Chapter 61: The Tavern of Tears
If you can't read the map, don't look at it and take action.
Menes can feel that all this is someone guiding him forward, otherwise it would be impossible to get this map, since the fate has been arranged, then take action, no matter whether the future is success or failure, in short, only action will know the result.
Menes quickly organized a team and went to the Desert of Death to find the city of the undead, the team didn't need too many people, few but fine, most of the general team members, Menes stayed in the fortress, and some of the personnel simply arranged to return, anyway, they didn't plan to stay in the fortress Zuosai.
Gu A didn't leave, Isu didn't say to go or stay, but the actual situation is to stay in the team, the person Isu is most often in contact with these days is Heron, and many of the soldiers in the fortress are slaves, which makes Isu very close, and even found some hometown people among the soldiers in the fortress.
This makes Isu talk a lot, as long as there is no other work, he is willing to go to the barracks to watch the soldiers practice, Heron sometimes takes him to the barracks to train with the soldiers, it looks like Heron also has the meaning of Raisu to join the gang.
The news that Menes was preparing to search for the City of the Dead soon spread throughout the fortress of Rashen, and the taverns spread the news of Menes' encounter with Monitis, so that it attracted some wandering mourners who wanted to join Menes' team.
"Big brother, why don't we join Menes' team, maybe we can find the City of the Dead, and we'll be rich." Scarface said.
The thin man glanced at Scar and said, "Why are you impatient?
"Isn't this Menes the King of Mummies? It should be very powerful, and it shouldn't be so dangerous to follow him, right? He is a lord who dares to run into the Desert of Death to find the City of the Undead, thinking that he should be able to control the City of the Undead, I heard that he is still the incarnation of Anubis, so don't the undead listen to him?" Scarface continued.
"Listen to him? If you listen to him, why do you want to pull the fortress? It's so, I think it's dangerous to follow him. ”
"But I heard a priest say that in addition to the undead beasts, there are many treasures in the city of the dead, and we just need to enter the city of the dead to get some treasures out, and we didn't say that we would go to death with him!" The bearded man next to him also wanted to join Menes.
"What? You don't want to live anymore? You all forgot about the last time you encountered the undead beast? Who was so scared that you peed your pants at the time? I didn't save you, now you must have become undead!"
"Yes, Big Brother is right, last time thanks to Big Brother, if it weren't for Big Brother Yingwu, we would have died long ago!" Scar said flatteringly.
"Hey, but it's not a good idea for us to stay here, the money is going to run out, and we're going to go out and find a way to survive. The thin man sighed.
"Yes, big brother, but we're running out of money, so why don't we join Menes' team, I heard that joining his team will have food and drink, and give two Kit silver coins a month!" Scar said enviously.
"Two silver coins, two silver coins, you're going to die? The thin man pointed at Scar.
"Hehehe...... Big brother, can't I help it, I'm just a hobby!" Scar pinched his nose and smiled.
"Big brother, anyway, we're going to go out and hunt the undead, why don't we just follow Menes, he's already attracted a lot of wandering undead hunters, and it's safer for us to go in, you say?" said the bearded man.
The thin man sighed and said, "At present, it seems that it can only be like this, I am afraid that it will be easy to enter and difficult to come out, and I will not be able to retreat when the time comes, and I will inevitably die, and I don't know if the fate of the mourner will be explained like this!"
The three of them finally reached a consensus, or follow Menes, anyway, the security is much higher, when the time comes, they really want to enter the city of the dead, if they can't, they will escape, the entire Desert of Death is not less than everyone goes, where there is water, where there is food, it is still clear.
Menes is currently recruiting experienced hunters, and a strong undertaker is the best, at least with experience in hunting the undead, such a person Menes still has to be recruited!
At the last moment, Zosse still decided to assist Menes, so he also sent a team of ten people to follow Menes to find the city of the undead, Heron was not in this team, but he himself ran to apply for a request to go with Zose, Zose was a little reluctant, but it was the duty of the Nine Gods Legion to fight the undead beasts, and sent an officer from the Nine Gods Fortress to go with him, so in the end he agreed to Heron's request.
Menes' expedition team gathered a total of fifty-three people, including twenty Divine Punishment Mummies, and left the Rashen Fortress with weapons and equipment.
The Rashen Fortress is the last fortress on the Death Desert Frontier, and stepping out of the gate is the territory of the undead beasts, and life and death are fate.
Menes did not have a specific address, so they could only march aimlessly to the west, wherever they went, and so the team went on and on, and after seven days arrived at an oasis, which was very small, and depended on a spring to survive.
The only permanent occupants of this oasis are the owner of the Tavern of Tears, which takes its name from the cry of the undead hunter.
There are undead beasts in the desert of death, which attracts a lot of wandering undead hunters to look for prey in the desert, this tavern mainly receives this group of people, there is inevitably injury and death when there is killing, and the hunters who die in the desert are generally buried directly, after all, it is too difficult to take the corpse to the desert.
Wounded hunters would recuperate or die here, so behind this tavern is a cemetery, where mourning is always staged, hence the tavern's name.
Menes had planned to settle here before she set out, so she had brought a lot of supplies to sell to the tavern, and the hunters who accompanied her also brought a lot of supplies to sell here, and the most lacking thing in the tavern was wine, salt, and weapons.
Many hunters will stop here to recuperate, and often use this place as a base to hunt the undead, so this tavern is particularly good, and there are undead hunters staying here all year round, so that the tavern does not have to worry about the attack of undead beasts.
The Tavern of Tears covers an area of not small, the periphery is a traditional Kemert mud brick building, the main building is made of local stone, very solid, the yard is relatively large, can accommodate hundreds of war horses at the same time, and the entire peak of the tavern can accommodate more than 100 people at the same time.
The tavern owner also raised some cattle and sheep, and a vegetable garden was cultivated around the spring to supply vegetables to the tavern.
Menes had a relatively large number of people, and the tavern was full as soon as they came, and the boss smiled when he saw so many people coming at once.
The Tavern of Tears is said to have been here for hundreds of years, the owner has changed countless people, some people have to be replaced when they die, and some people have made enough money to return to the valley area, buy a house and land to live a rich life, the current owner is a middle-aged man who is almost fifty years old, his body is very tough, and he has been running this hotel for more than 20 years.
The undead hunters in the team all said that the boss had made a lot of money for more than 20 years, but he just refused to leave here, preferring to eat sand here rather than go to the river valley to enjoy happiness.
That's why everyone calls him the money-eyed boss, who refuses to leave here because he is greedy for money.
The boss of Qianyan married three wives and had more than a dozen children, all of whom were alive and well, and several of the adult children had left the desert for the river valley, while the others stayed in the tavern to help.
The eldest wife is also in her forties, middle-aged and fat, although she is not favored, but her family status is very high, she is a typical tigress, and the other two little wives have to serve her obediently and listen to her.
The boss of Qianyan saw the arrival of the Menes brigade from a distance, and hurriedly ran out to greet him, the boss has been here for decades, and he has never worried about bandits robbing, normal people will not come to this kind of place, they are generally soldiers of the Nine God Legion, their military discipline is very good, don't worry, other wandering hunters will not rob this tavern, this is the rule, if you move the idea of this tavern, other hunters will not agree.
Menes entered the tavern with the courtesy's hospitality, and the boss immediately cleaned the best room and let Menes move in.
After seven days of walking in the desert, Menes was covered in dust, which was really uncomfortable, and the first thing he did when he entered the tavern was to arrange for the boss to boil water and take a bath, and the boss hurriedly carried out his treasured wooden bathtub for Menes to use.
This bathtub is rarely used, the undead hunters in the desert are similar to animals, they usually bathe in sand, and they don't take a hot bath when they come to the Tears Hotel, it's too wasteful of firewood, and there is a spring outside to jump in and wash, so why use a bathtub?
The whole team's favorite bath is Menes, and the next is Jet, who originally ranked first in the love of bathing, and now Menes is the first in bathing.
The rest of the team were busy packing their luggage and feeding the camels and horses.
Menes' arrival attracted the attention of the entire tavern, including Menes' punishment mummies and camels, which were very attractive, and the women and children of the owner's family came to see the monsters.
It is not uncommon for some undead hunters to have seen camels, some have never seen camels before, and almost slaughtered them as undead beasts, and as for the divine punishment of mummies, everyone respects them.
The boss immediately arranged for the family to kill the sheep and bake bread to prepare food, and the fat proprietress shook her body to talk about business with Rasim, Rasim is also a good material for doing business, especially good at bargaining, which made the proprietress yell, "You will never do business with Rasim, how do you do business at this price?" Our Tears Tavern is the only merchant here, if you don't sell it, it will rot in your hands!"
Rasim also replied without mercy: "Hey, don't forget it, you have to figure it out, how can you bring it from such a big distance, how can you do it if you don't sell it for a good price, you can do it if you don't buy ours, but I tell you that you don't want to see such a large-scale caravan again in the second half of this year, the undead beasts are currently rampant, and the Nine God Legion will not come in the second half of the year, you don't buy it now and wait to starve!"
"You have meat, you have vegetables, but you have to buy food, right? People will die if they don't eat salt, and your customers complain that the food is too light, what should you do? Especially if you don't have food, how can you make wine? In this desert place, you can do without food, and if you don't have wine, you guess the hunters will lift your roof!" said Rasim confidently.
The two bargained at the door, and in the end everyone took a step back and finally reached an agreement, Rasim got the money, and the proprietress got the supplies.