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Volume 10 Bug Chapter 141 Dwelling in a Dwelling (Part 1)

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    Chapter 141 Dwelling in a Dwelling (Part 1)

    If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe that in the majestic, majestic and prosperous holy city of Freischt, there was such a remote, closed, dark and narrow path: it was lined with dilapidated and ugly buildings.  Every time the wind blew into the alley, the broken doors and windows swayed messily, making rough "creaking" sounds, making people feel like they might fall down at any time.  Longbow Shooting Sun once mentioned that in another space-time plane where the space traveler was, there was once a famous aristocratic young man named Qing Ximen who was hit on the head by a window edge that accidentally fell.  , which then triggered a series of sexy and exciting things, which eventually led to his own life.  Looking at the crumbling solid oak windows above our heads, each one as thick as a child's arm, I feel that the reason why such a romantic and twisted legend has not spread in our world is because it has no basis at all.  There is no realistic basis for communication - the unlucky guy must have gone straight to the end from the beginning of the story: he was directly smashed to death by the heavy window edge.

    When I first walked into this path, I felt that it was too narrow: if I stretched out my arms, my two palms could just support the walls on both sides, and two adults of medium stature could just walk side by side here.  And if by chance there were two tauren crossing each other here, I'm afraid it would take a lot of effort to get past each other - but I soon discovered that my worries were completely unnecessary: ??after walking here for a long time, we  Not even a ghost could be seen, let alone anyone walking towards them.

    We don¡¯t know how far we have walked in this alley where no sunlight can be seen. The entrance behind us has disappeared, while the exit in front of the road is still hidden in the boundless darkness.  Just when I strongly doubted whether this road had an end, Fei Yin, who was walking at the front and immersed herself in flipping through the map, finally stopped in front of a house:

    "We're here," she said.

    Like all the surrounding buildings, this house looks dilapidated. The bricks on the exterior walls are covered with moss, and the steps at the door are also full of cracks. The two red doors are crookedly closed, and the door handles are messy.  It was wrapped around a large lock with an iron chain, and the lock was covered with yellow-green rust marks.  I suspected that if we didn't use a key to open it, it would rust and break in two days. In fact, I was very surprised that Fei Yin could actually open it with a key.  After opening the door, we saw several sets of rough-made tables and chairs crookedly placed in the hall on the first floor. There were a few empty counters facing the door, and many spider webs hung messily in the corners.  , indicating that this house has not been used for a long time - judging from the dust accumulated on the ground that is almost as thick as my calves, I really doubt whether it has been there since the creation of the supreme god Darimos.  No one has ever used it.

    This is indeed a very dilapidated old house. For us, the only comforting thing about it is that, thank God, it is not more dilapidated than other houses.  If there is any difference between this house and the others around it, it is that at its door hangs a very simple plaque made of scraps of wood, with red paint painted crookedly like this  One line: "The guild headquarters of a group of people who are bored and chatting non-stop about random things."  For such a long guild name, this plaque is a bit too small, so you have to lie down on the plaque to see every word clearly.

    Yes, this is the generous reward that we exchanged for the certificate given by the gods and the "donation" of 100,000 gold coins after completing the "God of War Arena Martial Arts" task - the headquarters building of our guild.  I still remember that the person who received us at the St. Frederick's Temple was an old priest with a solemn and unsmiling face, and when Fei Yin handed over a purse filled with one hundred thousand gold coins into his hands,  At that moment, his face immediately showed an extremely kind and kind expression, and a flattering smile bloomed like flowers from the thick folds on his face.  This old guy, who seems to be far more pious towards gold coins than towards gods, hurriedly put the money bag in his arms and said shamelessly: "Those who voluntarily contribute to the gods, the gods will protect you  ¡­¡±

    "Voluntary?" Fei Yin gave the guy a hard look with her cold and piercing eyes, and spat on the ground with no regard for her ladylike image - of course, if she had one -:

    "Bah, we were obviously voluntarily"

    After collecting enough gold coins, this money-minded old guy threw us a thick stack of blueprints and asked us to choose the location of the guild's headquarters.  It's honestly the most gorgeous album I've ever seen in my life, using less than a fifth of the layout markup on every page.??Outline the location and architectural structure of this building in the city, and then use the remaining four-fifths of the page to depict exquisite illustrations, or a group of richly dressed dignitaries walking in a quiet and elegant place.  In the alley, photos of "Xingkeba" or "Hasdagen" are hung on the doorways of the shops; or of a rugged and muscular tauren man and several gorgeously dressed, graceful and charming elves.  The tribal girls sang and danced wildly under the dim light, and the magic lamppost behind them flashed strange words such as "disco" and "high", and so on.  Next to these tempting and encouraging posters, there are often words written in eye-catching fonts: "Jaffy Department Store, a golden store for sale", "Hoso Center, the fashion trend is in progress", "One spoon, a wealthy family"  "Aristocratic Domain" and other huge slogans, which made Fei Yin complain angrily while flipping through the pages.

    ¡°Real estate advertising is everywhere.¡±

    Originally, we could have chosen to build our guild headquarters on a busy street closer to the center of the city, but accordingly, those houses would be more expensive.  You can get the price of a three-story building near the outskirts of the city, but you can only get a small front room in the downtown area.  And if you want to buy a big and nice house in a bustling place, you must "donate" more gold coins - of course, if a guild has accumulated enough gold coins and some rare materials.  , they can also expand and upgrade the original guild headquarters to make it have more functions - similarly, the more prosperous the area, the higher the cost of building upgrades.

    From my personal experience, choosing a location for our guild headquarters is really a difficult and painful process: the building level is too low for a good location, the house with a high building level is too small, and the location for a larger house is too remote almost  Every house has some obvious flaws that make us hesitate when choosing.  When we finally found a good house with a good location, a large area, and a relatively high construction level, we suddenly realized that even if everyone in our guild sold all their underwear, we still couldn't raise a fraction of the price.

    So we know that for us, there is never a shortage of good houses. What we are short of is actually just money

    Finally, we chose a large house with the highest level in a remote urban area - the one we are now in.  I still remember that the slogan on the brochure read, "Five-star properties in the core area of ??the city, the landmark commercial district of Chengdong Avenue." In fact, this damn "core area of ??the city" is even closer to the central square than in the past.  The palace of the Last King Darendil is still far away, and discovering this so-called "landmark" business district is more difficult than discovering a new continent overseas.  The only true statement in the brochure is: This is a genuine fifth-level building after all.

    But it didn¡¯t tell us: This is a level five building that may collapse at any time

    The most frustrating part is: this is our guild headquarters, but technically it doesn¡¯t belong to us.  No matter how much money a guild spends on this house, no matter how many people tighten their belts and save money for this house, no matter how many opportunities you sacrifice to change equipment for this house, no matter how much sweat you waste on playing dungeons.  , in the end this house will not belong to you, but to the temple. You just used your "donations" in exchange for the right to use this house for seventy years - they will eventually be taken back by the temple.

    ¡°My companions accepted this harsh terms, and I fully understand this.  They do not belong to this world, this is just a small part of their long and rich life journey.  They do not need to seek a permanent settlement here. Seventy years is a long enough time for them.  They will eventually return, and return permanently. By then, who this land and this house will ultimately belong to will have nothing to do with them.

    But I always feel a little unwilling.

    Unlike those space travelers who will eventually go back, I will stay here forever, in the land where I was born.  While I belong to this land, I also hope to have a place of my own here - I hope that what I can eventually keep is not just my sword and shield.

    Yes, for the Supreme God, life in every world is short-lived. He seems to have been accustomed to seeing us as short-lived passers-by in this world¡ªperhaps he simply wants us to become short-lived passers-by.  ¡ªand therefore not expecting us to truly own something of our own.  Maybe he is right and everything belongs to God.  The wisdom of the Supreme God is great and profound, and can often think about some profound things that we cannot imagine. Therefore, we should be devout and believe in it and should not doubt it.

    But after all, I am still a little unwilling, especially when many of us are risking our lives time and time again for this dilapidated house with four walls and a ventilated roof.After waiting for so long, even selling everything for it.

    A mediocre person as stupid as me can only have wisdom as stupid as me, that is: the reward I exchanged for my blood, my sweat, my courage and perseverance, I hope it can belong to me - no matter what  Is it in name or in fact?

    I don¡¯t want to be a passerby in this world.

    I am a people who stay in this land

    Just when I was leaning against the door and thinking wildly, the guild president Fei Yin had already led everyone to start the preliminary construction work of the headquarters: she followed the instructions in the "Guild Headquarters Construction Manual" provided with the temple, and first spent twenty-five dollars on it.  For the price of a gold coin, several goblin cleaners were hired to clean the entire house from the inside out.  Although in the view of our respected president, this additional labor expenditure is purely the exploitation and exploitation of players by the blood-sucking and greedy "Darimus Company" - may the Supreme God forgive this woman's disrespectful words -  But in my opinion, these long-eared goblins wearing the funny uniforms of "Freshchter Property Management Company" are actually a group of hard-working, simple and hard-working good people: it only took them less than a minute to make this building better than yours.  The most spooky ghost castle or underground cave I have ever seen. The filthy shabby house is spotless. This is really worth the money. I even think they cleaned it a little too much, leaving the corners of the house clean.  The mouse holes that were originally hidden under the dust are all visible.

    In fact, if we are willing to pay twenty more gold coins, they can also provide the considerate service of repainting the facade of the house, but our president did not hesitate to reject this image, which I think is very necessary.  project.

    It should be noted that if we want to keep the guild headquarters neat and clean, we must pay a so-called "property management fee" to this group of diligent goblins every month.  I guess this group of underground races with pointy ears must have mastered a special kind of magic, because Fei Yin once refused to pay the fee. As a result, when the payment time limit was exceeded, a large amount of dust and cobwebs fell from the sky like a blizzard.  The house was restored to its original appearance in an instant, and our president had to collapse in front of the counter covered with spiders and pay the money.  Since then, I have always wondered if all the houses on this road were so filthy. Could it be that this group of long-eared goblins who seemed to be honest and honest were responsible for coercing others to pay

    After cleaning up, Fei Yin hired a weapons dealer and an auctioneer and placed them behind the two outermost counters.  Like the weapon merchants in the city store, our weapon merchants will also sell some simple weapons and equipment. As the level of the guild headquarters increases, the types of weapons sold will increase and the quality will increase accordingly, but for us  The most kind thing about him is that the fees charged by the weapon dealers hired by the guild will be reduced by half when repairing equipment for guild members. This is for our group of adventurers who are always facing danger and fighting - especially for me.  For a melee professional who would throw his body into a monster and withstand the rain of guns and knives, this would undoubtedly save a lot of money.

    Compared with the use of weapons dealers, auctioneers are obviously a more important profession.  We all know that almost every city on the Falvey continent has its own auction house. Anyone can entrust the auction house to auction the items they want to sell, and at the same time, they can also purchase the items they need through the auction house.  , but every time you successfully auction an item, the auction house will charge a 5% transaction fee as a handling fee.

    But when a guild has its own auctioneer, if the guild members conduct auctions through the guild auctioneer, the handling fee will be reduced to 3%, of which 1% will become the guild's income, while members of the same guild will auction through the guild auctioneer.  Our guild's auctioneers do not need to pay any handling fees when buying and selling items.  You have to know that sometimes a high-level adventurer spends thousands of gold coins at the auction house in order to find a better piece of equipment. From this, it can be calculated that a guild can save money through its own auctioneer.  The cost is definitely a huge sum of money - at least for me.

    In addition to weapons dealers and auctioneers, the guild headquarters can also hire a series of merchants such as grocers, pharmacists, tailors, tavern owners, etc. to gradually improve their functions - of course, like weapons dealers and auctioneers, these merchants also  The guild is required to pay a necessary salary every month.  When the level of the headquarters is raised high enough, the guild will have a dedicated carriage platform. However, all this is really too beautiful and a very long-term vision for us - really, it is really difficult for you to make a group of people so poor that they only have nothing left in their pockets.  The pauper with the last nine coins went shirtless and fantasized about unreliable luxuries such as a "private carriage".

    The attic on the top floor is the guild¡¯s warehouse, used to store the guild¡¯spublic funds and some surplus weapons and equipment.  Our president solemnly stored the guild's remaining nine copper plates in this empty warehouse. From her excited and fanatical eyes, I could see that this woman would be a very important person for a long time to come.  His ideal in life is to fill this room with gold.

    After a longer period of time, I guess her ideal in life will become: use this gold to exchange for a larger warehouse, and then fill it up

    The first floor and the attic were arranged, and finally, Fei Yin took us to the second floor.  This floor was divided into four separate small rooms. The doors were all open. Looking inside, each room was only about five steps wide and seven steps deep. The room was empty and there was nothing.

    While I was guessing the purpose of these rooms, I suddenly found myself receiving a message.  When I opened the magic notebook and opened the information bar, I was shocked
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