Firefly Journey

After the Elf Lady inspected the warehouse goods, Clayston Bank provided a loan valuation.

Five gold coins. Although Lin Yuanran was prepared for this, he still couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Five gold coins are only half the value of one crystal coin, which means that he needs to earn the remaining five gold coins using his extraordinary abilities, which is no easy task.

Upon closer reflection, Cresson's offer was already quite generous. After all, the cost of his rabbit fur was less than 1 gold coin, and offering five times the price was extremely kind and considerate.

Lin Yuanran had some doubts: would the rabbit fur he stockpiled for winter be enough to repay the gold coin loan?

In business, no matter how good the prediction is, it cannot be 100% certain. The situation is constantly changing, and it is impossible to guarantee that you will make a fortune.

Stockpiling rabbit fur had exhausted all of Lin Yuanran's financial resources, leaving him with only enough for living expenses. Therefore, Piero no longer needed to act as his strategist.

After saying a few earnest words, Piero, who had been briefly possessed by the "fraudster," returned to normal, retaining his memories of the period, but without realizing that his mind had been invaded, and returned to normal.

Lin Yuanran bid him farewell and boarded the carriage to Ibiza.

It wasn't even the end of summer yet, but he decided to go to the capital first, not to enroll in school, but to find a way to make money.

As we all know, the bigger the city, the bigger the stage, and the greater the opportunity to make money.

Ibiza is the capital and largest city of the principality, and its political, economic, and cultural center. Naturally, it also has the most superhuman guilds in the country, making it undoubtedly the best choice to try one's luck there.

The distance from Casvia to Ibiza is several hundred kilometers. In this world where transportation is not well-developed, taking a long-distance horse-drawn carriage is a truly grueling experience.

Not only was the journey bumpy, but it was also incredibly slow. It took Lin Yuanran a full week to finally see the city's gateway.

At this moment, he felt an overwhelming envy for the carefree way Cassius and his companions had left.

After a bumpy ride, we finally arrived at the bustling capital of the principality, Ibiza, known as the "city of industry."

As soon as the carriage came to a stop, Lin Yuanran couldn't wait to get off. The first thing he needed to do was find a place to stay, because he planned to stay until the end of summer, and he couldn't do without a place to stay.

The station where he got off was in the "Pafeti district," the only slum in Ibiza, where tens of thousands of impoverished people struggle to survive.

As industry gradually rose, Ibiza needed a large number of workers, and outsiders, smelling the money, flocked in.

However, coming from out of town, they had no roots in Ibiza and could only rent the cheapest place, Paifeti, which led to the abnormal prosperity of the Paifeti district.

The slums, a melting pot of all sorts of people, were prone to unrest due to their large population, making them difficult for the duchy's government to manage. They couldn't very well order their abolition, as that would completely collapse Ibiza's industrial system, leaving them with no one to work with.

The management difficulties did not make things difficult for the principality; on the contrary, they were quite welcoming to people from all walks of life who came to seek their fortune.

A large population creates opportunities, and many people started their fortunes from the distribution of allowances, thus rising to the upper echelons of the principality's society.

For Lin Yuanran, the occasional slum riots had no effect on him. Firstly, he was a superhuman, naturally possessing advantages over ordinary people.

Secondly, since Teacher Cassius Bello is only a few dozen kilometers away in St. Louis, it wouldn't be unreasonable to summon the little clay figure for help if he really encountered a problem he couldn't solve.

However, he would not go to Cassius unless it was absolutely necessary, because that would make him seem incompetent, and Cassius certainly wouldn't want his student to be a tattletale.

After spending a few copper coins and asking a beggar on the roadside where there was a reasonably priced hotel, Lin Yuanran followed the directions the beggar gave him.

Upon arriving at his destination, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.

The hotel sign ahead had four large, neatly printed characters on a wooden plaque.

Ghost Hotel.

"It seems their business is quite extensive..."

After internally complaining for a moment, Lin Yuanran went inside.

He was greeted by a beautiful woman.

Lin Yuanran explained his purpose and expressed his desire for a monthly rent. Then, his gaze involuntarily drifted towards her lower body. Unfortunately, the counter obscured his view, making it impossible to determine whether she was a member of the Ghost Clan.

In Pafetti, there are often people who need long-term rentals, most of whom are migrant workers, something Ms. Ghost is used to.

"plz follow me."

As soon as the ghost lady left the counter, Lin Yuanran's wish was fulfilled; sure enough, there was a cloud of mist below his waist.

After showing his identification and completing the formalities, Lin Yuanran carried his luggage to his room, closed the door, and plopped down on the small wooden bed.

This was a bad habit he had in his original world: he would rather lie down than sit.

After resting for a while, he got up to familiarize himself with the surroundings.

The room was on the third floor, which was full of tenants, most of whom had their families with them, making it very lively, or rather, noisy.

Outside the window is a small courtyard surrounded by buildings, not very big, filled with thin ropes and wires for drying clothes.

The courtyard has only two water taps, which have to meet the needs of dozens or even hundreds of tenants, so they are often crowded, and there are even people queuing up in the middle of the night.

Lin Yuanran then realized that the rooms here did not have individual washrooms; there was only one on each floor. He went inside to take a look, and a stench hit him so badly that he almost vomited and immediately covered his nose.

Clearly, the washroom is not flushed at all times. Due to water shortages, the water source for cleaning is drawn up from the yard by someone hired by the landlord and used for cleaning at fixed times.

Lin Yuanran returned to his room, sighed silently to himself, and then gave a bitter smile.

It seems that, in any era, the people at the bottom of society always suffer the most.

In the original world, he had some knowledge of ancient foreign countries from historical books, but he never expected that one day he would be able to experience it immersively.

Ibiza, somewhat similar to the Victorian era of the British Empire, saw rapid advancements in technology and industry, but also suffered from systemic flaws.

But it wasn't entirely like that. Lin Yuanran also saw the shadow of the Middle Ages, where nobles held sway and supernatural beings roamed freely. They controlled most of the resources, leaving only scraps and leftovers.

These leftovers, however, are to be divided among most living beings.

Lin Yuanran closed the window, putting all these thoughts behind him. The more the world was like this, the stronger his desire to go home became. After all, the era he lived in wasn't too bad for ordinary people, at least.

Even though he became a superhuman in the ancient continent, surpassing 99% of all living beings, he still missed that peaceful world.

With his thoughts in turmoil, Lin Yuanran felt tired. He went downstairs and ate a local Ibiza flatbread. When he came back, it was completely dark.

Feeling inexplicably uneasy, Lin Yuanran drifted off to sleep.