Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan came to the mercenary guild in Spring City.
After the arrival of the Demon Seed, the most important place in almost every human base will be the mercenary guild in the base, and this place in Spring City is no exception.
The guild's vast lobby is divided into several areas, including a notice area for posting various notices, a recruiting area for recruiting people to find teams, and a trading area for trading high-level demonic body potions and weapons.
All major mercenary teams have halls here to recruit people and accept entrusted employment from others.
Scattered small groups or individuals gathered in front of those classified bulletin boards, looking at the various notices densely pasted on them. There are caravans who travel to hire bodyguards, forgers who forge weapons look for a special material, or there are people who are looking for people, ask things, and find information about high-level monsters. Selling items, selling news, gathering information...and more.
This provides a variety of effective ways to obtain wealth for most saints with powerful force values.
Compared with the life market where ordinary people gather, this place is more like a place for the saints to trade and communicate.
Most of the people walking through the hall on the first floor were relatively low-level warriors. In addition, some high-end transactions and alliances were conducted in the luxurious private room on the second floor, which was an area that Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan had yet to reach.
Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan walked through the crowd.
Winter is coming, and all kinds of demon hunting activities have decreased, and the people here are not as crowded as they used to be.
A staff member in a guild is holding a loudspeaker and broadcasting a notice to encircle and suppress the blasphemers and rescue the trapped people.
There was a discussion in the crowd,
"It's been broadcast for a few days? Is there still no team to pick it up?"
"The bounty has been raised again. I heard that the son of a certain caravan boss was caught in the cave, so he was trying to get people out at all costs."
"It's useless to have a high bounty. High-level bosses don't like it. Like us, who dares to break into the defiler's lair? Isn't it courting death?"
Blasphemers are monsters with low combat power and relatively low levels. Their biggest feature is that they have an intelligence quotient that ordinary low-level monsters do not have, and they rarely live in groups. They often gather in hidden underground caves, and the captured humans are generally not killed immediately, but dragged into the depths of the cave as a reserve grain enclosure for breeding. Compared with those sluggish and ferocious monsters that directly prey on humans, the behavior of captive humans is even more creepy.
For high-level saints, sieging and suppressing such a large number of low-level monsters is laborious and thankless. Not only can they not get any magic seeds and materials needed by their own level, but they may even encounter trouble in the siege of monsters. . It is even more dangerous for low-level saints to enter such a complex terrain monster gathering place. Therefore, everyone shuns this kind of monster, even if the relatives of the victims offer relatively generous task rewards, often no one cares.
Several staff members of the guild separated from the crowd, walked to the notice board, and posted a new red notice in a prominent position.
The crowd hulas up and buzzes,
"Selling the body fluids of the executioner, seventh-order, I rely on it."
"This is awesome, hehe. Who can stand it."
"It also depends on whether you can afford it."
There was an ambiguous laugh from the crowd.
"What?" Chu Qianxun asked Gao Yan, who had never heard of this term before.
"The secretions of high-level executioners can make people weak and excited," Gao Yanfu whispered in Chu Qianxun's ear, "It has the effect of... It is very popular."
Chu Qianxun opened his mouth and returned to a clear expression. Years after the arrival of the demon species, human beings have gradually matured in various development and utilization of the monster's body. Not only have they learned to use the hard parts of the monster's body to make various tools and weapons, but they have even developed various secretions of the monster to make various types of therapeutic effects. drug.
In every corner of the hall, many people holding signs are temporarily recruiting saints with certain special abilities in order to perform battles against certain special monsters.
Such a temporarily formed squad is unfamiliar with each other's abilities and temperaments, which means that there may be too many variables during the battle, which is a very unstable behavior. It's an action that only small mercenary teams and sparse people can take.
The combat saints who have a little strength and who have lived in Spring City for a long time will often choose to join some large-scale corps with strict management. Participate in collective actions organized by the Corps. You can also invite regular members who are familiar with each other in the corps for daily outings to hunt demons, which improves the safety of the battle.
Chu Qianxun came to the entrance of the Red Wolf Mercenary Corps where she belonged, and reported that she had returned. She had been away for more than half a month, so she needed to register the situation and indicated that she could continue to participate in the Corps' operations.
The clerk responsible for registration opened the record book,
"Chu Qianxun, um, I'll take a look. I'm sorry, Wang Dazhi, the captain of your team, unfortunately passed away during a demon hunting operation a few days ago. You can wait and see which team you are assigned to."
The clerk speaks of misfortune, but there is not much misery in his tone. He sits here and crosses out the list of dead people from his notebook every month. For him, reading these has only become a formulaic job. That's it.
"I heard that his wife rolled up things and moved to another man two days after the accident. If the child was thrown into the black street, no one would care. The world is really hot." The secretary sighed, Even summed up the situation behind the captain.
When Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan walked out of the guild gate, their hearts were heavy. Their captain is not a particularly good captain, probably because they have children and a wife at home. Every time the loot is distributed, Captain Wang will be very stingy and always try to exploit as much as possible into his own pocket. . When fighting, he often hides behind, and he is almost invisible when charging into battle.
But in any case, he is not a bad person, at least he can try not to leave anyone behind at the end of the battle, and bring every injured team member back to the base. When there is a conflict between the team members, he can always stand on the side of the oppressed impartially.
It's not a short time to get along with each other, the captain who fights with each other every day, said that it's gone. It was just a day-to-day witch hunt, not even in some special large-scale battle, a familiar life did not light up any sparks, and just disappeared like this, the only trace was just a scratch on the clerk's list.
Chu Qianxun held the hilt at his waist and walked towards the city gate.
It has become her habit to go out every day to hunt demons, acquire demons, and train her abilities. The most important thing for her right now is to improve her ability. Only the truly strong can live without regrets.
"Qian, Qianxun." Gao Yan stopped her, "Just the two of us?"
Gao Yan's habit is to travel with the team members, the team members take care of each other, the main battle personnel are in front, and they only need to stand in the rear of the safety. The battle will not be so hard and the danger is not so great. Although the spoils allocated to each person in the end are very limited, they can always ensure food and clothing.
"Ah, no, Sister Yan. You don't have to go. I'll do it alone." Chu Qianxun turned around.
When you leave the Spring City, you can see the ruins of the ruined city.
The original construction of Spring City was based on the construction of an industrial park around a large city in the golden age. Outside the base, the high-rise buildings of the once prosperous city struggled among the lush green vegetation to reveal one or two mottled glass walls, revealing the relics of the high civilization that once existed on this planet.
Gao Yan was standing on the deserted block, extremely nervous. There are only two of her and Chihiro here, but they are facing a ferocious fifth-order monster. She was accustomed to hiding in the large army to make soy sauce, and suddenly felt very insecure.
The monster let out a low roar and rushed out from the gap between the two buildings, each step making the whole ground bang.
Chu Qianxun wiped the dust from his eyes with his sleeve, leaped into the air, and threw out several arc-shaped wind blades with both knives. Bang Bang hit the monster's face and body one after another.
Her antelope-like agile figure turned over beautifully in the sky, turned behind the monster, and stepped on the monster's shoulder. The knife light flashed, and the back of the monster was cut open, revealing the green. Chu Qianxun's face was filled with joy, and he reached out his hand to capture the Demon Seed.
The sharp claws of the monster came suddenly, pierced through her shoulders, grabbed her from her body, and threw her to the ground. At the same time, she opened her bloody mouth and sprayed out a cloud of highly corrosive liquid towards Chu Qianxun on the ground. liquid. Chu Qianxun rolled on the ground several times, got up very quickly, and managed to avoid it, but a little liquid was gradually applied to his face and neck, and his skin was corroded and wisps of blue smoke appeared.
She knelt on one knee on the ground and cursed, ignoring her bloody shoulders, turned over and fought again.
The process of their fight was very quick. Gao Yan had just woken up when a burst of rubble crashed down, and a monster with a human face and eagle wings turned out from the side of a skyscraper in front of her.
This fourth-order monster was attracted by their battle.
"What, what should I do? Qianxun. Shall we run?" Gao Yan was about to cry. At the fourth rank, she does not think that she has the ability to single out monsters of the same rank.
"Fourth-order monsters, you can deal with them." Chu Qianxun didn't lift his head, with wisps of green smoke wafting from his body, the blade kept fighting with the monsters in front of her.
A word came from the smoke and dust in the sky,
"You contain it, I'll help you after I solve this one."
The huge monster climbed down the outer wall of the high-rise building. It shook its beautiful feathers and looked at Gao Yan with round golden pupils on its humanoid face.
Gao Yan's lips trembled and she raised her arms. This was her first time fighting a monster alone.
"I shouldn't have followed. Chihiro, shall we run? I, I'm going to run, I'm really running!"
She was shouting indiscriminately with trembling in her mouth, but she exerted all her power in her hands. The gravity in a rectangular area where the monster was located increased sharply, and the sudden invisible pressure pressed the big bird lying on the outer wall to the ground. on the ground.
The monster with a human face and a bird body twisted its neck, stood still, and slowly stood up against the pressure,
Gao Yan desperately used her abilities, and invisible rectangular blocks kept falling from the air, pressing on the monsters one after another. Although the monster was constantly being pressed and bent down, it still walked slowly towards Gao Yan with difficulty step by step.
"Ah." Gao Yan shouted in horror,
A black figure brushed past the monster, arc-shaped silver light flashed, and the monster's claws were cut off.
"Okay, don't shout so loudly. There are two more monsters. If you don't run, you have to run." Chu Qianxun kicked the monster over, and the tip of the knife picked out the fourth-order monster from the monster's abdomen and threw it to Gao Yan. Stepping on the demon body, he threw the fifth-order demon seed that he just got, and said with a smile: "How is it? The harvest is good."
After returning to the residence in the base, Gao Yan came back to her senses completely. Thinking of going out this time, she actually got a whole fourth-order demon seed and a complete fourth-order demon body, and her heart was bubbling with beauty. This is her Going out with the team to hunt demons more than ten times may not necessarily get the harvest.
Turning her head to look at Chu Qianxun's severely injured face, she felt a little distressed. Although the recovery ability of a saint is far different from that of ordinary people, if such an injury does not cost a demon seed to ask a healer to treat it, I am afraid it will also be necessary. It hurts for days.
"Is it alright? I'd better invite someone to take a look. I haven't done much. Just use my demon seed to invite a healer."
"It's okay, I'm used to it." Chu Qianxun reached out and opened the door indifferently.
Then she quickly closed the door again with a bang, and Gao Yan looked at each other for a while, then stepped back and looked at the house number to make sure that it was really her own house, and she didn't go wrong.
Only then did he cautiously open the door again.
How messy was Chu Qianxun's room? It was basically walking into the house, and there was no clean place except the bed to sleep on. Gao Yan's room was even more extreme than hers, and even a bed was full of clothes.
This is not to blame for the two of them, most people in this era live such a life. With precarious times and lack of food, there are a few people who can devote their energy to taking care of their lives.
But at this moment she pushed open the door, her room was so clean that she could hardly recognize it. There was a neat stack of cardboard boxes on the side against the wall. The various wastes she had thrown in the corners were collected into it, and the categories were clearly marked on the boxes with markers.
The tabletops and floors were gleaming like never before, and even the glass of the windows was brightly polished. The sheets and pillowcases were obviously cleaned and re-laid, and a small bottle was placed on the small square table for eating. In the early winter season, a delightful little flower could be inserted into it.
When they went out, Gao Yan gave her the key to Chu Qianxun's house, and Chu Qianxun gave it to Ye Peitian. She knew that Ye Peitian might have to clean up his own house on the first day he came.
"If you need anything, just go to my room and get it. You're welcome." She explained.
"Then I'll help you clean up by the way." Ye Peitian replied casually at that time.
As a result, this man cleaned up like this by the way!
"I want a lemon, Chihiro. This is the man you're looking for, tell me, I'll find one too." Gao Yan said sourly.
During dinner, Gao Yan resolutely avoided it, "Let you both cultivate and cultivate your relationship. After I'm done, am I afraid that I won't have a meal?"
Ye Peitian sat at the table and served Chu Qianxun a bowl of corn rib soup.
The wound on Chu Qianxun's face hurt a little, and he sighed slightly as he drank the soup carefully.
"I want to go together tomorrow." Ye Peitian said suddenly.
"Ah, what are you doing?" Chu Qianxun held the bowl of hot soup, "Those are low-level monsters and won't help you. You can get used to the life here first, and then..."
Before she could finish her words, her hands were empty, and the hot bowl was taken away.
Ye Peitian twisted her hand, pursed her lips and looked at the scarred back of her hand for a while, then suddenly lowered her head and kissed the wound. He raised his eyes and glanced at Chu Qianxun, followed the scars and kissed them little by little.
Chu Qianxun felt a cool feeling from the wound that was still hot and painful, and the pain was reduced immediately. Accompanied by the wet kiss, the injury improved rapidly.
Ye Peitian's healing power is not limited to his blood.
"Don't lick it, it's so itchy." Chu Qianxun laughed.
But the man rarely did not obey her, but approached more intimately, held her face, did not dislike the ferocious wounds at all, and gently kissed those wounds.