The security of Otez City in the eastern city-state is very good. Here you don't have to worry about being killed suddenly or having your property robbed... That's true, but Lily happened to encounter such a special case. The deceased was
The drunk man who had led the way for Silla and others was brutally killed on the street corner while Silla and others were negotiating with the businessman. Although Garudo sensed something was wrong and rushed over immediately, it was a pity that the other party had already killed him.
He ran away.
At that time, there were only Garudo and a little girl who looked frightened by the corpse. She was running desperately out of the alley. Garudo did not chase her, but began to examine the injuries on the corpse -
-These wounds were caused by knife wounds. In some places, the flesh seemed to be hooked by some hook-like object, causing the flesh to turn up. The drunkard's body had been dismembered into several pieces in a short period of time. If Garudo hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid they would still have it.
A little more piecemeal.
"Then what?" Lily asked curiously after looking at Fan who looked hapless, "Why didn't Uncle Sirla and the others come back?"
"Garudo was captured by the city defense troops who arrived." Fan was going to the Chamber of Commerce with Dragon Spear and others at that time. The insect dragon seemed to have recovered its health and was now shrinking and resting on Fan's left shoulder.
The flower essence was lying on his right shoulder, looking very funny, "Captain Sirla didn't trust him, so he took the others to the city defense army garrison."
Ethela held the juice and sipped it, looking extremely comfortable: "Should we go over and help? If those mercenaries were tripped up by this kind of thing, it would be difficult to find the person who spread the undead in the first place.
The culprit. How about we go to that stronghold to investigate first?"
"Hahahaha! I don't think so." Kaz laughed loudly and said, "The top priority is to liberate those mercenaries from trouble. I asked about it on the street. Recently, there have been rumors about the 'Butcher' in this city.
rumors."
"Butcher?" A certain simple-looking (?) stitch monster popped up in Lily's head for no apparent reason, "Is it a stitch monster?"
"Stitch monster? What is that?"
Fan felt that Lily's words were getting more and more difficult to understand, but Kaz did not care about Lily's question, but continued: "There are rumors that a person or organization has appeared recently, and they specialize in pirates as prey. Like
Drag those lone pirates to the corner, dismember them and hang them in a conspicuous place. Because they act like a butcher selling meat, he or they will be named a butcher."
"Is that so..." Lily supported her head with her left hand and continued to fiddle with the steaks on the plate with her right hand, saying helplessly, "I heard that the relationship between pirates and merchants in this city is not good, right?"
"Well, that's true... Do you suspect that the merchants hired people to do it?" Vang asked while feeding Anzite, "How much do these merchants hate pirates..."
Lily pursed her lips and smiled, knocked on the plate, and said proudly: "Think about it, you worked so hard to come all the way to this place and made so much money, but in the end it was all robbed by pirates. If it were me, I would also
I'm not happy! But that's not the point. The point is that the Butcher's killing methods are so special now. There will definitely be many imitators. This will greatly confuse the police... uh, I mean the sight of the city defense army, so it's very
It’s difficult to solve the butcher problem in a short time. Let’s first look for intelligence dealers in the city to see if they have any important information.”
"Information dealer?" Asela tilted her head in confusion and asked curiously, "What is that?"
"It's a legitimate profession of exchanging information for money~" Suddenly, a young man's voice interrupted the conversation of several people. Everyone turned their heads and looked around. In the middle, a short boy with a smile was rubbing his hands and standing at Lily's table.
On the side, "Our backwater can provide most of the information about Otez City. Even if you want to know what the lord is having for dinner today, you can know it!"
"..." Lily looked at the boy in front of her speechlessly, "Are you the intelligence peddler?"
"No, no, no." The boy waved his hand quickly, "I am only responsible for collecting information. If you want to buy information, I will take you to the boss."
"Hahaha! I won't go. I'll leave such trivial matters to you!" Kaz walked out of the hotel with a wave of his hand and said without looking back, "I'm going to see if there's anything in this little place.
A place where you can loosen your bones, hahaha!"
"Hey! Stop killing people!" Lily was worried that the Dragon Spear hadn't been settled yet, and Kaz would cause trouble again.
Kaz just waved his hand and did not respond.
"Anyway, take us to your boss's place first." Lily jumped off the chair and found depressingly that she seemed to be a little shorter than the other person. "Speaking of which, Fan, do you still have money there?"
"Money?" Fan touched the money bag at his waist awkwardly and asked helplessly, "How many silver coins are left, what are you going to do?"
"Idiot!" Lily rolled her eyes at Fan and said angrily, "You don't need to pay for asking for information! Follow me, money bag."
Fan looked at Lily and Ji Ye who were already walking towards the door with black lines on his head. Asera walked past Fan and asked in a low voice: "I still have money here, do you need it?"
"No, no, no, I should have enough here." Fan quickly waved his hand and refused. He was just depressed about Lily treating him as a purse. He was not really short of money... Well, he seemed to still owe O
Ruilia has two gold coins.
Unlike Blake City, which is so neat that you can see across the street at a glance, the buildings in Otez City are very messy. Unless you go to the top of the building, these messy dead ends can make you get lost in minutes.
"What's your name?" After following the boy around and around, Lily realized that she didn't know the way back at all!
"Just call me Mai!" Mai turned around and gave Lily a big smile, "Then, may I ask..."
"My name is Lily, behind me is my maid Ye Ji, the one with the unlucky look on the other side is Fan (Fan: Hello!), and the little sister is Aisela (Aisela:=A=#)
." After Lily briefly introduced the people on her side, she asked Mai, "Can you be responsible for taking us back to the hotel? The road here almost makes me dizzy!"
"It doesn't matter." Before Mai could answer, Esera said expressionlessly, "I remember the road, and I'm actually eighteen years old. I'm older than you, so you should call me sister."
Lily raised her head proudly and snorted with her nose: "Huh~ I'm just an eighteen-year-old child~ We are already over forty years old!"
Ethera rolled her eyes, obviously not believing what Lily said.
"Miss Lily, ah! No, Aunt Lily..." As soon as Mai changed her words, Lily immediately punched him on the head and said angrily: "Who is aunt!!! I want to call you sister!!!"
Mai covered her head in grievance and said weakly: "But you said you were forty years old... I am only seventeen years old. If I don't call you aunt, what would I call you?"
Lily was choked by Mai Yi's words. Esera hid in the crowd and laughed secretly. Even Fan couldn't hold back his laughter. But Ji Ye came to Lily's rescue: "The master looks so old." What? Do you want to call an adult elf grandma?"
Mai had an "I see" expression on his face. He touched his head and said to Lily, "Then Miss Lily, if you really don't know the way back, you can hire us to take you back."
"What?!" Lily's eyebrows stood up after hearing this, "Didn't you take us there?! Are you not responsible for bringing us back? Do you have to charge money?!! You have fallen in the eyes of money!!"
Mai shrugged his shoulders and said matter-of-factly: "We are businessmen, so naturally we won't do business where we lose money. This time I'm leading the way for you because I'm giving you a discount to new customers, so I don't charge any money. How about that? That's interesting. Bar!"
"That's weird!!!" Lily's little face turned red with anger - Mai was really capable of making a bloodless vampire so angry, "You profiteer! How could you defraud me of my money like this?! "
Mai Yi responded with a smile: "No businessman, no traitor~ Don't worry, Miss Lily, our backwater is the cheapest intelligence house in Otters City, and it is also the intelligence house with the widest range of intelligence sources, no one!" "
Lily looked at Mai suspiciously: "Is it possible that you are the only intelligence agency in this city?"
"Cough cough cough..." Mai turned his face, coughed a few times, and changed the subject, "I'm going to take you through a path later. Follow me and go down this way."
Seeing where Mai was pointing, Lily forgot to try to stop Mai. Instead, she pointed at the big hole in the ground with her eyes wide open and shouted exaggeratedly: "This, isn't this a sewer entrance?! You actually let us go through it?" Come here?! We are not mice!"
Mai spread his hands helplessly and said: "This is a shortcut, and this is a waterway dug to prevent seawater from intruding. It is not the kind of place where sewage is treated. Although it is a little damp, it is not dirty. Come with me!"
Mai took the lead and climbed down the ladder into the sewer. Lily hesitated for a moment and climbed down as well.
This underground waterway does not have any special meaning as Mai said. It is just filled with a damp, salty smell of sea water and a faint smell of decay. There are several dim oil lamps hanging on the walls of the waterway. Lily estimated that people would come here often, because the oil lamps seemed to have a lot of oil, and they should have been newly added not long ago.
"Do you often encounter seawater intrusion here?" Lily asked Mai curiously. Compared with seawater intrusion, it will seriously salinize the nearby land, making it difficult for crops to grow in such places. This is probably why Ou This is because there are no crops around Tezi City.
"It happens almost once or twice every year." Mai said helplessly. "Thanks to these waterways and the ditches outside the city, when the tide comes, the water in the city can only cover the top of the shoes at most. Listen to Alkari The wizards said that the annual tides are related to the movement of the moon in the sky, and they can accurately calculate when the next tide will come. This year it should be at the beginning of the Red Moon."
"What? Just recently?!" Lily was startled. It is now the 16th day of the Green Moon. Although this world has thirty-five days in a month, there are only 19 days left until the Light Red Moon.
Oh my god, who knows if what those mages said is accurate? If the tide comes ahead of time, wouldn’t people like you have nowhere to escape? You know, in places like Earth where technology is very advanced, there is no way to accurately predict tsunamis and earthquakes.
of natural disasters, not to mention the natural disasters.
However, unlike Lily's imagination, the mages of Alkari apparently have their own unique observation skills. They can calculate when the tide will rise just by observing the changes in the elements. This is not scientific, but it is magic! For those who specialize in astrology
It is not difficult for mages to discover the connection between celestial bodies and natural phenomena. They found that soon after the two largest of the three moons appear at the same time, there will be an intrusion of seawater near Otez. Not long ago, Lily discovered
The appearance of three moons at the same time is a sign of the coming tide.
The underground drainage system of Otez City is very advanced, and its scale is comparable to the underground drainage system of London on Earth. Although the entrance that Lily and others entered does not look particularly large, just a prototype wellhead with a radius of two meters, the water channel is getting deeper and deeper.
The wider the space inside, it seems like a huge underground city!
Mai climbed out of another well with Lily and others in a familiar manner. This was also a secluded alley. Mai pointed to a building not far ahead and said: "Look, you see that building with a green roof over there."
What? That’s the Backwater Bar, our destination!”
"Bar?" Lily looked up and saw the building Mai pointed to. It was an old building with a dark green roof. The two-story design was obviously more like a hotel and a pub combined into one.
From a distance, it looks like a puddle of stagnant water as its name suggests - featureless and lifeless. There is also an old wooden board that can barely be regarded as a sign hanging outside the bar, with writing on it in Skell script.
with the word stagnant water.
"Are you...at the beach?" Lily vaguely heard the sound of waves, and there seemed to be a fresh smell of sea in the air.
Mai nodded and said: "The Backwater Bar is built near the port. If you want to see the sea, you can see it just a short walk north."
Lily nodded with interest. Although it was not that she had never seen the sea before, she still wanted to see the difference between the sea in another world and the earth.
Following Mai into the bar, unlike the shabby appearance, the neatness and cleanliness inside the bar caught a few people's attention. The harmonious and soft furnishings looked slightly better than ordinary pubs - of course, maybe it has something to do with the fact that there are not many guests here.
The people who came here to get drunk in broad daylight were obviously not serious people. The moment they saw the door being pushed open, several drinkers looked over subconsciously, and then immediately retracted their gazes, as if asking, and looked towards the people sitting behind the bar.
, a thin young man silently wiping the cup.
The young man felt these gazes, shook his head, put the wiped cup aside, and lightly knocked on the table. Seeing this, several drinkers withdrew their gazes as if they had lost interest, and discussed something in a low voice.
The way things are.
He looked at Lily and the group, and then at the young man in the lead: "Mai? Are you a guest?"
"Hehe! Boss! They want to buy information about the butcher!" Mai happily ran to the bar and prepared it, waving to Lily and others, "Come here quickly! This is our boss!"
"Butcher?" A glint flashed in the eyes of the young man whom Mai called his boss, and he nodded slowly, "In that case, come with me."