Chapter 235: Leaving the Red House, the Remains in the Slime

After inquiring about the news of the war that had caused this series of changes in the political situation last year, Jier then clarified the map information regarding the location of the Kendall Army, which he had obtained by spending money.

From the Wealth's Ear organization, he learned that the location of the Kendall Army was not very far from the Wierstu Checkpoint. The barony they were currently in could be considered the smallest barony in the entire Southern Province, and the entire territory was shaped like a crescent moon—that is, long and narrow from north to south, and relatively narrow from east to west.

Jier only needed to lead his team a short distance to the east to reach the capital territory directly under the provincial Earl.

However, one thing that needs to be clarified is that although the barony under his feet today is small, from here all the way to the east, large areas consist of the gently rolling hilly terrain rarely seen in the Southern Province, with forests evenly distributed and multiple rivers flowing through this vast area, resulting in numerous fields and a dense population.

Therefore, do not think that this Baron's strength is weak just because the territory is small; in fact, it is much stronger than the Ke'er Baron family, and not inferior to the Bostafa Family of Cuikuang.

After thanking Lady Flower for the information provided tonight, even though this was an equal monetary transaction, Jier solemnly thanked Lady Flower after putting away the hand-drawn map.

Unexpectedly, Lady Flower smiled instead: "You are truly very polite, young Knight Jier. Surely not all knights from the Northwest Province are this particular about etiquette?"

Jier also smiled: "Of course not. I can only say that we Kendall people are like this."

"Kendall people, huh? Sounds like that is a rich and peaceful good place?"

Jier smiled bitterly: "Quite the opposite; the population there is sparse, and bandits often plunder the trade routes on the edge of the territory."

"Bandits are everywhere; as long as there are young people in villages everywhere who want to take risks but have no way out, the profession of bandit will never lack newcomers." After saying this, Lady Flower stood up to see Jier off.

Jier did not need to do anything with her; the organization member behind the building wall pulled a mechanism, and while the hanging painting on the wall closed to cover this person, the wooden door of the room that had originally been closed was also opened.

"Then I shall take my leave now." Jier smiled and said goodbye to Lady Flower.

And Lady Flower also pretended to be sweet, using her hand to help Jier tidy up his hair and the collar of his clothes: "Come again next time, young and generous lad."

After saying this, she even blew a kiss, which made the young woman waiting for Jier in the hall outside the room glare with anger. On the table beside this young woman, there were also seven or eight unopened boxes of Highland Hills Wine.

As soon as this young woman saw Jier walk out of Lady Flower's room, she immediately walked over and affectionately took Jier's arm. She sniffed Jier's body and only smelled the clear scent of alcohol; there was no fragrance from a woman.

She was not jealous; she was just terrified that the business deal that had earned a large profit tonight would fall through.

"Young Master, the wine you wanted is ready. Look, it is all the Eastern Highland Hills Wine you specifically requested. I have checked that they are all intact and unopened, and every bottle is at least three years old. The flavor is guaranteed to satisfy you, not a bit different from what you just drank! Only~"

Jier took the other person to his spot and lowered his head to check these good things: "Only what?"

"Only the quantity is not that much. The shop only has this many, eight bottles in total, already packed in the box."

Jier was not careless; this stuff was not cheap. He took out this expensive, delicious wine bottle by bottle to check it in his hands. After confirming there were no problems, he then took out his money bag.

He had wanted to buy nearly twenty bottles of this wine in one go; it was obviously a very good thing to drink himself or give to others as gifts. But since this Red House only had eight bottles, he had no choice but to buy this little bit of wine.

He grabbed eight Gold Coins from his money bag in one go, then grabbed a small handful of coins from another money bag containing copper and silver coins and handed them to the young woman: "This is the money for the wine, keep it well. And this, is a little reward for you."

The young woman immediately tucked the money Jier rewarded her with into her clothes, and even turned her head left and right, terrified of being seen by anyone.

Afterwards, she excitedly hugged Jier and kissed him passionately.

Jier was completely bewildered; so sudden?

But his mind was not on this. The two kissed for a moment, and the young woman wanted to invite Jier to spend the night in the shop, but Jier smiled, picked up the box containing the wine, and left.

Although she could not understand why Jier was in such a hurry to leave instead of playing until dawn like other guests who came to the Red House to have fun, the young woman still affectionately saw Jier to the shop door and stuffed a handkerchief embroidered with her name into Jier's inner clothing: "Generous Young Master, you must come to see me more often in the future~ It doesn't matter if you don't have time today; you can come to see me whenever you have free time. My name is embroidered on the handkerchief."

Jier smiled: "Perhaps, depending on the opportunity."

After saying this, he patted the young woman, then nodded to the shop bouncer at the door, and left carrying the wine.

Unexpectedly, the bouncer at the door of the Red House saw that Jier was still holding the expensive wine bought from the shop, and immediately indicated that guests should not have to carry the wine themselves; they could help carry it and deliver it all the way to the guest's residence.

"This can also avoid possible harassment from some scum in the dark places outside," the leader of the bouncers said, bowing slightly to Jier.

Jier had no objections and casually handed the box of wine he was easily carrying to one of the bouncers. He walked away empty-handed. The bouncer holding the wine bounced the heavy box in his arms, unable to understand how Jier had been able to carry such a heavy thing with one hand so easily just now.

The two arrived at the inn where Jier's caravan was staying in no time. He had the bouncer hand the box to his heavily armed subordinates guarding the night in the inn lobby, and he himself asked Xueya Site, who had not yet rested: "Why haven't you rested yet? It's so late? Niwaer, you must know that I can go without sleep for days and be fine, but you guys can't."

The Red House bouncer clicked his tongue as he watched the heavily armed, murderous, armored Warrior in the inn lobby take the wine box he handed over. After looking at Jier twice more, he was glared at by the armored Warrior and immediately ran away quickly, terrified of provoking someone he could not afford to offend.

Xueya Site looked helpless. He glanced at the box Jier had bought back, ignored these trivial matters, leaned into Jier's ear, and said: "I also want to rest well, but that shapeshifter you 'keep' suddenly ran over to find me just now, saying that tonight, right here in the inn where we are staying, hiss—it ate a person!"

Jier's brow furrowed immediately, and his previously good expression collapsed at once: "Really? Hmm, didn't I repeatedly tell that guy not to eat people casually? It seems its wild nature cannot be controlled after all, and it has revealed its Monster face."

He immediately asked: "Where is that guy? Take me to find it."

After saying this, just as he was about to leave, he said to the subordinate holding the wine box: "The box contains the expensive wine I just bought, don't drop it. Just send it to my room on the third floor and put it anywhere. Let's go, Siter, let's go, you lead the way."

Xueya Site immediately led Jier through the inn lobby, arrived at the inn's backyard, bypassed the closely parked carriages one by one, and arrived in front of Jier's own carriage.

Once they arrived, they could see that the Huimao Hu Li was not staying obediently in the cage, nor was it greedily saying it was opening the wooden barrels containing Monster meat chunks of spray-water crocodile from other carriages to eat. This guy was just squatting on the ground obediently, blinking its eyes at Jier, with a little expression of waiting for praise.

Seeing that this was outdoors, Jier waved his hand toward the direction of the third floor of the inn. The next moment, the blue Two-handed Axe flew down into Jier's hand with a blue light.

Even if he was not wearing armor or protective gear at this time and was not fully armed, Jier was confident that he could kill this disobedient shapeshifter that ate people at will using only this weapon.

Several Warriors guarding the backyard wanted to come over to see what was going on, but were stopped by Jier: "Guard your positions well, there is nothing major here."

"Yes, my lord, I obey your command," the three Warriors replied.

In the narrow space blocked by the carriages, there were only Jier, Xueya Site, and the shapeshifter Ruier'erui squatting on the ground.

"There is no one else here, so I will be blunt."

Jier had a cold face, leaning the axe on the ground, looking at the obediently squatting Huimao Hu Li: "Just now when I came back, Xueya Site told me that you ate a person tonight?"

"Yes, I ate a Human. If it weren't for waiting for you to come back to explain the situation, I would have been forced to rest by now."

A crisp voice came from the mouth of the Huimao Hu Li on the ground. When it spoke, it had an "it goes without saying" look on its face.

"Did you forget my requirements for you? You cannot eat people at will, especially my people or ordinary civilians."

But Jier's serious questioning did not seem to make the Huimao Hu Li feel nervous. It grinned and said with a smile: "That's right, the guy I ate was not one of your Warriors, or an ordinary person in the inn."

Jier turned his head to look at Xueya Site. His good partner coughed lightly: "Yes, yes, Jier. Ruier'erui, that is its name, right? Ruier'erui said a suspicious guy suddenly appeared next to the carriage in the yard. Judging by the clothing and appearance, it wasn't one of our people, nor was it a shop assistant or the boss of the inn. What did you say just now?"

The shapeshifter Ruier'erui added: "That Human was wearing all black, and could see things clearly even in the night without lighting, and was also holding a Dagger in his hand. Is this person one of your people, Jier? Do you know him? I didn't eat the wrong person, did I?"

Jier was stunned for a moment. There was no such person in the caravan; no one was dressed like that. After all, everyone was a Warrior, fighting head-on, so there was no need to dress in all black.

"Doesn't sound like one of our own," Jier muttered.

Xueya Site also added: "Yes, yes, I was startled when I first heard Ruier'erui mention it, but the inn's shop assistants don't dress like that either; they all wear tight trousers and shirts with vests. This person is very suspicious, after all, in the middle of the night, and dressed all in black..."

Xueya Site made a gesture, and Jier raised his eyebrows: "You mean a Thief? This..."

Before Jier could feel that it was tricky, the shapeshifter simply opened its big mouth and, violating common sense, spat out a whole pile of Human clothing, tight Light Leather Armor, and hood, boots, and belt, etc., which were much larger than its current volume, including two fine steel Daggers.

This big pile of things was covered in sticky, suspicious slime. Although it did not seem to have corrosive digestive capabilities, it still made one's scalp tingle to look at it.

However, Jier still patiently squatted down with Xueya Site to rummage through this pile of items; as for the head of Ruier'erui? It had to lean against the carriage to the side, emitting a blue light to provide illumination for the few of them.

The several Monster heads on the axe looked regretful, feeling it a pity that they hadn't been able to eat the Monster Spirit of this Shapeshifter tonight.

In fact, despite Ruier'erui looking relaxed, its entire body had actually stiffened in fear just now when it saw Jier summon the blue Two-handed Axe. It knew all too well how powerful this thing was; after all, its ears weren't deaf, and when it usually pretended to be a Huimao Hu Li, it often heard Warriors discussing the terror of Jier's weapon.

If given enough time to shapeshift, perhaps it could have transformed into a water-spitting crocodile to fight Jier for a while, but if Jier didn't give it time to shapeshift and directly summoned the axe into his hand to neatly land a few blows on its face, then it could only regretfully die on the spot.

It was all that guy Xueya Site's fault for not being able to convey a simple message, not explaining things clearly, and nearly causing it to be angrily hacked to death by Jier.

Therefore, when spitting out the Human equipment and items it had swallowed, Ruier'erui deliberately spat out some extra body mucus to disgust both Xueya Site and Jier.

Xueya Site spread out the equipment of this person of unknown identity on the ground as much as possible, while Jier immediately picked up the two Daggers made of high-quality steel that were covered in mucus.

These two Daggers were not the multi-purpose Dagger style used by ordinary people; their sharp, slender appearance was better suited for stabbing in combat as off-hand weapons, and if one used such Daggers in both hands, the user's identity would not be hard to guess.

"Most likely a Thief. They really came quickly."

Jier casually threw the two Daggers in his hand onto the ground, letting them stand upright in the solid soil. Afterward, he looked at the set of clothing Xueya Site had organized, which looked like a lightweight suit suitable for moving at night.

Jier touched the shoulder area of the clothing, where a layer of black fabric was wrapped over the leather shoulder guard, completely covering the shoulder guard part beneath the fabric, and setting aside the mucus on the clothing, when touched by hand, there was no significant clashing sound from the contact between his fingers and the clothing.

"Very professional. I've only seen similar things when I was suppressing a professional Thief in Grass Rat Town. This person's identity is most likely someone from the Thieves Guild, but I don't know what this person's intentions were. Stealing things? Or seeking revenge on me?"

Jier had just finished muttering a few words to himself when he was stopped by Xueya Site: "Jier, look, this person's pants have a lining, inside, whoa—it's Gold Coins, and quite a few too."

With one reach, he pulled out more than ten Gold Coins from the lining of the person's pants.

It was just that after Xueya Site examined these Gold Coins for a while, he spoke strangely: "Something is wrong. Why do the scratches and bite marks on these Gold Coins look so familiar? Look, Jier, I remember when I was issuing the bounty with you a few days ago, I seem to have seen this as a Gold Coin that Xiao Tusi had bitten."

The two looked at each other, both thinking of a possibility, and then both smiled bitterly, because in the inn behind them, the Warriors were still sleeping soundly, while the wealth they regarded as Zhenbao had actually entered this Thief's pocket without them knowing.

If it weren't for the Shapeshifter Ruier'erui eating this person, the entire caravan would likely have woken up to heavy losses.

Warriors might not be bad when fighting people head-on, but Thieves won't confront you directly; they often steal your important and valuable things when you don't know it.

In the leather bag at this person's waist, there were also used potion bottles; it was unknown what they had once contained.

At the same time, several strange mechanical devices of unknown function were found. Jier looked at these things, which resembled high-explosive grenades from his previous life, so he carefully left them alone. He just glanced at Ruier'erui more, thinking that if these things could explode, then for the Shapeshifter to so carelessly swallow these things into its stomach, if it were ever inexplicably blown to death by the explosives in its stomach, it would likely be very possible.

Who told this guy to dare to eat anything.

"By the way, didn't you say you would rest after swallowing things? Why haven't I seen you do that?" Jier asked.

The Shapeshifter replied: "You think I don't want to rest? I've been holding back, waiting for you to come back to give you an account, so that Jier, you know, I am not a pet that can't be of use. Hmph."

Jier rolled his eyes, and seeing that Kuaitui Maomao was nowhere to be found, he asked about it, not expecting the Shapeshifter to answer as well: "Seems like it went out to forage at night. Now you know, who in the team is actually the most reliable at critical moments!"

"Yes, yes, yes, you're reliable, you're reliable," Jier said with a smile.

But his good mood quickly vanished, because in the inner pocket of the clothes on the ground, he found a small metal badge with familiar craftsmanship.

Looking at this thing that was clearly made of Magic Material, Jier was stunned, because he rummaged through his own body and also took out a similar thing.

The metal badge of the Wealth's Ear organization.

"What is this! How could it be someone from this organization?"

Jier was stunned.