Chương 399: You're Just Like a Fox

Rotating Golden Sparrow Tavern.

The small bar, located in a corner of the commercial plaza, is now bustling with people and every seat is occupied. Its liveliness has even boosted the business of the surrounding shops.

Since Roland became the boss, she started to launch a high-quality and inexpensive turbid sweet wine, which was welcomed by the surrounding workers and deep miners.

In the past few days, they have launched pink king oyster mushroom baked rice for the first time. The taste is more delicious than similar products on the market, attracting many discerning customers.

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In a window booth on the first floor of the tavern, a devil with a mustache is ordering food.

"I'd like a pink king oyster mushroom baked rice and a mushroom cocktail."

"A total of three silver coins and ninety copper coins, sir."

"Okay, I'll get the exact same one for my friend too."

"OK!"

The fox-girl waitress that Roland had just hired smiled brightly, wagged her tail happily, wrote down the menu in her notebook, and left the booth to return to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, the goblin girl Tess received the menu and immediately devoted herself to cooking.

About fifteen minutes later, the steaming hot baked rice and drinks were served on a tray by a pretty fox-woman waitress to a booth by the window.

"Gentlemen, please enjoy your meal."

"Okay, that's fine, you can go now... wait!"

The meticulously dressed demon with a mustache raised his hand, stopping the yellow-haired fox-woman waitress, and squinted as he looked her up and down.

After scrutinizing the waitress for a full while, the devilish nobleman with the mustache waved his hand to let her go and placed two silver coins on the tray.

"It's alright, you're not the fox we're looking for. You can go back to work now. Here's an extra tip."

The fox-girl waitress's bewildered eyes lit up immediately. She picked up the tip, bowed slightly, and left the booth with a beaming smile.

Roland sat behind the bar counter, watching this scene from afar, her eyelids slightly narrowed.

This smiling gesture was noticed by Geese, the information broker sitting across from the bar.

Giese is a lizardman. When Roland first took office at the Rotating Golden Sparrow Tavern, it was through Giese's intelligence network that she obtained information about the Demon Tavern's brewing techniques.

Now that the Spinning Sparrow has grown bigger and stronger, Roland has hired Giss as a long-term employee to gather intelligence for her.

Following Roland's gaze, Giss turned his head and saw the demon nobles dining in the booth. He immediately turned back and lowered his voice.

"Boss lady, have you noticed those new devilish masters too?"

"Of course." Roland swirled her wine glass.

"A lot of distinguished people have come to the lower city lately. Thanks to these gentlemen, I've been able to sell my expensive king oyster mushroom baked rice."

Roland paused for a moment.

"But I'm a little curious, why would the gentlemen from the Upper East Side suddenly come down to this remote corner of the city? The air here is smelly and dirty, it's not a good place for tourism."

"You've come to the right person, boss lady!"

Giss pulled open his cloak with a somewhat sleazy gesture, then furtively pulled out a tattered parchment from the lining and gently placed it in front of Roland.

"You see, this is why the demon lords have condescended to descend to the mortal realm. They want to capture this beautiful little fox girl up there, and the succubus who took her in."

"Tsk tsk tsk, to be honest, this little fox girl is really beautiful. It is said that she is only in her twenties and her chest is big enough to make people bury their faces in. It's a pity that she offended the wrong person. Now she is probably wandering in some slum."

Roland opened the parchment on the table, and on the front was a wanted poster she had seen before. The image printed on it was of herself in fox form, smiling at the camera.

Has the search effort increased?

Roland asked casually.

"Why live a life of hardship and displacement in the slums?"

Giss was taken aback, then said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Because succubi mainly live in slums. I heard that this wanted little fox girl survived the guards' search by submitting to a low-level succubus. Now that the demon lords have come down, they want to expand the search to include succubi."

"I see. Do you have a specific portrait of this succubus you're talking about?"

Roland raised a new question, and this time, Giss didn't take out any more parchment, but slowly shook his head.

"I don't know about that. I'm just a lowly information broker in the city. How could I possibly find out any inside information about those devilish lords?"

"Don't laugh at me, but the wanted posters I brought are actually outdated ones from two months ago. The guards didn't want them, so I was lucky enough to get them."

Roland frowned, not entirely satisfied.

"Mr. Giss, is there any further information?"

"It's not that there aren't any, but they're all rather vague." Gis hesitated for a moment before revealing his findings.

"We brothers discovered that most of the dozens of succubi the demon lords have captured these past few days have large breasts, perky butts, and are around 1. 6 meters tall."

"To be honest, these features aren't very distinctive at all. There are so many succubi in Black Iron City, you can find a lot of guys like this. I guess the demon lords don't even have a picture of that succubus, so they have to come down here themselves and cast a wide net."

"But you'd better be careful, I've found you quite to fit the bill, lest you attract the attention of those demon lords... By the way, you're from the Gray Gold family, aren't you afraid of those demon lords?"

Giss rambled on, deliberately prolonging his narration, while taking the opportunity to gulp down the free savory liqueur provided by Roland.

He eventually needed to save money to get married, and it was only when he was providing information to Roland that he could drink so heartily and freely.

Roland didn't stop her; instead, she had Tess bring up a plate of king oyster mushroom baked rice for free.

Giss was so eager to stand on the stool and sing praises of Roland's generosity that he was fortunately stopped in time by Roland, thus preventing his raspy voice from polluting the harmonious dining environment of the tavern.

Giss drank and ate, and became completely drunk, looking at Roland in a daze.

At this moment, Roland rested her chin on her hand, leaning against the bar in deep thought. The frivolous temperament she usually cultivated had faded away, replaced by a quiet elegance and an aura of authority.

In a daze, in Gis's eyes, Roland's image gradually overlapped with the fox-girl on the wanted poster, the only difference being her hair color and racial characteristics.

He froze on the spot, staring intently at the succubus horns on Roland's head.

Roland was contemplating the possibility of her being exposed when she suddenly noticed Giss's unusual behavior. She lowered her hand from her chin and asked him a question.

"Mr. Giss, what's wrong?"

"No... it's nothing."

Gis thought he was seeing things, so he rubbed his eyes hard. His lizard face was full of confusion as he muttered to himself.

"I just think that when you're quiet, you look a bit like a fox-girl on a wanted poster... Hmm, if you swapped the black chicken feet and tail, you'd look even more like her."

The tail that was swaying behind Roland suddenly froze, then immediately resumed its normal swaying, and she poured another glass of cloudy sweet wine and handed it over.

"Mr. Gis, you're drunk and your eyes are blurry."

"Come on, have another drink. You'll probably mistake me for the Gray Gold Lady in a bit."

Giss immediately dismissed his doubts, after all, in his eyes now, Roland had indeed split into two heads, which was enough to show how drunk she was.

However, he still patted his chest with principle.

"Don't worry, I definitely won't mistake you for a dwarf lord. Your face isn't on your belly."