Chapter 2209 — Arriving at the Destination
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In fact, the land the town stood on should have belonged to another small country nearby. It was just that this place had originally been the foothold of a very large sect, and that sect's power had been astonishingly great, so the small country had had no intention of reclaiming the mountains.
Later, the sect declined and vanished overnight, but some fierce bandits seized the opportunity to occupy the place. Over time, many forces great and small took shape—some families, some gangs—and so many adventurers and criminals threw in their lot with them.
Of course, just how chaotic Ruileida Town really was, the information online said little. After all, it was a town beyond the border and had little to do with most people in the country; only scattered bits of information existed.
This was also why Wei Zhao had parked his car in the last small town on this side of the border, near Ruileida Town, to ask around for information.
Though this small town and Ruileida Town were separated by the border, they faced each other across no great distance, and the people here were certainly better informed about conditions over there.
"Hey, this is a small border town, not some tourist resort. The people who come here are either criminals looking to throw in with Ruileida Town or adventurers hoping to earn a handsome bounty!" The local analyzed smugly. "You two drove here openly and boldly, and your car has proper plates, so I figured at once you're no criminals—which means you must be adventurers."
"Heh…" Wei Zhao neither confirmed nor denied it.
The local seemed in no hurry to give up striking up a conversation with Wei Zhao, and went on, "My name's Local Know-It-All—I know everything about this place. Are you two cultivators?"
Wei Zhao's gaze sharpened slightly. He had not expected this man to know he was a cultivator, and it surprised him greatly! Cultivators, though common enough in Wei Zhao's own circles, were beings many ordinary people never encountered in their entire lives. He had not expected that Local Know-It-All really did know it all—he even knew cultivators existed.
"How do you know?" Wei Zhao asked in return.
"Heh heh, nine out of ten adventurers heading to Ruileida Town are cultivators. If you're not a cultivator, it's hard to be valued and given important posts by those families and gangs—you can only be some small fry!" Local Know-It-All said. "But if you are a cultivator, even a mere early-stage Yellow-rank one, you'll be respectfully invited in as a guest of honor and entrusted with important tasks like hunting spirit beasts or gathering herbs in the Wulonghaote Mountains!"
"Oh… so we couldn't be ordinary people?" Wei Zhao did not answer a single one of Local Know-It-All's questions directly.
"At ordinary times, sure, you might be ordinary people throwing in with some gang or family. But these past few days…" Here Local Know-It-All paused deliberately…