Montegambier.
It was a city located not far from the Victoria Great Desert.
After getting off the plane,
outside the airport, all kinds of taxis were parked in a row.
Most people in Aodalia spoke English,
and although Lu Yuan had done fairly well in English back in high school, he was still nowhere near fluent enough to communicate with foreigners.
So Lu Yuan used the translation function on his analysis watch to talk with the driver of one of the taxis parked outside the airport.
Seeing Lu Yuan's distinctly Great Xia appearance and hearing him speak extremely fluent Chinese through his analysis watch,
the taxi driver, whose name was Bob, realized in a split second that Lu Yuan was from the Great Xia Kingdom!
"Hello, I'd like to go to the entrance of No. 7 Lost Ruin. How much?" (In reality, the sentence was in English.)
What few people knew was that some Aodalians harbored hostility toward people from the Great Xia Kingdom.
And Bob happened to be one of them!
"Hey, you can call me Bob. Welcome to Aodalia!"
"..."
Even so, he didn't show any impatience on the spot. Instead, he hid what he was really thinking and smiled as he quoted a perfectly reasonable fare.
He was sure the price was neither too high nor too low, and that Lu Yuan wouldn't find anything to complain about.
Sure enough, Lu Yuan agreed.
And so, Lu Yuan got into the taxi bound for the entrance to No. 7 Lost Ruin.
It was an off-road vehicle, capable of making long journeys through the desert.
From the moment he first got into the taxi,
Lu Yuan could faintly smell a light fragrance of perfume.
At the same time, however, he couldn't shake a sense of foreboding. Combined with