Pale Emblem

Chapter 114 Intelligence Decoy
The five-story Adventurer's Guild Hotel is like a small fortress, built in the middle of Water Snake Town.On the east side of it are the mayor's mansion and barracks; to the west, it is adjacent to crowded civilian blocks, just like the social status of adventurers in the Disa Alliance, neither a wealthy noble family nor an ordinary half-elf civilian, but a located in the middle of the two classes.

The door of the hotel is open, and half-elf nobles or commoners can enter and exit.Of course, most of the nobles disliked the vulgar behavior of the adventurers, lack of education, and would not easily enter the hotels where the adventurers gathered; while the commoners were generally afraid of the force and arrogance of the adventurers.It is undeniable that the Adventurer's Inn is well-informed and contains many opportunities to change fate.

As long as you dare to take your life as a bet and take part in adventure activities, no matter what the result is, you can always change your destiny, and you will definitely change your character and habits.

Adventurers are fierce and cunning, passionate and dangerous.You don't expect them to be obedient to famous families. If they are forced, they will dare to draw their swords and swords even if they are facing the dragoons of famous high places.

You must be careful when dealing with adventurers. They reject arrogant dignitaries, and at the same time despise weak civilians, and only follow the rules of survival that belong to adventurers.If they find out that the intruder is an "anomaly", it is inevitable that someone will come forward and teach the intruder so that they know the rules.

It was the afternoon when Victor and the others entered the hotel. The hotel owner was reluctant to light candles in broad daylight. The light in the hall was dim and dim, and a few adventurers were sitting in the shadows.They turned their heads in unison, and looked at the few people who had just entered the door with sharp wolf-like eyes.

They first looked at Victor, who was tall and slender, and then found Harvey beside Victor.As a result, these rebellious adventurers immediately turned their eyes away and chatted casually as if nothing had happened.It can be seen that Harvey's last visit to the hotel left a deep impression on the adventurers, at least let them understand that Harvey is not a person to be messed with.

Harvey's time in Water Snake is not long, but his reputation is loud enough.Caravan stewards, thieves, and adventurers all mistook him for a 6th-level Great Venerable, and speculated that the identity of Harvey's companion was also extraordinary.

"Hey man, where's the Eckert chapter president? We're looking for him." Harvey asked gruffly to the bartender behind the bar, ignoring the guys sitting in the corner.

The young shop assistant smiled, nodded and said, "Mr. Harvey, good afternoon... The president of Eckert hasn't come back from outside. If you have anything, just tell me."

Victor pushed Harvey away at this time, tapped his fingers on the smooth tabletop of the wooden bar, and said lightly, "Yesterday afternoon, when we were out for an appointment, a thief sneaked into my residence and stole our things. .I plan to issue a bounty through the Adventurer's Guild to catch the thief and live."

As he said that, he tilted his head, and Maddie on the other side immediately stepped forward and poured out all the alloy coins in a purse on the bar.

"There are a total of 4000 gold towers here, which is the bounty we paid in advance." Harvey raised his chest, squinted at the dumbfounded bartender, and said arrogantly.

The coins mixed with a small amount of precious fine gold collided with each other, making a crisp sound.Seasoned adventurers will be able to tell the slight difference between them and the clanging sound of regular gold coins.

Not to mention the bartender behind the bar, even the few adventurers sitting deep in the hall couldn't help but stand up and look around, then sat down again and listened carefully to the specific content of the reward with their slightly pointed ears.

4000 gold tower is definitely a huge sum of money, adventurers can save so much money that they can almost consider retiring.The bottom line is that the task of catching the thief is so simple that it doesn't even count as a real adventure.

It's rare to meet a big money owner who is more than happy to earn this large bounty.

The bartender stretched his neck, raised his Adam's apple and rolled up and down, quietly swallowed a sip of saliva, and said cautiously: "Master Harvey, according to the rules of the Adventurer's Guild, a private reward, whether the task is completed or not, we must draw two from the middle. In other words, the cost of the guild’s mission is 800 gold towers, and the bounty is only 3200 gold towers, what do you think?”

He was wrong, the truth is that only the registered adventure groups are eligible to issue bounties through the union.The greater the reputation of the adventure group and the higher the contribution level, the less the guild will extract the task release fee.According to the regulations, Harvey must first produce a registration document to prove which adventure group he belongs to.The union leader also has to take the time to review the specific content of the task to ensure that the reward task is in line with the union's regulations.

To put it simply, the bounty quests issued by the Adventure Guild are only related to adventure activities, and cannot target the half-elves of the Disa Alliance. Even things like hunting down thieves are not allowed to issue bounty quests.

However, the rules are often broken, especially in the face of high bounties, and the Adventurer's Guild always has a way to bypass the rules.

Victor offered a lot of money to reward thieves, and if he was rejected by the Adventurer's Guild, he could ask the Thieves Guild for help, or ask the Water Snake Guard to come forward to solve the problem.

For such a large bounty, the thief boss can earn it, the guard captain can earn it, why can't the adventurer earn it?

nothing more than catching a vile thief
No matter who gets the bounty in the end, the Adventurer Guild will be able to take away the 800 gold tower fee first if the bounty is given out. This is a sure-fire business.

Harvey waved his hand, raised his voice, and shouted, "Okay! 800 gold pagoda is 800 gold pagoda, we want to see thieves who are alive and kicking, don't fool me with corpses or half-dead people... Hmph, I'll see if it is What audacious bastard dares to instruct the thief to steal my family's things! As long as we find out, even if he is an official of Water Snake Town, I want him to look good!"

The bartender neatly divided the money scattered on the table into two parts, swept them into different drawers, and immediately took out the paper and pen, and asked enthusiastically, "Mr. Harvey, do you have any clues to provide?"

"The thief was a teenage girl named Stephanie. She used to pretend to be a tailor's assistant and came to our rental house." Harvey glanced at Victor and continued to say loudly: "She sneaked into the rental house quietly, But there was no money or anything, only our identity papers and a very important letter of introduction were stolen."

The loud voice echoed in the hotel lobby, and Harvey deliberately made it heard by as many people as possible.In fact, Stephanie only stole some change, and the so-called identity papers and letters of introduction were completely false.However, Victor's design is to muddy the water on purpose, and even if Stephanie is captured alive, there is no way to expose their lies.

Whether or not the adventurers believed the words of Victor and his party didn't really matter.As long as they want to get a rich bounty, they have to support Victor's position on the surface - catch the thief for the owner, retrieve important identity documents and letters of introduction, and then receive a huge reward of 3200 gold towers.

Victor used this to create public opinion, implying that the captain of the water snake town guard had a good intention and instructed Stephanie to steal their identity documents.When the contradiction between the town guard and Victor and his party became public, the adventurers, as an important armed force in the town, could wait and watch with a cold eye, without having to act as a thug for the town guard.

There are also several armed caravans stationed in the local area. Their position is basically the same as that of the Adventurer's Guild. There is no need to work hard for the town guard, and they can be regarded as a whole.Therefore, Victor, who is suspected to be a noble of the highland, and the water snake town guard, as well as the adventurer's guild, formed a delicate balance.

Victor pretended to be a nobleman and wanted Stephanie in a high-profile manner to give the Adventurer Guild and the armed caravans a reason to stand by.

Of course, his true identity cannot stand investigation at all. If reinforcements from Fallen Leaf City arrive at Water Snake Town, this fragile balance will be broken, and the Adventurer's Guild will most likely join the round-up of Victor and others.

Because of this, Victor judged that the town guards would most likely choose to forbear without any adventurers joining them, so as not to attack them immediately.

This is enough, Victor only fights for free time in Water Snake Town.In two or three days, he can fully evolve the cave environment in the town's underground at different locations.

On the stairs of the hotel, adventurers stuck their heads out one after another and looked down.Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Victor nodded, and took his men up to the third floor of the hotel, through the dark corridor, and came to the innermost large guest room.

The door was closed, and Victor stood at the door for a second, then pushed the door in.

Rhine, with silver-white hair and bright red eyes, was sitting in the depths of the room, not at all surprised by Victor's intrusion.He has a perception beyond ordinary people, and naturally he will lose emotions that ordinary people are surprised by.However, it is the most basic courtesy for the host to knock on the door first, and Victor's intrusion really annoyed Rhine a little.

"You didn't close the door." Victor pointed out Rhine's mistake confidently, and turned to look at the room, as if he was the master here.

Rhine shook his head, sat on the chair, and sighed helplessly and asked, "What's the matter with you coming to me?"

Victor's eyes fell on him again. The sturdy bounty hunter stayed alone in the room and wore a set of leather armor to cover his sturdy body.

"I'm curious, don't you feel hot when you dress like this all day? Or do you have to be fully armed like this when you're making out with a woman?" Victor said in a frivolous tone, and let Maddie turn the two dumbass like puppets. The beautiful woman led the way, let Rhine look over, and continued: "You said yesterday that you want to pay for these two slave girls, and I brought them to you, but I now suspect that a bounty that refuses to take off his armor. Are hunters really interested in them?"

Rhine let out a low laugh and said calmly: "No doubt, I really have no interest in them, including the information about the wolf shepherd girl is also false. I don't know where she is at all."

Victor raised his eyebrows and asked, "So, you deliberately lied so that all the guests attending the open-air party would stay in the mayor's small garden... What's your purpose for doing this?"

Having said that, Harvey took a step forward, halfway over Victor.He held the hilt of the sword in his hand and stared fiercely at the bounty hunter opposite him. The threat was very obvious.

Rhine said nonchalantly: "What I want to do has nothing to do with you... and you are in big trouble. If I were you, I would only find a way to escape from Water Snake Town."

The guy gloated and refused to communicate with Victor and ignored the threat of force from Harvey.

Harvey had the urge to beat up Rhine, and at the same time was afraid of the opponent's strength.In such a cramped guest room, he could not guarantee that it would not affect other people.Victor was not angry. He vaguely felt that Rhine's bad temperament was to alienate others on purpose, and he had no malicious intentions.

"Your target should be the Middletons... Then, I'll give you a piece of information for free." Victor held Harvey's shoulders, smiled and said to Rhine: "There is a basement in the mayor's mansion. A secret passage, there may be something you are looking for."

"Goodbye."

After speaking, Victor turned and left with his companion very simply, without even closing the door.

Through the open wooden door, watching Victor's slender and well-proportioned back turn into the corner of the stairs, Rhine's playful smile gradually disappeared, the bright red eyes faintly revealed a dark black, and the whole person's temperament became extraordinarily deep.

(End of this chapter)