Chapter XVI The First Commission

The speedboat slowed down and slowly headed towards the Explorer's House.

When he got closer and closer, Mo Zihan realized that although this building looked magnificent from a distance, when he got closer, he found that on the outer wall of the explorer's house, there were places blackened by flames everywhere, and some walls were deeply recessed, as if they had been violently impacted.

On the uneven faΓ§ade, you can see people maintaining and drones assisting in construction. In addition to the construction crews, every five meters on the water around the building, there is a guard in a black and white uniform riding a black and white jet ski, carrying a strangely shaped weapon, patrolling back and forth.

As they approached the gate, the speedboat stopped, and three guards approached the speedboat one after the other, one of them took off his sunglasses and knocked on the waterproof cover of the speedboat, while the other two were far away, raising their weapons and aiming at the cockpit.

"Oh my God, what kind of security system is this?"

Mo Zihan, who was sitting in the back row, was so frightened by this battle that he didn't dare to act rashly.

Uncle Bai in the cab seemed to know this kind of "security check" procedure, calmly opened the waterproof cover, handed the guard a card, the guard glanced at the card, and then looked at Mo Zihan who was sitting in the back row, and then nodded to the other guard, and returned the card to Uncle Bai.

The speedboat started again, passed through the ten-meter-high gate, and came to a large pool of thousands of speedboats, Mo Zihan saw two familiar figures from a distance, Lin Ran and Qiu Shuyu had been waiting for him for a long time.

"Come on, Mr. Mo Chenfeng, take a look at what time it is. ”

As soon as Mo Zihan got off the speedboat, he was pulled to his side by Lin Ran, who was in a hurry, and he was trained indiscriminately.

"Alright, alright, let's get down to business. ”

For the name "Mo Chenfeng", Mo Zihan is no longer unfamiliar now, he knows very well that he came with a mission from the past. However, he did not forget what Shirley had told him before he fell asleep, that he first had to find out if the time point he was in was too far from the time point when he was in the last coma, and he suddenly remembered

What the man said on the podium made a plan.

"Rain?" Mo Zihan tentatively called out to the curly-haired girl.

"What's wrong?" the girl looked up at Xiao Mo with her big watery eyes.

"Oh, it's nothing, I just suddenly remembered that on the day of our Group C primary, you shouted 'Ouyang Lan, I like you' in the crowd. Haha"

Mo Zihan didn't want to expose too much, he could only test little by little and say something he already knew.

"Oh, little Brother Mo, you're so annoying," Qiu Shuyu twisted her head to the side and said, "That was a year ago." ”

"Okay, Xiao Mo, don't talk about other people's rain," Lin Ran's tone was unexpectedly serious: "It's been more than a year, Senior Brother Lan has not heard from me until now, and you are still joking here." ”

Although Lin Ran's words were not very good to hear, in just two sentences, Mo Zihan realized that the point in time he was at now had deviated too far from the last time

"Squeaky Squeak"

"Uncle Bai!" From afar, Qiu Shuyu beckoned the machine steward who had just gotten off the speedboat. She quickly ran to Uncle Bai and picked him up, like holding a doll of the new era.

"Rain, don't, don't, I'm shy," Uncle Bai said as he spoke, and there was a hint of redness on the white mechanical shell's face. struggled for a long time before escaping from the arms of the childish autumn sparse rain.

Uncle Bai gathered the three of them together and said: "Today, yes, you, for the first time, carry out the task, remember, you can only choose, below the E level, entrust, as a newcomer, don't, be strong!"

The three of them concentrated to hear what Uncle Bai meant. "Okay, we know, goodbye Uncle Bai. Lin Ran didn't want to talk to this child-like robot too much, so he dragged Mo Zihan and Qiu Shuyu and ran to the hall.

"Remember, you can only choose, below the E level, delegate!"

Uncle Bai's sluggish voice still echoed behind the three of them.

Approached the familiar hall again, this is the place where Mo Zihan came after crossing for the first time, all the specifications of the decorations are exactly the same as last time, but compared to the crowd on the day of the selection, today's hall is a lot more deserted.

"Are you new explorers? A guard walked up to them and asked.

Lin Ran and Qiu Shuyu nodded.

The guard continued, "Show me the Explorer's insignia, and I'll lead you to the 'Twilight Tavern' after you've cleared the border." ”

The two people next to him rolled up their sleeves, and Lin Ran and Qiu Shuyu both had tattoos with the letters "EXP" on their left arms. The guard reached out and touched the position of his temple, and a red light shot out of his eyes, and the light swept over the tattoos of Lin Ran and Qiu Shuyu, and after finishing, the guard nodded, and turned to look at Mo Zihan who was still in place.

"Yours?" said the guard.

Mo Zihan also learned from Lin Ran and Qiu Shuyu to roll up his sleeves little by little, he didn't know what Mo Chenfeng had experienced in the past year, just like being caught cheating in exams, he didn't have any bottom in his heart at the moment, but these worries quickly proved to be superfluous, and in the same position, the three letters "EXP" also appeared on Mo Zihan's arm.

The guard led the three of them to a path, and halfway through, the three of them came to the middle of the hall, and Mo Zihan looked up to see a magnificent stone-carved humanoid statue standing proudly in the center of the hall.

The stone statue is about 10 meters high, from head to toe, with smooth and delicate carved lines, all of which show the skill of the carver, and at the highest point, the man's dark and deep eyes are vividly depicted, and the piercing eyes are like a guardian saint watching the entire explorer's house.

Mo Zihan's memory is very clear, the last time he came here, he had never seen this statue. And the "person" carved out of the dead thing in front of him made Mo Zihan feel very familiar, the exquisite battle armor and the faint determination in his eyes......

"Don't look at Xiao Mo," Lin Ran shook Mo Zihan's head away: "Let him pass the past." ”

Lin Ran's words were meaningful, and before Mo Zihan could react, he heard the guard beside him who led the way say:

"The place I am taking you to now, called the Twilight Tavern, is the place where the client sends commissions to explorers and explorers. ”

"Delegate?"

"That's right, the 'bartender' of the tavern will divide the commission according to its difficulty, and the higher the difficulty of the commission, the more generous the reward will be given directly to the explorers and explorers, and the tavern will only charge a part of the commission. ”

The guard turned his head to look at the three young men behind him, and there was a hint of contempt in his eyes.

"Of course, the choice of commissions is very free, but for you young newcomers, it is advisable not to choose an overly high-level commission. Let me introduce you to the ranking of the order level......"

"Bang!" The guard's words were interrupted by the sound of the door opening, and it was none other than the woman in white that Mo Zihan saw after entering the dream for the first time and falling unconscious.

The woman was holding a few pieces of parchment in her hand, her steps were in a hurry, perhaps because the door was opened too quickly, and as soon as she went out, she bumped into the guard who led Mo Zihan and his party.

"Ouch~"

"It turned out to be the head of the medical team, I'm sorry, I was explaining the entrusted guide to the newcomer just now, so I didn't pay attention to it......"

The guards seemed scared, but the woman who was confronting them didn't care.

"Auntie, you're so beautiful today. Lin Ran's mouth was so sweet, but a simple sentence pierced the woman's heart.

"Kobayashi really can talk,"

As he spoke, he touched Lin Ran's head and smiled sweetly: "The three of you must remember that you are newcomers and you can't control your breath well, so you must do what you can when choosing a task." ”

Mo Zihan thought to himself: Being called an aunt at such a young age, and laughing, I really don't know what to enjoy.

The woman seemed to have seen through Mo Zihan's thoughts, turned her head to look at him, the smile on her face suddenly disappeared, and she pointed at Mo Zihan and said:

"I heard that you kid is late today, and he was late for the first day of taking the commission, what do you want to do? Don't forget, you are now losing your ability, and you are a novice when you go out, don't ...... it."

The woman chattered endlessly, and Mo Zihan, who was inexplicably trained, did not make a sound, but turned his head to the side, he knew that he couldn't tell the truth, so he could only let the woman in front of him who was called the "head of the medical team" reprimand.

Three minutes later.

"Okay, I still have something to do, you three, protect yourselves outside. With that, the woman turned and left.

Watching the woman walk away, the guard breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at Mo Zihan, who was reprimanded by splitting his head and covering his face, and said with a wry smile helplessly:

"Alright, alright, we're here, this is the Twilight Tavern. The guard pushed the door open for the three of them.

The decoration in the tavern is completely different from the hall, and when you walk into the tavern, the three of you feel like you are in the western cowboy world, and there is only a solid wood table five meters long and one meter wide in the hall, and more than a dozen chairs with solid wood are scattered around the table.

To the left of the long table is an antique bar.

"Ouch~"

The bartenders at the bar yawned vigorously like listless sloths, and behind them was a multi-tiered wooden wine cabinet with a variety of liquors scattered around.

I thought it should be a serious and orderly occasion, but this lethargic environment made the three of them unable to resist the spirit of wanting to accept the commission.

"I thought someone was going to greet us. ”

Lin Ran looked around: "It's deserted, where are all the people dying?"

The male bartender at the bar seemed to hear Lin Fei's voice, he moved his head supported by his left hand, looked at Mo Zihan and the others, stretched out his right hand and beckoned to them.

"Rookie explorer, huh?"

The bartender didn't even lift his head.

Mo Zihan nodded: "Yes, let's accept the first commission." ”

"Bang!"

As soon as Mo Zihan's words fell, another bartender next door threw a thick stack of parchment on the bar, and the dust raised made Mo Zihan and the three of them cough.

The bartender pointed to a stack of papers at the bar and said:

"These are C-Class and D-Class commissions, take your pick. ”

The three of them took these thick commissions and put them on the wooden table behind them, and picked them one by one.

"What are you doing to find a missing kitten and catch a neighbor's vicious dog?"

Lin Ran was so impatient with these strange commissions that he lost his patience at all.

"I also have a guy here who helps me go underwater to find parts for the speedboat. ”

Mo Zihan pointed to the order in his hand.

Qiu Shuyu on the side looked at his two teammates and said, "Maybe this is the Explorers Association considering us newcomers, so let's arrange some simple commissions first." Right, haha. ”

"Alright, let's keep looking. ”

"Take a look, I'll go and walk around. ”

Mo Zihan had lost his patience and put down the paper in his hand and left his seat. He saw a wood-colored display stand directly opposite the bar, and when he got closer, there were several commissions of different grades scattered on the wooden shelves, and the letter "G" was printed on the highest commission paper.

β€œA,B,C,D,E,F,G。 ”

Mo Zihan counted silently with his fingers, if it is arranged in alphabetical order, the highest level of entrustment here is G.

Privately entrusted, Mo Zihan took a closer look, and the yellowed commission read:

To: Explorers Society

Preface: I miss the loss of relatives due to the flood, on July 15, 2050, I took my daughter to the water spirit temple to worship the deceased wife, but suddenly the wind blew fiercely, my daughter and I went into the mountains and forests to avoid the wind, but was attacked by a black shadow, and my daughter was taken away by the black shadow in a panic, and has not returned. I regard my daughter as the treasure of this life, and now my beloved daughter is seized by the black shadow, life and death are uncertain, I miss my daughter, and I can't sleep at night.

I hereby entrust an experienced and powerful explorer to help me retrieve my daughter.

Clues: The location of the disappearance is the mountain forest behind the Water Spirit Temple, and the appearance of the kidnapper is unknown, only a dark shadow can be seen.

Characteristics of the missing person: Female, 24 years old, long brown hair, height 160.

Client: Ye Qiu

Bounty: 500,000

500,000? Mo Zihan couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart, this is the reward of the G-level commission. Looking back and thinking about myself who was still worried about my work in the past, I sighed that the changes in this world are really unexpected.

At the end of this commission, there is also a picture of a girl, with a sweet smile on her rosy cheeks, black hair in a shawl, and the girl's eyes are not bright, but they are also bright. Presumably, this father is also extremely worried at the moment.

Mo Zihan shook his head and walked away helplessly, he knew very well in his heart that this level of commission, this amount of bounty, was not what they were capable of doing now.

Wait, Ye Qiu!?

Mo Zihan's brain circuit was running rapidly at this moment, and the memory of the rapid flipping stopped on the night of the summer camp, and he suddenly remembered that in Shirley's camp that night, the note on the meeting between the mysterious person he found and the top of Shirley Mountain was the two big words 'Ye Qiu'.

Could it be the same person, Mo Zihan's detective-like brain came up with more than a dozen possibilities at that moment.

No, no, no, the time for this commission is already 2050, the night of the summer camp is 2019, thirty years of time, there are so many people with the same name and surname in this world, maybe it's just a coincidence, Mo Zihan comforted himself like this.

He put the commission back in place and paced around the tavern with his head down.

Walking to the door, he suddenly saw a piece of paper with a different color from the floor faintly falling under the crack in the door, Mo Zihan looked at no one around, quickly stepped forward, and leaned over to pick up the paper with a little gold color.

He shook off the dust stuck to the paper, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a power of attorney, and the commission level was B.

"A, B, C......" Mo Zihan counted, it turned out to be a low-level order, picked it up and reviewed it carefully, only to find that the content on this paper is extremely simple:

To: Explorers Society

Order: None

Hereby commissioned: the capture of the sleeping dragon

Clue: One hundred and sixty-one villas in the eastern suburbs

Client: Anonymous

Bounty: It is up to the explorer to decide after the commission is completed

Mo Zihan took the order and read it carefully several times, especially the words "after the commission is completed, the explorer will decide for himself", he really couldn't understand it, he put the order into his trouser pocket, turned around and returned to Lin Ran and Qiu Shuyu, who were flipping through stacks of orders.

"What are the bounties for these commissions you see?" Mo Zihan asked tentatively as he watched.

"I'm all C-grade, ranging from 500 to 1,000," Qiu Shuyu said.

"Mine is D-grade," Lin Ran picked up a ticket in his hand and said to Mo Zihan: "The highest is 5,000,"

Lin Ran looked frustrated: "Alas, I thought that I would be able to soar as an explorer and go out to play while earning money, who knew that it was all these petty commissions, and such a low bounty was embarrassed to entrust us?"

"Don't worry, Brother Lin Ran, we are newcomers, and these commissions may be specially for newcomers to practice, but ......"

Qiu Shuyu had just finished persuading Lin Ran, but he seemed to be choked by something and couldn't speak.

Lin Ran hurriedly asked, "But what?"

"But this bounty is really too small, even if it's 5,000, the three of us will divide it, and I won't even have enough money to buy a dress. After Qiu Shuyu finished speaking, she lowered her head and touched her blue T-shirt, but she didn't see Lin Ran's disgusted eyes.

"Hmph, want to buy clothes? I've got something good here. ”

Mo Zihan took out the order he picked up in his trouser pocket and slapped it on the table with a smug face.

The two picked up the crumpled order and examined it several times.

"Where did this come from?" Lin Ran turned his head to look at Mo Zihan and asked:

Mo Zihan pointed to the location of the tavern door.

"Yes, we set the bounty ourselves, I think we should choose this. Lin Ran's eyes widened, as if he had made up his mind.

"Don't worry, you see. Qiu Shuyu pointed to the two stacks of orders on the table and said, "The bartender gave us C-level and D-level orders, but this commission is B-level, and this task "Capture the Sleeping Dragon" doesn't sound like a newcomer can do......

"Oh, you girls are grinding and chirping, Uncle Bai has said, we can only choose tasks below E-level, this A, B, C, D, E, it's not wrong for us to choose a B-level,"

Lin Ran stood up as he spoke, and raised his eyebrows at Qiu Shuyu: "Besides, you look at the conditions of the bounty, when the time comes, we will open our mouths when we complete the commission, Sister Qiu Shuyu, you can buy as many clothes as you want." Xiao Mo, what do you say?"

After that, Lin Ran turned his gaze to Mo Zihan on the side.

"But ......"

"Have you made a choice, the three of you have been watching it for a long time. The bartender's impatient urging interrupted Qiu Shuyu's words.

"Picked, chosen, thank you, big bartender. ”

Lin Ran smiled cheaply, and as he spoke, he took the order and pulled Mo Zihan and Qiu Shuyu out of the tavern door.