Squeak~

The wooden door of the tavern was pushed open suddenly, and the drinkers in the tavern couldn't help but look up in the direction of the door, but before they saw a figure, the voice blew in with the cold wind first: "Boss! Three glasses of ale! ”

"It's coming!"

The proprietress of the tavern, a young girl, replied in a clear voice, and greeted her with a tray: "A few guests are here, do you want anything to eat?" ”

"One more pack of rhinoceros and three breads!"

The guest replied in a loud voice, followed in the footsteps of the proprietress to a table and sat down, and the people in the tavern saw the appearance of the three men clearly.

The leader was dressed in gray full-body steel armor, carrying a gray giant sword behind him, and a gray package outside the scabbard, and even a gray scarf on his face, obviously burly, but he didn't make a sound at all when he walked, and the two people who followed behind him were wearing gray leather armor of a similar style, one of them carried a bow and arrows behind him, and the other had four daggers pinned to his waist and thighs.

The only strange thing is that none of the three people wore any badges on their chests.

"Three gray rats again."

In the corner, I don't know who made a disdainful voice.

The three of them were not annoyed, but sat around the table and waited silently, and when the proprietress brought the meat and bread, they did not pay, but handed a long sword to the proprietress .

The proprietress seemed to be familiar with this, took the long sword and looked at it a few times, and said flatly: "Add one more." ”

"It was enough before!"

The man with the bow and arrow sounded like a woman, looking a little angry, and when he stood up, he wanted to reason with the proprietress, but the leading man pressed her shoulder, shook his head, and took out a dagger and handed it to the proprietress again.

The proprietress took the dagger in her hand and played with it for a few rounds, and nodded with satisfaction: "This is not bad, I will send you a piece of information for free, there is a knight here recently, when you act recently, you had better be careful." ”

"Just a knight."

The leading man didn't care, waved his hand to the proprietress, grabbed a piece of pack rhinoceros and ate it, but the other two glanced at each other and showed an unpredictable smile, obviously thinking something.

The proprietress didn't care, and returned to the back kitchen with the tray, and the tavern returned to its usual hustle and bustle.

It's just that the places around the three people were very tacitly vacated by the others.

After more than ten minutes, the three men had eaten and drunk enough, got up and were about to leave the tavern, but the taverns were pushed away again.

"Boss, let's warm up with a glass of ale first!"

The cold wind blew into the tavern with an unpleasant sound, and the proprietress suddenly laughed: "It's here!" ”

The three people also happened to walk to the door of the tavern before, and took a look at the person who opened the door, the leader nodded, the person who came was slightly stunned, and nodded in response with a smile, but there was something strange in his heart, and he always felt that the eyes of these three people were a little wrong, and it seemed that when he said hello, his eyes were focused on his ......

Immediately, the four of them passed by, and the comer didn't think much about it, walked two steps quickly, took the wine glass from the hand of the proprietress, raised his head and poured it down, swallowed a few times, and drank the whole glass of ale: "Whew——! Much more comfortable! Two portions of rhinoceros meat, two more breads! ”

"Okay, sit here."

The proprietress greeted the visitor with a smile, led him to the table where the three of them had just been sitting, refilled a glass of ale for Sawyer, and took the cups and plates left by the three of them with her.

"What the hell! It's cold! ”

The visitor complained again, ripped off his goggles and placed them on the table, but it was Sawyer, who had arrived here three days earlier.

More than twenty days ago, after staying in Qingyan for one night, Sawa said goodbye to Carrot and Greta father and daughter, and rushed all the way to an intermittent stronghold between Sapphire Ring City and Ember Ring City, but Rao finally arrived here at Sawyer's speed and walked for more than half a month.

Of course, part of the reason was that Sawyer was not well prepared, and he ate the supplies halfway through, and had to turn back and trade with the caravan he had met before, which was delayed for two or three days.

Three days ago, Sawyer finally arrived at this intermittent stronghold before he ran out of supplies again, rested for a while, and replenished his supplies, and then plunged headlong into the unstable zone, searching for the legendary rift in time and space.

However, in the past three days, no traces of the space-time rift have been found at all, but the space rift has encountered a lot, and even encountered a super-level black beast that has awakened the mystery of space, and it took Sawyer most of the day to ask this monster to track down.

Even if he has returned to the intermittent stronghold, when he thinks of that super-level black beast, Sawa still has palpitations, it is comparable to the existence of the knight of the Four Rings, not to mention the awakening of the spatial mystery, in the unstable zone, this monster can even actively manipulate the spatial crack to attack Sawya, if it weren't for Sawa sneaking away, maybe he would have died at the hands of this monster.

Thinking of this, Sawa couldn't help but take a big sip of ale to suppress his shock, but he felt uncomfortable, and looked around under the cover of the wine glass, only to find that most of the people in the tavern were staring at him, and even many people showed gloating expressions without shying away.

"What's the situation? Could it be that the news that I was hunted by the black beast has already reached here? ”

Sawyer's eyelids jumped, but he still felt that something was wrong, and the group of people looked at him not like they were looking at a fugitive in disarray, but like ......

"Knight, your things are ready~!"

At this moment, the proprietress came over with a tray, and after placing the three plates in front of Sawya, she stood aside with a smile and did not speak.

"Whoa."

Sawa pursed her lips and threw a crystal coin over, which immediately made the boss lady's face bloom, and the whole person pounced on Sawyer's back: "Lord Knight is really generous!" ”

But I heard Sawyer say unhurriedly: "This is the next half a month's room money and before meals." ”

The smile on the proprietress suddenly froze, and with a light snort, she turned around, twisted her waist and returned to the back of the bar, glanced up at Sawyer, and suddenly couldn't help but laugh again.

With this crystal coin, let alone half a month, even if Sawyer eats and lives here for a month, she won't lose anything!

This crystal coin is not like the ordinary currency issued by the major ring cities, it can only circulate in the radiation area of a single ring city, but it is an energy currency, similar to the spirit stone in the city, which can not only be used as currency, but also condenses a large amount of pure energy, and if it is used for cultivation, the efficiency can be increased several times or even ten times!

And this kind of crystal coin is still a hard currency that can be used in any ring city, and the purchasing power is still scary, not to mention knights, even big knights rarely use crystal coins to pay their bills.

Take Soyer's previous visit to the Sapphire Ring City as an example, the base currency of the Blue City, the black coin, is considered to have strong purchasing power, and on weekdays, I go to the tavern to serve two side dishes and a glass of ale, which is only the price of four or five black coins, and ten black coins a day can be eaten more moisturizing, but the exchange ratio of crystal coins and black coins is between one to ten thousand to one to ten thousand!

If the purchasing power of the Ring City currency is low in the Heath Ring City or the Aoki Ring City, the exchange ratio between the crystal coin and the base currency can even be as high as 1:100,000!

Generally speaking, in the daily purchase, there is no crystal coin at all, even some stores specializing in luxury goods, it is rare to receive crystal coins, only in some large-scale auctions, when it is the turn of the finale items to be auctioned, crystal coins will appear as circulating currency, and even in the areas outside the five rings of the major ring cities, even many people do not know what crystal coins are!

Even in the intermittent stronghold, due to the fact that after the materials are transported, there will be many additional costs, resulting in the price here is three to five times that of the ring city, if you use crystal coins to settle the bill, this crystal coin is definitely more than enough to live for half a month.

You must know that although the price of goods in the intermittent stronghold is three to five times that of the ring city, due to the limitation of materials, there are not many places where you can spend money, and there are not so many delicacies from the mountains and seas.

It is estimated that it is enough to let the proprietress personally serve Sawa every day.

It's no wonder that the proprietress is so happy to laugh, let Sawa eat and live here for half a month, even if it is calculated with external quotations, it is only a business of four or five thousand black coins, and the cost is not even two thousand black coins, but this time and again you can earn a crystal coin, which is more than five times the profit, where is this knight, this is simply a golden lump falling from the sky!

For a qualified businessman, a 100 percent profit can make them take risks, a 300 percent profit can make them trample on all laws, not to mention that it is now more than 500 percent profit!

So, the proprietress thought about it for a while, and walked over to Sawyer with the flask in her hand, the gentle expression on her face and the graceful figure when she walked, which made the eyes of the guests in the entire tavern widen.

And Sawyer?

What else could he do but continue to eat with a wry smile?

For the market here, Sawyer naturally has a number in his heart, but he is also helpless, although he has been working with Gregory for more than two months, but the little money he saved was spent as soon as he arrived at the intermittent stronghold, and only a bag of crystal coins given to him by Rowena was left on his body, and he couldn't throw out a crystal coin and let the family recover thousands of black coins, right?

Besides, he didn't think that the proprietress would give him "change", at most, she would just provide more services to make the difference.

Like now.

Seeing the proprietress sitting beside her like the most professional escort, adding wine and food to herself with a gentle face, if she said that she was uncomfortable, she would definitely lie to her wife, but as soon as Sawa saw the face of the proprietress now, she remembered the half of the crystal coin he wasted, and her heart also twitched, and the degree of enjoyment suddenly decreased by half.

At all, Sawa didn't look at the gentle and dripping pretty face of the proprietress at all, but just gobbled it up to herself, but in a few minutes, she solved the meal in front of her, got up and was about to walk to the guest room upstairs.

However, as soon as he took two steps, Sawyer stopped in surprise, and the drinkers in the tavern also stared at Sawyer's back one by one.

"What are you doing here?"

Sawyer looked at the proprietress who followed behind him like his little daughter-in-law, and his brain ached, he didn't believe that just one crystal coin could make the proprietress of this intermittent camp take the initiative to dedicate herself.

When he first came to the intermittent place, he had heard the legend of the proprietress, it is said that he inherited his father's hotel when he was thirteen years old, and he worked here for seven years, and in these seven years, he was beautiful and lovely when he was a child, and the more he grew up, the more beautiful the proprietress was, there were people who wanted to find trouble and smash the field, and there were people who wanted to tease her to eat tofu, and the suitors were like carp across the river, but no one could take advantage of the boss's wife.

It is said that last year, a passing knight fell in love with the proprietress and spent two crystal coins but was rejected by the proprietress at all moves......

Sawyer turned his head to look at the guy in the corner of the tavern who was cleaning up the garbage with a broom, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

"Help you clean up your room," the proprietress said of course, "Don't worry, this is an additional service, and there will be no additional charge!" ”

My concern was never about extra charges, okay!

Sawyer's forehead jumped suddenly, but he finally swallowed the sentence back, gritted his teeth and turned to leave, Quan Dang didn't see the boss lady behind him.

All the way to the "superior room" on the top floor, after the proprietress cleaned up the room at a dazzling speed, Sawyer's brain hurt again.

"So, what are you doing here?"

Sawa rubbed his forehead, he didn't believe that the proprietress would provide any special services.

Sure enough, the proprietress looked a little more serious, and looked Sawa up and down with interest: "Of course, I will continue to provide additional services, for the sake of the crystal coin, I will provide you with a little information you need, you know, I am a businessman, of course, doing business is based on integrity, you get what you pay for!" ”

Integrity-based? You get what you pay for?

I believe in your evil, why did I only hear that you charge indiscriminately in the tavern, and if you are in a bad mood, you will increase the price, and if you are in a good mood, you will continue to increase the price?

Sawyer's hands began to rub the corners of his forehead: "You don't know what I'm here for, and what information can you give me?" ”

"Na," the proprietress patted her head, as if she had just remembered this question, but she still smiled and said, "I naturally don't have the information you want, but there is a piece of information related to you, specifically, information related to your life, can this impress you?" ”

"Huh?" Now, Sawyer also got serious, "Let's hear it." ”

"Remember the three people you met when you walked in?" The proprietress asked first, and then saw Sawyer nodding before continuing, "Those are three gray rats, and they have their eyes on you." ”