He mentally considered the cause and effect, coughed twice, turned back to the house, closed the door, and smiled politely: "Well, uncle, who are you?"
"Huh?" The old man had already fallen asleep again, and he was drooling, "Oh, I am daddy, everyone calls me daddy."
"So this is Cherry Crossing?"
"Yes, my home."
"Then the people living in the surrounding houses are..."
"What's the point? Hospitable father's guests."
"Then they live here for..."
“Enjoy the beef risotto cooked by me on the 15th of every month.”
"besides?"
"Those who escaped from the war, those who were forced to come here by the Colombo people, and those who are waiting for their ferry tickets, all have to stay in hotels, like this."
"So is it safe here?"
"Safe and safe, equal exchange, guest and host enjoy themselves." The old man rubbed his fingers, "Safety is part of the room service, it is included in the room fee."
Gu Tie raised an eyebrow (a bit awkward, obviously the young lady's facial muscles were less mobile) and looked at the blind old man, silently moving half a foot sideways, and the old man's eyes turned like searchlights.
Gu Tie was convinced. "Dad, how many people are there in the town's defense force?"
"It's no joke. The noble lord of Bazeral, the defeated soldier of the war, the Negro of Colombo, and the wild monster will be less likely to cause trouble. Do you think so, this young man?"
"Then Cherry Crossing has a huge private guard."
"No, no, no, it's just Dad. It costs too much money to raise soldiers." The old man said without changing his face.
Gu Tie resisted the urge to complain, thinking that this is a game world, and a blind old man with no flesh and blood should not be treated with common sense.
He searched for the memory of the prophecy book in his mind, did some calculations, and said calmly: "Dad, I'm going to stay here until April 26th. Let's get a room. Will you provide breakfast?" He stretched out his hand to touch it.
But he only felt his thigh flesh.
Gu Tie's face turned pale. "...Can I swipe my card?"
"Which currency is used to swipe the card? If it's gold coins, by weight, it's no problem. Children are innocent." Dad touched a registration form with his left hand, and a quill pen with his right hand, which was stained with ink.
"...Um, Dad, there are dozens of gems in my bag, as well as crystals engraved with star formations. It's probably more than the cost of road rescue, right?"
"I rescued you from the woods, not the road. I have calculated that from the time I heard you hit the ground to the time I grabbed you back, the fifteen miles of night road were just balanced. You see,
You have to pay more for each trip, and you have to pay more for traveling at night, it’s quite fair, young man!”
You are a taxi! Night fares are implemented, and there are also empty fares!
Gu Tie cursed the old man viciously in his heart, with a smile on his face: "Dad, I don't have a penny left, but I am an astrologer. I can pay my allowance as long as I find the union office. Besides, I can also do good things for the town."
Do whatever you can do, such as..." He quickly searched in his mind for the jobs that this character could do, and found that after the young astrology apprentice left the astrology tower, he was a pale boy with no power, and was useless.
"...For example, this!" Gu Tie looked around, his eyes lit up, and he raised the staff used as a crutch: "Watch."
"Work can be exchanged for money. This is a universal rule in the world." The old man said readily, "I welcome such guests."
Gu Tie mobilized his memory about the star array and carefully felt the structure of the star array in the red crystal inlaid on the top of the staff. A complex image of the star array appeared in his sea of consciousness.
The memory told him that the so-called star array is a three-dimensional shape formed by using extremely thin mithril threads arranged inside the crystal. He tried to gently pluck the string that represented activation, and red light slowly emerged from the inside of the crystal.
, overflowing. Gu Tie carefully controlled the operation of the star array, feeling that the interstellar lines emitted by the first house star "Bear" passed through the darkness, and the sporadic energy peeled off by the star array gathered in the crystal, rotated and gathered, and emitted light.
The intense orange-yellow light from the star array filled the entire room. Gu Tie proudly raised his staff to pay tribute to the complex and fun game astrology system.
Five minutes later, he let go of his right hand and the light dimmed. "Dad, how about this?"
"Um?"
The old man raised his eye sockets without eyeballs.
Gu Tie hit his head against the wall.
"...I mean, I can provide lighting. Look, Dad, the night in Cherry Crossing is as dark as the bottom of a pot. It's inconvenient and devoid of atmosphere. It's a trivial matter to go out in the dark to fall in love or have sex.
, how bad is it to step on wild shit? From now on, every night, I will stand on your roof on duty, lighting up the town brightly, making it civilized and hygienic, and entering the electrification era ahead of schedule. How about it?"
Dad smacked his lips and said, "I don't quite understand it, but it seems to make sense."
"Not only does it make some sense, it's simply a loss-making sale and a good opportunity to make money." Gu Tie said with a smile.
"Well, I have a magician here who is responsible for making fires, a steam puppeteer who is responsible for sailing ships, and a mathematician who is responsible for building houses, but there is no astrologer who is responsible for lighting."
Dad thought for a while, threw the form in his hand, took another one and wrote a line of words, and handed it to Gu Tie, "One A-class guest room, No. A52, second row, Southeast District, breakfast not included, rent
From now until June 15th, the work content is to provide lighting for Cherry Ferry for four hours after sunset every day during the lease period. - "Papa" Miuwa, the protector of Cherry Ferry.
Gu Tie was a little touched as he held the paper and pen. How long had it been since he had written with a pen? A-class guest room, nice. He saw that there was nothing wrong with it, and signed "Gu Tie" with a quill pen. Suddenly he was stunned and crossed out his name.
, rewrote one line. "D. Jonah II. Apprentice of Astrology".
"Signed?" The old man smiled half-heartedly.
"yes."
“Don’t you need to look at the additional terms?”
"What?"
Gu Tie picked up the form and turned it over. There were forty or fifty lines of small words densely printed on the back.
"It's the kind that I'm too lazy to remember the guest's name. There are details later." Dad replied.
Gu Tie looked down with cold sweat on his head.
“Additional Clause 7, Rights and Obligations of Room Class A:
1. The daily room rate for an A-class guest room is 30 Saint-Bollen silver coins per person, or the equivalent in other currencies, or the equivalent in labor. 10% off the monthly rent, 20% off the annual rent; check-out at 12 noon on the second day of daily rent.
If you check out at 12 noon on the first day of the second month of monthly rent, you will be charged an additional half-day room rate;
2. As an A-class guest room resident, you will enjoy 24-hour A-class security guarantee within the entire town of Yingyingdu (with No. 1 to No. 6 on the outermost side of Yingyingdu as the boundary) during your valid stay;
3. The basic physiological characteristics (i.e., heartbeat) of Class A guests are protected by the Cherry Crossing protector himself. Any use of any means to stop the heartbeat of Class A guest residents (or cause their heartbeats to stop within 72 hours) is deemed to be harmful to Cherry.
A direct challenge from the Protector himself;
4. There are six people in each A-class guest room. The stay of unregistered guests is regarded as a direct challenge to the protector of Cherry Ferry; guests can apply for room transfer to fill the room vacancies caused by departure and death, but they cannot transfer to
Empty rooms. Empty rooms can only be opened by the first-time registrant on the premise that there are no bed vacancies. After the death of all tenants in the room or the expiration of the lease, the room will be taken back by the protector;
5. The protector is not responsible for the death of a Class A guest room resident due to natural causes (including death after 72 hours due to non-direct fatal injuries), death due to walking out of the Cherry Crossing protection range, or death due to injury after the lease expires;
6. Under special circumstances (see Additional Clause 40), tenants’ rights and interests are not protected;
Gu Tie finished reading in a daze and asked: "You mean, I want to live in a six-person room, and as long as others don't kill me, what can I do?"
"You are very smart, guest. Finally, I recommend you to read the 55 items."
“Additional Clause 55, the only result of ‘a direct challenge to the person of the Protector of Cherry Crossing’:
Die! (red extra large font)"
Gu Tie stood in the middle of the hut, dragging his broken leg, looking at the blind and smiling old man with mixed feelings.