On the first floor, two people were walking on the street to the pier, holding fluffy pancakes made with a mixture of flour, eggs, and maple syrup in their hands.
"Captain, don't you want to take a rest?" Betty raised her eyes and glanced at Chen Ren's back and chest.
"It's okay, I just took a few blows." He looked relaxed, quite unconcerned. However, the corner of his mouth that curled up from time to time showed that it was still very painful.
"By the way, how many crowns does the captain need to hire you?" Betty's eyes flickered as she spoke.
"Four hundred thousand kronor is enough for general tasks. If you need to risk your life, don't spend any money." He raised his head and stared into the distance and casually mentioned the price. He didn't notice that when he said four hundred thousand kroner, Betty's eyes lit up, and when he said risking his life, her eyes lit up.
The light went out, as if he had made up his mind.
"Look, that's our ship." Chen Ren pointed to the ten-meter-long boat docked on the pier in the distance and introduced it to Betty.
"The alliance's small adventure ship is called the Adventurer."
When Betty heard that it was an alliance ship, she immediately looked in the direction of Chen Ren's finger, and soon saw the distinctive small ship.
When the two boarded the Adventure together, they met the dock management staff.
The Adventure is now fully stocked with supplies, all left over from the last voyage.
"How about it? My boat is pretty good, isn't it?"
"Very good, it's the most expensive small boat I've ever seen." Looking at Betty's face full of joy, he felt an inexplicable sense of dissonance.
"Are you going to move here today and live next door to me?" Chen Ren carefully tested.
"I have quite a lot of stuff. I'll pack it up tonight and go there tomorrow."
He wasn't talking about anything. The reason Betty gave was very valid.
After the two separated at the door of the second floor, they went in different directions.
"Go and follow her." He was still a little worried, so he immediately ordered Meiqiu to monitor Betty.
The crow, which had been pretending to be stupid all day, fluttered its wings and flew high, and the darkness quickly merged with the night.
"It's not easy to meet a navigator who meets my requirements. You must not be a cloud pirate." He watched Betty leave in the direction and murmured to himself, with a little regret in his tone.
After getting along with her for a day, he discovered that there was something strange about Betty. She was very concerned about her identity as a hunter and seemed to like money. He went through the details of today's interaction in his mind. Except for Betty's focus being a little weird, there was no big problem.
Chen Ren was walking alone on the street leading to the hotel. He had finished eating the maple pancakes at some point, but the packaging was tightly held in his hand.
"Have you found a navigator you are satisfied with today?"
"I found it, Betty is pretty good." He walked into the lobby on the first floor of the noisy hotel, sat directly in front of the bar, and casually ordered a non-alcoholic drink.
He raised his head and glanced at Nightcrow, who was preparing the concoction, and asked in a low voice: "Help me investigate Betty's origins, please be more detailed."
"Okay, sir. The news will be delivered to your door early tomorrow morning," a cup of milky white sweet coconut milk was pushed in front of him.
Chen Ren handed three ten-thousand-crown notes from the bookcase in his arms to Ye Ya.
"Ten thousand is for recruitment of navigators, twenty thousand is for background check, keep it." After saying that, he took the coconut milk and returned to the bedroom on the third floor, waiting for the briquettes to come back.
From the large canvas bag placed in the corner, I took out a palm-sized gourd, pulled out the stopper of the gourd, and a unique smell of herbs mixed with blood hit my face. I took off my upper body clothes, and there were four things crawling on my originally fair skin.
There are blue and purple sword marks.
"This old boy is pretty ruthless. Hiss~" The undressing movement was a bit big, stretching his muscles, and he gasped in pain.
The potion was dark red in color and was evenly applied to the sword mark. The stinging sensation was quickly replaced by coolness. After taking off the burden, he let out a light breath. The injury could be healed in one night.
"The medicine given by Senior Sister is more effective." Thinking of Senior Sister, his fingers unconsciously began to rub the white leather sachet on his waist, and his thoughts began to drift away.
"Gah, gah" I don't know how long it took, but the cry of coal briquettes came to my ears.
The scene that Coal Ball saw began to appear in front of her eyes. Betty was walking alone on the street. When passing by a dark alley, she turned in. There was a dark and shabby hotel in the alley that didn't even have a sign. After Betty went upstairs, she
Didn't come out either.
The perspective suddenly swooped down, the distance from the hotel quickly shortened, and it stopped firmly on the second floor. A black shadow flashed in the room, and through the moonlight, one could vaguely tell that it was Betty at that time.
Until she fell asleep and her perspective flew to the sky again.
The picture in his eyes disappeared as Coal Ball's third eye left.
It seemed that her life was in embarrassment. Chen Ren lowered his head and pondered. What attracted her to come here was the monthly salary of 10,000 kronor? No, no, he immediately denied it. It was the salary that attracted Betty. She has good sailing skills and can't
No income. So does she have room to spend a lot of money?
Chen Ren shook his head. There were still too few clues at the moment. Let's wait and see when the information is sent tomorrow.
With doubts, this sleep is destined not to be too comfortable...
"Dong, dong, dong", there was a rapid and panicked knock on the door, as if the door was about to be broken down. It suddenly woke up Chen Ren, who was still sleeping soundly in bed, and glanced out the window. The night was being driven away by the sun, and the sky had not yet brightened up.
With a little annoyance, Chen Ren opened the door. He wanted to see which little cutie came to harass him before dawn.
"Sir, the navigator Betty you recruited last night ran away with your ship." A panicked voice came from the mouth of the somewhat dirty child in front of him.
"The direction is unknown. This is the information we are collecting about Betty." A piece of paper was tremblingly handed to Chen Ren. It was obvious that he was very scared now.
"Let's go." As soon as he finished speaking, the child ran away and disappeared.
When Chen Ren heard the news about Betty sailing away, his head was filled with confusion. Why don't I have a valuable boat? A strange thought came to him. He clenched the information in his hand, turned around and closed the door.
"This navigator is really weird. You came to apply for this job just because of that ship?" Thoughts were flying in his mind. He really couldn't figure it out. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to follow him than to sell his ship to make a quick buck?
After carefully reading the information recorded above, Betty (self-proclaimed/formerly known as Carla), female, eighteen years old (self-proclaimed). The first time she appeared in the Land of Red Maple was one month ago, during which she lived in a dark alley. Then she disappeared.
?
"Bah." He looked unhappy now. What kind of rubbish information was coming from Night Crow? No wonder he asked a child to send the information. He crumpled the information into a ball and threw it in the trash can.
He picked up the canvas package on his back, picked up the horizontal knife, and headed towards the dock with the briquettes.
"Boss, I'll keep the room I reserved here for a few days. I'm going on a long trip." He said loudly to the hotel owner when he met him on the first floor of the hotel.
As for Ye Crow's account, we'll settle it together when he comes back.