More than an hour later, after spending more than ten gold coins to buy a horse that could only be regarded as an average horse from Gray's point of view, Gray left Oka City and headed towards Qingluo Town.
At noon, after eating some dry food with water and practicing the blood technique, Gray continued on his way.
In the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, he was very lucky to arrive in a city.
This is a slightly dilapidated city. The low city walls, the wooden gates with insect-eaten marks, and the yawning veterans at the gates all reflect the dilapidated appearance of this city.
Entering the city, the houses in the city were as old as Gray expected.
The walls are dark, and holes can even be seen in some places. The roof tiles are covered with moss. It is obvious at a glance that these houses have not been renovated for a long time.
Next to the house, you can occasionally see some residents of this city, wearing patched clothes and pants, looking curiously at Gray, a stranger who came to this remote town.
Riding a horse and walking on the not-so-spacious city streets, Gray looked for the tavern.
After a while, he found the place he was looking for.
The house is a two-story house, and it was also built a long time ago. But because it was taken care of extremely diligently, there is no moss on the tiles on the roof, and there are not many cobwebs around the house.
At the door, on a crooked wooden plaque, it says "Old Cat Tavern".
"This young master, do you want to stay in a hotel or have a meal?"
Seeing Gray jump off the horse, a skinny young man came up to him with a smile on his face.
While speaking, he looked up and down Gray's body, and the smile on his face became even brighter.
Judging from his experience, this is a rich young master.
"All of them."
Gray nodded lightly and said.
"Feed my horse some fodder, and we'll figure it out later."
"Okay, young master, please come in!"
The skinny boy took the reins of Gray's horse, then made a gesture to Gray to invite him inside, and he led Gray's horse to the stable.
Gray walked into the tavern. As expected, it was not a big tavern.
There is a counter on the inside facing the door, but there is no one inside.
There is a staircase next to it, and on the right side, there are five tables and chairs.
At this time, two of the five tables and chairs were occupied.
Sitting on one of them were four men dressed as mercenaries in leather armor. There were some side dishes on the table for four, and they were sipping ale.
In another place, there were two men and one woman sitting, a middle-aged man, a young man, and a delicate young woman.
The three of them were also dressed as mercenaries in leather armor. The young man and the middle-aged man were drinking ale, while the young woman was having a meal. On her back, she carried a long bow.
Gray's arrival immediately attracted the attention of the two tables. The table of two men and one woman glanced at Gray and then looked away. The four men looked at Gray with appraising looks in their eyes. After a while, he looked away.
"Master, what do you want?"
Not long after, the skinny boy from before turned back.
"What do you have here?"
The young man didn't have a menu in his hand. He didn't know whether it was because he wasn't professional enough or because the pub was too small and there was no such thing as a menu.
"Our tavern has potato bread, pan-fried tilapia, and radish stew—"
"Give me four points for the best food in your restaurant."
After Gray listened for a while, he interrupted the other party. They were all things he had never heard of. To be on the safe side, it was better to let the other party recommend them.
"Okay, Master, the best thing in our restaurant is pan-fried ham. Are you sure you want four portions?"
"right."
Gray nodded.
Once again, Gray shocked everyone in the tavern by eating enough food for four people. Gray opened a room, and then led by the skinny boy, he walked up to the second floor.
"Pay the bill!"
After sending Gray to the hotel room, the skinny boy had just walked down the stairs when he heard one of the men shouting from a table of four men.
"A total of 17 copper coins."
The skinny boy trotted over quickly and said.
"The three of us will stay in a hotel, get two rooms, and stay one night."
the man said.
"Five copper coins per room per night, twenty-seven copper coins in total."
The skinny young man said.
Led by the skinny boy, the four of them walked along the stairs towards the second floor.
"Brother, those four guys have bad intentions. I'm afraid they are the young man they are targeting..."
The young woman lowered her voice and frowned.
"It has nothing to do with us."
The young man shook his head slightly and interrupted the young woman's words.
"But-"
The young woman wanted to say more.
"Those four people are very strong. I have seen them before when I took on a mission. These four people are comparable to the lower blood warriors in strength."
The middle-aged man shook his head.
"If we really have a conflict with them, it will only be detrimental to us."
"All four of them have strength comparable to that of lower blood warriors?"
The young woman opened her eyes, her face showed fear, and she never mentioned what happened before.
Among the three of them, only the middle-aged man is as powerful as a lower blood warrior. Although her eldest brother is close to the strength of a lower blood warrior, he is still not close to the strength of a lower blood warrior.
As for herself, the gap with the lower blood warriors is even further. The reason why she becomes a mercenary is because she is good at bows and arrows and is very good at tracking.
With this kind of strength, if there is a conflict with those four people, they will definitely suffer. Her current idea is to go as far as possible.
As for the young man, although she sympathized with him, there was nothing she could do. She wouldn't conflict with the four people to protect the young man, right
"But we have already booked a room before, what should we do?"
But she immediately thought that they had already booked a room before and even put their luggage in the room.
The middle-aged man frowned slightly and said.
"Those four guys are targeting that boy and they probably won't care about us, but we should be careful tonight."
In the dead of night, the purple crescent moon in the sky shines through the windows in the corridor on the second floor of the hotel, dyeing the corridor a hazy purple.
Creak!
There were two slight sounds of opening the door, and two heads popped out from each of the two adjacent rooms.
The two sides looked at each other, then slowly walked out of the room without making a single sound, and tiptoed toward the end of the corridor.
At the end of the corridor, next to the window, there was the best room in the entire hotel.
This room is usually rarely occupied by people, but today it is occupied by someone, and this person is Gray.
The four of them came to the room where Gray lived and saw that there was no light coming from inside. They leaned against the door and listened into the room.
After confirming that there was no movement, one of them took out an incense-like object as long as a finger in the moonlight, lit it, and then flicked it in through the ventilation hole on the door.
This is a drug-induced incense that they spent a lot of money to buy. After burning, it will emit a kind of white smoke, but anyone who smells this white smoke will fall into a coma.
According to the pharmacist who sells the medicine, even high-level blood warriors or even fierce blood warriors cannot resist it.
The only drawback is that in addition to white smoke, this incense has a light fragrance and cannot be colorless and odorless.
But in this case, it obviously doesn't matter. The room is pitch black, so there must be no white smoke. As for the scent, since the people in the house are already asleep, the scent doesn't matter.
The three of them secretly counted the time in their hearts. They felt that five minutes had passed, and the medicinal effect of the incense should have taken effect. The four of them covered themselves with black cloths smeared with special potion, took out a dagger, inserted it into the crack of the door, and gently Pry, little by little, to open the wooden piece holding the door from the inside.
Snap!
His movements were very skillful, and it was obvious that this was not the first time he had done this.
Soon, the wood chips were pried open.
The four of them gently opened the door and looked inside.
The room was dark, with only a little bit of moonlight coming through the window. It was a gray area in the room, and the bed, table, wardrobe, etc. could only be seen vaguely.
(End of chapter)