On a small road leading to Crescent City, the capital of the Land of Wolves, there is a very ordinary tavern with a wooden sign hanging in front of it.

The surface of the signboard has long since been cracked by the erosion of wind and rain, but it can still be seen that "this tavern can provide high-quality accommodation and provide carriage rental services." The words "" and so on, clearly show the traveler the function of this tavern.

This tavern sits lonely on the side of the road, backed by a small river in which garbage from the tavern floats; In front of the tavern was a clearing, and on one side of the clearing was a stable with several horses for travelers.

However, the horses were conspicuously lacking in care, and the cold weather in the orc realm made them even more skinny and malnourished.

On the other side is a well, and the moss at the mouth of the well indicates that the well is very old, and next to this well is a manger for horses to drink water and several willow trees, but the willows have long since died, and they are natural bolted horse posts.

Many years ago, the road was an important communication route between the Terrans and the Orcs, and the tavern was once one of the main post stations along the route.

But later, due to the opening of the interracial teleportation array between the two races, travelers, adventurers, and merchants who originally took this route all switched to teleportation arrays, and this originally very busy route gradually fell silent, and only a few people who could not apply for permission from the teleportation array would take this path.

The owner of this depressed tavern was a human, in his early forties, short in stature, but very athletic, and clearly a lifelong worker. His gray eyes were sunken into their sockets. Lost into a small slit. He always gives people the feeling of smiling all the time, which is also cultivated by the profession he has been engaged in for a long time.

There are indeed not many Terrans who run a tavern business in a deserted place like the Orcs, and this boss is a very rare one.

Of course, it's not that he doesn't want to run a business in the town, it's that the orcs are very xenophobic, and the human business in the orc town will only be worse.

Now our shopkeeper was standing idly at the door of the tavern, looking out at both sides of the empty road, all the while maintaining his very professional expression. Hopefully, a traveler will come to his shop.

Because the shop hadn't had a single traveler for two days, it wouldn't be able to continue if this situation continued.

Dusk was slowly approaching, and just when the poor boss thought he was going to get nothing for the day, a figure appeared at one end of the road.

The discovery was enough to make the tavern keeper ecstatic, and now it was getting dark, and the tavern was on the border of the two tribes, surrounded by a white snowfield, and most of the guests who came and went here were adventurers or merchants. There is a high probability that they will stop at the tavern.

The tavernkeeper immediately opened the door of the inn that was about to close, ready to welcome the traveler.

This tavern owner is a very dedicated kind of person. Even if there is only one traveler, he will give 100% effort, as long as the traveler is willing to pay.

Gradually, it was clear what the traveler looked like, and the traveler was a young man, which surprised the tavern owner, after all, in such a deserted place, few children of such a young age dared to travel alone.

Even if there were, they were all sturdy solo adventurers, and the innkeeper couldn't help but frown as the boy gradually stepped into the tavernkeeper's field of vision.

This young man was wearing a simple cloth coat, in this harsh weather, there were really no people who wore so little, didn't he feel cold? The young man's appearance is also polite, baby-faced, at first glance, he is a half-old child, but his extremely rare black hair makes the boss look at it a few more times.

At this time, the boss's heart couldn't help but wonder, does such a half-old teenager have the money to pay his rent?

However, the tavern owner noticed that the young man also had a sword pinned to his waist, and although the surface was wrapped with strips of cloth, it should be a sword in the shape.

The tavern owner had also seen a lot of the world, and thought that this boy should be one of those children who daydreamed all day and shouted that he was going to go on an adventure.

The boss of this kind of person has seen a lot of it when he was still running a tavern business in the Terran realm, and he will hardly be mistaken.

Sure enough, as soon as the black-haired young man in front of him came to him, he asked, "Boss, I'm an adventurer passing through here, and I want to rent a room here tonight, I don't know if there is a guest room?" ”

The boss doesn't care whether the other party is a real adventurer or not, as long as the other party has money, he squinted his eyes, maintained that professional smile, and said like a few family treasures: "This little brother, we have accommodation in the tavern, the lower grade room is 10 silver coins a night, the middle grade room is 30 silver coins a night, and the upper grade room is 50 silver coins a night." ”

If there were other adventurers present, they would definitely shout that the boss was a profiteer when they heard this offer, and 10 silver coins was almost half a month's income in an ordinary Terran family, and they could only live in a low-grade room for one night.

In fact, the boss's offer is indeed too high, although he opened the store in such a desolate place, the original purpose was to rip off customers, and it is normal for the price to be high. But business has really been getting worse and worse recently, so the boss has the idea of packing up his baggage and going back to the human race as soon as he slaughters a lot of money.

10 silver coins a night is the minimum consumption, there is no other place to live here except for his shop, and the young man in front of him does not have any luggage on him, and there is no possibility of even camping outside.

So the boss just glanced at it and was sure that unless the other party was penniless, he would have decided the money.

But what surprised the boss next was that the black-haired boy didn't react after listening to the offer, and he didn't see how he did it, but he turned his right hand over, and a golden thing was handed to him.

"Here's tonight's rent."

The boss took the golden thing, put it in front of him and looked at it, and suddenly felt a little at a loss, and he couldn't even maintain a professional smile on his face.

Gold coins, the other party actually gave him a gold coin.

The boss thought he was dreaming. I bit it with my mouth. It was found to be true. Then he woke up from a dream and said with a smile: "Little brother, how long are you going to stay?" ”

"The high-grade guest room is only one night, and you can take some simple drinks and dishes to my room for the extra money." The boy threw down these words, and the man had already walked into the tavern.

The boss was overjoyed when he heard this, even if it was a high-grade room, one gold coin was enough to stay for two nights, and the other party was only staying for one night now, and the rest of the money was deducted from the money for wine and food. also gave him a pure profit of dozens of silver coins, which is simply a big pie falling from the sky.

In fact, there is not much difference between the lower grade, the middle grade, and the upper grade of these rooms, and the only advantage of the upper grade room is that there is a separate toilet.

The boss didn't expect that the ordinary young man in front of him was a rich man, so he immediately took him up to visit the guest room himself, and re-cleaned his guest room and put on new sheets.

……

After asking the boss to go down and prepare the food and drinks, Ruan Chi closed the door and spread his limbs. The big character is lying on the bed, and the mouth is moaning innocently. "I'm tired!"

With systematic correction and protection, Ruan Chi is naturally not tired, but the heart, since leaving the wolf clan holy land in Yinding Mountain, Ruan Chi has gone all the way north, although there is a system map to help, but he is a road idiot, as a result, he got lost in the forest for two days, and it took a lot of effort to come here.

After two full days of eating and sleeping outside, and now that he finally found a tavern where he could stay, Ruan Chi was almost moved to tears.

"I knew this, I should have rescued Magir, the old man of the wolf clan, with him, at least I didn't have to take these unjust roads."

Ruan Chi opened the system map, and after confirming his location, he couldn't help but be a little depressed.

Looking at the map and choosing a route seems to be easy, but the actual operation is surprisingly difficult, especially when you are alone, there is no one around you who can ask for directions, and as a result, Ruan Chi finds that he is still in the vicinity of the same place in the end.

The location that Ruan Chi is carrying now is still the border area between the human race and the orc race, and it is only fifty kilometers away from the wolf clan holy land in Yinding Mountain, and there is no one in the middle, so it took Ruan Chi so long to find no one who could ask for directions.

"Tuk Tuk!"

There was a knock at the door, and Ruan Chi asked lazily, "Who?" ”

"It's me, little brother, I'm here to deliver food." The enthusiastic voice of the boss sounded outside the door.

"Come in."

When the door opened, the boss came in with a plate of hot food, including roast chicken, broth with potatoes and radish and tofu, and a bowl full of white rice.

Ruan Chi was attracted by the aroma of the food, and immediately sat up, reached out and grabbed the roast chicken and ate it.

"Little brother, you use it slowly."

The boss put the food in front of Ruan Chi and was about to leave, but Ruan Chi stopped him, "Wait." ”

"What else do you command?" The boss thought that Ruan Chi had something else to do, so he turned around and asked.

"Boss, I want to ask you, how long does it take to get to Crescent City in the Wolf Country from here?" Ruan Chi asked in a muffled voice while eliminating the roast chicken in his hand.

"Little brother, you want to go to Crescent City?" The boss asked with a somewhat surprised expression.

"yes, is there a problem?" Noticing the boss's abnormality, Ruan Chi stopped eating and looked at him.

"No, no, no, no problem." The boss waved his hand, and then said with a smile: "I just think it's a little strange, little brother, what are you doing in Crescent City alone?" Werewolves are not very friendly to the Terrans, and the Terrans are generally ostracized wherever they go. ”

"Aren't the Terrans and Orcs an alliance of neutral camps? Why is the relationship between the two communities so bad? "This question Ruan Chi has actually wanted to ask for a long time, when he strayed into the holy land of the wolf clan before, those werewolves almost didn't even ask and wanted to arrest them and bury them, this is simply the treatment that only the enemy who kills his father has it.

"Don't you know, little brother?" The boss looked at Ruan Chi with a stunned expression and said, "The political system of the orc race is different from that of the human race, although the human race is composed of many countries, but on the whole, the goal is still the same. But the orc race is different, they are originally mixed, especially the five clans headed by the lion, tiger, bear, wolf and fox five royal families, their external opinions have not been unified, let's say that the wolf country we are staying in now, in recent years, especially after the wolf king Hachi fell ill, the wolf royal family obviously has a xenophobic attitude towards the human race. ”

Speaking of this, the boss also smiled bitterly: "You can also see how bleak the business of my tavern is, if I can, I would like to open the tavern in the town, but the human race can't do business in the town of the wolf country, so I have to run a tavern in this barren border area." ”

"You said that the wolf king Hachi fell ill, so is the person in power now the eldest prince?" Regarding the question of the wolf royal family, Ruan Chi also learned about it from Magar.

"Yes, the person in power now is the eldest prince of the wolf clan, this guy doesn't seem to like to associate with humans, and has always advocated that the orcs withdraw from the neutral camp."

"What about the second princess and the third prince? Doesn't the wolf king still have two children? Ruan Chi was interested in inquiring about the news, so he turned the topic to the other two royals of the wolf clan.

The boss runs a tavern in such a deserted place, and he hasn't talked to anyone for a long time, and he was brought up by Ruan Chi, and suddenly seemed to have opened the talking gate, and he kept talking.

"The third prince was framed five years ago and left the wolf country and disappeared, as for the second princess, I heard that she was imprisoned by the eldest prince somewhere, and it is unknown whether she is dead. Also, it seems that the high priest of Maghir, who supported the third prince back then, was also secretly captured, and I still don't know if he is dead or alive......"

What the tavern owner said, some Ruan Chi already knew, some Ruan Chi didn't, and after sending off the enthusiastic boss, Ruan Chi sat down and began to sort out the information he had just gathered.

First of all, as Magor himself said, there are clearly two factions with different opinions within the wolf clan, namely the Great Prince faction and the Third Prince faction.

The third prince Sharjah was framed by the eldest prince Cameron five years ago, and fled the palace with the wolf woodcut, a symbol of royal power, and the clues to find the secret treasure of the wolf clan, and went to the Forgotten Country alone.

It was precisely because of the departure of the third prince that the Great Prince faction took the opportunity to launch various conspiracies to completely disintegrate the remaining forces of the Third Prince faction, and the High Priest Maghir, who supported the Third Prince, was also imprisoned and replaced by Odrian.

As for the second princess Lilina, who has always remained neutral, judging from the incomplete information provided by the tavern owner just now, she is now also imprisoned by the eldest prince in an unknown place.

"It's troublesome, the mission time is only 5 days, no, it's only 3 days now, where can Lao Tzu find the second princess?" Ruan Chi was a little troubled. (To be continued......)