"Della!" A warrior from another table shouted, "Call me hubby, one piece of ice!"
Della raised an eyebrow, her face showing anger: "Ten pieces!"
"At most two pieces!" Another person joined the bidding.
Everyone laughed heartily, with the beautiful tavern owner joining in, the atmosphere became even more lively.
Della was happy to play along too. When these warriors are in a good mood, their appetite improves, and with a good appetite, she doesn't need to call anyone hubby, she can make money selling horse meat.
So, she sat next to Li Changzhou, joking and bantering with the warriors. Any warrior she scolded would laugh like they were being kissed, feeling extremely smug.
Even Andy, Yeet, and the other young ones, as well as some old folks, chimed in with a few words.
Since they couldn't leave, Li Changzhou arranged for everyone to share one room to sleep in, pushing the danger aside to enjoy the moment—on the return trip, it might just be his corpse coming back to this tavern.
"Little girl, spend the night with me tonight, twenty pieces of ice." The kid who played soccer with his head earlier said.
"You? Is your hair all grown? Take it off and show me, we'll talk prices once it's grown!"
"Take it off, take it off!" The others chanted.
The kid sneered, jumping onto the table, pulling down his pants.
"Hahaha!" Everyone burst out laughing.
"Good heavens!" Andy slapped the table laughing, tears streaming down his face, "I've never seen one so small!"
Tali was also holding back her laughter.
Amidst the laughter, Della raised her voice and said: "I'm not breastfeeding!"
The next moment, she yelled angrily: "Don't pee in my shop!"
The laughter grew louder, it felt like the whole room was shaking.
Even the kid's teammates laughed, it seemed they hadn't known each other before, but met along the way.
In the tavern, only two people didn't join in, Li Changzhou and the lone wanderer.
Li Changzhou observed the lone wanderer, who kept their head down, oblivious to the commotion, eating horse meat with caterpillar-like concentration.
'Is it really Yang Qinglan?' he wondered to himself, not daring to test it.
If not, then the person must be a master—based on his experience as a player, he wouldn't believe someone would be foolish enough to go solo and flaunt wealth, which was suicide.
Currently, he knows nothing about the 'Great Power' and rushing into action, if the person isn't Yang Qinglan, he wouldn't even know how he died.
"Where am I small?!" The kid was angrily humiliated.
A big man with facial tattoos stood up: "Here here, right here is small!" ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾※𝙣𝙚𝙩
Teasing like he was toying with a worm, he used his hand to provoke the kid.
Amidst the laughter, the kid's face turned red and hot.
"He's angry! He's angry!"
"Why angry? He's embarrassed!"
The kid glared at the big man, raised a small, tender finger and suddenly pointed at him, letting out a sharp sound:
"Life——And——Death——Separation——"
A breathtaking green light exploded, coloring everything.
From outside, the tavern that was bathed in orange-yellow firelight suddenly became a green-lit haunted house.
When the green light vanished, the big man fell straight to the ground with a thud, his face ashen, just like a statue.
In the fireplace, the bright yellow flames hesitantly flickered, and after confirming safety, they began to shine brightly again; the tavern fell silent.
After a while, a trembling voice said:
"Great...Great...Power!"
"Still think I'm small? Still laughing?" The kid pointed at everyone, and those pointed at stumbled in terror, tumbling under the tables.
Amidst the panicked screams, an old man grabbed Andy and Tali, not waiting for the finger to point over before trying to dive under the table.
At this point, Li Changzhou stood up, kicked, and with a boom, the table rolled up and stood like a dam, attempting to block the terrifying green light.
Seven people hid behind the table, Tali was breathing heavily, looking so tense she was nearly dazed.
When the sound of moving tables and chairs stopped, only the kid was left standing on the table.
The tense breathing, anxious swallowing, rose and fell, everyone seemed like field mice hiding in a cave, and the kid was the hawk hunting atop a tree!
Under his gaze, everyone's insides twisted!
These warriors and hunters who could fight life and death battles with the dead, none dared to resist now.
Even Li Changzhou couldn't help but change his expression.
Killing someone with a finger wasn't much, if he still had mana, he could destroy a city with a finger.
In that breathtaking green light, there was a strange yet familiar power, or rather, law—a must-kill for those encountered, slaying on sight.
It seemed not very powerful, with a small attack range, but if someone was hit by the green light, the life form would undoubtedly die, without any exceptions!
After a while, Della slowly spoke: "Alright, alright, it's late at night, casual chatting ends here, everyone go to sleep."
Through the table's wooden cracks, Li Changzhou saw the kid slowly lower his hand, his fiercely heaving chest slowly calming.
The kid pulled up his pants, kicking a warrior he came with: "Come on!"
"Yes, sir!" Those warriors nearly crawled.
Looking at their expressions and postures, they were pretending not to know him before, in fact, they were originally under the kid!
The creaking of the wooden stairs being stepped on rose and then disappeared, at this moment, the sound of moving tables and chairs finally emerged in the hall, very light and slow, afraid to disturb even a hair on the ground.
Everyone peeked their heads out from under the tables, lowering their protective chairs, moving the water bottles covering their faces aside.
"Damn it! I'm quitting this exploration!"
"Afraid of what! I'll continue!"
"Do you have a death wish?"
"Even the wielder of Great Power is here, seems the rumors this time are true!"
In the tavern, everyone whispered.
"Alright, everyone, go upstairs to rest!" Della stood in the center of the hall and shouted.
"Listen up! No fighting in my shop! No leaving your rooms before dawn! Each room has only one lamp, any fool who wants to be killed by the Ice Soul, go ahead and try!"