Four shuttles set sail and headed for their respective mission locations along the prescribed routes. For example, the Xuanying Mountains far away in Dongwang County, without reliable means of transportation such as shuttles, the players had to rely on their legs to move at a snail's pace throughout the journey, and it would take them forever to reach the mission location.
Players who are close to the mission location do not have this treatment. For example, the ** thief case in Langyu County takes less than half an hour to go back and forth. If you really don’t want to walk, just rent a carriage.
In addition to solving the transportation problem, Lu Bei also equipped each task force with a varying number of death warriors. The mission to suppress bandits in the Xuanying Mountains allocated the most death warriors, two of whom were at the Dan stage and eight at the foundation-building stage.
Firstly, the players lacked combat experience, and without anyone to back them up, there was a risk of team annihilation. Secondly, the shuttle was difficult to control, and Lu Bei was not confident in handing the steering wheel to the players. God knew what new heights these idiots could reach.
If the whole team is wiped out in a plane crash, the players can be resurrected on the spot, but the shuttle cannot do that. As a loyal and patriotic person like me, I will never allow public property to be lost without reason.
Thinking of this, Lu Bei secretly made up his mind. The players were so weird. They had the courage of Zhao Zilong, but not his loyalty. Being responsible for them was equivalent to being irresponsible to himself, and he was making a joke of his career.
Therefore, no matter now or in the future, no matter it is the Huangji Sect or the Xuanyin Division, as long as Lu is there, players can forget about becoming regular employees and will always be temporary workers.
I guess the players don’t care. Everyone is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and everyone works for love. If they are asked to slack off at work, they would be unhappy!
The last few players left, and the clerk sorted out the report. There were more than 80 tasks in stock that had not yet been issued and were waiting to be assigned and resolved.
Fortunately, the problem is not serious. The alchemy room is in chaos, and ten more players will graduate from the sweatshop tomorrow.
If you work overtime, all tasks can be issued within five days. They are all short and quick tasks, and settlement can be made within seven days.
Lu Bei made a rough calculation and found that by subcontracting all the tasks, he could earn about 4 million experience points, which was just a drop in the bucket for him now.
Although the meat is small, the meaning behind it is different.
Lu Bei saw infinite light through the crack in the door and imagined a series of beautiful scenes.
The leeks were happy to receive the tasks and earn a lot of experience. They took screenshots and posted them to the official forum. Jiuzhu Mountain welcomed a wave of apprenticeships and became the world's number one novice village, officially entering the era of the big leek garden.
As waves of leeks graduate, the dead soldiers fade out of the task sequence, and the old leeks lead the new leeks instead, and the descendants will be endless.
Since then, he has gained experience in an endless stream. He, Lu, has a large number of players under his control. Starting from Ningzhou, he annexed Yizhou and Linzhou, and then moved to Yuezhou. He lay down all the way and was carried into the fairyland by the players.
“Hehehehe—”
Lu Bei raised his hand to suppress his overly presumptuous smile, and said with emotion: "Sure enough, no matter which world you are in, the platform is king. Without a platform, you are doomed to be cut off."
…
Three days later, the players used practical actions to prove to Lu Bei that everything is difficult at the beginning, even more difficult in the middle, and the hardest at the end. The era of big leeks was over, and the era of big sand sculptures came uninvited.
When it comes to the first volume, each player is a dragon and a phoenix among them, and the same is true when it comes to the second volume.
In just three days, the number of players who reached level 20 or above exceeded eighty, and nearly a hundred tasks were snapped up, but the efficiency of completing the tasks was very poor.
This short and easy task was turned into difficult mode by players because of some weird operations.
For example, the mission of suppressing bandits in Xuanying Mountain.
According to Lu Bei's plan, it was a dark and windy night, and two Dan-holding warriors sneaked in and secretly opened the gate of the mountain stronghold. Eight foundation-building warriors led the way, and the players helped. With a broadsword in the left hand and a torch in the right hand, they attacked under the moonlight, and basically completed the charge mission.
Or you can disguise yourself and blend in, put drugs in the well water in advance, use the Fairy Don't Stop or the Wulang Bagua Stick, including the basic disguise skill book, all of which are sold in the library, and you can get them with a little money.
A task that couldn't be simpler was a sure win.
However, this was not the case. The five players who received the task confirmed that the bandit leader with the highest cultivation level was only in the early stage of Baodan Realm. Not only did he put the secret medicine of Wulang Bagua Stick into the well water, he also paralyzed the ten death warriors who were in charge of the formation.
The reason is simple and crude. Experience points are distributed in the bandit suppression mission according to contribution. The more effort the death soldiers put in, the less they earn.
As for how to kill the bandit leader in Baodan realm, the five players said that it was not a big problem. The bandit leader was poisoned by a strange medicine, and he was in close combat with his younger brothers. They had the Xuanyinsi Pogang crossbow to snipe at the middle gate, so they could win any way they wanted.
This is a sure thing!
Then he failed three times in a row and was forced to log off the line, waiting for the resurrection cycle to refresh.
The good news was that day happened to be the last night of the seven-day cycle, and they were resurrected early the next morning.
The bad news is that the resurrection location was still at the entrance to the mountain stronghold, and the bandits were guarding the body and attacked again.
A heart-wrenching defeat, just because it perfectly demonstrated the spirit of the players.
Lu Bei: …
MD, I will be pissed off to death sooner or later if I stay with a bunch of bugs like you!
He looked at the ten assassins who returned alone in silence: "So, it doesn't matter whether the five of them live or die. With your abilities, you can completely wipe out the stronghold. Why did you abandon the mission halfway?"
"The intelligence is wrong." The Baodan realm warrior in charge of this operation replied.
"The bandit leader's cultivation level is more than just Baodan?"
"No, the bandit leader Ma Feiwei is indeed in the Baodan realm. The information from the master is wrong. He is a master."
"How high is it? Have you tried it?"
"No, it's unfathomable."
"… "
Lu Bei rubbed his temple. The assassins gave up their mission midway, not because they were afraid of death, but because they obeyed his orders.
Before setting off, he instructed that if there were any unusual situations, they should retreat immediately. It didn't matter if temporary workers were sacrificed, but they should not risk their own lives.
After all, there are only thirty death warriors, and if they are all killed, there will be no one to take care of the leeks.
What made him speechless was the bandit suppression mission. Dongwang County, the main peak of Xuanying Mountain Range, the bandit leader in Baodan Realm, the master who hid his cultivation, everything was so familiar.
Iron Sword Alliance!
Dragon trap!
If this is true, Lu Bei doesn't want to get involved in this mess.
The Huangji Sect's strategic deployment against the Iron Sword Alliance has already begun. In a few months, perhaps before the middle of the year, the Huangji Sect will come out in full force to pull out the Iron Sword Alliance's pawns one by one within the Wu Zhou territory, and finally surround Mount Bulao.
If a dragon-trapping formation were to explode at this time, both the Huangji Sect and the Iron Sword Alliance would be very embarrassed. If a war broke out prematurely, he, Lu, would also be very embarrassed.
It's not okay to just ignore it and pretend you didn't see it.
The five stupid players have all taken out the Xuanyinsi's standard-issue Broken Crossbow. Giving up on the investigation will only arouse the other party's suspicion, which will be counterproductive.
"I'll take care of this, you guys go down!"
…
Ningzhou, Dongwang County.
Eight hundred years ago, during the Wu Zhou Dynasty, the Zhu family aspired to rule the world. The previous emperor rewarded their subjects according to their merits by granting them fiefs and titles of king, among whom was the King of the East.
This man was the previous emperor's younger brother and had made outstanding military achievements. His descendants enjoyed his protection and inherited titles and fiefs.
As successive Wu Zhou emperors weakened the power of the vassal kings, the Dong Wang lineage lost its former prestige. Fortunately, they had no problem making money, so they had no shortage of money. The several hundred people in their family were all fat and strong, and they were known as the Pig Family of Dong Wang County.
Perhaps it was because this lineage was so good at making money that the Dongwang County imposed heavy taxes that were more ferocious than a tiger. Although they occupied fertile land, their population had never prospered.
Not only that, the price of the land on the mountain is too high, and even those who practice cultivation rarely choose to open a mountain gate here.
After eight hundred years of sedimentation, the per capita combat effectiveness of Dongwang County has become ridiculously low, and it is about to achieve complete de-immortality.
The Xuanying Mountains are located to the west of Dongwang County. The main peak is steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack. There is an important transportation route connecting the two counties, and merchants often travel back and forth here.
With such a good geographical advantage, it would definitely be impossible for bandits to plant trees without them and block the road to collect labor fees.
For more than 800 years since the founding of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, the bandit problem in Xuanying Mountain has never ceased and has become a chronic disease.
It is not that difficult to suppress bandits in the world of immortal cultivation. Just send an expert up the mountain and they will be back home in the time it takes to eat a meal.
But it is different in Dongwang County. The person in charge of the county’s political affairs is the prefect Zhu, the person in charge of the county’s military affairs is General Zhu, and the person in charge of supervising the two of them is Zhu County Supervisor, all of whom are from the Zhu family in Dongwang County.
Crouching Dragon and Phoenix are very smart. When the three of them get together and suppress the bandits, it brings in a lot of wealth.
Merchants and common people reported to the authorities that some bandits had taken over the mountains and were robbing people on the road. The county governor and the county lieutenant thought that there were too many empty salaries and the barracks were full of old, weak and sick people, so they invited the gentry to take the lead in donating money and raising funds to let the local practice mountain gate go to suppress the bandits.
I have to say here that after 800 years of reproduction and development, the local gentry here are basically surnamed Zhu, and the heads of the mountain sects that have not moved away are all surnamed Zhu.
The vigorous anti-bandit campaign lasted for more than half a year. The two sides fought back and forth. There would be a great victory at the beginning of every month, a great defeat in the middle of the month, and a new round of fundraising at the end of the month.
During this period, in order to maintain the order of trade and the people's livelihood, the Xiuxing Mountain Gate provided escort services. As long as money was paid, they would risk their lives to protect the safety of the caravan.
Not paying...
According to gossip, the stolen goods appeared in the county supervisor's shop.
As time went by, the merchants and common people became more and more well-clothed, and the children of the pig families gained ten pounds on average.
This life is unbearable!
Not to mention people with eyesight, even a blind person can see that soldiers are pigs, bandits are pigs, and honest people like them are just fodder.
But honest people can’t stand this kind of exploitation!
The merchants who coveted the resources of this place were unwilling to give up, so they paid out of their own pockets to hire practitioners from other places to eliminate the bandits. The next day, this person was put on the wanted list for colluding with bandits.
The shameless behavior angered heaven and people, and even the Huangji Sect could not stand it anymore, so they assigned a mission to the commander-in-chief of the three states, ordering him to kill all the bandits without leaving a single one alive, regardless of their surnames.
The lawyer stayed behind and sent the person to Dasheng Pass for severe torture. Then the testimony and the head were sent to the East Palace to calm some people down.
The commander-in-chief of the three states was Zhu Qilan. Since Dongwang County belonged to Ningzhou, it was transferred to Lu Bei. The latter decided to subcontract the task to a temporary worker from Xuanyin Division.
…
In the forest, two figures were running, one old and one young.
To be precise, the old man ran like the wind, seemingly slow but actually fast, landing silently, and even when he touched the branches and grass, there was no movement.
The young man was held in his hand, holding the belt of his fate.
"Master, you are living well here, why are you leaving? Forget about leaving, but at least say hello to Brother!"
"This nephew can't do it."
The old man scratched his head and said, "I came to him because I thought he was rich. But I just snapped my fingers and guess what happened?"
"What's going on? Are you in trouble?"
"That's right. His forehead is dark and there is evil between his eyebrows. The whole family is waiting for him to start the feast."