"You'd better not eat these things. They are highly polluted and only people with no money will eat them."
After Catalina finished speaking, she lowered her voice and asked again: "Are you really... huh?"
She didn't say the word, fearing it might be heard by the ears in the tavern.
"Asking a question repeatedly will not change the answer."
Lu Li almost knew what purebred humans meant: high humanity and high sanity.
Maybe there are genetic problems, but in the mysterious world, the proportion of science is insignificant.
Lu Li's words strengthened Catalina's confidence, and she threw the worn-out baggage she was carrying on the table, making a sound like the collision of stones.
The tavern owner behind the counter walked over, and Catalina opened the bag, revealing the dull fluorite mine inside.
"How much are these fluorspar ores worth?"
"Did you go to the mine? Are those mantises still there?" The middle-aged boss with thick dark circles rolled his eyes, and his curved back made him look dark and inaccessible. "Eight shillings."
"You have to pay for information, and there is too little." Catalina is not a novice hunter, she just sends out information casually.
The middle-aged boss lowered his head, dug out his right eye and placed it on the wooden table. Four slender and flexible limbs stretched from the bottom of the eyeball, holding the eyeball and crawling around to the baggage to observe.
"Eleven shillings, with news. No more. You can't sell it at all."
As he spoke, he grabbed the eyeballs that were trying to escape, stuffed them back into the eye sockets strangely, and turned the eyes a few times to return them to normal.
"make a deal."
Catalina took out the warm shilling from the leather armor on her chest, found 20 shillings and gave it to him: "Give me some black bread."
"Black bread? That stuff is expensive and doesn't fill your stomach." The middle-aged boss turned to look at Lu Li, as if he was about to cut off the meat and whispered: "A strange face that has never appeared in this town..."
"He is... my cousin, don't try to trick him." Catalina threatened, pinching her left eye, ready to pull out the homologue at any time.
The middle-aged boss ignored Catalina's threat and gave Lu Li a ferocious smile: "You all have different hair colors."
"So it's my cousin." Lu Li looked at each other calmly.
"Sting, you're too nervous." The middle-aged boss grinned, stopped worrying about hair color, and turned back behind the counter.
"He is Old Pete, the owner of the tavern. We all call him Hyena, because he is as sharp and cunning as a hyena." After Old Pete left, Catalina stared at his back and whispered. "We must not let him get the information if we want to know it."
Know."
"Why not change to another tavern?" Lu Li asked.
"Because other taverns are not open to hunters like me." Katarina's tone was not depressed or otherwise emotional, she was just stating the facts.
Hunter is not as glamorous as its title. Although many hunters are as famous as the legendary exorcists and can even be respected and treated by churches, powerful people, and nobles, they have nothing to do with most hunters.
Most hunters are more appropriately called scavengers.
They are at the bottom of the human world, wandering around towns and cities every day to survive. The only luxurious time in their lives is the moment when they sell themselves.
Then he is going to die.
Catalina isn't like that, but it's not much better.
"I know a trustworthy hunter. He comes to the Wanderer Tavern every two hours." Catalina looked at the door of the tavern: "He is coming soon."
Two minutes later, the hyena old Pete brought black bread and change, and looked deeply at Lu Li, especially the linen coat and coat that had been pierced and obviously ripped off from the dead body.
But he didn't try again.
The hard cold black bread is difficult to cut even with a knife, and the uneven black appearance is like dead tree bark. It tastes bad and is expensive. It has no advantages except that it is "cleaner".
In contrast, the plates on the table next door contained meat that was steaming hot and fragrant that even a chaotic tavern could not conceal. But Catalina told Lu Li: "You don't want to know what kind of meat it is."
Maybe it's human, maybe it's weird.
Lu Li asked for a cup of boiling hot water and barely softened the black bread before eating it. The black bread mixed with sawdust provided a lot of satiety, at least he no longer felt hungry.
"I want to take a shower and change clothes." Lu Li looked at Catalina.
"That's such a luxury."
Catalina said this, but still asked for a room and a bucket of hot water for Lu Li. Together, they were less expensive than black bread.
"Do you need some fun, Mr. Cousin?"
Old Pete was lying on the counter, and when Lu Li walked to the stairs, he said, "Three-legged one, four-legged one, dwarf one, or you can make a condition, it's only a little more expensive."
"No need." Catalina answered for Lu Li. "When the mole comes, let him go to the room to find us."
Climbing up the old wooden stairs to the dark second floor of the pub, the corridor echoed with high-pitched shouts from an unknown room. Before entering the room, a revealing woman in a gauze walked out of the next room.
There were two slender legs like spider limbs growing on the woman's lower abdomen, which were about the same length as her forearms and could be stretched and lifted. She cast a flirtatious look at Lu Li as she passed him, and walked downstairs with the smell of cheap and pungent perfume.
Entering the room, there is only a single bed in the small and dark space. The fluorite in the lampshade blooms with faint light.
Lu Li walked to the window and looked out.
The sky has not changed, and the ring of magma and fire is still dripping downward.
Catalina held up the fluorite and carefully checked whether there were any gaps in the floor, walls and ceiling, as well as eavesdroppers.
Ten minutes later, a wooden bucket filled with hot water was delivered to the room. Caterina paid for the room and water, and locked the door.
"Is your currency still shillings?" Lu Li left the window.
"Well. That was your currency at that time, right?" Catalina hid the remaining shilling in her chest. "Maybe because they couldn't make it, or they missed the old life, people still used shillings, and there were also some weird uses in some places.
Currency and gold.”
The strange currency reminded Lu Li of something, and he took out the polygonal matte stone given by the being in the fog from his pocket.
"Is that it?"
Catalina observed for a while, shook her head and said: "I haven't seen any weird currency... If it is, it can be worth a lot of shillings, but I don't recommend you change it."
The value of Weird Currency is much higher than that of Shillings, and few people are willing to exchange Weird Currency for Shillings.
The bucket was filled with mist, and Lu Li began to take off his clothes.
Catalina had no intention of leaving. She sat by the bed and even carefully observed Lu Li's body, checking whether there were abnormal organs growing.
Lu Li stopped when he was only in his shorts. With the Doomsday Apocalypse chess pieces in his pocket, he stepped into the barrel.
Hot water relaxes pores and washes away fatigue.
Lu Li took a deep breath and sank into the water, his black hair floating like seaweed.
