Half a month later, in the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun shrouded the frontier city of Kriri, and the pale golden light seemed to drape the city in a veil.

At this moment, in the restaurant on the first floor of the Rose Hotel in the northern area of Creri, a blonde boy and a mature woman of about thirty years old are talking in a whisper, the two are Carré and Delina, because it is dinner time, the restaurant is bustling, and the conversation between the two is very weak, and it is not heard by outsiders at all.

Three days earlier, after nearly two weeks of travel, the train had finally arrived in Creri, and the atmosphere of war between Austria-Hungary and the Jialan Empire had not affected the eastern frontier city, where there was not much news about the war and only a few accounts were made in the local newspapers.

"How's the harvest today, have you contacted the caravan? Caleb! Delina took a sip of rose wine from her glass and asked with a faint smile.

Kalei skillfully used a knife and fork to solve the last piece of flaming steak on the plate, picked up a napkin and wiped his lips, shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "No, midsummer is not a good time for merchants to go to the interior of the Nurha steppe, although one or two merchants who went to the Nurha steppe were contacted, but they only went to some tribes on the border of the steppe to buy goods, and did not go to the interior of the steppe at all. ”

The Nurha Grassland is the largest grassland in the Jialan Continent, with a vast territory, accounting for nearly one percent of the entire Jialan Continent, which is enough for more than a dozen Jialan Empires.

There are countless grassland tribes of all sizes living on the huge grassland, and the tribes fight and annex each other, fighting for each other, although there are also marriages and cooperation, but they are all very small local phenomena, limited to a few tribes, and there is no unified management organization in the grassland of Nuoda.

Although the seven tribes on the Nurha steppe came up with a Nurha steppe tribal alliance a hundred years ago, it was only in name and had no jurisdiction over the alliance on the steppe.

Although this situation of very loose tribes fighting for each other made the steppe people brave and good at fighting, it also led to a very bad result, the development of various hardware facilities on the steppe was very slow, or not developed, there was no railway, even a road, and the major empires had no access to transportation routes at all.

The backward transportation naturally limited the development of the grassland, and almost no one would go to the grassland except for merchants who were willing to go deep into the grassland to do business with the grassland people for gold coins.

This is also the reason why Carré wants to find a caravan to enter the Nurha grassland together, if he and Delina enter the grassland alone, no accident, they will definitely get lost in the grassland, the Nurha grassland is extremely vast, sometimes walking thousands of kilometers may not be able to meet a tribe, at a glance it is all green grass that is half a person high, if it is not a person who is very familiar with the grassland, it is certain to get lost.

And if he is unlucky, he may also worry about his life, Carley is naturally not worried about himself, although he does not have a trace of Yuan Force in his body now, and it is not enough to rely on that strong physical fitness, there should be no problem in saving his life, but Delina is different, the blood clan qi sea has been broken, and even the black iron star can easily kill her.

"Then what to do, or we will hire a mercenary group to escort us through the Nurha steppe." Delina put down the goblet in her hand, frowned slightly, and thought seriously for a while.

"Don't worry, I'll inquire again tonight." Rubbing his chin with his fingers, Karley thought for a moment and said, "The two mercenary groups crossing the Nurha steppe are too eye-catching, and it does not guarantee that the mercenary group will not be greedy in their hearts, and it is safer to follow the caravan." ”

"But if you really can't find a caravan, then you can only mercenary groups, there are not a few mercenary groups in Crery, and when the time comes, select a mercenary group with a good reputation."

Delina nodded, and that was it.

After dinner, Delina returned to her room on the second floor, while Carré dressed up a little and looked more mature, leaving the hotel and heading for a bar not far away.

Next to this pub is the largest fur trade market in the Kriri, where countless fur traders come and go every day, and fur traders are the most willing to go to the interior of the steppe, after all, the farther away from the empire, the cheaper the fur is.

The name of the bar is very popular, representing the desire of the merchants, the gold coin bar, every night, the fur merchants in the bar are everywhere, the name of the bar is tacky, but the interior decoration is not tacky, completely different from the kind of bar with roaring and piercing music.

The waiter standing outside the door of the bar opened the door for Carré, Carré walked straight in, the lights in the bar were slightly dim, but it was not difficult to see that the various decorations were very elegant, the wooden retro walls, the wooden tables and wooden chairs that exuded a faint fragrance, and the air conditioner covered by the ceiling bar discharged bursts of cold air, dispelling the heat of the midsummer night.

In the middle of the bar, a sweet-looking woman sits in front of a white piano, her fingers playing a very popular serenade, and the crisp and melodious piano sound slowly echoes in the bar.

The mainstream customers of this bar are fur rays, who have certain assets, secretly look at the customers in the bar, and listen to their conversations, and the customers of the bar are all gathered in three or two people, usually drinking wine, chatting casually, and smiling happily.

Most of the chats were about the condition and price of the furs they bought, or some rumored anecdotes, or how many weapons they had exchanged for a beautiful prairie girl, and Carré listened intently for a long time, and did not get any information at all.

One by one, the guests of the pub departed, and a round of full moon merchants in the night sky, these fur merchants also enjoyed the atmosphere of this bar, and only fur traders of this rank were qualified to go to the interior of the grassland to buy furs.

I ordered a glass of ale at the bar at random, holding the ale in my hand, and the card moved to the air, it was already midnight.

Sighing, there was no gain tonight, Carré was about to leave, and when he passed in front of a middle-aged man who had already drunk the reddish color, Carré stopped him, and this man caught his attention.

The middle-aged man was supposed to be a fur merchant, because his sniffy nose smelled a faint smell of fur from this man, and unlike the other merchants who were smiling and chatting in groups of threes or twos, the man had a sad face, and was always drinking the cheapest beer, glass after glass.

(End of chapter)