88. A journey with a lizard
"Wait, I'll bring it to you. Mendoti left for a while, grabbing a handful of shriveled beans and placing them on the table.
No matter how Lycia looks at it, it's just an ordinary bean, but Teacher Clare is so excited that she is speechless. "Turtle beans, I can buy such a small one every year, you can have such a large one. ”
"What can Tortoisebeans do?" asked Lycia curiously.
"It is possible to change the heraldic properties of any potion. Collier picked up a tortoiseshell bean and looked at it carefully. "But the bean has gone bad, and the turtle bean has a very short shelf life, and it has to be stored in a special way. ”
"Are you going to the Great Circle?" said the tavern keeper Mendoti retrieved the other turtle beans. "If the tide of strange beasts outside stops, I'm going to go again. ”
Krille glanced at Lycia. "When are we going?"
One more local, Lycia is not against it. "Let's leave tomorrow, and we don't have to rest any longer. Lycia nodded.
"Well, I'll start packing today, and I'll make you breakfast early tomorrow morning. Mendoti was so excited that he didn't grasp the turtle bean and spilled it all over the ground.
Krille squatted down and picked them up one by one. "If you don't need this bean, you can give it to me. ”
"Even broken beans must have worked. Krille's eyes glowed golden.
The thugs who had just been thrown out with their broken legs returned, and this time with a large group of people, holding mallets, were helped towards the three of them.
Lycia lowered her head and pressed her right hand on the bag containing Selene.
"What, still coming?" Mendoti swept away the hall with lightning speed and did not hurry to cover his ears, and immediately wailed.
"What a thing. Lycia found that Mendoti, who looked to be old, at least sixty or seventy years old, was very vigorous in knocking off the legs of the people who were ready one by one. "Gold, just this little gold, even if it's a loss to my tavern. Mendoti rummaged through everyone's bags, finding a total of three gold coins and five silver coins.
It turns out that a duel without the power of heraldry would have such a huge power disparity, Lycia sighed.
Mendoti then threw all the people with their broken legs out of the door one by one, and it was true that each one had their entire leg broken, and Lycia could even see the broken leg shaking.
Isn't it really revenge for being so irritable? Maybe the population here is all floating population, and there is no such local hooligan. Lycia shook her head.
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During the night, Lycia began to rest early, and woke up after sleeping until just over four o'clock.
She listened to the snoring sound coming from the shop outside the door, and she couldn't sleep anymore.
Miss Krier is still studying turtle beans in the tavern, and she really can't rest for a moment.
Lycia simply packed her things and prepared to go to the tavern, which was definitely quieter than here.
"Miss Kreel?" Lycia walked into the tavern and found it in shambles, and her first reaction was that the thugs of the day had come to take revenge.
But looking at the traces, it is obvious that they are not looted, but like some kind of animal.
"Well, actually, Lycia, I'm here. A voice came from above Lycia's head.
Lycia looked up and saw a green lizard, hanging upside down from the ceiling, looking at her with yellow eyes.
It stuck out its tongue. "I couldn't help but use the turtle bean with a powerful fighting potion, but it turned out that the bean did seem to be broken, and it was originally a imitation of the wolf's head crest, but I don't know how to turn me into a lizard. ”
Lycia pressed her forehead speechlessly, she was going to leave in a few hours, was she going to lead a lizard on her way.
"Where's the tavern owner?" Lycia stared at its swollen belly, as if it was still squirming.
"Obviously, I accidentally swallowed it, and I'm trying to figure out how to spit her out. Krille said guiltily. "Look for my backpack, I should have brought the reducing potion with me. ”
Lycia was speechless from under a stool that had fallen to the ground and saw the bag that Krill was using to hold potions.
"It's a lot broken. Lycia didn't understand why Kreel was reluctant to put an earthquake-resistant circle in her bag.
Lycia searched for a moment, almost stabbed her finger by a shard of glass. "I didn't find it, but it's probably broken. ”
The lizard that Krille had turned into jumped from the ceiling and landed in a mess. "Looks like I'm going to have to spit her up. ”
Ten minutes later, Lycia sat on the ground exhausted, pulling the lizard's sticky tongue. "Can't you vomit, if you continue like this, the people inside will die. ”
"Yue!" After a loud vomit, the tavernkeeper Mendoti, wrapped in slime, fell to the ground.
Lycia spread her body with her hands, and Mendoti was very thin, and after wetting her clothes, she looked even more emaciated.
"Are you okay?"
"Yue!" another vomit, and it took a long time for Mendoti to recover.
Lycia was a little worried, Mendoti was so old, and after this toss, it was estimated that she was very guilty.
Teacher Kelly is usually very reliable, and I don't know why she suddenly made a stupid mistake today.
Lycia looked at the lizard that Claret had turned into.
When she first started school, she also saw the teacher who studied heraldry turn into a grizzly bear in the academy, and theoretically it should take about two days or so to gradually transform.
"What to do?" Lycia took the potion from Kreel's bag and put it in her bag. "If we can't leave tomorrow, are we going to go on the road like this?"
Kriel's lizard always unconsciously flicks its tail, making a mess even worse, could it be that a real lizard would flick its tail like a dog?
"Let's go. "Krille doesn't know how to deal with herself and others anymore. "You can help me with a reducing agent now. ”
Mendoti coughed several times, and finally came to her senses, a different smile on her wrinkled face. "It's a novel, one-of-a-kind life experience. ”
“。。。 Lycia pursed her lips and glanced at the grandmother, then began to figure out some potion materials that could still be used. "These materials can't be made as a reducing agent at all!"
Kreel's lizard tail was still flicking, and her yellow eyes were opening and closing.
"Get out of town now, or you'll scare everyone to death during the day." Lycia lifted poor Mendoti up and sat her down on a stool to rest. "You're just resting at home. ”
Mendoti shook her head, she had fully recovered her spirits. "Of course I'm going with you. ”
Lycia held out her thumb, shook it twice, and then took five minutes to clean up.
Mendoti also changed his clothes and dried his hair casually.
So at five o'clock in the morning, the two of them set off with the lizard, heading southeast.
"I think I must be crazy. Lycia carried the luggage of two people on her own and had to dodge the lizard's twisted path.
In the morning, the Barbalizi area became extremely cold, but fortunately yesterday's rain had stopped, and there were no strange beasts and crises in sight on the desolate road.
Lycia yawned, having to keep up with Mendoti.
The lizard that Ms. Collier has turned into with so rough skin that there is no place to sit.
"I'm walking too slowly, if only I could fly like I did on the bridge before. "Lycia checked her shoulder blades yesterday and didn't know where the wings came from.
"If you have a horse, that's fine. Lycia said that it was all to blame for Krille, and she had to leave early in the morning, so she didn't rent a horse.
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"New arrivals, where are you from?" soon gathered people, most of them carrying a large brown backpack with some shovels and mining hammers and pry bars strapped to it.
The twitter is very noisy.
"Why are you surprised? Lycia asked a young man who didn't look aggressive. "Could it be that no one has been here lately?"
The young man grabbed the bag of his backpack and tossed it. "Yes, almost no one has ever come in, no one else has ever gone out, there are terrible beasts outside, and whoever goes out will not escape death. ”
He looked Lycia and Collier up and down. "But you seem to be unscathed. ”
"Yes, because we didn't meet anything along the way. Lycia glanced at the others.
Then almost everyone brushed on the top of their heads, and there was a 20 percent base favorability.
"Can you tell us which tavern can take a break right now? Lycia's glance made more than half of them embarrassed to look away.
The young miner glanced wistfully outside. "Could it be that the tide of alien beasts has faded now?" He had only been here for a long time, and he had not even dug up a few pieces of the mine before he was trapped here. "Taverns, taverns, I only know one. Go straight along the road, then turn right, and the most crowded place you will see is the tavern, but it is not a good place to rest. ”
It seems that there are no rest inns on the tavern here, but there should be an inn near the tavern where you can rest.
"I'll go to the tavern, and you'll go to the inn next to you and rest for a while before you come down for dinner?" Collier suggested, and she was still not tired at all.
Lycia touched her nose, but luckily she didn't have a nosebleed from overwork.
Most of the beds in this type of inn are bunk, the kind where everyone sleeps together.
Lycia settled into a single room and began to sleep.
She was woken up hungry, and by the time she went to the tavern to meet Krille, she had been sitting alone for five hours.
After Lycia's face was washed, almost the entire tavern gasped as soon as she entered the tavern.
Many rude people even whistled.
Lycia sat down across from Krill, grabbed the black bread she had taken a bite of in front of her, and ate it with half a cup of hot water.
"Eat slowly. Krille looked up from a thick book.
I don't know where she just got the book.
"The tavernkeeper's book. Krille responded to Lycia's curious look.
After Lycia sat down, there were many reckless men pushing and shoving each other.
Finally, a man who seemed to be strong came up, first showing off his muscles comically, and then slapping the table hard.
Krill, who was resuming her reading, looked at his behavior suspiciously.
Lycia ignored him and sat down next to Krille to read a book with her. "Are these potion materials?"
Krille nodded. "Barbalici is unique, but I've seen it for more than half of it, and it's all worthless. ”
"There's even a special shape of sand. Lycia asked, pointing to a line in the book that was still delicate.
Perhaps it was too blatant neglect that made the man angry, and his companions were still staring at him.
So he boldly slapped the table hard. "The old woman goes away, and I'm going to talk to this chick. ”
Krille didn't seem to be able to bear the call that she was old, so she picked up the clay cup on the table that had been drunk by Lycia without raising her head, and threw it over.
"Yo he, it's the other way around!"
Lycia glanced at the waving arm, intending to give him a hard time the moment he fell.
Unexpectedly, before her, from the direction of the tavern bar, a gray-haired woman rushed in, wearing an apron, and her face was full of traces of time.
She pressed the uninteresting man against the table, so that his left cheek was completely solid against the table.
"Get the hell out of here. Mendoti kicked the man's leg and threw him down the aisle by the back. "As I said, it's not allowed to disturb people in my tavern. ”
The originally majestic man dragged a broken leg, didn't dare to say anything, and crawled out tremblingly.
"Thank you. Lycia felt that this was a bit too harsh, but she was grateful to the older woman.
"I'm an adventurer. Mendoti straightened her hair that wasn't too neatly combed, sat down on the other side of Krille, and pointed to the book. "These are all things that I have recorded after my travels to the Barbatizi region. ”
Claret sighed.
"Adventure is my main business, opening a tavern is my side hustle, I've been coming to Barbatezi for many years, and every time I go out, I always find something new. Mendoti said excitedly. "You were the first person interested in my book, and I am honored to meet you. ”
Clarion's indifference embarrassed Lycia, who was sitting on the other side.
"Teacher, she doesn't like to be disturbed when she reads. Lycia said.
Mendoti was completely uninhibited, and she nodded. "I understand, I understand. ”
She walked over and sat down across from her, looking at Lycia. "Is she your teacher?"
Lycia felt that Kril, who had been reading a book, seemed to move her ears.
"Yes. Lycia nodded. "There are people who really think of exploration as a career. ”
This sentence was very flattering to Mendoti, and she shifted her interest in Krier to Lycia. "Of course, adventure is such a wonderful thing, and every new thing is wonderful. ”
Lycia nodded, curiosity about the world is the basic reason why society and people can progress.