Joshua hired a carriage and took more than two hours on a bumpy ride to the edge of the city of Nolan.
The efficiency of the carriage was so slow that Joshua had already begun to look forward to the complete popularization of the magic-powered vehicle at the World Expo.
The carriage stopped not far from the entrance on Squirrel Street.
"Master Mage, I only dare to send you here. Maybe your curiosity attracted you here. Be careful of some strange life in this street."
"Weird?"
Joshua pushed open the door of the carriage and walked down. A coachman dressed in ordinary people kindly reminded Joshua, but when Joshua wanted to ask him the next question, he drove the carriage away.
Qiao Xiu is not unfamiliar with the word strange. When he used to play Dungeons and Dragons, the strange creatures were extremely dangerous creatures.
If monsters with deformed tentacles openly live on the streets of Nolan, Joshua feels that the city is not far from destruction.
In fact, Squirrel Street was much neater than Joshua had imagined. Although there were some rubbish on the street, at least there were no dark red bloodstains or fragments of corpses.
The people walking here are basically in a hurry, and only some races with completely different body types will stand on the street and chat with other races.
When Qiao Xiu walked into Squirrel Street, he felt that the atmosphere had changed in an instant, and the sight of him peeping at him instantly increased.
This sight also caused Ciri, who was beside Qiao Xiu, to raise the staff that looked like a spear in his hand.
This feeling reminded Ciri of the nights she had spent in the forest, and in the shadows of the dense forest, there were always a few malicious creatures staring at her.
"The architecture of this place will drive anyone who studies architecture crazy."
Qiao Xiu looked at the buildings on this street. The biggest feature was that it was too chaotic. At least the architectural styles in other parts of Nolan could be consistent, but it was like several countries, not a few races of architects for a while. Rising doodles.
But not long after entering Squirrel Street, Joshua quickly found a hotel called "Black Dove".
"We're going to stay here for one night?" Ciri glanced at the sky and it was almost afternoon. If it was delayed for a while, it would definitely be dusk.
"You can sleep with me if you're scared," Joshua said.
"… "
At Joshua's words, Ciri blushed and parted her lips, but she couldn't say anything. She could only watch Joshua walk into the hotel called Black Dove.
The interior of the hotel is old and slightly crowded, but there is a strange floral scent throughout.
Joshua looked around, and quickly settled on the hotel reception, where a middle-aged man who looked like a human was teaching a few non-human race children to learn the most basic magic.
These children even include the half-dragon and the gray cat, two races that are already extremely rare in this world.
"This is the inscription of vitality, this is the flame..."
When Qiao Xiu stepped into it, the middle-aged man's voice stopped abruptly. As soon as he looked up and saw Qiao Xiu, he quickly pushed the inhuman children away from the front desk.
"There's a guest coming upstairs soon..."
He urged the inhuman children to run up the stairs, and when they disappeared to the second floor, he turned to face Joshua.
"You two... are you going to stay here for one night?"
He took out a pen and opened an old notebook, as if he really intended to help Qiao Xiu check in.
Qiao Xiu carefully looked at the middle-aged man who appeared to be human. Although his expression was a bit rigid, Qiao Xiu's perception from his blood gave him a completely different judgment.
"I didn't expect to meet fellow demons here."
Qiao Xiu's crimson pupils reflected the true posture of the middle-aged man in front of him. It was a wriggling phantom without any human form at all.
He opened his mouth and seemed to want to refute Qiao Xiu, but finally gave up his defense under Qiao Xiu's calm gaze.
"Don't worry, fraudster, I just came to see this hotel."
Joshua knew his identity as a demon, and he belonged to a relatively special race among the demons, a race called the Faceless Demon or a deceiver.
This race is related to the birth of Chaos Demons, because the deceiver's body is an erratic gray sphere, but they can change the appearance of any shape according to their needs.
The stronger the deceiver, the more appearances he can change. The weak can only become humans or ordinary demons, but the powerful beings in this race range from small birds to powerful ogres. can be successfully converted.
It's a pity that although the fraudster can pretend to be a human, the human appearance is fixed and cannot be changed by the day after tomorrow. Otherwise, this race is definitely an excellent choice for actors.
Joshua might also catch a glimpse of the most popular actresses on Earth, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.
"This...is not the place you should be."
He continued to maintain a calm attitude after being discovered by Qiao Xiu, and said to Qiao Xiu in an indifferent tone.
"You seem to know me?"
Joshua is not sure how many demons are living in the world and are not ruled by the Lord of the Demon Realm, but the fraudster in front of him is likely to be one of them.
"… "
Regarding this question of Qiao Xiu, he chose not to talk about it, and the topic was interrupted at this moment.
Qiao Xiu did not intend to continue to be embarrassed. Although Qiao Xiu was an ordinary ordinary person on the surface of Nolan, for those who followed "Beauty and the Devil" or Hearthstone, Qiao Xiu was also well-known.
"Don't care about my identity, I'm just an ordinary guest now."
Qiao Xiu took out a bag of gold coins from the suitcase and put it on the table. There were about a hundred gold coins in it, which was considered a huge amount of income for such a desolate hotel.
"I need to rent all the rooms in your hotel for one to two months. There will be a group of human beings here in the next period of time. I don't know if you are willing to accept this deal."
The fraudster took a quick glance at the gold coins on the table... It seems that this demon is not the kind of saint who is not shaken by money.
It's the type that lacks money.
This works fine.
"It's just a deposit, a tenth of the deposit."
Joshua didn't think that life in Nolan was easier than in the devil world. The atmosphere of Squirrel Street was destined to be not a place for wealthy people to stay.