CHAPTER 565: CHAPTER 294: RETURNING TO YILI VILLAGE AS THE LANDLORD_2

"Hey, you guys, what’s the deal with bullying the old village chief?"

Sure enough, a gold-ranked adventurer group stood up and swiftly drove away the mercenary troop.

Compared to this small episode, Shami was more attentive to the situation on the other side of the village.

"Tavern owner, could you book us a lodge? We’ve traveled all the way from the Aoja Kingdom and are quite exhausted."

At this moment, near the tavern, an adventurer group had stopped the tavern owner, Dire.

Dire apologized helplessly.

"Sorry, there’s currently no extra accommodation in the village. Maybe you could camp outside instead."

"But isn’t there an empty inn over there?"

A girl dressed as a swordsman pointed to a nearby inn.

"Oh, that place belongs to the villager Shami. After buying the inn, she just vanished, and no one knows where she’s gone."

Shami blinked.

"Oh right, I have a property in the village!"

That’s when Shami remembered purchasing the inn for hundreds of gold coins during the village’s development phase.

It was all for making a hefty profit from adventurer groups when they came here to seek her out.

Never thought it would actually come in handy now.

"Time to cash in a bit."

Eyeing the inn’s high demand in the village, Shami licked her lips eagerly.

"I’ll grab some coins from the adventurer groups and be back."

Shami took off running towards the village.

"Watch out for the east side. And stay away from the lake!"

The white-haired girl shouted from behind.

Shami, a bit confused, nodded anyway.

Approaching the village.

Shami was stopped by a few people.

These were not Yili Village’s residents, as their attire indicated they were sent from Eden City.

Shami was baffled.

Are they here to maintain order? But Eden City had never shown this much interest in such matters before.

"Stop, are you trying to enter Yili Village?"

"Yes."

"Are you with an adventurer group or a mercenary group?"

"Neither."

The men scrutinized Shami.

"If you’re neither, then you’ll need to pay a 15 silver coin admission fee to enter Yili Village."

"Ha, what?"

"Yili Village is under Eden City’s jurisdiction. Now that there’s a demon envoy in the village, it’s only natural to charge an admission fee to regulate exploration and tourism and prevent overexploitation."

"But I’m a villager here."

Shami forced a friendly smile.

"Villagers need to pay too. We haven’t seen you before. How can you prove you’re a villager?"

Shami took a deep breath.

"So, is it just you guys here?"

"Yes, currently it’s just the three of us in charge."

Upon hearing this, Shami took a deep breath, then went up and slapped all three guys until they were knocked out.

"What’s this crap, paying to enter my own village?"

Shami stomped on the three of them hard.

Refreshing!

After making sure no one was watching, Shami used the teleportation gate on outsiders for the first time.

Opening the teleportation gate, Shami quickly tossed the three into the opposite side, inside the Primitive Forest.

As for any subsequent investigations by Eden City, Shami wasn’t worried at all. Whoever comes will get slapped the same way.

Regarding the investigation, adventurer and mercenary groups coming here were of varying quality, with some even being fake, making it impossible to investigate.

Shami dashed into the village, arriving at her inn.

"The inn’s owner is here."

The tavern owner pointed at Shami.

Meanwhile, the old village chief, Lugo, also arrived, inquiring about Shami’s whereabouts lately.

Shami casually made up an excuse about going out for business.

"Everyone, welcome to my inn,"

Shami promptly arranged accommodations at the inn.

Aside from the room left on purpose for Lina on the second floor, all other rooms were snapped up immediately.

Meanwhile, Shami found the villagers previously running the inn and distributed roles like reception and service staff, signing labor contracts to get the inn running smoothly.

After finishing everything, Shami returned to her small house.

As expected, behind the seemingly intact door, a few thieves’ tunnels from elsewhere had been dug.

The house was a mess, obviously searched multiple times. All his dried crops were stolen, and handprints were visible in the dust on the table and bed. Even the rice jar had been tipped over.

"These adventurer groups... Do adventurers always do this, come to a village and start stealing from villagers? Luckily, I erased all information when I left."

Shami tidied up the house but didn’t cover the thief tunnels.

He refilled the jar with rice, placed fresh crops around, and applied lethal pesticides.

Afterwards, Shami closed the door and waited for someone with a death wish to show up.

"Help, help. If you dare touch me, Theo won’t let you off the hook."

Suddenly, Shami heard a commotion at the village entrance and rushed over.

The noise came from inside the village widow’s house.

When Shami arrived, the white-haired figure in a cloak was already peering in through the window in fascination.

"Why are you here?"

Shami squeezed into half of the window space.

"Something bad is happening, a bunch of mercenaries barged into the widow’s house."

The white-haired one quickly explained the situation to Shami.

"It’s actually a group fight mode? But seriously, why would a group of people want to do something bad to the widow, geez!"