Chapter 3 Two Letters
Crazy...
This was a heavy rain. When the three of them returned to the foggy caravan station in Yuanxi Village, heavy rain fell from the sky.
It seemed as if the plague that occurred here was going to be completely washed away, and it rained heavily for a whole day and a night.
In the early morning of the next day, the sky finally cleared, the temperature dropped a lot, and a slightly moist cold wind blew outside, and the cold wind was coming in November.
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"Set off!"
Confirm that nothing happened, the Mist Caravan set out again and rushed for a day. When it was approaching evening, I saw Qinghe Town.
Qinghe Town, a large town that can no longer be called a town, is even more large than the Bluestone City, the first city that Parr saw in this other world.
However, because there is no city wall and it has been expanding, the plan to change the town to a city has been delayed. At least today, Qinghe Town is still called Qinghe Town, not Qinghe City.
Because there is no city wall, the roads in Qinghe Town are well-connected. Except for a wide tributary waterway of the Fluorescent River next to the west, there are many roads on the other three sides, both large and small.
Because the plague in the eastern district of Baron Qinghe has just been resolved, many people are still waiting and watching.
So the Mist Caravan is smooth all the way. After passing through the two levels of the road, it enters the scope of Qinghe Town. There are newly built buildings everywhere. This big town, which is a material transfer point, is expanding all the time.
When they arrived here, the escort mission of Pal and John came to an end. Next, they did not have to escort the Mist Caravan, but instead escorted Demi to the Fluorescent City. Of course, neither of the parties who broke up took this seriously. It was just that because they had a mission agreement signed by the Adventurers Association, both parties had to set off to the Fluorescent City together.
John determined the departure time after communicating with Jim Knights.
The departure time was three days later, because Demi had to take a good rest to relieve the fatigue of the journey, and also to visit the lord of Qinghe Town Baron Qinghe, which was told by Viscount Misty.
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During these three days, Demi's safety was not protected by the hired adventurers, so after confirming that the carriage of the Mist Caravan entered the dock on the west side of Qinghe Town, all the adventurers ran into Qinghe Town to eat, drink and have fun, and relieved their fatigue from the journey.
Pal and his group of four walked slowly towards the Adventurers Association in Qinghe Town in a carriage. This was proposed by John and Darlena. Their purpose was surprisingly consistent, saying that they would go and see if there were any designated letters sent to them by friends in the Adventurers Association.
Fixed letters, a business of the Adventurers Association, are that adventurers who live in a place without a fixed place tell others where they may pass, and then when others send them a letter, they send them there. When the Adventurers pass by, they use their Adventurer badge to pick them up.
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On the spacious roads in Qinghe Town, various carriages came and went. Parr stood on the roof and observed the prosperous scenes of another world. Suddenly, he heard John sitting at the door of the carriage and sighed:
"Qinghe Town is much quieter than when I came last time!"
"Is this still deserted?"
Parr leaped on the edge of the roof and turned over and jumped down from above. He pointed to the bustling crowd around the road, with an expression on his face that you were afraid you were not teasing me.
"It's indeed a lot deserted. In the past, there were many carriages on the road, and it would get stuck from time to time, making it difficult to leave."
It was not John who said this, but Darlena who led Vivi out of the carriage.
"What should have happened."
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Something big happened in Qinghe Town. After the Qinghe Town Adventurers Association came out, Parr and his group knew the reason. Not to mention the plague in the eastern part of the territory, just yesterday, the first Qinghe Baron who established Qinghe Town died and died of old age.
The first Baron Qinghe died of old age! Why is Qinghe Town much deserted than before?
Because of frequent merchants and supplies transfers, Qinghe Town, which is almost always full of years, is a big fat piece of meat. Taxation alone is a terrifying number. A family with insufficient strength cannot be taken by itself, let alone a family with a history of less than fifty years?
After Qinghe Town showed its value, the surrounding nobles and the nobles in the Fluorescent City began to move. However, because of the silver-level strength of the first Baron Qinghe, they were reluctant to reach out and could only make some harmless small moves in secret.
Now the first Baron Qinghe is finally dead, and those nobles who have been coveting Qinghe Town for a long time are not happy? The second Baron Qinghe only has the strength of intermediate bronze. He is destined to be unable to defend this large piece of fat in Qinghe Town and must give up some interests to protect the family.
But I still have to struggle for a while, so several checkpoints were set up on the road to Qinghe Town, and small caravans with unknown origins were prohibited from entering Qinghe Town.
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"Complex nobles!"
Parr and his group parked their carriage in a parking lot specially set up behind a large hotel, and then checked in the large hotel.
It was getting late, and after eating something casually, the four of them entered the room they had opened, one for men and one for women.
After entering the room, Parr turned over and fell asleep. In fact, he entered the dream space and continued to explore the breeze space.
"This is a little bit small."
John glanced at Parr's sleeping position, smiled and shook his head, stepped forward to cover him with a blanket, then walked to the table and chair to take out a shiny crystal and a letter.
Sitting on the chair, John opened the fixed letter just taken out of the Adventurers Association under the illumination of the glowing crystal.
The envelope is ordinary, without any signature on it, only the recipient, that is, John's adventurer number.
When he opened the envelope, John pulled out a light green letter paper from it, with clear patterns on it, like leaves.
content:
Brother-in-law, in mid-September this year, Hongpao did a secret matter in the Kingdom of the Ashes and Lions. He actually colluded with the cursed cultists to open the sealed place of the evil god.
I was not sure what happened at that time, but the end result was that the church in the Earl Kingdom suffered heavy losses, all the cultists who cursed the evil gods were destroyed, and the red robe disappeared.
There are rumors that Hongpao was seriously injured and crossed the Western Frontier Fortress Group to the western border of the Wind Wolf Kingdom.
I had already arrived at the Fluorescent City in early October by airship and was secretly investigating the traces of Hongpao.
When you see this letter, you must be about to arrive in Fluorescent City, right?
If you do not receive the latest designated letters in the Adventurers Association in the Central District of Fluorescent City, you can go to Fluorescent Academy to find me, where I am currently a teacher.
Finally, I wish you a safe journey, brother-in-law.
"Red Robe..."
After reading it, John clenched the letter paper in his hand, and showed a hatred expression on his face. He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth and murmured:
"I will definitely kill you this time, I will definitely!"
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"Vivi, I won't give a lecture tonight, go to bed early!"
"Teacher Darlena, can you tell Vivi a story?"
"Okay, okay, let me tell you a bedtime story..."
“…”
In the room next door, Darlena gently coaxed Vivi to sleep, then walked to the table like John, and took out a purple glowing crystal and a letter from her waist.
The envelope is a unified envelope of the Adventurers Association, with only the Adventurer number.
The letter paper is an ordinary piece of white paper, yes! It is white paper, with no words on it.
Darlena looked like she had expected it, pressed the purple luminous crystal on a corner of the white paper, and then slightly turned the luminous crystal, and the purple light of different lengths shone on the white paper, showing the hidden content.
content:
Saint, the plague is about to take place, the location has been confirmed to be in Fluorescent City. The specific time is unknown, but it should not be longer than December this year.
In addition, Hongpao sent someone to contact us and said that we would cooperate with us. Due to Hongpao's insidiousness and cunning, we dared not make a decision on this matter. We also asked the saint to arrive as soon as possible to make a decision.
"Is Hongpao here too? What is his purpose?"
A flash of fire appeared in Darlena's hand, and the blank letter paper that had turned back to burned out in an instant, turning into ashes.
“…”
After that, Darlena closed her eyes and pondered for a long time, then turned to look at Vivi, who was lying on the bed, and had an apology look in her eyes.
"Vivi, I'm sorry, I have to leave early. When this matter is over, I will definitely go to find you."
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"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!"
On the west side of Qinghe Town is next to a tributary of the Fluorescent River. At first, this tributary was not wide, but with the establishment of the trade route, the Baron Qinghe spent a lot of money to hire several magicians to widen the river channel, and built loading and unloading docks of all sizes along the coast, forming a lively scene where various ships come and go.
The long mist caravan led by Manager Marcus to the largest loading and unloading point, where a large ship had already docked, and it was almost like loading goods and setting off.
Manager Marcus did not hesitate, regardless of whether it was dark or not, and drove the caravan staff and the temporarily hired loaders to start loading the carriage onto the ship.
After things got on track, Marcus entered a simple wooden house not far away with a cane, saying that he was resting, but actually seeing a person, a white-haired old man in zipper clothes and wrinkles on his face.
"Sir, the goods have arrived."
Marcus danced with one hand and made an extremely complicated gesture to show his identity.
"Um."
The old man sitting upright on the chair made the same gesture, and then looked at Marcus with a frown.
"How come you are an ordinary believer? What about your mentor? What about others?"
“It’s unfortunate.”
Marcus's eyes became furious, and he said in a low voice: "Because of some accidents, the mentor and the others went to see the God of Plague in advance, but fortunately, the goods arrived here smoothly."
“…”
The old man was silent for a while, then patted the armrest of the chair and said, "Since that's the case, then you can continue to be responsible for this batch of goods! The God of Plague is watching you and me."
"The God of Plague is watching you and me."
Manager Marcus growled in a frenzy, and then his eyes flashed and the old man disappeared.
Chapter completed!