Snake Bay Tavern is a very historical and legendary tavern. It is said that the owner behind it is a legendary sea hunting ship captain who once penetrated into the depths of the Twin Seas and returned with a full load.
It is said that in his heyday, this captain owned a large fleet of twelve large sea-hunting ships. At that time, his name even reached the ears of the king.
Unfortunately, later, due to a completely unknown accident, the captain's entire fleet sank in the depths of the Twin Seas. Even he himself lost two of his legs, half of his face, and one right hand.
But no matter what, he miraculously came back alive, relying on a small sampan and drifting at sea for who knows how many days.
Later, he used the money he had saved over the past few years to open this tavern on First Avenue in the port area, which was named "Snake Bay Tavern".
After that, the old captain disappeared.
No one knows where he went, or even whether he is dead or alive.
The income of the Snake Bay Tavern will always lose its due part when it should be low. For decades, it has never stopped, and no one has ever discovered how these coins disappeared into the locked cash cabinet.
All of the above are versions of the story that Xue Hua heard from "Chronicles of King's Harbor" and from the bartenders and old drinkers in the Snake Bay Tavern.
However, it turns out that all this pieced together story about the origin of the Snake Bay Tavern.
Everything is compiled!
According to Golovin's confession, the Snake Bay Tavern was simply a trap planted by his master decades ago!
The King of Lies, who is good at deceit, deliberately spreads several different versions of the origin of this tavern among the people, and mixes these versions of the story with the story of a certain "old captain" who has been missing for an unknown period of time.
Pieced together.
After some "artistic processing" and finding "gunmen" to spread the news, the fake became true and the bad became good.
The origin of the Snake Bay Tavern was thus solved, and it also gained a lot of "legendary" and "poetic" special names.
These names attract passing tourists and make the Snake Bay Tavern extremely popular.
Moreover, since the Snake Bay Tavern is usually managed by a local bartender, the bartender who manages the Snake Bay Tavern has no idea about the true origin and purpose of this pub.
The tavern managed by locals only adds to the appeal and trustworthiness of the Snake Bay Tavern to the locals. Even Ekeli and his Black Harbor Club did not suspect that they were responsible for the Snake Bay Tavern. They were still here last night.
Xue Hua set up an "ambush".
To be honest, if the Mr. Golovin in front of him was not one of the "owners" of the Snake Bay Tavern, Xue Hua would not have suspected the Snake Bay Tavern at all!
It’s really dark under the lamp!
He has been there so many times, but he has never noticed that the place is actually a hidden stronghold of the True God Cult?
According to Golovin, the "unprofitable" hotel rooms on the second floor of the Snake Bay Hotel were actually intentional, and most of them were provided for use by future outer members of the True God Sect.
These hotel rooms have special spells that can affect people's subconscious. Ordinary people will never like these rooms.
And because the interference emitted by this special spell is not only very weak but also useless to professionals and mercenaries, professionals will not notice anything abnormal even if they check into the room.
In addition to this, the biggest role of the Snake Bay Tavern is as a sub-altar for evil blood sacrifices.
According to Golovin, there is a compartment underneath the underground wine room of the tavern. This compartment was the one they used to secretly build the sub-altar.
Every night when the tavern is closed, the cultists will transport the corpses into the underground compartment of the tavern through another special channel.
And this secret special channel was actually the "sewer entrance" where old Cherki stayed all night (old Cherki almost fainted when he heard this).
It turned out that there was no sewer entrance at all, and the reason why there were so many rats in it was simply because these guys gathered in the secret passages to eat the human flesh scraps that were missed during transportation.
The same goes for the stench.
The reason why Old Cherki could no longer find the place where he had stayed before when he returned to the city was entirely because when the cultists completed the preparations for the sub-sacrificial site, they directly blocked the secret passage.
And filled it out and restored it.
Fortunately, old Cherki stayed up all night because of fear, otherwise those rats that had tasted human flesh would have eaten him alive in his sleep!
I have to say that this old man is really lucky. It is a miracle that he can survive unscathed in such an environment...
However, although they now know the specific location of the other sub-altar, they still have to face a new thorny problem, that is, how to clear the sub-altar under the Snake Bay Tavern without causing a commotion.
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You must know that all the rituals, magic circles, sacrifices and other ghostly things produced by hell, although their effects are different, they have one characteristic that is the same.
That is, once they are released in the wrong way, these things will instantly turn into bombs, blowing up everything around them with a "boom" sound...
Xue Hua asked Golovin about this issue, but the result was that he didn't know either.
So with no choice, Xue Hua had no choice but to ignore the one under the Snake Bay Tavern for the time being, and go directly to the one that Old Cherki mentioned before.
Under Xue Hua's coaxing, tricking and pulling, the extremely reluctant Cherki was finally dragged into the city by him.
As for the two guys from the True God Cult... After making sure that they had no secrets to reveal, Xue Hua asked the infected to give them a good time.
The temporary gathering place for these low-status believers is on the second floor of the Snake Bay Tavern.
Golovin is already the highest-ranking member among them, and according to Golovin, the way they receive tasks is through remote notification through the spells of the "priest" in the church.
They can only accept it without even having any room to respond...
Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on them to find the home base of the True God Religion.
After getting rid of the peripheral leaders of the True God Religion, Xue Hua took Cherki and started a search trip in the city.
Cherki tried his best to recall the scene at that time, trying to restore the specific location of what he saw.
The only iconic objects he remembered were the city walls and a large open space.
From the back door of the Shewan Tavern to the city wall, the only place with a large open space against the city wall is a school ground specially used to station troops entering the city...
Looking at this open space, Xue Hua fell into deep thought for a while.
He found that the True God Religion was very particular about the location of its altars.
Although this place is just an open space now, once the Harvest Festival starts tomorrow, the Shining Aegis team stationed in the port area to maintain security will be stationed here.
If by then a sub-altar of the Evil Blood Sacrifice erupts under their feet...