Volume 3 To the West Chapter 4 Sidestop
Although he hadn't seen Sam after returning from the God of War Temple, just through Xijia's description of his ability, Li Yun was more than 90% sure that he would be killed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info divided by hierarchical level, the current position of Li Yun in the main material plane is already strong enough to be close to the peak of the food chain. Of course, this assessment is made by taking into account allies like the Pope and strong people like the Patricka brothers.
A character like Sam, as long as Saris uses the 'Plane Region Transformation', he can pick one of the many planes, such as the negative realm where Eshioti is located, and teleport him there along with the things around him, and he wants to kill or chop, but it is just a thought.
Li Yun wouldn't do that, at least not yet. Because he discovered a very interesting and powerful 'landlord' organization, the Council of Nobles. Li Yun knew very well that the reason why he was now on the same front with the aristocratic council represented by Xijia was because of the enemy who was reckless and crazy in doing things.
Li Yun didn't like Sam, and he also didn't have a good impression of the noble council. The Noble Council of Nessrael is still too powerful, and now that he has taken over the country, he means that he has contained the potential enemy of the Noble Council under the umbrella. He couldn't find any good reason to convince himself to do so.
Like the weeds that have been breeding and taking root on the plains for countless years, the Council of Nobles is deeply ingrained and influential in Nesser, and this entangled opponent should give Sam a headache first, and Li Yun believes that his focus is to nurture the power that truly belongs to him, the subjects of Rock Lake City, the Crusaders, the subjects of the Dark Lands, and the other races that are constantly being co-opted.
Li Yun came to Xijia mainly to discuss a lucrative deal, that is, the transfer of production technology for a series of items such as spices and porcelain produced by the Anvinska family, which made everyone covet. In order to quickly transform these products from luxury goods to affordable products that bring convenience to most people, Li Yun no longer cares whether this self-breaking monopoly behavior is killing chickens and eggs.
Moreover, what happened in Ankram made Li Yun smell the smell of darkness descending in advance, and while the vast majority of people have not yet figured out the 'wind direction', these technologies can still be sold at a good price.
Although Xijia failed to reach an agreement with Li Yun on the matter of quickly killing Sam, the transfer of technology allowed her to see a beautiful 'money' scene. Li Yun promised her that as long as she used the various relationship channels of the noble council to make those few technologies quickly, the noble council would get 3% of the profit. Xijia naturally understands that as long as it is done properly, it is definitely a rather shocking amount. The term economic lifeline didn't have a concept in Xijia's head, but that didn't prevent her from recognizing the importance of money, so Li Yun's proposal quickly turned into action.
As for Li Yun himself, he put aside all the chores and embarked on a 'journey of enlightenment' as planned.
This is a trip that does not require rushing, it is a trip that spends more time on seeing, listening, feeling, and understanding, and it is also a trip that Li Yun arranged for himself to relax the tense nerves. When the realm power of the soul left behind by Tigarius is awakened, the journey automatically ends.
Revitalized velvet fox skin sleeping bags, moose skin pouches filled with carefully prepared potions of resuscitation and healing potions, refreshing snacks such as backpacks, water bladders, some beef jerky (to relieve mental stress during long solo adventures), and small bits and pieces such as wind goose feathers, ink, fine parchment, sewing needles, etc. Li Yun is a veteran hunter, and whenever he encounters a similar journey, he will personally and meticulously prepare the items commonly used in these trips, not only because they are easy to use, but also because of a solemn mood.
On his own journey, Li Yun set off from Ness and went up a tributary of the River Raven, his first stop was Bergamo, the westernmost fortress town in the province of Brennello in Nesser.
Bergamo is a mountain town famous for its Serpent Corridor, one of the four dangers of the human kingdom. The so-called Viper Corridor is a curved and steep canyon mountain road, with a double-layered battle path on the cliffs on both sides of the mountain road, and any enemy army who tries to attack the pass at the end of the canyon will first be welcomed by the rain of arrows and stones. It is said that the corpses of the alien creatures that died here would be enough to completely seal the deadly mountain road if they were accumulated all at once, but the dark red pavement of the mountain road that seemed to have been formed after the clotting of countless blood and the smell of blood that seemed to linger forever were enough to say a lot.
As famous as the Serpent Corridor is the liquor of Bergamo, which is particularly fond of the locals and the officers and soldiers stationed here.
Now, Li Yun is sipping and sipping this spirit, which tastes like 'agave', at a bar called 'Tiger's Eye'.
Even though it was six o'clock in the afternoon, there were not many people in the bar, and those with a few acres of thin fields would be busy until dark, and those with a little money would go to more atmospheric places for recreation, such as those served by young women, rather than those that only served wine and simple food.
The woman who greeted the guests here was already a serious MILF, and no matter how you looked at it, it seemed that she was made of rouge gouache, and the hippopotamus-like waist and thrilling breasts could not get any connection with words like delicate figure, so it is conceivable that it would be difficult to eat waiter's tofu here.
The bartender was a middle-aged man with a bearded face, a face as rough as the stone walls here, a perfect match for the woman, and he was wearing a smudged faded blouse, which Li Yun felt seemed to exist to flaunt the characteristics of this bar.
In the corner of the bar, a young man with a little dark eyes leaned on it, and by the light of the coarse shea wax candle on a four-armed candlestick, he played with a half-new lute with six points of enthusiasm and four points of casual attitude. The ding-dong music, which has no features and is by no means unpleasant, is like the turbid air mixed with the smell of wine, sweat and smoke, which actively fills everyone's senses.
Li Yun didn't need to eat, and more importantly, he didn't serve meals cooked with spices, so after a day's journey, he just needed a bottle of wine, sat in the corner and drank it slowly, while leisurely admiring everything here.
"Hey, you look familiar, I think we've seen it somewhere before, you're a Nessreel, right?" a middle-aged man dressed a little down-and-out took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Li Yun, just from his swollen eyes and flushed cheeks, he knew that this was a greedy person.
Li Yun is very familiar with this kind of people, and their greatest characteristic is that they are not serious and have an unusual obsession with alcohol, and they are often seen wandering in the bar, like a scavenging hyena, relying on their sensitive special sense of smell to gossip in exchange for a few glasses of wine from customers. In an era of relative no-nonsense, this type of character can make the atmosphere of the bar much livelier most of the time.
"Sharok Ather, you can call me Sharok, how about a few sittings and a few drinks? I think some wine reminds you of a lot of interesting things about this place, and I'm a storyteller. Li Yun's deep voice was soft and soothing, and his expression and attitude looked more like he was inviting a good friend, which was enough to give the person in front of him enough face.
"There is a man in Bergamo named Selli Rubins, and no one knows the past and present of the city better than him, and he knows the allusions and origins of each of the houses here. Dear Sharok, you are now inviting him to drink. The middle-aged man sat down opposite Li Yun with a smile.
He stared at the special mountain on the table for two seconds with the eyes of a lover, and then poured himself a glass of wine with slightly trembling hands like a pervert, sniffed affectionately, and drank it all with his neck up, Sailly exhaled a long sigh, "It's wonderful when this hot liquid slowly flows down my throat and spreads in all directions!"
Li Yun was quite satisfied with his conversation, although it was also rhetoric, but at least it was easier for him to accept than a rude drunkard who was full of foul language. As to how much useful information can be found between his words, it is a matter of experience and judgment.
"It is an honour to meet you, Mr. Rubins, who is well-informed. As you can tell, I'm an outsider. I have a strong interest in Bergamo, because I have heard that it existed more than two thousand years ago. You know, at that time, the whole of Nessera was just a wild land. ”
Selly poured himself another full wine, took a big sip, and then complimented: "I have to say, you are a real nobleman, at least in my opinion, you are quite cultivated, just like those legends that bards sing in their mouths, sincere, honest, and polite......" If it were not for the suspicion of inappropriate words, Li Yun would not hesitate to determine that the object of his praise was the wine and not the person across the table.
"Allow me to interrupt that, as far as I am concerned, no more flamboyant rhetoric of praise is more satisfying and pleasant to me than a gripping story about this place, and I know that Mr. Rubens must have understood my urgency. Li Yun said tactfully.
"As you wish, young friend, what story do you want to hear? Is it just the legend of Bergamo?" Selly's expression was quite confident, as if he had a basket of words waiting to be heard.
"The upside-down spiral palace, I want to hear this story. Li Yun leisurely stared at the emaciated brown-haired man in front of him with smiling eyes.
"Quasimodo, who single-handedly killed tens of thousands of innocent beings, is a demon who is forever spurned and cursed by the world, and you are interested in him?" asked Cellly, frowning slightly.
"I'm interested in the Seven Heroes of the crusade against Quasimodo. ”
"Oh, it turned out to be the part where the seven heroes fought the demons together...... "Sailly smiled and said in his heart, "Another fool who likes heroism!"
Who knew that Li Yun seemed to understand the mockery in his laughter, and argued: "No, no, Mr. Rubins, you will be mistaken. I've heard three versions of the Seven Heroes Fight the Devil in Nesman, and I hope what you hear from you will be a little more realistic, the blood-drenched kind rather than the radiant heroic biographies. ”
Sailly was stunned, and said to himself: "It looks like Sven, but the taste is quite heavy!" But he said: "Realistic? Of course, I will be able to satisfy you, because what I know is the forbidden version that few people talk about, the souls of the seven great heroes are still trapped in the death corridor of the Spiral Palace......
"Mr. Rubins, you are really empathetic...... Li Yun smiled with satisfaction.
"Yes? Many people say that! Quasimodo is a ......" Cellly is a good storyteller, although he is not good at using body language, but under his detailed narration, the story sounds extremely vivid and interesting, and sometimes Cellly will deliberately make a little trick to let Li Yun guess the development of the plot, which fully arouses the interest of the listener.
Forty minutes later......
"So the entrance to the upside-down spiral palace is somewhere in the abandoned underground sewers of Bergamo?" asked Li Yun.
"From what I know, this is true. "Sailly, who was already drinking the second bottle of 'Mountain Turn', was already a little drunk.
"He's lying, the underground waterways here have been completely explored by at least ten digits of adventurers, and there is no entrance at all!" A female voice with a hint of anger rose up, and Li Yunxun looked for prestige, and it was a young woman wearing a brown and black half-body hard leather armor who spoke.
Li Yun's habit of being quite vigilant about his surroundings at all times let him know that this woman had come in with a man as strong as an adult orc seventeen minutes ago. Now, the silent or silly man sat next to her, drinking intently another 'mountain turn', the liquor was not clear enough, and there was a faint sour smell......
Miss Minanta, the information I have provided is somewhere between legend and information, and it is up to you to tell whether it is true or false. I'm not an intelligence monger, I'm only responsible for telling everything I know, even if there are some exaggerations, to make the story sound more interesting, so it's not a lie. Sailly spoke quickly, quickly, and smoothly, and it was clear that these words had been said more than once.
Li Yun understands that there will always be all kinds of adventurers who covet all kinds of relics and treasures, and they are extremely concerned about all the information related to the treasure, so people like Sailly have the soil to survive, and the ambiguity of speech, distancing the relationship at a critical time is one of the techniques to ensure that they do not get into too much trouble. "How did you determine the ten-digit adventure team?" Li Yun asked Minanta, who was sitting at the next table, with a smile.
"Discarded debris and all sorts of traces left behind, I am a very good hunter, only ......a little lower than Charlotte Fiara the Traverser," replied Menanta in an ostentatious tone, drawing a rather short distance between the thumb and forefinger of her right hand.
"You mean that Charlotte in Leipzig, Dimonhotshire, Papenburg?"
"Of course! she's the best hunter in the Northlands, and she's my senior sister! The pride on Minanta's face added a little more.
Li Yun smiled slightly, "So, Miss Meinanta, do you know that the city of Bergamo, where we are now, is just a new city built about 870 years ago, built to defend against aliens, and the real Bergamo is in the twilight forest more than thirty kilometers west of the Viper Corridor, which is the place known as the Ghost Town on a moonlit night." ”
Although Li Yun's voice was not loud, it surprised many people, including Sailly and Minanta, that Bergamo had such a history, and people had never heard of it.
"Y-How do you know?"
Legends are always like the wind in the wilderness, drifting around, and there is no definite source to be found. Or, as Mr. Rubens provides, no one who intends to make a windfall and spend the rest of his life in good food is 100% accurate, otherwise it will never be your turn to be the first to get ahead. Gambling with one's life for the sake of such news is the best source of motivation for adventurers to end their struggle early or overdraft their lives early. Li Yun drank the wine and said lightly. In fact, he knew that these were purely reasons for living long enough, and the history of the human world in Salano for nearly a thousand years or so was exactly what the necromancer Julio was familiar with.
"Although the truth of dying for money is very simple, it still makes me shudder to listen to your eloquent talk about life and death like this. Sailly interjected.
"Maybe it's just pretending, maybe it's just the heroic words that can only be seen at the wine table, and you will get used to it after listening to it too much......" Li Yun took a sip of wine and smiled softly, and there was a little bit of shyness.
"Perhaps, Mr. Ether just wants those hot-headed people to go to Moonlit Night Town to probe the truth first......" Sailly glanced at a few drinkers with shiny eyes, revealing a listening expression, and took Li Yun's words meaningfully.
"A person with martial arts is just a stepping stone on the road to success for others, this is the experience you summed up before seeking comfort with alcohol?" Li Yun's expression was still the same, but his words were much sharper, and what he was referring to was obviously Sailly's psychological trauma.
"It was a nightmare that I didn't want to remember. Sailly smiled abruptly, the past had not been completely forgotten because of alcohol, and it was bloody and painful to be mentioned.
Even if Moonnight Town is another nightmare for everyone in the future, you can't stop others from repeating the same mistakes, because you can't extinguish the flame of desire in other people's hearts. Li Yun said stiffly. Suddenly, he smiled incomprehensibly, "Okay, Mr. Rubins, this kind of environment is not suitable for understanding philosophy, since it is this fragrant liquid that makes people forget themselves, then what is not to be nostalgic for?" Li Yun raised his glass in greeting.
"Getting drunk every day is also a kind of life?" Sellie pouted self-deprecatingly.
"As long as you think it is, it is!" replied Li Yun.
After a brief pause, "A toast to this ego?" Selly seemed to be much more stunned.
"Of course, for the sake of the self and persistence in each of our hearts!" Li Yun's wine glass was raised again......
When Li Yun checked out and walked out of the Tiger's Eye, the big-eyed Minanta and her partner also followed, "Mr. Aether, please stay." ”
Li Yun stopped and looked back and smiled: "Don't be grateful for the information I provided, maybe it's a scam, just like Rubens said." ”
"I don't think it's a hoax. ”
"Very well! Then I wish Miss Meinanta a success in finding the treasure!"
"Mr. Ether should also be interested in the treasures in the upside-down spiral palace, right?" Mei Nanta did not intend to give up the entanglement against Li Yun easily.
"So what?"
"You need a helping hand to make your dreams come true. Minanta smiled a little charmingly, a little sly.
"Really?" Li Yun looked at Minanta and her muscular companion with a cynical look, "When you go on an expedition, you need a clever hunter to deal with all kinds of traps, oh, maybe sometimes a strong man to smash those broken doors or break through the walls or something. ”
"Exactly!" said Minanta, smiling.
"Thank you very much, no need!"
"Without the help of a master like us, you won't even be able to get to Moonlit Night Town, and you'll be killed by monsters!" Mei Nanta said and jumped up more than five meters high, dancing with both arms, and dancing a snow-white knife around the two large daggers close to the size of a short knife on his waist, and when he landed steadily, the dagger instantly entered the sheath, and he was calm, "You know?
Mei Nanta signaled to her companion again, only to see the strong man stride to a low wall on the side of the road, easily pull out a huge stubborn stone embedded in the wall, and clench it with both hands, in the rustling sound, stone slag powder fell from the cracks in his palms, Mei Nanta said proudly: "See? This is called power!"
The pedestrians on the road stopped sideways, and Li Yun applauded on the side: "The wonderful performance, reaching such a height with pure physical strength, is indeed worthy of appreciation. ”
"So, Mr. Ether is willing to hire us?"
"Hire, with the skill and courage of the two, it doesn't seem that there is a need for someone like me to join the adventurous team, what do you want from me?"
"Money!As adventurous as we are, we are now facing the danger of bankruptcy, and we need adequate supplies, from weapons and equipment to groceries. "Minanta is right.
"Where did Miss Minanta tell that I was very rich?"
"Demeanor, leisurely and calm demeanor, and some small habits that can only be developed with a good living environment...... Now, I also know that your combat power is quite outstanding, because your evaluation of the combat power displayed by me and Grigg is very similar to that of a strong man, who I respect the most besides my teacher. ”
"Very useful compliment. ”
"And Mr. Ethel, what are you good at?"
"Magic!" Li Yun said, with a slight pull of his right hand, a delicate white orchid had already been handed to the front of the Mei Nan Tower. "To a young and beautiful young lady. Li Yun was extremely gentlemanly and lightly bowed.
"Thank you, thank you!" Mei Nanta was a little confused, and she couldn't find anything about 'magic' after searching her memory, she muttered, "Is it a kind of magic?" But just now your performance was more like a divine skill that can only be performed by the high-level sacrifices of the Temple of Life. ”
"Magic that is in the nature of performance and deception is called magic. Have you ever seen a high-ranking priest my age?" Li Yun began to weave his lies again.
"So Mr. Ether is actually a rich magician?"
"Exactly. ”
"Would you like to fund the cost of our supplies and explore the inverted Spiral Palace together?"
"Sort of! It's easy and enjoyable to venture out with energetic people. ”
"Well, wouldn't you mind inviting me and Grieg to the best restaurant in Bergamo for our acquaintance?"
"It seems that you need a lot of supplies. ”
The sky was already very dark, but Li Yun still clearly saw Mei Nanta's face flushed, "Looking at the appearance of Mr., it seems that he needs a comfortable hotel." ”
"It was a great honor to have Miss Mei Nanta as our private tour guide. Li Yun smiled very understandingly.
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