Back to the winery.
Just in time for dinner.
But Chen Lun felt a little uncomfortable sitting at the head seat at the dining table.
"Hey, Floy, this... this is not right, right?"
He looked at the table full of plates and basins filled with either fried fish or fried fish strips, fish soup or star-gazing pie, and broke out in a cold sweat.
"Captain, what's wrong?"
Maggie was chewing on a piece of fried fish, making a crunching sound.
"It's delicious... It's nice , and Miss Floy's cooking skills are amazing. Everything is delicious!"
Noah, Golov, Barton and Morey stopped eating, all with puzzled looks on their faces.
Only Connie seemed to know something.
After drinking a spoonful of fish soup, she held the spoon, blinked her eyes, and shifted her gaze repeatedly between Mr. Jack and Miss Floyd, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.
"The circus leader and the noble lady ran away and lived happily ever after... That's what happened in 'The Dumb Clown', right?"
Floyd smiled and muttered slowly.
Chen Lun's expression froze.
"Aha, I'm full... Mr. Captain, Miss Floyd, I'm going to go out for a walk first. It seems that there is still a swing missing in the garden. I'll go and knock one out."
Golov stood up immediately as if his chair was on fire.
After saying that, he quickly left the restaurant.
He laughed dryly and said something like, "It would be comfortable to swing on a swing in the garden."
Seeing this, Patton and Morey also understood something.
They both stood up.
"Well, we are full too, Captain... It seems that Bibu and Ding Ding were fighting just now. I will go over to take a look to avoid both of them getting hurt."
"Ding Ding" is the name of the little hedgehog [Careful Gardener], which was given by Chen Lun.
"Mr. Barton and I will each hold one. They will be fine. Don't worry, Captain."
As Morey spoke, the two of them rushed to leave, as if their lives would be in danger if they were a second late.
Noah and Maggie were still busy eating, watching the three people leave the table in confusion.
"That's weird. How come I'm full after only taking two bites?"
Noah muttered.
At this time, Connie immediately ran to the two of them and dragged them out of the restaurant.
"Hey, Connie, what are you doing?!"
"Don't push me, I haven't finished eating yet!"
The voice gradually faded away, and Chen Lun secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Floy, well, it's not what you think... I went out with Miss Tracy today mainly to gather information about the local aristocratic circle."
"I know……"
Floy's disembodied voice said.
The air fell into silence.
Chen Lun looked at Floy sitting in the chair in a daze, and always felt like there were live fish with legs crawling on his body.
"Although I didn't get anything substantial today, I did find some clues... Of course, the most important thing is that when I was visiting the 'Cruise Ship Museum', I saw a very interesting little item, so I bought it."
Chen Lun chuckled and took out a crescent-shaped bronze pendant.
"I think it would look great around your neck."
Floy came back to her senses. She turned her head slightly to "look" at the pendant in Chen Lun's hand and said with pursed lips:
"For me?"
"certainly."
Chen Lun stood up and walked behind Floy.
"Let me put it on for you."
Floy didn't say anything, but she didn't refuse either.
Chen Lun leaned over and gently lifted up Flo's long, light golden hair, then put the crescent pendant around her fair and slender neck and finally fastened it.
“Does it look good?”
Floy turned around and asked.
"Yeah, it looks good."
Chen Lun exclaimed in praise.
Finally, a smile appeared on Floy's face.
Just like the bright moon in the night sky, breaking through the clouds and emitting a bright light.
She stroked the bronze crescent moon on her chest, then stood up silently and returned from the kitchen with a plate of fried rice.
"Eat it, it's still hot."
Chen Lun looked at the exquisite fried rice still steaming in front of him and smiled knowingly.
Floy had already prepared his dinner, but she just hid it on purpose.
"What a lovely girl..."
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late at night.
Chen Lun sat on the chair in the study, and under the light of the retro incandescent lamp on the wall, he took out the "commission menu", opened it and began to select carefully.
'Right now, I have no clue about the second and third opportunities, but Miss Tracy seems to know something about the clues from the nobles, and she promised to help find them... I can take advantage of this time to do some commissions and gain some experience points. After all, the upper limit of [Flying Man] is level 40, and I am only level 20 now.'
Chen Lun thought.
Although his total level reached level 100, and the four basic attributes on the panel have reached the threshold of Sequence 6 Transcendents, there is still a lot of room for improvement in his main occupation.
At this stage , improving strength should be the top priority.
Chen Lun's eyes quickly scanned the menu, screening it one by one.
"With the ability of the [Flying Man] sequence, I don't have to worry about the distance issue. However, most of the commissions are personal grudges or conflicts between family forces..."
He was not very interested in such a commission.
It’s not that Chen Lun is ashamed to be a killer, but the benefits of this kind of commission cannot be maximized.
"I found it..."
Chen Lun raised his eyebrows, and locked his sight on a commission on a certain page of the menu——
"Target of the commission: Red Apple Church in Galena City, Bishop Sommerfik."
"Commission number: YQ2414222. Commission requirements: No limit on killer level."
"Commission reward: a bottle of extraordinary wine. Sommelier's comments: Red wine, fine product, sweet aftertaste, rich fruity aroma, temporary increase in jumping ability and physical agility, recycling price 240 gold pounds."
Chen Lun grinned, took out a pen and paper, wrote the commission number on the slip, signed it, and put it into the black box.
As the note slowly sank into the shadows, the information about the commission on the menu soon became distorted and blurred, and the entire page of information could not be seen clearly.
Chen Lun knew that the club had locked it and other members could no longer accept the commission.
'As the Red Calamity spreads and the Empire is in turmoil, countless people have formed a mortal feud with the Red Apple Church... This is exactly the kind of commission I need. In the long run, it can not only weaken their power, but also continue to accumulate contributions to the main quest.
The short-term benefits are also considerable. The commission remuneration plus the mission rewards are a rich source of growth... and there are also real-time rewards for killing the target, which is an extra gain.'
Chen Lun's eyes were deep, and he thought with a slight smile.
He touched the Balague necklace on his neck and slowly stood up. He walked to the window with his silver cane, looked up at the purple crescent moon in the night sky, and murmured:
"Spade Knight Joko is about to hunt for red apples..."
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Fangqian City is located in Yanbang Bronze City, two cities away from Kongque City, and slightly inland.
Similar to the situation in the Fossil City of the Gem State, the Empire also sent a heavyweight figure to the Bronze City to take charge and curb the spread of the red disaster.
However, due to the limited number of senior officials in the shelter and the Church of the Sun, one of the vice presidents of the History and Ritual Association of the Orthodox Church was tasked with the task.
However, as a high-sequence saint, this vice-chairman was far inferior to the saints of the Sun Path in suppressing vast territories. Without a large number of incarnations, and without a wonder like the Daytime Obelisk as an amplification, many cities within the jurisdiction of the Rock State Bronze City were still suffering from the ravages of the Red Apple Church and were still waiting for rescue.
Fangqian City is a city located in the red disaster area.
It is dilapidated and run-down, with few people on the streets.
The original orthodox churches in the area were the Moon Church and the Red Apple Church, but since the Red Disaster, the Red Apple Church area has become a restricted area in Fangqian City.
Countless man-eating monsters roamed around the Red Apple Church area, and many survivors saw with their own eyes that red-robed monks led teams of guards to capture living people indiscriminately in the city and bring them into the church area.
The Moon Church and the shelter each established a "safe zone" with their stronghold as the center to resist the red disaster. Most of the survivors in Fangqian City gathered and lived in this area to receive shelter.
Outside the safe zone, there are fallen believers everywhere, and it is filled with chaos and killing, just like hell.
If you look down, it looks like a bloody mouth is slowly swallowing two eggs.
The Red Apple Church area at this time.
Hundreds of residents are being held in underground prisons, and those who cannot fit in are piled up in large iron cages in the surface courtyards, like livestock waiting to be slaughtered.
Bishop Sommerfick patrolled with an expressionless face, looking at the ragged and frightened residents with a cruel smile on his face.
"There are enough living sacrifices. If we put them into the 'atonement ceremony' in batches, the efficiency of refining sin blood will be greatly improved."
"I will obey your will, Bishop Sommerfik!"
The two red-robed monks following behind him answered respectfully.
"Praise the Rose."
The group solemnly made a prayer gesture.
The iron cage was extremely crowded, hot and smelly. Most of the prisoners were terrified, and a few stared at the clergy of the Red Apple Church with angry eyes.
But they didn't dare to make a loud noise , because anyone who did this would have his throat slit and his blood drained on the spot, then dragged away to an out-of-sight place and dealt with.
Bishop Sommerfik turned and went to the other side of the courtyard.
On the marble floor here, a huge magic circle ritual was carved in blood, with a statue of an old man placed in the middle.
This statue is four or five meters tall. It is dressed in a luxurious robe and a pointed crown on its head. It holds the Rose Bible in one hand and a triangular candlestick in the other.
He is none other than Dolomythopneus, the former Pope of the Red Apple Church.
The statue was covered in blood, and naked bodies were scattered around it, including men, women, young and old. On the candlestick of the statue, a young girl was pierced, she was not dead yet, and was struggling and screaming.
The blood slowly flowed along the candlestick and the statue, and merged into the groove below the statue.
A transparent holy grail was placed under the groove to collect the condensed blood of sin.
“Save me…”
The girl murmured as she was dying.
Bishop Sommerfick and several red-robed monks remained silent, surrounding the edge of the ceremony and watching everything silently.
Just at this moment.
The leader, Sommerfik, suddenly changed his expression and turned his head sharply.
I don't know when a figure appeared behind me, walking slowly towards me.
Snap, snap…
The man was dragging a huge broadsword, wearing old rusty armor, with twisted snake ornaments all over his body, and the scarlet cloak behind him was flying high, fluttering.
"Intruder!"
"Everyone on alert!"
The red-robed monks shouted loudly, and church guards rushed in from all directions.
Sommerfik stared at the figure and suddenly his whole body was shocked.
"Spade Knight... Qiao Ke! What do you want to do here?!"
"What a delicious prey... Today, none of you can escape, hehehe..."
The knight walked slowly towards them, and a terrifying laugh came from the dark gap between the crosses.
"retreat!!"
Sommerfick shouted.
clang!!
A brilliant silver slash suddenly appeared beside Sommerfick.
Before the four red-robed monks could react, their heads and bodies were separated.
Their heads were raised high, with expressions of astonishment frozen on their faces.
The headless corpse gushed out blood and fell to the ground with a loud bang.