Chapter 14: Payne's Troubles (Signed, Double Shift)
Payne was a little puzzled by this, he had the impression that this world would be like this as soon as it entered winter.... Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Whenever night falls, the night sky is like a dark cloud cover. People who have lived in this world for a long time have long been accustomed to this kind of life, but Payne will not. He had asked the knight, but he just smiled and didn't explain.
"Why is it like a dark cloud on a winter night?" asked Payne casually.
"It is said that it was the devil who appeared and became like this," Miller said, "and whether it was true or not, only the ghost knows." ”
"Where are we going, aren't you allowed to move around after dark except for the nobles?" asked Payne, a little worried. There had been Hervey knights before, and he certainly didn't have to care about that, but Miller was clearly not a knight.
"The lord is only dividing one side, and the bounty hunters are all over the continent, can you understand that?" said Miller, walking in front of him with a shallow foot, without looking back.
It's really lawless, but I like it, it's what I want to live with. Payne was a little excited and thought that if everything went according to plan, he might as well sit in front of the computer and play online games.
After walking through several alleys, Miller led the two to a tavern, where they heard a commotion before they could reach the place.
'Crash. ’
Miller raised his right leg made of a wooden stick and kicked open the tavern door, and the lively tavern suddenly fell silent, whether it was drinking, flirtatious, or sexy girls drinking with guests, everyone stopped moving, and they all turned their eyes to Miller at the same time.
"Don't use my door for a sense of existence, Miller, and if you're not happy with that stick, I'll help you get another one. A gray-haired man in front of the counter who was wiping the wooden cup clean said with a cold tone in his voice.
"How's Mithril's? Maybe I'll be able to go back to my old job. Miller said with a smile on his face, "Let's give the three of us something to eat first, it's enough, someone is hungry." ”
"Phew, that's a good requirement, Mithril's prosthetic... , even if you sell my tavern, you can't afford it. The gray-haired man looked up and smiled, not really angry.
"Hey, Uncle Miller, you're still capable of going back to your old job even if you have one leg. A young man who looked to be twenty-four or five years old raised his glass and saluted Miller.
"Then a little cub like you will have to drink the wind. ”
"Haha... The audience burst into laughter.
"That's right, Miller, this kid just bragged to me that he had the ability to receive a big bounty, and I wanted to see if he would starve to death. Someone coaxed.
"Why don't you hurry up and treat Miller to a drink... ”
When the young man heard the coaxing of the crowd, his face became a little ugly, "Give Uncle Miller a glass of rye wine, I please." The young man shouted at the counter, and the tavern burst into laughter again, and then it was time to do something.
The three of Penn found an empty table and sat down, and before long a glass of rye wine, two glasses of ale, three breads, and three plates of meat were served.
Looking at the food on the plate, Payne's saliva was about to flow, although the quality was not very good, but the smell of the meat was mouth-watering.
"Eat, whatever you want. Miller said with a laugh.
Payne was not polite and began to eat in large gulps.
After all, a twenty-year-old young man, Payne quickly swept away the bread and meat, and then drank a glass of ale, which did not taste too bad, and then burped.
After a full meal, Miller asked Payne somewhat casually, "What are your plans after that?"
"I want to be a bounty hunter. Payne replied with a determined gaze.
"That's a good idea, but bounty hunters aren't as easy as you think, the snake girl was able to hold a fifty-pound sword with one hand and wield it freely before she became a hunter, and you need both hands to pick up a thirty-pound heavy sword... ”
Payne was stunned when he heard this, and brandished a fifty-pound heavy sword with one hand? What kind of concept is this, he just doesn't dare to look at it directly.
Miller didn't care about Payne's surprise and continued, "I'm just giving an example, the criteria for being a bounty hunter aren't being able to lift multiple swords. In addition to the security deposit of two gold coins, you will need to hunt a demon to prove your strength. So... , I suggest you find a job where you can eat well...... Of course, you don't have to worry about that. ”
Miller's words, though a bit harsh, were a piece of advice, and in the more than three months that Payne had been with the Silver Light Knight, he had an idea of how dangerous the bounty mission was. It's like hunting man-eating beasts, which is the most basic task, and if there are only three or five of them, such a task will not be included in the bounty mission.
Not to mention that there are two damn gold coins, as well as killing demons.
Payne knows that none of this is what he can do at the moment, but that doesn't stop him from becoming a bounty hunter and finding a job to support himself.
......
Back at the hotel, Payne opened the small bag containing the silver coins, holding twenty-two silver coins in his hand, and was almost crying.
If it were just an ordinary person, these silver coins would be enough for a family of three to deal with this winter, but for him, who has no meat or joy, I'm afraid he won't be able to endure even half a month.
"Are you really going to get a job?"
There is a blacksmith shop in the town of Meg, which recruits experienced apprentices all year round. Two meals a day, and ten copper coins of revenge, meant that he had to work in a blacksmith for four years to raise enough money,...... And that's without any additional overhead.
The thought of this made Payne have a little headache. He put the silver coins away and opened the small bag that the knight had left for him.
"What is this!a stone?" Payne looked at the pebbles the size of a dragon's eye on the bed, and couldn't believe his eyes, "Even if it's a token or something, it shouldn't be a gem or something, right?"
But he soon discovered something different about the stone. - It emits a faint white light, and when Payne picked up the stone to take a closer look, the white light from the pebbles became a little brighter.
"Huh?" Payne quickly found the crux of the problem. After trying a few times, he found that the closer the stone was to him, the brighter the white light became, and he couldn't even find where it was three yards away.
"Is it a heat-sensing stone?"
With all kinds of doubts, Payne studied for most of the night, and he found that the degree of glow of the stone had nothing to do with heat or anything, only with the distance from him, and the brightness was highest when the skin came into direct contact.
But what's the use! In the final analysis, it is still a stone, and I guess I can't even exchange a loaf of bread...
Thinking about it, Payne fell asleep, he was so tired.