At some point, the Rhine Tavern went from being a single mission release location to a meeting place for some players.

Lin Ling sat alone in the corner of the bar, he asked for a bottle of milk, poured it in a basin, mixed it with the newly bought cat food to feed the two animal messengers who fed him, Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, and fed the two little guys to a round and jade.

"Isn't it pleasant?" Yan Luo Shark sat down next to Lin Ling, untied his horsehoe and toes and leaned on the edge of the bar, he stretched out his hand to tease Xiao Hei, who was lying down and unwilling to move, but was bitten by Xiao Hei's finger, so he had to withdraw his hand with a smile, pointing at Xiao Heidao, who had blown up his hair, "This little guy is really unpleasant." ”

"Cyber pets in the end." Lin Ling stroked the little black shiny fur and soothed it, "The concept of ownership is much stronger than that of real domestic cats and wild cats. ”

"You appreciate that?" Yama asked curiously.

"Who's to say it isn't?" Lin Ling sent the two messengers out to continue to help him transport mana crystals to the farmer Toba in Canyon Village, he turned around, looked at the players coming in and out, and said, "But, isn't it precisely because this world has everything that the outside world doesn't have that that you are obsessed with this world and refuse to extricate yourself?" ”

"What about you?" Yama asked.

"The same is true." Lin Ling made no secret of his preferences, he stood up, waved his hand at the love-hate entanglement who stumbled into the door, and said in a low voice, "However, I know how to give up." ”

"We've already selected the people you want, the club means to arrange mages in the professional team, but I did their work, so the final candidate may be an officer of an alliance guild, or a senior executive." Yama Shark stood up politely, stretched out his hand to the love-hate entanglement, and said, "Hello, I am the president of the Hammer of Doom, Yama Shark. ”

"Love-hate entanglement."

The love-hate entanglement that had been promoted to level 9 gently shook hands with the Yama Shark at Lin Ling's signal.

The appearance of the love-hate entanglement was a little different from what Lin Ling remembered. He had a shaved beard, a standard thief's hood on his head, a crossbow wrapped around his left arm, leather armor and boots under his feet glittering with reinforced bronze lines, and the pair of canine tooth suits hanging from his waist smelled of ointment, judging by the smell, it should have been smeared with the apothecary's Demon Buster Ointment, a cheap item that increases damage to demonic monsters by 3%.

"What do you think? Yama shark. Lin Ling looked at the love-hate entanglement with satisfaction, people rely on clothes, this sentence is really good.

"Very good."

Yan Luo Shark nodded, just from the appearance, even if it is a professional team under the club, I am afraid that there are not many thieves who are more like thieves than love and hate.

"So, let's talk about money." Lin Ling rubbed his fingers at Yan Luo Shark, he was anxiously waiting for the rice to go to the pot.

"There won't be less of yours." Yan Luo Shark angrily took out a package and handed it to Lin Ling, the amount in it was exactly 500 gold coins.

The package also contains the rewards agreed upon before the ambush of the Yakshas: 4 Enhanced Bronze Equipment Scrolls and 2 Return-to-City Scrolls.

"See you next time, then."

With the reward in hand, Lin Ling had no reason to stay. He stretched, patted his love-hate shoulder and said, "Do a good job, don't let me down." ”

"Don't worry, Zero." Love-hate nodded emphatically.

Lin Ling put away the money and walked out of the high-house tavern, he first put a large order of 100 gold coins on the offline trading platform, which is the so-called "black market" for discount, and then went back to the warehouse to take out all the balance in his warehouse and walked into the Rhine City Council.

In the council, NPCs gathered in twos and threes to discuss various matters.

Lin Ling approached Sautte, the councillor in charge of land matters, and asked to buy a piece of land and open a liquor workshop.

"I'm sorry, but with your credibility in Rhine City, you can only buy land on the outskirts of Rhine City." Councilor Saute took out a map and spread it out on the table, and the area of the map that flashed was the land that Lin Ling's current camp reputation could buy. He noticed that the lower limit of prestige for buying land in the western Rhine was 300, and that it required 1,000 prestige to buy a piece of land in the eastern district, which was full of associations.

"Then on the outskirts of the city."

There are two suburbs on the outskirts of the Rhine, one is the White Stone Street on the banks of the Deep Water River, and the other is the Mining and Metallurgical Alley carved into the mountain, and at the end of the Mining and Metallurgical Alley is the Volga Tunnel, one of the most lively scenes of the future that must be passed to the underground city of Bann and the underground world.

"I want this land." Lin Ling chose No. 17 Mining and Metallurgy Lane as his first piece of land, and he looked at the selling price, which was just 50 gold, which was outrageously cheap.

"Would you rather buy graded land or keep the building?" Councillor Sauter put a black cross on No. 17 Mining and Metallurgy Lane to indicate that the land had been sold.

"Leveled land."

Keeping the building costs much more than rebuilding it himself, and Lin Ling didn't just want to build a winery, he planned to build a three-story building, the first floor facing the street was converted into a grocery store, selling some strange things made by making skills, and the winemaking was carried out in the backyard and basement, and the second and third floors of the store were used as the bedrooms of NPC employees, and the surplus was used as a warehouse to store goods.

"The administrative officer of the government department will complete the construction of the house for you." Councillor Schott handed a title deed to Lin Ling, "Congratulations on becoming a citizen of the Rhine. ”

"Thank you."

Lin Ling accepted the title deed, said goodbye to Councillor Saute, and walked to the government affairs hall and found the affairs officer to ask for his house to be built.

A three-storey building with a spirits workshop and warehouse can cost much more than an ordinary house.

In the end, after receiving 300 gold coins from Lin Ling, a price six times higher than the purchase price of the land, the administrative officer promised to complete the construction of the house within 24 hours.

Luckily, the houses in Eternity come with their own decorations and equipment, so they don't require additional overhead.

After getting the land and house, Lin Ling put the rest of the money into his personal warehouse, and after the house was built, he had to purchase raw materials and recruit craftsmen, which was a huge expense at that time. He put the matter behind him for the time being, sorted out his messy thoughts, and decided to go to the other eastern suburb of the Rhine, the newly dug up tomb on Baishi Street, to see what was going on.

Since Jack, the priest of the abandoned mine camp, did not have a specific mission goal when he gave the mission "Hunting Mayhem (2) - Hunting Vampires", Lin Ling was very worried that he would encounter real vampires, not those small bats who claimed to be blood on the side of the Eternal Night Council.

The real vampires were all undead creatures created by a group of ancient vampires known as True Ancestors, and the lowest level was also an elite creature of level 18, which was 10 levels higher than Lin Ling. Any attack made by these real monsters has a lifestealing effect, and if they bite the neck and are forced to "embrace", they will be weakened for at least an hour after resurrection.

Lin Ling opened the friend list to see if he could find someone to help out.

The love-hate entanglement is excluded first, Strawberry Nose is in the lower mage treasure room, it should be acting with the people of the Berserker Alliance, Li Linda is too poorly equipped, and it will only add to the chaos. The Zen Master and the Drunken Doctor are good helpers, but it's too embarrassing to trouble two people at once.

"Zen Master, are you free?"

If you want to deal with the undead, it is more reliable to find an expert.

"In the mission to clean up the Cape Rock Wall with drunk, why don't you come to the mission together? The experience here is good, I went up almost 15% in half an hour, which is not much slower than fighting the boss. The watchman replied.

"Oh, then you're going to be embarrassed right away."

Lin Ling is very aware of how bad the mission of the Cape Stone Wall is, and the reason why the Zen Master of the Watch feels relaxed is nothing more than that he and Drunken Wujiu are both wearing bronze-level equipment, and their total attributes are equivalent to those level 10 players who have graduated from the expert-level mage treasure room, and fighting those level 6 or 7 monsters is the same as crushing, so they naturally feel relaxed.

However, when the quest objective requirement is changed to level 8 or 9, and the experience awarded for completing the quest is the same as before, the watchman will be embarrassed.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, the Zen Master took the initiative to find Lin Ling: "I think I'd better be with you." ”

"On the outskirts of the Rhine, on Whitestone Street."

Lin Ling reported the address, in his previous life, Baishi Street on the outskirts of Rhine City was also a popular mission area, where players of level 8-15 could feel the speed of leveling up.

Of course, the premise is that Lin Ling can get rid of that vampire.

The current Shiraishi Street is the same as the ghost land, the streets are filled with frozen mist, and the air is filled with the smell of mildew.

Even during the day, the visual distance is similar to that at night.

The only building with lights on in Baishi Street was the post inn, and when Lin Ling walked into the hotel, he was immediately pointed at his head with several hunting crossbows.

"Don't move, mage." An NPC mercenary appeared from behind the door, he looked at Lin Ling's reflection at his feet, and suddenly pulled out a sword and stuck it in his reflection.

The reflection did not move at all, and Lin Ling also glanced at the post inn with a calm face.

Most of the NPCs here are hovering around level 12, and there are traces of blood left over from fights near the bar counter, as well as patches on the walls adjacent to the bar.

"It's our people." The mercenary draws his sword, he is the lowest level of all NPCs, only level 8.

"Something happened." As Lin Ling spoke, he turned around, and it was strange to think that a level 8 character appeared in the group of NPCs with an average level of 12.

"It's a vampire, and there are ancestor-level vampires mixed in here." The mercenary answered Lin Ling's question for the others.

Lin Ling really wanted to tell the mercenary that the lowest ancestor-level vampire was a ruthless character at level 80, so that he would not deign to be mixed into a group of level 12 "people".

"I just came out of the Rhine Council, how come I haven't heard about it." He feigned puzzlement and took out the divination orb, stretched out his hand and pressed the mercenary's face, "So, someone is lying. ”

Bang!

The power of the fallen Netherworld poured out of its palm, knocking the unprepared mercenary out of the door.

Lin Ling rushed out of the post inn after him, staying in the hotel would only be used as a live target by NPCs who didn't know the truth, no matter how weak the level 12 NPCs were, a salvo of more than 10 people could kill the thin-skinned self in seconds.

"Damn it!"

The NPCs in the hotel are afraid of the vampires in the fog and huddle in the hotel and refuse to come out.

"Wouldn't the pawns of the Eternal Night Council be so stupid, with the frozen mist, and the smell of mildew, the undead underground?" Lin Ling raised Slimy Lake's hand, and in his palm, there was a bloody face mask.

The NPCs who were hiding inside the hotel and looking out gasped.

"Clever mage." The undead, disguised as a mercenary, flung off the dye from their bodies, revealing an ugly face covered in mold. In its left hand, it drew another sword from behind its back and said menacingly, "But that's all you have to offer!" ”