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Chapter 43 The Final Negotiation (Part 2)

When Joel went downstairs, he saw the crowded people in the tavern, even the entrances of the stairs were crowded with people. The tavern was quite noisy, and people's eyes gathered in the middle of the tavern. Joel squeezed past a man standing on the stairs. The man frowned until Joel squeezed past him, and immediately found him wearing a cloak. He saw his white mask the moment he squeezed past him. This feature alone made him shut up without saying a word.

Joel ignored the eyes of the people around him, but looked at the middle of the tavern, where there was a familiar large table pieced together with several tables. This time, the big table was filled with people, and the people around him were automatically separated by a short distance, leaving the space around the big table. The atmosphere was a little unrighteous, and Joel immediately noticed that when he was still on the stairs, he heard someone asking loudly: "Why should you hide such important information?!"

"Because there is no need." Joel heard a man answer in a deep voice, his voice full of energy, giving people an unquestionable feeling. Joel looked up and saw that it was a bald man sitting upright by the big table. "This kind of information that would not be published will affect the copy strategy. It would be better not to publish it and think about the countermeasures when the incident happened."

"You are just an excuse to give you cannon fodder!" Another man shouted loudly, "I said that the Iron Chain Knights can't draw any man, but in the end they just want us to step on the mines for you, and in the end you come out to act as a savior and reward for seizing dungeons!"

"The Iron Chain Knights will not compete with you all for any rewards and spoils!" The bald man responded loudly. His voice calmed down everyone around him. "I, the president of the Iron Chain Knights, Barrowf swears here to bet on my name "Hero of the Town of the Wheel Town". We will not snatch any rewards and spoils from you." As he said that, he looked around the people around him with a stern look. Many people avoided his eyes, but his eyes finally stopped on Joel who had just squeezed into the crowd, but he continued, "That's right, what I said at the beginning of the Iron Chain Knights was lying, but in fact, we will resist the invasion of the monsters at the beginning. After you all guide copies and resolve the crisis of the monsters, we will immediately turn to deal with this so-called "disaster."

"The only thing our Iron Chain Knights want is the survivor of Golden Waterfalls." As he said that, he sat up again, and the people around him immediately began to whisper something.

At this time, Anthony noticed Joel, and he waved at him and signaled him to come over, "Can you move so soon?" Anthony said to him, and Alps quickly stood up to Joel's side and wanted to help him, but Joel just waved his hand and refused him.

"Mr. Kangting!" Ximoken didn't go there because he was taking care of Hemi, but her anxiety could be seen from her expression, "How can you move around now!"

"Mr. Kangting?" Hermi raised her head in a daze, and Joel reached out and touched her head gently, "Mr. Kangting? Are you okay?"

"Well, don't worry." Joel replied casually, then he looked at Lianda next to him.

"Do you get down so quickly and run around? Be careful to fall down the stairs and throw the blood strips empty." The red-haired girl said with a wicked smile.

Because Joel was wearing a mask, others could not see his expression. However, after hearing Lianda's words, the muscles on his face twitched unconsciously. The wound on his chest was still aching. The severe pain that was hundreds of times stronger than this pain yesterday brought him back from the darkness. The first face he saw in the fog was the beautiful face with an impatient expression. "It's so noisy! Be patient!" Joel heard the red-haired girl complaining, "Look, Lord Al and the others are knocking on the door. Don't you think I'm abused you? Damn, if Lord Al turned around and scolded me, it's your fault!" After hearing her complaint, Joel fainted again because of the severe pain.

"Simoken, take Hemi back to the room, and we'll leave it here to us." Anthony said softly to the two girls next to him after Joel came.

"Is it okay? Mr. Kangting was injured!" Ximoken looked serious, but in fact she didn't know what kind of injury Joel had suffered. When she entered the room, Lianda had bandaged the wound, and she didn't dare to touch the wound. But looking at Joel's white face and his fainting appearance, she still vaguely felt that the matter was a bit too serious. However, facing her questioning, Alps and Anthony said something suspiciously, "It's no problem" and "This is just like a common occurrence for Brother Kangting." Lianda, who was responsible for treating the wound, also wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Don't worry, you will definitely not die." Although she said this, Ximoken became even more worried, in the end she could only believe what they said.

"Don't worry, leave it to us." Joel said lightly, then he reached out and patted Simoken on the shoulder, "I will go upstairs after I finish dealing with it here. There are some things to explain to you." After hearing Joel say this, Simoken bit his lip and took Hemi upstairs with a worried expression. The Alps took the initiative to send them away, after all, there were mercenaries around.

"Mr. Kangting..." Before leaving, Ximoken said to Joel with a complicated expression, "I'm very sorry, but..." She paused, as if she didn't know what to say, and finally she could only bow deeply, "I'm really sorry!"

Then she turned and left with Hermi, leaving only Joel who was confused.

After the Alps sent Simoken and Hemi away, Joel sat in the seat where Simoken was sitting just now, and Anthony was next to him. "What happened?" Joel asked directly after sitting down. Someone was loudly arguing with Orson of the Iron Chain Knights. Their president Barrowf listened to their arguments with a serious expression, and from time to time made brief comments.

"I'm so troublesome," Anthony scratched his head impatiently. "I don't know where these guys learned about the 'disaster' from. They suddenly attacked when the meeting was about to end, and they had been quarreling until now."

"Why..." Joel looked at the lady with a frown staring at her silver-brown hair diagonally across the table and then asked Anthony in a low voice, "Why is that Etherland staring at me?"

"Ah! You don't know yet." Anthony suddenly remembered something.

"What's wrong?" Joel asked in confusion.

"When you disappeared yesterday, Simoken asked Aleya to find your whereabouts... As a result, Aleya is missing now." Anthony replied in a low voice, "Today she broke into your room and wanted to ask clearly, but after seeing you unconscious, she left the room angrily."

No wonder Simoken looked like that just now. Joel nodded slightly, "Do you know where she went?" Joel asked in confusion.

"It should be the 'red gauze tent'," Anthony said to Joel seriously. "The third-floor wooden house in the old town caught fire yesterday."

"Fire?!" Joel was stunned.

"Yes, when I rushed over, I saw the entire building ignited by fire from afar. When it passed this morning, it had turned into ruins." Anthony said, "Many people died."

"Is Eleya inside?" Joel asked in a heavy heart. Although he knew that the mercenary would not really die, Ximoken could not know this. Although he didn't know why Joel accepted this kind of thing peacefully - he thought he should be more surprised, but when Eleya told him these things, there was no fluctuation in his heart, as if he was just recalling what he had known for a long time, and there was no surprise or surprise.

"I don't know," Anthony shrugged, "but Ethran insisted that Eleya was not dead."

Joel nodded. At this time, the debate was getting worse and stronger, and the emotions of the crowd around him were getting stronger and stronger. There were also people who questioned the Iron Chain Knights, and there were also people who helped the Iron Chain Knights. You could even see two people standing together quarreling with red faces, looking like they were about to take action; while those sitting next to the big table should be more calm. No, not to be calm, except for the three people in the Iron Chain Knights, all of them looked indifferent.

"From the beginning, I felt that your Iron Chain Knights had no good intentions!" A man shouted loudly, Joel looked over, and the man had been speaking at the Iron Chain Knights from the beginning, "Let's not talk about anything else, didn't you say at first that you wanted to publish relevant information about that 'Black City'?! So far, we only know that the dungeon is located under the church! What else do you say, "In order not to make the conflict between players and NPCs become more intense?"

So we are not allowed to approach the church without authorization, but in this way we cannot determine whether what you are saying is a lie. Has any of you really been to that copy so far?" When he spoke, the mercenaries around him suddenly became quiet. Whether it was the people who were questioning before or the people who were helping the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of

Barolwu cleared his throat and replied, "About this matter... it is not our responsibility, but the responsibility of the staff."

"Is this shirking responsibility?" the man told him, and many people responded to him, and then he looked at Anthony on the side, "Then I want to ask this Mr. Drake! What is the situation of what you are talking about about the information inside the copy?!"

"Uh, this..." Anthony looked at Joel beside him, and Joel was just sitting upright without moving at all, which gave him a headache, but he still stood up reluctantly with so many eyes around him, "Okay, let's release the information we know a little."

"First of all, if you enter the 'Black City', the opponent you will face is not human." Anthony's words calmed down the people around you, "Is this a matter of course? After all, this 'Black City' is buried deeper in the tomb, which is not a place where people can survive, plus the new version of "The Return of the Age of Magic"..."

"Do you mean we are going to face the dead or something?" someone asked uneasy. Uneasiness is natural, after all, in "Adam", they have never faced such an opponent.

"Yes, everyone, this will be a difficult battle," Anthony looked at the people around him. "I'm sure you have seen the ghosts from the Black City with my own eyes," the people around him immediately spoke out of doubts or surprises, but Anthony ignored it. "This is not a fraud, because it does not do me any benefit to you. I just want to tell you that you are facing unprecedented opponents now."

"Fire must be prepared, torches, oil pots, and spirits. All things that may be used must be brought with you. The more the quantity, the better. In the world of Adam, flames have an extremely special status, so please use them properly."

"Our Iron Chain Knights will provide tar pots for every player entering the dungeon, although the amount each person can get is very small." President Barolwufu said in a deep voice.

"Just fire is enough?" asked the person who had been questioning suspiciously, "You just got such a little bit of information? This is no different from not having it? The information you are talking about is just your own inference."

After being seen through, Anthony showed an embarrassing expression. While he was a little irritated and thinking about how to answer, Joel beside him finally spoke, but because of his mask and injury, his voice was a little small and many people couldn't hear it clearly.

"At the front of the 'Black City', there are four black knights." Joel said lightly.

"What?"

"What is that guy talking about?!"

"Isn't that guy that guy?!"

"Hey! The guy in the front row shut up! I can't hear it clearly!"

"Speak quietly!"

"Shut up!"

Joel waited for the sounds around him to calm down before continuing: "The four black knights will give priority to attacking the light source. They are quite sensitive to light. Also, they are all resurrected."

"The one who has come back from the dead?" This time it was Barovu who made a sound.

"Yes," Joel raised the volume slightly. "The resurrections, they will not be killed by conventional means, pierced, chopped, or hit, and there is no way to knock them down. Only by burning them to ashes with fire can they stop, and they will continue to move until then."

Joel's words made the surroundings fall into silence.

"Is there an enemy like this possible?" someone asked skeptical.

"Are you sure there are four?" Anthony asked loudly, and those who were still asking questions just now immediately shut up and waited for Joel's answer.

"Yes, there are four, but they won't all take action all at once, but I think they should all move."

"Can you disperse it and break it one by one?" Barrowfu whispered.

"We need to divide the team into four teams to deal with it." Kasperba also showed a thoughtful expression.

"It can also be used to attack light sources first," Ms. Meka suggested.

"In this case, you need to plan in advance. After all, it will be quite troublesome to operate without a light source." Anthony also joined the discussion.

Joel took a deep breath, and the wound on his chest would attack when he spoke. At this moment, the mask was already stuffy and unbearable, but Joel still clenched his fists and waited for the people around him to discuss. After a while, everyone stopped discussing and looked at Joel again.

"What else is there besides four bosses?" When someone asked, the people around him immediately calmed down and waited for Joel's answer.

"The dungeon is a dungeon as huge as a maze." Joel's words made many people gasp. "If you need a guide to achieve your goal, I will go with you. But I can't fight because I'm injured." Joel looked at the people around him and continued, "The dungeon may have some other dangers - there are many corpses there, which should be former invaders. They all died in the tunnel because the witchcraft left by the wizard during the invasion were triggered. Although hundreds of years have passed, there is no way to confirm whether the witchcraft still has the impact inside."

"Can you draw a map of the routes you know?" someone asked.

"I can't draw maps," Joel replied decisively, "so I can only be a guide with you."

"Why do we believe you, a 'checker'?!" Suddenly someone shouted loudly, and the atmosphere in the tavern became tense immediately. "Maybe you just colluded with the Iron Chain Knights to lead us to the dungeon to die, right?"

His words were immediately refuted, but many people were on his side, and fierce discussions broke out again.

"Ahhh, I'm so bored. Why do these guys like to argue so much?" Joel heard Kasperba on the side say helplessly.

"There are people's lands that are convenient for fighting," Meka said to Kasperba.

"How come this kind of thing is fine?" Joel said unbearable when he heard Ethran finally, but her voice did not attract much attention because they all started arguing with each other. "Hey!" Ethran pointed at Joel, "You! It's you! I have something very important to ask you!"

"Ms. Liehua," Barovu looked at Ethran at this time, "this gentleman is now an important person here, and we cannot let you take him away."

Joel saw the strong man behind Ethran, and Joel remembered his name Alev. "I have told you all I can tell you," Joel said to Barolwuf, and then he looked at Ethran, "I'm sorry about Miss Eleya."

"Ha? Sorry?!" Joel became angry when he saw Etherland's expression. He was wondering if he had said something wrong, and Anthony next to him immediately became nervous.

"He means he'll be responsible, right, Joel?" Joel looked over, Anthony was winking at him desperately.

"Yes, I'll be responsible." Joel replied lightly.

"That's best!" Joel reluctantly calmed down when he saw Etherland's expression. She frowned and stood up, "It's too noisy here, you two!" She pointed at Anthony and Joel, "Let's talk with me outside!" Then she turned around and walked out of the tavern. The strong man followed closely. After seeing the strong man's physique and eyes, the other players consciously made way. Joel and Anthony looked at each other and stood up and followed.

"Don't worry, we'll be back soon," Anthony said to Barolwuf, "but you'd better keep the situation here until then. When we come back, we'll start discussing the planning of the dungeon strategy."

"No problem." The president of the Iron Chain Knights sitting upright nodded.

Then the two of them squeezed out the crowd and followed Etherland away from the tavern.
Chapter completed!
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