Chapter 22: The Need for a Market
Leaving the blacksmith shop, Lin Xiu and his party came to the hotel location again.
As soon as they stepped into the hotel on their front feet, they followed a group of people on their back feet, and when they saw the outfits of the five, Chris immediately became alert.
"I didn't expect that there was a hotel in this remote place, it is really the blessing of the God of Light!" said a young man with a bow and arrow, with an exaggerated expression.
The blonde woman in leather armor stretched: "I can finally take a hot bath, this big blue forest is really not a place for people to stay." ”
The big man with an axe at least 1.9 meters tall patted the backpack on his back, and smirked: "It's good that I collected 20 pieces of gnoll skins, otherwise this trip would have been a loss." ”
"Shut up. The middle-aged man in heavy armor and with a vicissitudes of face glanced at Lin Xiu, then came to the counter and said to the maid, "Stay in the hotel." ”
"Hello, the hotel charges 1 silver coin a day and a night, because you are the first guests to arrive, and now you are opening for rewards, just charge 50 copper eagles per person, please stay for a few days." The woman said.
"Boss, I only charge 50 copper eagles, and I make a lot of money this time. A young man in a blue robe approached the middle-aged man.
"If it weren't for the fact that the road to the Monster Forest was barricaded by those vampires to collect tolls, who would want to come here and suffer. The archer said disdainfully, and by the way, he expressed his shame on the shameless behavior of the nobles.
"It's clear that Queen Arabella was not like this when she was on the throne, Arabella has only ascended to heaven for a few years, and that duke actually took away the rights of the new king in the name of the regent. Speaking of this, the young man in the blue robe also expressed his opinion, he is not a nobleman, but he is a precious second-order magician, just because the duke issued an order to dismiss the Odo mage group, so that he no longer has the security of life, and finally forced to join the mercenary group to make a living.
"It's Grand Duke Nikkor. The red-haired woman said at the right time.
"Well, don't say it, for others will hear it, and we will not have any good fruit to eat. "The middle-aged man has a headache, and it's not easy to bring the team now!
This group of young people who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the sky get together, and if they don't pay attention, they will make him a whole moth, and only by reminding him from time to time can he avoid trouble, making him like a nanny.
"Five rooms for one night. The middle-aged man put down two silver wolves on the counter table, plus a bunch of copper eagles scattered on the table, and then waited for the maid behind the counter to count the amount and get him the key.
While he was waiting for the key, Lin Xiu came up.
"Are you mercenaries?" Lin Xiu asked the middle-aged man.
"Who are you?" the middle-aged man said to Lin Xiu vigilantly, but his eyes glanced at Li Yan who was standing behind Lin Xiu, this unsmiling man gave him a feeling of chills in his back, and he even had a feeling that if Li Yan wanted to attack him, he was afraid that if he blinked his eyes, the next second the opponent's weapon would be on his neck.
He had already avoided contact with the other party as much as possible, but he didn't expect the other party to come to the door.
"I'm the head of this village, Lin Xiu Anderson, first of all, I want to welcome you on behalf of all the villagers of Hammond, and secondly, I want to invite you to visit the adventurer's guild in the village. Lin Xiu went straight to the point and went straight to the topic.
The middle-aged man didn't expect Lin Xiu to just invite him to visit the Adventurer's Guild, but after thinking about it, he found something wrong, what kind of guild was the Adventurer's Guild, he hadn't heard of it at all, could it be that he wanted to rob.
"Why?" The middle-aged man stared at Lin Xiu's eyes tightly, wanting to see some suspicions, but Lin Xiu's gaze was very sincere, and the middle-aged man didn't see anything for a long time.
"I just see that you are strong, and I want to invite you to join the Adventurer's Guild, of course, it depends on your own choice, I won't force it, I just heard that you hunted the Gnolls, maybe you should go to the Adventurer's Guild and ask their purchase price, I believe they will definitely give a higher price than the Mercenary Guild." Lin Xiu said.
"Boss, I saw the Adventurer's Guild just now, he said that the price is higher than the price given by the Mercenary Guild, do you want to take a look?" As soon as the archer heard Lin Xiu's words, his eyes seemed to see a glittering golden dragon beckoning to him, and he immediately spoke to the middle-aged man.
"Be quiet, Jerry. The middle-aged man said angrily to the archer, and then turned his head to look at Lin Xiu with a serious expression: "Thank you for your advice, if we have time, we will definitely go to see it." ”
Seeing that Lin Xiu's conversation with the middle-aged man was over, the maid finally took out five room keys and put them on the table: "These keys have room numbers on them, you can open the corresponding room according to these numbers, and you can check out before noon tomorrow." ”
The middle-aged man grabbed all the keys into his palm: "Let's go." ”
After the five mercenaries left, Lin Xiu looked at the female boss of the part-time maid role of the hotel, the woman was about 20 years old, with a beautiful face, wearing a fluffy blue dress, tied with a belt around her waist, and her hair tied behind her back, the whole person looked refreshing and capable.
"Well done, what's your name?" Lin Xiu gave the woman a thumbs up, he didn't expect that there were people in this world who could understand and use the concept of opening a big reward.
"Thank you for the compliment, my name is Camilla. The woman smiled slightly: "Is there anything wrong with the village chief coming to me?"
"It's nothing, I'll just wander around, and since you've just arrived in this village, feel free to come to me if you have any difficulties. ”
"Really?" Camila's eyes burst into light: "Then please ask the village chief to hurry up and build a market, it's too expensive to go to the adventurer's guild to buy ingredients." ”
It's the Adventurer's Guild again, and it's incredible that the Adventurer's Guild can not only deliver goods but also buy ingredients from other spaces.
However, one thing is also reflected in Camilla's words, that is, the establishment of the market must be hurried, otherwise his employees will drink the northwest wind.
The icon of the market, Lin Xiu doesn't know if there is one in the system, what he wants to do is to build a market by himself, but the premise of establishing a market is to ensure the environment of the market first, otherwise there will be a tidal disaster today, and a goblin invasion tomorrow, who can stand it.
And Lin Xiu wanted to persuade this mercenary team to stay, it was precisely because of the strength of the other party that they could kill 20 gnolls with the strength of five people, then their strength would be at least comparable to Chris, if they were willing to stay, they would definitely add a lot of combat power to Hammond.
After the visit to the blacksmith shop and the hotel, the time slowly came to noon, and Lin Xiu and his party began to go home.
"They're gone. "Archer Jerry stood at the entrance of the second floor, as soon as he saw Lin Xiu and them leaving, he immediately ran to report to the middle-aged man, and when he rushed into the middle-aged man's room, he was immediately shocked by the middle-aged man's movements.
What is his boss doing? He's reading!
Jerry has a feeling that the sky is about to fall, can you imagine a scruffy middle-aged man with a scruffy beard concentrating on a book?
I can't think about it, it's too disobedient!