The sun is shining and today will be a good day.
As soon as the college was on vacation, Fatty Shi took on a private job, and sent Lorist's envoys around. After three days of exhausting work, he finally got all the necessary items ready. Now, he and Yuri are loading the iron cages from the rented house onto a four-wheeled long-distance carriage. These iron cages are all needed for this mission, and they are mainly used to set up traps against small monsters.
Yuri is a student of Dawn Academy, and also a teaching assistant majoring in equestrian teaching, the second level of black iron. Like Lorist, he both worked and studied, and often formed a team together to accept low-level tasks from the mercenary union to earn some extra money.
After the fourteen iron cages were loaded onto the car, they were tied up with ropes and fixed on the car. Lorist checked the things he needed to bring again, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he got out of the car and took a water bag. Unscrewed the cork and took a few sips of water. Everything is ready, and we can start when Fatty Shi and the others come back.
The so-called private work generally means that mercenaries have not been notarized and approved by the mercenary union, and privately negotiated with the employer for the tasks they accept. Although this avoids the task commission of the mercenary union, it increases the risk of the task . It is not uncommon to regret it afterwards, turn your face and deny it, cheat on others, play a guest role as a robber, etc. Such things are not uncommon. It's just that the commission from the mercenary union is too ruthless. After the employer eats the mercenary, some well-paid missions add up to 30 to 40 percent. So if the conditions are good, the mercenaries don't mind taking risks to do private work.
"Hey, brother Locke, what are you doing?" El swaggered over in a coat, looked at the iron cages in front of the carriage, and then looked into the carriage: "Oh, you guys are going to do the task again Already."
Lorist felt a headache when he saw El, and he was unlucky twice when he met El twice in the past six months. The first time was losing money. Of course, Lorist would never admit that he was a little obsessed with sex at that time. He thought that if Al hadn't played a scoundrel and refused to admit defeat and hugged his feet, he might have gone back to his room long ago. The pussy wouldn't have had time to steal as much stuff. The second time was a purely innocent disaster. I kindly lent El a cloak, but was regarded as El's accomplice and was beaten for nothing. The most annoying thing is that I can't fight back. They are ordinary people like old ladies, old men, daughters-in-law and uncles. I dare not and can't attack them, so I can only suffer.
So in the eyes of Lorist, El is a living disaster star, and it will be bad for him to meet him. You have to be more careful today, so as not to be unlucky again.
However, El himself has no self-awareness of disasters, and he comes out in broad daylight and wanders around. Having dealt with Lorist twice, he thought he was already a friend, calling him brother and brother so affectionate. No, after seeing the mission supplies prepared on the carriage, El thought it was time to give his little brother some senior guidance.
"Cough, brother Locke, it's meaningless and has no future to deal with these low-level monsters all the time. As a mercenary, you should take a long-term view. Like the monster forest in the depths of the Sunset Mountains, the odd The doomsday beach of the Gerda Kingdom, the underground caves of Ulu Baha, and the ruins islands of Tranquility Sea are the places where mercenaries should go to take risks. Although these places are a bit more dangerous, the rewards are very rich. Last time the unicorn Didn’t the mercenary group come back from the World of Warcraft Forest, they made a fortune that trip, and each of the forty-three members of the group received more than a hundred goldfords.” El was frothing.
Lorist rolled his eyes, this guy didn't hurt his back when he was standing and talking, and the place names he said were all the dangerous places recognized by the mainland. You asked me, a mercenary of the black iron rank, to deliver food to monsters in those places Come to the door. Hearing all the gossip in the market, he didn't think about how many people were in the unicorn mercenary group? One hundred and twenty-five silver-level and above masters entered the Warcraft Forest, and only 43 came back in less than a month. After handing in the task, two gold-level masters, the head and the deputy head, squatted in the lobby of the mercenary union and cried. It looks like a five or six-year-old child, and it hurts to see it.
"Let me tell you that you, a black boss, have nothing to do. You are wandering around in broad daylight, doing what you should do. Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand mercenaries." Lorist was not polite.
"Oh, you're not convinced, right? My brother is also a mercenary, or a silver mercenary." Elder triumphantly took out a silver badge issued by the mercenary union and pinned it on the chest of his jacket.
"Huh? Why do you have a silver mercenary badge? You don't need it." Lorist wondered.
"This mercenary badge was obtained by him from a mission in the academy. It was originally made of black iron. Later, he became the black boss and was promoted to the silver rank. After that, he got the mercenary union and exchanged it for a silver mercenary badge." Fatty Shi's voice came, answering for El.
Lorist looked up and saw that Fatty Shi and Terman had returned on two horses.
Terman is a law enforcement member of the academy's law enforcement department, a first-rank silver, and one of the few good friends of Lorist in Dawn Academy.
When he came close, Fatty Shi pointed at El, and said to Yuri and Terman: "Get to know him, his name is Brunan Evanbert. He is also from Dawn College, and he is your senior. He and I I was in the same class at the time, but after graduation, I became the boss of the community organization in this neighborhood."
"Hi, I'm Juventus Reedus, just call me Yuri."
"Hi, my name is Vipoli Terman."
El nodded to them, and they knew each other. Then El asked curiously: "Fatty, where are you going to do the mission?"
Fatty Shi said: "Gold-eating rats were found in a mine over there in Christopher Hills. We have to get rid of them."
The gold-eating mouse is a low-level small social monster that likes to eat metal ore. It is as big as a cat or dog and looks like a mouse. Timid but ferocious by nature, once the viciousness is aroused, he will often linger to the end and never die. Ordinary people should not panic when encountering gold-eating rats. They must try their best to act as a threat, form a confrontation, and then slowly back away, so as to escape the danger. If he awakened his battle qi, even a Bronze star could easily deal with a single gold-eating mouse. It's just that there are very few gold-eating rats alone, and they often call friends and friends when they meet the enemy, attracting many of the same kind to besiege.
In Lorist's professional course of knowledge of monsters, the golden mouse is very famous, because it is said that the first ferocious monster encountered by the warrior who awakened his fighting spirit was the golden mouse. Fortunately, it was a golden mouse. As a loner, the gold-biting mouse will only leave the group to find a mate during the estrus period. Otherwise, the warriors would have no chance to awaken their battle qi, and human beings might have to remain dark for another thousand years.
Among the recipes of many monsters in the underground, most of the gold-eating rats are at the forefront. Therefore, for human mines, the discovery of gold-eating rats is a major event, and the gold-eating rats must be exterminated, or at least the female rat king of the rat group must be exterminated, so that the remaining gold-eating rats will leave this area . Otherwise, a large number of rats will definitely attract other ferocious predators underground, which will easily bring disaster to the mine.
Such a famous mine incident happened in the Romon Empire, one of the three great empires of Galintia. It was the largest gold mine in the Romon Empire. A huge unicorn python occupied the mine, and more than 3,000 miners died. In the end, the Romon Empire dispatched the Juggernaut and more than 60 gold-ranked masters to kill the two one-horned rock pythons at the cost of heavy casualties. Afterwards, there were more than 40 noble families who were implicated in this matter and beheaded and ransacked their homes. After this incident, all mines in the mainland took warning and found that one of the gold-eating rats would kill one and never let it go.
"What's the matter, Steve and the others didn't come?" Seeing that Fatty Shi was going and coming back, Lorist was a little surprised that he didn't make an appointment.
"Well, these guys have the opposite sex and no humanity. Isn't that class three of the second year of art going to Benzgang to sketch and paint? This guy Steve took the two Cole brothers to protect the flowers. Yes, guarding the beauty boss It's better than going to mine with us." Fatty Shi was very annoyed, he took over this private job and was so busy preparing things that he forgot to say hello early to organize the team, only to find out that he was short of manpower just before departure.
El on the side's eyes lit up when Fatty Shi said that he was short of manpower: "Hey, hey, Fatty, what do you think of me. How about I go with you?"
Fatty Shi was stunned: "El? Do you want to go? Your black boss has done a good job, why take risks with us? Besides, this trip is private work, and the risk is very high."
Lorist resolutely objected: "Fatty Shi, don't listen to his nonsense. If the black boss wants to take risks, he will go to the Doomsday Beach in the World of Warcraft Forest, so he can't see such a small business as killing a golden mouse. He is just joking."
El sternly said: "I'm not kidding, to be honest, you know, fat man, I was forced to be the black boss, and I can't help the brothers force me to put me in this position. They are responsible for everything, I This black boss is really tired of wandering around the neighborhood every day. I want to take risks in my dreams. I really miss the time when I followed everyone in the academy to do mercenary missions. You and I have known each other for many years, and you know what I am. How about it? , okay, anyway, you are short of manpower now, and my strength should be enough to deal with the risk."
"This..." Fatty Shi hesitated a bit.
"No." Lorist objected again, it's better not to do this mission if you want to be entangled by this catastrophe, and everyone should go back to clean up and sleep for nothing, otherwise it will definitely be bad luck.
"Fatty, you know the attributes of the grudge I cultivate, and you are very clear about my innate skills. It will be of great benefit to bring me to the mine." El added another weight to the balance.
kindness? Does this guy have talent? Lorist came out of curiosity.
"Lock, what is your reason for objecting to his joining?" Fatty Shi asked Lorist.
"This..." Lorist said in his heart that I can't say he is a disaster star, and it would be bad luck to let him join the group: "He hasn't done the mission with us, I'm afraid we won't be able to cooperate."
Finally finding a reason, Lorist wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"I will obey orders," Al said.
"You promise?" Fatty Shi asked.
"I promise."
"Okay, then you are welcome to join this adventure team. I am Captain Shredder. Now I will give you half an hour to prepare, and then come back and gather. We are about to set off. This trip to the Christopher Hills will probably take two hours to go back and forth." More than ten days, no problem?" Fatty Shi made the final decision.
"No problem. That, Fatty, oh no, Captain, I think we'd better gather at the Red Crow Tavern. It's a place where private affairs are concentrated. You ask my uncle to show you the entrusted book. Is there any mission that you can do along the way?" And pick it up, you just say I let you go, in fact, the old man will believe you when he sees Locke." Just joining the team, El gave a big gift.
Fatty Shi was moved. It turned out that the Red Crow Tavern had such a trick behind the scenes. It was poaching the corner of the mercenary union, but it was a good place for us mercenaries. After all, the tavern was less risky than private contact. , besides, the tavern owner will not provide guarantees for people who do not know and are not related.
"Okay then, let's meet at the Red Crow Tavern."
In fact, before Fatty Shi could figure out what to say to the owner of the Red Crow Tavern, Gary Lando saw Lorist, and when he heard that they were going to complete a private job, he took the initiative to take out the small book that recorded the entrusted task, and greeted Lorist. Rist and the others went over to see if there was anything they could do along the way.
Fatty Shi read the small book, and found that most of the above were commissions for running errands and buying things on behalf of others. If these commissions were released in the mercenary union, they would basically be bronze or black iron mercenary running errands. If the trade union accepts these commissions, there will be no good benefits, at most, they will be brought along along the way. And if you pick it up from the Red Crow Tavern, the rewards for these entrustments are enough for one person to make a special trip.
Fatty Shi discussed with the others, and received seventeen commissions. If they are all completed, each person can get an extra Jinford's income, which is really good. Gary Lando also said that although the amount of these commissions is not large and the rewards are not high, they are more successful. He often has a headache because he cannot find reliable mercenaries. If it is done well this time, everyone is welcome to come here to pick up private jobs to earn extra money.
El came in wearing a brand new salamander leather armor. This kind of leather armor made of salamander skin can effectively maintain temperature and repel mosquitoes, flies and snakes. It is very good underground exploration equipment. The price is not cheap, and it is a high-end item that ordinary mercenary adventurers cannot afford to equip. The silver mercenary badge is pinned to the left chest of the leather armor.
El greeted everyone he knew in the tavern loudly, wishing to let everyone know that he was a mercenary, and now he was going to take risks. What makes Lorist strange is that his uncle, the tavern owner Gary Lando, doesn't seem to mind that El wants to join Lorist's adventure team. , and wish you all the best in your trip.
After leaving the city, Fatty Shi rode close to the carriage and asked Al, who was sitting next to the driver's seat and arguing with Lorist lying behind him: "Why does your uncle trust little Locke so much, and take out the quest book when he sees him?"
This question is also very strange to Lorist, he has only met old Gall twice, and the first time was a hand-to-hand fight, why would old Gall treat him differently
El lazily cast a glance at Lorist, and replied listlessly: "The old man said that Little Locke has a good character, even though he was deceived by a stinky bitch for the first time, it was because he was honest and helpful. The second time I was wronged and beaten by those ordinary people, but I could restrain myself and not fight back. I would rather be beaten badly than hurt others. There are very few young people like this who have their own sense of proportion and their own opinions in doing things. See you, that's why the dead old man appreciates Little Locke so much, and let me learn from him. But he doesn't think that I am a silver master, I would rather run away than shoot at ordinary people chasing me. This kind of tolerance and generosity are better than Little Locke It's much stronger."
"Cut..." Lorist retorted, "Don't forget that you were naked at the time, and you dared to turn around and strike when you didn't even have time to run?"
Everyone laughed.