The guest rooms in the Mermaid Tavern are not big, just over three meters long and two meters wide, and are estimated to be only about eight square meters in area. The layout is also very simple, with a large bed, a desk, a chair, and not even a wardrobe.
An old cedar box was placed in the corner of the entrance to serve as a wardrobe.
Claude lit the ignition stick, found the oil lamp on the table, lit the oil lamp, extinguished the ignition stick, and began to look at the guest room rented by the bearded man named Edmigue. In fact, there was nothing to observe.
, the things in the guest room are very simple and clean, almost as if no one lives in it, and it is clear at a glance. Except for a large sheepskin bag placed by the bedside, the rest are from the guest room.
Opening the old cedar box, it was empty. It seemed that the bearded man named Edmig didn't put anything else in the guest room except the big sheepskin bag on the bedside. Maybe he put away all his belongings.
In the sheepskin bag, he was probably planning to ambush Claude in the woods, steal those magic materials, and then leave White Deer Town immediately tomorrow morning. That's why he didn't mind Claude's life and death and would kill him as soon as they met.
Claude poured the contents of the sheepskin bag onto the bed. As expected, the contents were not of much value, including a few changes of clothes, a linen towel, and an old brass kettle.
It's not a magic item yet. The remaining items are some tools for survival in the wild, a small box of salt, a few fish hooks, two rolls of fishing thread, a wooden lunch box, a few silver spoons and silver forks.
There is also a half-used bottle of healing potion, a fire stick, and two sewing needles at the bottom of the bag...
In fact, if you think about it, you will understand that no one will safely put their most valuable things in the guest room when they are away. It is okay if someone is there, but if no one is in the room, the things will probably disappear. Whether it is a hotel or a pub
The hotel will not be responsible for passengers losing items in the guest room, unless the passenger entrusts the valuables to the counter for safekeeping at the beginning of the stay, signs an item storage agreement, and pays a storage fee.
But for travelers who are away from home, the consequences of doing so are even more harmful, because if their belongings are revealed, more malicious people will target them...
Claude didn't find any item storage agreement in the sheepskin bag. It seemed that this bearded man named Edmigue was indeed a pauper and didn't have any good things around him. This also made Claude want to find the energy shield spell.
Scroll's hope was in vain, but this did not disappoint him. Anyway, this was not the purpose of sneaking into the guest room.
He stuffed the things on the bed back into the sheepskin bag and placed the sheepskin bag at the foot of the bed. He moved the oil lamp on the table to the shabby wooden box in the corner, and then Claude gently moved the table away from the window.
He went to the side and opened two windows. Suddenly, a cool breeze swept into the guest room, which made Claude feel refreshed.
He stuck his head out of the window and looked around to make sure that there was nothing moving around. The windows of the guest rooms in this building were all closed. After listening for a while, Claude returned to the room with satisfaction.
He took off the burqa and trousers worn by the bearded man and threw them on the chair next to him. He took out a bundle of climbing ropes from the backpack behind him, tied one end to the foot of the bed, and pulled hard to make sure it would not fall off.
Claude put the other end of the rope through the window downstairs, then came back and blew out the oil lamp to let his eyes adapt to the darkness, then grabbed the climbing rope and climbed up the window before gently sliding down.
The long three-story stone and wood structure building of the Mermaid Tavern is built directly on the stone embankment by the lake. Therefore, in addition to a fifty-centimeter-wide stone ridge on the stone embankment, there is a stone embankment more than two meters high below.
Claude grabbed the rope and slid down from the second floor window to the bottom of the stone embankment, which was about six meters high.
The corpse of the beardless man was still placed on the other side under the stone embankment. Claude went over to move the body over, and with a lot of effort, he lifted the body and placed it on the stone ridge between the building and the stone embankment.
A rope was tied around the body and the body was leaned against the outer wall of the first floor. Uninformed people saw it and thought it was someone sitting on the stone ridge looking at the lake and admiring the scenery.
Claude grabbed the climbing rope and climbed to the window on the second floor. Fortunately, the Datongbu room on the first floor below the guest room 219 was empty, and no one was staying in it, so Claude issued some
The slight noise didn't alarm anyone.
Erikson once said that the first floor of the hotel building at the Mermaid Tavern has the worst environment. They are all large bungalow rooms, which are a row of large bed rooms that can accommodate eight people. Some captains like to book their rooms there before going to sea.
Set up a few large bunk rooms for your crew and sailors to rest, so that you can easily gather manpower if you need to go to sea in an emergency.
On the second floor are twenty-four small guest rooms with moderate prices, which are very suitable for sailors and crew members to have fun there. On the third floor are eight more luxurious suites, which are also the most expensive and are used by many captains and cargo owners before and after going to sea.
They would book several rooms there so that they could discuss the price of the goods and settle the cost of hiring the ship. Sometimes they would also gather for gambling and hold buffet dinner banquets in the suite on the third floor to bond with each other and discuss business...
Hotel business is a bit slow at the end of October and early November. Firstly, the ships that have gone to sea have not yet returned, and secondly, the ships that have returned are basically not ready to go to sea again. Although winter has not yet arrived, the ships that have returned have not yet arrived.
They have to do protective work, clean up the marine growth on the bottom of the boat, repaint, replace the boat planks, etc. Several boat repair workshops on the lakeside are very busy.
Claude climbed back into the guest room from the window. Youth means agility. Climbing this small distance is just a trivial matter for Claude, not to mention the assistance of a climbing rope. Without the climbing rope, Claude would
De believes that he can climb up. There are too many gaps and protrusions in the stone and wood structure building, which allows dexterous people to climb to the highest point smoothly.
After calming down his breathing, Claude leaned half of his body out of the window, cast the Feather Falling Technique again on the body of the bearded man sitting on the stone ledge against the wall on the first floor, and then grabbed the climbing rope and pulled it up.
, the body was pulled up as lightly as a feather, without any effort at all. The only thing Claude had to pay attention to was not to let the body hit the walls of the building or the windows below during the pulling process...
The effect of Featherfall, which only lasts for two minutes, is too short. Claude just grabbed the underwear on the corpse and pulled it in through the window, and the time was up. The corpse suddenly became heavy, "
He fell to the floor with a thud. The sound startled Claude, and he quickly raised his ears to listen to the sounds around him.
Fortunately, no one would notice the sound of falling to the ground like this. Compared with the "thump" sound, the "papa" sounds of men and women having sex in the rooms not far away are more attractive.
.
Claude breathed a sigh of relief, lit the oil lamp again, spent some effort to move the body to the bed, and thoughtfully covered the body with a quilt, making it look like the person was sleeping soundly on the bed. He moved the table back to the window and put it in its original place.
, took the oil lamp back and put it on the table.
He took out the linen towel from the sheepskin bag at the foot of the bed and threw it on the ground. He stepped on it and wiped away the messy footprints and marks on the floor. Then Claude untied the climbing rope from the foot of the bed and tied it up.
I went back to my backpack and looked at the small guest room again. After making sure that there was no omission or negligence, I blew out the oil lamp and opened the window.
Claude meditated intently, and used the last bit of his own magic power to cast a Feather Falling Technique on himself. Then he jumped up, like a feather flying in the wind, floating lightly across the table, through the window, and outside.
It floated gently down the stone embankment and landed silently on the gravel beside the lake.
This night, the Feather Falling Technique was of great help to Claude. In the woods, if Claude hadn't had an idea, he used the Feather Falling Technique on the corpse of the bearded man, and found that the body became like a feather.
It was so light that he was able to move the body to the bottom of the lake embankment.
Otherwise, it would be really difficult for Claude to dispose of the corpse of this beardless man. At that time, he had not recovered from the fierce fight, and his whole body was sore that he could not move the more than two hundred pieces of equipment at all.
A body weighing several kilograms.
At that time, Claude was a little desperate and wanted to go back to the dock of Erikson's house and drive the forest farm's carriage to carry the body, and then take the body back to the forest farm for disposal. But if he did that, there would be too many people to see him, and he would be easily seen.
, at least it would be difficult for the Xioli couple in the forest farm to be concealed, unless they took the bodies to the pharmaceutical laboratory for dismemberment...
Fortunately, the Featherfall spell is effective. Julian is right in saying that there are only useless mages and there are no useless spells. Under certain circumstances, some spells that are regarded as rubbish can actually produce the best spell effects. Gram
Lord feels that the Feather Falling Technique is good, and perhaps it is more appropriately called the Light Body Technique.
Featherfall is a wind-attributed spell. After casting it, Claude felt a wind-like film covering his entire body, making the weight of his body as light as a feather. Perhaps this was the effect of the wind-attributed spell that offset the earth.
The only drawback is that the gravitational force on the body is like this. The time is too short, but it still brings an unexpected surprise to Claude.
It seems that Julian should not have known about the beardless man named Edmig who came to ambush him, otherwise he would never have sold him the two spells of feather fall and long-range arrow protection at night. But this beardless man
The big man learned from this fat old man with a big mouth that it was true that he went to trade. He would have to make some trouble for this fat old man in the future...
Claude walked easily along the lake embankment to the forest farm, occasionally leaving footprints on the gravel and not paying much attention. Every morning from 7 to 8 or 9 o'clock, the water in Lake Beringa will rise and flood the lakeside.
By three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the lake water will recede and expose these gravels on the edge of the lake. By then, all these footprints and traces will have disappeared.
The body of the bearded man with beards has been placed back in the guest room of the Mermaid Tavern where he rented. From now on, the only headache will be for the owner of the tavern, Eric Sim. By the time the bearded man is found dead, it will probably be a day and a half of the night.
Time, after all, the concierge saw him coming back upstairs drunk, and if he didn't show up for a day, he would just think he was sleeping. Even if he was found dead on the bed, he couldn't explain where the many wounds on the body's waist came from...
If the Mermaid Tavern calls the police, there will only be one more unexplained mystery in White Deer Town. In this era without surveillance equipment and fingerprint verification, Claude can guarantee that it will be difficult for the police detectives to find out the death of this bearded man.
The truth. If you fail to rob, you will be killed. Road robbery is indeed a high-risk profession...
However, Claude is more willing to believe that Eric Sim, the owner of the Mermaid Tavern, found out that one of his tenants died in his guest room. He would quietly dispose of the body instead of going out to call the police, which would only cause more trouble.
The patrolmen may even close down the Mermaid Tavern if they hand over their evidence.
But for Claude, it has nothing to do with him now. All he has to do is return to the forest farm, take a hot bath, clean his body, and then have a good sleep.
.When I have enough energy at night, I will start to set up my own alchemical magic array, and then I will start my own alchemical magic experiments in the forest farm...
It was already dawn when we returned to the forest farm, probably around five o'clock. Claude boiled water for a bath, cooked himself a bowl of offal noodles, filled his stomach, and went out to the stables to pull out the big black horse Jamie.
He got on his horse and pretended to inspect the forest farm. Then he told the Sioli couple to deal with the branches and other things accumulated in the creek to the south. He had to do a day of testing in the pharmaceutical laboratory today. It was nothing.
Don't disturb yourself.
After Mr. and Mrs. Sioli nodded in agreement, Claude went into the pharmacy laboratory, locked the door, fell on the carpet and started to sleep. He must have enough energy to set up the alchemy magic talisman array at night...