Chapter 6: The Wind Chime Tavern

Shen Mu and the others looked down and found that it was a little boy in a coarse linen shirt, the boy was about 7 or 8 years old, thin in stature, but very energetic, but his expression was slightly timid.

"Two ...... Two adventurers...... Do you need help? The little boy looked up and asked timidly again.

Shen Mu and Rom glanced at each other, with a funny look on their faces, what is this? Did the local residents of Camp Rogue solicit business on their own initiative and prepare to nominate themselves as guides for outsiders? However, it is not impossible to think about it, after all, there are so many foreign adventurers in Rog's camp at once, and it seems reasonable for the locals to temporarily expand their business and use the advantages of their own land snakes to earn some extra money.

"What can you do for us, little one?" Röhm bent down and stretched out his fingers to scratch the wings of the boy's nose.

The little boy was startled, and his thin body took a step back, as if he had the urge to turn around and run, but seeing that Rohm didn't seem to make any further moves, he mustered up the courage to continue standing there and said, "I grew up in Camp Rogue since I was a child, maybe I can be your guide." ”

"Guide? We do need a guide. Rohm flicked his wrist, avoiding the little boy's gaze, took out an exchange gold coin from the flat space on his wrist and handed it to the little boy: "Is this enough to pay you?" ”

The little boy looked at the gold coin between Rohm's fingers blankly, and there was a trace of greed in his eyes, but after only existing for a moment, he was suppressed by the little boy, and said with a serious expression: "I don't need to be paid, we are all obliged to help!" ”

Volunteer to help?

The little boy's words made Shen Mu and Rohm feel incredible.

"That's right, these locals are all volunteering to help, after all, we adventurers are here to help them defend themselves from danger, that's why it's like this!" A voice came from the side, Shen Mu turned his head to look, and found that it was a man with a strong figure and resolute facial features standing there and saying.

The man was covered in chain light armor, which wrapped 70% of his body, with a one-handed sword at his waist, a round arm shield hanging from his back, and a steel helmet between his arms.

"Hello, I'm Richard, and I'm an adventurer who came to the aid after hearing about the situation facing Rog's camp!" Richard's face was covered with stubble, and he didn't know how long it had been untrimmed, but his ocean-blue eyes were very clear, like the ocean, and like the sky.

After looking at these eyes, people will suddenly ignore the sloppiness of his body.

Richard bent down, stretched out his hand and rubbed it on the little boy's head a few times, and then let go of his hand with satisfaction after turning his already messy hair into a bird's nest and said, "Little one, can you help me and my partner find a place to stay?" ”

Richard held out his finger and pointed behind him.

Following the direction pointed by Richard, Shen Mu and Roma saw three men and women of different shapes walking slowly.

One of them was tall and sturdy, just like the man who had collided with Shen Mu just now, except that this companion of Richard was holding an exaggerated double-edged giant axe in his hand, ** the upper body, only the waist was wrapped in chain mail, and the rock-like muscles were painted with rough patterns with something that I don't know if it was paint or tattoos, a typical barbarian image.

The other was wrapped in a black cloak, and walked lightly and silently, and seemed to be a tall and thin type in terms of body shape.

The last was a tall woman, with long blond hair tied back behind her head, dressed in simple leather armor, holding a spear in her hand, a wooden longbow on her shoulder, and carrying a quiver on her back, which was filled with arrows, and the black feathers at the end of the arrow were piled up to look like a black crow crawling on its shoulder.

The little boy looked excited at this time, and after taking a few deep breaths, he asked in a childish voice, "Excuse me, are you Richard Peter, who is known as the Shield Knight?" ”

"Haha, Richard, I can't imagine that even such a little guy has heard of your name!" The rugged savage carried the double-bladed axe on his shoulder, and the heroic laughter was heard clearly from a long distance.

"Are you really Richard, the Shield Knight?" The little boy's mouth was wide open, his face was full of incredulity, and his eyes flashed with excitement, like a loyal fan who had seen his idol with his own eyes.

Richard smiled slightly, nodded and said, "If there is no second shield knight, it should be me!" ”

"Hooray! I saw you with my own eyes! The little boy jumped up and down excitedly, his face flushed with excitement.

"Little one, would you like to help us find a suitable place to live?" Richard continued.

"Of course, please come with me, I know of a hotel with some rooms available!" The little boy nodded vigorously and said.

Richard turned his head to look at Shen Mu and Rohm at this time, and looked apologetic: "I'm sorry, don't you mind letting this little guy take us along?" ”

"Of course I don't mind." Shen Mu glanced at him, but he didn't expect that the middle-aged uncle in front of him, who looked quite sloppy, seemed to be a well-known adventurer.

With a little boy leading the way, in the complicated road of Camp Rog's without any planning, he soon found a hotel in a remote corner.

The hotel is three storeys high, and the façade is still good, but the location is too remote, if you don't know anything about the Rogge camp, it's really hard to find this place.

As the boy said, the hotel was in the middle of nowhere, so there were a few rooms left, and it turned out that Roma and Richard had all booked up, just one for one person.

Shen Mu and Rohm didn't have any luggage, and all the things were loaded into the flat space, which was very convenient at that time. After determining their respective rooms, Rom found Shen Mu and said, "Let's go out for a look, the situation in Roge's camp seems to be very complicated, and until now we only know that the situation of the demons and monsters around the camp is wrong, and we don't know anything else." ”

In fact, Shen Mu also had this thought, so far, they have no information at all, and it is not okay to run around like a headless fly.

Walking out of the inn and following the path deeper into the camp, it didn't take long to see a room with a tavern sign hanging at the door. The so-called tavern sign is actually a square wooden board hanging above the doorway, and the wooden board is carved with a 'wine glass' pattern.

Pushing open the door, the noisy noise and the smell of wine rushed to the face, fortunately, Shen Mu and Rom were not cleanliness people, otherwise I was afraid that they would be forced to quit as soon as they pushed the door open.

This tavern is small in size, only one floor, and there are about a dozen log tables in it, and the adventurers in armor gather in groups of three or five on the tables, drinking, swearing, and chatting...... There were also two strong men who seemed to be a little lonely, so they drunkenly broke their wrists on the table.

"Let's change the room, this is a place for pure drinking, not suitable for inquiry!" Rohm came in and took a look, frowned directly and made a judgment.

Like in some movies and novels, it is always said that places such as bars and taverns are holy places for information, which is true, but it also depends on the actual situation, because it is impossible for every tavern to be a transit point for information. In fact, there are a lot of well-informed intelligence traffickers who will always gather in one or two places. Other than that, the other taverns are just taverns.

Shen Mu came in and saw what Rom meant, and the two did not hesitate, and turned around and walked out directly.

After fumbling for a while, the two found a tavern again.

The tavern was much larger, occupying a three-story building with a stone foundation and logs, which looked very sturdy and solid. And this tavern is different from the previous one, because in addition to the pattern of a wine glass, the sign of this tavern has a name engraved under the pattern!

Wind Chime Tavern!

The windows on the second and third floors of the Wind Chime Tavern are open, and you can faintly see some adventurers sitting there, drinking wine glasses and chatting endlessly.

It's also a tavern, if the former one is like a country KTV, then the wind chime tavern looks like a high-end bar in a first-tier city, except that there is no jazz music, it is no different from those white-collar workers and gold-collar workers who get off work and make friends, even the adventurers sitting by the window are all wearing armor, and the blades are placed obliquely on the table, but they are obviously much more sober.

"Let's go in and have a look!"

Shen Mu said, and then walked in.

Walking into the Wind Chime Tavern, there was almost no noise inside, even the guests sitting at the wine table were talking, they all deliberately lowered their voices, although the humming sound was endless, but if you couldn't listen intently, you couldn't even hear what they said.

The two walked to the counter, and Röhm took out a gold coin and placed it on the table.

Behind the counter, wiping the table with a white rag is an old man over fifty years old, the old man's figure is also extremely tall, his hair is half white, his facial features are wrinkled and furrowed, and he has a big belly, which looks very strong.

"What do you two want to drink?" The old man quietly accepted the gold coin, and then asked.

"Whatever, we just want to ask some questions." Röhm said as he sat down in his chair.

When the old man heard this, he silently put down the gold coin again, and said, "Ask a question first, and then quote the price!" ”

Rom and Shen Mu glanced at each other, and they both knew in their hearts that they had come to the right place.

"What the hell is going on in Camp Rog, and why are so many adventurers summoned?" Rohm stretched his arm under the table, avoided the eyes of others, and then took out a few gold coins and held them in his hand, although he didn't know what the economic system of this world was like, but he thought that gold was a precious currency no matter where it was. For those of them who are reincarnated, gold or something is the most worthless thing, as long as they want to, as long as they pay a small number of reward points, they can exchange for a lot of gold, diamonds and other expensive hard currency.

"Your question is complicated, and if you want me to answer it in detail, you need a gold coin, but if you want me to answer it in detail......," said the old man, who glanced at Rohm and casually placed the rag under the counter.

"If you want to answer in detail, how much?" Rohm asked.

"Need the ones you hold in your hands!" The old man lay on the counter, a simple smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, stretched out his finger, and pointed to Rom's right hand holding the gold coin under the counter and said.

Rohm was stunned for a moment, then chuckled, and directly put all the gold coins in his hand on the counter, about seven or eight gold coins: "Okay, can you tell us now?" ”

The old man twisted the gold coins on the counter one by one, and then carefully examined them, and only then nodded with satisfaction after making sure that they were all gold coins of excellent solid color: "I don't know the real reason, except for Lord Akara and a few of them, it is estimated that no one in the entire Rogue camp knows." However, it is said that ...... I heard it clearly, but it was just a saying......"

The old man bowed down, lowered his voice and said, "It is said that ...... Something terrible has recently appeared in the Blood Wasteland, and all the monsters have become restless, Lord Akara sent a lot of Rog Guards to find out information, and by the way, to eliminate these restless monsters, but the Rog Guards have suffered a lot of sacrifices! ”

"Later, Lord Kasha sent his elite mercenaries to the Blood Wasteland to investigate, and found something terrible!" The old man said, with a hint of jealousy in his eyes: "Speaking of which, a crypt suddenly collapsed in the blood wasteland, and this crypt extended deep underground...... It was a naturally formed underground cavern, and no one had ever known there was such a place beneath the Blood Wastes. ”

Underground caverns?

When Shen Mu heard this, his heart jumped, and the first thought that appeared was the evil cave in the game! This is the first quest that all players will receive, and it will be found not far from Rog's camp with a careful search, and the player's task is to rid the evil cavern of all the monsters.

"According to a mercenary who was sent out by Lord Kashya, the underground cavern has been shrouded in evil forces, and standing at the entrance of the cave, even the sunlight cannot shine into it, and you can only faintly hear the hideous roars of some demons coming from underground."

The old man let out a sigh, and there was a worried look in his eyes: "After finding out this information, Lord Kasha is going to send people into that underground cave to investigate the information in detail, and if possible, clean up all the evil forces inside." But he was stopped by Lord Akara! According to Lord Akara's prophecy, Rog's camp is about to face a terrible catastrophe, and the source of the disaster is in that underground cavern, and ordinary mercenaries cannot solve the evil power of the underground cavern. ”

"Within a few days, the monsters of the entire Blood Wasteland moved, as if they had all disappeared overnight...... Not only that, but soon this was the case even in the farther away in the Icy Plains. Lord Akara speculated that this was most likely the result of the appearance of an evil force in the underground cavern. ”

"According to an unverifiable rumor, Lord Akara is said to have predicted that this is the evil force in the underground cavern controlling the monsters in the entire Blood Wasteland, and it is ready to accumulate all its strength and directly attack the Rog camp and completely wipe out the Rog camp!"

When the old man said this, his voice was extremely low, as if he was afraid of alarming some terrible existence that could not be seen.