Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 178: clue
"Are you here for treasure hunting? You came here to find the right place." When Lawrence and their feet just stepped on the cobblestone street at the entrance of the town, a chubby middle-aged man carrying a large box directly Greeted them. It was obvious that the clothes they were wearing and the luggage they carried made the middle-aged man immediately judge that they were travelers.
After listening to Lawrence confessing their intentions, the man greeted them very enthusiastically, "Come with me, my hotel is the one closest to the treasure spot, and my ancestors participated in that scene. Fight. If you want, I would love to share with you the story of my ancestors."
Considering that I plan to live here for a week or so to search for this hidden treasure, I really need a temporary residence. So Lawrence and the others came to his hotel with the hotelier.
"Look, this is my hotel." After walking along the cobblestone street for three or four minutes with the boss, they came to the edge of the town, and a two-story building built by the lake appeared in front of the two.
This small building has light gray walls and dark gray roofs. The windows and doors are all white wood. At the same time, there is a small but delicate garden in front of the small building. Since the entire building is located on a small mound by the lake, half of the guest rooms can see the sparkling lake surface as long as they open the windows.
It’s just that because of the previous murloc invasion, all the glass windows of this hotel are nailed with thick wooden boards. Two or three people who seem to be the staff here are standing on a ladder and using tools to remove them one by one. Board nailed to it. After seeing his boss return, the workers greeted him one after another.
"We have just opened today, and you are the first group of guests after the Lakeside Hotel reopened. So I can give you a 50% discount." The owner of the hotel that looked like a construction site showed a very embarrassing look. But as a long-term businessman, he quickly adjusted his mentality and made a very tempting proposal.
"Yes, give us a double room with two single beds. We are going to stay here for a week." After entering the lobby, Lawrence said to the boss who walked to the counter and took out the registration book.
"We have all kinds of rooms now." Taking a look at the two young people in front of him, the boss suddenly came up with something that seemed to imply something, but Lawrence insisted on Syfiel's smirking eyes. Made my own choice.
It may be because there are basically no tourists now, so when Lawrence and Seifer put the luggage used for cover in the room and went downstairs. The shop owner sat behind the counter as before, except that he had an extra copy in his hand to pass the time.
"Can you tell me about those treasures?" Lawrence first bought a large jug of beer and a plate of nuts, and then motioned to the boss to come over and chat together. "We came here all the way from Eagle Fort and our very important purpose is to see the treasures in this place."
"The local treasure—" The boss became excited when he talked about this topic, and after a sip of beer from his exquisite tin wine glass, he talked endlessly. "This is a very old story, a story that began only by word of mouth in our lakeside town—"
From the boss, Lawrence heard some details that were not clear to outsiders. According to him, all the incidents that year happened were just an accident.
This town is located by the lake, and murloc attacks are a very common occurrence for the residents of this place. Although the level of three or five murlocs is basically impossible to cause any harm after landing, there is no doubt that this is no different from the presence of cockroaches at home, and it is a very disgusting and annoying thing.
So since the town was established, the town has maintained a voluntary patrol to stop the murlocs who attacked scatteredly. At the same time, it can provide valuable early warning before a large-scale attack by murlocs or certain monsters.
According to the boss, his ancestor was a member of the patrol team and also an extraordinary warrior. The patrol was patrolling the lake on the day of the incident, and they found a small boat by the lake slowly heading towards the middle of the lake. Because a murloc tribe was active nearby, the captain kindly shouted to remind the people on the boat to be careful of murlocs.
Unexpectedly, after discovering the patrol team, the boat drove back, and then the people on board jumped off the boat and launched an attack on the patrol team.
The patrol team was hit hard as soon as they met. In this regard, the patrol team did not expect this group of people to attack suddenly, so they were caught off guard. Especially when the patrol team was carrying the only matchlock gun that could make ordinary people a sufficient threat to low-level transcendents, the matchlock was not even ignited, so that most of them faced these four transcendents and eight ordinary people. Forming a team is no different from facing a beast with bare hands.
But fortunately, the sound of fighting here drew a team of adventurers trying to hunt stone-skinned crocodiles on the nearby shallows. The team was attacked by five extraordinary men and two extraordinary men from the patrol itself. , This group of guys who made surprise attacks on the ship was wiped out.
"You mean the attackers were wiped out?" After drinking a sip of beer to relieve the dryness in the throat caused by eating those dried fruits, Lawrence looked at the boss sitting opposite with a skeptical look. "Does the other party just fight to the end, and no one surrenders?"
"That group of extraordinary people really fought to the last moment." At this point, the hotel owner also showed a suspicious expression. After all, in that era, the transcendents were aloof. If you just killed a few ordinary people, you only need to lose money and accept some punishment. So it seems strange to fight to the death like this.
"As for those ordinary people, only two survived at the end of the battle, but their sudden attack made everyone angry and the battle was very fierce. So when they were captured alive, they were already seriously injured. My ancestors The two prisoners died before they could ask for any news or confessions."
"Afterwards, my ancestors and the expedition team checked the ships of these people and the things they left behind, and unexpectedly discovered that there were a lot of jewels on the ship~lightnovelpub.net~ if the jewels are worth the current currency, they are probably equivalent 10,000 yuan.” At this point, the boss took down the glass display cabinet behind him, then opened the lid and took out a few things from it.
"My ancestor also got a trophy. It's just that at the beginning of the battle, the patrol was in a completely unfavorable situation, so he was also seriously injured. Especially the enemy rogue. The arrow that the poisonous crossbow hit his knee severely affected his actions, so that he soon gave up his job as an adventurer to marry a wife and children in this small town, and opened a tavern to support his family. "
"You know, transcendents who are engaged in adventurers often don't save money when they are young. So my ancestors could only sell most of the jewels allocated to him to open this hotel. But he also left these few not very valuable gadgets as a souvenir."
Lawrence and the others focused their attention on the pieces of jewellery they took out at this time. They found that these jewellery was just a very simple silver brooch, six buttons with amethysts and a pair of red spinels. Stone gilded silver cufflinks.
"This is a very common style in that era." Saifei said after taking a closer look at the silver jewelry, "and they were all made by ordinary jewelry craftsmen, and the origin is basically unclear."