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Chapter 44 Dreamland Tavern

When the remnants of the evil god sneaked into the mountain capital, Zhang Xiaodao, who was far away on the other side of the gray area, also encountered some troubles.

Her name in the Gray Region is Catherine. She looks completely different from her on the Blue Water Planet. She has short hair and gives people a very capable feeling.

Zhang Xiaodao, who came to the Red Flame Empire, was not as lucky as Su Xueqi. He directly became a member of the blood family, even though the Burton family was just a small and declining blood family, and Su Xueqi was only a collateral descendant.

But this is already a very lucky start. Like Zhang Xiaodao, her identity in the Gray Domain was originally just a helper in a shop.

He has no background and is just an ordinary person.

The encounter with her master Man Xiong gave her more choices, but it also brought her into conflict with the Gentlemen's Club and she has been hunted ever since.

Good fortune lies within the shadow of misfortune, and misfortune lies within the shadow of good fortune.

To this day, she no longer cares about gains and losses, and her greatest obsession is to avenge her master, nothing more.

Her greatest hope now is undoubtedly Rorschach's promise.

But before that, she first had to avoid being hunted by the Gentlemen's Club in the Gray Area.

Unlike on the Blue Water Star, the Gentlemen's Club can mobilize very little power in the Great Yan territory, and only Gao Tianlin poses a big threat.

Other senior officials definitely don’t want to set foot in Dayan unless it is necessary.

But it’s different in the Gray Domain. The headquarters of the Gentlemen’s Club in the Gray Domain is in the Red Flame Empire!
In particular, the current boss of the Gentlemen's Club, the First Gentleman, has descended on the Red Flame Empire. Although few people know his identity in the Gray Domain, as one of the few silver knights on the Blue Water Star, the First Gentleman's identity in the Red Flame Empire must be extraordinary.

You know, even in the Gray Domain, Silver Knights are not everywhere, and any Silver Knight is no ordinary person.

When Rorschach and his friends were exchanging information before, they had guessed that the wanted warrant for Zhang Xiaodao was most likely related to the First Gentleman.

However, these are not what Zhang Xiaodao needs to consider at the moment, because for her, the most important thing now is to survive this replacement.

Only by truly becoming a ghost servant can she break the impasse and have hope of avenging her master, Man Xiong!
But her current situation is indeed not good.

Because the bounty had just been put on the market, her wanted poster was now hung in the most conspicuous place in Dujuan City for everyone to see.

In addition, the gentlemen's club should be able to roughly confirm that she is in the nearby area. Even if she is not in Dujuan City, she must be in the two nearby small towns.

These three cities are like a dragnet to her.

She could clearly feel that there were more external search forces in Dujuan City recently, and these were most likely people from the Gentlemen's Club.

She was not a native resident of Dujuan City. If the other party continued searching like this, she would be found sooner or later.

She had no doubt about that.

"The Dreamland in the west of the city?" Zhang Xiaodao had memorized the name by heart long before the exchange began.

Shortly after returning to the Gray Domain, she arrived in the west of the city. After asking around, she soon found the tavern called Dreamland.

This is just an ordinary-looking pub, and its business is just mediocre.

Even after Zhang Xiaodao walked into the tavern, no one came to entertain her. Everything seemed so unreliable.

She even suspected that Su Xueqi had made a mistake.

But since she was already here, she certainly couldn't just leave like that. Following Su Xueqi's instructions, she took the initiative to walk to the bar counter of the pub.

The pub owner was a middle-aged man who looked a little sloppy. He poured himself a glass of wine and drank it alone while eating fried fish.

Even when he saw Zhang Xiaodao approaching, he had no intention of putting down his glass, and asked with a greasy mouth:

"What would you like to drink?" "I want a glass of Drunkenness." Zhang Xiaodao whispered.

"Hmm?" The tavern owner obviously didn't expect Zhang Xiaodao's answer to be this. He immediately put down the wine glass and the half-eaten fried fish in his hand, wiped his hands on his body, and then smiled and said, "Why is it you, girl? I almost didn't recognize you. Why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming here to play?"

An old drunkard not far away saw this scene and said jokingly, "Could it be your illegitimate daughter, Barton?"

"Shut your stinky mouth, Chasen. This is my second brother's precious daughter, the little princess of our Patton family." The tavern owner scolded with a smile.

It was obvious that he had an old relationship with the patrons of the pub.

"Don't just stand there like an idiot, little Amy. Just come to your uncle's house and treat it as your own home." The tavern owner motioned Zhang Xiaodao to follow him, and at the same time instructed a waiter in the tavern, "Yodele, I'll leave this to you. I'll go arrange a room for little Amy."

"Yes, boss!" The waiter raised the wine glass in his hand and responded drunkenly.

"Just keep drinking, you bastard!"

The tavern owner walked to the backyard with Zhang Xiaodao, cursing. This scene also made the old drunkards in the tavern laugh.

Zhang Xiaodao didn't say a word the whole time and just followed the tavern owner.

Until they arrived at a room, the tavern owner pushed the door open and walked in first, motioning Zhang Xiaodao to follow him in.

After entering the room, the tavern owner walked straight to a floor-standing cabinet and opened the door, revealing a deep tunnel.

"Follow me—"

The tavern owner didn't explain and stepped in first.

Zhang Xiaodao did not ask any more questions and followed decisively. At this time, the voice of the tavern owner came from the front:

"Please help me close the cabinet door, thank you."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiaodao immediately turned around and closed the cabinet door.

Just as she closed the cabinet door, her vision suddenly went dark and she lost consciousness.

……

"I, where is this?"

The noise beside his ears and the slight shaking feeling made Zhang Xiaodao slowly wake up from his coma.

She gradually remembered that she went to the tavern called Dreamland according to the address given by Su Xueqi, and also exchanged the secret code.

The tavern owner really understood something and took her to a room in the backyard and opened a secret door for her to follow.

The last thing she remembered was that she closed the door behind her as requested by the tavern owner, and then she suddenly lost consciousness.

"Could it be...she lied to me?"

Zhang Xiaodao’s first reaction was that he had been tricked by Su Xueqi.

But reason told her that there was no need for Su Xueqi to do this, and there was no conflict of interest between the two parties.

If Su Xueqi wanted to harm her, there was no need to be so roundabout.

Just as she was struggling with her conscience, the familiar voice of the tavern owner sounded in her ears again, with a hint of a smile:
"Okay, stop pretending. I know you're awake."

(End of this chapter)