Gu Bo is a thin and small old man, his gray hair has become a little sparse, and his dark brown eyes are still full of energy.
He was wearing a black woolen shirt, holding a silver metal thermos cup in his hand, pointed to the opposite side of the desk and said:
"Sit, sit."
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen nodded politely, pulled out the chairs, and sat down.
"What's the matter with you?" Gu Bo's grayish dialect had a slight accent, which was completely different from the local dialect.
Based on this, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen judged that the local president of the Hunter Guild was the first or second generation Tarnan townspeople and came from another region.
"President Gu, we have something to ask you about." Long Yuehong replied politely.
Gu Bo laughed:
"Isn't this supposed to release the task first and let me decide whether to accept it or not depending on the reward
"Information or intelligence is valuable."
"..." Long Yuehong was speechless for a while, and could only secretly sigh that he was a senior hunter and local president, doing his work and loving his work.
Bai Chen calmly responded:
"You can listen to our questions first, and then decide how much to ask for compensation. This can be done without going through a guild."
Gu Bo unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup and took a deep breath:
"I'm an old man with old arms and legs, aren't I afraid that you will regret not paying me
"At that time, don't eat mutton and get a slap, and get a beating if you don't get paid."
Seeing that Gu Boyue said more and more outrageous, Long Yuehong suddenly missed Shang Jianyao.
At such a time, he would definitely be able to bring the topic upside down.
"A local 'chief hunter', still afraid of this?" Bai Chen looked at Gu Bo and asked back.
Long Yuehong inquired about Gu Bo last night and knew that he was originally a "senior hunter". After becoming the president, he was awarded the honorary title of "chief hunter".
"The hero doesn't mention the bravery of the past." Gu Bo laughed at himself, "Man, when you get older, your body will not be very smart."
Just kidding, he restrained his expression:
"Tell me, let me see what the problem is and then decide what to do."
Long Yuehong took out an absorbent pen and a notebook the size of a palm, and asked:
"President Gu, do you still remember Maximian?"
"Ah?" Gu Bo looked blank.
Long Yuehong quickly picked up the key points and made a prompt:
"In the early days of the new calendar, the person who 'Mechanical Paradise' offered a reward."
Gu Bo fell into memory, and it took a while to say:
"He, it's been decades, what are you asking him to do
"Do you have any clues about him and are his descendants?"
Your old association is also very rich... Long Yue slandered and explained briefly:
"We want to see 'Origin Brain' and hope to come up with something that 'Mechanical Paradise' is interested in."
"Then you might as well accumulate metal minerals and make big deals with 'Mechanical Paradise'. Maybe there is still a chance." Gu Bo felt that the young man's whims were completely unrealistic, "This is about Maximian. It's been decades, maybe everyone is dead."
"We are only responsible for this direction." Bai Chen's words blocked Gu Bo's advice.
Gu Bo unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup again, sucked in saliva, and moistened his throat:
"Then I'll just say it directly, and I don't need your compensation. I didn't find any clues at the time. This person is definitely not in the Chilar Mountains. Even if he is, it's probably a beast or a 'mindless person'. in stomach."
"What kind of person is he? How was the reward announcement for 'Mechanical Paradise' written?" Long Yuehong asked further while recording Gu Bo's answer.
"What kind of person is he?" Gu Bo recalled, "There was a photo at that time, with some descriptions... This man is over 1.80 meters tall, with a very strong body, with golden hair, light blue eyes and a partial nose. It's big, it looks okay, it's said to have been genetically optimized..."
In some places, genetic improvement is also called genetic optimization, and this is a technology that achieved breakthroughs before the destruction of the old world, but it was later discontinued in most human forces, and only "Pangu" And the "White Knights" continue to move forward and improve on this road, making it mature enough.
In Long Yuehong's quick record, Gu Bo continued:
"I think he's more like a fighter than a scientist, but the 'Mechanical Paradise' bounty announcement specifically emphasizes his identity.
"Apart from this, the announcement has nothing of value. It only says to find this person, 'Mechanical Paradise' can satisfy one of your requirements, and does not involve any arbitrary requirements that 'Mechanical Paradise' has the ability to fulfill."
Give me a robot army, I want to save the world... Hearing any request, Long Yuehong couldn't help imitating Shang Jianyao's idea.
However, after he changed his mind, he felt that this idea was too ordinary, and he didn't have enough business sense.
At this time, Bai Chen asked:
"Only said to find this person, did not mention why?"
"No." Gu Bo shook his head.
"Does that emphasize protecting certain things or tracking the whereabouts of certain materials?" Bai Chen asked.
"No, I just said try to keep the target alive." Gu Bo was still somewhat impressed by this.
If there were these requirements, he would have changed the direction of the investigation so that he would not go into a dead end all the way.
"Remember this." Bai Chen told Long Yuehong.
Based on her experience, this can be preliminarily judged: "Mechanical Paradise"'s reward for Maximian is focused on this person, or what he has done, rather than the items that may exist on him.
She and Long Yuehong asked a few more questions, but because it was many years later, Gu Bo couldn't remember clearly, so he couldn't provide more information.
Leaving politely and leaving the Hunter Guild, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen walked in the direction of the "Furnace Cult", preparing to meet with Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao to discuss what to do next.
On the way forward, Long Yuehong was slightly stunned to find that there were still many street stalls on the roadside, and the ground floors of the houses on both sides, except those with the signs of "Xu-Xi Chamber of Commerce" and "X-X Grocery Store", were all closed. , no one operates.
He walked to a stall with some curiosity and asked the stall owner:
"Why don't you use a street-side shop, where the sun and rain are soaked?"
Because he had been to Weed City, he knew the concept of street-side shops.
And he remembered that the information provided by the redstone set included this:
In Tarnnan, unowned houses can be occupied by themselves, and they cannot apply for property rights from intelligent robots without long-term use.
The stall owner was a rough-skinned woman in her thirties, with a tanned face.
She said in a rather lame, redstone-oriented gray dialect:
"This has to be repaired and cleaned by myself, how can I have so many materials to put in
"Anyway, regardless of whether the robot is setting up a stall on the side of the road or not, I will hold a big umbrella when it rains, and I can also use electric lights for free."
At the end, she pointed to the street lamp above her head.
Uh, once you occupy a store and apply for power supply, do you need to pay a fee? Long Yuehong nodded with some understanding.
Because he asked the other party, he was embarrassed to turn his head and left, squatted down, and looked at the stall owner's goods.
There are books left over from the old world, the paper has turned yellow, there are also jade and diamond jewelry and scattered old world sundries.
After thinking about it, Long Yuehong asked Bai Chen, who squatted down with him:
"If you want to send a female elder, which one do you think is better?"
"You, mom?" Bai Chen easily understood the true meaning of Long Yuehong.
Because "you" and "mom" are strange together, she deliberately paused in the middle.
"Yes." This is not something to be ashamed of, Long Yuehong admitted it frankly.
At this moment, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, who had left the Furnace Church, saw their teammates here, so they quickly approached, and each found a place to squat.
After asking about Long Yuehong's request, Jiang Baimian laughed:
"I can give you some supplies to exchange for jewelry, and I will deduct it from the contribution point when I go back."
Bai Chen pointed to a green jade bracelet and said:
"At your mother's age, it might be more like this.
"Although it doesn't look so good now, it will become more and more moisturised after wearing it for a long time.
"Some of the female relic hunters I knew before had to wear this thing because it couldn't be sold. Later, I found out that it looked pretty good."
"Yes, yes, yes." The stall owner hurriedly echoed Bai Chen's words.
Jiang Baimian didn't have much research on this aspect, and he preferred bright diamonds, so he didn't comment, and turned his attention to those books.
She found that Shang Jianyao had picked up a book and was reading it intently.
looking at what? Jiang Baimian lowered his head curiously and aimed at the cover of the book in Shang Jianyao's hand.
Soon, the title of the book reflected in her eyes:
"Actor's Self-cultivation"
"..." Jiang Baimian wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.
After some haggling, they exchanged one can for the jade bracelet, and one can for four books—the remaining three were picked by Jiang Baimian.
After a simple and boring lunch, the "Old Tune Group" had nothing else to do, so none of the four members went out. .
Leisure time always passes quickly, seeing that evening is coming, there is suddenly some noise in the distance.
"What happened?" Long Yuehong looked at the direction from which the voice came, and asked herself doubtfully.
"Go and have a look." Jiang Baimian felt that it was time to move his body.
The group of four immediately left the "You Meng" hotel and walked towards Binhe Avenue.
Before long, they discovered the source of the noise:
Hunters Guild.
At this time, the noise has subsided, but there are still many people gathered there, and their expressions are a little dignified.
Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and the others stepped into the guild, and at a glance, they saw the task fixed on the big screen:
"… Investigate the matter of the 'Higher Unintentional' in the Southwest Mountains..."
Didn't Gnavar send robot guards to solve it? Jiang Baimian looked down suspiciously, and quickly found a line of description:
“… ten members of the Robot Guard lost contact…”