Chapter 1077 1059 Changhu Town

Chapter 1077 1059. Changhu Town

The plank bridge built on a series of pontoons made a muffled sound under the heavy tread.

At most four people could walk side by side on the several-hundred-meter-long bridge with unobstructed views, but now there was 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 with the color of alcohol.

The smell of bad beer, human oil, and sweat mixed with the heat of firewood came out of the side window 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 happened to you?"

The guard who went out raised the brim of his hat impatiently.

He wore a set of chain mail, a cotton coat and a cloth shirt with armor plates on top, and a pointed helmet with a soft fur edge.

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.

But when he saw the whole person in front of him.

"Holy shit?"

The guard who raised the brim of his hat and looked in amazement had no time to express a complete exclamation when 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 Dharma Seal].

"Don't pay too much attention to me, sir. The person in front of you is just a taller ordinary person."

Lan En said softly, and the guard on the opposite side nodded in sync.

"Yes, he is an ordinary person, he doesn'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 asked in a tone that would never disturb the other person's hypnotic state.

"Holy shit, he's so tall! Kenny, who is this big guy? What are you talking about?"

The guard who stuck his head out of the window looked older, with his hair reflective and tangled on his forehead. 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 was just a passerby. Who knows why he got separated from his people. He said he was meeting at our place, so he came here."

The guard who stuck his head out of the window didn't bother to pay more attention. He just looked at Lan En's height and body shape curiously and then 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 getting rid of the old fritters in the room, Lan En continued to speak.

"Please answer the question, sir."

"D-Dwarf? I've never seen a dwarf on the bridge. But there are many ways to get into the town, including waterways and smuggling. I can't control it."

"Understood." Lan En nodded and patted the guard on the shoulder as he passed by. "But you should be more vigilant. The atmosphere has been unstable these days. It would be good for you to be more vigilant, right?"

"Is the atmosphere not calm?" The guard's already confused face became even more confused, but he nodded immediately. "Yes, be vigilant, vigilant."

It wasn't until he walked back to the cabin in the cold mist, and after a shiver, 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 no problem with that person, you still have to take it to the mayor and report it."

"Whoever wants to go can go." The guard, who was still a little confused, said impatiently, "I don't want to go again on a cold day."

After saying that, he sat on the stool near the stove, 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 hadn't even left the house just now. The old man knew he was in the wrong and didn't want to deepen the conflict with his colleagues, so he just laughed and said nothing.

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After entering Changhu Town, Lan En's impression of this town 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 their felt hats and boots 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 has no regular roads. All the houses are made of wooden boards and the ground is paved with wooden boards. If there are no wooden boards, people can only row boats to get there.

Lan En's body is particularly conspicuous in the crowd, not to mention his silver hair and face.

But the demon hunter quickly found the pattern of the flow of people in this town through observation and the calculation power of Mentos.

He used the secret action rules in the [Lone Shadow Ninja Technique Book] to quietly bypass crowded places and avoid being discovered by the patrol guards who occasionally passed by.

Finally, he came to the edge of Changhu Town first.

There are not many people here, only the fish debris accumulated at the sluice along the water flow, and the living garbage in the town.

A homeless man who was half-dressed was sleeping in the corner opposite the waterway.

After Lan En looked around, he jumped lightly and stepped on the wall and jumped two steps, and climbed to the top of the sluice.

After standing on it, he gently rubbed the magic ring on his hand. After a while, the sound of hooves splashing water was heard in the cold mist of the lake outside the sluice.

Qilin ran over from the outside of Changhu Town with the flannel ball.

"Catch me, meow!"

The flannel ball whispered to the top.

Then he grabbed the catapult hook hanging from Lan En and climbed up. There was no sound the whole time.

"Huff?"

Qilin snorted in confusion below.

"I need you to stay outside this town for the time being. Don't go far, Qilin."

Lan En told the Qilin under the sluice.

"The buildings here are too crowded and not strong. I think I can collapse them if you come in."

When the ancient dragon of the New World heard "too crowded", he immediately shook his head in boredom, and his beautiful mane and magic rune cloth fluttered.

In places like Rivendell, Qilin didn't want to stay because they were not spacious enough, let alone this small Changhu Town.

Qilin turned around and slid away on the lake water, while the fluffy ball clung to Lan En's shoulder and jumped off the top of the sluice gate with him.

The homeless man on the other side of the waterway seemed to have heard 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 fluffy ball lying on his shoulder.

The two people and the cat stared at each other blankly for a second, and then the homeless man blinked and lay down again.

He muttered in his mouth: "I was confused when I was sleeping. The silver-haired elf brought a cat wearing clothes. What does this dream omen mean?"

"Hehehe, the elf is so beautiful, hehehe"

The fluffy ball on Lan En's shoulder and the Mentos in his head almost made a "tsk tsk tsk" sound at the same time.

The fluffy ball also included the movement of the kitten shaking its head, and the three-color cat hair swinging on the shoulder made Lan En's neck itchy.

Lan En immediately tilted his head and looked at the kitten on his shoulder with disgust.

Changhu Town is not big at all. After all, the huge rock in the lake is just a nearly circular surface with a diameter of about one kilometer.

So in the crowded and messy wooden buildings, Lan En and Flannel Ball quickly searched for traces of the dwarves.

A large part of the food in Changhu Town comes from the fish caught in the lake, and people do not pay attention to hygiene under difficult living conditions.

So the wooden floor is full of old blood stains that have oxidized into dark black, and fish scales mixed with blood stains.

These things must be unbearable when the weather is hot, and there must be large groups of flying insects and flies buzzing around the blood stains.

In this way, the cold mist on the lake that can penetrate into cotton clothes has at least some benefits, at least there are no insects.

When Lan En passed a group of houses in Changhu Town that was not strange, he slowed down and looked at it strangely.

Flannel Ball, who was searching separately in another direction to improve efficiency, also slipped back when he saw this.

"Boss, what's wrong, meow?"

It has been running on the roof with its light weight, and now it has exposed its cat head from the edge of the eaves, clinging to the eaves and asking down.

Lan En's body was hidden in the dark where no one noticed, and his cat's eyes glanced around calmly.

"This house is being watched by someone. The people who are watching are mediocre, but there are quite a few of them."

Some people around the house were pretending to admire the pottery jars and blankets on the stalls of the small vendors, while others were smoking pipes and fishing in the middle of the waterway.

But their intentions were too obvious to Lan En's observation. Basically, everyone would look at the ordinary two-story wooden house in the middle every once in a while.

"Do you want to go and take a look, meow?"

"This should be the mayor's own business, first..."

Originally, Lan En wanted to say, "It's important to do our business first," but before he could finish, a noise mixed in the noisy and unsoundproof buildings in Changhu Town reached the ears of the demon hunter.