Chapter 304 (2/2)

“Yeah!”

“If I had that much money you better make sure the brothels are well stocked I'd be there every day! Hahahaha!”

Obviously Cloudhawk's plan had s that minute

There were several who seeer up to thelares of the majority, they had no choice but to obediently bow their heads

Cloudhawk had oing If a minority refused to accept the deal and ruined it for everyone else, well… thewith them in accordance to wastelander rules!

The crowd had begun to look at Cloudhaith new eyes Not because he had htest bit of estrangement from this 'elysian' as they normally did

He wasn't the haughty and pious sort they expected He was just like theer for a drink or a s at him, this wasn't an act He was just like them, and didn't look down on their lifestyle

If not for the fact he was a demonhunter, they would have taken hi to get close and work for him, men of quality

But Cloudhawk didn't know their motivations He wasn't the sort of blindly buy loyalty for loyalty's sake Men were coht they were safe if they surrounded themselves with friends because of money It was just as likely these bastards would stab you in the back and try to take the wealth for themselves

Anyway, Cloudhawk's biggest obstacle was solved The only one he had to worry about was the drunkard, and he wasn't going to be bought off

His origins and motivations were a couy, but h could handle more than a few visitors, so the problem wasn't insurmountable

The second night passed in drunken celebration The third day at Dust Bowl Lodge daith an ear-piercing whistle

Cloudhawk promptly awoke and stepped outside the hotel Out in the sand-choked desert he could see several long shadows They were big, and coe; not a run, or a walk, or even flying They seemed to almost… swim

When they got close enough for people to get a good look, what they saw left them stunned

The creatures were six or seven s Their bodies were covered in scales,their backs and a pair on either side, and slithered along the sand At Bonobo's coed in neat piles

These strange, fish-like desert h the quicksand and up to the hotel's walls, where they began to tear at the meat Bonobo laid out

Cloudhawk couldn't stop the astonish in his voice “What the fuck are those?”

“You're trying to get to Fishh and you don't even knohat sandsharks are?” The old drunkard punctuated the sentence with a roll of his eyes “Fishh is in the middle of the quicksand sea There are no routes of travel through it, not even airshi+ps since the sea erous air currents These creatures are the only knoay in and out of Fishh”

So that was the secret

Bonobo greeted the critters with the meat because he was, for all intents and purposes, a bus stop In fact, he used to have seven of the beasts shuttling back and forth, but due to soedy he lost most There were only three left

No wonder the hotels prices were so expensive!

The fish were only big enough to carry one person at a ti for the the trek again For those who h the nose for a second shot The problem noas that Cloudhawk's posse was exactly three people If the old drunkard wasn't going to give up his spot, there was bound to be conflict

“Your Excellency, I'” Barb said it with a heavy heart “My wounds still aren't healed If I go I'll only slow you down I won't be much help”

She wasn't wrong

She couldn't deny how curious she was about the mysterious wastelander city, but she didn't want to force Cloudhawk into a fight because of her wanderlust

Cloudhaas quiet for a ht You've just had a breakthrough anyway, you need rest Wait here If your wounds have healed and we still haven't come back, head to the Sandbar and look for a man named Gabriel”

Barb nodded

“Let's get going”

Bonobo busily fixed a ht out the travel gear its riders would need This included gas en tanks Without them they were sure to die out in the quicksand sea The drunkard made sure to top hi onto the strange mount Of course, the bill was put on Cloudhawk's tab The Warden e it to Autumn when the time came

Before long, the three travelers were ready Bonobo blew a long, loud note through his whistle That was the signal for the sandsharks to depart, and so they did Their snake-like bodies swah the quicksand deftly

Cloudhawk had ridden all sorts of things, frouars and lizards, to elysian airshi+ps and war vessels But this was the strangest yet, by far A fish as a mount… not in his wildest dreams He hadn't even realized creatures like this existed in the desert

The wastelands were full of all sorts of strange and incredible things

At last, Cloudhaas on his way to Fishh

Was the item Autumn searched for there? Would the Crie old drunk's purpose in the city? Soon there would be answers All the twists and turns Cloudhaas forced to traverse to get here were co to an end

1 Frederick Nietzsche The phrase in Chinese is 'the disaster of a beautiful woman' I had to search over twenty et close to 'wo or a bad thing