In the tavern in Wink Village, Steven stood at the counter and took out the copper token he had just obtained from selling the prey. He counted 15 copper coins and put them on the table. The bartender put the copper token away and carried it to an empty table in the corner of the hall.
He raised his head and motioned for Steven to sit there.
After Steven turned around, he suddenly turned back and asked, "That's right! What's the date today?"
The bartender looked at him with a strange look: "Today is June 16th, you're not even confused about the time, are you?!"
Steven nodded: "Thank you! I stayed in the wilderness for a long time, and I kind of forgot about time." He didn't pay attention to the bartender's eyes on him, and turned around to the empty table with a wooden wine glass in hand to wait for dinner.
Steven originally planned to listen to the useful news spread in the tavern, but after listening for a while, he did not continue. It was all about bragging and spanking. The most common thing for drunken drunkards is to brag about how powerful they are and how to kill people.
The crazy brown bear, or he slept with a woman in the village, how to show off his power in bed, and so on.
After a while, a woman wearing a long skirt and a light-colored headscarf walked to Steven's table with a plate, put down his dinner and turned to leave. Several drunkards on the nearby table whistled at the woman, and she
He walked into the wooden door next to the stairs without saying a word.
Steven looked at the dinner on the table. It was quite generous: a large piece of fine wheat bread, a bowl of oatmeal and bean porridge, half a roast chicken and two eggs.
What a benefit! He couldn't help but sigh again.
Since he basically ate meat in the wilderness for a long time, it was necessary for him to be able to eat bread and wheat porridge. After quickly finishing the food on the plate, Steven came to the counter and asked the bartender for
After getting the room key, I went upstairs.
Early the next morning, Steven left Wink Village and set out. There was no suitable camping equipment for sale in the village. Before leaving, he asked the bartender about the situation on the road. He passed from Wink Village to Murphy City and traveled dozens of kilometers along the road.
There are villages and towns in the distance, so accommodation and food at night are no problem. The copper tokens he obtained from selling prey are enough to cover the expenses on the road these days.
He quickly walked out of Wink Village and walked along the road towards Murphy City in the east...
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Murphy City was established hundreds of years ago during the Rhine Empire. It was originally a market due to the rise of the trade of special products from the Gülen Mountains. Vendors gathered here to trade goods, and gradually formed a small town.
The town slowly expanded into a city. With the advent of the steam industry era, Murphy City gradually developed into a comprehensive medium-sized city.
Starting from Murphy City, there is a steam train railway connecting Ironsa City, the capital of the Principality of Ferreira, and Ironsa City has a steam train that runs directly along the Rhone River to Sorrendo, the capital of the neighboring Trey Principality.
But this railway went north and then made a large circle to the east, which was not consistent with the direction Steven was going.
Sorrendo, the capital of the Principality of Tre, is located in the north of the Principality, and there is no railway going south there, so it is impossible to take a steam train.
This intermittent railway network still needs to be developed! Although the North-South Alliance has vigorously built railways and highways in recent years, the efficiency is still far behind that of a certain infrastructure-crazy country! Steven felt a little complaining.
Moreover, due to terrain barriers, some naturally difficult terrains such as huge mountains and swamps currently have no technical ability to solve them. It is impossible to connect steam trains to these places in a short time.
At best, only minimum standard winding roads can be built between the mountains, which are still unpaved roads.
A bit backward! Steven has no intention of climbing to the national leadership or igniting the technology tree, so he can only sigh about this.
This is not without its benefits. At least there is no pollution that comes with modernization. You can enjoy original food, air, water and natural scenery. What else can you not be satisfied with!
Two days later, Steven entered Murphy City. Due to its intermittent development history, Murphy City lacked complete urban planning and appeared crowded and messy.
The city wall built hundreds of years ago is not only in disrepair and about to collapse, but has also been wrapped into the center of the city by the subsequent expansion of the city.
The area known as the inner city has now become a shanty town, filled with chaotic wooden houses that are about to collapse, and the streets are narrow and dirty.
After the Grant Continent entered the steam engine age, the newly emerging cities basically did not build city walls. Steven entered the new city along the lime concrete road. The streets here are quite wide, and most of the buildings on the streets are made of solid cement stone bricks.
The building, the window casings outside the window openings and the gently sloping eaves are decorated with southern-style white lines and floral ornaments.
He walked along the main road to the City Hall Square, which is surrounded by city hall, police station, parliament and other government power and service agencies as usual. Due to the improvement of the status of mercenary groups in recent years, mercenary guilds in many cities are also located here.
Near the Municipal Square.
Because it was almost evening, Steven decided to find a hotel near the Municipal Square to rest for the night, and then go to the mercenary guild tomorrow to look for tasks posted or temporarily join a mercenary group preparing to hunt World of Warcraft.
Soon Steven found a low-end hotel near the Municipal Square, which was only across the street from the square.
Steven walked into the hotel and asked about the accommodation price. It was 20 copper lings a night, which was much more expensive than the accommodation in the villages near the Glen Mountains! After paying the accommodation fee, Steven still had less than 100 coppers left.
Ling, it seems that we have to make money quickly, otherwise we will be unable to move forward!
Even weapons cannot be purchased now!
Weapons and defensive equipment have always been very expensive. With the little money he has now, he can't even buy a few feather arrows! Let alone daggers, darts, leather quivers and leather armor!
The rules of the mercenary group have always been that the mercenaries are responsible for their own weapons and armor, and the maintenance fees for the weapons and armor must be paid out of their own pockets.
Fortunately, as Steven's main handy weapon, the moon-piercing straight knife is more than enough in most battles! After receiving the mission commission, you can find a way to get a few feather arrows and you can basically go out for a while!
What he regrets the most now is the pair of purple python scale skin arm guards. He took them off and put them in his backpack when he was camping in the Glen Mountain Mountains, and then lost them together with the backpack.
And these tattered leather boots also needed to be replaced immediately. Steven walked out of the hotel and went to the street, looking for a store selling shoes along the street.
After spending more than 50 copper orders, he put on new high-top field travel leather boots, which were necessary equipment to ensure combat effectiveness. At the same time, he spent more than 10 copper orders to customize a rainproof canvas bag and put the removed
The hunting bow was carried in his pocket. When Langdon gave them the steel-armed hunting bow, there was a custom-made bag containing the disassembled hunting bow. Later, he got lost in the mountains, and the bag and the backpack horses were lost at the same time.
The steel-arm hunting bow looks like a small backpack when packed in a canvas bag, very low-key.
Now he can only make do with some bread for dinner. Fortunately, he also brought some pheasant chicken roasted on the road, which is enough for today's dinner. I hope he can successfully join a mercenary group tomorrow!
Steven relaxed and returned to the hotel to rest with hope for tomorrow. He planned to practice the visualization method early. His visualization method had made some progress in the past few days on the road.