Beasts start from stone

As soon as they arrived in front of the tower, Hazel knocked lightly on the door.

"Excuse me, is the owner here?"

After knocking for a while, there was no reply.

"Kri?"

"Miss Jennifer won't be at home."

Just as Xiao Ruoruo finished saying this, the sound of water came from behind the tower, and the three of them quickly walked around the tower and looked back.

Although the tower is surrounded by sea, the surrounding land area is vast.

A cockatrice stood at the water's edge facing the three.

Although it is a monster, it is covered in finely sewn leather clothes, with only its golden feet, half wings and tail exposed.

It extended its long snake tail toward the water, lighting it casually, with its eyes closed, looking quite leisurely and at ease.

This seemed to be the Miss Jennifer they were looking for, but Hazel looked at his towering comb and thought it was just a rooster.

"Kri?"

"Is it possible that Bolton's information is wrong? There is a second cockatrice in Boi, and he is Miss Jennifer's husband?"

"Nan Nan."

"No, Brother Bolton has mentioned that Miss Jennifer is a dragon monster. Maybe it's the companion she found in other countries across the mountains and seas."

"Sir, is Miss Jennifer at home?"

The rooster in the distance didn't seem to hear Hazel's words. It still closed its eyes and lit the water with its snake tail.

Hazel waited quietly for a moment, but when she saw that the other party still ignored him, she couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

She felt that she had spoken too softly just now, so she stepped forward and asked again in a louder voice:
"Sir, may I ask..."

Before he finished speaking, the rooster's eyes widened and he flicked the snake's tail hard!
"Nannan!"

Soon enough, the shadow on the soles of Alger's feet suddenly extended forward and connected with the shadow of Haerrou, dragging her directly into the shadow space.

"Nan Nan."

"Fortunately we caught up."

But in the next second, the cockatrice threw the thing in the snake's tail mouth to the ground with a "swelling" sound. It was a poisonous agouti.

The cockatrice slowly took a bite of the poisonous agouti, then turned to look at the three uninvited guests and scolded:
"Oh!"

"Keep your voice down! If you scare the fish away, I'll chop you up for lunch!"

This loud voice proved once again that he was indeed a big rooster.

"Keli..."

"Obviously your voice is louder..."

After complaining in a low voice, Xiao Ruoruo gently hit Alger with her wings and shouted in a low voice:
"Kri."

"Release Hazel quickly."

"Nan Nan."

Hazel, who had just returned from the shadow world, stood in front of the cockatrice and looked at him. Although the cockatrice's eyes were extremely indifferent, Hazel still asked the question for the third time:
"Excuse me, do you know where Miss Jennifer is?"

The cockatrice looked at Hazel in front of him coldly, extended his tail into the water again, and mocked:

"You don't even know what Jennifer looks like, but you are really capable of finding this place."

Hazel was stunned when she heard this, and subconsciously blurted out:

"Shouldn't Jennifer look the same as you?" The cockatrice in front of him paused slightly, pulled his tail out of the water, and put it on Hazel's face in a playful manner.

If Hazel hadn't gestured with her hands behind her back, both Xiao Ruoruo and Alger would have rushed forward in worry.

"Oh."

"Are you also an alchemist? You shouldn't be. Why did those old guys only send three more? It's not like mercury poisoning really poisoned your brain, right?"

"Last time it sent three, I could understand that it thought three strong men were enough to deal with one of me."

"But this time there are three, and those two are barely enough, but why are you so weak? Is it because you have some interesting magic?"

"But the strength of your magic power, even if it is forcibly raised once, is still the same as that of ordinary people. It doesn't look like you can release any big magic."

These words of Cockatrice made Hazel stunned for a moment and said in surprise:
"Are you Jennifer? But Jennifer sounds like a female name..."

The rooster made a sound of joy and circled Hazel twice.

"Oh?"

"I thought the name sounded good so I took her as my own name. Do you have any objections? You sea urchin!"

"sea urchin?"

Hazel didn't understand what this meant, but the snake's tail almost licked her face, and she quickly shouted:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Jennifer, I am a traveler who comes from nowhere, not an alchemist who covets you."

"We heard about you from Mr. Bolton, and we want to ask you for a map of Boi Country so that I can go to the royal capital and ask the Queen to help me get home."

The Cockatrice stared at the little man in front of him, and Hazel was stared at by the cross-eyed gaze.

After a while, Jennifer said slowly:
"Oh."

"It's actually a foreign monster. I remember that foreign monsters have normal magic intensity and power just like us."

"It's just that my magic qualifications are much lower and I can't use the magic circle."

"However, if you are from a foreign country and were introduced by Bolton, then you should know that everything I sell here starts with one gold."

"As a foreign monster, it's theoretically impossible for you to have a Jinnia."

"Unfortunately, I do have the map of Boi. It's exactly one gold."

Hazel heard a hint of hope, but she really couldn't come up with a Jinnia:
"Mr. Jennifer, I really want to buy a map from you, but there is no place where I can make money around here..."

Jennifer interrupted Hazel mercilessly:

"Are you kidding? I'm a businessman."

"Although there are too many things I don't need here for business, so I decided to clean them up a little bit as a last resort."

"But if people like you come to your door and ask for it and I give it to you, wouldn't it mean that you have to lose all your family wealth?"

Jennifer's words naturally make sense, and Hazel also knows that she is indeed in the wrong, but she still doesn't give up. After all, the queen is her only hope at the moment.

"Then may I ask what you know..."

"Oh!"

"do not know."

Jennifer already showed an impatient look and was ready to issue an eviction order.

Xiao Ruoruo pursed her lips, touched the hard object between her wings, and shouted as if she had made some decision:
"Kri."

"I have twenty guineas here. According to the law promulgated by the Queen, it should be converted into one guinea."

This is most of Xiao Ruoruo's assets, which she probably got when she was a foot doctor.Although money is of no use to her.

Jennifer was a little surprised. He let go of Hazel, strode up to Xiao Ruoruo, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile:
"You actually have Boynia? Then aren't you a monster in your own country? But if that's the case, if she wants to go home, do you have to follow her home?"