Gold and Silver Town is the southern capital of the Ebu Kingdom, home to one-third of the country's ore sources, and was once the center of the entire Ebu Kingdom, but now, it is just an independent town that has managed to break out of the whirlpool of power struggles between the royal princes.

This is undoubtedly a tragedy and a kind of irony, and the sordid deals between the noble lords of the Ebu kingdom are constantly intertwined, and the combination of vertical and horizontal attacks provides the bard with enough ideas and material to compose all kinds of stories.

Caesar walked through the bustling streets of Silvertown, and since half of the men in Goldtown were miners or blacksmiths, the people were more fierce than the brave and fierce Northlanders, and there were strong men in simple fur and shirtless.

Unlike most human cities, there are many halflings.

The number of Ayladya halflings is much more than that of any humanoid race, and there is no unified government, and the halflings with amazing reproductive and survivability can be seen everywhere, but the gold and silver towns are exceptionally numerous, from the town to the south bypassing the thorn mountains, the endless steppe is the territory of the halflings, they have fought with the Ebu people for hundreds of years for ore veins and territories, and the halflings' ability to prospect for mining and handicraft is also needed by humans, so in some border towns of the Ebu Kingdom, there are two sides cutting each other when they start a war, the odd situation of doing business together during the armistice.

The Ebbs of Goldtown and the Halflings have always maintained such a strange tacit understanding, but recently, with the influx of adventurers, the town has become a mess, and the town is full of rumors such as "Yuklahir" and "Hydra".

Caesar kept a low profile, looking around like a fledgling adventurer, and the mercenaries who hurried through the street roared and walked by in a hurry, trampling over a roadside washing basin to dry in the sound of leather armor, knocking down his master with him, glancing at him and leaving without care.

Caesar looked closely, and it was a female centaur who had been knocked down, her upper body was basically the same as that of a normal human, her yellowish hair was combed back of her head, she was wearing a cloth coat with large patches, and her lower body was a well-cut hakama.

With her hands on the ground and her hooves curled up, she stood up again in a slightly difficult gesture, patted the dust on her hakama, and looked at the newly stained stains with embarrassment, her face sad.

Caesar stooped down to pick up the washbasin that had been kicked to his feet, took two steps forward, and handed it over.

The female centaur looked at him with some surprise, and whispered thanks, in the same voice as a human, she took the basin, scooped a spoonful of water in the water tank next to the entrance of the house, and washed it again.

Caesar didn't lower it, looked at her slightly wagging tail, and took the initiative to speak: "It seems that life here is not easy. ”

"Scourge, sir."

Caesar did not look back, but whispered: "A sudden fire has consumed all our savings, and my husband has been forced to go into the mountains to guide visitors like you, and they say that they are looking for some kind of Yukla, the goddess is above, and it is an extremely dangerous gamble, and the direwolves, fiery manes, and mountain demons in the mountains ......"

As she spoke, she choked up, her voice full of sadness and grief.

"What happened to him?"

The centaur turned: "Earthquake, sudden. Maybe it wasn't an earthquake, people said it was caused by a serpent. ”

"My husband was on a rough mountain road when the earthquake brought rolling stones." She sobbed, "Those outsiders didn't even bring his body back. ”

"I'm sorry."

Caesar sighed, this is indeed a sad story, and only after the female centaur's mood calmed down a little did he continue: "In a sense, I am an explorer from the north, like them, can you tell me the latest news?" I've heard rumors of locals shouting about Eukrahir and the Hydra. Sorry to remind you of a sad past, it's a small reward. ”

As he spoke, he took a silver coin out of his pocket, thought for a moment, and took out another one and placed it in the palm of the centaur's hand.

"It's too much, sir. I don't have any secrets, and some of the stories that everyone knows aren't worth that much money. The centaur glanced at it and excused himself.

The kingdom of Ebu, which relied on ore and smelting as its pillars, was not rich and developed, and the price and cost of living were not much higher, and two silver could only drink two meals of wine in the trading city-state, but they could live here for a week, which was indeed a lot of money in the eyes of the centaurs.

Caesar said two words, but she accepted it anyway.

"Thank you for your generosity, sir. Please come in and rest your feet, and I will try to tell you all I know. ”

At the invitation of the men, Caesar entered the small house, which had a low window on the left and right, and next to the wall opposite the door was a wooden coat, and between it and the low window was a cupboard, open at the top and with three drawers below.

There is also a mirror in the corner, with a few cracks around the edges, and the pattern of the wooden base is so simple that it is not beautiful, like a perfunctory work drawn at random.

Caesar sat down, and there was a smell of sawdust in the room, which looked like it had just been newly built, and a faint smell of it, which was the scent of centaurs.

"The Hydra is not a recent news, the Ebu Kingdom has had legends about it a long time ago, and some halfling clans living in the savannah occasionally tell its story."

The centaur poured Caesar a glass of water, and then sat on his knees: "It is rumored that it swims among the treacherous peaks and crevices of the Thorn Mountains, devouring everything that can be devoured, and it is said to be immortal, and must cut off all its heads at the same time to kill it, and it has a thousand meters of long, ninety-nine teeth full of venom. ”

"Originally, this was just a legend of gods and monsters, just as groundless as the legend of the black dragon that gnawed the world in your north, but I heard that a month and a half ago, the nine-headed giant serpent appeared with Yukrahir, when most of the miners and adventurers in the Thorn Mountains died, and only a few living people ran out to bring back this news, and then they also went crazy and soon died."

"There is a lot of panic in the town, some say that the Hydra will destroy everything, some say that the Hydra is clinging to the branches of the World Tree and waiting for the warriors to challenge, and many people are planning to leave here and take refuge in other parts of the kingdom, and my husband and I were planning to leave as well. But for some reason, this news attracted a lot of outsiders, and these wealthy outsiders brought a lot of vitality to the town, and we stayed, who knows......"

Caesar listened and nodded, thinking slowly, and in his memory attic, he had not found any news about the Hydra, which basically proved that this creature did not exist before Eladia.

The Hydra Serpent is either a farce that has been falsely rumored, or an unknown creature that has yet to be discovered.

"Other than that." Caesar groaned and asked, "Has it ever been there?" ”

"No, it's just that many people have disappeared recently for unknown reasons, most of them adventurers who traveled to the Thorn Mountains, and without their loud voices, the people in the town would not have heard much else."

Caesar smiled and stood up, "Thank you for the news, these messages are very useful to me. ”

"Thank you also for your generosity, sir, and may the Goddess bless you." The centaur stood up and bowed, thanking him again.

Nodding, Caesar took two steps back, turned around and walked to the door, opened the wooden door, and was about to leave, when he suddenly lowered his head and said "um", "Ma'am." I thought that if life in Ebu was not easy, the north might be a good place to go. ”

"Northern ......" repeated the woman Ma, who had heard similar consolation for the first time.

Caesar walked out of the house without explanation, closed the wooden door with his hand, and behaved exactly like a normal human; He then approached Ebu's shapeshifter and questioned him, and the results were not far from what the centaurs had said, with no further inside information.

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