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Chapter 183 The Drunkard - Order!

"Sister Lisa, you..." Chen Luo had just called the Herrscher of Knowledge back to the bar and hadn't even had a chance to enter the kitchenette when the doorbell rang behind him.

"Uh, a new guest?" But when Chen Luo turned his head, he saw a person he didn't recognize at all.

"Welcome, welcome. Are you planning to drink, eat, or both?" Chen Luo asked as he walked behind the bar, glancing at the drunken poet slumped over it.

Wendy really drank 10 cups of Anemo Elixir and then fell asleep on the bar, not worried at all about someone coming to steal his Vision or something.

Fortunately, the bar's security measures completely prevent such incidents from happening, so every guest feels at home here.

After all, there's no need to worry about thieves stealing from you, nor about thieves eyeing you.

As Chen Luo cleared away all 10 cups from the bar, he looked at the arriving customers.

Chen Luo didn't recognize the guest, but he was certain of one thing: the guest wasn't human.

Or, to put it another way, the other party isn't human; you can tell by the horn on its head and the tail behind it.

But that's just right, Chen Luo has several achievements specifically for these non-human beings, such as non-human friends.

I don't know how old the other person is, but they don't look like a child.

"Oh, so you're the manager here? When I came here yesterday, I saw that this place was empty and thought it was just a place to rest. You can come and go as you please. As a place to rest, it's quite adequate." The man looked Chen Luo up and down with great interest, and then sat down familiarly in a seat.

“What you say makes sense, sir. This place is a resting place during the day and a hotel at night. No matter what kind of food or wine you want, my shop may be small, but it can satisfy your needs.”

"Guests can use this bar as a resting place during the day, and if they come at night, there's plenty of food and drinks," Chen Luo explained to the guest.

"Xiao Shi, take Klee over there. Klee, I'll bring the fish up for you in a bit," Chen Luo said to the Herrscher of Knowledge and Klee.

"Excuse me, sir," Chen Luo said, turning and entering the bar's kitchen. He then immediately came out, carrying two plates of grilled fish.

One plate was for Klee, and the other was for Shi Bao, because the Herrscher of Knowledge hadn't eaten either.

"So, does this inn, or rather, tavern, only provide services at night?" the guest asked thoughtfully.

"That's not it. It's just that I have things to do during the day, so I can only find time to run this bar at night. So, are you here for the drinks or for the food?" Chen Luo asked, looking at the customer with curiosity.

From the customer's words, Chen Luo could vaguely deduce what had happened. The customer had come to the bar yesterday during the day, but because Chen Luo wasn't there, he missed the opportunity to serve him.

This customer used the bar as a place to rest, so he came over again today, and this time Chen Luo just happened to run into him.

Chen Luo didn't make the bar remind him every time a new customer came, because Chen Luo also needed to have his own life.

You can earn as much as you have in raw stones, but you can never earn all the raw stones you want.

Besides, isn't Chen Luo always out during the day to earn raw stones?

From 8 PM to around 12 AM, I run the bar, pick up customers, and then accept various requests from them. I go home to sleep around 12 AM and sleep until about 8 AM. I spend the rest of the daytime cultivating or carrying out various missions.

Chen Luo had an exceptionally fulfilling summer vacation.

While other people's summer vacation might be all about eating, drinking, and having fun, Chen Luo's summer vacation was all about saving the world.

And here we are, having tamed another dragon today.

"Of course it's alcohol. What kinds of alcohol do you have in your bar, and how much are they worth?" the customer asked directly.

"What kind of alcohol do we have... we have all kinds. To be honest, in our bar, there's no alcohol you can't imagine that we can't find here. As for the price... you decide. If you enjoy your drink, just pay a penny or two. If you don't enjoy it, that's impossible, as long as you're happy."

Chen Luo was quite confident in the variety of drinks available at the bar, and if the other party requested an extremely demanding drink, he would simply serve them a glass of the "Void Drink," which would definitely send them to heaven.

"A hotel that doesn't cost money? You must be some kind of rip-off place here," the guest said, half-jokingly.

Chen Luo could tell that the other party was still somewhat wary of this bar, especially regarding Chen Luo's claim that it was completely free.

The more experiences a person has gone through, the more they understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

"Hmm, it seems you are a cautious person. All gifts bestowed by fate have a price tag attached. Simply put, there's no such thing as a free lunch."

"This bar naturally charges a fee, but it doesn't charge for gold or silver or worldly things. Instead, it charges for a wish or desire. You post a request, I complete the request, you get what you want and feel satisfied, which you use to pay the fee, and I also receive a gift from the bar."

"As for that one or two coins, that's something that interests me as an ordinary person. It doesn't need to be very valuable, just interesting." Chen Luo directly laid out everything he wanted and what the other party could give him.

The more Chen Luo tried to use schemes and tricks, the more he felt that there were limits to them.

Although Chen Luo did not use any underhanded tactics, the principle of "fleecing" is essentially the same.

Cooperation is the only way to achieve a win-win situation, just like Chen Luo and Wendy.

Chen Luo wants the raw gemstone, and Wendy knows that Chen Luo wants the raw gemstone.

Wendy wanted to drink, and Chen Luo had alcohol.

This kind of mutually beneficial transaction is perfectly fine.

Therefore, Chen Luo is quite honest with every guest who comes here, although he occasionally uses artistic language to give the truth of things a more aesthetically pleasing treatment.

Chen Luo dared to reveal all these things because even if he did, it wouldn't harm him. If they wanted something, they would have to develop a desire for it, and that desire would inevitably lead Chen Luo to obtain the raw stone. This was an unsolvable pattern.

Unless they stop coming to bars, then they can do whatever they want.

"It's quite a strange way of doing business, but I've inexplicably come to believe it. Bring me a drink, your best wine." The customer said with a wave of his hand, then placed the wine cup he was holding on the table.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

The person is willing to pay 30 Originium Stones before even tasting the Void Wine, so they must be a true wine lover.

And coincidentally, Chen Luo liked this kind of person.

For example, Wendy, and the person in front of us.

"The best wine? Of course," Chen Luo said with a smile.

"Oh, by the way, let me introduce myself. My name is Chen Luo, and I'm the manager of this Zero Point Bar." Chen Luo introduced himself while taking a glass of Void Wine from under the bar.

"Yes, my name is Ling," the man said.

"It seems you must come from an extraordinary place," Chen Luo remarked as he walked towards Ling from behind the bar.

After all, a normal person wouldn't have a pair of horns that look like dragon horns, plus a tail.

"Oh, how so?" Not only was Chen Luo looking at Ling with curiosity, but Ling was also looking at Chen Luo with curiosity.

Even the other two guests seemed a little strange to Ling, since they didn't have any obvious physical signs.

"I have a feeling that your world and mine are not the same world. Oh, I forgot to tell you, you can encounter beings of any kind and from any different world here, you can even encounter ordinary people." Chen Luo placed the wine glass in front of the other person and sat down opposite him before saying this.

It's really hard to find an ordinary person in this bar, or rather, it's only when an ordinary person blends in here that they seem exceptionally extraordinary.

"Drinking with beings from other worlds? That's quite a temptation. And I wonder how the scenery of another world differs from that of this world." As Chen Luo said this, the other person stroked his chin, seemingly quite interested in the matter.

"Miss, if I may ask again, are you a dragon?" Chen Luo stared at the two horns on the other party's head, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked the question that had been bothering him.

"Dragon? Hmm, I guess so?" Ling's answer was somewhat ambiguous.

【Master, we've found it.】 Just as Chen Luo was sitting opposite the other party, the consciousness of Void Treasury appeared beside Chen Luo.

"Tell me," Chen Luo thought to himself.

"Ling is a six-star support operator in the game Arknights. Her background is somewhat bizarre. She does not have parents in the real sense, but was evolved from a mysterious being, and has 12 siblings."

"And the number 12 is a very subtle number for the prototype of the Yan Kingdom in this world—China, with its twelve zodiac animals and twelve months..."

"As for the other party's identity and race, it should be dragon, but not entirely. It's probably like the nine sons of the dragon; all nine of the dragon's children are dragons, but they can't be completely identified as dragons. The information is not fully disclosed, so it cannot be determined."

"The other party is an excellent drinker, can drink a lot without getting drunk, and has excellent drinking manners, making him a very high-quality customer."

This time, the figure that appeared was a giant duck, Prometheus, who presented a set of data to Chen Luo in a form that others could not see, while giving Chen Luo a simple explanation.

"It's probably a dragon. No wonder the other party's initial goodwill should be quite high, otherwise they wouldn't have adapted to this shop that looks so much like a shady business so quickly." Chen Luo nodded to himself.

Moreover, Chen Luo's gaze involuntarily turned to the achievement he had just obtained a few hours ago and the path to its advancement.

Dragon Tamer

And the special skill that comes with the [Dragon's Reverse Scale] achievement.

【Dragon Knight】: Transform a dragon into a mount.

Hmm, a mount...

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me strangely?" Ling couldn't help but ask.

Mr. Ling felt that the store manager in front of him looked particularly pleasing to the eye, which is why he asked the question.

Sometimes, asking questions isn't because the relationship is bad, but because the relationship is good.

“I always felt that we were destined to be together. You are a drinker and I am a bar owner. Especially this morning, I saw a dragon and then I saw another one this afternoon.”

And you just arrived when I achieved the Dragon Tamer achievement.

"Oh, a dragon? A dragon from another world?" Chen Luo's words piqued the other party's interest.

“Yes, a dragon from another world.” Chen Luo nodded.

"Different worlds have different definitions of dragons, but in most cases they are divided into two types, which I divide into Eastern dragons and Western dragons. They can also be called divine dragons and giant dragons. A divine dragon looks like this: it is long and thin. It has a fang-like head, deer antlers, shrimp legs, an abalone mouth, a turtle neck, a snake body, fish scales, a clam belly, a fish spine, tiger paws, eagle claws, and a fish tail."

"And this morning I encountered a dragon, a giant dragon, or rather a Western dragon. It looked like a beautiful lizard with several pairs of wings." Chen Luo explained as he used the power of the Herrscher of Reason to create two paintings in his hands.

"Judging from your appearance, you seem to be a dragon, and a high-level one at that. Just because we have such a connection, I've decided to make you my friend," Chen Luo said, tapping his fingers on the table.

To achieve the feat of defeating the dragon's reverse scale, Chen Luo needs the friendship of a high-level dragon. In fact, the high level here does not refer to how strong its bloodline ability is, but mainly to its strength.

After all, there are so many kinds of dragons in countless worlds, and some worlds don't even have many giant dragons, so the concept of bloodline is naturally irrelevant.

Although Chen Luo didn't know what kind of dragon was considered a high-level dragon-attribute creature, he knew that the sub-dragons and earth dragons used as horses to pull carts were definitely not high-level dragon-attribute creatures.

"Really? That other world is truly amazing. Anyway, back to the point, what's this drink called?" the dragon girl asked, pointing to the glass of white, water-like wine in front of her.

"This drink is a specialty of our bar, only we have it called the 'Void Drink.' Its greatest feature is that it can be mixed to perfectly match the drinker's expectations."

"There are two modes for this drink. One is that I mix it, and the resulting drink is completely unpredictable. The other is that you drink it yourself, and the drink will transform into your favorite type of wine. So, which one would you like, sir?" Chen Luo asked, looking at the colorless, ethereal wine in front of him.

"Is that so? Today has truly been an eye-opening experience. Let's have a glass of 'Unfettered Imagination' wine. I'm very curious, what does this kind of wine taste like?" Ling said.

"Of course, what are your hobbies besides drinking, sir?"

"My hobbies are traveling and dreaming. Probably..." Ling said after thinking for a moment.

"Yeah, they're all overly unrestrained hobbies."

Simply put, it means not doing anything productive.

From a purely rational perspective, such a person will starve to death sooner or later.

"Two set menus, one for a life of hedonistic indulgence, the other for a dreamlike, cynical experience. Which one do you prefer?" Chen Luo offered two set menus to the other person from the professional perspective of a bartender.

Chapter 184 Little Fox: Waaaaah! Waaaah! (Angry face)

"What is meant by living a life of debauchery and dreaming of death? What is meant by Zhuangzi's dream of being a butterfly?" These two idioms, along with the name of the wine, sparked a strong interest in Liu Yu Chenluo.

"A pot of wine to drown one's sorrows, why should one be drunk to know sorrow? Drink a pot of wine, and dream for a thousand years." Of course, this is just a metaphor. After a cup of wine, no matter how good your alcohol tolerance is, you will inevitably get drunk, and after getting drunk, you will inevitably have a great dream. It is very suitable for those who love to dream.

"Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, and the butterfly dreamed he was Zhuang Zhou. You had a dream that you became a butterfly, but how can you be sure that it wasn't the butterfly dreaming it was you? That's roughly the idea. Perhaps the answers we can't find in life can be found in this cup of wine."

"Of course, since these two wines are simulated, they are weakened versions, so the effects may not be as strong. At most, they will give you some insights into life. But compared to ordinary wine, the effect is still quite good, and the key is that it tastes very good too," Chen Luo recommended.

Chen Luo is a master bartender, at least in the bar.

Therefore, Chen Luo may not be very familiar with the ordinary wines in some worlds, but that's why he focuses his attention on those fantastical wines.

Take, for example, the story of Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly and the idea of ​​living a life of drunken stupor. These stories do have real-life counterparts, and those counterparts are incredibly powerful, something that the concept of "empty wine" (a metaphor for something that is impossible to imitate).

Furthermore, the Void Wine merely mimics the taste, and as stated in the description, it does not carry any special effects.

Being able to achieve a certain effect by imitating the taste is already quite impressive for the Void Wine.

Otherwise, Venti would have already drunk more than 20 cups of Anemo Brew. If it were effective, Venti would have already crafted a multi-star Anemo Brew.

"Hmm, then... let's try Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream first?" Ling had a feeling that this cup of wine was exactly what she wanted.

"Okay." Chen Luo nodded, then gently touched the rim of the glass of Void Wine with his finger.

After Chen Luo's fingers left the Void Wine, not only did the color of the wine inside become slightly cloudy, but the shape of the wine cup also changed into that of a wine goblet.

This is a glass cup.

When drinking a particular type of wine, you naturally need the appropriate glass.

It's just a change in appearance, but it's really good-looking.

But Chen Luo thought that if he ever really ran out of money for food, he could sell this and at least get a meal, so he wouldn't starve.