Chapter 840 Issues with Painting Style
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Praise to the Frost Moon, 8th AM 11:55
The Boundary of Innocence, the Northwest Continent, the Capital of Gold, the Avenue of Glory No. 12 [Tanbei] Pub
At this time, pubs, which have both entertainment and dining functions, are often very busy. And [Tanbei], which is quite famous on this street, is no exception, and because the boss here is good at brewing good wine, the business is even much higher than that of other peers. It is bustling with people almost half of the time every day. It is even more difficult to find one after dark. Even if the owner purchased a nearby shop earlier this year and expanded the pub, it would still be difficult to meet the needs of guests.
But it is not night after all, and most of the main customer groups such as adventurers and mercenaries have not yet filled up, so although the hall is already full, even the partitions on both sides are used a lot. , but not to the point where you can't even squeeze through the door.
The noisy guests, the waiters whose feet never touch the floor, the noisy kitchen, and the half-orc boss leaning behind the counter to read the account books, [Greedy Cup] is still continuing its trend year after year today. Everyday life, at first glance, seems no different from any other day.
But!
That's just at first glance. If any regular customers look carefully, they will find that a table of customers in the corner is very incompatible with this daily life.
In fact, there are indeed not a few people who are aware of this matter, but in line with the principle of doing more things than doing less, and in addition, few people make themselves stupid at noon, so Naturally, there won't be the kind of fights that usually happen frequently after the sun goes down.
To put it simply, no one is minding their own business.
On the table, there are two plates of meat, three bowls of cold dishes, a stack of fragrant pancakes, and two bottles of high-quality distilled liquor with the same name as the tavern, and the cost price will never be less than 5 silver coins, a friendly gift from the boss. .
Beside the table, there were five people sitting in a daze. They looked like adventurers.
Outside the door, there was a huge turtle-shaped monster lying lazily basking in the sun.
Needless to say, they were naturally the Wangwang team who had accepted the commission from the Artisan Town Miners Association Kage two days ago and went to the Golden Capital for an escort mission, that is, Mo Tan and Ji Xiaoge. , Yaya, Jadeka, Anthony Dabbs and Wang Badan, a total of five people, six heads and one turtle.
As for why they were sitting in a trance in a tavern instead of handing over the goods somewhere, the reason was so simple that it was almost boring. That is, they had completed the task two hours ago, and not only successfully handed over the ore to their employer In his hand, he even dropped by the Adventurer's Guild to collect the reward paid in advance by Father Kag.
Then, because Yaya started to complain that he was hungry, the group of people found a nearby pub, which was this [Tanbei], and ordered some food and drinks.
The whole process was smooth sailing and uneventful. If there was an interlude, it was only the boss who gave Ji Xiaoge two bottles of wine for the sake of it being so pleasing to the eyes.
It stands to reason that this kind of bland plot, which is as simple as boiled water, is simply 'receive the task - hit the road - arrive at the destination - complete the task - receive the reward - rest and eat'. There is nothing to say at all, even if there is something to say, it is absolutely impossible. It’s not going to take a whole thousand words to explain.
Then why did I say it anyway?
The answer is of course not because I am cheap.
But
“I always feel that something is wrong.”
Jadeka put an ice pack on his staff with some melancholy, although his stomach It was empty, but he didn't touch the good wine and food in front of him, he just frowned and murmured in a low voice.
“The bark is so barky”
Ya Ya unskillfully poked a piece of meat with a fork and stuffed it into his mouth. He swallowed it very quickly while nodding his head and echoing vaguely.
"I feel the same way."
Ji Xiaoge, who was leaning next to Yaya with his chin in his hand, nodded slightly, then picked up a handkerchief and wiped the oil stains at the corners of the former's mouth, frowning and saying : "But no matter how I think about it, I feel that there is nothing wrong. It can't be that I am homesick. That doesn't make sense. Jadeka, you have been away from the grassland for so many years, and you have never seen anything like this before."
Old The mage shrugged, took a sip from the cup of [Greedy Cup] that exuded a strong aroma of wine, took a long breath and said with a smile: "So it must not be because of homesickness."
Anthony on the side continued to snore. , because he has been fed by Ji Xiaoge before, he is now in a state of food sleepiness, and Dabus next to him has not yet come online, so this guy who is usually the most noisy has become the most well-behaved guy on the table. of one.
As the nominal captain, Mo Tan is the calmest among them. Although he also feels that something is wrong, he does not take it as seriously as Jadeka, Yaya and Ji Xiaoge. After all, I have seen many people who have experienced strong winds and waves, and they still have this kind of psychological quality.
In addition, Mo Tan, who has super intuition, can actually barely guess what everyone is struggling with, but because this kind of struggle is very painful no matter from which angle, so He deliberately didn't think too deeply about it.
“Let’s eat first.”
Mo Tan smiled and gave two pancakes to Jadeka. He did not touch the bottle of [Greedy Cup] in front of him, but gave it to himself He poured a glass of warm water and said, "When you're full, find a place to think about it."
Having liked coffee since he was a child, he didn't have a good compatibility with wine, tea and other drinks.
Although the character Hei Fan with the "absolutely neutral" personality has become more and more accustomed to black tea for some reasons, Mo Tan still prefers coffee and plain water.
Everyone nodded, but except for Yaya who was immersed in eating and Anthony who was half asleep, Ji Xiaoge and Jadeka still looked a little absent-minded, obviously still struggling with the lingering feeling. Get rid of the sense of dissonance.
“Hey, you two.”
Mo Tan knocked on the table in a funny way, and reminded the devil-muscle old man who claimed to be a mage and the biochemical weapons expert who claimed to be a cook: " Come back, let’s eat.”
“Alas~”
Ji Xiaoge let out a long sigh, held his chin with some melancholy and muttered: "No, I still feel something is wrong."
Jadeka cooperated and ate half of the cake, but his thoughts Obviously not eating either.
Then
Just when Mo Tan hesitated to speak out his thoughts, Dabus looked up.
“Good evening everyone, where are we?”
Dabus, who has been concentrating on preparing the [Special Lesson Plan] for the past two days and has rarely played games, first greeted everyone, and then suddenly said: "I'm going, but don't tell me that we are already there."
Already within five minutes Yaya, who had solved the third big bone, nodded vigorously, then licked the corners of his shiny mouth and replied: "You guessed it, the dogs are already barking."
"That's right. , this is the golden city, we have arrived.”
Jadeka casually translated the babbling common language that Dabus could probably guess the meaning of, and then smiled: "And not only that, we found it before you 'wake up' That Mr. Alden gave the goods to He then went to the Adventurer's Guild to receive the reward."
Dabbs blinked twice and pondered for a while before asking seriously: "Uh, Mr. Alden, who is in charge of receiving the goods. What kind of person is he? ”
"Mr. Alden?"
Ji Xiaoge was stunned for a moment, and after thinking carefully, he looked at Mo Tan and Jadeka as if asking for help. : "I'm not very impressed, do you remember?"
Jadeka also said 'uh', and then he held it in for a long time before he finally said: "Is he a quite gentleman?"
“A very gentleman, elegant and polite in conversation, about fifty years old. Although he doesn’t talk much, he gives the impression that he is a decent and decent person. His living environment should be relatively pampered, but it can be seen from many details. He is very self-disciplined.”
Mo Tan gave a very three-dimensional answer without thinking.
Ji Xiaoge and Jadeka were shocked at the time, especially the former, who immediately asked: "Mo, you are not a famous detective in reality, are you?"
"Don't make trouble, the detectives of this era 'It's gone bad a long time ago."
Mo Tan smiled bitterly and waved his hands to deny it. At least in his current personality, he was not sensitive to the kind of job of secretly photographing people's cheating evidence all over the world.
"Then you made a special call to Mr. Alden? That's why you had such a deep impression? Uncle control?"
Ji Xiaoge slammed the table, shocking everyone. Jadeka, who had just been shocked by Mo Tan's precise retelling, was shocked again. Together with Dabus, he looked at the beautiful girl with bright eyes with strange eyes. Although he would not doubt Mo's orientation, he was interested in Ji Xiaoge. Just now, Ma Xingkong guessed that the two of them were extremely convinced.
“Hey, hey, you’re kidding me.”
Before Ji Xiaoge could even wait for Mo Tan, who was messy in the wind, to retort, he smiled and winked at the latter, who was struck by lightning. Meng, lightly tapping her cherry lips and smiling: "Girls have to be a little bit rotten to be cute. Well."
"Cough!"
Mo Tan coughed dryly, then turned away stiffly, turned to Dabus and changed the subject: "Why do you ask? Is there something wrong with Mr. Alden?”
"I don't know if there is a problem."
Dabus shrugged and said helplessly: "You also know that I have been preparing lesson plans for the past two days, and the frequency of being online is extremely low. It's just that... As the contact person for our escort mission, isn't it too normal?"
Then Mo Tan realized it, but he didn't say much.
"Then, when you went to the Adventurer's Guild to hand in the mission, did you encounter anything... uh."
Dabbs did not continue talking, because by observing his mission Diary, he knew very well that his group probably completed the task smoothly.
[Delivery] (100% completion)
Category: C-level adventurer mission
Task number: 0981
Published by: President of the Artisan Town Miners Association—— Kag Ironbeard
Recipient: [Wang Wang] All members of the adventurer team
Content: Escort a batch of placer gold mines to the Golden City, hand them over to Mr. Essien Alden, get the token and report to the Golden City branch of the Adventurer's Guild.
Task reward: 800 gold coins, the adventurer team evaluation increases the amount corresponding to the task
Task reward (players only): optional experience 100,000, random excellent quality equipment*1,
< br>[Note: Good people are rewarded. 】
The above is what is in Dabus’s mission log, and he also has an extra cloak in his luggage that is of excellent quality. However, because the additional attribute is 'dexterity', for those with strength, Anthony Dabbs, who has intelligence as his core attribute, doesn't help much.
At the same time, Mo Tan, who seemed to have guessed what he wanted to ask, immediately smiled and nodded, took out a large bag of gold coins from his bag and shook it: "Everything goes well, we will split the money soon."
< br>"All the best. All the best."
As a result, Ji Xiaoge next to her suddenly slapped her head, widened her eyes and said suddenly: "I know!"
Jadeka looked at her confused: "What do you know? ?”
“Everything goes well”
Ji Xiaoge, who finally discovered Hua Dian, clapped his hands suddenly and shouted softly: "I just said that I always felt that something was wrong! Don't you think our mission this time went too smoothly!?"
Jadeka, who was also troubled by the sense of disobedience, immediately took a breath and said in shock: "Yes! It turns out it's because of this!!"
"Isn't it, you think? Let’s see, since we received the mission from Father Kag until now when we got the reward, not to mention accidents, we haven’t even had an accident!”
“Ya Ya is not violent, Anthony is not! Run away! Mo has not been harassed by anyone’s eldest daughter or daughter-in-law! Yege, you have not been harassed by anyone who has no eyes!”
“Not a single monster or bandit has been encountered!”< br>
"My staff has never exploded even once!"
"Even if Father Kag deliberately gave us an extremely simple task to thank us for our previous help, he left the Artisan Town to maintain it for decades. The special freight route, but"
"But there were no accidents at all along the way, and I didn't encounter any problems after arriving at the destination. I always felt a little"
"unscientific! ”
“Unrealistic!”
"Woof!"
The old and the young continued talking happily, sweeping away the depressing atmosphere before. Even Yaya barked happily after understanding.
It feels like the feeling of relief when we suddenly forget something we planned a few minutes ago, and then finally remember it after struggling with ourselves.
Dabbs, on the other hand, looked at Mo Tan with a complicated face and asked in a low voice: "How dare they realize that this is not normal?"
"Hehehe"< br>
Mo Tanqian laughed twice and sighed: "I feel very sad about the fact that you equated the words 'everything went smoothly' with 'abnormal'."
Da Booth laughed, shrugged and said, "That's what I said, but there's something really wrong with our painting style this time."
The next second
Bah! ! !
Following a loud noise, a figure suddenly flew out from a nearby cubicle and hit the table surrounded by Mo Tan and others, knocking over three sets of bowls and chopsticks. , ruined half the table of food.
The bowls and chopsticks belong to the third set of Mo Tan, Jadeka and Ji Xiaoge.
The food is half of the table in front of Yaya and Anthony.
Looking at the instantly bloodshot eyes of the dog girl opposite, Mo Tan suddenly said bad in his heart, and then immediately reached out to grab Yaya, but he got nothing.
Immediately afterwards, the young man who was smashed on the table had already been grabbed by his ankles by Yaya, and he was thrown back whistling along the way before he could even scream.
The kind that increases strength!
At the same time, feeling the overwhelming anger of the 'brother' next to him, Dabus' mouth twitched and sighed
"The painting style is right now."
Eighty-three Chapter Thirteen: The End
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