19. Anchor Bar
After meeting the wounded Constructed Knights of the Rand Knights, I bandaged the wounds of the three injured Constructed Knights again, and then performed a 'hydrotherapy' on them, which allowed them to heal faster.
At night in Galapagos City, there were traces of hellhounds and horned demons on the streets, and until the end of the battle, there were no knights of the knights of the guard battalion knights, the night of this city was full of dangers, and Noah did not expect that the Mensa family's largest island city in the Vasqui plane had decayed to such an extent.
The Rant Knight proposes that we return to the hotel at once, and that tomorrow we ask Boris Mensa, the Archon of Galapagos City, about the current situation in Vasqui's plane.
Galapagos City is in such a bad situation at the moment, but there is no news from Illinas City, and there are too many problems in this.
Noah lowered his head and pondered for a moment, but still maintained his previous plan.
The 'Anchor Bar' is located near the south pier of Galapagos City, and the owner of this bar is an old captain who has been running in the waters of the Vasqui plane for decades, and only a few years ago because of his age and health and other reasons, he sold the old three-masted galleon, and opened a tavern next to the south pier of the city for the money returned.
There is nothing special about the wine in this tavern, but many of the captains of fishing and merchant ships like to gather here for a few drinks in their spare time.
The tavern owner likes to tell people about his experiences at sea after a few drinks, and many captains originally came here to listen to some stories about the nautical aspects, and over time, everyone gradually got used to the bar, and gradually it became a tavern for the captain's regular customers.
We're going to Dunai Island, but we're not going to use the Mensa family to find a ship to sail.
Noah and I thought of this trip to the Vasqui Plane as an experience, so we came to the tavern to see if there were any ships sailing to Dunai. If not, then we're ready to pay to rent a big ship.
When we arrived at the Anchor Bar, we realized that it lived up to its name. As soon as I entered the bar, I saw a large rusty iron anchor more than one person high hanging from the door.
At Joan's request, we left Rand Knight and his team of Constructed Knight outside and had them wait for us across the street from the bar, Win Lee and Shirley Newman.
"If the Rand Knights go to the bar, they will frighten the captains of the runaways. Joan explained to us.
The tables and chairs in the tavern were arranged casually, and the bar was filled with the choking smell of liquor and tobacco, and when Ying Li and Shirley entered the tavern, they covered their mouths and noses with silk handkerchiefs, and the girls chose to sit down at the table at the door, rather than follow us further inside.
The people in the tavern naturally saw us outsiders, and their eyes fell first on the orc female warrior Karantso and Miss Cherry, the Bena swordsman, and then on Katerina and our group of young magicians.
When their eyes fell on the beautiful girls in the group, their eyes flashed with amazement, but then when their eyes fell on our magic robes, they retracted those unbridled eyes and stopped looking around.
There were some wine buyers in revealing attire in the bar, who looked at them with sultry eyes, their eyes fell on Noah and Jacques, and they all squeezed over from all corners of the tavern with the trays in their hands, and Joan, who was standing at the front of the line, had a cold face and glared at Jacques fiercely, with a threatening look in his eyes.
Jacques originally entered this bar, and his emotions were quickly infected by the atmosphere in the bar, but when he saw Joan's increasingly ugly face, he quickly withdrew his eyes from all directions.
Joan led me and Noah inside, and Karantso followed closely behind me.
Inside the bar is a huge rudder in the background, flanked by a row of shelves full of format spirits, which looks simple, clean, and neat.
An old man with a white beard stood in the bar, he was wearing a pair of suspender pants, a white shirt, the sleeves were rolled up high, his clothes were clean and neat, his arms looked very thick, and he had a tattoo in the shape of a boat on his arms, he propped his hands on the bar, and watched Joan squeeze over with us, squinting at us, but he said to Joan: "You shouldn't have brought these outsiders here." ”
Joan sat down on a bar chair, shrugged her shoulders, and said to the bar owner, "They're here to find a boat to go to sea!"
The bar owner reluctantly spread his hands and said, "Okay, where do you want to go?"
Noah squeezed to Joan's side, elbows propped up on the thick wooden counter, and said to the barkeeper, "Do you have a boat you want to go? ”
"No one wants to go over there at this time!" the barkeeper frowned, his old face had been marked by the years, but the look was still so sharp, and he refused Joan.
Joan sat across from him, staring at him intently.
The bar owner shrugged helplessly and explained to us, "Well, you know, the monsoon is not right at this time, you have to go around a big circle to get there, and now the sea is not very peaceful, and those Faceless Legions and Naga natives are fighting each other, we don't want to sail to that area, but we don't go through that area, and the monsoon can't get our sailboat to Dunai Island." ”
Obviously, only an experienced old captain who has been at sea all year round will know so much about this sea.
He said to us regretfully, "It's so simple! No one wants to go." ”
Seeing the suspicion in our eyes, he said sincerely, "Believe me, if there is a boat to Dunai, they will never refuse you to board, they will even waive your ticket money, and they will serve you fine food along the way, who will refuse a group of magicians? ”
I sat side by side with Noah and asked the tavernkeeper, "What if we hired a ship?"
He looked at the whole tavern, from the left side of the tavern to the right side of the tavern, then raised an eyebrow and said to me, "You can give it a try, there are a lot of captains in this bar, less than a third of them are alive now, their ships are moored in the harbor, they are so bored that they can only let the crew wash the deck repeatedly every day, and then come to me for a drink, you can ask them, who is willing to accept your employment?"
The barkeeper clapped his hands vigorously in a loud voice that caught the attention of many drinkers, and then he shouted, "Hey, guys, there are some young magicians here who want to make a meaningful trip to Vasquire, and who of you would like to talk to them?"
As the owner of the bar said, there are a lot of captains who have nothing to do in the docks, their boats are moored on the docks, and they have to keep a group of crews.
Hearing that a business had come to the door, the captains in the bar gathered around, and their eyes showed eager eyes.
"Hey, young magicians, where do you want to go?" said a middle-aged uncle who looked well-dressed and said to Noah and me kindly. "Maybe I can give you a ride. ”
The other captains looked at us expectantly.
I said to them, "Dunai!"
Immediately someone exclaimed, "Oh my God, that's not a good place, at least not a wise move to go over there." ”
Someone shook his head regretfully and said, "No, no, no, not over there, you will have to wait at least three or four months, and when the wind in the Galapagos returns, the distance to that side will be reduced by half." ”
The crowd was instantly reduced by half, and many people returned to their original positions to continue drinking.
Sure enough, as the bar owner said, when the captains heard that we wanted to go to Dunai, most of their enthusiasm disappeared in an instant.
The rest of us were only trying to persuade us to change course, believing that we were a group of magicians who had come out of the academy of magic.
So one of the captains said to us, "Actually, it's not the same where we have been trained," and they patted their chests on our chests and assured us that the place we chose for us must be a good place with beautiful scenery, pleasant scenery, and low-level magical beasts.
The captain told us that there were quite a few adventuring parties coming to the Galapagos City specifically to find his boat.
If we hadn't gone to Dunai to find the news of the Kraken and treated this trip to the Vasquire Plane as a summer trip, Noah and I would have gladly agreed to the captain's offer, but now I am not willing to give up.
"Why don't I go to my uncle tomorrow and ask him to find a boat to take us there?" Noah whispered into my ear.
I sighed softly, originally this trip to the Vaschi plane was also to prove the ability of me and Noah, but now it seems that I have to rely on the power of the Mensa family again, which makes me feel an inexplicable sense of frustration.
But as soon as I thought of Sister Guoguo's water elemental spirit sealed in the ice tablet, I nodded without hesitation, I didn't want to wait any longer.
Since we had decided to borrow the power of the Mensa family, we would not have to work so hard to find a ship to go to sea, and there would be no need to stay in the anchor bar, so I discussed it with Noah, and got up to leave the tavern.
Just as we were leaving the bar, a crippled man in ragged clothes with a cruel look in his eyes approached me and gently patted me on the shoulder.
Karantso behind him reached out to pull him away, but he first turned back and squeezed a very ugly smile at her, and then said in jerky imperial Chinese: "I don't have any malice." ”
I didn't want to cause trouble in this bar, so I twisted my shoulder, let go of the hand that was on my shoulder, and glared coldly at the lame man, who had a strong fishy smell on him, and who looked like a frequent sailor.
"Take care of your hands, or I won't mind chopping him off for you!" Karantso said unceremoniously to the lame man.
The lame man was still clinging to us, walking with us out of the bar.
As he walked, he lowered his voice and said, "Hey, I have a ship that happens to be on the way to Dunai and is about to set sail tonight. If you want to take it, go to that abandoned dock in the reefs and find me, Your Excellency the Magician. ”
With these words, he squeezed into the crowd again and disappeared.
I wanted to see where he went, but it wasn't easy to find someone in a crowded bar.
Walking out of the bar, I still couldn't help but glance back.
"Ignore that person, the kind of people who don't see the light are usually doing some smuggling trade or a group of slave hunters, only they are so careful to hide their whereabouts, they are a group of dangerous guys. Joan walked out of the tavern before whispering to us.
However, since Noah came to his uncle, Marquis Boris, to help him find a sailboat to sail, it was not a difficult task, and I did not want to make any further trouble.
So, our group joined the Rand Knights outside and hurried to the 'Bluefin Tuna Love' hotel.
By the time I got back to the hotel, it was already midnight.
As soon as we returned to the hotel, the waitress on duty at the bar said to us, "May I ask if this is Your Excellency Wizard Jijia and Your Excellency Noah?
Noah and I looked at each other, not knowing who would be waiting for us at such a late hour.
"Joey, where is that magician now?" asked Joan for us.
We just woke up to the fact that we hadn't asked the most important thing yet.
"I helped him open a room on the second floor, since he is a friend of all the magicians, I don't think you will refuse him to find a room to rest for a while, anyway, you have also chartered the whole hotel, and some of the rooms are empty. The hostess named Joey said, pointing upstairs.
"What room is he in?" I asked the hostess.
The hostess hurriedly said the room number, Noah and I were going to see who was so late, and we would be in a hurry to see us.
Instead of accompanying us to the magician, who had not been named by the hostess, Win Li and Shirley Newman decided to go back to their rooms first, and Noah and I, accompanied by Caterina and Knight Lante, went to the second floor to meet the magician.
Joan saw that we were not familiar with the inn, so he offered to help us lead the way, and Jacques kept sticking to Joan's side, and the more Joan ignored him, the more he had to come to Joan's side.
Noah and I have nothing to say about Jacques' aesthetics and preferences.
Arriving at the door of a room on the second floor, Joan knocked on the door for us, and a brief voice came from inside: "Who?"
"It's Your Excellency Wizard Giga and Wizard Noah, I heard that you have come all the way to meet them?" said Joan, standing in the doorway.
At this time, the door of the room was pushed open all of a sudden, and Senior Dylan poked his head out of it with a panicked face, he looked around nervously, and found that there was no one else, so he was slightly relieved, and then quickly pulled me and Noah into the room, and told us a bad news!