Su Yang and his companion found a small inn near the market and settled in. The inn's prices were ridiculously low compared to the island's Bailu City. Two single rooms cost only 5 silver coins, and 1 gold coin equals 10 silver coins. After checking in, Su Yang counted his money and found he had about 20 Mora and a dozen gold coins. Once he exchanged all his Mora for gold coins, Su Yang would be considered a big shot in this small town.

Nothing happened that night. The next morning, the two met up and went downstairs. They left the hotel and went to the market. With Lin Anlan's introduction, they tried some local breakfast specialties, which were mostly fish. However, Su Yang was not used to eating fried fish so early in the morning. He missed the steamed buns and soy milk from his original world.

After breakfast, they strolled around the market, which was basically the same as the Bailu City, except that some of the clothing had a more local flavor. Lin Anlan pulled Su Yang to change his clothes, bought him a set of local clothes, and also bought him a pair of shoes made of horsehide. After dressing up, Su Yang finally said goodbye to his sloppy image of the past two years.

After exchanging the remaining 20 Mora for gold coins at the money exchange, Su Yang suggested upgrading both of their equipment and looking for a blacksmith shop to forge their S-grade light element materials into bracelets. They went to the equipment shop, bought two large backpacks to replace their old ones, and then had Lin Anlan's personal sword meticulously repaired. Afterwards, they went to a blacksmith shop.

Upon entering, Su Yang wanted to first acquire a longsword, preferably an ancient-style one like the ones from his original world. Firstly, Su Yang particularly admired ancient culture and style, and secondly, he genuinely needed a weapon. After wandering around the blacksmith shop several times without finding anything satisfactory, he finally settled on a longsword of similar length and shape. After purchasing it, Su Yang asked Lin Anlan to inquire with the blacksmith if he could forge a bracelet. Unfortunately, this blacksmith only crafted weapons and equipment, and his bracelet-making skills weren't yet at a high level.

"Why don't we look around first and then find it slowly? We'll find it eventually," Lin Anlan suggested.

Seeing that it was still early, and considering it was only their second day in South Bay City, Su Yang figured they should take the time to explore, so he agreed. The two strolled along the main streets of South Bay City, and even took the opportunity to go to the Adventurers' Guild to cancel Lin Anlan's team. The clerk at the counter was surprised to hear Lin Anlan say he wanted to cancel his Orange Sky-level adventurer team, but after learning that only Lin Anlan remained, she understood, comforted him, and then cancelled the Blood Squad adventurer team's registration. After successfully deregistering, Lin Anlan returned to his status as a free adventurer. He then formed a new Ziyang-level adventurer team with Su Yang, Linglong, and Die'er. Although the team didn't have enough members (less than seven) to accept missions, Su Yang didn't really need high mission rewards at the moment, so it didn't matter. However, when Su Yang went to a secluded spot near the Adventurers' Guild to wake up Die'er and Linglong and brought them back to the guild, it still caused quite a stir. As soon as the three of them entered, the other adventurers in the guild hall started whistling, and some even tried to strike up a conversation, but they were all deterred by Linglong's cold face.

As soon as she stepped out of the Adventurers' Guild, Die'er yawned and complained somewhat discontentedly, "I don't feel like I've had enough to eat yet. You woke me up for such a small thing?"

"Hehe, there's nothing I can do about it. That waitress insisted that there be at least three of us to form a team," Su Yang said with an embarrassed smile.

"Then you could have just woken Linglong up, why did you have to wake me?" Die'er rolled her eyes, still not very happy.

“I’m worried that Linglong will get upset if I only call her and not you,” Su Yang tried to explain, but Linglong interrupted, “I don’t mind. You don’t need to call her anymore. Just call me.”

"Why! Why only call you? You want to take all the benefits, don't you!" Die'er was unhappy again and started arguing with Linglong.

Su Yang shrugged at Lin Anlan, indicating his helplessness. These two were bound to argue whenever they were together. Die'er, who was arguing with Lin Anlan, suddenly remembered something and turned around to ask, "What's the name of your team?"

"Our team's name is 'Returners' Team."

"What kind of name is this? A returnee? Where are you going back to? Back to your..." As if she had thought of something, Die'er stopped midway through her sentence.

The other two also fell silent. Yes, returnees, where else could they go? Su Yang's mind was filled with thoughts of going back, his heart filled with images of the original world, but Su Yang felt nothing about it. He only felt that this name could express his longing, so he casually came up with this team name.

Seeing that Su Yang hadn't noticed the change in Die'er and Linglong's emotions at all, Lin Anlan broke the silence first: "This name is quite nice, short and easy to pronounce, very good. Let's continue our stroll. I wonder if Die'er and Linglong have been to Nanwan City before?"

"I came... um," Die'er was about to say that she had been here before, but Linglong slapped her mouth and quickly said, "No, Su Yang, I want to go for a walk."

"Alright, let's go for another stroll. I know there's a famous tavern in Nanwan City. Their signature dish, Roasted Rongsu Beast Meat, is especially renowned. It has a unique fruity and woody aroma. Why don't we go try it?" After saying that, Lin Anlan gave Linglong a wink and then pulled Su Yang and Die'er along.

The four arrived at the tavern at noon. Su Yang glanced at the tavern sign; it was called "Worry-Free Tavern." Looking through the window, the tavern was full of customers and adventurers eating and drinking. It seemed that the tavern truly lived up to its reputation.

Upon entering, the tavern owner, seeing guests arrive, immediately greeted them warmly, saying, "Four distinguished guests, you've come at the perfect time. We only have one four-person table left, please take a seat."

Following the owner's directions, Su Yang and his group took their seats. Lin Anlan immediately said to the owner, "Boss, two servings of grilled Rongsu beast meat, and four glasses of wine."

"Okay, please wait."

"Why are you drinking?" Su Yang asked, somewhat puzzled, as this was the first time he had drunk alcohol since arriving in this world.

“Their wines are all fruit wines, one glass won’t hurt.” Lin Anlan raised an eyebrow and said, “What, handsome Su can’t drink?”

"It's not that we can't drink, but after dinner we still need to go to the blacksmith to see if they can make a bracelet. We're afraid that drinking will cause us trouble."

"Don't worry, I guarantee there won't be any problems."

While Su Yang and his group were waiting for their food, they overheard guests at another table chatting.

"Hey, did anyone go to your shop this morning?" a bearded man asked the others.

"Don't even mention it." A somewhat thin middle-aged man waved his hand and said helplessly, "When will you not come?"

"You paid again?" asked another, taller young man.

"How could you not pay? You didn't pay?" the skinny uncle retorted.

"Damn it, this is outrageous! What does the war on the outlying islands have to do with our Principality of Paisen? Everyone knows we're a neutral country. Using this as an excuse to collect money is utterly shameless!" The bearded man slapped his thigh indignantly.

"Don't mention it, let's drink."

It seems that someone in Nanwan City is using the pretext of the island war to make money. They are probably one of the city's administrators. It seems that there are corrupt officials everywhere. However, Su Yang didn't pay any attention to this. After all, meddling in other people's business usually only gets you into trouble.

Finally, the food he ordered arrived. Su Yang tasted the grilled meat, took a sip of wine, and immediately gave Lin Anlan a thumbs up, praising, "Your recommendation was really good, it's really delicious."

"It's delicious, isn't it? Then eat more." Lin Anlan smiled and clinked glasses with Su Yang.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Su Yang paid the bill and the group left the tavern. Su Yang wanted to go find the blacksmith shop, but Lin Anlan stopped him.

"Why don't we go find a blacksmith shop that specializes in making bracelets and ask them? Maybe they'll be more efficient," Lin Anlan suggested.

"Okay, but I'll have to ask you for me again." Su Yang immediately agreed, then pleaded again.

"Okay, okay, I know, I'll ask for you, don't worry." Lin Anlan was already used to it and readily agreed.

After asking around, the group finally found the locations of several blacksmith shops that specialized in making bracelets.

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