A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

Boss Xue thought about it, and said to Barbaria: "Take it to the cellar, try to wake it up."

"Hey, Xue, you don't really want to destroy this place, do you?" Max hurriedly dissuaded him. He didn't know anything, so he wanted to experiment directly?What if I guessed wrong and the tavern really burned down?

"No... I'd stand in the ruins and laugh out loud if such a supernatural place were to burn because of the heat. Didn't you test fire those storm pulse rifles in the cellar There is not even a mark on the wall. I suspect that there is no physical law at all here." Xue Li said.

After thinking about it, Max followed the two of them into the cellar.

At this time, the cellar was still so empty, only some weapons were piled up in the corner, and above the gray-white concrete wall, a little light penetrated through the transom.

Barbaria carefully placed the palm-sized ball on the ground, then backed away a few steps, ready to take out the electric shock generator and release some electricity... These are some of the more effective external awakenings that the Queen of the Night told her One of the methods.

But she didn't know what to do, she couldn't pull out the electric shock device at her waist at all, maybe the tavern also defined this behavior as "harm"?

Just when she was about to try again, Xue Li suddenly grabbed her, pointed forward and said, "...It's woken up, right?"

Right in front of several people, the liquid ball slowly floated up from the ground until it reached the middle of the cellar. There were two gurgles, and the color changed from light to dark red.

The strange thing is that in that universe, this state is already fully awake, and the body temperature should be enough to melt the rock formation, but at this time several people did not feel the slightest bit of heat coming from the air over there.

Xue Li frowned, and decided to go forward and touch it with his own fingers... Since Barbaria couldn't even do an electric shock, she must have been considered a guest by the tavern?Then according to the same principle, it shouldn't be able to harm the tavern owner, right?

He guessed right. Sure enough, when his fingers touched it, he just felt a little hot. Its body temperature did not rise to the level that could burn humans.Or, in fact, its body temperature is normal... But because this normal body temperature can already cause damage to all living things around it, the tavern simply blocked most of the heat transfer.

"Well, anyway, it looks like it won't be a problem if it stays here..." Xue Li turned around and said, but at the same time, he felt the doubt coming from his consciousness.

He thought he had missed something, and after carefully looking at the wonderful creature again, he suddenly realized... It wasn't himself who was puzzled, but it.

This tavern is really enough... Now it's not even enough to automatically translate languages ​​​​and give guests telepathic abilities, right? !

Xue Li was about to complain, but then thought, maybe these two statements are the reflection of the same ability.The "translation" of the tavern has always been not to replace the voice, but to allow the guests to automatically have the ability to "understand what the other party is saying, and what they say can also be understood by the other party". Maybe this was not through the language level from the beginning Achieved?

"...It seems that you can understand what I say... You have never met such a strange human being as me. What kind of creature are you? Can you communicate with us in a more figurative way?"

Before Xue Li had time to say anything to Max and Barbaria, he chatted with the little ball in a low voice.Since the two sides can understand each other through means other than language, then he can ask directly, the other party must understand...

Max raised his eyebrows, and asked the girl beside him inexplicably: "In your universe, can this kind of creature also understand human speech?"

"...I don't think so." Barbaria replied, "According to the Queen of the Night, only those who are responsible for weaving dreams for it can barely make a conscious connection with this creature, and what can be conveyed is only a simple concept. 'Go to sleep', 'wake up', 'don't touch' these things. I never thought of it, and none of the experts think that this is a creature with enough intelligence..."

Xue Li on the other side quickly discovered this, and began to ask more specific questions: "Eat? Hungry? You can't absorb energy from other creatures when you're with me. Oh, this, this is a button, it's metal. "

As he spoke, he pulled off the metal buckle on his chest and handed it to the creature.

Seeing that the mass of liquid turned into a slightly concave shape with a whirring sound, the button in the middle was glued to its body, and then as it moved, it was gradually surrounded by the liquid and sank into its translucent body. inside the body.

Under the light in the basement, Xue Li could clearly see everything that happened on the button. He watched the patterns on it gradually disappear, and the parts of different materials were melted, separated, changed their shapes, and finally "digested".

Immediately afterwards, he tried feeding the little thing inorganic non-metallic materials, such as glass balls; organic substances, such as the bishop's bacon; other metals, such as the projectiles of the storm pulse rifle.

The creature's pleasant mood swings came from its consciousness, and it liked to "swallow" these things, but in the eyes of several people, it just reduced matter into energy, and it could not be said to be "eating".

On the contrary, Xue Li, who observed the whole process thoughtfully, grabbed a rifle bullet, gestured at the little thing twice, and said, "Shape."

Then he grabbed the stainless steel bowl next to the meat, tapped it, and said, "Ingredients. Do you understand? Try it."

Under the watchful eyes of several people, the ball of liquid suddenly expanded several times, enveloping the piece of stainless steel and the bullet together.A few seconds later, several stainless steel warheads and the original bullets fell to the ground again from below.

Max stepped forward and picked up the stainless steel warheads that were still slightly hot, observed them carefully, and nodded to Xue Li: "No need to measure, they are exactly the same."

"Okay! Barbaria, just leave this little thing here... When you find someone who is qualified to weave dreams for it, then take it out."

Xue Li immediately turned around and said, causing Barbaria to roll her eyes after hearing this.

But she cautioned: "We know so little about the ecology and intelligence of this creature... I hope you know what you're doing."

"...Yeah, I'm going to make it an employee of the tavern....Wait, what's it called?"

Boss Xue thought of something, turned back and put his hand on the lump of liquid, felt its temperature, and also felt the curiosity and joy coming from the depths of its consciousness.

This kind of creature has never been touched in its own universe. Matzmoth brings only death and destruction to others... Only the Queen of the Night can live in its dream and touch it in a special way the spirit of.

But in this tavern... it's just a normal creature that looks a little strange.

If it gets used to a life where it can communicate with and be touched by other people, does it still want to go back to the dying universe and embark on thousands of years of lonely drifting?

Xue Li didn't know, he just gave it a choice.

"There is no name... Max, come up with a name, it should be nicer."

Max lit a cigarette, looked at the stainless steel bullet in his hand, and said, "Hephaestus."

"...It's really unimaginative." Boss Xue complained, but he didn't say no. After reaching out to feel the touch of the non-Newtonian fluid, he said: "Let's go up and write your name in the roster... sleepy Go to sleep, Hephaestus."

Hephaestus's liquid body churned, the color gradually faded, and finally turned into a transparent water ball floating in the air.

A few people walked up the stairs, and were about to take out the employee roll to add a name, but saw a customer who had never seen him sitting in front of the bar.

He was soaked and sloppy so that he couldn't see his face clearly. He was sitting on a chair with water dripping from the side of his leather boots.

The man was speaking inarticulately to Qido beside him: "Girl, do you think I look rich? Don't worry about any wine, the cheapest one is fine...give me a drink."

Chapter 1 Exile

In the tavern, Xue Li once again told the guests about himself.

The guest in front of him was extremely curious. After coming here a few times, he basically asked everything, and he didn't know what it had to do with him?

However, Boss Xue is quite open in this regard, so we can talk about it, we are not afraid of being known.

He was talking about his dream today, the latest memory retrieved by two cosmic beings for him.

At that time, he didn't know what kind of business he was doing, so he sat in the customer's car anyway.

The client is a big brother in his 50s, or he should be called uncle according to Xue Li's age at that time.

He is very kind, good at being a teacher, and said to Xue Li earnestly: "Xue, a person must be down-to-earth. Before paying attention to what the world is like, it is best to think clearly and thoroughly about what you want to do; before studying society and the country Before that, you have to think about what you want to eat today and tomorrow.”

Xue Li clearly remembered the expression on the customer's face when he said this, as well as the midsummer hot wind blowing in from outside the car.

He felt that he probably didn't understand it at the time, until now, after sitting in the tavern, he gradually came back to it.

After he lost his memory, hobbies and long-term goals, he could escape from the fence he set for himself and clearly know that life is lived day by day, and the most important thing is always the present.

"I don't agree... of course the present is important, but the future is also important. I'm not saying that you shouldn't keep your feet on the ground... Hey, sorry, the word down-to-earth has a different meaning for us...I just mean, a maybe a bit illusory Your future goal is also necessary, isn't it? You can't just live for the sake of living, can you?"

The guest sitting in front of him said so, shook his messy hair, stretched out his hand from the lantern sleeve of his shirt, grabbed the cup in front of him, and drank it down.

"You are right, guest." Xue Li refilled his glass again, and had to remind him again: "It's just that you neither pay nor tell stories, do you want to keep eating and drinking for nothing?"

"Don't be so stingy!" The guest grabbed the dreadlocks hanging down on both sides of his forehead, and pulled off a string of ornaments from the edge of the faded red scarf.

He threw the thing on the bar and said, "Leave this to you first, and you can return it to me when I have money or decide to tell a story."

Xue Li carefully looked at the string of decorations.

It looks like jadeite, jade, wooden beads, and bone beads are randomly threaded into a string, and a small silver coin, whether real or fake, hangs at the end; if there is any value, these materials are worth so much... But Obviously not worth much.

The guest smiled, pointed at the bunch of things and said, "To tell you the truth, it is very important to me, so don't worry, I will definitely redeem it..."

"Otherwise... you'd better take it back. I don't want you to mortgage anything valuable for a few glasses of wine." Xue Li wanted to decline politely, but the guest waved his hand.

The guest hiccupped, the expression on his face was still slightly drunk, and he kept saying, "I'll put it here... I'll put it here for you."

When Boss Xue was about to say something, the door of the tavern was knocked open with a bang, and two figures rolled in.

As soon as they entered the tavern, the weapons in their hands fell to the ground with a clang, and they could no longer pick them up. This was because in the tavern they could not fight or cut each other.

The two stood up, and they seemed to have thought about it several times. This time they wanted to pick up the knife and fight again, the other time they wanted to punch each other's door with their fists, and the other time they wanted to pick their eyes and kick their crotch. What, but can not be implemented.

The two stared at each other for a long time, but neither could move nor wanted to look elsewhere, so they froze.

Now people in the tavern turned their heads to look at the two of them, and saw that they were two thick men, one in shirts and leather shoes, and the other bare-chested. At this time, their bodies were covered with mud, but they did not lose their prestige at all.

The guy in the shirt is a little shorter, with thick eyebrows, a strong nose, and a heroic face; the shirtless guy is broad and big, with slender limbs, black tattoos on his puffy muscles, and slender hair. He has a mustache and a melon cap on his shawl hair, which looks a bit nondescript.

The short man wiped the sweat off his face first, and then shouted: "Luo Sanpao, you are finished, you will be at a dead end wherever you go, I advise you to surrender as soon as possible!"

"Surrender? I, Luo Sanpao, don't know what surrender is all my life!"

The tall Luo Sanpao cursed, no matter whether he could move or not, he looked like he wanted to go up again.

The guests sitting on the bar chairs sat there drinking their own wine, and only treated the fight as a meal, but the bar owner Xue Li couldn't ignore it.

He came out from behind the bar in a slow manner, nodded to the two men with stalked necks like fighting cocks, and said, "Both of you, you're all here... There's no need to fight anymore, and you can't fight anymore. I can Would you two sit down and have a drink?"

Although they were reluctant in every possible way, after a few minutes, the two of them could only sit in front of the bar—because there was really nothing else to do.

Luo Sanpao drank a glass of wine first, and said to the other party with a sneer: "Ma Rulong...you are quite courageous, and you have some skills! But you are finished, when I get over my breath, I will kill you and give it to my brothers." Funeral!"

"Bah!" Ma Rulong, who was wearing a shirt, immediately scolded back, "You are just a pirate, what a hero! Whether I am capable or not is my own business, and you don't need to praise it!"

"Hmph, pirate."

Luo Sanpao snorted, and continued: "It's better than you, the lackey of the British. Foreigners robbed our place and seized our property. I didn't expect people like you to fight against the flag, but you would rather wear someone else's clothes." To send you skins and bully our own people is really a dog slave!"

Ma Rulong was so angry that his eyes were burning, he slapped the bar, stood up, pointed at Luo Sanpao, and scolded: "If you put gold on your face, you are still a robber! How many British people are there in Hong Kong? You snatch it!" Are all the ships of the British? Don’t think I don’t know. You have robbed villages and towns along the coast of Guangdong, bullied men and women, and robbed merchant ships. Countless Chinese have died in your hands over the years! The Hong Kong people you killed were also Chinese!"

Luo Sanpao's face darkened, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Ma Rulong. It's useless to talk too much. You and I are enemies every day, all over the world. Grandpa's island died in your hands. I'm not as skilled as others. In the future I won't let it go with you, wash your neck and wait for me!"

As soon as these words came out, Xue Li frowned for a while. Just as he was about to say something, he saw another person walking crookedly beside him. It was the guest who put the beads on him before.

The guest sat between the two men, put his hands on the shoulders of the two of them familiarly, and said, "Is this the first time for you two? You must not know that this tavern does not allow us to deal with personal grievances, such as this young man , now do you really want to punch me in the face? I can understand your expression. But you can't.

"The boss has already written the rules on the whiteboard over there, don't you know how to take a look? This tavern is no longer in your original world, whether you want it or not, you have to accept it sooner."

Ma Rulong also glanced at the whiteboard, and after listening to the uninvited man's rambling explanation, of course, he didn't care about scolding Luo Sanpao any more, and turned directly to Boss Xue and asked, "Is this true? What year is it?"

"It's the year you say it is... because the year is different in each world." Xue Li said, pulling out the long-lost guest registration record.Sure enough, there were two new names in the bottom two lines, Ma Rulong and Luo Sanpao, which made him scratch his head.

The other guests are okay, at least there is no conflict of principle, even if Uncle Jiu and Amelia are not in a life-and-death relationship like them, he can still persuade them; but these two people are obviously already feuding , I am afraid that as soon as they leave the tavern, only one of the two will survive.

What should I do... How can I tell these two people not to do anything for now?

Just across from him, the previous guest turned his eyes and saw that the boss needed help.

The guest who had known the people in the tavern for a while turned to Luo Sanpao, facing the strong man's stare as if he was going to kill someone and said, "I heard from the one just now, you are a pirate? No, no, Don't get me wrong, I just want to ask you a few questions, after all the pirates I know are very realistic..."

He tapped the wound on the opponent's body, and asked meanly: "Is your boat still there? Where are your brothers?"

Luo Sanpao couldn't help thinking of the previous situation, his expression changed.No matter how stubborn he is, he has to admit that this time Ma Rulong and the Hong Kong Marine Police have taken over his old nest, whether it is a boat or a brother, I am afraid that there is no more.

The visitor smiled, showing his dark yellow teeth under the mustache above his lips.

Looking at Luo Sanpao's expression, he knew that he had guessed right, and continued: "I have a plan... Listen to it, both of you. Experienced sailor. This...Mr. Ma? Your purpose is nothing more than to eliminate the pirates and prevent him from plundering your territory. Let him stay in another world forever to achieve his goal, right?

"I assure you, he would never have come back here without me leading the way. This tavern is what it is.

"As for Mr. Luo? Do you want to go back to fight the last battle that you can't win, or do you want to go to my place and set off to the distant horizon?

"I can only say that people like you and I shouldn't die on some island... Anyway, even if I die, I will die at sea. I will come here tomorrow, and I hope to see you again then."

After he finished speaking, he picked up the three-cornered hat on the bar, stood up unsteadily, put the hat on the turban, bowed to the two people, twisted his body like a cat, and walked drunkenly towards the door go.

Luo Sanpao opened his eyes, turned to his back and asked, "Hey, you haven't said yet, who are you?"

"I..." He turned his head while wearing a three-cornered hat, and touched the brim of his hat with his right hand full of rings: "I am Captain Jack Sparrow."

Chapter 2 Black Pearl

When following that Jack Sparrow to "another world", Luo Sanpao couldn't believe his eyes.

In front of the few people was clearly a cell surrounded by iron bars... or the inside of the cell.

Looking to both sides, several people in the other cell were retreating to the corner in fear under the dim light. They should have seen two people "appear out of thin air", so they were frightened.

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"Grandma, is this what you call 'the world of pirates'?"

Luo Sanpao couldn't help turning around and complaining: "Why don't you send me to jail!"

"Don't worry...First of all, my luck has always been good, and secondly, I actually heard the gunfire before I went to the tavern just now."

Jack said so, and made a "shh" gesture, signaling Luo Sanpao to listen to the movement outside.

Sure enough, through the iron windows on the wall, among the rumbling thunder in the sky, the muffled sound of artillery firing with strong impact was also mixed in, "Tom!" "Tom!" "Tom!" in the dull air burst.

"...There are cannons, but what does that have to do with you?" Luo Sanpao turned around and asked.

Jack winked his eyes and stroked his beard: "I can hear the sound of the gun...that's my ship, the Black Pearl, the fastest ship in the entire Caribbean."

"...your ship? Then how did you get caught here?"

"It's a long story. In short, it was my ship, but it's not my ship now. Those bastards will probably kill me when they see me. We can only hope to win if we take the opportunity to escape and find another ship. They." Jack said something difficult to understand, and listened carefully, pulling Luo Sanpao back.

A cannonball was smashing towards this side with the sound of "咻嗙". With a bang, half of the wall collapsed. Unfortunately... it was the wall of the next cell that collapsed.