Trafford’s Trading Club

In the midst of the bustling capital city, there was such a place.

It was hidden in the midst of the tall buildings of the forest, as if it had isolated itself from the entire capital city at once, appearing serene.

It wasn't something that was achieved through how magic, it was simply a relationship between the space it was designed to use skillfully.

Dappled walls, tiny bits of sunlight, and coolness.

This is what the guidebook recommends as a hotel: the Rosebud Mansion.

Strangely enough, the Rosebud Mansion covers a really small area, but it gives the impression of a slightly unnoticed, bustling street miss.

A maid with bangs that almost covered her eyes was currently holding a broom and leaning left at the front steps, seemingly asleep in the past.

The signboard of the public house looked quite old ...... also vaguely could see a few signs of insects moth-eaten.

"Hello!"

Nan Xiaonan now walked right up to this dozing maid and called out to her.

The reason for being so proactive was ...... her lowest position.

Although Miss You Nite always referred to herself as a maid, Nan Xiaonan did not believe in this kind of nonsense at all, this maid lady was a very bad type at a glance.

It was just that this dozing maid in front of the door didn't seem to have heard the call, and Nan had to tap the other woman's shoulder lightly.

But she did not expect that, with just a light tap, the maid actually went straight from the steps to the bottom.

Nan Xiaonan: "???"

--when did I get so good at this?

......

Nan Xiaonan, under the instruction of Boss Luo, this so maid helped into the lobby of the Rose Mansion and put it on the side of the sofa.

This maid is in fact fainted ...... reasons unknown.

The hotel at this time there are no customers ...... in addition to the maid fainted because of unknown reasons, and did not see other staff.

Nan Xiaonan tried to feed water to this fainted maid, "Are we in the wrong place ...... It always feels like this is not like a popular tourist hotel?"

Although it's secluded, although it's elegant, although it's charming ...... but in fact, it also reveals everywhere at the same time the smell of flat poverty that is about to close down.

"Not really, it is here." The maid lady shook her head, "There used to be a lot of customers here ...... but now it seems to be really declining. It's just that from heyday to decline, things will always develop like this, and even if it becomes like this now, there's nothing very strange about it."

--This isn't the place you introduced us to?

--how is it that even though it's declining, it doesn't seem like it's a big concern?

Nan Xiaonan was suddenly a little confused about what was in this maid lady's mind ...... Just at this time, the fainting maid slowly woke up.

"Don't you move." Nan Xiaonan was flying at this time, "Conscious? Look at how many fingers here, and look at me, do I look good or not?"

"Two fingers." After a few seconds of silence, the maid whispered, "And ...... is not a good look."

"...... Looks like you're not fully awake yet!" Nan nodded, "Here, close your eyes again and let's start over again, how many fingers are these?"

"Who are you...who?" The maid now turned away from her face and looked towards Boss Luo and the maid lady behind Nan Xiaonan with a hint of doubt, then as if she had thought of something, her expression changed and her voice was somewhat helpless, "The boss didn't come back today, so you might have to make a trip for nothing."

"The boss didn't come back, so is the place open." Boss Luo said calmly at this point, "We were planning to pitch in for the night, but it looks like we'll have to find another place."

"Put in for the night!" The maid instantly shrieked, actually pushing Nan off her, her whole body slingshotting up, "No problem pitching in! Distinguished guests, I am Keri, the maid of the Rosebud Mansion, at your service! For luggage, I'll carry it ...... Hey, where's the luggage?"

"We didn't bring much luggage, it was a simple outing." Boss Luo smiled.

The maid, Keri nodded, "Then, I'll show a few of you to your rooms first, please follow me."

Saying that, the public house maid walked forward, but only after taking two steps, her knees instantly kissed down to the floor - and then her front also hit the floor directly.

The human facial features were no doubt three-dimensional ...... so Nan Xiaonan subconsciously pinched her nose at this point and secretly said: it hurts!

"You ...... are you okay?" Nan Xiaonan hurriedly went up to help.

Only to see that this public house maid instantly looked weak even under the help.

"No...nothing." Keri barely smiled at this point, "I just...just haven't eaten for four days."

......

"Boss, I was just looking in the kitchen ...... this is the only thing I could find that looked edible." Nan Xiaonan now held out a ceramic jar by holding her nose, "Pickles."

"There are actually pickled vegetables!" Keri now made an incredulous sound of exclamation.

"This is the kitchen of your mansion?" Nan Xiaonan couldn't help but spit out at this point, "You this actually I actually hear the sound of happiness?"

Keri nodded solemnly, "Pickles, next meal! You can eat a lot of rice. It's just a shame that ...... doesn't have any rice. Rice and want to eat ......"

"How poor is this hotel of yours ......" Nan Xiaonan sighed, "How are we going to stay when there is nothing? I also just looked and the lights won't turn on here, so it's not like there's even plumbing or electricity, right?"

I saw that Keri was now pitifully, apprehensively sitting on the couch, squeaking, "Water...yes, the boss caught the water from the outside green sprinkler pipe ......"

Nan Xiaonan rolled her eyes, looked at the boss and the future boss's maid lady, and lowered her voice, "Boss, why don't we find another place?"

"The environment here is nice." But Boss Luo smiled slightly and said, "The food problem is still very easy to solve ...... Trouble you go buy some food back."

Saying that, Boss Luo handed over the crystal card given by the maid lady to Nan Xiaonan's hand.

"There is also this Miss Cleary's also bought ...... When I came up here, I think I saw a bakery and smelled bread, it should be freshly baked bread, in addition to buying a few bottles of milk back. Miss Cleary hasn't eaten for a few days, and some milk will be good for your stomach first."

Nan-chan, scum!

On her way out the door, Nanny distinctly saw the maid, Keri, swallow her saliva ...... she rolled her eyes again. Only, this boss of his own, he really does look friendly no matter who he's looking at.

Emmmm ...... It's better than the type that looks at whoever is looking at it with their chin just fine.

......

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"This place looks like it hasn't had a resident for a while, right."

Lochou's voice quietly rang out.

Keri squeaked a bit, "Lately...the recent customers are less than the price."

Boss Luo's fingers were now but a ...... rubbing finger on the back of the coffee table, there was not much dust on it, "Miss Keri is working very hard."

"Well ......" the maid nodded somewhat embarrassed.

"Is the business here running into any problems." Boss Lowe asked casually, "I'm told this is supposed to be one of the more popular inns, and there's a special section in the traveler's guide about it."

Cleary was surprised, "How long ago were you reading the traveler's guide, sir? Since that incident happened ...... it should be, there won't be anyone willing to recommend the Rosebud Mansion anymore."

Boss Luo casually said, "Maybe the version of that guide is a bit old ...... We're not from here, so we'll be a bit behind in our inquiries about Freedom City. That thing, referring to?"

"It's not really a secret," Keri shook her head, "You'll be able to find out just by asking around."

Cleary began to speak of the willingness of the Rosebud mansion's business to begin a rapid decline.

......

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"Fallen?"

Inside the bakery, Nan was selling one of her few cute things and chatting with the bakery's big-nosed lady.

"Yeah." The big-nosed aunt said as she stuffed a few more freshly baked breads into the bag, "Several residents have successively dropped their God Familiars' ranks due to their stay at the Rosebud mansion. One of them is still a third grade God Familiars, but now they have all fallen to the level of ordinary God Familiars ...... Don't you know? It was a big deal at the time!"

Nan Xiaonan shook her head as she took out the extra bread that Big Nose Auntie had stuffed and put it back on top of the shelf, "We just came to [City of Saints], so we don't know about this."

Nan Xiaonan found out, people here like to call Orleans City as [City of Saints] ...... or [Holy City Orleans], shortened to [Holy City], rarely will they directly say [City of Freedom] ...... also the boss and maid lady like this?

The big-nosed lady continued to put the bread that Nan Xiaonan had taken out and put away into the bag, "No wonder, you guys are outsiders so you don't know. I guess you guys must have read some guidebooks or something, so you came here on purpose, right? But unfortunately, since the fallout, the Rose Mansion has been greatly affected. At first, there were still people who didn't believe in it, but after more victims appeared one after another, there was no sense of anyone coming to live in the Rosebud mansion anymore. Young lady, I advise you to find another place to live."

"If you live in the Rosebud Mansion, will you definitely drop the divine family rank?" Nan gave up on taking the bread out of the bag and instead frowned at the question.

"That's not either." The big-nosed aunt shook her head, "But anyway, one in a few is the same as one in a hundred. After all, who would dare to inhabit it if such a possibility existed? Like me, I've been praying religiously since I was a child, and I've only now barely become an ordinary divine family member, so what if I accidentally fall under a divine family member?"

Nan Xiaonan shook her head, "In other words, this matter has not actually been proven, and is merely a rumor that people are blackmailing?"

"Anyway, the sheriff of the Holy City came to investigate, and although he didn't come up with any results, the sheriff also said that the mansion was talking a bit oddly and ordered the Rosebud mansion to suspend its operations to rectify the situation ...... If you hadn't asked about it, little girl, I wouldn't have known that the Rosebud mansion was open again. "

"So ......" Nan Xiaonan nodded and whirled around, "Thanks a lot, pay the bill, if you keep stuffing it, the bag will burst."

The big-nosed aunt was not embarrassed, and after laughing, she extended her hand to Nan Xiaonan and touched her gently in front of her, "Then check out, thanks for the three hundred and thirty-seven free coins ...... It is fine to pay with your wish, today's exchange rate is 1:9.231! "

Nan couldn't help but blink, she didn't see anything - but had a feeling that this wave of the big nosed lady's hand wasn't a meaningless gesture.

She couldn't help but think of the so many travelers she had met at the airport who had been arrested for littering and seemed to have done something similar ......

Is it an act that can only be done after becoming a family member of the gods?

But she was undoubtedly not a divine family member, or even a resident of this Holy Light Country ...... Nan Xiaonan calmly pulled out her crystal card at this point and calmly said, "Use this to pay the bill."

The big-nosed aunt was shocked, "Wish crystal card?! Girl ...... no, honored Lord Prayer Merger, I didn't know you were ...... oops, look at me, what have I done!"

The big-nosed lady now looked annoyed at the bag she'd stuffed on the counter.

Prayer mergers?

Nan has gotten a new term for it.

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"Our boss has a friend he knows in the Sheriff's Department, and it took a lot of crap to get approval to reopen earlier." Keri sighed, "Except that while it's ready to open again, the customers are ......"

"Dropping divine family levels ......" the maid lady now asked coldly, "Are you sure how you dropped the levels?"

Keri nodded, "The ...... few customers who registered their personal information after each customer moved in were indeed rank drops. After all, the wishing power ...... that can be obtained every time you pray can't fool anyone."

Boss Luo thought: "Then this several victims, all stay in the same room ...... or have done anything the same, even, between each of them, there is a correlation."

Keri shook her head, "It's not a fixed room, and these several victims also didn't know each other ...... nor did they do anything strange during their stay. But the divine family rank drop did happen, and it happened while they were performing prayers in the mansion ...... So that's why they thought that the rank drop was cursed because of the relationship of the Rose mansion itself having a power that corrupts people."

Boss Luo suddenly said, "Is it okay if I go to the room where these victims stayed."

Keri was surprised, "This ...... aren't you guys afraid that the God Familiars levels will fall? In case, in case it does unfortunately fall, there's nothing left for us to compensate."

Boss Luo shook his head and said, "Don't worry, we're not divine family members, so even if there really is something wrong, it probably won't affect us."

Keri was startled and subconsciously said, "What? You guys aren't ......"

"Strange." But Boss Luo smiled casually, "Miss Keri, isn't she just as much not a divine family member."

The maid girl instantly turned a little paler and said in shock, "You...how could you!!!"