Jinyin town is an important southern town of the Ebon Kingdom, with one-third of the country''s ore source. Once it was the center of the whole Ebon Kingdom, but now it is only an independent town that has managed to get out of the vortex of power competition among royal princes.


    There is no doubt that this is a tragedy and an irony. The dirty transactions between the noble lords of the EBO Kingdom keep going on for a moment, and the vertical and horizontal exchanges and close attacks provide enough creativity and materials for the bards to compile all kinds of stories.


    Caesar walked in the bustling streets of Jinyin town. Because half of the men in Jinyin town were miners or blacksmiths, he was more fierce than the brave northerners. There were strong men in simple fur everywhere.


    Unlike most human cities, there are many halflings here.


    The number of aradian halflings is much larger than that of any humanoid race, and there is no unified political power. Halflings with amazing reproduction and survival ability can be seen everywhere, but there are more in Jinyin town. From the town to the south, bypassing the thorns mountains, the boundless prairie is the boundary of halflings. They have fought with the EBO people for mineral veins and territories for hundreds of years, The halfling''s ability to mine and craft is also needed by mankind. Therefore, in some border towns of EBO Kingdom, there is a strange situation that the two sides cut each other at the time of war and do business together at the time of armistice.


    The EBO people and halflings in Jinyin town have always maintained such a strange tacit understanding, but recently, with the influx of a large number of adventurers, the town has become chaotic. The town is full of rumors such as "yukrahir" and "nine headed giant demons".


    Caesar kept a low profile and looked around like a fledgling adventurer. The mercenaries who hurriedly roared through the street had a wind at their feet, trampled over a roadside drying washbasin in the collision of leather armor, knocked down his master together, glanced at him and left without paying attention.


    Caesar looked carefully. It was a female Centaur who was knocked down. Her upper body was basically the same as that of ordinary humans. Her yellowish hair was combed behind her head, wearing a cloth dress with large patches, and her lower body was a properly cut trouser skirt.


    She put her hands on the ground, curled up her four hoofs, stood up again in a slightly difficult posture, patted the dust on her trouser skirt, looked at the newly dyed stains with a sad face.


    Caesar stooped to pick up the washbasin that had been kicked to his feet, walked two steps forward and handed it over.


    The female Centaur looked at him unexpectedly and thanked him in a low voice. Her voice was the same as that of human beings. She took the basin, scooped a spoonful of water in the water tank next to the door and rinsed it again.


    Caesar did not open low. Looking at her slightly shaking tail, he took the initiative to say, "it seems that life here is not easy."


    "Natural disaster, sir."


    Caesar''s image was not that of the upper class. The Centaur didn''t look back, but whispered: "a sudden fire burned all our savings. My husband was forced to go into the mountain as a guide for foreign guests like you. They said they were looking for yukla. The goddess was on the top. It was an extremely dangerous gamble. The terrible wolves, fierce manes and mountain demons in the mountain..."


    As she spoke, she choked, and her voice was full of sadness and grief.


    "What happened to him?"


    The Centaur turned around and said, "the earthquake is sudden. Maybe it''s not an earthquake. People say it''s caused by the nine headed giant snake."


    "My husband was on a rugged mountain road, and the earthquake brought rolling stones." she sobbed. "Those outsiders didn''t even bring his body back."


    "I''m sorry."


    Caesar sighed. It was really a sad story. When the female Centaur calmed down a little, he continued: "In a sense, like them, I''m an explorer from the north. Can you tell me the latest news? I heard the rumors that the locals were shouting yukrahir and nine giant demons. I''m sorry to remind you of the sad past. It''s a small reward."


    Then he took out a silver coin from his pocket, thought about it, took out another one and put it in the palm of the Centaur''s hand.


    "Too much, sir. I don''t have any secrets. Some stories that everyone knows are not worth so much money." the Centaur looked at it and declined.


    The EBO Kingdom, which relies on ore and smelting as its pillar, is not rich and developed, and the price and cost of living are not much higher. The two silver can only drink two drinks in the trading city-state, but can maintain a week''s life here. In the eyes of the Centaur, the money is indeed a lot.


    Caesar said a few words, but she accepted it.


    "Thank you for your generosity, sir. Please come in and have a rest. I''ll try to tell you all I know."


    At the invitation of the people and horses, Caesar entered the street house. The house was small. There was a low window on the left and right. Next to the wall opposite the door was a wooden sleeper. There was a cabinet between it and the low window. There were three drawers below.


    There is also a mirror in the corner, with several cracks on the edge. The pattern on the wooden base is so simple that it has no beauty, like a perfunctory product drawn at will.


    Caesar found a place to sit down. There was a smell of sawdust in the room. It looked like it had just been newly built. In addition, there was a faint smell of mutton, which was the smell of centaurs.


    "The nine headed giant snake is not a recent news. There was a legend about it in the EBO Kingdom long ago, and some halfling clans living in the prairie occasionally tell its story."


    The Centaur poured Caesar a glass of water and knelt down: "it is said that it swam through the dangerous peaks and cracks in the thorns and swallowed all living creatures that can be swallowed. It is said that it has an immortal body and must cut off all its heads at the same time to kill it. It has a thousand meters long and 99 teeth full of venom."


    "Originally, it was just a legend of gods and monsters, which was as groundless as the legend of the black dragon eating the world in your north. However, it was said that a month and a half ago, nine giant snakes appeared with yukalahir. At that time, most miners and adventurers in the thorns mountains died. Only a few living people ran out to bring back the news. Later, they went crazy and died soon."


    "People in the town were terrified. Some said that the nine headed giant snake would destroy everything. Others said that the nine headed giant snake was holding the branches of the world tree and waiting for the challenge of the warriors. Many people planned to leave here and take refuge in other parts of the kingdom. My husband and I also planned to leave. But I don''t know why this news attracted many foreigners. These rich outsiders brought trouble to the town A lot of energy, we will stay, who knows... "


    Caesar nodded as he listened and thought slowly. In his memory attic, he did not find any news about the nine headed giant snake, which basically proved that this creature did not exist before ayladia.


    The nine headed giant snake is either an erroneous farce or an undiscovered unknown creature.


    "Besides that," Caesar pondered and asked, "has it ever appeared?"


    "No, but recently, many people have disappeared for unknown reasons. Most of them are adventurers going to the thorns. Without their loud voice, the people in the town can''t get any other news."


    Caesar smiled and said, "thank you for your news. It''s very useful to me."


    "Thank you for your generosity, too, sir. May the goddess bless you." the Centaur stood up and bowed and thanked again.


    Nodding, Caesar took two steps back, turned to the door and opened the wooden door. When he was about to leave, he suddenly bowed his head and said, "madam, I think if EB''s life is not easy, the North may be a good place to go."


    "North..." the woman Ma repeated, and it was the first time she heard similar comfort.


    As like as two peas, Caesar did not explain, walking out of the house, closing the wooden doors with the same hand, showing the same as normal human beings. After that, he found the latent EBO''s deformation monster and asked. The result was almost the same as what the Centaur said. There was no more inside information.