"What, you want us to help him fight? Opponents or a lot of skeleton shelves? ”

As soon as Rip spoke, everyone present was stupid, and the stone even thought that he had misheard, and blurted out directly.

It wasn't until the mercenary leader told the story of the cause and effect that the others understood what was going on, no wonder Matthew would spend so much money.

Belch... Except for the little bell with a confused face, the affairs of these adults are too complicated for her current age.

But she found something she could do, neither Skarsnik nor Sgenara could understand the continental lingua franca spoken by Rep, and she could act as a translator.

Things are a lot more troublesome than expected.

Originally, Matthew's condition was only a one-time compensation of 50,000 gold coins for the "Broken Claw Tribe" as an apology, which can be regarded as an indirect admission that they were behind the bandit attack at the beginning of the year.

However, Lepp didn't agree on the spot, he pretended that he didn't have the right to decide, and wanted to contact the big people behind the scenes, and it dragged on for a week before agreeing, but just when he was about to leave, something happened again.

Three mercenaries, covered in blood, suddenly appeared at the back door of "Fetenburg", and after identifying them, they were quickly taken to the city lord's mansion, and after a few hours, a terrible news began to circulate in the city.

These mercenaries are from a C-class mercenary group called the "Flame Lion".

Two days ago, they had just taken on a mission to search for herbs in the nearby mountains, and sent a team of twenty people, but they accidentally found a small valley in the mountains to the northeast, and encountered an ambush, and the entire team was almost wiped out, only the three of them escaped.

The point is not here, what really causes panic in the city is that it is neither thieves nor greenskins who attack them, but a group of skeletons!

That's right, the undead!

The bad news spread throughout the fortress as quickly as possible, and immediately several caravans left through the front door, preferring to spend a little more money to take the "Silver Road" to the north than wait here, the Rabid Dog Trail was too dangerous.

What's more, it is even believed that "Fetenburg" has angered a certain god, otherwise why did there be accidents one after another, first the frequent appearance of the greenskins, which has not been solved, and new problems have emerged, or evil undead creatures, it is like being cursed.

For a time, there was a storm in the city.

The appearance of this sudden incident also made Rip, who was just about to leave, stay, and he chose to wait and see how things developed before deciding on his next move.

Matthew didn't have time to rush him, and the attention of the merchants in the city was all attracted by the new bad news, and the city lord reacted fairly quickly, and immediately issued a B-class mission through the mercenary guild to find out the news of the mysterious valley.

"It's so serious?"

Stone frowned slightly.

Finding out for information is usually a small task of D-level or E-class, and C-level is considered rare, unless it is particularly dangerous.

Rip nodded and said:

"According to the mercenaries who escaped, the skeletons that attacked them were only a small part, and many more were cruising the valley."

The well-paid B-rank mission quickly attracted the attention of the three major mercenary groups in the city, including the "Forgiveness Mercenary Group", each of which immediately sent an elite squad.

After two days of waiting, all three mercenary squads returned, unscathed, for the simple reason that they had not been able to enter the valley at all.

In the words of the squad leader:

"There are thousands of skeletons in the valley, and they don't dare to approach at all, they only dare to observe from a distance, and then they find that these undead creatures seem to be increasing."

After listening to Rep's relay, Shi's face became more and more serious, and the sudden appearance of so many undead creatures on the rabid dog trail was not good news for him.

The expressions of the others were the same, and the little bell and Ayigunu were even more pale.

"And then?"

"Matthew raised the mission level to A level on the spot, but no one dared to take it."

The mercenary group in "Fetenburg", the largest number is only a few hundred, and some of them are engaged in logistics, there are not too many real combatants, they are required to send letters and run errands, and it is okay to explore and hunt for treasures, once they encounter such a big scene, no one will be stupid to send them to death, even if it is the A-level mission they dream of.

And then he thought of us? Do all his own men eat dry food? ”

The mercenary group can't handle it, and there is still an army in "Fetanburg".

Rip touched the small handful of goatee on his chin and smiled bitterly:

"How dare he casually mobilize the city guards, at the beginning of the year, he took the troops out of the city, and within two days, there was a change in the city of Zandis next door, if it wasn't for the temporary withdrawal of the army and came back, I was afraid that my hometown would be copied."

"And this?"

Shi's face became a little more solemn.

According to Rep's intelligence, Zareth City is a human city west of Fetenburg, mainly composed of immigrants from the Empire and Bretonnia, and has developed rapidly in recent years, and can be regarded as a relatively large city in the northern part of the Frontier Prince's Domain, and is also one of the important members of the "Northern Frontier Alliance".

After listening to it for a long time, the stone became more and more confused.

Where did these undead come from? Why did the city of Zares receive the news so quickly that the defenders of "Fetenburg" were empty?

He originally wanted to plunder the caravan to teach Matthew a lesson, but he didn't expect that the development of things would suddenly exceed his imagination, and he didn't expect that in this situation, Matthew would think of his own tribe.

In this way, it makes sense, if it is only a small number of undead creatures, a few mercenary groups of "Fetanburg" can deal with it, but there are many of them, and the army in the city does not dare to act rashly, for fear of being taken advantage of by other human forces.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is a dead end, but Matthew thought of finding a stone to help and use the green skin to deal with the undead, which is amazing! It deserves to be the "white fox"!

It's just that if you want to make a stone shot, this price must not be small, no wonder the conditions he gave to Lei Pu have also changed, and he directly increased the annual gold coins by half.

Say yes or no?

It stands to reason that the stone should refuse in one go, and he is not short of this money, so why spend his own kid to help Fetanburg solve his big troubles, and let them worry about themselves.

But the stone hesitated for three reasons.

First, according to Rep's description, the valley where the undead are abundant is north of the Rabid Trail, between Fetanburg and Thunder Bluff, which means that if left unchecked, it is likely to affect his own fortress in the future.

Second, although he had sent his men to raid the caravan before, it was just to teach Matthew a lesson, even if he didn't come to beg for mercy, this situation would not continue, and he didn't want the Rabid Dog Trail to become the death trail in the eyes of the caravan, like the death trail in the south.

Thirdly, the ally of Fetanburg is not bad in his opinion, although he likes to make small moves, but at least the money is given every year, if it is replaced by someone else, such as the stronger Zandis City, then the stone will not be as comfortable as it is now, at least the number of troops stationed at Thunder Cliff will be doubled.

In addition to the above three reasons, there is another point that also makes him very entangled, that is, this valley where a large number of skeletons appears, as if he had heard of it in his previous life......