Chapter 57 57: Ten Ton Inn



New Swampscott City's style of architecture was vastly different compared to Jade City. The buildings were thicker and had a wider base to prevent them from sinking from the soft ground that the city was built on.

Yoze looked around and felt like he had traveled to another country on earth. Everything down from the buildings to the people seemed to have a more sturdy feeling to them. As if they were the children of the earth, it seemed that even the environment had influenced the people's spirits. As Yoze noticed that it was quite common to find brown dots mixed in with their spiritual energy 

"I wonder if Jade City had something similar to these brown dots." Yoze thought that Spiritual energy and Spirituality are mysterious powers and he should study them more.

"Yoze, what's in your plan are we going to find an inn to stay at first or going to look for an investigator before?"

"Neither, my father has an address that we are going to look at first to see if we are lucky and they are still living in the same place." Yoze turned to face his father who had pulled out an old letter and read it out to Jewel and Yoze the address.

"North Winger Street is on the other side of the city, it will take at least a five-hour walk from here to there and three hours by carriage. I recommend we find an inn first before we get there and have to find a place there." Listening to the address, Jewel spoke up as she recognized that the plan wouldn't work in their favor.

"What's so bad about North Winger Street?" Yoze was curious about Jewel's attitude towards the place. 

"The place ain't bad and the rents are low but the people living there make it terrible. They all seem to be pricks and have attitudes that they are looking at fools. " Jewel gritted her teeth as she made a punching motion to simulate her desires.

" Not all the people that lived there were bad people but the ones that made everything terrible." Remembering that Drew's children had previously lived on that side area, Jewel added some saving grace for the street.

"In that case, it is even less likely that they stayed on that street for so long. As the turnover rate for people living in that part of town is quite high."

"In that case, are you fine with us finding a place to stay the night before we head over to that address?" 

"Of course, I don't expect them to be living in the same place after all these years. Those two always liked to travel around." 

"Okay, Jewel do you have a good recommendation of where to stay? And preferably they have sturdy floors." Yoze turned to face Jewel who had at some point taken out a notebook.

"Let me take a look, there is an inn 20 minutes away from here that should be able to handle your weight." Jewel scrolled through her notebook that had all her notes about the places she had been to and eventually found an inn called Bear Inn.

After confirming that Bear Inn was still around, they went over to find that it was quite busy as a bunch of tall and strong martial artists went in and out of the establishment. 

When they finally made it to the counter to register for a room, they met a young man behind it.

"Excuse me, do you know the weight limit of your floors?" Yoze called out to the young man seeing that he hadn't noticed them.

"What? Uhh, the weight limit of the floor? They should be able to handle anything under a ton." The young man said.

"Let's go find another place, " Yoze couldn't help but feel that his weight could be a problem. 

"Okay, let's go check out Martial Palace." Seeing that even a weight limit of under 1000 pounds wasn't enough made Jewel a bit concerned that they might not find a place.

After trying five more places and taking more than two hours, they eventually found a place that not only satisfied Yoze's weight requirements but exceeded them by 10 times.

It was an Inn called Ten Ton Inn and was an inn for animal handlers who had elephants or any heavy animal could rest without having to sleep outside.

"This place is perfect, " Knowing that they couldn't find a better place, Yoze paid for three rooms that were the furthest away from the animals.

Since there was no way for them to travel to North Winger Street before nightfall, they all put their stuff in their rooms before they went to eat dinner at a nearby restaurant. 

The next day, Yoze and Jewel went by themselves to find the address that had his father's children. By the time they arrived at North Winger Street, they found the apartment building that the address led to.

However, Yoze and Jewel left soon after because they found out that it was indeed the case that the previous tenants had moved out a few years prior. As they left, Yoze turned to Jewel if she had any contact with a good investigator.

"Nope, I never had to look for someone before so I don't know any investigators. But it shouldn't be hard to find someone since the government has a list of investigators they support. We can just ask a guard and they should be able to point out someone." Jewel clarified.

The guard that they asked was a middle-aged man wearing a suit of armor that had the city's guard emblem on its chest. 

"Excuse me, Sir, do you know of any good investigators to find people?" Yoze asked the guard.

"Hhmm, how much do you want to pay for the investigation?" The middle-aged guard scratched his stubbled chin as he asked how much Yoze was to spend.

"I can afford to spend a hundred silver for this investigation," Yoze said in a calm voice.