Chapter 12: The Old Man Meets Again
"No clouds, no sunshine, no pouring rain, an ordinary morning, an ordinary day, the same crowded procession" In front of the towering city walls, the soldier standing guard complained to his partner with Hatche, "It's boring! I came to the army with ideals and ambitions! Now let me come here to see the gates?"
"Isn't it good to be ordinary, at least you don't have to work too hard," said the partner, leaning lazily against the wall, "And, look at those two over there!", pointing to the middle of the line.
The soldier looked at the team along his fingers, the originally long line was missing a large piece in the middle, leaving only two people standing in the middle, one of the girls was dressed in armor, holding a spear that could be seen at a glance as a mercenary, and the other man was dressed in strange clothes and seemed to be a stranger, the strip object on his mouth continued to emit smoke, the girl followed behind the man with a dissatisfied face, with bottles and cans on her back, and the two looked like they should be together.
As the smoke approached, the guards were able to smell a nausea that seemed to be being avoided by the people around them. "Uh, what does this smell like?" the guard fanned his nose in disgust in an attempt to dispel it, "what is this person doing?"
"It's supposed to be a mercenary from a foreign land, right? A bunch of weird guys, that girl can be said to be with the wrong person, it's a pity. The partner continued in his languid tone
"In the end, it's still an ordinary morning!Let's take a change early!I'll go back to catch up on sleep, I shouldn't have had a hangover yesterday.....," the guard grumbled as he turned his gaze to the nearest beautiful girl, leaving the two behind, "It's just some three, four, or nine streams anyway." ”
Inside the city, there is a bustling city in proportion to the long queue outside, and the sound of shouting and shouting fills the entire street. Confidants and friends in the tavern kept clinking glasses, and the young and beautiful proprietress was busy with her hands, whether there was a drunk mercenary standing on the bar and shouting, expanding her experience many times to show off to others.
But the only thing that remained unchanged was the crowd of people around Zhang who couldn't avoid it, all of them pinching their noses and quickly avoiding Zhang with disgust on their faces, leaving Tsuru smiling apologetically at passers-by.
"Can't you stop smoking?" asked Tsuru with a stretched look, after a year of getting along, Tsuru's personality was obviously much more generous than before, "Everyone is avoiding us along the way!"
"If you don't collect all your weird things in bottles and cans, I won't smoke!" After speaking, Zhang showed a lewd smile.
"You're such a bastard," Tsuru blushed and hammered his back hard, only to see the crowd moving farther and farther away from them.
"It hurts!" Zhang cried out in a perfunctory manner
"By the way, why did you go to the guild instead of going directly to the source," Tsuru trotted to Zhang's front and turned to face Zhang, pointing at him and asked.
"Oh, you finally asked me," Zhang feigned surprise
"It's not a profound reason, the main thing is that the eyeliner of Ah Wei and Insenne is all over the Nether, out of this world, in addition, including the earth is full of their people, we have to be relatively safe, and Zhu Wa didn't give us any important information at all because of his anger, and we have to find the information ourselves" Speaking of this, he shrugged his shoulders and most importantly........... We can take it here a little longer! After all, I haven't been down for a long time! Last time I was trying to apprentice with Lira. ”
"Yes!" Tsuru sighed with his palms, "Mr. is still reliable at a certain time."
"I'll just think you're complimenting me....... Ahh
"It's coming, it's coming! Why are you in such a hurry early in the morning? The guild hasn't opened yet!" the childish and shrill voice sounded, vaguely impatient.
Crane looked at Zhang at a loss, but the latter shrugged his shoulders still in arrears.
The door was rudely opened, and inside was a slender girl who was not tall or small, her emerald eyes were full of annoyance, her simple skirt was covered with dust on the ground, and her fleshy face was full of dissatisfaction, "What are you doing?"
Disgruntled eyes kept looking back and forth between the two, and when she fixed her eyes on Zhang, a pungent smell of smoke rushed straight to her brain, and the girl slapped her nose in disgust, as if this would dispel the disgusting smell.
Then she turned her head and continued to call out in her voice, which was disproportionate to her size, "President!
"Poof" He, who was still embarrassed, laughed out loud, and seemed to be comforting, but in fact patted Zhang's back mockingly, "So you're hungry!"
Zhang Ye spread his hands puzzled, and then sniffed every part of his upper body, but no matter how he smelled it, he couldn't smell the slightest smoke.
"I'm really a food station, I'm a guild!guild!" an angry voice came from inside the guild, hitting everyone's ears hard.
"Ahhhh Zhang was surprised (didn't seem to be) and said, "I thought she would change a little." ”
"Let's go, let's go, let's go, I know that I'm looking for food all day long, when I'm a saint? Don't I work?" A woman who seemed to be a big grinning man rushed out of the room with a wooden stick, and looked at Zhang with a menacing attitude, "Roll on, hurry up and ........." The woman was stunned, the expression on her face was completely indecipherable, and she looked at Zhang in amazement, staring at Zhang deadly.
"So can I go in and sit down?" asked, scratching his head.
The three of them sat wordlessly by the window, and the heat rising from the tea made the scene even more embarrassing.
"Why?" the president stared at the one, squeezing a sentence out of his mouth.
"What, why?"
"Why did you come back all of a sudden" the president took a sip of tea, trying to calm himself down.
"Do you need a reason to come back, do you still need to apply when you come to the guild?" Zhang said in that disgusting tone.
"Then you suddenly disappeared 10 years ago, and now you have suddenly returned!" Although the guild leader tried his best to control his own volume, the adventurers and mercenaries passing by still turned their heads curiously to see who made the guild so angry.
"Vanessa, I have a reason for this........" Zhang was gagged by the crane before he could finish speaking.
"Ma'am" Crane's voice was very steady, but Zhang could feel the nervousness she was hiding, after all, even though Tsuru's personality had corrected, she still hadn't talked to too many people.
"Although Mr. Zhang is a bastard (hey, hey, hey!) he is a responsible person no matter how bastard he is, and his departure may have caused an indelible blow to you, but he is carrying more and heavier than you think, so ........"
Before Crane could finish speaking, Zhang put his hand on her shoulder and signaled her not to say anything.
"You're so fake. Zhang said with a smile, but then he changed his previous attitude and looked at Vanessa squarely, "Regarding my disappearance, it is actually not so high-minded, what kind of responsibility....... It's all bullshit! It's just a last resort, if I had a choice...... Vanessa, if I had a choice, I would choose to stay here, and I would continue to serve as the "President". ”
Vanessa sat there as if there had been no conversation just now, as if the two in front of her were just imagining.
The people who came and went in the aisle, and almost everyone said hello to Vanessa as they passed. Vanessa always nods symbolically in thanks, like a wooden man.
But she never took her eyes off the man in front of her, the man who gave her hope and took it away again, took her into her helplessness, gave her family, friends and warmth, and finally disappeared without even leaving a letter, tearing the family apart, leaving her and a few friends to run this once glorious guild.
"Pretty words?" Vanessa stroked her hair and wiped the crumbling tears from the corners of her eyes, all of which were seen in her eyes, "I don't want to ask you anymore, so ...... What are you here for this time? ”
Looking at Vanessa, who was slightly choked, Zhang licked his upper lip, he didn't want to speak, maybe it was guilt, even Zhang didn't dare to look directly at Vanessa.
"We recently heard that something big happened here" Crane broke the embarrassment, like the first fireworks in the middle of the night, "the earth has collapsed inexplicably, and the creatures within a radius of hundreds of miles have been killed at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, and the mercenaries who went are basically gone, and all of them who came back are either cursed or their bodies have been transformed, and we are here to investigate the matter." ”
"Yes, this is a disaster, Almighty Insenne bless, I hope the country of Draco can survive this" Vanessa folded her hands in prayer, she completely ignored Zhang's eyes at this time "Now that the king is gathering the elite, I could have recommended you, but ........."
At this moment, there was a shouting and scolding from outside the guild, and a group of people who looked extremely arrogant broke in, led by a tall, fleshy golden moxican.
With his hands in his trouser pockets, he completely ignored the adventurer in front of him, and went straight to the mission table, roaring in his loud, disgusting voice
"Where's that bastard Vanessa!"
The sound echoed throughout the guild, and the originally lively guild suddenly became dead silent, and the adventurers and mercenaries hurriedly turned their heads away, unwilling to look directly at Mohican, who became more and more arrogant, and his little brothers were unscrupulously shouting and scolding in the guild, and the originally harmonious atmosphere was ruthlessly disturbed by them.
"Vanessa, what's going on?" Zhang asked, and Crane could feel it. At this time, the "pseudo-god" sitting next to her was already angry, and the green tendons on his forehead had been completely exposed on his head, such an angry and manic gentleman was the first time Tsuru had seen him, and the fluctuation of Mr. Tsuru's killing intent even affected Tsuru himself.
"Tell me, Vanessa, who the hell dared to let these bastards in my guild, wild!"