It was almost dusk when Anthony returned to the corner hotel. He was covered in mud and was looked at by the guards when he walked on the street. Fortunately, he was just walking, so he was not stopped and questioned.

The tavern is now full of players who drink and warm their stomachs. They will set off soon. Although the news of the monster's death has spread in the city, the curfew is still continuing, and most players are still lucky. After all, the people who take the monster's head to the inner castle to receive the reward have not appeared, so the "hunting" at night is still continuing.

As soon as Anthony walked into the tavern, he saw Aleya, who was sitting in the corner of the stairs, waving to herself. She sat alone in front of a table, and the other table next to her was obviously squeezing three men coming up to meet him. Anthony's face darkened, but he still walked over.

"Oh, see who is coming," a man whistled when he saw Anthony approaching, "a little slug."

There was always such a person, Anthony told himself that I didn't want to cause trouble. So he ignored the man and sat down opposite Aleya's table.

"I dare say, Miss, it's a hundred times safer to team up with me than to team up with this boneless coward." Another strong man said sneered, then picked up the wine glass and drank the beer inside.

"Maybe." Aleya looked at Anthony with a wicked smile.

"Are you teasing me?" Anthony whispered with gritting teeth, glaring his eyes.

Aleya leaned forward, looked at Anthony with her chin jokingly, and said in a low voice: "Don't you know the tavern fighting system?"

Of course I know! Anthony wanted to shout it out, but he didn't do it. He called it self-knowledge. The tavern fighting system is an official way for players to resolve conflicts by themselves. There is such a rule in all the taverns in the world of Adam - in terms of setting this is the rule set by the "God of Wine and Music", the guardian of the minstrel and the tavern owner. However, in fact, only mercenaries and gangsters who often mingle in the tavern will use this rule - as long as the fights in the tavern cannot be used, they will not disturb the black god (no one died), and the loser will compensate the tavern owner for the losses, the two will not violate the law of "there is no ban on fighting in the town", and the guards will not interfere.

Obviously, the three men wanted to stand up and beat Anthony immediately, but due to the protection of the game, the "tall fight" must be agreed upon before it can be carried out, so the three of them kept provoking Anthony. But Anthony knew very well that as soon as he took the bait, they would smash most of the tavern and ask themselves to pay. Players can always find the most useful place in the rules of the game, which is indeed more painful than just beating Anthony.

Just when Anthony felt that he didn't know what to say, Ximoken came over. "Mr. Anthony, do you want something to drink?" Ximoken asked with a smile, "Today there is a newly shipped golden plum wine from Linle Town. Feiyu said that if you come back today, I'll ask the shop owner to leave some for you."

Saved! Anthony smiled gratefully: "Great, I was about to have a glass of Linle's golden plum wine, as well as bacon, fried eggs and butter bread."

"Yes, wait." Although Anthony's smile made Ximoken a little confused, the smile that acquaintance who had not seen in a few days still made Ximoken happy.

Ximoken came over and made the players keep a low profile, especially after they found that Ximoken and Anthony were acquaintances. Sometimes it is beneficial to be familiar with NPCs. Anthony thought that after all, they might have to stay in Golden Falls for a while. It is not wise to offend someone who provides food for them or can tamper with their food. Such things often happen in the sinister "Adam", which is also one of the reasons Anthony doesn't like to deal with people very much.

After Simoken turned around and left, Anthony immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Eleeya, "Where has she been?"

"Who?" Aleya asked knowingly.

"Who? Of course it's my former boss, she's not with you?" Anthony deliberately made an action to watch the surroundings.

"She went back to study after you called us to 'receive' us and went back to study it excitedly." Aleya shrugged and said, then picked up the sweet fruit wine and took a sip.

"Joel?" Anthony frowned. "She took Joel's mask and sword away? Thank God," Anthony breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems that she has to study it for a while."

"There is no God in this world, only the gods." Aleya looked at Anthony with a expressionless face, and then asked, "So, what's the situation in Golden Falls now?"

"Very bad," Anthony told the truth, his face also became serious. "The monsters in the valley have appeared for almost half a month. Even the Duke has summoned the vassals and assembled the army, but they are still missing. However, according to the reports of our scouts, they are indeed moving towards the Golden Falls."

"What do you think is the reason?" asked Aleya.

"I have fought with these things once, and I easily killed most of our team with just one head. That's not a simple beast. Don't regard 'monster' as a derogatory term. They know how to use tools and sneak attacks. Based on the current situation, they even understand strategies and are gathering into an army of monsters to march towards Golden Waterfalls."

"Really or not?" After listening to their conversation, the three people sitting next to them also put away their contempt for Anthony, "Have you seen those monsters?" But the two ignored them.

"A monster army?" Aleya also showed a thoughtful look, "The situation is really not optimistic."

"What's worse is the Duke's army and Barolwufu's Iron Chain Knights," Anthony sighed helplessly, "they all plan to move the main battlefield to the valley outside the city wall. Barolwufu and the Duke both want to minimize the losses of Jinhuo City, while the troops from the other three towns are eager for glory. They are arrogant and all think they are dragon-slaying heroes. But in fact, if we have no chance of fighting against the giant monsters in the valley, there is a complex terrain, and the giant monsters are not affected by trees at all, and the iron armor of the army will delay their progress. The war horses cannot run in the woods in the valley. If the battlefield is in the valley, Jinhuo City will definitely be finished."

"Really or false?" The three players sitting on the side showed a look of surprise, "Then why are we running to Jinshui City so far?"

"So what are you going to do?" Aleya asked calmly.

"What should I do? Take that giant monster to meet the Duke of Golden Falls tomorrow to see if I can convince him." Anthony scratched his head and showed a troubled look. "I heard that an assassin appeared in the inner castle last night, and it may be troublesome to see the Duke."

"I deliberately delayed the time to lead the team back to the city just to wait for the army to assemble, and then transport the monsters into the city in front of them, so that they can see what they are going to face, but it seems to have a counterproductive effect." Anthony said and sighed, "Those guys said, "We can do things that lowly mercenaries can do," and they didn't understand my intention at all."

"The mercenary is not cheap!" Suddenly, a voice was heard seriously. Anthony raised his head and saw Ximoken who was carrying a plate and a wine glass. Several mercenaries present also looked at her. She blurted out without thinking. After saying that, she immediately blushed and lowered her head. "Blow, disturb me." She came over and placed the plate in front of Anthony, then nodded slightly and turned around and left immediately.

"What's wrong with that child?" Anthony asked suspiciously, "Have you been stimulated?"

"Didn't you notice?" Aleya looked at Anthony suspiciously.

"Discover? What did you discover?" Anthony looked at Elea in a daze.

"I didn't expect Drake to be such a guy," Aleya sighed and shook her head, "Forget it, you'd better continue eating your bread."

Although Anthony showed a dissatisfaction expression, he still didn't say much, because the food on his plate was too tempting, and long-term work had already made him hungry. The bacon was fried to pieces, and the fried oil was used to fry eggs again. The semi-melt butter was rudely applied to the bread, emitting a mouth-watering fragrance. This was a simple, rough but full of meal; and the mug contained the golden plum wine that Chimoken mentioned, which seemed to have been slightly warmed up, so it was slightly steamed and emitted a faint smell of wine with the fragrance of plums.

Just as Anthony lowered his head and ate, Aleya picked up the cup and drank the wine in small sips. At this time, the three people next to him were moving again.

"Hey," said a man looking at the direction of the tavern door, "It seems that two more cute girls are coming!"

The two of them quickly turned their heads, and Aleya followed them and saw two girls wearing red and blue cloaks walking into the tavern. They were tall and short. The girl walking in front was slightly shorter, with a ponytail, and had a beautiful black straight hair as delicate and beautiful as a doll. Her appearance was amazing because it was a look that only people from the West were able to have. This was quite rare in the kingdom located in the South. Many people in the tavern looked at her in surprise; while the other girl behind the West was much taller than her, wearing a red boat-shaped hat with white feathers, a gray-brown scarf and a short brown hair. Her bright eyes looked at the people around her vigilantly, exuding a kind of heroic spirit like a female knight.

"It seems that I have seen that cloak somewhere." A man at the table next to him frowned.

"It's the Ghost Sword Brigade." Aleya reminded.

"Yes! It's the ghost sword brigade that is all girls!" Another man snapped his fingers and said, "It seems they have come to Golden Waterfall City, right?"

"In this way, even if there is danger in Golden Waterfall City, it means to continue to stay," said the strongest man of the three with a smirk. "Maybe the girl who protected a ghost sword brigade under the monster's hands may fall in love with me at first sight!"

"Hahahaha, just daydream!" His companions laughed at him, but looking at their appearance, although they were laughing, in fact, they thought so.

These ignorant guys, Aleya sighed secretly for them. Maybe there are women in the world who need their protection, but such women definitely do not exist in the Ghost Sword Brigade, especially those two people, one is Kasperba and the other is Ding Ke.

"Oh! They're here!" one of the three exclaimed.

"What, isn't it? Have you fallen in love with me at first sight?"

"Stop dreaming!"

"Shh! Shut! First impression! First impression!"

As a result, what disappointed the three of them was that the two girls who came up did not even look at them, but looked at Aleya. "Long time no see." Mozi bowed slightly politely.

"I really didn't expect to meet Miss Aleya here. If that's the case, Ms. Liehua is here too?" Coria pulled down the scarf that covered half of her face and said.

"Liehua? Did you just talk about Liehua?" The three people next to them were stunned again.

"This must be kept secret for the time being," Aleya smiled at the two of them, then moved her seat, "Do you want to sit down and have a drink together?"

"I'm happy with Miss Alya's words," Coria said, but she pointed to the last one in front of her, "This child is here to find someone."

"Look for someone? Miss Mozi?" Aleya was stunned for a moment, and then immediately showed a curious look, "This is really strange."

"Right?" Coria smiled in agreement.

"Then allow me to ask, who are you looking for?" Aleya asked immediately.

Coria also looked at Mozi. Mozi seemed to think about it, but her face was still expressionless. Anthony, who was lowering his head to eat, swallowed the food in his mouth, picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

"White Mask." Mozi said.

"Puff! Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough cough!!" Anthony squirted out all the wine in his mouth.

"Mr. Anthony! Is it okay?" Simoken, who happened to pass by, immediately walked over with the wine glass that was about to be delivered to the guest. Anthony could only raise his hand and wave it to indicate that he was fine. Simoken had to turn around and leave with a suspicious expression.

"What's wrong with him?" Coria asked in surprise at Anthony.

"Don't worry about him for now," Coria also showed a look of surprise, "Why is Miss Mozi looking for...a white mask?"

But Mozi did not answer immediately, but blinked his big black eyes and looked at Aleya: "Does Aleya... know him?"

...

Joel leaned against the door, lowered his breathing as much as possible, and resisted the urge to eavesdrop on the inside of the door. The old ghost actually said, "No one should be disturbed during teaching", and then drove Joel out. Although Joel did not intend to pay attention to him at first, it would be better that he could not resist Hemi's request and had to turn around and leave.

"What are you going to teach her?" Joel asked suspiciously before leaving. At this moment, he felt that the ghost's every move became extremely suspicious.

"Knowledge," the old man's ghost didn't care at all, "Knowledge is the sharp blade and armor that arms his soul."

"You don't look like you're wearing armor," Joel said coldly.

After leaving the room, Joel stood guard at the door without leaving. The sound insulation effect of the thick wooden door was much better than he thought. Although this was a good thing in normal times, Joel was anxious about it now. As long as he heard a wrong sound, Joel would immediately break into the door. There were two sharpened axes in his backpack. Now Joel has begun to regret lending the black sword to the Liehua. If it were the Cold Iron Sword, such a wooden door should be easily split.

Maybe after Anthony came, he would ask him if there was any way to drive away ghosts? Joel thought to himself, and he had to admit that the mercenary knew a lot.

Just as he was thinking about this, Joel found that someone was coming up at the stairs. Just as he was about to pull down his hood and bury his head to cover his face, he found that the person coming up was Anthony. He really thought of anyone else, Joel thought to himself.

"Well, why are you standing here?" Anthony asked curiously after approaching, "Is there anyone in the room?"

"Is there anything wrong?" Joel asked.

"Someone is looking for you below." Anthony shrugged.

"Who?" Joel asked in confusion.

"Don't know, he is a short Western-Era girl. Do you have any impression of it?"

"It's hard not." Joel nodded and replied.

"You are always unexpected," Anthony sighed, "It's good, it's bad." Anthony raised his head and saw that Joel was still leaning against the door without moving, so he frowned and asked, "Aren't you going downstairs to see?"

"No, please tell her I'm not here." Joel replied calmly.

"How is this..." Anthony was speechless for a moment. When he recovered, Joel was looking at him coldly, as if asking him "Why haven't you left yet."

"Sure enough, who is in the room, right?" Anthony asked suspiciously.

Joel did not answer immediately, but when he saw Anthony's appearance as if he was going to stand aside and waste time with him without answering, Joel replied reluctantly and briefly: "Hermi."

"Himi? She's the only one?"

Joel didn't answer.

Seeing that Joel didn't want to say anything, Anthony finally sighed, "You, don't take the kids too tightly, occasionally you have to give them some space."

"Do you have children?" Joel asked, looking at Anthony.
To be continued...