A few minutes later.

"Excuse me!" There was a knock on the door outside, and it seemed to be an orc boss to hear the voice.

Aske opened the door, and saw the orc boss standing outside with a toolbox in his left hand and a stack of planks in his right hand, and said in a muffled voice:

"I'm here to fix the windows."

"Are there many rooms with broken windows?" Asker asked casually as he made way for him.

"The rooms on the third floor and above are all broken, and you're not the only one." The orc boss walked into the room and saw that Sidlifa was the only one sitting on the bed, and asked strangely, "What about your other wives?" ”

Asker: ???

"In the bathroom." He didn't want to explain a lot to strangers.

"Huh." The orc boss smiled with admiration that only a man could understand, then placed the wooden plank on the broken window frame and hammered it with a nail.

"I can't find a window worker now, let's talk about it tonight, I'll help you seal the window first, so that it won't rain." The orc boss bit the nail and quickly sealed the window with a wooden plank, then covered it with several layers of linen cloth and drove the nail into the board again.

"Okay, call me downstairs if you have something." He lifted the toolbox, "Leave you alone." ”

Sending the orc boss away and closing the door, Asker turned to see Sidlifa studying the sealed window.

"Did you come up with anything?" Asker asked with a smile.

"I'm thinking about something." Sidlifa said.

"What's the matter?"

"If even the windows are going to be blown apart, wouldn't it be easier to blow off the planks?" "I look at this window frame, it seems to be stronger than a plank + nails, it's screwed into the wall. ”

Asker: ..................

"There's a closet over there." Aske said, "Use the wardrobe to put the window planks against it." ”

Sidlifa nodded, and then picked up the closet, blocking the window completely.

"Alright!" The Norman girl clapped her hands and smiled, "You can go to sleep in peace." ”

"Hmm."

Aske answered, and went to bed.

The wind outside the window was still whining, leaking in through the cracks in the planks, distorted into some kind of cry-like sound, echoing low in the room.

Sidlifa lay on the bed and waited for about half an hour to make sure Asker was asleep before sneaking up on his bed.

Then he slipped into his arms.

"I don't feel anything special." She muttered like this, but in the man's warm embrace, she gradually couldn't hold back her sleepiness and fell asleep quietly.

……

1 a.m.

Asker suddenly woke up to find that he had been asleep for a long time, and Sidlifa still hadn't called him.

Then he opened his eyes, and saw Sidlifa curled up in his arms and sleeping, her long white hair draped over her shoulders like a big ragdoll.

Asker: ..................

Wait, what about you keeping the first half of the night?

He cautiously tried to pull his hand from under her neck, but Sidlifa rolled over in displeasure and hugged his neck.

Grunt. Her lips pressed against Asker's neck, making an inexplicable dream sound.

Aske silently held out two fingers and scratched her armpit a few times, and Sidlifa giggled in her sleep and rolled over to sleep.

Getting out of bed, Asker changed his clothes, got out of bed, and suddenly realized that the floor was wet.

A closer look reveals that a thin layer of water has accumulated on the floor.

The water was coming down from the wall behind the cabinet. When Asker opened the closet, he saw that the linen cloth that had sealed the wooden planks was completely soaked, and a large amount of rain was slapping on the wooden planks of the sealed windows, making a crackling sound so dense that it was almost ignored as background noise.

This one...... Wooden planks can seal the windows, but they can't block the rainwater seeping in from the outside, so you have to get waterproof tape.

Of course, Asker was only here for one night, and he didn't plan to help the orc boss repair the house, so he took a basin out of the toilet and put it on the floor to catch the rainwater that seeped through the lower end of the plank.

Then he pushed the door and went out.

After locking the door, Asker hurried downstairs to see that the hall on the first floor was almost flooded. The orc boss stood barefoot in the middle of the hall, chatting with a few of the same residents.

“…… I've been in Angra Sansmo for so many years, but I've never seen that much rain. "When I was in the north, there was a heavy snowfall one winter, which can be compared to this rainstorm." ”

"It snowed for three days and three nights, and everyone hid in the house and didn't dare to go out, and the firewood in the stove couldn't be stopped, and people quickly froze when they stopped."

"When the snow stopped, we pushed the door out, but we couldn't push it, and it was blocked by the snow outside, and then we broke the roof and went out...... Of course, the house can keep the snow out, but the rain will seep in and be troublesome. ”

"There will be no flooding this time." One of the dwarven residents laughed, "I don't know how to swim." ”

"You're going to hold a plank then." The orc boss said, "As long as you don't get washed into the sea, you can't drown." ”

"Maybe we should leave the inn and run to the mountains." Another elf guest suggested, "While the flood hasn't come yet." ”

"Not to mention, it would be even worse if there were mudslides and landslides." The dwarven inhabitant said, "The mountain over here, the soil is not good, and it will collapse when it rains." ”

"Do the Naga guards outside have a saying? Regarding this rainstorm, did you inform you to evacuate? Asker asked, walking down the stairs.

The two occupants and the orc boss turned their heads at the sound.

"What can you say?" The elven guest smiled and said, "Those Naga can swim, so I guess they haven't thought about flooding at all." ”

"But the port has been closed." "If there is a flood or a mudslide, it is safest to run to the boat." ”

This reminded them that, after all, the rising tide lifts all boats, and they will definitely not be drowned on the ship.

So the orc boss patted his head and said, "I remember that there is a small boat in the warehouse behind." ”

He hurried to the back, while the dwarven guest looked up at Asker, who was much taller than him, and asked curiously:

"Human, where did you come from?"

"Constantinople." Asker replied.

"Constantinople?" The dwarves and elves looked at each other, a place name that I had never heard of.

"At the eastern end of the Mediterranean, a strait city at the confluence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea." Asker added.

"Over there, I remember the High Elves' empire." The elven guest said, "It's a little far from here." Are you here to run a business? ”

"Haha, it's not." Aske said, "I'm a mercenary. ”

The faces of the two guests immediately changed. Mercenary, isn't that a euphemism for a pirate?

"Well, I'll go see if the orc boss's ship has been found." The elven guest snorted and walked away.

"I'll check it out too, after all, I'm short and more prone to flooding." The dwarven guest hurriedly left, and he was the only one left in the hall.

Asker walked over to the open door and frowned slightly as he looked out at the ankle-watering water and the pouring rain that was still pouring down.