Chapter 164: The Old Man and the Girl
Time passed slowly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the Blue Moon Festival.
The town of Hailan is a lively scene.
For the aborigines of the Rand World, the Blue Moon Festival is the most important festival of the year, so it is natural to take it seriously. The streets are full of people, not only aborigines, but also many idle adventurers who come online to join in the fun.
At this point...
The entire town of La Mer has been transformed into a sea of flowers.
When the Blue Moon Festival begins, Aboriginal people decorate their streets and homes with flowers, hold a grand bonfire at night, and some of the wealthy territories set off magical fireworks to pray for a happy new year.
This is the first Blue Moon Festival since the establishment of Hailan Town, and it is even more grand. The news of Barr's disappearance is now known only to John and others, and the ordinary residents of the town are not aware of it.
Singing and laughing outside.
John sat in the chamber with a frown. Although today was a festive day, he was not happy at all.
"My lord, where the hell has he gone?" John muttered that more than half a month had passed, and although everyone tried their best to search, they still hadn't gotten any clues related to adults, which was really worrying.
The battle at Shimen Fortress ended more than ten days ago.
In front of the elite troops of the Empire, the monsters of the Twilight Wasteland had no power to resist at all, and they were wiped out in just a few days.
These days, the situation in the Blackstone Mountains is also calming down. Under the offensive launched by the two legions of the empire and the lords of various places, the large monster groups have basically been wiped out, and the violent monsters pouring out of the Blackstone Mountain Range are becoming fewer and fewer, and it seems that this incident will soon subside.
"I don't know what the adults did, and the speed of level increase is too amazing." John looked at his stats panel.
At this point, his level had reached one hundred and fifty!
However, when he died in his previous life, he was just a first-order warlock, and although his level increased greatly at this time, he did not obtain advanced classes and skills, but his basic attributes increased dramatically.
Stomp and tread.
A cat-man soldier walked in.
"Lord John, this is the information sent by those adventurers today." The cat-man soldier handed John a thick stack of materials.
"Well, you go down."
"Yes."
John flipped through the materials in his hand.
A few days ago, Barr had made an agreement with Yang Jing, Wang Ping and several adventurers to exchange contribution points for the information they had collected in the real world. Inspired by the contribution points, the information of several people was also sent one after another, but there was not much value.
Suddenly, an important piece of news came into John's eyes.
"Yesterday evening, the Batangi City Fortress, located on the south side of the quicksand road, was destroyed by an eight-armed giant hundreds of meters tall and countless monsters. The strange group entered the territory of the Saudi in the south, and the four cities on the border of the Saudi Kingdom, dozens of villages and towns were destroyed, and the largest border city, San Mari City, was also severely damaged. In the wee hours of the morning, the eight-armed giant was besieged and killed outside the city of San Mari by several unknown powerhouses. β
John continued to look at the information below.
Soon.
A piece of news caught his attention.
"In the early hours of this morning, the Guards Regiment that had been evacuated re-entered the Shimen Fortress."
"Well, the Guards Corps did not withdraw to the Red Eagle Fortress where they were originally stationed, but re-stationed in the Shimen Fortress." John's eyes rolled, "Could it be that the Empire intends to take advantage of this opportunity to make a move against the Saudis." β
It's not impossible.
Although humans and orcs have coexisted peacefully for hundreds of years, behind the hundreds of years of peace, there is a growing hatred between the two races.
In recent years...
The various ethnic groups within the empire are dissatisfied with the oppression of the lion and tiger clans, and the contradictions have accumulated to a critical point.
If it is not vented again, it is likely to plunge the empire into the quagmire of ethnic civil strife, war is the last resort to divert internal contradictions, and the old rival of the empire, the human kingdom, is definitely the best target.
"No, now that the adults are not here, we still have to discuss it with Lilith and Bart." John hurriedly got up and walked out, the four human kingdoms have concluded a permanent alliance, in case the empire really sends troops to the Saudis, the other three human kingdoms will definitely take action. The town of Hailan is located in the border region, close to the Kingdom of Banya, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be implicated.
John had barely left the door of the council chamber when he saw a minotaur soldier running from the south.
"Something's wrong, panic." John turned his head.
The Minotaur soldier took a few breaths before he said, "Lord John, we caught two thieves in the herb plantation, and they have destroyed a lot of the herbs planted in it. There is something strange about these two people. The clothes I wore were very special, and we couldn't understand what he was saying, not like the people we were here, so why don't you go over and take a look? β
"Dare to come to our town and steal." John suddenly became angry, "And you, didn't you arrange for people to patrol every day, how could you still be run in." β
A few days ago.
After Bart killed a second-order boss, the Iron Dryad King, in the Blackstone Mountains, he obtained a rare herb plantation blueprint.
Since he was now at level one hundred and fifty, Bart would certainly be no exception. After reaching level one hundred and fifty, Bart's strength has become more and more terrifying, and he has killed many powerful monsters in the Blackstone Mountain Range in the past few days, and the harvest is not small.
When a herb plantation is established, the growth rate of herbs can be greatly increased.
With Baal not there, and the monster riots in the Blackstone Mountains slowly subsided, he arranged for a farm and herb plantation to be built, and some soldiers were stationed on the farm.
But.
The herbs in the plantation have just been planted, and they are all seedlings, and the types are also very common, how can anyone steal them.
"This, thisβ" The minotaur soldier's face flushed.
"Forget it, where are those two people?" John asked.
"I'm already in prison." The Minotaur soldiers continued.
"Okay, take care of the people first, and when I'm done, I'll go over and have a look." John Dao.
"Yes."
The Minotaur soldiers turned and left.
"Thief?"
John shook his head and continued walking.
Now it's better to discuss business with Lilith and the others, these two strange thieves can only be put aside first, and they can't escape from being locked up in prison anyway.
......
In a cell at the Hailan Jail.
"Hey, I want to be a Xuanqing Daoist, I gathered qi at the age of nine, and I broke through to the Human Yuan Realm at the age of twenty-one, and now I finally have the opportunity to revitalize my Xuanqing Sect. I can't imagine that I was caught by a few bull demons and ended up like this, God doesn't bless me, God doesn't bless me..."
An old human man sat in the corner of the wall and sighed.
The old man's hair was disheveled, his black-red face was full of wrinkles, he was wearing a dirty cyan robe, he wore a fishtail crown on his head, and he was lying on the wall with his sleeves rolled up, looking no different from a beggar.
If there are adventurers here, you can hear that this old Taoist priest speaks Chinese Chinese.
"Grandpa, it's not that you're greedy, you have to steal the herbs planted by these monsters, otherwise how can you be caught."
A girl next to her with a double bun and a green pleated skirt snorted, "It's good now, the herbs haven't been stolen, and they have been caught in the monsters' lair, and they may be eaten by these monsters later." β
"This time we were unlucky, the medicine garden was full of freshly planted herbs." The old man in the green robe sighed.
"When is it, grandpa, you still think about those herbs." The girl in the green dress said.
"Hey, they've all been caught, what else can I do." The old man in the green robe stroked his goatee and said suspiciously, "The monsters in this place are really strange, they obviously have the spiritual power fluctuations of the Earth Yuan Realm, but the realm is only the lowest Qi Gathering Realm. β
"Maybe the strength of these monsters has been forcibly improved through secret arts, so the realm is low." The girl in the green dress thought for a moment.
"It's possible, but it can forcibly raise the monsters of the Qi Gathering Realm to the perfection of the Earth Yuan Realm, this method is really incredible, I'm afraid the demon king of the Tian Yuan Realm can't do it." The old man in the green robe said.
"Could it be that the owner of this place is a demon god who ascended to the fairy land?" The girl in the green dress widened her eyes.
"Whether it's a demon king or a demon god, it doesn't make any difference to us." The old man in the green robe looked around, "This cell should be a large magic weapon, with the effect of suppressing spiritual power, I'm afraid our grandson will be in a catastrophe today." β
"Lives, lives." The old man in the green robe looked even more bitter.
The girl in the green dress next to her was also gloomy.
Xuanqing Sect used to be one of the famous purple-level sects in the Hongyun Immortal Kingdom.
The founder of Xuanqing Sect, that is, her ancestor Yang Xuanqing, is a legendary figure in the Tianyuan Realm.
However, just a thousand years ago, Yang Xuanqing, the head of the Xuanqing Sect, and the masters in the sect, for some reason, suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the remaining group of dragons slowly fell apart. By now, there were only two people left, her and her grandfather.
The Xuanqing Sect also fell all the way to the lowest white-level sect,
Seeing that it is about to come to the day of the Hongyun Immortal Kingdom's New Year tribute, but the ten spirit crystals needed this year are still not settled, if they can't hand over the spirit crystals, they will even be disqualified from the white-level sect.
Not long ago.
Her ancestral treasure of the ordinary Heaven and Earth suddenly turned into a strange magic weapon.
After activation, a portal appeared that led to nowhere, and after she and her grandfather hesitated for a long time, they finally couldn't help but step into it, and in a blink of an eye, they came to this strange place, and were captured by several bull demons who spoke strange languages.
"Hahahaha..."
"Haha, no, I'm laughing to death."
The two minotaur adventurers in the opposite cell finally burst out laughing, and one of them was already lying on the ground laughing.
"Well, two bull demons of the fifth layer of Juyuan." The old man in the green robe got up and said,
"Grandpa, these two bull demons speak our language." The girl stood up in surprise, could it be that these two bull demons are also from the same place as them.
After adventurers enter the world of Rand, no matter what language they originally speak, when they talk to the aborigines, they will all be converted into the continental lingua franca by the system, but this is not the case between adventurers.
At this time, looking at the old man and the girl, the two of them also have the identity of adventurers.
The girl's name is Yang Yurong, level 30, and her profession is a qi practitioner; And the name of the old man on the side is Yang Jiuling, a Xuanqing Daoist, with a level of sixty-one, and the same occupation as a girl. However, this old man has an elite template, and from this point of view, they cannot be adventurers.