"Oh, let's wait and see." Qinglu smiled and greeted the two young boys to eat.
Although the two boys look like humans, they still look a bit immodest in their monkey-like appearance. At least the guests at several tables around them looked at them a little strangely.
All three of them were meaty. At first, I let go of my cheeks and ate them, and I ate heartily.
It was just that the dishes were being placed too quickly, causing the guests at the surrounding tables to express disdain.
It's like looking at a bunch of country bumpkins! !
It’s been so many years since you’ve eaten meat, right?
In fact, the three of them just have better appetites.
I eat in a hurry.
It was finally the end of the meal, and the store owner had already ordered the waiter to come and ask for money, for fear that Qinglu and the three of them were eating the Bawang meal.
There are all kinds of weird things these days. If you really encounter someone who eats the King's meal, you can only deal with it separately.
The boy stood firmly behind Qinglu, as if waiting for her to pay.
"How much?" Qinglu asked.
"Eight thousand and five hundred spiritual stones, all the fractions have been wiped out by you. Do you think it's time to settle the bill now?" The boy looked at the three of them with a wary expression.
"If there is no spiritual stone, can the divine crystal be collected?" Qinglu asked.
As soon as he heard that there was no spiritual stone, the clerk almost jumped up. Fortunately, Qinglu said the word "神石" again.
He has never seen the divine crystal, but the shopkeeper is said to have received it.
"The divine crystal is ready. You take it out first." The guy said uneasily. I wonder if these three people have any divine crystals?
Qinglu nodded and directly threw a divine crystal the size of a soybean into the tray in his hand. Originally, the divine crystals in Qinglu's hands were usually cast into standard divine crystal blocks using artifacts.
Later I found out, ahem, it doesn’t need to be that big.
Zhenji simply made a batch of divine crystal bean paste that was only the size of a soybean for her to take outside. It is also easy to find change on the tile surface.
"So young?" The boy was confused.
"This is a divine crystal. Even if I take out a large piece, you can't find it." Qinglu said.
The little guy continued to wonder, this little thing was really worth more than 8,000 spiritual stones. At this time, the shopkeeper rushed over running and jumping. As soon as Qinglu took out the divine crystal, the shopkeeper saw it. No matter how small the divine crystal is, it is still a divine crystal. He really doesn't dislike it at all.
I carefully identified it and found that it was a true divine crystal. Even though the size is a bit small, the shopkeeper is happy.
"Sir, the purity of your divine crystal is quite good. One crystal is worth more than 10,000 spiritual stones to me. Do you think it's okay for me to get back another 3,500 spiritual stones from you?" the shopkeeper asked. .
Qinglu was a little surprised. With such a small divine crystal, she could still exchange it for so many spiritual stones?
"That's okay."
Sure enough, the spirit stones the store took out were also small.
It was much smaller than the standard spirit stones she saw outside, only a quarter of those large spirit stones. The purity is almost the same as what is available outside.
So tiny! ! !
I didn’t expect that she was smaller than others! !
Relatively speaking, she still made a profit. The larger divine crystals out there probably couldn't be exchanged for so many smaller spiritual stones.
Of course, it does not exclude people who urgently need it.
Qinglu accepted the spirit stone in frustration and walked out of the store, only to find that the wind outside was blowing very hard. Too many small and light items were blown into the sky on the streets.
Not only was it windy, but the sky was also gloomy and it looked like it was about to rain heavily.
You have to find a place to hide from the rain.
"Master, there is a large inn five hundred steps to the east. It looks pretty good." Yun Yan quickly introduced it.
"You lead the way, let's go."
The strong wind made it difficult for anyone to open their eyes, and the pattering rain began to fall.
Under Yun Yan's guidance, Qing Lu simply took the two young boys into a higher-lying inn. The area where this inn was built was on high ground, and the ground floor was a stone platform three to four feet high.
On the stone platform, a five-story stone-brick-concrete-wood high-rise was built. The overall architectural style is high-profile and luxurious, very much in the style of the Hai people.
When Qinglu led people into the first floor of the inn, she found that many people were already stranded in the lobby.
Some people were looking for a house to live in, while others ran in to take shelter from the rain.
Everyone is talking about the heavy wind and rain outside.
Tell about the impact and expected losses you have suffered.
Qinglu listened carefully and heard something about a big storm that had not happened in sixty years.
There is also the possibility that sea water may be poured into the market or something.
"Go to your counter and book three rooms. We will rest here today." Qinglu assigned Yun Dou to do the work.
Yun Dou immediately went to book a room, and he returned not long after.
"I booked three suites on the fifth floor. The three suites are next to each other and have a shared balcony. However, the price is also expensive. Three suites cost 3,000 spiritual stones per night. I just paid for two. The divine crystal beans given by the master."
Qinglu nodded with satisfaction.
"The female steward at the counter over there said that this big storm will last for at least seven or eight days. When the big storm passes, there will be not only strong winds, but also heavy rain. If everything outside is filled with water, we will not be able to leave. We might as well book ten day, wait until the water recedes before leaving. So it’s best for us to stay in the hotel for a few more days. So I booked a room for ten days.”
"That makes sense." Qinglu nodded after hearing this.
The young man who was the guiding servant had complicated eyes.
Can he say that his female housekeeper is doing this as a sales pitch?
Absolutely not.
As soon as they entered the suite on the fifth floor, there was a heavy rain outside the window.
Rainwater poured down from the Tianhe River, flooding the streets below at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Then the water continued to rise, gradually reaching the ankles of pedestrians.
Before an hour passed, I heard someone shouting, "The water is coming up, the water is coming up."
Qinglu walked to the window and saw the sea water rushing in, quickly submerging half of the surrounding one-story houses. All kinds of seafood drift shyly in the sea water. The new place makes them a little unfamiliar, a little cramped.
The water rose so fast that it didn't take long to cover the first floor of some houses. There are also some simple houses that were directly submerged in the sea water or pushed and collapsed in the sea water.
The waiter at the door gently knocked on the door and brought three pots of hot milk tea.
"This season here, there are big storms every year, and the seawater floods the first and second floors often. We have done a good job of protection, and the entire building of the inn is embedded with a large number of protective formations. Even if the seawater rises now, our building There is not a drop of water on the inner layer.
Dear guests, rest assured. "
Qing Lu suddenly realized that they were here to comfort her and others not to panic.
"Won't it flood to the fifth floor?" Qinglu asked.
"At most three floors, the fourth floor has never been flooded." The attendant said frankly.
"I can rest assured that."
Seeing that the guests expressed their relief, the attendant left and went to other rooms to comfort the guests. Qinglu didn't know how many people lived in this building. There were indeed many formations inside and outside the house. She was not willing to waste her divine energy.
But without using the divine crystal to explore, wouldn’t she go out for a walk?
When Qinglu went down to the first floor alone, he found that the door was still open.
Even a few side entrances start. A large amount of sea water roared and flowed through the formation in front of the door.
Several residents even brought fishing rods with great interest and threw them into the sea water with the intention of harvesting something.
What can you catch at this time?
Isn't it possible to catch a lonely fish?
Loneliness was not caught, but a man covered in injuries was rushed into the inn door by the water. Qing Lu clearly saw the other party's formation approaching the gate, and suddenly his body flashed, and then he flashed into the inn.
"It's Mr. Ding, come here quickly. Call the doctor quickly." The female steward at the counter shouted in dismay.
Soon someone took Mr. Ding away.
Then every so often, a few more people would be swept in from the sea.
All of them were covered in bruises and looked like they were about to die.
Not surprisingly, they were all people I knew from the inn. The female steward behind the counter was so horrified that her face turned pale. From being calm and calm at the beginning, he has become pale and frightened now.
After seven or eight large animals were involved, Qinglu waited for a long time but no one was involved again.
She simply went back to sleep.
Qinglu didn't get up until noon on the second day.
As a result, when I looked outside at this time, the strong wind and heavy rain were still blowing, and the sea fruit had indeed submerged the second floor and began to evolve towards the third floor.
The main building of the inn made a slight creaking sound, and seemed to be unable to bear the weight.
In fact, where it is difficult to bear the weight, it is clearly due to the various pressures and impacts brought by the external sea water, which are somewhat unbearable.
At this time, there are not many buildings still standing on the interface.
It can be about one-tenth of the original size.
There were also some buildings that collapsed due to some inexplicable impact.
There is a lot of chaotic atmosphere floating under the sea water.
It's hard to tell what's inside.
Such windy and rainy days really lasted for five full days.
The big storm was gradually weakening and completely disappeared from their area.
However, the overflowing sea water cannot drop for a while.
You still need to wait a few days before you can retreat.
This time, the sea water only reached the second and a half floors. As expected, no house reached the third floor.
Tenants on the first and second floors watched the storm pass and rushed to the counter to ask for their money back.
They paid the room for the purpose of moving into a good house. When this big storm comes, there will always be eyes staring at you outside your window no matter what the night, and weird things will keep swimming from one end to the other. What a sense of oppression this is.
What a ghost house.
So everyone ran together to ask for a reduction in the room fee as mental damage compensation.
It's a pity that the inn is more humiliating than them. It costs money and life.
Anyway, there is no refund.
The two sides were at loggerheads, and I don't know who mediated in the end, although they reconciled. But something strange happened.
Although the inn promised to reduce the room fee by half, the guests on the first and second floors did not continue to stay and checked out one after another. No one had gone down yet, so they took the boat and left.
On another three or five days, some people entered the inn looking for someone, asking about their relatives or friends.
Then everyone realized that all the tenants who had left the rooms on the first and second floors returned home and disappeared.
When those who came to ask questions, the people at the inn said they didn't know. Anyway, those people have left, and many tenants who are still staying at the inn know about it and have seen it.
As long as you leave the inn, the inn will take care of you.
When Qinglu left with the two little monkeys, she saw another guest who had lived on the second floor planning to leave with her relatives and friends who came to see her.
There was a gray mark clearly marked on the other party's forehead.
But he and his relatives didn't notice it at all.
The people at the inn treated them as if they didn't exist and let them leave after paying the rent.
The two little monkeys were making noises and wanted to leave with their team, but they were grabbed by Qinglu. "Let's go and eat before we leave."
When Qinglu and the others were full before leaving, they saw the daughter of a previous guest crying not far from the gate. There were people watching around.
It turned out that not long after they walked out of the inn, the little girl's father and other relatives and friends walked into the gray mist, and then disappeared. The little girl was the only one who woke up on her own and did not step into the gray fog at the last moment.
At this time, the gray fog had disappeared, and she had no clue if she wanted to find anyone, so she could only stay there and cry helplessly.
She couldn't even find help in this market.
Qinglu took the two little monkeys and crossed each other and left.
As Yun Dou walked, he sent a message to his master. "Master, why did those people disappear?"
"There is something squatting outside the inn where we are staying. Anyone who lives on floors flooded by sea water during heavy storms will be marked by it. As long as they come out, they will be eaten." It's just green dew. Directly transmitting the message to Yun Dou, "That inn was quite protective of its residents at first, and tried hard to erase those marks, but later, I don't know what happened, and they gave up their efforts. As a result, all the residents who were marked were gone."
Yun Dou was stunned after hearing this.
How can it still be like this?
"Then what happened??"
"They didn't want us to know, and I'm not willing to investigate." Qinglu said. The investigation has to go back in time, which will consume divine crystals. Especially going back in time consumes seven or eight divine crystals every day.
Don't want to waste it.
"I always feel a little weird." Yun Dou said.
"If there is fate, we will always meet each other in the future." Qinglu said. Anyway, she has limited resources now, so she doesn’t want to work hard anymore, she just wants to wait for food to fall from the sky. As long as the quality is good, she doesn't mind no matter what it looks like.
As long as you can eat it. She agreed as it tasted almost different.
The sea water has completely receded, and a large number of vendors appeared on the streets from nowhere.
One by one shouted hard.
Qinglu stopped as she walked. The vendor selling wild dragon eggs that I saw that day appeared again.
This time he placed a large pile of eggs of various patterns and sizes on the fabric of his stall.
Qinglu saw it and rushed over excitedly.
Those balls, she felt that some of them were related to her, hahaha.
When she moved, the two young boys followed her.
