Chapter 1559 Ai Lu

Just when I was planning to buy something to give as gifts to the guys at home, someone suddenly grabbed me by the corner of my clothes from behind.

When I turned around, I saw that it was a short girl with short hair.

This strange little girl is wearing a khaki coarse shirt and shorts. She looks thin and small, but the expression on her face is really full of energy. Her skin is slightly dark, her eyes are big, and there is an irrepressible look in her eyes. He is energetic and agile. He has short, light yellow hair that reaches his shoulders, and there are some small shiny metal pieces hanging from the ends of his hair. This unique appearance is so different from the common people around him that I couldn't help but take a second look. But no matter how you look at it...of course you still don't recognize it.

"What's wrong? Do you want to help?" I felt that I definitely didn't know the locals here, and I tried my best to dress the same as the local people, so there should be nothing special about it. Then this little girl in front of me Maybe just lost and looking for help?

"Are you a foreigner?" The energetic little girl opened her mouth and spoke as crisply as popping beans. Her big, bright eyes shot around my body rather unscrupulously. She nodded and came to a conclusion. "Do you want a tour guide? My name is Elu. I'm here...well, I'm the guide here! I specialize in leading adventurers who are new here! I'm familiar with this place. I know the locations of all the taverns and grocery stores. I also know Where is the blacksmith shop! Do you want a tour guide? It only costs twenty coppers a day~"

"Tour guide?" I was stunned for a moment, and then looked around in shock: a small village built along the river. If it hadn't been surrounded by a wall, I would have even thought it was a wild village. A small place with a few hundred households in total. Can tourism be developed?

And this place doesn't look like a tourist attraction at all. Look at the farmland outside the town, look at the ordinary streets and alleys of the local houses, look at the naked little kids running around beside the haystacks, and the people in the distance. The large forest is obviously still in its original state... hmm. The last one may be a bit interesting, but other than that, this place doesn't look like a tourist attraction anywhere. Or rather, the people on this planet have a bit of a unique aesthetic and living habits. Now this one is going to be ordinary from the beginning. Is the riverside town considered a tourist attraction?

The little girl who called herself Ellu seemed to see my confusion and jumped up and down: "It's not lively enough now, it will be lively here soon! You won't be able to find an affordable tour guide like me by then! And adventurers If there are more, the competition will definitely be fierce. If you run around by yourself like this, you will definitely fall behind. Although I am not familiar with the depths of the forest... but I am very familiar with the outside! I can take you to the forest. Here, just charge twenty copper coins more! In addition, I can arrange accommodation for you. My family runs a hotel... we used to run a hotel! Now there are many rooms. It only costs twenty copper coins a day!"

The little girl chattered a lot to herself. Before I even opened my mouth, she came up with a lot of causes and consequences. But I didn't care who she misunderstood me for. I was just curious about one thing: "What the hell?" Is it twenty copper coins?”

"The price is clearly marked, no kidding! Ailu always offers a fixed price when doing business!" The little girl explained with a seemingly irrelevant excuse, and then tugged on my clothes again, "Come on, come on, go first The tavern, then the grocery store. Finally, the blacksmith shop... Aren't you adventurers all in this order? They are so professional!"

Just when I was dumbfounded and didn't know how to resolve the misunderstanding, Shandora's voice suddenly sounded in my mind: "There is no goal anyway, so why not follow this little girl. By the way, learn about the life of the locals."

"Okay, then I'll help you lead the way." I smiled and patted the head of the little girl who called herself Elu. At the same time, I secretly made some local currency based on my previous observations, so that I could pay the little girl as a guide. It seems that this world with relatively backward technological level is easy to fool. At least currency is relatively primitive, and copper plates are easier to make than credit cards and anti-counterfeiting chips...

Ellu looked at me in surprise, as if she was a little surprised that someone actually asked her to lead the way. Immediately I felt that I had been deceived, but soon the little girl put away the surprise in her eyes and ran to the side happily: "Come on, come on~! I will take you to the tavern first! There are many adventures here. They have all gathered in the past few days, it’s amazing!”

"Why doesn't she look like a tour guide?" I couldn't help but mutter in my mental connection, "How could she abandon the guests and run forward happily."

"I don't think she looks like a tour guide," Sandora hovered invisible next to my head, "But maybe it's just the nature of a child."

There are still a lot of doubts in my mind, such as how did the little girl Ailu recognize her identity as an outsider, how did she conceive of me as a so-called adventurer, and why does such a small riverside town have a "tour guide"? What was going on with this business, and what the other party mentioned that “it’s going to be lively soon”? With my symptoms of advanced systemic diffuse obsessive-compulsive disorder, if I didn’t figure out these issues, I would probably have trouble sleeping and eating, so I quickly I caught up with the little "guide" who was running very fast in front of me, and chatted with her as a new arrival: "How did you know that I am a foreigner? How I dress It should be the same as ordinary people here."

"You can tell an outsider at a glance!" the little girl Ailu said carelessly, "I know everyone in the town! So anyone I don't know must be an outsider."

Me: "..." This is such a method of identification! ?

Fortunately, the little girl had something else to say: "In addition, you behave like an outsider. You are not familiar with the roads here and are interested in common things in the market. When buying things, you hesitate for a long time and don't know what to choose. This It looks like he's from out of town. I'm a professional guide, and identifying strangers in need of help from a crowd at a glance is the most basic survival skill. By the way, do you want a map of this place? A map of the town and the surrounding ten miles, only costs 20 A copper plate!"

The little girl spoke eloquently before, but her true nature was exposed again later: She only knew one number in her life, right?

I nodded, and then I saw Elu take out a ball of crumpled yellow straw paper from the front pocket of his shirt: "Here you are, twenty copper coins! Pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other!"

Although it seemed like a trap, I still counted out 20 coins and stuffed them into the little girl's hand. Then I took the crumpled ball of paper. After unfolding it, I found that it was indeed a trap: it was a one-foot-square sheet that hadn't been cut yet. On the neatly cut piece of straw paper, a map like a simple sketch is outlined in thick black strokes. Look at the childlike tree icon, and look at the childish evil dog logo. Look at the innocent and childlike Father-in-law Sun... I also drew this thing before the second grade of elementary school, and Little Bubble at home is still drawing similar things to this day, and to be fair, Little Bubble's drawings are better than this one. Neat.

This is a map with twenty copper plates each. You can tell at a glance that it was drawn by Elu himself, and more importantly...

I reached out and swiped it on the map, and it was immediately time to wash my hands: the color of this thing is fading! She drew it with charcoal!

"Based on this map alone, I can confirm that we must have been deceived," I chatted with Sandora in the spiritual connection, "No matter how unreliable the tour guide is, there is no way he can actually sell this thing for money. "

"You were tricked. I didn't let you buy anything just now," Sandora said as the ball floated over the head of the little girl Ailu. Of course, the latter knew nothing, "Continue to follow her and see what other tricks this kid has."

At this time, Ellu had already put away the handful of coins with a look of surprise. There were various signs that she did not expect that she could really make money, and this made me more sure that she was actually a naughty kid who was messing around. However, I have rich experience in dealing with naughty children, and more importantly, I have a strong tolerance, so I just treat it as a leisure time with the children. After the other party put away the coins, I patted her hair: "Speaking of... why did you say that this place will be lively soon?"

"Don't you know?" Elu shook his head to show that he was not a child who needed to be patted on the head, and then looked over in surprise, "Aren't you an adventurer? Are you just passing by?"

There was a look of disappointment visible to the naked eye on the other party's face. It seemed that as long as she was sure that the person in front of me was not an "adventurer", she would turn around and leave. Although I didn't know what was going on, I decided to continue the misunderstanding at this time, so I integrated the deception experience I had cultivated over the years, Try to make the lie as round as possible: "Of course it's an adventurer. But you also saw that I came out alone, and the intelligence was not very good... Well, I didn't expect so many people to come. I thought I was the only one who was caught. I’m attracted here. Aren’t you a tour guide? Tell me what you know.”

"Oh, that's it." Ellu didn't think too much about my vague explanation, and when she talked about a certain topic, her face showed an inexplicable look of excitement, "Of course it's because of the forest. The ruins of the ancient tower recently discovered have been spread to the capital of the kingdom, and the priest of the church issued an amnesty order allowing exploration. As a result, many adventurers came here all of a sudden! Isn’t that what the novels say, Momo Mysterious ancient ruins suddenly appeared next to an unknown small village. Then many powerful adventurers came to destroy the monsters in the ruins. The earlier the adventurers were, the easier it was to become heroes. The local children who led the heroic adventurers later later He has also become a famous scholar on the continent... Elu will soon meet many powerful adventurers! Then I will also become famous!"

I immediately knew what was going on with this little girl... I told children to study hard and not read too many extracurricular books!

However, after removing Elu's secondary fantasy part, the remaining information is still very useful: it seems that this seemingly ordinary riverside town is indeed about to become lively, and the reason for the excitement is in the big forest next to it Discovered something called an "ancient tower"? Could this ancient tower have something to do with the chronology of civilization?

Shandora and I decided on the spot that after walking around with Ellu to get a general understanding of the town, we would take the time to go have a look in the forest. Maybe we would find something interesting.

And the little girl Ellu, who was full of thoughts about "getting to know adventurers, becoming as powerful as in the novel, and finally traveling the continent and becoming a famous scholar" quickly took us to the first destination, a place to watch. Going up to the tavern, which is not much bigger than the ramen restaurants that can be seen everywhere on the streets of Earth, it is quite lively to hear the goings on inside.

"This is it!" Ellu said loudly at the door of the tavern, "This is the home of adventurers! The starting point of your journey!"

As soon as Ellu finished speaking, a dwarf lady with a length-to-width ratio of almost one to one ran out of the tavern. She pulled Ellu's ears and roared like a lion from the east of the river: "Little girl is here to cause trouble again, here comes trouble again!" Go home and dream of your dreams! This is the River Valley Tavern! Last year it was called the Forest Tavern! The year before that it was called the Pork Bone Soup Tavern! The year before that it was called the Gold-encrusted Tavern! Even further back, my grandfather’s generation was not a home for adventurers! You ...Hey, I'm sorry I didn't see any guests at the door. Are you here to eat?"

The dwarf aunt raised her eyes and saw me standing three meters away with an embarrassed look on her face, and she suddenly lost her composure. This short and sturdy woman who was almost as tall as she was throwing Elu aside, with the unique kindness and shrewdness of a businessman on her face, she smiled at me and greeted me: "You are not the one who was attracted by Elu." Is this child deceived? She just has big dreams all day long, don’t mind... she’s not a local, right? "

Me: "..." Has my disguise skills deteriorated over the years? How can anyone find out that I am unfamiliar with this place? And they are all discovered at first sight!

However, the dwarf aunt has completely exposed Ellu's true face with one sentence. It turns out that she is really a brat who talks recklessly. However, this girl does not seem to have the consciousness to be exposed at all. She does not even have an embarrassed expression on her face. He just grinned and made a face at the dwarf lady for a long time, and then pulled me towards the tavern: "Tavern aunt Pasali, a woman with a bad temper and a loud voice. Hmm, just wait and see, this tavern will definitely be there by then." It will become a gathering place for adventurers. Aunt Pasali, you will be responsible for distributing tasks to adventurers sooner or later! Come, I will take you to familiarize yourself with the atmosphere here..."

The dwarf proprietress of the tavern glared at Ellu fiercely, but it seemed that the latter often acted like this and reached the point where no one could discipline her, so the proprietress could only glare at her, then smiled at me and followed her up, explaining: "Don't mind. This child is a famous 'character' in our town. She always fantasizes about far-fetched things. Recently, there have been more and more adventurers in the town, and she has become more and more uncontrollable. Anyway, don't worry about it. Don't take anything she says seriously. I will report to her family later."

Ellu jumped up and down from behind: "Aunt Pasali, you are prejudiced! I am working very hard to help my family make money!"

What he got in return was another glare.

I smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay, I just happened to come from out of town, and I'm not familiar with the place. This little girl really took me to a lot of places. Speaking of which... you found a ruins near here, right?"

I tried my best to use the information I already had. Just in case it seems weird to say too much, as for the naughty boy Elu who used a hand-drawn map to defraud twenty copper coins... haha, can we not mention this? Moreover. Just play with the kids.

Pasali smiled happily: "Relics, a lot of people have been attracted to this place recently, but it is also a good thing. Our family's business has been much better. In the past, only people who were looking for the elves to buy things would pass by this place. Now, in a few days, this place is full of people. It’s as lively as anything.”

I turned my face and looked at the street not far away. It was indeed very lively. When I looked at the scenery of the town outside, I just thought it was bustling with people. Now that I knew about the ruins, I took a closer look. Sure enough, many people among them looked unhappy. Like civilians... these should all be strangers.

Probably because so many outsiders came, the residents of the town were well prepared for unfamiliar faces, so Ellu and Pasali could immediately guess that I was also from a foreign country - after all, in a small town like this, The residents have some impressions of each other, and even those who have never met can tell at a glance whether the other person has the "flavor" of a local.

No matter where you go, outsiders are very conspicuous in this small village and town where neighbors chat with each other.

The furnishings in the tavern are simple and there is nothing special about the structure, but there are quite a lot of guests. Elu dragged me around and couldn't find an empty table. In the end, I could only find an empty seat against the wall and follow Two diners who looked like they had been here for a while sat down at a shared table. It wasn't until I sat down that I remembered something: I didn't seem to have said I wanted to come for a drink or a meal, right?

Why was this weird little girl dragged in? ? Isn’t it just sightseeing and not spending money?

"This shows that this little girl is indeed born to be a tour guide." The sandora ball landed on the table in front of me invisibly, rolling around while making sarcastic remarks, "Whether you are interested or not, just wander around. It doesn’t matter if you want to buy it or not, spend as much as you want. But I suggest you don’t stay here for too long...it’s easy to become manic while others are eating while I watch.”

Me: "..." I realized that Sandora might become manic for a long time in the past few days.

But since I had already sat down, it was a bit inappropriate to turn around and leave at this time (mainly because I was a little scared to see the dwarf lady whose length was equal to her width blocking the door), so I still raised my hand to greet the person who was sitting at a few tables. The little waitress running around was busy serving a few side dishes and drinks. Because I didn’t know what was going on in this world, I asked her to look at it, which made her look like a visitor from afar. Ellu took this opportunity to sit down next to me and began to tell me this story seriously. The story of the town and the ferocious monsters in the forest are told vividly and vividly, from the pioneers who bravely fought against the plains savages in the early days of the town's establishment, to the dangerous and terrifying ancient giant monsters in the nearby forest, to the people who come to the town every now and then. The Royal Knights fought against foreign invaders on the plains, and each story was colorful and vivid. I roughly stroked her story, and finally came to the conclusion: If half of her story is true, then this little The town covers an area of ​​at least more than 2,000 square kilometers, and there are already three armies of Kingdom Knights lying in the large forest next to it, and there are more than a dozen princes peeping at the local girls taking a bath by the river at the west end of the village. ——Those girls eventually became the queens of neighboring countries side by side.

...how many chivalry novels does this child usually read?

Just when I was shocked by Elu's increasingly unreliable description, a middle-aged man sitting opposite me who looked like a stranger suddenly spoke: "Are you also looking for ruins?" (To be continued, please search, The novel is better and updated faster!