Simultaneous time travel: But our system is out of sync!

When Lin Bei finished dealing with the underground experimental base and returned to the Rose House, it was already four or five o'clock in the afternoon of the next day.

This is also the busiest time of day for the Rose House.

Many hunters gathered in the Rose House.

They were either choosing suitable bounty missions or enjoying free food and drinks delivered by the Rose House.

Upon seeing Lin Bei, the noisy chatter in the Rose House subsided for a moment, then erupted into chaos.

"I'm back!"

"He didn't die."

"That guy actually came back alive!"

"I thought he was dead."

"Sigh, actually, it's enough that I came back alive."

"It's hard to say. Maybe he didn't even go. He just found a place to hide for a day and came back."

I think so too.

"After all, this pretty boy looks so frail, I don't believe he can really kill ghosts."

"Oh, why do you care so much about other people's business?"

"Let's drink, let's drink. We might die someday, so we should enjoy ourselves while we can."

For a moment, Lin Bei's ears were filled with all sorts of sounds.

Surprised, unexpected, well-intentioned, questioning, foul-mouthed, indifferent—it has everything.

……

However, Lin Bei ignored these people.

He simply walked up to the counter and, with a thud, placed a black cloth bag on it.

The man saw the black cloth bag that Lin Bei had placed on the counter.

The previously noisy crowd fell silent once more.

Lin Bei opened the bag on his own, revealing half a charred head inside, and spoke to the bounty hunter behind the counter.

"Turn in the quest, you sly devil."

Upon hearing this, the Butterfly House erupted in chaos once again.

"impossible!"

"No one can complete the bounty on the Eye-Eared Ghost."

"It takes half a day to travel back and forth, which means he killed the Eye-Eared Ghost in less than a day. How is that possible?"

"It's all fake, it's all fake."

"How could a mere pretty boy possibly kill the Eye-Eared Ghost?"

Despite the doubts raised by the crowd, Lin Bei remained unresponsive and simply spoke in a calm voice.

"Inspect the goods."

Upon hearing Lin Bei's words, the bounty hunter, who had been stunned by Lin Bei's arrival, finally snapped out of his daze.

He immediately picked up his professional tools and began to examine the skull fragments that Lin Bei had brought out.

Half an hour later, the bounty hunter picked up the head, faced everyone in the Butterfly House, and shouted loudly in an incredulous yet excited voice.

"The identification is complete; it is indeed the Eye-Ear Ghost."

"Mr. Lin Bei has completed the bounty for the Eye-Ear Ghost."

"Since the bounty for the Eye-Ear Ghost has been hanging in the Butterfly House for a year without anyone completing it, and the bounty was completed by Mr. Lin Bei alone."

"Therefore, Mr. Lin Bei's reward amount has doubled."

"The reward is two hundred gold coins."

Then another bounty hunter came out from the inner room and pushed a woman's box in front of Lin Bei.

Lin Bei opened it and found four small, bright orange croakers inside.

Upon hearing the bounty hunter's conclusion, the noise inside the Rose House escalated to another level.

Some people were amazed that Lin Bei had actually killed the Eye-Eared Ghost.

Some people are amazed that one cannot judge a book by its cover.

There are also doubts about the firm outcome.

However, most of them were envious of the amount of the bounty Lin Bei received.

There's a rule at Rose House.

Posting a bounty at the Rose House requires an advance payment of the bounty amount, and the Butterfly House only accepts gold.

Furthermore, the stronger and more dangerous the ghost with the bounty, the more gold needs to be advanced.

Specifically, for every hunter who dies as a bounty target, the bounty amount increases by two gold.

The bounty amount doubles every year it is posted.

Of course, the Butterfly House will ultimately pay for the doubled gold, and the bounty poster only needs to pay the principal.

And every payment was made in front of all the hunters.

This is all to maximize the hunters' enthusiasm.

The Eye-Ear Ghost is an extremely dangerous ghost.

The initial bounty is as high as thirty gold, which is five or six times that of a normal bounty mission.

That's why hunters, knowing the danger of the Eye-Eared Ghost's bounty, still keep going.

Since the bounty was issued, at least ten hunters have died from the Eye-Eared Ghost bounty.

Furthermore, the issuers of the Eye and Ear Ghost quest are composed of multiple factions, and they have been continuously increasing the bounty.

Therefore, Lin Bei only completed one Eye-Ear Ghost bounty, yet he received a bounty equivalent to that of nearly thirty bounties that an average hunter would need to complete.

Hunters suffer extremely high attrition rates.

Most hunters can only persist until they complete ten bounties at most.

Being able to complete twenty bounties alive is already legendary among hunters.

That is to say, two hundred gold coins.

It was a fortune that the hunters of Rose House could never even dream of.

This enormous sum was terrifying considering Japan's purchasing power at the time.

At that time, one gold coin was equivalent to two hundred yen.

At that time, the purchasing power of the Japanese yen was extremely high; one yen was equivalent to five thousand yen in later times.

These two hundred gold pieces are equivalent to twenty million yen in Japan in later times.

Let's look at it with more intuitive data.

Tanjiro's three baskets of charcoal can only be sold for about one yen.

It would take at least a day for Tanjiro to make and sell a basket of charcoal.

In other words, even if Tanjiro could make a basketful of charcoal every day and sell it.

It would take nearly three hundred years, even without eating or drinking, to earn this much.

Tanjiro's family's standard of living was considered quite good by the standards of rural Japan at that time.

There are countless families even poorer than Tanjiro's.

So whoever has these two hundred gold coins can live a life free from worries about food and clothing for several lifetimes.

No wonder these hunters are envious.

But Lin Bei only glanced at it before casually putting it into his backpack.

For Lin Bei, money was truly an external thing.

Its greatest use is for buying food.

After all, in Japan at this time, no matter how rich you were, you couldn't buy anything that would catch Lin Bei's eye.

But Lin Bei had something more important to do than the bounty.

He asked the still excited bounty hunter behind the counter.

"Why haven't I seen Mrs. Rose today?"

"I need to talk to her about something."

Upon hearing this, the bounty hunter handed Lin Bei a letter, saying it was left for him by Madam Rose, and told Lin Bei...

"Lady Rose left Rose House yesterday and her whereabouts are unknown."

"And Lady Rose is almost never at Rose House."

"It will only appear when the Rose House presents a problem that we cannot solve."

"The only exception was when you came yesterday."

"And Lady Rose asked me to give you this letter when she left yesterday."

"Once you read the letter, you'll know how to find her."

Upon hearing this, Lin Bei took the envelope and opened it, only to find that there was no letter inside, but a black raven's tail feather and a whistle the size of a little finger.

Lin Bei frowned upon seeing these two items.

What does Lady Rose mean by this?

Crow's tail feathers, a small whistle!

What are these two things for?

What does it mean that as long as he sees these two things, he will know how to find her?