After passing by one well-guarded shop, Leach and his party finally found the only hotel in the small town of Kelmos.

Different from other shops that I have seen along the way, the owner here greeted strangers very warmly when he saw them coming to the door, which made the Leachs, who had become accustomed to being treated indifferently, feel a little flattered.

"Are you going to stay at the hotel?" the owner was a middle-aged man who looked a little rich, and his smile was very pleasant.

After receiving an affirmative answer, he asked, "Then I wonder if you will stay for one night and leave, or will you stay for a few more days?"

"We have to wait here for someone, so we can't be sure how long we will stay, shop, I don't know how much a room here costs a day?"

"A single room costs forty baileys a day, and a double room costs sixty baileys. The shopkeeper replied very quickly.

As soon as the other party made an offer, it surprised Leach. Although he had never lived in a hotel outside of the home, he knew from the words of his peers that even the most remote place would require at least eighty baileys or more for a night.

"This can't be a black shop, is it?" Muttered Leach.

It may be that Leach was too obvious, and the shopkeeper hurriedly called out: "Several, the small shop is doing serious business, and it will definitely not do any dirty things, please rest assured!"

Being poked in front of someone, Leach was a little embarrassed, but since the other party had opened his words, he had nothing to hide, so he asked, "Store, why is the price of your room here so cheap?"

It's okay that Leach didn't ask, but this question made the smile on the shopkeeper's face dissipate: "Alas, I don't want to tell you, I don't want to set it so low, but if I don't set the price lower, I won't have anyone to live here at all!"

Hearing him say this, Leach wondered, "Why, do you have a competitor?" But how did I hear that you are the only hotel here, and that I have misinformed you?"

"No, it's really just me here. ”

Leach became more and more curious, and asked again and again what was going on.

"I guess a few of them have already seen it when they came, and there are not many people on the street here. ”

"That's right. Leach nodded, "I've always been weird and wanted to ask someone, but everyone doesn't seem to want to pay attention to me." ”

The shopkeeper did not immediately give Leach a solution, but continued: "Not only is there no one on the street, but there are very few of all the travelers who pass by us in Kelmos, who choose to stay here. For other shops selling daily necessities, although their business has also been affected to a certain extent, it is not so much that they can barely operate with the help of local residents, but everyone is in a hurry to buy things and will not linger on the street, so it looks very deserted. But for my hotel, it's a big deal!"

"No one wants to stay in Kelmos, so I have no business to do, so I have to lower the price to attract customers. But even so, there are few people who are willing to stay, and to tell you the truth, it's been three whole days, and you are still my first customers in the past three days!"

"That'...... What the hell is going on here? I found that not only were the gates strictly checked, but the shops themselves had organized some guards, and everyone seemed to be scared of something. Finally caught someone who was willing to talk, and Leach hurriedly raised his own questions.

As soon as he said this, the shopkeeper suddenly became cautious, walked to the door and looked around, then pulled Leach to the corner of the hall, and whispered: "It turns out that our Kelmos is still very lively, after all, it is very close to Ambrera, and there are many merchants coming and going, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there is an endless stream, so at that time my business here was simply too good to say, even if the price of a thousand Baileys a day was full every day." ”

Speaking of the glorious days, the shopkeeper's face was full of nostalgia, but then he gritted his teeth again: "Everything was fine until a year ago. ”

"What happened a year ago?"

The shopkeeper glanced in the direction of the door again, and after making sure that no one was coming, he continued: "A year ago, we had a group of strangers here, and no one knew where they came from, only that they came from the interior of the Federation. It is said that they are rebel people who came here to develop a rebel chapter. ”

"Rebel?" Rich's eyes widened.

Leach was no stranger to the title, and Wright had mentioned it to him.

As we all know, the predecessor of the Federation was countless small countries, which had to be united because of the pressure of the Empire, which formed a new type of government.

Everything that is new will inevitably have advantages and disadvantages.

Because there is more than one person in the federation, it is inevitable that there will be differences in handling matters, and the phenomenon of gangs and mutual attacks occurs from time to time, and the direct result is that compared with the old ruling system of the empire, the federation does not have enough control for the lower classes of civilians.

As a result, the common people and even the poor, who were dissatisfied with the miserable life, spontaneously formed a civil organization to resist the rule of the Federation, calling themselves "rebels".

Within the Federation, rebel groups are officially demonized, defining them as underworld organizations that fear chaos and do all kinds of evil.

But Wright gave Leach an objective evaluation, saying that the rebels were the result of the efforts of ordinary people to fight for a better life. Although its effect is minimal, and even restricts the development of the Federation itself to a certain extent, helping the Empire, the number one enemy of the Federation, on the whole, the emergence of the organization of the Rebels, from another point of view, as long as the top level of the Federation can pay full attention to it, it is possible that it will become an opportunity for the second reform of the Federation.

From Wright's point of view, the evaluation of the rebel group is more positive than negative.

The shopkeeper obviously didn't expect that Leach, a foreigner, had also heard of the name of the rebel, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"You don't have to worry about me, continued. ”

Nodding, the shopkeeper continued: "In the past, I didn't have much opinion about the rebel organization, after all, it has nothing to do with my life, and they can toss as much as they like. But since that gang came, I realized that the official evaluation of this organization is not exaggerated at all, these bastards are a group of complete underworlds!"