Chapter 369
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Chapter 369: The Four Riders
Early the next morning, Zhang Mu was awoken by the crackling sound of firecrackers outside the window. He opened the wooden window to take a look outside.
Wow! That’s a huge show!
More cavalry kept entering the city. Surrounded in the middle were two tall, big horses, giving off the aura of second-rank strong fighters. Zhang Mu had a feeling that the Eight War Riders were about to arrive.
Zhang Mu called for Yuan Rui, and after they finished packing, they both went downstairs together.
“Are you going out, Mr. Zhang?”
A waiter approached and, seeing Zhang Mu nod, whispered, “If you’re going out today or tomorrow, be careful. These are the days when the eight leaders of the war riders gather at the Drunken Immortal Building. There will also be those elusive messengers of the gods appearing later. It’s the most vigilant time in the whole city. If you accidentally break the city’s rules, you won’t be able to escape.”
“If you accidentally break the city rules, you won’t be able to run away later.”
Zhang Mu looked at the kind waiter in front of him and said with a smile, “You don’t seem to be afraid of the leader of the Eight War Riders, and from your tone, you don’t seem to fear those gods either.”
“I never said that, it’s just your guess, sir.”
The waiter shrugged, continued wiping the dishes, and said, “We’re just getting by. If we were afraid to leave the city, we would have died long ago. Living a life without using abilities is like my life being set like a worker ant, busy all day long without a purpose.”
Why bother about how others do things when you have free time?
Mr. Zhang, you look unfamiliar. It seems like your first time in the capital city. Let me remind you that it’s best not to leave the inn these days. But if you insist on going out, just ignore what others say.
The ordinary person in front of Zhang Mu, who can’t even be considered a first-rank evolver, made him take notice. He patted the shoulder of this young man, who should have been enjoying the most wonderful four years in college just like himself.
“Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Zhang will take note. Nothing is set in stone, life is like a road, just decide which way to go, easy or difficult.”
Zhang Mu took out a heavy bag filled with elemental crystals from his sleeve and said, “I can’t help you much, saying more might endanger your life. Take it.”
The waiter unconsciously shook the fabric bag in his hand. Having handled money too much, he immediately recognized that there were at least three digits worth of elemental crystals in the bag, equivalent to the living expenses of an ordinary person for half a year, now in his possession.
“By the way, where is the Drunken Immortal Building?”
“It’s located at the southeast corner of the temple. They won’t be receiving other guests today and tomorrow.”
He watched Zhang Mu and another person walk out of the inn’s door before finally realizing that the elemental crystals in his hand were real. He quickly put them in his pocket, looked at Zhang Mu disappearing at the end of the street with a complicated expression, closed the door.
It was nothing much, Zhang Mu just thought the young man was nice. But if Zhang Mu told anyone, it could cause trouble in the city where Sub-merchants were worshipped as messengers of gods.
Yet he still did it. Compared to the people from yesterday, he seemed more like a human.
The temple wasn’t far from where Zhang Mu and his friends were. They quickly found the Drunken Immortal Building, thanks to the waiter who had told them the location. Without his help, they might have searched for a long time. Strangely, in the heavily guarded Hohhot City, there weren’t many guards around.
The Drunken Immortal Building had a traditional look, like in the Central Plains. It seemed newly built, specifically for the war leaders from the Central Plains and the Sub-merchants.
Although the guards seemed relaxed, as soon as Zhang Mu and his friend approached it, several people emerged stealthily on both sides of the Drunken Immortal Building, all appearing from the shadows. Their skills in hiding were exceptional. Zhang Mu didn’t even notice them without using his mental power to detect them, and all of them were second-rank evolvers.
“You’re not from the city, are you?”
“How did you figure that out?”
The guards blocking Zhang Mu slowly drew their weapons from their waists and said slowly, “People in Hohhot City know this place is off-limits. No one would come near, and as for the second-rank strong people in the city, even if I can’t name them all, I can recognize their faces, and I’m sure I haven’t seen you before.”
Zhang Mu didn’t talk much. He simply showed the Era Merchant Ring on his right hand, and the guards holding knives stared at it, clearly having heard about this outsider Era Sub-merchant named Zhang Mu.
“The four people up there must be leaders of Hohhot City in the Eight War Riders, tell them I’ve arrived. Just say Zhang Mu is here and we need to meet.”
There are only four unfamiliar second-rank strong individuals up there. Qizilbash has already bought his second-rank healing potion with the elemental crystal he saved up. He recognized the auras of Su Rui and Huang Yan as well. If all four of them are here, then it should be the leaders of the Four War Riders, including Xiao Nan.
Zhang Mu gestured for them to lower their weapons and go deliver the message. One of the guards hesitated while the others stayed put, but all weapons were down.
“Since we are all here, there’s no harm in meeting.”
They should have already sensed Zhang Mu’s arrival. The auras of the two second-rank strong individuals, undisguised, were like lighthouses in the mist of the city. They couldn’t have missed it. They just needed to see Zhang Mu’s attitude, and now there’s no need for him to confront them, let’s go with this attitude.
Tell the leaders of the Four War Riders, Zhang Mu wants to talk with them.
Without using their powers to go up directly, Zhang Mu and Yuan Rui walked step by step from the wooden stairs to the rooftop of the Drunken Immortal Building.
The Drunken Immortal Building was very quiet, with no guests on the lower two floors. With the four people waiting on the rooftop for Zhang Mu, the whole building was so quiet that only the creaking sound of Zhang Mu and Yuan Rui on the stairs could be heard.
As they reached the rooftop, Zhang Mu felt four intense gazes directed towards them, not necessarily hostile but far from friendly.
On the rooftop, there were nine tables, and the four of them were sitting around the one in the middle, watching as Zhang Mu walked towards them without changing his expression.
Hachikuju had already introduced Zhang Mu to the four War Riders of Hohhot City, and he recognized them at a glance because their features were very obvious.
Wearing a green robe and armed with a long sword, it was Xiao Nan, whom Zhang Mu had seen before. His gaze towards Zhang Mu was the most unfriendly among the four, as he wasn’t so quick to forget what happened yesterday.
Sitting to his left with shoulder-length golden hair and eyes as wide as bronze bells was Bara, the leader of the Gold Scale Wolf Riders, which means “tiger” in Mongolian.
Directly facing Zhang Mu was Huyan Tu, the leader of the Mad Wolf Riders, a thin man wrapped in a wolf pelt with a high-bridged nose. His gaze towards Zhang Mu sometimes felt like that of a predator, while other times it softened.
The remaining person, the only one who glanced at Zhang Mu when he first arrived on the rooftop, was a white-robed man. Among the four, he was the one who posed the biggest threat to Zhang Mu. He owned the War Riders of the Sky Wolf, the most powerful faction among the original Eight War Riders.
This was the person who even made Hachikuju wary, the leader of the Sky Wolf Riders, Zhang Yi, right?
