Chapter 155: Blackmail
When the Demon Chapter King recounted his past, Lao Bai probed his brain and pushed open the door of the Wagu Tavern and walked into the noisy tavern.
There was a strong smell of wine and meat, and the smell of boiling broth, mixed with the smell of sweat, body, feet, and the leather smell of the strange beast python hanging on the walls of the tavern.
The strange smell that almost condensed into substance almost washed Lao Bai away.
Lao Bai, who has a sensitive sense of smell and direct, stood at the door of the tavern, stiff and stunned for a while, and then with a trace of tears that were washed out, he blinked and looked around.
The tavern is made of black boulders, with heavy walls, a heavy roof, and columns made of metal neatly arranged overhead, and a huge round lampstand with oil lamps lit under the black beams.
Square tables and long tables made of metal were neatly stacked in the tavern, and at a glance, there were at least two or three hundred huge tables in the long tavern, and each table was full of men with strong faces.
Brightly dressed women twisted their waists and walked around the crowd with a smile.
They carry barrels on their shoulders or large trays filled with grilled meats, stews, sausages, and the like.
As soon as someone said hello, they filled the huge empty wine glasses that the men had raised, and at the same time made two strokes on the animal skins hanging by the table.
In the same way, as soon as someone was called, the woman holding the tray took a sharp short knife, slashed off a few pieces of steaming meat, and threw them heavily into the tray in front of the big men, and then made a simple note on the animal skin hanging by the table.
In Wa Valley, those people who came from big forces and had noble status, they all lived in the stone buildings near Wa Palace, and they had their own social circles, so they would not come to such chaotic occasions.
In this tavern, there are either the guards around the big people, or the mercenaries who have come from afar to seek a chance to make a fortune, or some other miscellaneous people.
The personnel are complex, the quality is not high, and there are often fights and brawls.
Lao Bai tightened the belt around his waist, touched the quenched dagger inserted in his belt, and walked carefully to the long counter in the middle of the tavern.
A big man two meters tall and bulging like a mountain of meat stood behind the counter, and he used a piece of linen cloth to wipe a stone wine glass, which was the size of an ordinary person's head.
When Lao Bai came in, the big man had already noticed him, and when Lao Bai avoided the rampage big men all the way to the counter, the big man put the wine glass in his hand on the counter, his left elbow on the counter, and looked at Lao Bai with crooked eyes sideways.
"The face is very raw, just came to Wa Valley, it's a good place...... As long as you are a capable man, you can make a fortune. The big man said angrily: "As long as you are a good man, you can make a fortune...... If you are lucky enough to find a woman of the Wa tribe, you will not have to worry about it in your life. ”
Before Lao Bai could speak, the big man had already slapped the table and laughed loudly: "However, the women of the Wa tribe will never find a rat man who is no taller than their thighs...... Hahaha, hahaha!"
The strong men at several long tables at the counter, as well as several individual customers sitting at the counter, and seven or eight hot girls nearby laughed at the same time.
They looked at Lao Bai with a bewildered face, and their laughter became louder.
"Nezumen...... Still a rat man......"
"Hahaha, look at the strength of this skin and bones......"
"Hey, old fellow, you have a good dagger on your waist, but can you still kill?"
"Tsk, I think he was born with a rat face that doesn't ...... beating"
Several drunken big men with red faces stood up, shook their arms and walked in front of Lao Bai, and a big man knelt down on one knee in front of Lao Bai with a 'bang', and lowered his head to bring his red round face to less than three inches in front of Lao Bai's face.
"Well, what are you doing here, old fellow, this is where our good young men come from, what are you doing here?"
Lao Bai took a step back.
As the patriarch of the former nezumi tribe who led his own people to survive in the wilderness and allowed the tribe to continue to grow and grow, Lao Bai's first choice was not force, but reasoning...... The second option is to slip away as fast as you can if it doesn't make sense......
Unless it is a desperate situation, Lao Bai will not easily choose violence.
Even if these drunken men have their necks exposed in front of Lao Bai, as long as a dagger is lightly slashed on their necks, the rotten bone marrow quenched on the dagger is highly poisonous, even if it is just a trace of skin, they can die violently on the spot......
Lao Bai chose to be reasonable.
"Everyone, I'm here to find someone...... Lao Bai laughed a few times, he rubbed his hands vigorously: "I'm looking for a brother called Jinyuan." ”
It was the gold coin that released the wind through a special channel, and someone was looking for Wu Tie in Wa Valley, and this person was commissioned by Wu Jin to find Wu Tie.
Lao Bai felt that since he had arrived in Wa Valley, it was better to come and see the gold coins.
Of course, he wouldn't be thinking about the gold coins that were being bountied, he was definitely not thinking about the bounties......
Okay, maybe he's a little worried about those gold coins, but the rat people in the world are a family, since they have come to Wa Valley, they still have to get in touch with the rat brothers here, maybe when can everyone help each other?
Several drunken men were stunned, and the big men who knelt in front of Lao Bai on one knee suddenly laughed: "Hey...... Someone is looking for gold coins! Lao Luo, some people are looking for gold coins...... He still owes you a lot of money, doesn't he?"
On one side of the counter, at the other end of the tavern, in the middle of more than two dozen long tables, there is a relatively spacious square space. There was a long table several times larger than the ordinary table, and nearly a hundred men and women were shouting loudly around the long table.
The screams of the drunkards caused the men and women who were shouting to shut up at the same time, and one by one they turned their heads to look this way.
The crowd suddenly parted left and right, and a burly man, with dark skin like an iron tower, a black blindfold on one eye, and a hideous scar on his upper body, played with three dice the size of a baby's fist, and walked over step by step apart from the crowd.
A few shirtless, thief-eyed but fierce men, who were not good people at first glance, followed behind this tower-like man, with a strange smile, and walked over step by step.
"Oh, a rat man?" Lao Luo, the big man of the iron tower, slapped him on the counter, he looked at the strong man like a mountain of meat and smiled: "Old wine, this is the second rat man in your tavern, it is worth celebrating...... Hahaha, except for the guy with gold coins, your tavern actually came in with a second nezumi ......"
The old wine 'hehe' laughed a few times, he shook his head, grabbed the stone wine glass, and continued to wipe it with a burlap cloth diligently.
Lao Luo shook his head, looked down at Lao Bai, and said angrily: "Are you looking for gold coins?"
Without waiting for Lao Bai to speak, Lao Luo had already grinned: "I understand, you are also a rat man, and the gold coins are also a rat man, well, you are his relative?"
Lao Bai blinked his eyes and smiled very smartly: "Of course, I have never seen him, I just came to ask him for some news...... I'm sorry, but I don't know him if he has a problem with you. ”
Lao Bai took two steps back and was about to leave the tavern.
He regretted it a little, he should have listened to Wu Tie, and he didn't have to come to find this guy with gold coins...... Anyway, Wu Tie has already come to Wa Valley, he has found his mother, and he has already learned the news of Wu Jin, why should he do more?
A big hand slammed down on Lao Bai's shoulder, then a second hand, and a third hand......
Several drunken men stretched out their hands, pressed Lao Bai's shoulders and neck indiscriminately, and grabbed him tightly.
"Hey, Lao Luo is talking to you, you can't run!" Several drunks laughed happily: "Old guy...... Hey...... Old guy ......"
Lao Luo is two meters tall, Lao Bai is only one meter tall, basically, one of Lao Luo's arms is more majestic than Lao Bai's entire body. Lao Luo took a step forward, as if he felt that the height gap was too big, and it was really not good to talk to Lao Bai, so he said 'um'.
A few drunkards lifted Lao Bai up and lifted him to a position equal to Lao Luo.
"You know the gold coins...... This, that's good. Lao Luo stretched out his hand and slapped Lao Bai's face: "He owes me...... How many coins?"
Several men behind Lao Luo laughed at the same time, one of them had a mouth full of rotten teeth, rotten sores on the corners of his eyes, and pus constantly oozing out of the man's strange voice: "Boss, the gambling debt that guy owes us a full twenty gold coins...... Add interest, that's twenty ...... No, two hundred ......"
Lao Bai is a clever person, as soon as he heard this man's words, he knew that he had been maliciously blackmailed.
Shaking his head, Lao Bai said dryly: "Hey, listen up, I've never seen gold coins, I have nothing to do with him, his gambling debts ......"
Lao Luo pressed Lao Bai's shoulder with one hand, and he said to Lao Bai very seriously: "You are a rat man, he is also a rat man, you come here to find him...... In all these years, none of the nezumi had come to look for gold coins, so you have something to do with him...... Are you his, relative?"
"It's a relative, that's the best, you have to help him pay off the gambling debt of two hundred gold coins. Well, of course, I know, you rat people are poor, it's hard, it's not easy...... So, your soft armor is good. ”
Lao Luo's eyes lit up as he looked at the soft armor on Lao Bai's body.
This is a set of high-quality python leather armor, and it is a leather armor made of python skin that is almost turned into a dragon, and it is also a soft armor specially created by the master craftsmen of the Lu family for Lao Bai's body.
There is a faint layer of fluorescence on the surface of the black soft armor, which is a sign unique to the powerful rune attached, which is a fine piece of Yuan Soldier armor.
"You guys, you're not mistaken, right?" Lao Bai looked at Lao Luo in amazement: "You guys, you want to snatch my equipment?"
Lao Bai couldn't understand the train of thought of Lao Luo and the others.
"Also, we have a big difference in size. But good things can always be shot. Lao Luo looked at Lao Bai with a smile: "Oh, no, I said the wrong thing......"
Lao Luo gave himself a slap in the face, he looked at Lao Bai and said solemnly: "Your soft armor is probably worth one gold coin? So, you still owe us one hundred and ninety-nine gold coins...... Let's see, what else is worth in you?"
Lao Bai stared at Lao Luo with wide eyes.
A gold coin?
The soft armor on his body, although the materials used are relatively small because of his size, but a large python skin that has almost become a dragon is worth nearly a thousand gold coins in the Cangyan Domain as a raw material.
Even if the gold coins in the Cangyan Domain are slightly smaller than the golden snake stones in Wa Valley, the purity is a little worse, and they are worth hundreds of golden snake stones.
Not to mention, this is still a carefully forged Yuan Bing soft armor, and the price will at least double or triple again.
This is blackmail, this is blackmail, Lao Bai knows it.
His body shook, and the bones near his shoulders clicked a few times, and the few big men who grabbed his shoulders felt that their hands were empty, and Lao Bai slipped out of their palms inexplicably.
Then Lao Bai bent down, easily ran out between the legs of a big man, and went straight to the door of the tavern.
A few drunks were dazed, their movements were extremely slow, and Lao Bai ran far away, and they hadn't been able to turn around.
Lao Luo raised his eyebrows, the three dice in his hand suddenly flashed a ghostly light, he clenched his fist, let go, the three dice suddenly disappeared, and then suddenly appeared on the top of Lao Bai's head.
One dice pressed down on the top of the head, and two dice, one left and one right, pressed down on the shoulder.
It was like a small mountain pressing down, and the old white monster with a thin body and little natural strength screamed, and was crushed by the three dice and fell to the ground, and his head was clubbed on the ground, and he almost fainted.
The three dice crushed down fiercely, making Lao Bai's bones 'click' all over his body.
If it weren't for the old white penance cultivation of the "Phaseless Bone Demon Sutra" these days, some subtle changes had occurred in his body, and the bones of his whole body would have been shattered long ago with this blow.
Lao Bai screamed, his body shook suddenly, the bones all over his body became like flowing water, his body was like a spirit snake, suddenly took off all his clothes and armor, and instantly got rid of the confinement of the three dice and ran out.
A few men behind Lao Luo had already chased after him in three or two steps, Lao Bai had just taken off his clothes and armor and got out, they all pulled out the short swords, daggers, and short knives at their waists, and shook their hands and hit Lao Bai.
These men are all cultivators of the Xuan Realm, and they have all cultivated their mana.
Several short swords, daggers, and short knives swept across Lao Bai's body with a cold light that was long to a meter, and blood splattered on Lao Bai's body, and a large piece of skin and flesh mixed with white hair flew up at the same time.
Lao Bai squeaked in pain, and he regretted ten thousand times why he coveted that little gold and came to this damn tavern.
His body shook, and the shadow of his talent and supernatural powers spread out, and his body suddenly disappeared into a wisp of shadow, and he ran away without a trace between breaths.
"Oh, ran away?" Lao Luo smiled triumphantly, and grabbed the clothes, armor, and dagger that Lao Bai had left behind.
"However, these things are still worth a lot...... Old wine, I invite all the brothers, have a drink!" Lao Luo laughed and raised the equipment that originally belonged to Lao Bai in his hand.