological needs such as eating, drinking, and excretion, he was unconscious the rest of the time. But in Wiltok's
In the world of consciousness, there was a rapidly rotating golden light group. He could not get in or get out, as if he was trapped in a terrible cage.
He instinctively wanted to slow down the rotation of the golden light group and finally stop it completely, but this was not easy to do. It should be said that it was very, very difficult. It took a lot of effort for Wiltok to pass the rotation of the golden light group.
After mastering the concept of time, and because of the instinctive stimulation of his body's hunger and thirst, he overlapped the time flow rate of the light group with the time flow rate of the outside world, and responded to the outside world. This is why he woke up briefly and ate and drank water.
At the beginning, when he woke up from a deep sleep, there was still a discrepancy between the time flow rate between his consciousness and reality. It was like there was a barrier between himself and the outside world, making it difficult for him to see or hear clearly, and unable to think seriously about any issues. Good.
Here, the cook Sarah has been taking care of him, scrubbing his body, and nagging in his ear. These stimulations from the outside world have caused the time flow rate of the conscious world and the real world to overlap more and more. Wiltok finally emerged from
Escape from long-term drowsiness.
He is awake, but Wiltok stumbles when walking and can't hold things steadily. Cook Sarah said that he is like a clumsy baby and must continue to exercise before he can return to normal.
The cook of the Adventurer's House is obviously very good at taking care of the sick and wounded. The rehabilitation training she formulated for Wiltok can't be faulted even by Cole, the best doctor in Braun Town. Under the careful care of the cook Sarah
It only took Wiltok half a month to walk, run, and hold things like a normal person, but his hands and feet were still not flexible enough. Moreover, when he lost his memory, he also seemed to have lost the ability to speak, and his intelligence seemed to have also lost.
affected.
Dr. Cole in the town examined Wiltok and believed that it was impossible to cure him with ordinary treatment methods. After all, the head injury was the most troublesome problem, but he could be given some detailed manual work to exercise his fingers.
Flexibility may be of unexpected help to his condition.
So Boss Bottom asked Wiltok to help in the kitchen, starting with shelling beans, saying it would help him exercise his fingers. As for the real thoughts of the hotel owner, everyone knew that this miser did not want Wiltok to continue taking risks.
The family eats and drinks for free.
Being able to support oneself is a good thing after all. Sarah, the fat cook who treats Ver as her son, does not object to Bottom's arrangement, and Vertok himself will not object.
He spent two months shelling beans in the kitchen of the Adventurer's House, enjoying this boring job.
Anyone who sees Wiltok for the first time is amazed by his beauty, but those who are familiar with him think that Wiltok is a poor fool. Otherwise, how could he like to shell beans all day long?
However, no one knows that Vertok has been troubled by the world of consciousness. As long as he stops what he is doing, he will see the high-speed rotating golden light group. The sense of time and space are isolated from the outside world, and continuously
Shelling beans can make the world of consciousness and the time and space of the outside world overlap with each other.
Vertok instinctively recognized that he must strengthen the time and space connection between his consciousness and reality, otherwise he would fall into a coma again.
Clamping the plump pod with his long and slender fingers, he pinched it gently, and the round beans shot out of the pod and fell right into the rattan basket next to him, where the beans were almost full. Vertok's action
Skilled, the beans are peeled very efficiently, and even has a unique rhythm, which is not disturbed by various noises in the kitchen.
The cook Sarah suddenly raised her head and glanced at him, with a knowing smile on her fat face. She lowered her head again and continued to chop the meat and bones on the chopping board with the kitchen knife. The ping-ping-pong-pong sound was even the same frequency as Vertok peeling beans.
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The 122,063th... Wiltok counted in his mind. He had a premonition that something wonderful would happen soon. He pinched a pod with his fingers and exerted slight force. There was a "pop" sound. As the pod burst, the world of consciousness also shook.
, a piece of information automatically emerged in my mind:
Increase the mental attribute by 4, reach 10 points of spirit, learn the talent to enter the second level, and master the dexterity of your hands.
The current mental attributes are 10 points, the physical attributes are 6 points, the perception attributes are 4 points, and the life attributes are 12 points.
Dexterous hands: Your hands are very dexterous and you can use any tool skillfully in a short time.
Stage goal: Match the three attributes of physique, perception, and life with the current 10 points of mental attributes to reach 12 points of physique, 13 points of perception, and 15 points of life.
The ultimate goal: unlock the knowledge puzzle and find yourself.
Method: Eat enough, exercise enough, rest enough, use your learning talents, collect all kinds of information, and get feedback on knowledge puzzles.
This information emerges naturally. What Wiltok knows is known, and what he doesn't know is still unknown. Just like a person who has lost his memory and is eager to retrieve his memory, there is no need to investigate the reasons, let alone explain to others.
The most surprising thing is not that Wiltok has recovered a small part of his memory, but that his conscious world has been synchronized with changes in external time and space, and that barrier has been completely lifted.
The dim kitchen suddenly became alive, the walls and ceiling were blackened by oil smoke; the kitchen maid hit the mud scorpion with a wooden stick to make the sound of exploding liquid; the smell of stew came out of the clay pot; the sun reflected through the window
In the kitchen, the light and shadow swirled as the maid walked back and forth; the heat waves radiated from the open flame on the stove, and the wind pressure generated by the air flow simultaneously stimulated Wiltok's vision, hearing, smell, and touch, and in his mind
It formed a three-dimensional picture with clear layers, and the sense of detachment that had been bothering him quickly disappeared.
For the first time, Wiltok felt a sense of joy from the bottom of his heart. He knew that he would not fall into a long-term coma again, but the rich sensory signals instantly caused a slight dizziness in his mind, and he couldn't help but stand up.
Cook Sarah put down the meat cleaver in her hand almost at the same time, and came to Vertok in three steps at a time. Her move attracted the attention of others, and more than a dozen helpers gathered around him.
Sarah stretched out her hand to support Wiltok and asked with concern: "Baby, what's wrong with you?"
The fat cook is two meters tall and as fat as a big brown bear. When she gets close, she creates a strong sense of oppression. Wiltok is very familiar with Sarah, and this familiarity brings him a sense of security.
The corners of Vertok's mouth turned upward in an arc, and his handsome face became particularly moving, "Sa... La, I... woke up."
This was the first time he smiled and spoke for the first time.
Sarah exclaimed in surprise: "Oh, my poor little one, you can talk! It's so wonderful that the Earth Mother protects you!"
A dozen kitchen servants were also very happy. They all crowded over and rushed to talk to Wiltok. The young and handsome Wiltok frowned his slender eyebrows, tilted his head, and looked confused.