"Nothing strange, right? I've heard Lena say that you two are good, and the young one can use his psychic powers. The miniature mongoose man looked down at Rodel from the platform, "Pretty good for your battle marks, isn't it?"

Rodell laughed: "Victor, you don't know how to do business, right? Just after saying that my battle scar mercenary group went out to take the commission and was going to be pulled by you, why did people join in?"

Am I a fool?" Sid chimed inwardly.

"But they're not mercenaries for the sake of getting rich. President Victor said nonchalantly, "I'm not wrong about the adventurers who ran out of their hometown in pursuit of excitement and adventure."

Rodell, Sid, and Ian were stunned at the same time.

"Join War Scars and share the intelligence network with my Chamber of Commerce. Victor took the wine sent by Maggie and took a sip to moisten his throat, "My caravan is all over the continent, and there is nothing you can't inquire about. ”

Victor saw Ian's eyes light up and smiled inwardly.

"He's agreed, what about you?" Victor's dark eyes turned to Sid.

"Did he agree? What did he say?" Sid turned to Ian and asked, "You agreed?"

Ian looked at Sid, then turned to Victor and nodded, "I agree." ”

Sid touched his head, although he was very dissatisfied with the mercenary work with one more person, but he still agreed: "Okay, I promised to act with him." ”

Rodell raised his glass high: "Today we have a new partner joining!

"Yay!" the crowd cheered.

"Welcome!" Lena's voice came from the platform, somehow with a hint of cunning and schadenfreude.

Everyone raised their wine glasses in unison at the call of the old leader, but after drinking, they threw the glasses to the ground one after another.

Sid was still smiling awkwardly and nodding his head, when he suddenly felt that something was not quite right.

"The welcome has begun!" he heard old Rodell yell.

The female swordsman Wen Na didn't know when, but she had already raised the giant shield in her hand;

Behind Giggs appeared five fiery red arms of psychic power;

Babich stood straight, his sword held in front of his brow, and muttered words as if he were praying;

The robot warrior tightened the joints of the mechanical arm;

Achilles, who wore an olecranon, held two short axes in his hands, and the olecranon could not hide the sneer that rose from the corners of his mouth;

The Maggie is gone;

had already leapt up to the second floor, and her bow and arrow were aimed at it;

Lena was carrying her bags and quietly and quickly sliding to the room behind the bar.

A guard from the town of Luzhou was walking from the gatehouse to the mayor's house, and when he passed the outside of the Golden Tail Chamber of Commerce, he heard a loud noise inside, and a young man wearing a black cloak and holding a long sword flew out from the main entrance of the Chamber of Commerce, his eyes blooming with light blue flames......

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Sid applied a cold towel to one of his slightly swollen cheeks, squinting and complaining to Ian: "You promised too quickly, at least discuss it with me - at least ask the president of the Chamber of Commerce how much he wants to take a beat! If he takes half of it, we will join the group?"

"He's right, we were mercenaries just to eat. Ian fiddled with the Blackstone emblem around his neck with one hand, and put a cold towel on his cheek with the same hand as Sid, "He has connections, he has an intelligence network, he can help me find what I want, and ......" The young man's eyes were a little dazed, "He seems to already know what I'm looking for." ”

"So powerful?" said Sid disdainfully, "I think you have been deceived by his seductive and suggestive words! ”

"Anyway, the strength of the Battle Scar Mercenary Group is not fake, right?"

"Well, that's right. Sid was covered in wounds from the "welcome ceremony", and he was still aching faintly.

"When I fought off the demonic beasts, I saw that several of them were psychics, and I am afraid that the strength of the others would not be much worse than them. Such a powerful mercenary group, to the president...... Victor? That's the name—the status of the Chamber of Commerce, as you can imagine. ”

As he spoke, he casually dropped the towel and walked to the wine cabinet in the corner of the room, took out a bottle of wine, poured a glass for Sid, and handed it over.

"Besides, not only did we save the cost of food and lodging in the hotel, but there was also all-you-can-drink wine in the room, what else are you not satisfied with?"

Sid took the cold wine glass, put it on his hot cheek, then took a big sip and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the benefits of this mercenary group are really good......

"Yes, Miss Maggie is downstairs at the bar, and you can go down to her at any time to ask for something to eat and drink. ”

“...... "Sid remembered Maggie's bar," Sid said, "it's a good deal." ”

"But," Ian deliberately reversed the subject, "I joined the scars mainly because I wanted to rely on the Chamber of Commerce to investigate their affairs. If you don't want to be tapped, you can go to the head of the regiment to quit now. Do you want me to come with you?"

"No, no, I'm going to be with you, when did I talk and count?" Sid smiled, knowing that Ian was deliberately blocking him with words.

"Rest early," Ian slumped into bed, "Tomorrow if the mercenary group is fine, let's go to the guild and see what the commission is." ”

"You don't have to go, I picked it up before I came, did you forget?"

Seeing his dazed face, Sid remembered that Ian was competing with him at that time, doing training to fight left and right, and Sid said that he might not have taken it to heart at all. So I had to remind: "Didn't I take over a mission to escort the investigation team in Babel City, here in Oasis Town, escort them to investigate the concentration of magic essence." ”

"Ah......h

Sid didn't pursue it, and continued: "Tomorrow we will go directly to the investigation association, meet with them, and discuss the time of departure. ”

Ian nodded, suddenly embodied Zack, and then turned over to himself: "Then I'll sleep." ”

"I thought you had forgotten about this training!" Sid whispered to himself, and lay down as well, pulling the blanket over it.

At this time, on the third floor of the Golden Tail Chamber of Commerce, in the reception room of the president of the Chamber of Commerce, President Victor was sitting on the windowsill, looking out at the brightly lit Oasis Town.

"The townsfolk who have taken refuge have gone back to their homes. The president said.

"Well, they're all back. Lina's brisk voice responded.

"Ian and Sid, are they all settled?"

"Yes. It's just that the president will ...... Are the two of them really qualified to join Grandpa Rodel's battle scars? Sid, in particular, doesn't have the ability to think, you see they were repaired ...... today."

President Victor interrupted her with a wave of his hand.

"There's a senior who asked me to take care of it, just take care of it, and Rodel won't really let them participate in any dangerous operations. ”

"Senpai, your senior?" Lena's voice grew lighter with surprise, "What do you have to be old?"

"It's not big, it's ......not small," Victor withdrew his gaze from the window, turned his head and scolded her, "You don't have to ask more about them, I have my own plans." Anyway, there will be no loss to the business of the Chamber of Commerce, so you don't have to worry about that. ”

"Sid's food isn't small...... Lena slurped.

"Ha! If my Golden-Tailed Chamber of Commerce can be eaten and bankrupt by a human boy, what kind of businessman and what kind of chamber of commerce should I open? ”

"Well, anyway, I didn't run in vain this trip, and the situation in Bafang Cai City in Babel City is probably clear. ”

"Well, there you go. ”

After Lena left the reception room, Victor walked into the study next door. There is a letter on the desk, on the letterhead is painted with a lantern orchid in red ink, the brushwork is elegant and powerful, a few strokes, lifelike.

Next to the letter, there are several sheets of chamber-of-commerce letterhead, each with a different handwriting on it.

"Oh," muttered Victor, "it's funny, times are about to change again, and I seem to smell gold." ”

He picked up the letterhead with the lantern orchid and put it under his nose: "Ian, are you a treasure chest, or a hot potato?"

As soon as the next day dawned, the town of Oasis began restoration and rebuilding work. Chambers of commerce, large and small, donated money and supplies to speed up the town's recovery. After all, Oasis Town is a transportation hub, and the sooner it regains its former vitality, the sooner the vendors can start making money.

More than 100,000 people have settled here, which is not too big or too small. When people here mention Oasis Town, they like to omit the last word "town" and call it directly: Oasis. True to its name, it is the only habitat with abundant water and greenery within a radius of 800 stars, and it is indeed an "oasis" in this wilderness. Ian followed Sid, following the map Maggie had drawn for them, through the streets of the oasis, to the "Magic and Warcraft Investigation Society" where the commissioner was located.

"Are you sure we're going in the right direction, why do I think this place is so familiar......," Ian called out to Sid, pointing to a tasteful statue in a resident's yard.

"Strange, that's right...... Sid's eyes were on the map in his hand.

Ian snatched it up: "Bring it, I'll take a look." ”

I saw a few lines drawn randomly on a piece of paper the size of a palm, crookedly, and then two crossed lines were drawn at the corners of the paper, marked with a cross. There are no direction markers on the entire map.

"What the hell is this?" Ian looked up at Sid, "You call this a map?"

"Don't ask me, Maggie drew it. ”

"If I can find this thing, I'm afraid I really need the guidance of the twelve......," Ian, who refused to convert to the twelve, teased.

"Don't talk nonsense, it should be nearby, I looked at the route - we took this line, you see there's a mark here. Sid leaned over and pointed to a child's graffiti-like symbol.

"What does that mean?"

"Maggie said that there is a strange statue near here, this must be it......"

“......”