Text Act IV: The Forbidden Boundary _ Chapter 145: Spear and Shield
"Hand-to-hand combat? That's the one you call brutal? Dongfang Ziyan looked at the bustling crowd in front of him.
"The Alsace Hand-to-Hand Combat Conference is an annual event in the country, and it seems that we have caught up with it this time," Rhein said, rubbing his fake beard, and I don't know when he put it on.
"Where did you get that beard?" Dongfang Ziyan saw his beard and asked in a daze.
"I prepared you or you?" Rhine said without looking at him.
"Forget it......" Dongfang Ziyan was saying, his stomach gurgling, and the two of them glanced at each other.
"No, you're hungry again less than an hour after your last meal?" Rhine exclaimed.
"Uncle, didn't you say that there are all kinds of seafood delicacies here?" Dongfang Ziyan asked about the smell in the air, swallowed his saliva, and seemed to have smelled the aroma of food in the restaurant.
"Then ······ Let's go eat first...... But let me warn you, you might not get used to the food here. Rhine said.
It didn't take long for Rhine to walk into a restaurant with antique decorations, Dongfang Ziyan and Rhine walked in very unnaturally, because this new dress was very awkward to wear, so people seemed to be looking at the two of them. The decoration of the restaurant is very gorgeous, just the four colorful glass lamps on the dome amaze Ziyan, although he is a nobleman, but after all, he is not like Dongfang Lie, who often follows to attend upper-class dance parties or drinking parties, so it is normal for Ziyan to be surprised when he sees this kind of scene.
"What do you two want to eat?" A formally dressed waiter walked over with the menu and placed it on the table in front of the two of them, with a bright blue rose on his chest.
Rhine Chong Ziyan nodded and motioned for him to order.
"Well, I'll take a look," Dongfang Ziyan opened the menu, turned two pages and said: "What are two servings of barbecued pork cuttlefish spores and fantasy magic soup······ Let's have a serving, and a few more skewered chicken tenders, and ......."
The waiter listened to him with a smile all the time, and then just like that, Dongfang Ziyan ordered for three minutes, and Rhine was already lying on the table, his face looking ugly.
"Do you need any wine? We have 10 years of coconut wine here, as well as a fresh variety of fruit wines. The waiter asked again.
"Two bottles of passion fruit wine, thank you." This time, without waiting for Ziyan to answer, Rhine took the first step.
After the waiter left, Rhine said with a gloomy face: "Do you know what cuttlefish spores are, just order so much!" Can you eat it!! ”
"I eat a lot, and you don't know, don't worry, there will be no waste!" Ziyan said triumphantly.
But when the dish came up, Dongfang Ziyan regretted it after tasting a mouthful of cuttlefish spores, because the thing tasted very foul, like chewing clods of soil, Dongfang Ziyan swallowed that bite after enduring, "What is this, so unpalatable!" He shouted softly and angrily, and quickly poured all the wine down, but he spat out all the wine in his mouth.
"Ahh
"As I said, you're probably not used to eating here." Rhine was like a gentleman, using a fork to fork a cuttlefish spores, "This thing is the ink sac gland of the giant dragon king squid in the deep sea, it has a high nutritional value, it is difficult to collect, but the taste is not good," After speaking, he took another sip of wine, "This wine is made from fruits, the degree is very high, and people who drink it for the first time will find it very spicy and difficult to swallow, in fact, this wine still has a unique flavor if you taste it carefully." ”
"There's no normal food here!" Ziyan said with a sad face.
At this moment, the waiter came over again, Dongfang Ziyan thought that he had soiled the carpet and he was going to come over to ask the teacher, but the waiter came over with a smile and said, "You two, you are probably not locals, right?" ”
Dongfang Ziyan and Rhine both hesitated, Rhine rolled his eyes, and immediately said: "Yes, we are merchants from Clara Country, and we are here to buy goods. ”
"Eun, yes." Ziyan glanced at Rhine and immediately agreed.
"Well, that's right, just now our boss received a summons notice from the government, saying that two foreign troops have smuggled into Alsace on the south coast, intending to plot against it, so ......" The waiter still had that smile on his face, and now it seems to be an eerie smile, which makes people feel chills in the back.
"What? Do you suspect that we are stowaways? Dongfang Ziyan pretended to smile calmly and said.
"No, no, no, you are mistaken, the so-called foreign army is the kind of people who come to Alsace to carry out dangerous transactions or terrorist attacks, and our country has reconnaissance points in the coastal areas." The waiter was still smiling.
Rhine immediately made a decision, and slammed his right hand on the table, and the whole table was shaken and jumped, "Is this your hospitality!" If you want to track down the foreign army, just leave it to the army! What does this have to do with you!! ”
The crowd of people eating on the side became noisy, they seemed to notice the strangeness here, and they were all whispering, at this time, the owner of the hotel came over, and saw that the owner was a gentleman in a suit and leather shoes, with a mustache, and blue roses in his breast pocket.
"Both, please forgive us for any mishospitality from our waiters, but I don't know why you ......," the hotel owner asked politely.
Without waiting for the boss to finish speaking, Rhine pulled Dongfang Ziyan by the hand, "Don't pay attention to them, just this kind of service attitude, let's go!" ”
Dongfang Ziyan seemed to understand what he meant, and immediately followed Rhine away, and several waiters behind him rushed up to stop the two, but Ziyan Lai Yin kicked them away, and then the two of them walked away quickly after leaving the gate.
In a dark alley, Rhine and Dongfang Ziyan rushed back and forth, it turned out that Rhine had guessed that the country's reconnaissance post had discovered that the two of them had come up on the south bank, so he wanted to send an army to investigate, and he also guessed in the store that the waiter had notified the army, and sure enough, not long after they left, the hotel was surrounded by the army.
"After the alliance holy war, your fame has already begun, so we can't reveal our identity, if we want to find spirit stones here, especially in this country!!" Rhine said to Ziyan as he walked.
"Why?" Ziyan asked, "You always say that there are many unknown secrets in this country, but what is the secret?" ”
Finally, the two of them saw that they had fled far away, so they stopped in a deep alley, and after resting, Rhine also told Ziyan all the secrets he knew about this country.
It turns out that although this country is small, the name "Poseidon" is well-known on the black market, and the so-called "black market" is the world after all the bright sides, he includes not only the human world, but also the demon world and the god world, and its huge extent is unimaginable. On the black market, all kinds of transactions and alliances prohibited by law are legal, as long as there is enough money lifeline and trading channels and means, it is a big man in the black market, and the turmoil in the black market will also affect the stability of the real world, for example, if a big man on the black market wants to forcibly increase the price of arms and firearms to 0.3 times the original price, then it will have a great impact on the real world arms trade.
And Poseidon Moron, the king of the entire Poseidon Kingdom, is an emperor-like figure in the black market, he has the world's economic resources and channels in his hands, and he is a supplier of high-quality arms, many countries or tribes are his buyers, among them, the Faitrous Protoss is his frequent customer, but there are also many guests of the Demon Race and the Human Race. Because on the side of Molong, there are no eternal enemies, no eternal friends, only eternal money and interests.
The hand-to-hand combat tournament in the city of Poseidon Alsace is also a means used by Morone to win over the black market contacts, he will use the precious items collected on the black market such as magic weapons or high-quality elixirs as prizes, to lure all kinds of people to participate in the battle, the winner can get the prize, and the loser will have to work as a coolie in the arms factory, and it will cost a million gold spirit coins to redeem it. In addition, Morone is also a person who loves gambling, in addition to the hand-to-hand combat conference, the gambling conference is generally held at the same time, and the winner can also get the prize, but if the challenger loses, the end is also reduced to coolies.
So, for the country of "Poseidon", it is more precisely a "capital of the black market". However, these are the inside stories that only people on the black market know, and ordinary people will not know.
After listening to the secret about Poseidon, Ziyan felt that this was a place of right and wrong, far from being as simple as he imagined.
"Anyway, let's change our outfit so we don't get recognized again, after all, we've already been exposed once in the restaurant." Dongfang Ziyan said as he reached out and took something out of his sac-eating belt.
"It looks like we're going to get a complete makeover this time." Rhein said.
"Yes, the 'shrinking bones' that haven't been used for a long time seem to come in handy."