Chapter 1077 1059. Changhu Town
The wooden plank bridge built on a series of pontoons made a muffled sound of ‘dong dong dong’ under the heavy tread.
On the hundreds of meters long bridge with unobstructed views, at most four people can walk side by side, but now there is only one figure, occupying half of the width.
The figure approached Changhu Town unhurriedly, and was naturally stopped by the guard before entering the town.
The temperature on the lake is very low, and the cold fog and moisture can penetrate into two layers of cotton-padded clothes!
The entrance to the town is a small security booth, which is actually a small wooden house.
There was the crackling sound of firewood burning in the wooden house, and the smoke curled up from the chimney on the wooden roof, and finally mixed with the cold fog.
Two men were inside the wooden house, their faces red as if they had consumed alcohol.
The smell of low-quality beer, as well as the smell of human oil and sweat mixed with the heat of firewood, emanated from the side windows of the cabin.
“Hey, someone’s here.”
Inarticulate sounds came from the wooden house, followed by a burst of reluctant complaints and mutterings. Finally, the wooden door creaked open, and a guard came out with a spear.
The other just stuck his head out of the side window and looked outside, but his body was still attached to the warm bonfire.
"What's going on with you?"
The guard who went out raised the brim of his hat impatiently.
He wore a set of chain mail, a cotton coat and cloth shirt with armor plates on it, and a pointed helmet with soft fur edges.
The quality of this set of equipment is actually good, but unfortunately, the user of this set of equipment didn't realize that his helmet was too big until he stood in front of Lan En, and he had to lift it up to get a good view.
And when he saw the whole person in front of him...
"Oh my god?"
The guard who raised the brim of his hat and looked in amazement had not had time to do so. After expressing a complete exclamation, Lan En's hanging left hand lit up with a faint, cold white light.
This kind of person will not be a strong-willed person, and at the same time, he is not in a state of high concentration.
When the guard walked out of the warm wooden house just now, Lan Endu saw tears hanging in the corners of his eyes because of drowsiness.
This kind of person is very suitable for [Yaxi Seal].
"Don't pay too much attention to me, sir. The person in front of you is just a tall ordinary person."
Lan En said softly, and the guard opposite nodded in synchrony. .
“Yes, he is an ordinary person, I don’t care”
"I came to Changhu Town not to cause trouble. I am an honest man. I just came to see a group of separated friends. They are a group of dwarves. Have you seen them when you were on guard?"
Lan En He asked in a tone that would never disturb the other person's hypnotic state.
"Oh my god, he's so tall! Kenny, who is this big guy? What are you talking about?"
The guard who stuck his head out the window looked older. , his hair was lying on his forehead in reflective tangles, and he sniffed and asked the guard in front of Lan En.
Lan En did not turn his face to the other party, but his hanging left hand lit up again.
"No, it's nothing." The guard standing in front of Lan En muttered in response. "He's just a passerby. Who knows why he got separated from his people. He said he was meeting us here, so he came here."
The guard who stuck his head out of the window didn't bother to pay more attention, but again After looking at Lan En's height and body shape curiously, he retracted his head back into the warm wooden house.
He was still muttering: "Yes, this is where we are. How can there be any people nearby this shabby place that can be used as a gathering place?"
After finishing the old fritters in the room, , Lan Encai then spoke.
"Please answer the question, sir."
"D-Dwarf? I've never seen a dwarf on the bridge. But there are many ways to enter the town, waterways, smuggling. I can't control it."
"Understood." Lan En nodded and walked past the guard. While doing so, he patted him on the shoulder. "But you should be more vigilant. The atmosphere has been unstable these days. It would be good for you to be more vigilant, right?"
"The atmosphere is not calm?" The guard's already confused face became even more confused, but then he Still nodded. "Yes, be vigilant, be vigilant."
It wasn't until he walked back to the cabin in the cold mist and shuddered that his consciousness returned to him.
"Huh? Why did you come in?" The old youtiao looked at the guard who came through the door in surprise, "Even if there is nothing wrong with that person, you still have to take it to the mayor to report it."
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"Whoever wants to go can go." The guard, who was still a little confused, said impatiently, "It's a cold day, and I don't want to go again."
After saying that, he sat down. On the stool near the stove, he stretched out his hand to warm himself, took out the whetstone, and began to carefully polish the edge of the spear under the ghostly gaze of the old man.
This sentence was meant to prick the old man who had not even left the house just now. The old man knew that he was in the wrong and did not want to deepen the conflict with his colleagues, so he just laughed and said nothing.
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After entering Changhu Town, the feeling of this town to Lan En was not much different from when he viewed it from a distance.
It's early morning, when people are busy.
Most of the people coming and going were wearing dirty and tattered cotton clothes, and the felt hats and boots on their heads were so dirty that they were black and reflective. His face showed the sleepiness and exhaustion caused by the early morning and cold.
Some rotten vegetable leaves that fell on the wooden floor were stepped on by people, almost turning into a ball of paste. The piglets who ran out of the cage from nowhere were eating these things with their heads arched.
The town built on the rocks in the lake does not have regular roads. It is a house built with wooden planks and a floor paved with wooden planks. If there are no planks, people can only row a boat if they want to get across.
Lan En's body shape is particularly conspicuous in the crowd, not to mention his silver hair and face.
But the witcher quickly found the flow patterns of people in this town through observation and Mentos' computing power. He used the stealth action rules in the "Lone Shadow Ninja Technique Book" to quietly avoid crowded places and avoid being discovered by the patrolling guards who occasionally passed by.
Finally, he arrived at the edge of Changhu Town.
There are no people here, only the remains of fish caught at the sluice along the water flow, and the domestic garbage in the town.
A naked homeless man was lying sleeping in the corner opposite the waterway.
After Lan En looked around, he jumped on the wall and reached the top of the sluice.
After standing up, he gently rubbed the magic ring on his hand. After a while, in the cold mist of the lake outside the sluice, there was a sound of splashing water from the hooves.
Qilin ran over from the outside of Changhu Town with a flannel ball.
"Pick me up, meow!"
The flannel ball whispered upwards.
Then he grabbed Lan En's slingshot hook and climbed up, making no sound the whole time.
“Huh?”
Qilin snorted in confusion below.
"I need you to stay outside this town during this time, don't go far, Qilin."
Lan En explained to Qilin under the sluice.
"The buildings in this place are too crowded and not strong. If you come in, I will probably collapse them."
When the New World Ancient Dragon heard 'too crowded', he immediately shook his head in boredom. His beautiful mane and magic Rune cloth all flew.
Qilin didn't want to stay in a place like Rivendell because it wasn't spacious enough, let alone a small town like Chang Lake.
Qilin turned around and stepped on the lake water and slipped away, while Flannel Ball grabbed Lan En's shoulders and jumped off the top of the sluice with him.
The homeless man on the other side of the waterway seemed to hear the sound of boots stepping on the wooden board, and turned over to take a look.
As a result, he saw Lan En and the flannel ball lying on his shoulder.
The two looked at each other blankly for a second, and then the homeless man blinked and lay down again.
He was still muttering: "The silver-haired elf is sleeping and sleeping with a cat in clothes. What is this dream a sign of?"
"Hehehehe, the elf is so beautiful, hehehehe "
The velvet ball on Lan En's shoulder and the Mentos in his head made a "tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk" sound almost simultaneously.
The flannel ball also contained the movement of the kitten shaking its head, and the three-color cat hair swinging around the shoulders made Lan En's neck itchy.
Lan En immediately tilted his head and looked at the kitten on his shoulder in disgust.
Changhu Town is not big at all. After all, the huge rock in the lake is just an approximate circle with a diameter of about one kilometer.
So in the crowded and messy wooden building, Lan En and Fluffy Ball quickly searched for traces of the dwarves.
A large part of Changhu Town’s food comes from fish caught in the lake, and people do not pay attention to hygiene under difficult living conditions.
As a result, old blood stains that had oxidized into dark black could be seen everywhere on the wooden floor, as well as the remains of fish scales mixed with the blood stains.
When the weather is hot, the smell of these things must be unbearable, and there will definitely be large flying insects and flies buzzing around the blood stains.
Thinking about it this way, the cold mist on the lake that can penetrate into cotton-padded clothes is at least a little bit good, at least there are no bugs.
When Lan En passed by a group of houses in Changhu Town that didn't have any peculiar properties, he slowed down and looked at it strangely.
The flannel ball, which was searching in another direction to improve efficiency, also slipped back after seeing this.
"Boss, what's wrong, meow?"
It has been running on the roof with its light weight. Now the cat's head is exposed from the edge of the eaves, and it is holding the eaves and asking down.
Lan En's body was hidden in the dark where no one noticed, and his cat eyes glanced around again calmly.
“There are people in this house watching the people whose skills are so-so, but there are a lot of them.”
There are people around this house who are pretending to admire the clay pots and blankets on the vendors’ stalls. Others smoked pipes and fished in the middle of the waterway.
But their intentions were too obvious to Lan En's observation. Everyone would look at the ordinary two-story wooden house in the middle every once in a while.
"Would you like to take a look, meow?"
"This should be the mayor's own business, first"
Originally Lan En wanted to say 'do it with us first' "It's important," but before he could finish speaking, a burst of noise mixed in the noisy and non-soundproof buildings in Changhu Town reached the ears of the demon hunter.
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