In the process of walking together, Hao Ren knew that this young girl who seemed to be traveling alone was named Becky, and in her own words, she was a freelance mercenary.
Free mercenaries, a kind of armed occupation that travels north and south, seem to be a very common group of people in this world. They have their own organization, but the structure is loose and can hardly be called an "armed group". Take on all jobs—Although Becky didn't say much to a stranger, Hao Ren guessed that this group of people should be involved in everything from killing people to stealing goods to finding cats for old ladies, depending on what the employer pays them to do.
This sounds like an unbelievable job. Hao Ren used his logic of belonging to earthlings to think about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure out how this group of people appeared in reality majestically, let alone why the authorities of various countries would allow people to have such jobs The group existed, but Becky just appeared in front of him. He could only admit that it was a fact: probably there is some special social structure in this world that makes the existence of free mercenaries possible. Very powerful guys are really active all over the world.
"Don't look at me as young. I'm still a second-level mercenary. I've been out to make a living since I was fourteen." Becky is a carefree girl, probably because she is very confident in her own strength. She was talkative about her state of mind, and after confirming that Hao Ren was not threatening, she started to talk more, "I know 80% of the places here in Holleta, and I have been to the Empire side. Believe it or not to cross this prairie? Ha, this time I came to the prairie to do a small task. I didn’t expect to find a very interesting guy... By the way, your name is Hao Ren? I still feel strange about this name, listen Doesn’t sound like someone’s name from Holleta’s side.”
During the two hours Hao Ren walked with Becky, he would break out in a cold sweat every fifteen minutes. Only then did he realize that he was really an honest person, and he was not very good at lying in person within two meters of others (through the phone or other methods). It’s much easier to lie when we don’t meet each other), every time he talks to Betsy, he’s afraid that he’ll show up as a suspicious person and let this girl stab him with a sword—it’s not likely to kill him, but it’s hard to meet The free tour guide is gone. And next time, it will definitely not be so easy to find a local to fool around and ask for information. So now he is trying to only listen and not speak, pretending to be a research-oriented talent who indulges in academics at home all day long, so that even if there are mistakes or omissions in his speech, he can be fooled by poor communication. The less said, the less wrong, this is the truth.
"My name belongs to a minority group..." Hao Ren laughed dryly. While trying to keep in his mind the fragments of information leaked from Becky's conversation, now he already knows that the town of Lumber he is going to is a border town located in the southern part of the grassland, and Lumber Town belongs to the Kingdom of Holleta , it was also Becky's hometown at the same time, and he also knew that there was another emerging empire on the north side of the prairie called the Horner Empire, and Becky knew little about it. Because the two countries are too far apart and neither can beat the other, they are currently winking at a distance, trying to show themselves as a peaceful and gentleman country internationally-but they also beat down all the small countries around each other by the way. Therefore, this long-distance The believability of winking is not very high.
The above are all the information leaked from Becky's chats along the way. Hao Ren was very curious about why this girl was so eloquent. It seemed that there was nothing she didn't know, but after thinking about it. There is also a Lily in his family who is more familiar than Betsy. When Lily and he took the bus to their new home, they talked about everything from local vegetable prices to the American Civil War. That husky was obviously a master of nonsense...
"By the way, where are you from?" Betsy asked, tilting her head slightly, "I've seen quite a few magicians, and even the most inconspicuous ones have to wear a hot robe all day long to show their demeanor. Your clothes I look more like a commoner who is out on a trip, do all the mages over there dress up like this?"
Hao Renxin said that he was really going on a trip—he had a brain twitch and agreed to a female boss who was even more twitchy to come out of the house and travel to a primitive planet more than 800 light-years away, blowing the sea breeze for half the night and then falling into the dream plane , and still fell from a ten-story building, which seems to be traveling with life. But when he really said it, he just smiled: "That's my personal hobby. You don't know where I come from-in fact, I am from the Empire."
Becky herself said just now that she doesn't know much about the country on the other side of the prairie, so it's the smartest way to put herself on the side of the empire. And the word "imperialist" is not nonsense in the strict sense. The Xiling Empire is also an empire...
"Wow, teleported from the empire to the prairie?" Becky almost fell off her horse, "How many crystals did you drop on the teleportation array? I don't think you are a nobleman like you... You broke your fortune just to experience it on the prairie Landing with your face?"
Hao Ren: "...I don't know, I've lost my mind, and now my mind is very confused, don't ask too many questions, okay..."
"Look. You don't believe me when I tell you that your brain is broken," Becky shook her head, "Anyway, I'll be responsible for sending you to the border, and then you can figure out how to get back by yourself. Tsk tsk, I'm really worried about you How to go back. Here is the entire prairie away from the Horner Empire, and you can sell a flying music box all over your body—and now it’s mine.”
Hao Ren couldn't help feeling a little apologetic: that music box was destined to fool this girl, but seeing the expectant expression on her face, he felt sorry in advance.
When Hao Ren was wondering how long it would take to see the border towns, Becky suddenly pulled the reins to stop the horse, and then pulled Hao Ren to turn over and dismount: "Wait a minute, there is a situation."
Before Hao Ren understood what was going on, he was dragged off the horse by the strong girl, and lay on the leeward side of a small hill with his neck pressed down. He shook his head vigorously: "What's wrong?"
"The wolves...are fighting for territory," Betsy lowered her voice, and she didn't know what gesture she used to get her horse to step aside sensibly, "Let's see, maybe there is an advantage... Ah, will you be a burden?"
Hao Ren stretched his neck to take a look, and sure enough, he saw two packs of black giant wolves fighting in the hollow in the distance. They were the kind of ferocious beasts unique to the dream plane.
If this kind of situation is placed in front of ordinary people, I am afraid that anyone will find a way to hide away, but the Becky girl next to him saw two wolves fighting, and stopped happily, ready to "dip" A little cheaper"? !
Hao Ren doesn't know how strong humans can be in this world, but he has a relationship with a wolf king on the grassland, and he has a general understanding of the comparison between humans and wolves. He knows that ordinary people are more powerful than these giant wolves. It's food at all, so if there is nothing wrong with this Becky girl's head, it only explains one problem: this is a weird world with a huge gap in strength between ordinary people and combat professionals.
This setting is getting weirder.
"One...two...three...a lot...a lot, a lot," Becky counted the number of enemies, "well, wait until they have almost fought and then attack suddenly, it should be done, wolves fight for territory. They won’t give up until they die. Hehe, they got rich this time, and the bone plates on their bodies are precious. Hey, you really won’t become a burden, will you?”
Hao Ren really wanted to plunge headlong into the grass nest. The girl next to her seemed to be a little paranoid in subtle places. She belonged to the type who talked to herself and had nothing to do with other people's explanations. She still insisted on Hao Ren's fall. There's something wrong with my brain. But Hao Ren didn't have time to argue too much with her, because his eyes were suddenly attracted by the two groups of black wolves fighting.
The two packs of black wolves hadn't fully fought to the peak yet, but the cannon fodder of the two sides was fighting, and a large number of wolves were still wandering around the outer edge of the depression and did not join the battlefield. Broken, several black wolves grinned and showed a mouthful of bad teeth, and there was an extraordinarily big wolf that looked very familiar.
This is meeting an acquaintance... oh no, a familiar wolf! Isn't that the group of funny comparisons