Chapter 25: The Side Hall Conspiracy
"Shhhh
The moment he walked out of the market, Zhu Ba's originally brisk steps suddenly became heavy, and his originally calm face instantly flushed. Exhaling a mouthful of hot air that could ignite the air, Zhu Ba easily ripped off the leather armor on his neck.
"This is so tempting. Confused, but the key is how she knows my name!"
Zhu Ba emitted the heat accumulated in his body while thinking about walking towards the hotel where the caravan had stayed.
Sherlock had already returned from the market, where the specialties of Brynden Stone City were sold for a good price, and the remaining three Loothmon brought goods were sold for a full six thousand gold coins, and the generous Sherlock returned to the inn and cut half of the guards' salaries on the spot, and the other half was to be paid back to Brynden Stone.
The paid caravan guards immediately began to party, making such noise that they took up most of the halls of the inn, and the bartenders and maids of the inn brought the drunken creatures the wines of Morso City and the whole roasted loshmon.
"Brother Bajie, you came just in time, I'll invite you to drink!"
Seeing Zhu Ba walk into the hotel, Kamano walked a few steps briskly with a flushed face and presented him with a whole bottle of Moso Potala specialty blackberry wine. It is made from a blackberry that is a specialty of the mushroom forest in the west of Mosopotala, and the wine is sweet but full of stamina. Even the fleshy tentacles on Kamano's chin have turned from grayish-purple to cute pink.
In just a few days, Camano has experienced two exciting battles of life and death, but fortunately he survived, and his strength has also increased objectively, and now he is put back in Brynden Stone City, and the two Sorelin are not his opponents.
As a result, Zhu Ba happened to be a little thirsty for the blackberry wine in Camano's hand, and as soon as he looked up, the whole bottle of blackberry wine had already entered his throat, as if a small fire was burning warmly in his abdomen, and Zhu Ba spit out a mouthful of wine comfortably.
"Good wine, another bottle!"
Zhu Ba was noisy, blending into the carnival procession, laughing with the caravan guards. Unnoticed, a female Durga dwarf who was skilled in wielding a two-axe had quietly vanished.
Spider Academy, the residence of Catlana Presto
Letting the maid serve her sacrificial robes, Katrana changed into a long, smoother silk dress and walked towards the side hall of the quarters, where her guests were waiting for her.
As the High Priest of the Queen of the Spiders, that is, the cardinal archbishop equivalent to the earth, Katrana's power allows her to have a mansion that covers a large area in the most noble area of Morsopotala.
Walking into the side hall, a woman with the same dark skin was sitting on a hard wooden bench in a daze at the huge magic fire above the city of Mosopotala, and on the side of her chair, two giant axes were crossed and placed diagonally to one side.
"Sorisen, my sister, how are you doing?"
Katrana's dark red eyes flashed with a hint of warmth, as a half-blood dark elf, although she is already a high power, she is still the object of exclusion and discrimination, and her heart is slightly different from the real dark elf, where there is still a small piece of pure land.
"Katrana, my brother is dead. ”
Thorrison turned his head slowly, his face lonely, and there was a slight splash in the corner of his eyes reflecting the light of the demonic fire.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. ”
Stunned slightly, Katrana walked over to Thoreson's side and comfortingly placed her slender and soft palm on her shoulder. They met during an expedition to the Lower Shadows, where Thorrison wanted to make herself stronger, and she followed the Spider Queen's oracle to find something.
At that time, there was a small expedition with only a few people, but there was no deceit, only frankness. But the lower dark regions are too dangerous, where there are not only all kinds of more dangerous monsters, more frequent and sinister natural traps, but also the sworn enemies of all intelligent races, the Mind Flayer.
Eventually, it was only Thorrison and her who returned to the Middle Dark Realm, and the others disappeared into the deep darkness.
Katrana remembered her adventures and lost her mind slightly. Soreson also remembered that experience, and she sighed slightly and patted Katrana's soft wattle on her shoulder.
"It's nothing, that's the law of survival in the dark region, he's just not strong enough. But, after all, he is my brother, and I should always do something for him. So I'm here to ask for your help. ”
Sitting down next to Thorrisen, Katrana asked with a smile.
"What can I do for you? ”
"I want them to stay in Moso Potala, and life is better than death. Thorrisen's round face suddenly twisted, and she twisted a ring in her hand, and a cloud of images shot out of the ring, revealing two figures.
"So it's him?"
Katrana was stunned, and the cat-faced one was the orc who was not hiding an unknown power from him in the market today.
"Which one have you seen?"
Sorison was also stunned, she blurted out a question, and then Katrana's Qianqian jade finger had already pointed out Zhu Ba.
"In fact, someone in your caravan has already sold his information, that orc is indeed very powerful, he killed a deep dragon, even if it is a young dragon, it is quite amazing. ”
"But maybe we can do that!"
A cold glint flashed in Katrana's eyes, and then she pulled over Sorison and whispered in her ear, Sorison's eyes still glowing as she spoke.
After a night of carnival, when the last person was drunk, Zhu Ba looked at the empty wine bottles all over the ground and the human body lying prone everywhere, and shook his head helplessly. He drank more than anyone else, but he didn't feel drunk at all because of his unique constitution, and he vaguely remembered that there was a book that explained that the mechanical god Aknasim also washed his body with alcohol to keep it clean.
Assisting the innkeeper in throwing everyone back to his room, Zhu Ba returned to his room with the little cave lizard.
"The mouth is clean, the teeth are straight, the muscles are well-proportioned, the skin is not broken, the vitality is full, what a healthy little guy. ”
Zhu Ba, who was not disturbed, began to implement his inner thoughts, grabbed the little lizard out of the cage and carefully examined its body, while the little guy violently tore at Zhu Ba's skin, but could not cause any damage.
"Then, let's do a small dose of the test first. ”
Zhu Ba took out a bottle of deep dragon blood from his arms, pinched the throat of the little lizard, and poured a few drops into it. Then put it in the mouth and throw it back into the cage.
Two hours later, the lizard was still alive and kicking around in the cage without a trace of adverse reactions.
"It seems that the dose is still too small, the first time failed, now start the second time. ”
Grabbing the little guy out of the cage again, Zhu Ba directly poured the deep dragon dragon blood in the entire test-tube-sized potion bottle into the throat of the small cave lizard this time, and then continued to observe.
One hour, two hours, three hours.
Zhu Ba, who didn't need to sleep, observed carefully, almost to the point of staring intently.
"Brother Bajie, let's go to see the gladiatorial arena!"
Knowing that there was a knock on the door from Camano, Zhu Ba still didn't notice any changes in the little cave lizard.
"It seems that the cave lizard really doesn't have dragon blood, and the experiment failed. ”
Zhu Ba stood up and stretched, and then knocked on the door and went downstairs with Camano to enjoy a delicious breakfast. Yesterday we made an appointment for a drink, and today Kamano went with him to Mosopotala's most famous popular entertainment.
But don't think crookedly, what is the mass entertainment in broad daylight? Of course, it's a gladiatorial fight.
After paying the ticket of two gold coins, Camano and Zhu Ba sat in the audience of the Moso Potala Abyss Gladiatorial Arena, although it was not yet the official after-lunch leisure time, but the audience was already sparsely filled with many gladiatorial fanatics.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Abyss Gladiatorial Arena, the first match of the day is a warm-up match between the troll Solida and the three Dreadclaws, I hope you all have fun watching it!"
The host's voice seemed so loud at any time under the effect of amplification, Zhu Ba and Camano waited for the contestants to come on the field amid the cheers and applause of the audience, and what Zhu Ba didn't know was that the little guy in the cage in his room was undergoing some unforeseen changes. (To be continued.) )