Chapter 500: Midnight Tavern
"So that's how it is. Wang Teng is actually a visitor from the starry sky. No wonder he is so mysterious." The Golden Wolf's blue eyes were like water. He nodded slightly as if he was thinking.
"Yes, he is not a life form born on this planet."
On the way back to Town No. 7, Su Xia and Jin Lang walked side by side, chatting as they walked, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.
The two were of similar age, had the same abilities, and were even about the same height.
Their past experiences are also complicated and bizarre.
Once we started chatting, the topic couldn't be stopped.
The fire in the jungle was still burning, the surroundings were all red, the air was distorted, and even the wind you breathed felt burning.
Golden Wolf had very fair skin, the kind of fair skin that was unique to people from the Western Continent. Her pretty face flushed slightly in the heat, and she always had a charming smile on her lips.
She tilted her head, her charming blue eyes kept looking at Su Xia, and said, "Masked Stranger, you can call me Ginny. My friends around me call me that."
"You can call me 'Su'." Su Xia also gave a title, but not the full name.
"Su?"
"Yes."
After exchanging names, they started talking about Wang Teng.
Although Ginny has been famous for a long time, she is only in her early twenties. The curiosity of a young girl has not yet faded, and she is very interested in the vast starry sky above her head.
As she chatted, her robotic hands were in the pockets of her windbreaker, her golden hair fluttering in the wind.
Su Xia walked beside her and occasionally smelled a hint of tulip scent.
"There are many star regions in the starry sky. Wang Teng comes from the Imperial Star Region, which is dominated by a parliamentary empire called the 'Seventh Empire'. Next to that star region, there is another star region called 'Ceylon'..."
Su Xia's voice was steady as he slowly described the starry sky that he knew.
Ginny smiled peacefully and listened attentively.
She lowered her head from time to time, and stepped on the dry fallen leaves with her leather boots, deliberately stepping on the whole leaves, making crisp crackling sounds, like a little child.
"Life is like these fallen leaves. Either it is crushed or it burns in flames." She gently lifted a strand of blonde hair from her forehead. The smile on her pretty face was like a golden tulip, beautiful and moving.
"Su, we are all people who don't want to be stepped on," she said with a smile.
"Yes." Su Xia nodded slightly.
"Your past is very interesting. I really want to find a bar and chat with you over a drink." Ginny said again.
"Me too." Su Xia smiled slightly.
"It's so strange, it feels like I'm facing a different gender of me." Ginny blinked, her beautiful blue eyes were like a mirror, reflecting Su Xia's shadow.
As he was speaking, several more psychic energy fluctuations appeared in the jungle.
Ginny's teammate.
This time they came to the southwest of the continent to hunt down a psychic creature codenamed "Death's Left Hand".
The left hand of the Grim Reaper is just a vest, and the man underneath the vest is the mercenary king of the northwest region of the continent.
This time, at the invitation of Wang Teng, the king of northwestern mercenaries led his organization to the southwest.
That's why Ginny, Francis and others came here.
Therefore, there is a certain inevitability in the incident in Town No. 7.
From the moment Wang Teng invited the Northwest Mercenaries, his failure was doomed.
"Ginny, Francis, have you encountered the enemy?" A bearded man walked out of the jungle. He was as big as a beer barrel, with a big belly, wearing a simple denim vest and was slightly bald.
"I didn't meet an enemy, but I met a friend." Ginny responded with a smile.
Then, several more people came out of the jungle.
One of them was holding a bloody head in his hand, which belonged to the King of Northwest Mercenaries.
The weakest members of their team are level five creatures, all of them are very powerful, so killing the King of Northwest Mercenaries is easy for them.
After all, the King of Northwest Mercenaries is just an ordinary level five creature and does not have as many means as Wang Teng.
"Is it the masked weirdo?" The man with the beer barrel beard stared at Su Xia and asked.
"I've heard of this guy's name a long time ago. People say he's Wolf Girl's alias." Another person laughed.
"He looks OK, a very handsome young man."
Several people, both men and women, looked at Su Xia seriously. They had no hostility, just some curiosity.
These days, many people are saying that the masked man is another identity of Iron Fist Golden Wolf.
As Ginny's teammates, they had wanted to meet Su Xia for a long time.
Soon, Ginny introduced both parties.
Their team came from the Western Continent. It was a free hunting team that did not belong to any force. Team members were unwilling to be bound by any large organization and usually made money by taking on various public bounty missions.
There are a total of seven people in the team, with code names including "Golden Wolf", "Gun King", "Night Owl", "Barrel", "Unicycle", "Alloy Rose" and "Cuckoo".
Except for Ginny and Francis, the other five were also once famous creatures.
"This is the masked man, you can call him 'Sue'." After introducing her own people, Ginny began to introduce Su Xia.
"Su?"
"Hello, Sue."
"I'm the barrel, nice to meet you."
"I am Dujuan..."
Several people were very enthusiastic and did not doubt Su Xia's identity.
They have been tracking the King of Northwest Mercenaries for some time and are fully aware of the incident in Town No. 7.
Who else could fight Wang Teng here if not the masked man?
After getting to know each other, everyone walked towards Town No. 7 together.
It was completely dark.
There were rumbling thunders in the sky and the dark clouds were growing thicker, but no raindrops fell. It seemed that it would take some time for the rain to fall.
“Boom…”
The thunder was dull, but the sound of artillery fire on the ground was particularly loud.
The players are still fighting with many mercenaries. The battle is very fierce and people fall down every minute and every second.
As for the artillery positions of the Northwest Mercenary Organization, Su Xia no longer had to worry.
During the conversation, Su Xia learned that the hunting team coming from the Western Continent this time was not only Ginny's team, but there were more than a dozen hunting teams that were targeting the Northwest Mercenary Organization.
These hunting teams had discussed it beforehand, and finally agreed to let Ginny's team take the head of the King of Northwest Mercenaries. After all, their team was the strongest.
The remaining resources of the Northwest Mercenary Organization will be divided equally among more than ten other hunting teams.
"They have already started." Jiutong looked at the message on the communicator and said to Su Xia.
The dozen or so hunting teams were quite powerful and destroyed the artillery positions of the Northwest Mercenary Organization fifty kilometers away in less than ten minutes.
After all, those mercenaries are bullies who only bully the weak and fear the strong. Once they meet someone stronger than them, they will be scared and run away.
What's more, the king of the Northwest Mercenaries is dead, and there is no one who can lead them anymore.
Su Xia told Li Defu and others the news.
Li Defu and others then conveyed the news to Mu Yang, Chu Tang and others from Nanfeng.
Soon, the Nanfeng organization reorganized its troops and began hunting down the mercenaries who broke out of the jungle.
There is not much suspense about the outcome of this battle.
On the way to Town No. 7, the wine barrel suddenly asked, "Su, are you having a big conflict with the Zero Point Tavern now?"
"Yes." Su Xia nodded.
"You should have discovered something too, right?" a tall woman codenamed Cuckoo asked him.
"Are you talking about the death contract?" Su Xia asked.
“That’s right!”
After communication, Su Xia soon learned that the people in Ginny's team were all registered members of the Zero Point Tavern.
So did Ginny herself.
After all, her code name "Iron Fist Golden Wolf" became famous during her time at the Midnight Tavern.
But, as time went by, they all discovered something wrong to a greater or lesser extent.
Many of their friends, especially those with good talents and abilities, suffered accidents.
An accident where neither the person is found alive nor the body is found dead.
"Ginny had the same accident three years ago," said the cuckoo.
Three years ago, the code name "Iron Fist Golden Wolf" disappeared.
At that time, Ginny accepted a protection mission, which required her to protect a wealthy man on a cruise ship and protect him from the Central Continent to the Western Continent.
This task was actually not difficult, because the rich man had no enemies, and he asked her for protection only for basic safety considerations.
But, halfway through, the cruise ship suddenly hit something and broke on the spot, splitting in half.
Then, there was a tragedy like the Titanic.
"After the cruise ship broke apart, a huge explosion occurred. Ginny was at the center of the explosion and was seriously injured on the spot. She lost the ability to return to land." The cuckoo continued.
"Just when she was on the verge of death, someone from the Zero Point Tavern suddenly appeared and said that they could save her, but they only required her to sign an agreement..."
Su Xia was not unfamiliar with this story.
That night in Conch City, he saw a similar story in the young genius named Qi Yu.
They were all accidents, they were all near-death experiences, they were all contracts.
But Qi Yu’s story has ended.
He died at Su Xia's hands.
But, there was a twist in Ginny’s story.
Because, a change occurred on the cruise ship that night.
Of course, this variable is for the Zero Point Tavern - the Gun King Francis!
Francis had no good feelings towards the Zero Point Tavern. He had known about the contract routine of the Zero Point Tavern for a long time, so he took action directly, repelled the people of the Zero Point Tavern with a few shots, and then rescued Ginny.
After that, the code name "Iron Fist Golden Wolf" disappeared.
The information given by the Zero Point Tavern to the public stated that she was "missing", but many people believed that she had died in the shipwreck.
"Among the seven of us, except Wolf Sister, Night Owl also experienced this kind of thing, but they were lucky. Not only did they survive, they also got their freedom." Wine Barrel spoke, pointing to a silent man next to him.
Night Owl, a level five creature, a mechanically transformed human.
He had experienced this kind of thing, but he survived on his own.
At that time, the Zero Point Tavern underestimated his ability to survive and his will to survive, which gave him a glimmer of hope.
They were all disgusted by the practice of the Zero Point Tavern.
But they did not openly oppose the Zero Point Tavern. They just chose to leave, changed their appearance, and lived a new life with a new identity.
They admired Su Xia's open opposition to the Zero Point Tavern very much.
"This is not the place to talk. When this is over, let's find a place to have a good chat!" said Jiutong with a smile.
"good!"
Now that they were here, no one was planning to just go back. Since they had become friends, they naturally had to help Su Xia solve the current troubles first.
The town is not far away.
A strong smell of blood wafted in the air, mixed with the smell of burning and gunpowder.
The town was littered with shell holes and bodies were lying on the ground, some intact and some broken. The scene was horrifying.
Death and war seem to be the main themes of lower civilizations.
Only by entering the starry sky and obtaining sufficient resources can we stop the endless war.
"Su, how far is the Imperial Star Region from us?" Ginny suddenly asked.
"Not sure, probably tens of millions of light years." Su Xia gained most of his knowledge from Hal, and the star map left by the Golden Holy Tower organization was also of some help.
"Tens of millions of light years! It's so far." Ginny raised her pretty face, her blue eyes looking at the night sky with a very deep look in them.
Time and space will always be the most difficult things for humans to study thoroughly.
With the technology of this planet, it is simply nonsense to want to fly over a distance of tens of millions of light years.
"Is faster-than-light travel possible?" Ginny suddenly started talking about this.
"It's not very realistic. When we have speed in the spatial dimension, we will lose speed in the time dimension." Su Xia replied.
"Are you talking about time dilation?" Ginny tilted her head, a hint of curiosity flashing in her beautiful blue eyes, and asked Su Xia.
"Yes, there is no standard time in the universe. Every moving object has a different speed at which time passes." Su Xia replied.
"So, the inherent time of matter is related to the speed of movement. As long as there is movement, time dilation will occur. If we want to carry out interstellar travel, we first need to solve the time matching between this planet and the interstellar spacecraft?" Ginny asked again.
"Probably." Su Xia thought for a moment and said, "In the Imperial Star Region, the mainstream method of interstellar exploration is to jump through a kind of 'space-time tube'. They call the coordinates of the entrances and exits of those space-time tubes 'jump points', and then explore the starry sky around each space-time tube's exit as the center."
"But how are space-time tubes formed?"
Ginny's eyes were deep, and a serious expression appeared on her pretty face. She said slowly: "We can fold the two dimensions to create a spatial channel in the two-dimensional world, but who created the channel in the three-dimensional world we are in? Is it formed naturally?"
"This issue is worth discussing." Su Xia also became serious and seemed to be recalling the relevant information he had read in his mind.
The two of them walked and talked, and found new topics in this regard.
The raging fire and blood all around seemed to have no impact on their discussion.
Behind them, the other six members of the team looked at each other, all a little confused.
"Why is Wolf Sister so talkative today?"
"What are they talking about?"
"I don't understand. It sounds like a game."
"Oh, the game..."
Before they knew it, they arrived at Town No. 7.
The killing in the town is coming to an end.
Members of the South Wind Organization entered the town and began to clean up the battlefield, free slaves, and hunt down remaining mercenaries.
Luo Xi, the president of the Southwest Mercenary Union, is still in the town. He was fooled by Wang Teng and has no idea what to do.
"Mercenary Guild, this is a problem..."
Su Xia glanced at the clock tower in the center of the town and planned to go in and talk to Luo Xi and ask him about his future plans.
However, as soon as he entered the town, a sense of crisis of death suddenly hit him.
“Crack!”
The space around him shattered layer by layer like a mirror, turning into countless solidified black energies that surrounded him and instantly separated him from Ginny and the others.
The next second, several dark black lights flashed and went straight to his head, neck, heart, spine and other parts.
Everything happened in an instant!
Outside, Jiutong and others suddenly changed color.
Night Owl shouted, "Be careful, it's 'Cross Skull', the top killer at the Zero Point Tavern headquarters!"
"Damn it, the people at the Zero Point Tavern!"
No one could have imagined that the killer from the Midnight Tavern would dare to take action at this moment!
Their team is full of elites, and almost no one dares to take the initiative to attack them or their friends.
The barrel yelled: "Su, hold on, give us ten seconds!"
Ginny's eyes suddenly turned cold, and her whole body exuded a murderous intent that was completely inconsistent with her gentle appearance. She instantly locked onto a dark area in the corner of the town.
"Cross Skull, have you had enough of living?"
