Chapter Twenty-Five: I Am a Bounty Hunter
Unbeknownst to Cher, the elf and the little devil were just making a joke, and after escaping the stalkers sent by the wiki, they arrived at a three-story tavern. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Outside the door is a flat wooden horse, and as soon as you enter the tavern, you can smell the smell of wheat, the wandering singers play cheerful tunes with their ponytails, the prostitutes roll up their sleeves and fight with the men without showing weakness, and some drunks who had drunk a few minutes ago and were in a fight after a few minutes.
The bright yellow sunlight and the smell of wheat make people feel a little drunk even if they don't drink alcohol, and this is the favorite Golden Horse Tavern of the Ice City.
The little devil took Jing Ling to the bar and sat down, and an old man with a severe hunchback put down the clean wine glass in his hand, put on a lazy look and said, "What do you want to have?" ”
"We want golden ale." The little devil said to the old man.
The old man raised his mouth and smiled, and the few remaining big yellow teeth were suddenly exposed. "Both of them want golden ale?"
"That's right."
After receiving an affirmative answer from the little devil, the old man opened the small door of the bar and let the little devil and Jing Ling enter the bar.
"I don't know if the Golden Ale is still in stock, so you'll have to go down and find out for yourself."
After the old man finished speaking, he lifted the carpet, only to see a dark board under the carpet, the old man opened the dark board, and a two-meter-long bamboo ladder was displayed in front of him, and there was a cellar under the dark board!
The little devil was the first to climb down the bamboo ladder to the cellar, followed by Jing Ling, and the old man, when he was sure that they had climbed down, covered the dark board, laid out the carpet, and then put on a lazy look at the various guests in the tavern.
At the moment when the old man closed the dark board, the sunlight no longer shone in, and Jing Ling could only see the face of the cellar through the faint candlelight on the ledge.
Rows of barrels made of oak are neatly stacked, each one a meter high, and a cellar of less than a hundred square meters holds at least forty barrels of wine. The air was filled with the rich aroma of wine, which made Jing Ling wonder if he would get drunk and fall to the ground if he stayed a little longer.
The little devil seemed to be familiar with this wine cellar, and he walked up to a wine barrel, holding the wine lid with both hands, and with a sharp force, the wine lid was broken.
The little devil pulled out a black box from the keg, and he asked Jing Ling to hold the black box while he tinkered with the metal combination lock on the mouth of the box.
"Hold on, this box has a hidden mechanism, as long as the password is incorrect, the hydrochloric acid in the dark compartment will destroy the contents of the box."
Hearing the little devil say this, Jing Ling couldn't help but increase the strength of holding the box a little.
With a click, the combination lock was opened, and the little devil pulled out a wad of parchment from it, and he flipped through them one by one, while Jing Ling frowned, "Now you should tell me the purpose of our visit." ”
The little devil raised his eyebrows and smiled, "My clever brother, haven't you seen that I am a bounty hunter?" ”
Bounty Hunter!? This word reminded Jing Ling of his military career in his previous life, once he was on a peacekeeping mission in Africa, and a black old man came up to him to get close to him, who knew that in the end, he was stunned with drugs and stole his weapons and equipment.
Later, Jing Ling saw his weapons and equipment on the black market, and only after using violent means did he learn from the shopkeeper that his stolen weapons and equipment were sold by a bounty hunter.
It was also at that time that the curse of fucking your uncle became Jingling's mantra.
But the little devil didn't know that Jing Ling had such an aggrieved experience, so he kept looking at the reward orders made of parchment. Those rogue bandit kings outside the ice city were all eliminated by him one by one, after all, their purpose was to earn fifteen hundred gold coins in a short period of time.
If they accept the bounty task of assassinating the Rogue Bandit King, not to mention whether they can find those targets, it will take a lot of time just to trek through mountains and rivers, so those bounty targets in the ice city are what the little devil is looking for.
Suddenly, a bounty order made the little devil frown, and Jing Ling saw this and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
The little devil didn't answer Jing Ling immediately, but took out five of the bounty orders, and put the rest back in the black box, and he didn't rush to show the five bounty orders to Jing Ling, but said with a playful face: "I said brother, there are two choices now, I'll let you choose for yourself." ”
Looking at Jing Ling's puzzled look, the little devil was still selling Guanzi, but the smile on the corner of his mouth was more playful. "The first option earns 1,600 gold, but it requires assassinating four targets, all of whom are city officials in Ice City. And the second target only needs to assassinate one person, but you can earn two thousand gold coins, but this person is a member of the military department, which one do you choose? ”
"First of all, I have to know, are these five people good people?" Jing Ling showed a solemn look, if he wanted to kill those good lives for money, it would undoubtedly be for him to abandon his innate humanity, even if his original intention of raising money was to save people.
"You only have to ask a random person on the street to find out what these five people have done."
"Since they are not good people, then I will earn this money with peace of mind, and I will choose the person from the military department."
"Are you sure?" The little devil asked again, "You should know that the higher the bounty, the more difficult it is to assassinate. ”
"If you are willing to accompany me in danger, I will also be duty-bound."
Looking at Jing Ling's resolute expression, the little devil also knew that he was not good at saying something more. The reason why they are standing here today is because Jing Ling has something that the little devil admires, and this is why the little devil is willing to take the risk of bringing Jing Ling into the bounty hunter industry, and that thing is the rarest determination in the world...... A determination to defend humanity!
The little devil put the other four bounty orders back in the black box, and when he handed the bounty order with a bounty of two thousand gold coins to Jing Ling, the latter was dumbfounded.
"It's really a narrow road!" Jing Ling couldn't help but sigh, the portrait of the bounty order was a bearded man, wearing fish scale armor, holding a moire simple sword, riding a dark horse that had gone to heaven, it was the ukulele who was killed by Jing Ling this morning!
Jing Ling only realized at this moment what the playful look on the corner of the little devil's mouth represented, but he did not choose to back down, although the ukulele was the general of the First Army in the northern realm of Nolan, and theoretically had 10,000 troops at hand.
But he is neither a lord nor a nobleman, at best he is just a pawn of the ruling class of the Nolan Empire to stabilize the regime, and the real power group can arbitrarily deprive him of the military power of the general, and at this moment, for some ulterior secrets, Ukulele was deprived of military power, and only brought more than 100 personal soldiers to the ice city to serve as a city defense officer.
Although there are still 5,000 defenders in Ice City, and they are all theoretically under his control. But these 5,000 soldiers and horses belong to various factions, and it is difficult to say whether they can listen to him, a foreign commander.
Therefore, in order to consolidate his dominance in Ice City, Ukulele urgently needs the support of the gentry and wealthy families in Ice City, and Vicky is undoubtedly the biggest gentry in Ice City, which is why Ukulele's anger at the killing of his horse made Jing Ling and the little devil leave.