Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 340: The value of intelligence

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The hunter guild of the original city was located in the northwest of the Red Giant Wolf District, on a street full of people coming and going.

It has its own five-story building, and the hall area is several times that of the colleagues in Weed City, but the degree of electronics is not comparable. Only 20 machines are arranged that can watch tasks and take tasks on their own, and the rest are all passed through one piece. Large screen and windows to complete.

As a result, the local Hunter Guild has a large number of employees, and many people can make a living by explaining tasks to those relic hunters who do not know the words. The entire hall is crowded and noisy.

After Bai Chen informed a receptionist that he had information to sell to the guild, he quickly led him through the hall and up to the second floor.

During this process, Genawa received a lot of attention, but compared to other places, the frequency of robots appearing in the initial city was much higher. Many relic hunter teams have such a member, so no one thinks strangeness.

On the second floor, in room 205.

Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Genova saw an old man with a straight nose, slightly gray hair, and a black robe.

He was probably in his fifties, and his light blue eyes reflected the appearance of the two people on the opposite side:

"What information do you have to sell to the guild?"

Before Bai Chen had time to answer, Genava, who barely managed to get his chair to squeak, had already asked:

"Don't know what to call you?"

The old man laughed:

"It's rare to encounter such a polite robot."

The priority of most robots is to obey their masters.

Long Yuehong heard this sigh, secretly said a "bad thing", and quickly said to Genova:

"Who taught you to ask people's names directly regardless of context?"

A red light flashed in Genova's eyes:

"He said it, he said to be polite."

Sure enough... Long Yuehong was not surprised at all.

He asked that just now in order to guide the half-hundred-year-old man on the opposite side to think in the direction of "this robot is broken by the master's teaching", not that the robot in front of him is probably from "mechanical paradise" and belongs to intelligent people.

"You don't have to listen to him all the time, his brain is not the same as a normal person." Long Yuehong rarely has the opportunity to speak ill of Shang Jian Yao behind his back, and of course he will not let it go.

The old man opposite raised his hand and pressed down:

"It's not a bad thing to be polite.

"My name is Frederick."

Bai Chen then nodded lightly:

"Mr. Friedrich, we have information on the great white wolf in the mountains of the North Shore."

"Really?" Frederick was a little surprised. "You just came back from the North Shore Mountains?"

"No." Bai Chen took out a neatly folded piece of paper from his pocket, "We have encountered an enemy in a similar situation to the white giant wolf before, and we think there should be some similarities between the two. , you can get some useful information from this to the other."

Friedrich tapped the surface of the table with his right index finger, pondered for a few seconds and said:

"In other words, you can't be sure that this information will come in handy?"

"Yes." Bai Chen didn't deny it, "but in the same way, you can't be sure that it will not come in handy."

This conversation is like a tongue twister, Xiaobai's Honghe language is still much stronger than mine... Long Yuehong muttered silently.

He also dared to call Bai Chen's nickname in his heart.

The same goes for "Big White".

There is only "hello", he will shout a few times from time to time, anyway, he and Shang Jianyao are used to each other, the only thing to consider is whether they can withstand the counterattack of the other party's language.

As for "Lao Ge", there is no sarcasm, he thinks it doesn't matter.

Friedrich retracted his right hand and said with a smile:

"It made me feel like I was gambling."

"But you are the dealer." Bai Chen responded calmly.

Ruins hunters need to consider the consequences when they sell information directly to the guild.

This is not a one-shot deal. If the guild gets the information, and after reading it, it is found that you are suspected of fraud, the lighter one will recover the reward, deduct a certain amount of credit points, and add the corresponding records. catch your mission.

Compared with the guild, individuals always seem insignificant. As long as they still want to eat as a relic hunter, few people play tricks in this regard.

Of course, there are also cases where the guild has to be scorched by the fire, so you can only consider turning into a "dark hunter", not accepting and handing in quests through the guild, just like the earliest relic hunters.

Friedrich laughed:

"You are calm.

"Tell me, how much do you want?"

"400 Ole." Bai Chen offered the price.

This is enough for a family of three in the Green Olive District to live for a year, or even two years if they are more frugal.

But this is a drop in the bucket compared to the price of military exoskeleton devices and robotic arms, which are often in the "tens of thousands" -- such materials are often invaluable.

As far as the "Old Tune Team" is concerned, this information is mainly to fill up the shy wallet first. After all, they have not given all the information related to Qiao Chu, and they also know the ability of the special commissioner of the Eighth Research Institute. Not so full.

Frederick pondered for a while and said:

"Hopefully it's worth the price."

He immediately picked up the phone on the table, dialed a number, and asked the other party to go through the process now and approve 400 ore out.

When he hung up, Bai Chen pushed the folded paper over.

Friedrich picked up the reading glasses next to him, unfolded the paper in his hand, and read it carefully:

"... We once met a man named Qiao Chu, whose intelligence reward in the guild was a ton of flour... He could make people involuntarily like him, fall in love with him, obey his orders... This is a suspected price, and Non-awakened ability... His abilities are currently known as 'forcibly changing the target', 'making people frustrated', and the rest is unknown... If the giant wolf in the mountains on the north shore acquired the ability to charm others through distortion, then It needs to be considered that it has other capabilities…”

Friedrich raised his head and looked at Bai Chen and Long Yuehong:

"Have you met Qiao Chu

"You can actually get rid of him and live until now?"

What surprised him was the latter.

Bai Chen pointed to Genova next to him, and said without changing his face:

"He's there."

"He?" Friedrich asked rhetorically.

In the Honghe language, he and she are different words, and you can hear them as soon as you hear them.

Bai Chen casually explained:

"I am a wanderer in the wilderness. My parents died early, and I only survived to adulthood by taking care of intelligent robots."

"Is that so..." Friedrich understood.

Long Yuehong was stunned to hear it, but she didn't expect that Xiaobai would be as deceitful as the team leader.

Obviously there were no robots at that time!

Moreover, it was not Genava who took care of her growing up!

I don't know that Xiaobai was originally like this, or he was nurtured by the team leader... Long Yuehong fell into deep thought.

At this time, Friedrich sighed:

"It seems that the charm does not work for robots, which is also a very important piece of information.

"Okay, your information does have a price of 400 Ole."

Jiang Baimian set 400 ore mainly based on the previous reward: the price of one kilogram of ordinary-grade flour in the original city was about 4 to 6 delas, which was about 0.5 ore.

Of course, that is, in disaster-free years, in places like Primordial City and Weed City, in many settlements with dust, one kilogram of flour can be worth a life in some cases.

In general, 400 ore is about equal to 800 kilograms of ordinary grade flour, which is similar to the previous reward price.

Soon, Bai Chen got a full 400 ore banknotes.

She counted 50 ore out of it, and pushing it to Friedrich, she said:

"I want to delegate a mission."

Friedrich pointed to the floor:

"The mission is below."

Bai Chen did not stop and continued:

"The content is to help us find a friend. He is very sensitive, and he is also a relic hunter. When he sees someone posting a task to find him, he will definitely hide. We can only ask the guild for help and entrust it to some relic hunters who have enough local connections in private. .

"There is no need to get detailed information, just tell us where he lives, or which areas he haunts more often."

- The Hunter Guild always has a vice-chairman in charge of such tasks that are not publicly released and require confidentiality.

Frederick took the stack of banknotes, and said to himself:

"If there is only this reward, the time will be hard to tell. No one will mobilize all the people they know to help find it for 50 Ole."

"No problem." Bai Chen took out another piece of paper.

Above is the appearance of Han Wanghuo depicted by Jiang Baimian, which can be called lifelike.

At the same time, she also marked the eye color, character name and so on.

After entrusting this matter, Bai Chen led Long Yuehong and Genova back to the lobby on the first floor.

They casually browsed what tasks they had recently, and did not consider taking them, mainly to understand the current situation in the first city.

After leaving the hall and returning to the street, they were about to turn elsewhere when they suddenly saw a convoy passing by on the road ahead.

These are sedans, dark in color, and the glass appears to be treated so that the inside cannot be seen from the outside.

With such a large team, Long Yuehong felt a sense of imposing manner, and subconsciously held his breath.

He glanced sideways at Bai Chen, and found that she was staring blankly ahead.

"What's wrong?" Long Yuehong asked when the convoy disappeared at the end of the road.

"Nothing." Bai Chen shook his head.

Harvest bathroom, within one room.

"Do you think this has something to do with 'anti-intellectualism'?" Jiang Baimian asked after listening to Shang Jianyao's description, "The assassination of Xu Liyan was the work of the Zhao family? No, Zhao Zhengqi and Zhao Yide were also there. The noble council will be bombed to death together! Are there conflicts within the Zhao family?"

Shang Jianyao did not respond to Jiang Baimian's question, and said to himself:

"There are a few people who exist in Zhao Shouren's memory. The manor was born and the manor grew up, but it looks like they were brought from another family. Many details don't match, and they often come in and out."