Chapter 390: Oysters and Three-legged Sea Dog

"Algae-Scale" Duo De?

Xia Nan pondered this title, which carried a bit of the reckless spirit of adventurers, but there was no impression related to it in his mind, obviously a local figure in Suoyu Wan.

And the middle-aged man responsible for information work in front also explained to him at the right time:

"'Algae-Scale' Duo De, Dragonborn, born as an adventurer in Suoyu Wan, plundered a royal cargo ship of the Servia Kingdom in the middle of a mission, and after being wanted, he took his fleet into the Southern Islands, and is now a famous pirate in the nearby sea area."

Although adventurers in different regions had their own ecology and vastly different hidden rules, to some extent, they also possessed certain commonalities in behavior and conduct due to the extraordinary power they possessed far exceeding ordinary civilians and the extremely lacking regulatory system in the local area.

Just like those bottom-level adventurers in River Valley Town, who might be respectable fathers bearing the economic pillar at home, hardworking husbands working outside, and humorous adventurer peers at the next table in the tavern;

But when they reached the wild wilderness without supervision, for those villagers in remote settlements, they became fierce and vicious robbers and cold-blooded executioners.

Adventurers in Suoyu Wan were the same.

On this vast sea area filled with chaos and violence, the boundary between "adventurer" and so-called "pirate" became incomparably blurred.

Facing a cargo ship accidentally encountered on the way back, the vast majority of adventurer fleets didn't mind raising the skull flag usually pressed at the bottom of the cabin on the mast, guest-starring as a pirate, and doing some dirty work of plundering.

—Of course, provided that the cargo ship did not belong to the Servia Kingdom or the Bay Chamber of Commerce.

No one knew why "Algae-Scale" Duo De, who had already made a name for himself in the local adventurer circle at that time, would attack the Kingdom's cargo ship at the cost of being wanted by the Kingdom and forbidden from entering Suoyu Wan, only able to hide in the depths of the islands like a hermit crab that had lost its shell.

And no one knew what the other party had snatched from the ship.

To this day, he had already turned from a rising adventurer star in Suoyu Wan into a famous big pirate in the nearby sea area.

"Regarding the information about that direct descendant of the Morton family, it is much less than Duo De, only knowing that the other party was also an adventurer, but the adventurer team he belonged to seemed to have suffered heavy losses in a mission and almost disbanded, and he himself chose to retire and settle in Suoyu Wan, and encountered 'Algae-Scale' Duo De during a voyage, and has been missing since then."

The information officer across the table explained the detailed information about Duo De and Lailuo Morton to Xia Nan.

With a calm face, Xia Nan digested the information he got from the other party.

The actual situation was already very clear.

His target was the 【Dream Weaving Corridor】 key that might be carried by Lailuo Morton. Now that the other party had encountered a pirate attack and was missing, the whereabouts of the key could only be one of three possibilities:

1. The key was hidden in advance by Lailuo Morton, and now it was quietly lying in some unknown secret corner because of the other party's death;

2. The key sank into the sea with Lailuo, and after so many years, it was probably washed away by the sea current to the deep sea, buried by mud and gravel;

3. The key was seized by "Algae-Scale" Duo De.

The corresponding response plan could also be said to be very simple.

Find "Algae-Scale", ask the other party if there was any special harvest when attacking Lailuo, such as the silver-white metal object recorded in the journal of the once evil druid; then trace the source, carefully check Lailuo's former residence, and find people close to him, trying to find the possible hiding place of the key.

And if it fell to the worst situation, the key had already sunk into the sea with Lailuo's death...

Xia Nan was afraid he could only treat this trip to Suoyu Wan as a leisurely vacation in the gap between missions.

It was just that when he proposed to the information officer that he wanted to get information about the places where "Algae-Scale" might appear recently, and proposed that he was willing to pay points for it, the middle-aged man in front didn't confirm immediately and handle the procedures for him.

Instead, he suggested with an implication in a slightly hesitant tone:

"Mr. Xia Nan, I personally suggest that regarding this type of information... perhaps you can try your luck in the taverns in Suoyu Wan. After all, in many cases, not every adventurer has the qualification to come to the underground floor of the association, and points themselves can only be obtained through tasks, which are more precious than gold coins."

The other party had actually said it very clearly.

He felt that Xia Nan using his points on this kind of question was a practice with very low cost-effectiveness and was very wasteful.

Regarding the whereabouts of the direct descendant of the Morton family, this kind of information that happened many years ago might need the help of the association's own huge information database to have some harvest.

But regarding the appearance location of a figure like "Algae-Scale", finding a channel to ask in a tavern like "Three-legged Sea Dog" and spending a little money could actually get quite reliable news.

In fact, the vast majority of professionals in Suoyu Wan did the same.

For information that one wanted to understand deeply, first get a rough understanding through the association, and spend a small amount of points to figure out the key figures or important locations.

Then bring the information back to the tavern and use other civilian channels to understand further.

Xia Nan thought about it, his remaining 6 points were indeed stretched, and it was not certain that he could exchange for the information he wanted.

So he nodded and stood up, expressing his gratitude to the middle-aged man in front:

"Thank you for your help and suggestions, I will consider it seriously."

"It should be, Mr. Xia Nan."

Creak—

The wooden door of the information room closed slowly, leaving a sluggish sound in the cold and quiet air.

Xia Nan had just walked out of the room, and Maer, who had been waiting outside the room when he inquired about information, greeted him with a smile.

She didn't ask what information Xia Nan had inquired about with a sense of proportion, but took the initiative to introduce him to other rooms on this floor.

For this receptionist with honey-colored skin and reddish-brown coiled hair braided behind her head, his impression could be said to be very good.

And with his personality that was not very particular, unless the other party's performance was really unsatisfactory, in many cases, the first choice would also be the first choice for a long time to come.

Just like the covered rice restaurant downstairs in the company in his previous life that few people visited, and the cream mushroom soup he drank at White Tit after crossing over.

He naturally knew that if he took tasks and spent points at Maer's place, it would count as the other party's performance.

But if this lady was so dutiful, Xia Nan didn't mind continuing to cooperate with the other party at all.

Saying goodbye to Maer, who became obviously more enthusiastic after he expressed his willingness to cooperate slightly, Xia Nan walked out of the gate of the Adventurer Association.

It was dusk, and the dim twilight spilled onto the sea surface, reflecting layers of brilliant radiance amidst the surging waves; the distant horizon between the sea and the dome seemed to merge under the setting sun, leaving only a few seagulls vibrating their wings, disappearing into the depths of the brilliant light.

Feeling the slightly salty and humid air between his breaths, Xia Nan stood on the open space beside the association, enjoying the sunset scenery of Suoyu Wan for a while, and then withdrew his gaze.

The buyer of the 【Tide-Surging Lure Rod】 was not in Suoyu Wan, and the return time was uncertain, so it was shelved for the time being, waiting for the association to notify later. ===== CHAPTER 391 =====