The tavern is like a small country pub, with a twenty-metre-deep courtyard at the entrance to the bar, where many purple grapes are grown, and now the vines are covered with wooden frames, and the whole courtyard is covered in shade, and now it is just the season when the grapes are ripe, and the clusters of green and red grapes are hidden among the green leaves.

When I was younger, I used to pinch off the tendrils on the vines, break them into pieces, and put them in my mouth to taste, which was sour and astringent.

On each bunch of grapes, there is always a grape that is different from the others, it will be the first to be dyed red, then red, and finally when the other grapes are still green, it will turn purple red......

Our group walked under the shady grape trellis with scattered wooden seats under the grape trellis.

In the morning, there didn't seem to be many people in the tavern, except for a drunken drinker who was asleep on the table and a waiter beside him to clean up a mess of tables full of bottles and plates with snacks.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the tavern is currently closed and will open after two o'clock in the afternoon. The waiter looked at us in amazement, and then said to us.

Rita stood in the middle of the crowd and said to the waiter, "We're here to buy news." ”

"Well, if you want to ask for news, please go over there and register. The waiter pointed to an attic on the left side of the courtyard and said to us.

It looks like the attic is integrated into the tavern, but it's actually a building facing the street, and a group of people are gathering under the sign at the entrance, whispering to each other, not knowing what they're talking about.

Under the guidance of the tavern waiter, we came to the front of this attic, there is a large bulletin wall on the left and right of the attic, and the bulletin board on the left side of the attic is full of messages with charcoal, a bit like a magic newspaper in the imperial capital, some of the news is written like a wonderful little story, and the group of people standing under the bulletin board seem to be reading the news on the bulletin board with relish.

A few even held wine glasses, drinking wine while tasting the authenticity of the news.

The bulletin board on the right is just written on most of the wall. I took a casual look and noticed that dozens of bounty questions were posted on the wall, each with the release date and the bounty amount at the back, and several rangers in tight leather armor were standing under the bulletin board, holding a quill in one hand and a white paper on parchment in the other, on which they recorded some valuable bounty news.

Our group walked over, and before the waiter standing at the door stepped forward to ask, Rita stepped forward and said, "We want to buy some news." ”

The waiter bowed slightly, looked around us for a moment, and then said, "Guests, please come with me." ”

"Isn't it necessary to write the news on that blackboard when you buy the news?" Helena couldn't help but ask the waiter.

The waiter saw that it was a girl with a beautiful face who asked the question, and immediately began to answer Helena very patiently: "Of course not, our guild archives record all the major events that have happened in the last few decades on the island of Dunai, and of course there are some rumors that make people feel a little strange, if the questions raised by the guests happen to be these news, then the answer should be found soon." ”

"So, what kind of questions are written on those signs?" asked Becky, who was on the side.

The waiter continued to patiently reply, "Only those questions that cannot be answered, with the permission of the benefactor, will we publish them on the notice board and mark the amount of the bounty. ”

"However, these bounty questions, sometimes there will be a time difference, that is, the publisher of the question has already gotten the answer, but there is no first time to cancel the bounty problem with us, encountering such a thing, even if you get the answer to the question, you will not get the bonus, so when choosing to answer the question, please be sure to pay special attention to the release date of the question. ”

In the words that preceded the waiter, I heard one of them mention 'our union.'

I suddenly remembered that there seems to be this kind of organization that provides all kinds of information in various cities of the Grimm Empire, and it seems that it is also based on taverns, because most of the information and intelligence providers are some thieves, they are marginalized people who wander in the city, and after a long evolution, this kind of agency that provides all kinds of information and intelligence is called by everyone: Thieves' Union.

Helena asked, "Is there a question that has been posted for a long time and has never been answered?"

The waiter immediately replied, "Of course there is, and it's very common, so if you want to post a bounty question and you haven't gotten an answer for a while, please come to us in time to update the bounty question." ”

By this time we had entered the attic, which was designed to resemble the office hall of a bank.

I asked the waiter, "How can we know if we've got a message, and what if we post a bounty and we get a fake message?"

The waiter glanced at me and replied, "For many professional and academic questions, only the publisher can determine whether the answer is correct, if you need to verify the authenticity of the answer, then you need to indicate the word 'need to verify' in advance, we will keep the bounty on behalf of you until the answer is verified, and only after the answer is verified, we will pay the answer to the answerer......

The waiter led us into a soundproof secret room, and the maiden Rita, who seemed to be here for the first time, looked curiously at the décor of the room, which consisted only of a square table and six chairs, and the waiter had a pot of tea, placed the cup in front of us, and filled us with hot tea, and withdrew without saying a word.

It wasn't until a middle-aged man with a thick pile of information walked in that she realized that she shouldn't be standing here, she waved her hand at us, walked out of the secret room with light steps, and poked her head in at the door, gesturing to us, indicating that she was waiting outside, and posing in an exaggerated mouth, as if to say, "I'll wait for you outside!"

After Rita finished speaking, she disappeared into the doorway, really a delicate and sensitive girl.

It was quiet in the chamber, and the middle-aged man was dressed in a black robe, looking like an old-fashioned priest, but he didn't have the insignia of 'faith' on him.

He stood in the secret room for a moment before he asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, if there is anything you need to know, please ask me!" However, there is a premise that the questions I am answering are limited to the sea around Dunai and the events on Dunai Island. ”

I owed my body and said to the middle-aged man, "We came to Dunai this time to inquire about some news of the Kraken. ”

The middle-aged man tightened his thick eyebrows and said with a serious face: "It's the first time in so many years that I've heard that someone wants to look for a kraken in the waters near Dunai Island!"

The 'Thieves' Guild has always made a living by selling news, and as a staff member here, it is natural that they are well-informed and know many secrets that are not known on the island of Dunai.

Now, when I hear him say that I have never heard of any rumors about the Kraken, my heart sinks to a low point.

With full of hope, they rushed all the way to Dunai Island to find the soul horn, but it seems that there is no Kraken in the waters near Dunai Island, otherwise these thieves would definitely not know about it.

However, I have no doubt about the authenticity of my news from the Dean of the Royal Academy of Magic, and even now that I am in person on Dunai Island, everyone says that there is no Kraken here, but I still can't fully believe it.

The 'Answer to the News' was my reward for my outstanding performance at the Summer Festival, and the old dean even gave up the reliable information on the Endless Sea, suggesting that I go to the Vasqui plane to find the answer, which should be based on it.

I said to the middle-aged man, "You really haven't heard of the Kraken?"

The middle-aged man's brows locked into the shape of a 'Chuan', and he propped his hand on his chin and thought hard.

After a long time, he still shook his head helplessly and sighed, and just when we were full of disappointment, the middle-aged man said: "If you insist on continuing to search for this information, you can apply to search the large database of the guild archives, of course, this kind of large-scale file adjustment and query work will cost us a lot of manpower and material resources, so whether you can find this news or not, as long as you apply to find the large database, you need to pay us for file search." ”

"Well, I agree to check the file!" I said without hesitation.

The middle-aged man looked a little surprised, obviously not expecting that I would be able to make a decision so quickly.

Immediately, I paid a gold coin to the middle-aged man, and sure enough, the price of the investigation archives was outrageously expensive, knowing that even a fine dinner in the 'imperial capital' would never exceed ten pieces of silver, and one gold coin was almost two months' household income for an ordinary civilian family.

He made us wait in the chamber for a while, and walked out of the chamber himself.

When the middle-aged man walked out of the secret room, time seemed to freeze, and every minute that passed seemed extraordinarily long.

After a long time, the middle-aged man walked into the secret room, and before he could speak, he shook his head at us with a regretful expression.

The middle-aged man stopped in front of me and said to me, "It's a pity that I can't find any information about the Kraken in the big database. ”

My heart hit rock bottom, and two words kept popping up in my head: 'How is that possible?'

The middle-aged man saw my devastated look and suggested that I might as well post a bounty message, and if I wanted someone to respond quickly, I might as well set the bounty higher.

I was full of expectations, but in the end I got nothing, and this feeling of loss is like falling from a high altitude.

But I didn't want to write this question on the billboard, so I flatly rejected the middle-aged man's proposal.

Ying Li next to me came over, stretched out his hand to put his arm around me, gave me a little comfort, and said to me: "Don't worry, Jijia, when you return to the Grimm Empire, I will accompany you to Haiyinsi, and we can ask the Naga Sea Clan who have settled in Haiyinsi for the news of the Kraken." In the endless sea, there must be a sea siren. ”

With a heart full of disappointment, we left the thieves' union in this tavern.

Rita waited at the door of the attic, and when she saw the solemn expression on our faces, she knew that things weren't going too well.

So, Rita didn't mention where else to go next, but directly said to us, "There are still a few taverns on Dunai Island, why don't we try our luck in the past?"

I shook my head slightly, rejecting Rita's offer.

I didn't cancel my plans to go around the island in the afternoon, but because I was a little absent-minded, I just basked in the sun for most of the day on a beautiful beach on Dunai Island, looking at the vast expanse of the sea, and my mood improved a little.

A dark red wheel of light fell into the sea, and the sky turned dark.

Before I knew it, we had spent an afternoon on the beach, returning to the Manor in a magic caravan, and the ladies knew that I was not in a good mood, and remained silent all the way.

When I returned to the Manor Hotel, when the magic caravan just drove into the gate, I happened to see a magic caravan passing me at the gate, although the light was a little dim in the evening, but my five senses were a little different from ordinary people, under the influence of magic perception, became particularly acute, just when the two magic caravans passed by, at the moment when the two magic caravans passed by, I saw Duke Wheeler actually sitting in the car.

I'm a little strange, it's so late, does Duke want the tavern?

However, in the carriage, I did not see the blonde beauty who had been with him all the time.

At the moment when Duke Wheeler's magic caravan drove out of the manor, I suddenly felt a familiar magical aura in the magic caravan...... The element of shadow magic, that familiar aura, made me think of the shadow of the 'Dark Arts Retreat' in my mind.

I didn't expect to meet the members of the 'Dark Arts Retreat' on Dunai Island, and I thought to myself: these Dark Arts Retreat guys are really pervasive!

The last time he kidnapped Jacques Mensa in the Galapagos and wanted to perform an 'evil magic ritual' on Jacques, this time he targeted Duke Wheeler......

Without much thought, I told the coachman of the magic caravan to turn around and follow the carriage that had just left the manor.

After being promoted to an eighth-level magician, my magic perception has increased a lot, and the water elemental aura on the island is extremely strong, so my magic perception can extend more than two hundred meters.

We stayed far behind the magic caravan until it drove into the alley of the civilian area and slowly stopped in front of a house, by which time it was already completely dark. 2k reading web