Chapter Twenty-Four: The First Journey to the Otherworld (3) First Encounter with a Mercenary Group

Zheng Jing was very lucky, at least this group of people who seemed to be mercenaries were still relatively reasonable, no matter how Zheng Jing looked like he was lying in the cave and couldn't stand up, it didn't seem like he had any bad intentions for them, and after a short discussion, they quickly regarded Zheng Jing as a fallen boy who was unfortunately caught by a demonic beast.

Although it was still a misunderstanding, at least this misunderstanding would not kill him.

The group took Zheng Jing on the way down the mountain, Zheng Jing was carried by Brother Hei Chao, ostensibly resting, but in fact secretly let the terminal open the communication with Xuanqing.

"Old man, I didn't offend you, did I? Are you doing this to me? Zheng Jing lowered his voice for fear of being heard by the people around him, but he didn't give Xuan Qing a good tone.

"Huh? Little one, where do you start? Why did I hurt you, old man? ”

Seeing that Xuanqing didn't understand, Zheng Jing told Xuanqing everything he encountered after teleporting here.

"Hahahaha." Xuanqing laughed heartily without waiting for Zheng Jing to finish speaking, but no matter how you look at it this time, it was a bit of schadenfreude, seeing that Zheng Jing's face quickly darkened, he quickly explained: "I'm sorry, I was negligent this time, Tu Cheap gave you the lowest-level teleporter, although it was a random location teleportation in an area, but I didn't expect your luck to be so bad, hahahaha!" ”

To be honest, Zheng Jing was really a little frightened this time, and said with palpitations: "This place is too dangerous, I didn't expect such a world to exist in this universe." ”

Xuan Qing restrained his smile, and looked at Zheng Jing's eyes and became very strange: "Do you think that little bird is very powerful?" ”

Small...... Birdie? Thinking of the fire lark that was bigger than his house and still had a domineering flame all over his body, Zheng Jing twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a bitter face: "Isn't it amazing?" ”

"The Dragon God Continent where you are now is only a relatively low-level one in the world dominated by the magical civilization, and the fire lark you encountered is only a mid-level fifth-level magical beast in that world, and it can be easily killed even with the modern weapons of your earth."

Zheng Jing opened his mouth and didn't speak, he was surprised just to see that there was still a magical beast like the Fire Lark in the universe, but he didn't expect that such a powerful Fire Lark was not a boss, not even an elite monster.

I am alchemy, I am a seven-star sword, and I have the help of Brother Hei Chao, but it is so difficult to deal with this little monster, so what is it? A scum with a combat power of 5.5?

"Wait, someone is coming, I'll talk about it later." Zheng Jing suddenly found that the green-robed archer who had aimed at him with an arrow before leaned over to this side, quickly cut off the communication, and leaned his head on Brother Hei Chao's back and pretended to be resting quietly.

At this time, the petite archer had already dropped the hood of his robe, and it was actually a girl with beautiful shawl blonde hair, but she was very unhappy when she saw Zheng Jing pouting.

"Hey, why is that guard of yours dressed so strangely?"

Zheng Jing had already turned on the translation function on the terminal, but he could only smile bitterly when he heard this girl's words. Looking down at the tattered appearance on his body, his favorite T-shirt with the image of Miku had been burned to ashes by the fire lark in the battle, but dealing with the current situation allowed him to save a lot of trouble to explain, but his own black super brother, obviously his cool appearance will become the focus of others' eyes whether it is on the earth or here.

"Uh...... Actually, we came from a very far part of the East, and our guards there were dressed like this. ”

The girl's pale blue eyes were full of suspicion, and she said, "No, my hometown is in the easternmost part of the mainland, and there are no people like this there." ”

Well, it seems that this general explanation in fantasy novels doesn't work in this place, Zheng Jing has been entangled for a long time, and he really doesn't know how to answer.

"Hmph, you soft bastard is full of lies, and the guards you are carrying are so fierce, you are definitely not a good person."

Zheng Jing was unhappy, and immediately waved his fist in protest: "I don't care about good people and bad people, but how can I be a soft egg?" Believe it or not, when my body recovers, you are trivial to clean up ten with one hand! ”

"One more one, King of Big Talk!" Nina stretched out a little finger and pushed it gently, and pressed Zheng Jing's fist back, Zheng Jing, who was paralyzed and unable to move, was carried out of the cave by her, and now she has to be carried by someone next mountain, and the image of weakness has long been deeply imprinted in her mind.

"Okay, okay, let's talk about something else, huh...... Where did you come from? Do you have a contact with your family and friends? If they come to a dangerous place like Chiyan Mountain, they must be worried, right? ”

"Huh?" Zheng Jing was stunned for a moment: "Why are you suddenly so kind to care about this, you were so mean just now, and the change was too fast, right?" ”

Nina raised her head proudly: "Since you guys go out with guards, they must be from a rich family, if we send you home, we can justifiably ask your family for a bounty, and it is a considerable extra income, hehe." ”

Zheng Jing was speechless, but considering that this group of guys were mercenaries, it was not incomprehensible, but suddenly, he noticed Nina's hand and found that this girl had been playing with a beautiful red spar in her hand from the beginning to the present.

"What's in your hand?"

"Huh this?" Nina raised her hand and glanced at the spar that was more gorgeous than a gem, and said, "This is the magic core of the fire lark, and our mercenary group has been tasked with finding this thing this time." ”

Suddenly, she suddenly retracted the hand holding the demon core into her arms, and looked at Zheng Jing with wide eyes and wariness: "The demon core of a level 5 demonic beast is very precious, don't blame me for being rude if you dare to have any bad ideas against it." ”

"Damn!" Zheng Jing was nothing, but when he heard this, he was immediately angry, what is my bad idea to fight this demon core, it is clearly buddy, I beat that stinky bird to a serious injury, you just came to make up for a knife, okay? I didn't know what this core was for, so I didn't ask you for it, you should thank me, right?

Under the roof, Zheng Jing didn't dare to turn his face with the entire mercenary group, but he didn't show anything on the surface, but he laughed evilly in his heart, don't forget what he does, how much this group of people owe him, and let them all vomit it out within two days.

On the other side, the people at the front of the line were talking.

The man wearing a suit of armor with magic patterns and carrying a two-handed sword on his back was the leader of this small mercenary group, Erec, who was also the oldest in the mercenary group, and the three people standing in front of him were the armored warriors who had fought with the fire lark before, and the two lightly equipped swordsmen and dagger users.

"Are, tell me now, why did this operation go so smoothly? That fire lark is not that easy to deal with. ”

The armored warrior Alei took off his helmet and was a young man who didn't look very old, and when he heard the regiment commander's question, he waved his hand very casually, and said with a big grin: "Hey, after this luck, you also know the young man we rescued in the monster's lair this time, when we arrived there, we just saw that the monster was about to eat him, and we were defenseless, so Nina decisively used the bondage arrow we bought before this mission to sneak attack, the monster can't fly, it's easy to deal with, and let us clean it up in two rounds." ”

"Oh? Is it? Erec frowned slightly, he knew in his heart that the fire lark was by no means so easy to clean up, even if it was to seize the opportunity to sneak attack, it would not be so simple.

"Vis, do you have anything to say?"

Weiss was the swordsman with a one-handed sword, and he kept his head down thinking about something, and when he heard the head of the regiment ask him, he raised his head and said, "I feel that something is wrong, but I am not sure if it is right." ”

"Just say."

"Well, this mission is very high, and we have carefully studied the information of the Fire Lark before coming, and we have made a lot of preparations accordingly. But after this actual fight, to be honest, I feel that this fire lark is far worse than the information describes, the flames on its body are obviously not as fierce as the book says, I think even if there is no fireproof equipment we will not be afraid of that level of flames, and according to my observation, it is not so much that the fire lark is attracted to other places for Nina to sneak attack, but that the monster has discovered our approach, it wants to dodge Nina's arrows, but it has no strength to fly at that time. ”

"Is what you're saying true?" Arei also showed a surprised expression when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he found that the truth seemed to be what Weiss said.

The head of the group, Erec, nodded and said calmly: "That is to say, before you went, in fact, the fire lark had already been severely injured, and at that time, in addition to you, there were two other people in the fire lark's nest. ”

"That's right!" The dagger user on the side immediately chimed in: "That big bald head with strange clothes on his body...... Oh, it's the young man's guard, he's very powerful, when that guy rushed over, Weiss and I didn't have any resistance before he knocked him away, he must have injured the fire lark! ”

"Hehe, I don't think so, you don't just look at the surface of things." Erec shook his head slightly, and said: "At that time, there were two people in the cave, the young man, and his guard, one of them was covered in wounds, his clothes were burned to tatters, and the whole person was exhausted, and the clothes on the other body were intact and his physical strength was still very strong. ”

Erec didn't break it directly, but these people all understood, and couldn't help but look back at Zheng Jing hanging at the end of the team, wanting to take a closer look at what was unique about this master who could defeat the fire lark, but what they saw surprised them.

"I can't stand it! I'm going to die! Why is this mountain so steep? It's pretty much straight, right? Zheng Jing, who was carried by Brother Hei Chao, was shouting and complaining, looking at the ground under his feet, except for a few raised rocks, he couldn't see any arc at all, and could only step on the rocks little by little.

The members of the mercenary group who saw this scene were full of black lines, no matter how you look at it, they would rather believe that this thing was scared like this by the fire lark, and they couldn't believe that such a person could fight the fire lark for three hundred rounds.