The carriage was bumping along the rugged mountain road. Green and Jacob were driving the carriage, while Green was still complaining in a low voice to Jacob: “How about a bet? I guess this rented carriage has no way to be returned. Our guild is naturally incompatible with carriages. Every time we rent a carriage, it never ends well.”
In the carriage compartment behind, Ye Chui and Debbie, Lesa, Guni, and the old man from Joker Town. Now Ye Chui knew that the old man’s name was Old Bart.
“There are only about a hundred households in the town now. Decades ago, when the town was most prosperous, there were tens of thousands of people, but now it’s not like that. Most people have moved to other places, and only a few remain.” Old Bart said with a sigh. “It’s all because of the Demon Joker. All the children in our village have been captured by the Demon Joker, twenty-three children…”
Speaking of this, he trembled slightly: “The town may be finished.”
“You said all the children in your village were captured by the Demon Joker?” Lesa asked in surprise.
Old Bart nodded: “This matter started half a year ago. The children began to disappear one after another. The adults were fine, but occasionally outsiders who came to our village would inexplicably die the next day. At first, we also invited some powerful swordsmen and magic tutors to our town, but they still died miserably in the town the next day. The death state was very cruel. Some who did not die were completely scared crazy, constantly saying words like Joker, Joker… Over time, no one dared to go to our town anymore.”
“Outsiders have accidents in your village, but your own people are fine. Don’t you know what happened at night?” Lesa asked curiously.
Old Bart shook his head blankly.
It was really a strange town. This was also why no one in the Mercenary Guild in Ganglu City dared to accept this task.
Ye Chui had already learned from Debbie that Joker Town was located on a mountain. It was a mine. It was said that more than three hundred years ago, this mine belonged to the first family of the Star Empire, the Laen family. That was the family that married the Flower Prince. There was a huge gold mine here. The original Joker Town was where those miners lived, and later it slowly formed a town. After years of mining, the huge mine below was almost hollowed out, but Joker Town remained.
Later, Debbie’s ancestor, Saco Anduin, came out from that town, made a name for himself, founded the family, and spent gold coins to buy the town from the Laen family, renaming it Anduin Town, until now.
This town had a deep connection with the Joker. Before Debbie traversed, the Joker circus in Anduin Town could be considered the most famous comedy show on the entire Castro Continent. This town could be called the cradle of learning Joker performances. If major royal families and nobles held celebrations without inviting Anduin Jokers to perform, it would be considered unsuccessful.
Of course, the situation was different now.
Thirty years ago, the Demon Town suddenly appeared in the town. At that time, it caused a sensation. The name of Anduin Town was replaced by Joker Town. The Joker circus also began to decline. Now the terrifying Demon Joker had reappeared. This Joker Town had completely become deserted, even called the most terrifying town. It was said that this place was the land cursed by the Joker. Even the most powerful magic guilds and mercenary groups in Ganglu City were unwilling to go there.
In the midst of the conversation, the carriage had arrived at the foot of the mine. Here, strange rocks stood everywhere, various thick trees grew all around, leaving only a small road in the middle that could barely allow the carriage to pass. The road was even more difficult to travel. Green’s driving skills were not bad, but along the way, the carriage compartment still constantly hit the strange rocks on the roadside.
He was still continuing the topic with Jacob about whether the carriage would be damaged this time: “How about a bet? This carriage might be dismantled later. I have this premonition.”
“Big brother Green, don’t mess around. How could a good carriage be damaged.” Jacob said while firmly grasping the side rail of the carriage. Renting a carriage cost fifty silver coins a day, plus a deposit of one hundred gold coins. If the carriage was damaged, the deposit could not be retrieved. He did not believe that Ye Chui and Debbie would let this carriage be destroyed casually.
“Don’t disbelieve my premonition. I have been mixing with the president and them much longer than you. They are professional carriage destroyers…” Green said confidently in his mouth while holding the reins. Driving the carriage was very boring. He said this not necessarily because he was very sure, but just idle words for fun.
However, at this moment, a strange flute sound suddenly came. Several birds were startled and flew up in the distant woods. The next moment, it seemed that something fell in front of Green and Jacob. “Ang—” The three horses pulling the carriage raised their front hooves one after another.
“What happened!?” Jacob exclaimed in his mouth, almost being thrown off the carriage.
Ye Chui’s figure quickly rushed out from the carriage compartment, one arm each, pulling Green and Jacob back. Whoosh, the carriage was attacked by some force, instantly collapsing to the ground. Green and Jacob let out exclamations, their bodies falling to the ground. In front of them on the ground, wooden stakes broke out of the soil one by one, quickly forming a semicircular shape, enclosing the three of them. This was the wood escape magic that Ye Chui comprehended through sensing Naruto Yamato: [Wooden Ingot Wall]
Clang, clang, clang—
Invisible attacks fell on the semicircular defense of the [Wooden Ingot Wall].
On the other side, Lesa used [Holy Word: Old Lady Covers You] to condense a holy semicircular barrier, firmly protecting the others in the carriage compartment.
The invisible attacks soon stopped.
“President, what happened?” Jacob asked in panic.
“It was wind blade attacks.” Ye Chui said in a deep voice, walking out from the defense of the Wooden Ingot Wall.
He saw on the ground ahead, on the semicircular defensive wood condensed by the Wooden Ingot Wall, covered with cuts more than half a meter long. Several trees were cut in half at the waist. The most regrettable were the three horses. One of them had its horse head completely cut off, and was gushing hot blood. The remaining two horses, although not dead, were seriously injured, with their horse legs cut off, and blood dripping from their bodies, constantly neighing.
And the carriage they were riding had shattered into debris on the ground.
After Green came around from behind the Wooden Ingot Wall, seeing the severely injured horses and the shattered carriage compartment, he could not help but sigh: “I said…” He summoned the magic guide book, took out a boning knife, directly space teleported, and stabbed into the hearts of the two horses, ending their lives.
Jacob was shocked: “…”
The previous incident happened unexpectedly. Although everyone was not injured, Old Bart was greatly frightened. Now he was falling to the ground. Debbie bent down to help Old Bart up. The little girl suddenly looked stunned, seeing Old Bart’s chest exposed skin. That place was a piece of dark red, as if bruised, but the bruise was a pattern of a Joker…
However, Debbie did not have time to think about what this was. She then came to Ye Chui’s side with Guni and Lesa.
“What happened?” Debbie asked.
Ye Chui pointed ahead. There, behind a huge rock, a group of people was walking out. There were seven people in total. Ye Chui sneered: “They attacked us. They are guys from Ganglu City.”
“Those, those are all big figures from Ganglu City. The one walking in the front is President Tagg of the Fire Stone Magic Guild. And that one is President Dallas of the Water Demon Magic Guild. That lady is the vice president of the Snake Demon Mercenary Guild, Dilan…” Old Bart introduced tremblingly one by one. After all, he was very familiar with Ganglu City. These days, he had been wanting to hire magic guilds and mercenary groups, so he knew about the famous mercenary groups and magic guilds in Ganglu City.
“Water Demon Magic Guild, this seems to be a four-star magic guild.” Green said in a low voice. “Fire Stone Magic Guild seems to be four-star as well. That Snake Demon Mercenary Group is a three-star mercenary group… This group of people are not simple.” He was very good at inquiring about various news. Although he only stayed in Ganglu City for one night, he had already learned many things.
While Ye Chui and the others were whispering, the magic tutor named Tagg among those people had already spoken: “Whatever Name Magic Guild really lives up to its reputation. Just now my [Wind Blade Storm] sudden attack, unexpectedly you could still safely dodge.”
“Several adults from Ganglu City, I don’t know why you stopped us?” Ye Chui said coldly. If it were not for his magic guide book map detecting their malice in advance, their group might really have fallen under this [Wind Blade Storm].
While Ye Chui was speaking, he also quietly released the [Intrusion] spell on Tagg. The [Browser] jumped out, logging into Tagg’s memory world!
“We admire President Ye Chui and your courage, but Joker Town belongs to Ganglu City. The matter of Joker Town, you better not interfere?” The female swordsman named Dilan, with a glamorous appearance, holding a red long sword in her hand, said coldly. “Others may not know, but we are very clear about President Ye Chui your illegitimate child identity. At this time, you should not want to establish a few more enemies, right?”
“My enemies are everywhere, not short of a few like you.” Ye Chui said to them in his mouth, while his eyes swept over the iPad screen. On the homepage of the [Browser], a series of article titles had already been displayed.
Among them, Ye Chui saw at a glance what he was looking for: “Plan to Deal with the Illegitimate Child”
Tagg and the others attacked Ye Chui and his group here, naturally after certain planning. Ye Chui immediately wanted to open this article, but found that it required spending “500” points to unlock. So expensive! This made Ye Chui hesitate for a moment. People like Tagg, president level, had very firm will. Unlocking his inner privacy was obviously not so easy.
However, knowing the opponent’s plan was also very important for the current situation, so Ye Chui finally decided to click on it.
Tagg and the others were all three or four-star president level experts. Facing their joint attack, Ye Chui did not dare to be arrogant casually.
The article was quickly opened. Ye Chui’s eyes swept over the content on the article, and a knowing expression appeared on his face.
“So you are determined to meddle in the idle matter of Joker Town?” Tagg asked coldly at this time.
“You are really interesting. You don’t go to accept the task yourself, but interfere with us? What does our meddling in Joker Town have to do with you!” Debbie asked back very unhappily.
“We don’t solve the problem of Joker Town, but we absolutely cannot let it to you. If you die in Joker Town, that’s fine, but if you really solve the problem, wouldn’t that make us people from Ganglu City look too incompetent?” A short swordsman said hoarsely. His weapon was a long-handled axe.
Hearing this person say this, Ye Chui and his little partners could not help but laugh. They themselves did not dare to go to Joker Town. Now Ye Chui wanted to solve the problem here, but they were afraid that Ye Chui completing the task would make them lose face, so they specially came to intercept Ye Chui and the others? Damn, what kind of damn thinking is this!
“I ask you one last time!” Tagg flipped his magic guide book, his voice suddenly became stern. “Are you leaving or not? If you insist on going to Joker Town, then don’t blame us for being rude to you.”
“Being rude to us?” Ye Chui snorted coldly. “Just now you sneaked attacked us first. You should first ask if we will be polite to you!”
