A mercenary team looks pretty good, everyone is above lv3, and there are even two lv5, no matter how you look at it, such a team should be able to at least complete some more profitable tasks.
But this mercenary team is not only pale and thin, but also has bad weapons. The task they have completed now is actually 20 rabbits.
Twenty rabbits... Even the extremely difficult Bibi rabbit won't earn much commission.
Such a mercenary team is unreliable no matter how you look at it, Beta turned to ask the female counter: "Did you make a mistake?"
"There is no mistake." The female counter put the mercenary record in front of Beta again: "Their reputation is very high, higher than that of the Howling Wolf Mercenary Group. As for why you are not satisfied, you can try to ask them why. .”
This was already an obvious hint, and Beta looked back at these mercenaries again.
Although they looked malnourished, there seemed to be a light in their eyes, a light of tenacity. This is a very mysterious feeling, but Beta knows it is very reliable. As a spellcaster, he has solid mental power and can perceive the mental state of many people.
These people have been listening to the conversation between Beta and the female counter just now, and they seem to know something, and they are staring at Beta with helpless expressions, as if a group of beggars are saying: Sir, give me a task.
Beta is not the kind of Holy Mother who responds to requests, and of course she is not a ruthless person. Since he needs a mercenary team to help, and the other party has a good reputation record, and it seems that there is something hard to say, then it doesn't hurt to listen.
"I need to hire a team. If you are interested, come talk to me on the second floor?" Beta asked after thinking for a while.
As soon as these words came out, all the members of this mercenary team looked happy.
A young man came up, but because of malnutrition, his face looked a bit old.
"We are members of the Cold Wind Mercenary Group. I am the team leader Shalin. Thank you for giving us a chance."
"Whether it's a chance or not, it will be determined after everyone chats on the second floor."
Beta paid the female teller the money for the soundproof room, and then sat with these people in the soundproof room on the second floor.
"I can see that your strength is not weak, but why is your equipment and your complexion so bad?" After sitting down, Beta said directly: "You know, your state will affect the mission. success rate."
Everyone in the Cold Wind Mercenary Corps had expressions of embarrassment on their faces. Sharin grinned, and said helplessly, "Because we are poor, we owe people money."
"You have a high reputation, and it should be easy to receive such lucrative tasks."
"In fact, our reputation is already very poor." Sharin glanced at Beta and continued, "Don't get me wrong, your Excellency, it's not that we violated the contract, but our mission failed."
"Mission failure is very common." Beta was a little strange: "As long as the compensation is reasonable, it's not a big deal."
"The problem is, we failed that mission for no good reason."
With a wry smile, Sha Lin told what happened.
It turned out that two years ago, the head of the cold wind mercenary group, that is, Sha Lin's father, received an escort mission. Escort a maiden of a minor nobleman to another city.
It was supposed to be a very simple task, but they failed.
On the way of escort, they passed through a small town and rested in the hotel. Somehow, they were in the hotel, everyone fell asleep, and then they woke up the next day, and they were surprised to find that the escort target disappeared, and all of them All there, no one hurt. What made them even more strange was that all the people in the hotel had disappeared.
Then they frantically searched for the escort target, and finally found the naked body of the escort target in a stinky ditch three hundred meters away from the hotel.
After that... the noble girl's family came to find her, and the Cold Wind Mercenary Group lost a lot of money, and the Mercenary Group suddenly became in debt. This is nothing, the mission failed, compensation is a matter of course. But the problem is that the mission failed, and no one in their mercenary group died, not even injured.
The girl who was escorted was quite pretty, and rumors spread in the mercenary community in Fenglin City that it was the members of their mercenary regiment who revolted in the hotel because of their sex, took turns, and then abandoned the corpse.
Anyway, it's just a sum of money... The cold wind mercenary group can afford it.
As soon as such rumors come out, the reputation of the Cold Wind Mercenary Corps will be rotten. Not to mention failing to receive missions, there will be people pointing out wherever they go, and people with bad tempers will directly quarrel with them.
The mercenary group fell day by day like this, owed money, had no reputation, and couldn't receive the mission. Then many people left, and before they were half dead, there were only ten people left in the mercenary group. Sha Lin's father couldn't bear such a blow, and he had been tired for most of his life, and his whole body was covered with dark wounds, so he went directly to see the gods. The person in charge now is Sha Lin, who is both the head of the cold wind mercenary group and the team leader.
But because there are less than ten members in their regiment, Shalin no longer calls himself the head of the mercenary regiment.
After listening, Beta felt that the other party must have been set up by someone.
This kind of thing is very troublesome, Beta generally doesn't want to cause trouble, but looking at the downcast appearance of these people, and looking at the light in their eyes, I admire the tenacity of these people, even at such a near-endless point, Still insisting.
This reminded him of the days when he and the f6 members were doing mercenary missions together, and they also came through the wind and rain, went through the cold wind, and persisted.
For some reason, she became softer in her heart, and Beta said, "Well, your story is very interesting, I think it's good, I just leave the task to you."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Cold Wind Mercenary Group was overjoyed, and they looked at Beta with gratitude in their eyes.
Shalin rubbed his hands even more, and spoke a little awkwardly: "Your Excellency, this is, that's great, thank you so much."
Beta took out the contract just now, and said again what he said to the Howling Wolf Mercenary Group earlier.
After listening, Shalin's eye circles were a little red.
At this time, the cold wind mercenary group is almost at its limit. Although the few of them have persisted until now, they understand each other very well that if they continue like this for another two or three months, even if they are not exhausted to death, they will definitely have to break up.
Professionals will not be starved to death, just hit a wild beast outside, it will be enough for them to eat for a long time. But they have to pay back the money... Even if they hunted down wild beasts or found something good, they wouldn't be able to sell much, because almost all the merchants in Maplewood City knew about their situation, and whatever they took out would be sold by those merchants. They drive the price down.
As for developing in other cities... Their mercenary group owed people money, and the mercenary group was not allowed to disband or move the headquarters until it was paid off.
Therefore, compared to other mercenary groups, they did not have a strong idea of sharing profits, because even if they shipped out good things, they would not be able to sell them for a price, so it would be easier and more useful to simply ask for gold coins.
Shalin picked up the contract and looked at it for a while, and after confirming that there were no traps in it, he signed his name.
Then the contract turned into a blue fire and burned, leaving nothing after a while. This contract was burned on the table, but there was not even any ashes on the table, let alone any burn marks.
"This is an advance payment of fifteen gold coins." Beta pushed the gold coins taken out from the space to the other party, and said: "Your equipment is too poor, change to new ones, and you have to eat more, after breakfast tomorrow morning , we will meet at the gate of the trade union."
After speaking, Beta took Jessica and left.
Sharin held onto the fifteen gold coins tightly, as if unwilling to let go.
How long has he not really held a gold coin. People who have never been poor have no idea how terrible poverty is.
"A good man, a rare good man."
Shalin's eyes were red, and he sighed, then drew out ten gold coins and distributed them to another person: "Take these money, go buy some equipment and food, everyone eat something tonight, have a good time!" Rest, get enough energy, understand? I have to use the other money to pay off my debts."
Afterwards, the members of the Cold Wind Mercenary Group also dispersed. A skinny man sitting near the entrance of the trade union, after seeing Shalin leave, he also left the stone slab where he had been sitting for three hours, and walked around the city for a while. , came to a mansion, said a code word, and walked in.
In a room on the third floor, Duff snorted after listening to the report of the thieves: "I didn't expect that guy to cooperate with the members of the Cold Wind Mercenary Group. The Cold Wind Mercenary Group is very lucky. Under the circumstances, there are still people willing to hire and help them.”
Faxiu was on the side, and said disdainfully: "It's just a dying struggle... brother-in-law, let's just arrest that noble boy and torture him, so that we don't know anything, why bother to track him down."
"The other party is most likely a nobleman, and it is not easy for us to do anything in the city. Once the news gets out, we will be hostile by all the nobles." Duff said dissatisfiedly: "Can you think about it before you say something? It shouldn't be said at all. Although the nobles are fiercely fighting among themselves, they have a deep-rooted concept that the nobles must die at the hands of the nobles, and ordinary people will kill the nobles, and the consequences will be very serious."
Faxiu took two steps back in displeasure, and sat down on the chair. In his opinion, his brother-in-law was still too timid, no wonder the mercenary team had no prerequisites for development, lacked courage, and couldn't accomplish anything.
Duff didn't know what his brother-in-law was thinking, so he ordered the thieves to continue to follow Beta, and report back immediately if there was any special news.
He thought about it for a while, and felt that he couldn't bear it. After all, the cold wind mercenary group was not bad. That noble-looking boy was also a mage.
It seems that we need to find an ally to act together.