After asking a few questions, Renn broke the assassin's neck, and then killed the corpse again after being resurrected by the "abyss demonic energy".
He wiped the blood splattered on his face and then exhaled. Then he looked at the few bullet holes in his already tattered robe and frowned.
After all, there were many people on the other side, so he received seven or eight blows under random gunfire.
Although not fatal, it still hurts.
Deliberately avoiding the vital point, the musket bullets almost all hit the big muscles. Even if he hasn't condensed the fighting spirit armor yet, the maturity of the blood worms has brought super high toughness to his body. The bullet didn't go very deep and didn't even require a scalpel. The warhead can be removed with a click of your fingers. Once the healing stitches are sutured, everything will be fine for a moment.
"Hiss~ This sense of crisis that I haven't seen for a long time"
Ren looked at the corpse and muttered to himself.
The feeling of the musket bullets grazing against his scalp just now, stimulating the secretion of adrenaline hormones, seemed to bring him back to the state where the "Weasel Phantom Thieves" were walking on thin ice every day.
Without Bazel always on guard, his expression must remain alert. Without a way out, there can be no luck. Any luck means death.
This is why he did not choose to enjoy everything he has now, but chose the process he must go through to take the path of transcendence.
However, ordinary second-level transcendence can only give Ren a sense of crisis.
A hunting team headed by a second-level assassin was originally considered an elite team in a large Phantom Thieves group like the "Black Skull". With this kind of configuration, it is easy to wait for work, even if it encounters an ordinary third-level transcendent who is alone, it can kill it.
It's a pity to meet such a strange person like Ren.
Ren didn't waste much time. He went back and killed those guys who had turned into "living zombies" and packed up the loot. Then he took the contribution cards from several people and chose to leave.
Although Glory City was established as a nation, this thing was still used and became an identity card.
"It seems we have to wait for the next hunting group."
Ren pursed his lips, and while approaching the base, he checked to see if there were any other hunting groups. If it weren't for the fact that going to the "Black Wind Valley Base" alone would be a bit intrusive, he really wouldn't want to take the trouble.
... .
Probably because this place is not far from the "Black Wind Valley Base", and the chance of encountering the hunting team is very high.
It was said that he was lucky. Renn chose a direction and found a hill, and then he saw the black smoke from the boiler billowing in the distance. After following the direction for more than ten kilometers, I saw this hunting team.
This is a mixed hunting team of tens of thousands of people rushing back to the hunting base. The leader is a "ghoul-level" mechanical city with "Glorious No. 77" painted in white paint on the outer wall. Then there was the hunting team that stretched for several kilometers, all of which were steam locomotives and troop carriers with various strange shapes. The team wasn't moving very fast, and they didn't seem to be in a hurry.
Renn had been in the hunting group in Glory City before, and he knew that the people who could be in Mechanical City were all aristocratic lords. The people following below were all ordinary hunters. Looking at the messy equipment and hunting group logos, it was estimated that there were hundreds of hunting groups of various sizes in this group.
"Huh... It seems like you're pretty lucky."
Ren raised his eyebrows, quietly chased after him, and successfully blended into the group of thousands of people.
This large-scale hunting operation was crowded with people, and they all wore gas masks. No one knew anyone, and no one cared that there was a strange doctor in the team. Even if someone saw it, they would probably guess that it was someone who went somewhere to defecate in the water.
Ren was mixed in with the team, looking relaxed.
He didn't say anything, just listened quietly to the bragging and farting of these hunters.
Upon hearing this, I realized that this was the wilderness hunting team of the "Rosas Family", the five major families in Glory City.
The main force in the Mechanical City is the members of the "Brotherhood of the Hammer", the former large hunting group of the Sid Empire. Now, their leader led the entire group of tens of thousands of hunters to Glory City, and swore an oath of citizenship to the Glory Kingdom. The leader was also granted the title of "Viscount" and became a retainer of the Rosas family.
The kingdom was newly established and a large number of nobles were enfeoffed. This was also the best opportunity for commoners to become nobles, and it was a huge attraction for large hunting groups.
As long as the leader of the wilderness hunting group comes with his troops and takes the oath of naturalization, he will almost immediately receive the corresponding noble title. Because of this population settlement policy, the population growth of Glory City in the last half month alone has exceeded that of the past twenty years.
This growth momentum continues to rise and shows no signs of stopping.
The most excited ones are naturally these small groups of hunters. They have also earned a lot of tangible benefits because of the [Black Tide].
"Haha, we made a lot of money this time. The three-day zombie wave destroyed three of my muskets, but we also made money that we normally wouldn't make in several years..."
"It's a pity that the price of 'magic crystals' has dropped. At first, a first-level magic crystal could be exchanged for one gold crown, but now it is less than fifty silver crowns. Otherwise, our trip would be enough to return home." Omar will live a wealthy life for the rest of his life..."
"Everyone from our hometown in Harax Province wants to come. Do you still want to go back? I heard that the two empires have issued decrees to prohibit hunters from coming to Glory City. If they are caught, they will be sent to the gallows. Yes! I have no plans to go back. Although this is a bit more dangerous, I can earn a lot after all. If I work hard for a few years, I can earn enough money to live as a wife... "
"Now everyone knows that you can make money by hunting wilderness here, and there are treasures everywhere. Common people like us want to run here when they hear the news, but the nobles of the two empires still want to block it and prevent people from coming. I have heard that riots have begun in several provinces in my hometown, and even the border guards have come secretly. Everyone wants to come to Glory City to make a fortune, and many nobles have been killed for this reason... "
"Those damn nobles, they just exploit everyone on weekdays, but now they want to prevent everyone from getting rich, they deserve to die! Haha, without us commoners, those damn nobles can guard the empty city and be their bare lords. ..”
"..."
Ren listened, and his mind quickly captured and analyzed some situations.
I had seen part of this information from Canosha before, but now I heard it from someone's own mouth, and I also knew that the development of Glory City was still at its peak, while the situation of the two empires seemed not so good.
This practice of giving titles to people who are naturalized is simply sucking the blood of the two empires.
But because Glory City occupied the "Xianfeng Pass", the only strategic choke point connected to the Alcoron Mountains, the two empires could not covet this "fat" even if they wanted to.
There is no shortage of resources in Glory City. A large amount of undeveloped land can feed countless people, not to mention the [Black Wave] that can make a fortune.
If this continues, the glory of the two empires east of the mountains that are not covered by the [Black Tide] will gradually become history.
The power of those old nobles will quickly decline, or even completely lose their dominance. There are not a large number of civilians for them to exploit, so why are the nobles so expensive
... ..
While chatting, Ren also listened to these people talking about prices.
"Hey... I finally made it to the second level of Transcendence. Unfortunately, the price of potions in the city has been increasing every day recently, and the price of potions in the 'Sunflower Merchant's Guild' has also risen too much. If only I could do it like before With the contribution points, I could have bought a silver-quality potion with the money I earned from hunting in the wilderness. But now, even the better black iron potion is far behind... "
"There is no way. High-quality potions can only be sold by large chambers of commerce. Moreover, after the establishment of Glory City, the taxation was too harsh. The price of food, clothing, housing and transportation has not increased? Even if you set up a stall in the base, After the tax, there won’t be much left..."
"Which territory doesn't tax? Don't all noble gentlemen do this? Just be satisfied if I have money for you. Damn, even the ladies in the tavern have raised their prices. In the past, you could have fun with just eight hundred liso. She’s a nice girl, but now she spends thousands of dollars and she’s still an old lady..."
"It's good to play with some. It's not like you don't know how many hunters are here now. The last time I went to the Customs Tavern, there was already a queue..."
"..."
Ren listened calmly.
Prices are always closely related to life. The bulk of a hunter's spending is nothing more than potions, equipment, and tavern girls. Both are skyrocketing.
In the past, Glory City strictly controlled the price of potions due to the contribution system, eliminating the room for professional merchants to raise prices.
Now that there is free trade... it is a good thing to be able to buy potions of the same quality as before at ten times the price.
How can ordinary people outsmart the big and wealthy chambers of commerce
Those professional businessmen who played monopoly simply copied the two empires' models of exploiting civilians.
Monopolize the materials, monopolize the market, and then quickly raise the sales price of the finished potion to obtain huge profits.
"Hey... I still have a long way to go to buy a good potion. I hope I can encounter such a good thing next time and let me make enough money... "
"Not to mention, that 'ghost girl' is really easy to use. If you just add some blood, you can attract a lot of living corpses. During this hunting trip, the people of the 'Iron Hammer Group' ate meat, and we drank too. Order soup..."
"Tsk, tsk, this girl is a bit evil. Whoever touches her will be unlucky. Otherwise, if you have such a 'weapon for attracting monsters', you will still be short of magic crystals in the future?"
"Who dares to take it? The 'Iron Wolf Group' and 'Trident Group' that were inexplicably destroyed before... which one is not a large hunting group with thousands of people? They just want to monopolize this benefit, but no one has survived. Five days..."
"Tsk, tsk, that's really evil. Let's go as far away as possible to avoid bad luck..."
"..."
When Ren heard this, he became interested. Thoughts flashed in his mind, as if he thought of something.
It sounds like these guys have a good harvest, it seems because there is a "bait"
He looked in the direction those people pointed, and finally saw a frail running figure in the dust at the tail of the team.
It was too far to see clearly, so Renn slowed down a little, and then he could see clearly.
It was a little girl about ten years old, with a very thin body and messy black hair. Her feet were bare, covered with clothes that looked like rotten linen bags, and her hands and arms were wrapped with dirty bandages that were either stains or bloodstains. There were also some festering wounds visible on the exposed skin, which looked terrible.
The hunters were like avoiding the "God of Plague", no one dared to approach her.
The little girl was alone and followed a few hundred meters behind the large army, chasing the Machinery City with a numb expression. The whole person didn't have much life, and he didn't look like a living person, more like a walking corpse.
Ren's eyes froze slightly.
From what people around me said, that little girl seemed to bring "bad luck", so no one dared to approach her
"Blood can attract large amounts of living corpses, and can also bring bad luck to people... I remember that this seems to be a legendary alchemy material... "
When Ren thought of this, "Zhi Nao" had screened out ancient book records that met the relevant conditions for him.
When he saw the introduction on the retina, he was surprised.
"Sure enough, the 'cursed blood', an alchemical material mentioned in the ancient goblin civilization, is exactly the same as this description! Does it refer to the blood of this little girl? Is this a special blood race in myths and legends?"
[Blood of Curse]
Detailed explanation: Advanced psychic medium; fresh blood of the 'cursed clan', cold and low temperature, high magic power, high affinity to dark elements; can attract the undead, highly efficient psychic medium; this material has a level VI danger, for those with evil intentions, Touched by bad luck;
Seeing this, Ren glanced at the little girl again, slightly confused.
"Curse clan?"
This is an unfamiliar word that sounds like a special human race like "werewolves".
Ordinary people can't explain the reason for the "bad luck", but it is clearly marked in ancient books. If the mind is evil, contact with it will bring bad luck.
Something contained in her bloodline will affect the "luck" of those who come into contact, or it may be a special existence in terms of "soul".
No wonder people regard him as the "god of plague" and avoid him. The hunters are all lickers of blood, how many of them are completely upright
Ren was thoughtful, but he didn't mind his own business and followed the team back to the "Black Wind Valley Base".
... .
Ren followed the large army into the city. As expected, no one asked about their origins in detail. He took off his gas mask, took a look, and paid the money to enter the city.
The contribution system has been abolished, and the entry fee and asylum fee are quite high, one thousand liso per day.
It seems cheaper than the previous 10,000 a day in Glory City, but it is actually much more expensive.
In the past, hunters were unwilling to live in the city and could still set up tents in the wilderness. But now they are harassed by [zombie waves] almost every night. Without the high iron walls of the Machinery City, low-level transcendental beings are seeking death by spending the night in the wasteland.
No one dared to pitch a tent outside the steel city wall, and the nobles did not allow commoners to gather their wool. They would shoot any human who tried to spend the night at the foot of the city wall as a living corpse.
This place is much more lively than the previous "Plague Base". In the past, one hundred thousand people in one base was considered too much. Looking around here, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people.
The daily "asylum fee" is a considerable income and is sustainable.
... .
As soon as Ren entered the city, he saw several wanted notices on the official list at the city gate. He didn't stop, glanced at it, and walked straight into the city with a normal expression.
At that moment, the reward notice that he had just seen was projected on his retina.
Looking at it, Mafa, Bazel, Kanosha, and himself all had bounties on their heads.
There are four reward notices posted on the notice board, which are exactly the images of the four of them in the belly of the "Moro Corpse King Flower".
Bazel was an old acquaintance on the wanted poster. No matter his name or his rough face, everyone recognized him. But he was previously offered a bounty of 180 million liso by the two empires, and now it has been directly increased to 1 billion!
Moreover, the bounty orders from the two empires originally did not work in Glory City.
Now hanging out, it is obviously a direct declaration of war.
The portrait of the Great Witch Sacrifice Mafa is also very clear, but his strength is not marked on the list. Instead, a note is written as "an important leader of the barbarians", and he also has a reward of 1 billion. I guess he was afraid that his unrivaled combat power would be intimidating to all bounty hunters.
The photo of Canosha wearing a gas mask doesn't reveal much, except that she is a woman, so the wanted order is of little use.
Ren looked at himself and saw that he was about the same, with his face covered, and a bounty of 100 million.
Then there is a line under the wanted order: If you hunt a "barbarian", your head can be exchanged for 10,000 gold crowns; when you encounter the above wanted persons, those who provide clues can also receive several rewards.
Ren's expression looked normal, which was expected.
He raised his eyebrows and stepped into this bustling hunting base.