Chapter 31: One Hundred Years of Solitude
All that needs to be purchased is some sleeping bags, tools, etc. Buy some more hard bread. As for the other bunks and tents, I have them. There are also a large number of supplies obtained from the Evil Tooth Tribe, which are enough for the road.
However, spare weapons and knives and the like should also be bought, those things are expensive and expensive, and it costs Charlotte a lot of money. This is one of the thresholds for adventurers, after all, you can't take a burning stick and go on an adventure.
Charlotte quickly bought her things and went to the Pine Needle Tavern. Old Trevor was still standing at the bar and wiping his glasses, as if he had been repeating the same thing since the last time they met. Charlotte didn't understand what the dark oak glass was good for.
As usual, Charlotte ordered a lot of food and began to eat Hesse. Only when you are in this world can you know how valuable it is to eat a delicious and filling meal.
The scarcity of materials reminded Charlotte of the three-year natural disaster in her grandmother's mouth. High-income people like Charlotte, who lick blood with knives, also nibble on hard bread and drink chowder soup every day. One can imagine the situation of those peasants at the bottom.
Charlotte ate her food and, as usual, went to the bar with her glass and chatted with Trevor Sr.
"The world is so big, I want to see it......" Charlotte took a small sip of rye wine.
"Huh?" Old Trevor was stunned by what he said, stopped what he was doing, and couldn't help asking, "Why did you suddenly have this idea?" ”
Charlotte sat on the barstool, thought for a moment, and replied, "...... Maybe it's because of unwillingness. ”
Old Trevor pursed his lips and said, "Hehe, I can see for a long time that your kid is not a guy who keeps to himself." ”
"What did you do to take the risk in the first place?"
"Because of what? Poor, of course! I can't live, and I don't want to wait for death. Of course you have to struggle for a while. ”
"Looking at your appearance, you don't look like a kind person, the first time I came here, I thought it was a black shop."
Old Trevor glanced at Charlotte disdainfully: "You have to be glad that my temper has improved a lot in the past two years." Otherwise, a flamboyant kid like you would have been lame a long time ago. ”
"Well, no kidding. Do you have any advice for me going out on adventures? ”
Old Trevor put down the polished wine glass in his hand, pondered for a moment, and said, "Three o'clock in total." First, be cautious when you go out. Don't stay in a pub or inn in the middle of nowhere. I knew a bronze warrior who ate poisoned soup and ended up being used as an ingredient for it. ”
"Second, in the wild, not only do you have to watch out for all kinds of beasts and monsters, but you also need to pay attention to your own kind. I don't know how many times I've encountered a camp of routers or bandits in the wild. They're even more ferocious than those monsters. Of course, you also need to be careful when encountering strange adventurers, especially if you have a lot of wealth on you......"
"The last point, take it when you see it. Restrain your greed. At one point, we were a team of 14 people exploring a ruin. In the end, I was the only one who came back. For I only filled my pockets, and did not have the luxury of expecting more treasures in the ruins. So I just got an arrow in the knee, not with the 13 unlucky ghosts rotting inside the ruins. ”
At this time, Aisha, who had been eavesdropping on the two of them, interjected.
"Charlotte, are you really going on an adventure? How good it is to be in Grual! It's dangerous out there......" Aisha said a little anxiously.
Charlotte was impressed. Elsa is such a good girl, and she knows to worry about my safety. But Charlotte had already made up her mind to go outside.
Xia Luo said with relief: "Hello sister." But the boy has ambitions in all directions. How can you not go out and see the world? ”
Elsa had lived in Gruar since she was a child, and she didn't understand Charlotte's restless thoughts. In fact, this is also the thinking of most people, who do not want to leave their homeland.
It's not a good thing to be uprooted here, because it's really dangerous outside. Only those who cannot survive and those who are inherently restless will leave their homeland and venture everywhere, trying to satisfy some of their own desires.
"Gruyar is very remote, but it's a good place. If, if you stay...... Marry and have children here...... Isn't that great? Aisha's face turned slightly red and continued to persuade.
"Alas, what do you say, girl? The big husband has no wife. Besides, with so many beautiful women outside, how can I be trapped in this town. My journey is the sea of stars. My dream is to plant the world. Wowha......"
Charlotte was basking in her own fantasies. Suddenly, the wine glass in her hand was snatched away by Elsa.
"Humph! You shameless Dumas, go to your sea of stars! After Aisha finished speaking, she turned her head angrily and left.
"Oh, don't, don't...... What's going on? I haven't finished my wine yet?! Charlotte looked at Trevor Sr. in confusion.
Old Trevor continued to wipe his glass, whistling happily as he wiped. Aisha's thoughts, he naturally knew as a father, but he was not very optimistic about Charlotte.
Charlotte is so restless that it is normal for her to die one day in an unknown ruin tomb. Won't he hurt his precious daughter when the time comes? So he didn't speak, happy to see the result.
"Ding-dong! Congratulations, your D-rank title: Single Dog, upgraded to C-rank title: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Note: You still have the potential to upgrade to B-rank, come on, I'm optimistic about you! ”
100 Years of Solitude?
Charlotte felt a deep malice from the big dictionary.
Charlotte was soon on his way, and he had already inquired about the route to Helsing. And there is only one city in Helsing, and there is only one road near the remote town of Gruyar. There is basically no possibility of going wrong.
The road is a loess road, less than two meters wide, with shallow ruts on the road, and some tenacious weeds stubbornly growing on the road.
You can't see people on this road. When Gruyar is not far away, you can occasionally see people from farms from nearby villages going to Gruyar to buy or sell. It's been an afternoon since Charlotte left Gruyar's range, and no one has been seen.
"It's really sparsely populated......" Charlotte looked at the deep woods on both sides of the road, and thought that humans were really social creatures, and she felt lonely after only an afternoon of walking.
Far away from the silver pine forest, all kinds of miscellaneous trees began to increase, and some trees Charlotte still roughly recognized, what birch, poplar, oak and so on. But more than not.
Soon it was nightfall, and Charlotte found a vacant lot to set up camp. The governor's entourage, which had been following on both sides of the road, also came out. Charlotte walked down the road by herself, trying to see if there was anything she couldn't do with it. But this place is really ugly, and the fishing law enforcement fails.
Hunting was a simple matter, and Charlotte took less than twenty minutes to go into the woods with a bow and arrow, and retrieved a pheasant and a hare. There are fewer people, and there are more wild beasts, which is a principle that one trades off the other.
In fact, there are many places in this world that have not been set foot by humans, such as Gruar, which has been established for almost forty years, but has only developed some nearby places. There were several farms, mills, lumber yards and mines. Gone! Forty years of settlement have saved up such a small amount.
This is unimaginable, think about how long it took my Great Celestial Empire to develop the Great Northern Wilderness? How long did it take to develop the Great Northwest? In the past 40 years, our Celestial Empire has lifted itself out of poverty and become well-off, and has achieved four modernizations.
But the people of Gruyar are still struggling less than fifty miles away. In this way, people die at every turn, and every year there are twenty or thirty people who die unexpectedly. Is it because they are not diligent enough, not hard enough? It's that the world is too difficult, and human beings are too weak.
This time, if it weren't for Charlotte, the Evil Tooth Tribe would have been wiped out ahead of schedule. Just the strange strength of the old goblin with the demon tentacles that somehow merged, didn't turn Gruar upside down? Who knows how many people will die?!
He will die at every turn, and his home will be destroyed at every turn. This is the situation of the people of the lower classes of this world.