Chapter 366: Hamrhead
Xiao Lin himself was curious about the mysterious mixed-race individual and looked forward to the upcoming eting. He arrived at Hamrhead’s residence soon enough and it turned out to be an unusually simple wooden double-storey house. Few people ca in and out, but those who walked through the gate were dressed quite luxuriantly.
“The people who co here are all rich. That’s Gold City for you. Wealthy people can be found in any corner,” Ibeiya spoke in a sowhat disdainful manner.
According to Ibeiya, Hamrhead was one of the few people who could make high-level spatial equipnt. More importantly, he charged a reasonable sum and was well-received by many. His popularity in the city gradually began increasing, contrary to the usual unwelco treatnt accorded to orcs in many places.
Hamrhead was different, and the other half of his bloodline was what made his status very special. Gold City might look like a place with law and order, but the truth was that anyone who had enough strength or power could still do as they pleased there. However, no locals dared to provoke Hamrhead, because none of them knew when his mysterious father might show up.
Xiao Lin pushed the door open and entered, only to see that the furnishings inside the house were simpler than expected. He got a little curious: if Hamrhead really was as skilled as Ibeiya claid, it was unlikely that he would be that poor. Of course, it was also possible that Hamrhead was a very hardworking and thrifty person.
The reception room was on the first floor and there were only a few faded leather benches there. About four or five people were standing nearby and chattering in Norse. One of them who blocked the stairs leading to the second floor was a 14-year-old teen boy. He was smiling and apologizing profusely while bowing to the crowd.
Xiao Lin had a rough idea of their conversation. The boy was likely an apprentice accepted by Hamrhead and his master was currently serving a certain client, which made it temporarily inconvenient for them to see other people again.
“What a joke! I ca all the way here and he’s ignoring ? He knows who I am! ”
“I’ve been waiting for about two or three days in a row now. I’m curious who that custor is!”
“Damn orc! Do you think you can look down on us just because you have that bit of skill?”
“Dirty blood is still flowing in your bones!”
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These four or five people seed to co from rather important backgrounds and they had been waiting here for a long ti. There was impatience, irritability, and even anger in their tone, while repugnant adjectives began to pepper their sentences.
The poor apprentice boy could only do his best to apologize for everything, but as the scolding gradually increased, it was inevitable that two strong n decided to take action and tried forcefully breaking into the second floor.
The apprentice did not have enough power to resist, as he had little strength. He struggled to no avail, and his innocent yet flustered gaze scanned throughout the room, only to be t with indifference and ridicule. Finally, his gaze landed on Xiao Lin and Ibeiya, who had just entered the door.
Xiao Lin observed for a mont and roughly figured out the cause of the matter. He could not help but frown secretly. If he fought there, his spatial equipnt would be busted in no ti, so he cleared his throat and spoke Norse to Ibeiya next to him, “Speaking of which, I just ca from Dawn City and heard sothing really interesting from a friend of mine. He told he had an orc son that lived in Gold City. Do you think he’s kidding?”
The noise in the room disappeared instantly and the man who grabbed the apprentice’s collar was startled. He loosened his grip and sized Xiao Lin up with an unfriendly gaze before saying blankly, “Excuse , who are you?”
“My identity isn’t sothing that the likes of you are able to find out!” Xiao Lin snickered a few tis before switching right back to fluent Chinese.
The group of people imdiately had a surprised look on their face. Colonizers were privileged and untouchable to the natives, and that has proven to be the consensus in that city. Even though they could not confirm Xiao Lin’s identity and barely understood his Chinese, they hesitated to do anything because Xiao Lin’s Chinese had too high a standard and was impossible for the locals to replicate.
Once they cald themselves down so more, they rembered that Hamrhead was also half-colonist. An ugly expression appeared briefly on their faces and they decided not to take any more risks for fear of provoking a potential powerful enemy. They murmured a couple of incomprehensible sentences and proceeded to leave.
“Thank you!” The apprentice boy bowed again. On that occasion, he actually spoke in Chinese, but his Chinese pronunciation was far worse than Ibeiya’s. After all, not everyone possessed the foreign language talent of Rosa Kingdom.
“I’m here to look for Hamrhead and make an order for spatial equipnt, but he seems to be busy? ” Xiao Lin hesitated.
“I’ll help you talk to him.” His impression of Xiao Lin had soared after the latter ca to his aid, and he trotted right up to the second floor. A low voice ca from upstairs, and he went back down again. He smiled and said, “Master invited you up.”
The second floor was divided into three areas. A tall man was sitting next to the stove in the largest room. After seeing Xiao Lin and Ibeiya coming, he rely nodded to them and pointed to the thick leather chair next to him, motioning them to sit down temporarily.
Aside from them, there was another stranger in the room, who was probably the guest ntioned by the apprentice earlier. Xiao Lin actually felt a little embarrassed because Hamrhead seed busy, but since the other party said nothing, Xiao Lin decided to wait for a while with Ibeiya. In his curiosity, he began to scrutinize that mixed-race individual.
Hamrhead’s figure was much taller than that of ordinary Earthlings. Although his entire body was covered in clothing, his swollen muscles were still clearly visible. That strong body was no doubt inherited from the orcs, but his appearance was that of a typical Oriental-earthling character with dark black pupils, though his skin was dark brown.
His looks were fairly modest, which prompted Xiao Lin to feel that that human-orc offspring was not as horrible looking as he thought, at least in terms of their genetic appearance.
Hamrhead glanced briefly at Xiao Lin for a while before withdrawing it, as if he was not interested in them. However, Xiao Lin soon sensed another gaze that seed to have been absent before then.
It ca from another stranger sitting next to Hamrhead. It was a man covered completely in a gray robe. Even his ears and hair were wrapped in it, revealing only an unusually handso and fair face. Xiao Lin could not help but think that the gray-robed man’s face fitted the description of a gigolo to a tee.
Xiao Lin did not mind it that much at first, but he soon had a slight frown after a couple of minutes. The man in gray glanced casually at him when he ca in, but the other party’s gaze seed to be watching him even more intently.
The handso face was expressionless, but his gaze was so sharp that it made Xiao Lin feel uncomfortable. He suddenly understood that such a look was similar to the gaze of a predator locking in on its prey. Did the man have any intentions of hunting him?
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