A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

In terms of food and taste, he himself may be more inclined to the normal food and drink, that is, the human side; but of course he also has times when he is really thirsty for blood, at that time he will catch some small animals and use their blood for a while. Squeeze your bloodlust.

Like who he is, he behaves neither like a human nor like a vampire.

The days passed year after year in his entanglement, until he became numb to all this and his expression no longer changed.

Everyone who has seen him has a deep impression on him, of course not only because of his handsome appearance and vigorous skills.

His taciturn character and invariable icy demeanor are even more impressive.

Many people said that he was like an emotionless robot.

Of course, many people think the same way about creatures like vampires, thinking that they don't have feelings... But feelings really have nothing to do with species.

His red-eyed two-horned horse was quietly waiting for him in the ruins, and was also chewing the food he didn't know where he found it.The moonlight shining in through the intricately patterned willow window hits its body and flows down its mane to the ground.

This ruin should have been a landmark building... In this abandoned small town, it is the tallest and the largest in terms of area. It is supported by beam columns raised from the ground.Although the colorful flower windows have been covered by dust, the dazzling brilliance of that year can still be vaguely seen.

Like the marble statues on the walls, many parts of the ruins are overly detailed, and even a lifelike relief of roses can be found on only half of the fireplace left.

For some unknown reason, half of the wall on the other side fell down, and the bleak wind was blowing in from the hole.

Around the hole in the wall, the breaks of the cables inside the wall can still be vaguely seen; looking out from there, the pointed roofs pointing to the sky of other buildings in the small town are also clearly visible.

However, judging from the dilapidation of the house and the traces of birds and animals, it has been deserted for a long time... If he hadn't eaten something in the tavern just now, he might be hungry here tonight.

The man took out something from the bag hanging on the horse's back, casually found a chair that hadn't rotted and sat down, untied the two-meter-long weapon behind his back, held the gauntlet and took the sharp blade out. sheath.

Compared to the length, the width of this weapon is not that amazing. The blade on one side outlines a shallow arc, shining brightly in the moonlight.

He carefully observed the state of the knife, grabbed a rag, and carefully applied the bit of sword oil he had just taken out evenly on the knife.

No matter how strong this knife is, it is still metal, and if it is metal, it will rust.

Everything in this world has a deadline.

Canned food has a shelf life, cold storage has a storage period, flowers will wither, thorns, plant leaves, and cloud-like carvings will weather and shatter, marble houses will slowly decay and collapse, and even satellites sent into space will gradually cease to function. , all life forms should be temporary passers-by.

But they were different... the nobles were different, and so was he.

They are creatures that never expire, but neither can the pain that comes with them.

Time has taken everything away, leaving them here slowly going mad.

"It is true that this place used to be the residence of nobles... only they are so keen on spikes. Let me say, master, don't you want me to find out their whereabouts for you?"

In the deserted ruins, another voice suddenly sounded.

Or, is this voice actually ringing directly in the listener's heart?

"No need." The man replied, raised his head and looked at the surrounding arrangement again.Sure enough, what the voice said was right. In the undecayed part of the ruins, a large number of metal products can be seen, such as candlesticks, iron forks, fences, etc., but there are indeed thorns and spikes wrapped around them, as if they were specially designed. Into a look that cannot be approached by others.

This is indeed how the nobles used to live... but whoever lives here must have left for hundreds of years.

The nobles have a particularly morbid attachment to the living environment. Even if they are still sleeping in a coffin, they will not allow even a little bit of dust to accumulate on the pattern on the fireplace at home.

In other words, it is impossible for them to endure the current environment here... they must have left long ago.

Besides, what would you do with unpaid work?

"Sometimes I really don't understand you. You say that you are a bounty hunter, hunting and hunting for money, but you always let go of the real big money business and do things that no one wants to do. Difficult work to do. You know you won't be appreciated, you won't be remembered?"

That voice was still rambling on, showing no respect for the "master".

But the man didn't care, he just curled up under the window, his long eyelashes fluttered twice, and he closed his eyes.

It's not that he doesn't like to talk, it's just that he doesn't want to talk nonsense.

What interested him most now was not the ruins where the nobles lived or the monotonous scenery on the road, but the strange tavern.

"What do you think of what the tavernkeeper said, is it true?"

After a while, he still decided to consult the voice.

The owner of the tavern did show him the endless sea outside the window, and many other magical things... But there is magic in this world.Many humans don't believe it, but he has seen it with his own eyes, and the weirdness in the tavern can also be explained by magic.

When he asked that voice, he actually wanted to know if it felt any traces of magic power.

The voice said "hmm", and dutifully recalled the scene at that time, struggling to say: "I didn't detect any signs of using magic, but master, there is more than one kind of supernatural power in this world. Trust him or not, only you can decide."

The man nodded.

Speaking of which, there is more than one way to determine whether what the boss said is true.

He saw that there was a bulletin board in that tavern... probably like most taverns, it also had the function of releasing news and introducing employment tasks.Since the boss said that it can be connected to other worlds, as long as he leaves his name on the bulletin board, can he also go to other worlds?

It's easy to create a tavern with magic or some other trick, but it's harder to create a world out of nothing that makes sense.

Thinking of this, he reached out and pressed down the hat on his head, completely hiding himself in the shadows.

While the two here were discussing the tavern, the people in the tavern were also discussing him.

Amelia and Gibb were also very interested in an "orthodox" vampire, so Max had to make another trip to Sao Paulo to buy some books.

My own world is still a materialistic world, there are no gods and monsters, and the most fantastic thing is just some kind of drug researched by the US military.Speaking of vampires in different worlds, the books there are also the most valuable reference...

Because how should I put it, Boss Xue has made it very clear to everyone during this period that they all come from a certain cultural and entertainment work in the memory of the boss.Everyone doesn't understand the connection in the middle, and it's not so boring to think about it, but judging from the current law... the new guest is of course the same.

In Selene's world, because of their existence, the vampire images in all literary works will of course be affected, and may not be able to accurately describe the characteristics of the new guests;

The ones from St. Paul's are different. Anyway, they are all delusions. A world without supernatural power should be closer to Boss Xue's reality, right?Of course, human beings' imagination of supernatural creatures will be more similar, right?

Regarding their behavior, Xue Li could only shake his head speechlessly.

Because of the existence of the tavern, he was destined to make friends with every guest from all worlds... so why not just ask any questions?

Even if he can't trust us for a while and refuses to tell us, it's fine to ask after solving his problem.

Maybe that silent man will have the desire to talk because of this, just like a certain marine police officer who wants to say everything and insists on being listened to... No, no, no, as expected, that handsome and cold face did such a thing. It was still too scary.

"Speaking of which, Amelia... He asked you if you belonged to 'nobility'. Does this mean that he can actually see that you are also vampires? Is there any feeling between vampires?"

Boss Xue asked.

Amelia thought for a while, and answered honestly: "In our world, there will be. But it's just an inexplicable feeling... Unless the other party has a wound on his body, we can't get rid of it. To determine the smell of blood, it can only be inferred from the other party's 'temperament'.

"Guys who have sucked human blood will have that unique sense of inhumanity.

"It may not be easy for you to understand, right? I can only cite my own example back then to illustrate...

"After I sucked blood for the first time, I immediately felt that I had become a real advanced creature. 'Immortal life' was easily obtained in this way, coupled with the vitality contained in the blood, people have a feeling that they can do anything, The feeling of looking down on the world.

"Since then I have been obsessed with hunting. If I hadn't been betrayed by my own kind and thrown on the floor of the car without any resistance, I'm afraid I'm still addicted to that false sense of superiority and pleasure.

"That's where the so-called 'inhumanity' comes from.

"As for the new guest... I really didn't feel the same kind of breath from him just now. Maybe it's because he is different from us after all."

Chapter 3 Emergencies

"Well, this place is exactly as I expected..."

Kate Fowler walked helplessly to her room from outside.

She really didn't understand why her father suddenly planned to take the family on a trip to the border in an RV. Maybe it was the death of his mother that made this stoic man unbearable and on the verge of collapse. Maybe it was the collapse of his faith that made him unable to face To the Baptists.

As a pair of children who have a good relationship with their father and respect their father, Kate and her younger brother decided to travel with him.They are a family, no matter what happens, they have to be together, that's what my mother taught her since she was a child...

But no matter how much I worry about my father, no matter how much I want to be with him, this journey is not very good.

This part of the Sonoran Desert is very dry now, with sand and dust floating in the air all day long, dyeing the sky a light grayish yellow; the sea breeze is humid, hot and stuffy, making people sweat all the time.

After traveling hundreds of kilometers, the father obviously couldn't take it anymore and insisted on finding a "real bed" to sleep in, so he brought his two children to this motel.

There is a small swimming pool here, but unfortunately the water is full of disinfectant smell, and there are no supporting facilities such as deck chairs, showers, changing rooms and so on.

For a motel, having a swimming pool is already considered a luxury...but such a humble environment cannot satisfy Kate, who is used to living an American country life at home.

While muttering, she decided to go back to her room... I really can't ask for so much on the road, so I better stop upseting my father.

But when she opened the door of the corridor next to her and was about to go to her room, what appeared before her was another scene.

Under the light of the tavern, Xue Li was carefully packing several pea seedlings together with plastic seedling boxes into the bag brought by Max.

This man hadn't been drinking for a long time, if it wasn't for Daige and Cheetos who often went back to find out the news, everyone in the tavern would definitely think that he had lost his life somewhere.

Because... that's wasteland!

But it seemed that he was doing well, and he even thought about transplanting the seedlings. He must have found a new, unpolluted water source.

When asked, he simply said: "I went down to the sea and a bunch of kids built a raft. They still had a working desalinator...and a gasoline propeller engine."

Xue Li always felt that this statement had a strange sense of disobedience, as if it had changed the style of the whole world to another sense of "end times".

But although it is not an "oasis" in the traditional sense, plants can still be planted on that "raft", maybe it will be a way out of that desperate land.

Max just put the offspring of the pea seedling that was brought over in his bag, took another bottle of wine, nodded to everyone, and walked to the door again.This man seemed to have found a new purpose in life, and he didn't want to waste even a little more time.

Then he saw Kate Fowler walking in in a bikini...

At this time, Kate was still dripping with water, and was completely stunned.It shouldn't be possible to have such a big bar in the motel... It seems to be a two-story building, which is probably bigger than the inexplicable swimming pool.

"Swimming. It's great." Max said a few words to the new guest, walked around the girl without any change, and walked out the door.

The behavior of swimming and the clothing of bikinis have disappeared in that world for an unknown period of time.

According to Daiger and Chido, Old Joe once brought running water into the fort to build a small bath, but the scale of the bath was pitifully small, and it was already the limit to accommodate three girls in the bath at the same time—this is already useless. What a luxury on earth. "Water" is a strategic resource in that world.

The difference between the worlds is like this... The things you dream of may be within reach in another world; the things you discard as rubbish may be regarded as treasures in one world.

This person has seen through and decided a long time ago that he will not worry about such things, and will only fight to change his own world.

Kate, who didn't know what happened, walked to the bar in a daze, and asked in a low voice, "Uh...did I go the wrong way?"

"Not at all, my guest."

Xue Li turned around and poured him a glass of juice.

He keenly realized that the girl in front of him was probably underage, and although she tried her best to pretend to be mature, the way she spoke and acted was not like an adult at all.

Just being stared at by the battle-tested Max, the little girl seemed to be scared out of her wits.

"...Don't be nervous." He could only comfort him softly after offering a glass of juice, "Max is just a bit fierce, but he is actually a nice person... I will tell you his story when I have a chance, or you The same goes for asking the two young ladies over there."

"No, no, I'm not nervous."

Kate's eyes were wandering. At this time, she had already discovered more things wrong with this tavern... For example, the sun outside the terrace was completely unobstructed by sand and dust; Very comfortable temperature; of course, there is also the beating heart in the glass jar in the wine cabinet behind the boss.

"Where did I come from?"

She thought to herself, she didn't dare to drink any fruit juice at all, and even had goosebumps on her arms.

Seeing her like this, Xue Li had no choice but to stop doing business for the time being, and began to tell her what the tavern was like.

And he is also honored to announce that although you look young, little girl, the ups and downs in your life may be coming to you soon!Because unfortunately... every new guest chosen by this tavern has always been like this!

But don't worry, the tavern owner is a good person, and everyone in the tavern is willing to help. Even if you really don't want to do this, you can always pay the price and hire guests from other worlds to help you.

With that said, Xue Li pointed to the whiteboard over there.

Although I intend to use that thing as a channel for releasing and accepting missions in some fantasy taverns, there are still not many customers now, and most of them have already solved the problems they face in their own world, so no one asked Boss Xue to ask for it. Hiring people, there is only one line of names waiting to be hired on the whiteboard.

"Cleansing of vampires or other supernatural powers. Only gold and silver will be accepted for payment. D."

[87. No. 87]

... That handsome man finally walked into this tavern again, but this time, he also left his name.

He claims to be a bounty hunter, the kind who takes money to do things; Boss Xue wants to know what his world is like, why a vampire makes a living by hunting and killing his own kind, but this "D" has kept his mouth shut.

Obviously, Kate didn't pay attention to what was written on the whiteboard.

I'm afraid she has already regarded all the people in the tavern as mentally abnormal people, what other world?What can't hurt each other?What the hell is cleaning up supernatural powers?

This kind of speculation made her unable to sit still. She just climbed out of the swimming pool, and she was still being scrutinized by the boss here even though she was wearing very little clothes. She was already restless.

"Uh, sorry, I... I don't have a problem to fix. I'm underage and can't drink, sorry sorry."

While speaking, Kate stepped back and slipped away from the door not long after.

Xue Li also spread his hands helplessly, picked up the glass of juice and drank it by himself, and complained to the staff around him: "Great, after a normal vampire, finally came a normal young girl..."

"Knowing that she's afraid doesn't mean she's normal."

Amelia said in a low voice.

On the other side, Kate almost ran out of the door as if fleeing for her life, hugged the towel she used to wipe her body to her room and ran back to her room, without even having time to look back.