Chapter 20: White Rock City

In front of the city gates, Mr. Hofdent paid Mo He and went into the city alone. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The black-robed man in the hat who had been following Mo He and them before didn't know when he was gone.

The first time he entered the city, Mo He was very excited, but when he saw a few guards at the gate, his head was big - he had to collect the city tax when he entered the city, and he saw that the city wall was tall, there was a guard tower every few hundred meters, and soldiers patrolled back and forth from time to time, and the tax collected could not be less.

"What? 30 copper coins per person?" Mo He opened his mouth wide after receiving an affirmative answer from the tax collector - it was too dark!

However, he didn't say that, and after calming down, he asked, "Do you want to pay it too?"

"Yes, children, horses, all handed over!" the guard raised his voice a lot, and by the way to the people waiting to enter the city.

"No!" Mo He was not calm in his heart. In this way, they had to pay taxes for five people, which was a total of one hundred and fifty copper coins, and half of the three silver coins they had worked so hard to earn were wiped out at once.

Mo He knew that he had to go into the city, and it was okay to help Wren find his way home. Moreover, he had already prepared for the bloodletting when he entered the city, so he had to obediently pay the city tax.

After handing over the money, he received three wooden tokens from the guards. Knowing that Mo He was entering the city for the first time, the guards warned them that this was a primary token, and only activities outside the city were allowed, and if they dared to trespass into the inner city, they would be sentenced to death directly. Tokens must be returned when they leave town, and if they are lost, they will be fined or imprisoned.

Mo He, who was dripping blood in his heart, took the token and handed it to Ren, and handed the remaining two pieces to Sha Anna to keep. When passing through the city gate and entering Baishi City, the previous grievances in Mo He's heart were swept away.

The wide avenue paved with bluestone slabs can walk six four-headed carriages side by side at the same time. On both sides of the street are tall wooden shops, which are lit up at night with pine nut oil lamps, illuminating the front of the shops. The windows of the shops are large and open, so you can see the inside at a glance from the street. There are usually some guardrails outside the store, and there are tethering stones and water troughs at one end of the guardrail for temporary parking. At the other end of the guardrail, a signboard will be placed or leased to some small traders to set up stalls to do business. Inside the guardrail, there are either some seats used to entertain customers who have been waiting for a long time, or some goods sold in the shops are displayed. Shops of this size stretch all the way to the first visible intersection.

After that intersection, there are stone buildings, some of which are shops, and some of which are private houses. It's hard to see farther away, but there are a few tall towers, as tall as ten-story buildings, and I don't know what they're used for the time being.

Although it was already night, there were still many pedestrians and carriages on the streets, and from time to time there were three or five small groups of soldiers wearing silver armor patrolling together.

This is the city of this world! It looks so beautiful, so prosperous! It's so beautiful. Mo He and Sha Anna have been sleeping in the wild and in a dilapidated town for so long, and finally seeing such a neat and beautiful city, it is inevitable that they will have a lot of emotion. But Wren didn't care, in his opinion, such a city was ordinary, and it was not worth mentioning compared to the city he had lived in.

"Wren! You are most familiar with the things in the city, do you have any good suggestions?" Mo He asked for Wren's help. Entering the city of this world for the first time, he is not yet adapted.

"Let's look for a place to spend the night. Tomorrow we can go to the bazaar and sell a horse for money, leaving one for the journey. Wren thought about it for a moment and offered his advice.

"Well, sell one of the horses to-morrow. But where are we going to rest tonight?Is there a place where we can spend a night without spending money?" Mo He agreed to sell a horse.

"The slums of the city should be fine. But those places are crowded, and it may not be safe for outsiders to spend the night outside. I think of a better place to be the Mercenary Bar, which should be open all night, and as our mercenary status, it should be okay to find a random corner there for a night. Wren then suggested.

"Okay Wren, let's go there. But tonight might be hard for the little one. Mo He touched the little head of Sha Anna, a snack next to him.

Along the way, I asked passers-by on the street and found the nearest mercenary bar. It's a huge mercenary bar, and the mercenary bar in Bell Town used to be like a small toilet in a hotel.

This mercenary bar also has its own name, called Phoenix Feather Bar, and the symbol is a phoenix feather. The entire mercenary bar is a three-story marble building covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters. The third floor of the top floor is a tower building, the second floor is a VIP area, and the first floor is a mercenary entertainment area and a mission area. The staircase to the second floor is external, so as to avoid passing through the hustle and bustle of the mercenary entertainment area on the first floor.

Since the horses they brought with them could only be taken to the back of the Fengyu Bar for people to take care of temporarily, they spent another fifty copper coins. Then the three of them followed the other mercenaries who came to entertain themselves into the first floor of the Wind and Rain Bar.

It was as bustling as expected, with bar dancers dancing, bards playing rough game songs on the wind bark, mercenaries sitting at a table playing various gambling games, and a crowd of people shouting and cheering around the farthest corner, which Wren said should be a place for gambling and boxing.

Wren also told Mo He about the rules of the gambling box: one mercenary enters the game for free for others to challenge, and the others bet to win or lose. The challenger pays a challenge fee, and the winner receives a significant amount of money for each win. The winner can choose to stay and challenge, or they can choose to leave. But Wren doesn't recommend Momo trying this activity, which is secretly manipulated by some organizations in a big city like this. People who don't understand the situation can only suffer losses if they participate rashly. Anyone who messes up their bureau will be privately sought revenge by these organizations in the future.

Mo He understood this powerful relationship, and the three of them were far away from the place where they gambled, and they found a place where no one paid attention to them and sat down to rest. A welcoming barmaid came over to inquire, and under Wren's hint, Mo He gave the other party a reply that he didn't need food and drinks for the time being. The barmaid was not annoyed, and turned away with a smile to greet the other guests. The maid who left was teased by a few passing mercenaries on its ****, or touched or pinched, the maid dodged shyly, and then skillfully covered her buttocks with a wooden tray, covered her chest with her hands, and hurriedly escaped from the mercenaries' claws.

After the maid left, Wren explained to Mo He that such a bar maid service is to be tipped and not tipped is easy to cause unnecessary trouble. And now the snack goods next to her, Sha Anna, have flowed all over the place. The roast turkey, fat chicken thighs, charcoal-smoked ****, white acorns, betel langs, pecans, black brins, and all kinds of delicious foods on the mercenary table are fatal to the temptation of Shaanna.

Knowing that the little guy is hungry for food, and not only the little guy, Mo He and Ren didn't eat all day, only filled their hunger with water, smelled the smell of food in the house, and their stomachs were already rumbling and making a revolution, Mo He decided to go to the bar to see what food could be bought with a silver coin. By the way, I also went to the mission area to take a look at the situation, and I may have to count on some missions here to save money for the next period of time.

It is worthy of a mercenary bar in a big city, and one silver coin can only buy four children's fist-sized snake dragon fruit, buy four get one free, barely enough to fill the stomach of an adult, and this last silver coin is also sacrificed.

Mo He, who was hit by the high price of the bar, pinched a few small fruits in both hands, and turned around to the task area next to him to check the task. After reading the task, he finally balanced his psychology, and the reward for the task in the big city was also frighteningly high. The most common task of delivering a letter to a nearby village or town is a reward of two or three silver coins. And some of the quests to find pets are ridiculously high, with as few as one or twenty silver coins and as many as one gold coin.

After seeing these tasks, Mo He's previous values of money in this world were completely subverted. He took the snake dragon fruit and walked to the place where Wren and Shaanna were sitting, while slowly calming the impact of the high bounty on his brain from the big city mission.

"Come, little girl, learn to bark for your uncle, this chicken leg belongs to you!" a lewd voice woke Mo He up and attracted his attention.

At the table where Wren and Sha Anna were relatively close, there was a strong mercenary with a bald head, wearing only an ordinary chest armor, and two muscular arms exposed, who was pinching a chicken leg with two fingers and tempting Sha Anna on the opposite side. And beside him sat seven or eight mercenaries with different equipment.