Chapter 22: The Inn

After coming out of the clothing store, Zhou Chen and Ming walked around for a short while, and soon found a hotel.

Does the daylight seem to be short in this world, or is it confined to the immediate vicinity?

Anyway, when Zhou Chen found this hotel, it was almost dark, so he walked into it with his life and prepared to stay temporarily for one night.

The first floor of the inn doubles as a tavern, and when the two enter, they are greeted by a table of drinking and bragging.

And the arrival of the two inevitably attracted everyone's attention.

A skeleton coming to the inn for the night? It's a joke, but if it's accompanied by a witch who looks unusually young and looks like an overly child, many adventurers won't take it as a joke.

After all, that's exactly what they're seeing.

Zhou Chen, as always, ignored the inconsequential people around him, walked through a few tables with his life, and walked to the counter.

Ding, ding, ding!

Zhou Chen stretched out his white bone palm, and several gold coins leaked from it, landing on the counter with a crisp sound.

"Give me a clean room. ”

Facing the middle-aged man who seemed to be the boss behind the counter, Zhou Chen said with his soul thoughts.

"Okay, okay!"

The boss recovered from his stunned state, accepted the gold coins, took out a drawer and took out a key, and handed it to Zhou Chen.

Then he turned to an open door behind him and yelled, "Jack, get out of here and take the guest to the most expensive room upstairs!"

"What are you talking about! I'm busy frying meatloaf, which the previous guest ordered. ”

A freckled, brown-haired boy of twelve or thirteen years old walked out of the door, taking off his chef's hat and unbuttoning his apron with the other hand.

The boy has a very popular name "Jack", and he is ordinary-looking but very clever, and knows that his uncle, that is, the boss, must call him out, it must be because the new guest can't be offended, otherwise he won't interrupt him to fry meatloaf for the previous guest.

So despite the whining in his mouth, he didn't dare to slack off at all in his actual actions.

He was first frightened by Zhou Chen, and then he was slapped on the back of the head by the boss and came to his senses, he saw the boss's eyes, and immediately understood that the skeleton with red light in his eyes was the guest who booked the most expensive room.

"Please come with me, and I'll show you the way. ”

He walked out from behind the counter, ready to take Zhou Chen upstairs to recognize the room, but at this moment he saw the life standing next to Zhou Chen.

His face turned red instantly, and he was stunned by the girl in front of him.

He swore that he had never seen such a beautiful girl, and even the princess in the story he had heard of was never as beautiful as the girl in front of him, with the image imagined by his imagination.

"Please, please...... Please follow me. ”

He stammered and repeated what he had just said, and when he saw that the girl had not even looked at him, he shrank his head in shame, and walked first to the side of the stairs, and went upstairs.

Zhou Chen and his life followed very casually, and he didn't pay attention to the psychological changes of this teenager at all.

"That's it...... I'll go first!"

After Jack led the way, after taking Zhou Chen and the two to the innermost room, he continued to shrink his neck and bury his head, and ran downstairs as if he were running away.

Zhou Chen opened the door with the key and walked into the room with his life.

......

When Jack fled back to the first floor, and as soon as he descended the stairs, he bent over his hands on his knees and gasped for breath.

It's been an experience like never before.

Obviously he wasn't doing heavy physical work, just taking two guests upstairs, but he was tired like this.

It was mentally tiring and he was under too much pressure.

He knew that the pressure did not come from the cloaked skeleton, although it was indeed terrifying, but he had seen all kinds of adventurers, and he was not so embarrassed.

Then the source can only be that beautiful girl.

That beauty suffocated him, it was the suffocation of self-shame, and for the first time he felt so inferior. Even if he has seen countless rich people and has seen nobles a few times, he has never felt this way.

He even wants to die now.

"Jack, what are you stealing, go fry the guest's meatloaf!"

The boss shouted several times, and finally woke Jack up. It almost saved Jack's life, otherwise God knows if this poor boy would have collapsed on the spot.

"Okay...... Boss. ”

Jack barely came to his senses, but his spirit was not as good as before, and his words of reply seemed weak.

He walked slowly back to the counter, ready to walk through the door and go to the back kitchen to continue frying his meatloaf.

However, as Jack moved, the conversation of the many adventurers sitting on the first floor drinking and eating drifted into his ears.

"I guess it must be a witch with great powers, it's the first time I've seen anything like this. ”

"Yes, she must be more than a hundred years old, or maybe two hundred years old, but on the surface she is a little girl, and witchcraft is really magical. ”

"The skeleton is her summon, it's from the west gate, and it's the Bethese in that direction, right? This witch, she's also here to explore the Dead Palace? Guess she's already in there?"

"We've been in Razan for a long time, and we only dare to go around the edge of Botegan and clean up some low-level necromantic monsters, if we can unite a witch, maybe ......"

"Don't think about it! You don't know the arrogance of the wizard, isn't there a wizard staying there in the east of the city? Many people have been invited, but they have been refused, and most of them have not even met in person. ”

The adventurers here are almost all men, and occasionally a few women, who are also rough in shape and speak louder than men.

After Zhou Chen and Ming went upstairs, they began to discuss the two, in fact, most of them were also new, after all, in real circumstances, they were unable to deal with a wizard.

The adventurers talked loudly and bragged to each other, not limited to small groups at one table, but all of them spoke to each other more boldly.

They were speaking casually, but it thundered to Jack's ears.

"Witch! Are they talking about the girl? She's a witch! And she's at least a hundred years old?"

Jack couldn't accept the fact that he couldn't figure out what his feelings were, and he just couldn't accept it.

"Why? Why is this happening?

With his head in his hands, Jack ran away with his head in his hands, and rushed out of the hotel door.

"What are you mad about! Come back to me! Jack!"

The innkeeper was stunned, he didn't know what the hell his nephew was doing, why was he fine just now, and now suddenly he went crazy?