After half ringing.

In a certain palace in the royal palace of Emerald City, Gro was holding a letter, his expression slightly excited.

It's a letter, but it's just an envelope with no contents, but that's enough - an empty envelope can convey enough information.

Turning his head to look at one of the soldiers who had delivered the letter, Gro asked quickly, "When was this letter delivered?"

"Just now. The soldier replied, "Your Royal Highness, as you have commanded, as soon as a letter arrives in the courtyard outside your palace, it will be delivered to you without delay." ”

"Good. Gro nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, "Where did the messenger come from, have you asked?"

"I asked, and it was delivered from the old oak inn on the boulevard. ”

"Old Oak Inn?" Gro's eyes flashed, he thought for a moment to make a decision, and waved his hand to the soldier, "You go and call someone, and lead the team to follow me out of the palace and go to the Old Oak Inn." ”

"Well, yes, Your Highness the Prince!" the soldier hurriedly ran towards the outside of the palace, ran a few steps and thought about something, then turned his head and asked, "The ...... Your Royal Highness, how many people do you want to bring?"

"As many people as you want. ”

"Ah, is the other party so dangerous?" the soldier was slightly startled and asked tentatively, "Then do you want to bring more crossbow arrows?"

"What a danger, this is for me to look grand and formal!" roared Gro.

"Uh. The soldier shrank his neck, and then realized that he would be wrong about Gro, and hurriedly ran out.

......

Boulevard.

Pedestrians were constantly coming and going on the street, and two mercenaries walked among them, a man and a woman.

Mura walked ahead, and Denise was slightly half a step behind, and the two were talking.

"I think it's better not to pull Brother Mike into the squad. Although because of the Zach and Cole incidents, our team has been seriously reduced, and it is impossible to take on the task, but the reputation of the two Mike brothers is really not good at all. Denise spoke, frowning, thought for a moment and added, "It's not just bad, it's notorious. ”

Mulla listened to Denise's words, and was not much angry, and nodded in agreement: "Yes, their reputation is indeed bad. Fighting, desertion, cheating, and threatening the owner of the money, there are too many such things. And that's not all, the most important thing is that the two of them are heavy drinkers and often cause big trouble. ”

"Then Uncle Mula, do you still insist on pulling the two of them?" Denise exclaimed, puzzled.

"There's no way around it. Mura sighed and said, "Our squad leader suddenly lost Zach and Cole, and it is difficult to recruit qualified players in a short period of time. If we don't want to be unable to receive tasks for a long time in the future, then Brother Mike is the only option we have now.

In fact, it is precisely because of the bad reputation of the Mike brothers that others will not snatch it from us, which is both a disadvantage and a benefit.

Well, I know what you're going to say, it's nothing more than that you'd rather have fewer people than join them and get us into some trouble. I've thought about it. Although the Mike brothers have a bad temper and character, there is one thing they cannot change, that is, they are very short of money, otherwise they would not live in the worst house in the inn and drink the worst wine.

Lack of money is their weakness, and we just need to grasp it. As long as we promise them a high enough gratuity share, they will obediently listen to us. I'm usually keeping an eye on it, and they shouldn't be able to cause any trouble.

We're going to work with them to get through the time and then we can kick them out when we find the right players. They may be angry, but just throw enough money bags out of front of them and keep them to forget everything. ”

"Uh......" After listening to Mura's tirade, Denise shrugged and said nothing.

Mulla stopped at this point, looked at an inn by the side of the road, and muttered, "Old oak inn?" Well, the lame said, Brother Mike seems to live on the second floor of this inn, let's go inside." ”

"Uh, yes. Denise followed Mura into the inn.

......

Inside the Old Oak Inn, second floor.

Richard sat in the middle of the room, pleased with the arrangement.

This is one of the best rooms in the hotel, and it is more accurate to say that one room is combined with a space close to two rooms, which is extremely spacious. Of course, this also crowded a house next to it, which was extremely narrow and cramped. Therefore, the price of adjacent rooms varies greatly.

A cramped, cramped room can last a day for only 5 copper coins from the Emerald Kingdom, while a spacious room requires a silver coin from the Emerald Kingdom, which costs twenty times as much.

However, for this price, Richard was completely affordable, and now it seems that it has its value.

At least, the bedding in this room didn't smell like in the previous inn, but had a faint smell of lavender.

Pandora pounced, sniffed the futon, rolled in satisfaction, and then lay on the bed without moving, like a lazy pet cat sleeping, or ...... Simply in a daze.

Richard didn't pay much attention to this, opened the suitcase, took out the "Monroe Chapter", and looked at the wine. On the way to Emerald Gold City, he thought of some things related to mana and spells, and wanted to find some relevant records from the book to confirm.

At this time, it had been some time since the letter was delivered, and Richard was not sure if Groh had received it, nor was he sure when the other party would come to meet. However, he didn't want to waste this time before the other party came.

With that in mind, Richard set his eyes on the pages of the Monroe Chapter and began to read.

But just after reading a few lines, there was a sudden noise in the next room, as if someone had gotten up from the bed and bumped into something.

This was followed by scolding and yelling, which continued for most of the day, and slowly another sound joined in, like a symphony orchestra playing a movement. It seems that if it doesn't have any effect, it will continue forever.

Richard frowned slightly, thought for a moment and approached the wall, raised his hand and tapped it rhythmically three times.

"Knock knock!"

The force was very light, but the voice was very clear, and the other party obviously heard it, and the roaring and scolding stopped abruptly.

Richard frowned, turned around and was about to walk back to the table to continue reading "The Monroe Chapter", but what he didn't expect was that the voice in the next room sounded even more noisily after a pause of a few seconds. It's like the previous reminder, not only did it not play much of a role in persuasion, but on the contrary, it also angered the other party.

Richard's brow furrowed.

At this time, a "thump" sounded next to him, and Richard turned his head to look over, and saw Pandora jumping out of bed.

Pandora looked puffed out and looked like she had been woken to sleep. Walking to the wall, facing the noise of the next room, he shook his fist and hammered it, the momentum did not look like he was pounding the wall at all, but more like beating people.

"Knock! knock!"