Although he successfully ambushed the people of the Wolf Warrior Mercenary Group once and taught them some lessons, An Xu did not let his guard down at all, but made him more cautious.

Based on his understanding of Xue Zhan, this person is extremely vicious and vicious! Now that the two sides have formed a grudge, it is impossible for Xue Zhan to let An Xu and them develop and develop into a big trouble.

What is certain is that the Wolf Warrior Mercenary Group must be brewing a bigger conspiracy. But An Xu has nothing to be afraid of, the soldiers are coming, the water is coming, and he is no longer the little boy who had no strength at the beginning.

Early in the morning, An Xu convened everyone to discuss and set the next plan.

The first point is that the defenses of the team station still need to be strengthened, and as you can see from last night's events, these defenses are especially important in the face of a surprise attack.

Yesterday, due to the tight schedule, Knorr only had time to set up some simple traps, and then he needed to focus on setting up some lethal facilities to ensure that the station still had resistance when there were few people.

The second point is the operation of the team, although the team has not yet been formed, but the current lineup can perform some simple team tasks, so the tasks should almost be put on the agenda.

This time, Doudou and they came over, and they also brought the remaining income of the Radiant Stone Essence, so that An Xu got dozens of gold coins, which could barely support a period of time, but if the team wanted to get on the right track, they must have a regular income.

Of course, the current team lacks tacit understanding, so An Xu and the others decided to run in for a period of time first, and the content of the run-in is to hunt low-level demon beasts on the periphery of the Moon Forest.

Hunting demon beasts is also one of the main sources of income for mercenaries, demon beasts are full of valuable items, if you are lucky, you can also get demon cores from them, it is one of the favorite materials of mages and alchemists, a second-order demon beast demon core, is enough to cover the consumption of ordinary teams for a month.

In the absence of suitable bounty tasks, many mercenary teams and mercenary groups will choose to hunt monsters purposefully, and sometimes the rewards are even more lucrative than receiving tasks.

However, facing demon beasts also means facing danger.

The main activities on the periphery of the Moon Forest are low-level demon beasts, and with their strength, as long as they don't encounter a group of demon beasts, they won't have much risk.

And by fighting non-stop, the team can quickly run in in a short period of time, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

After the team's first hunting mission was scheduled for the weekend, everyone was ready to disperse, just as Lena had returned from outside with a basket on her shoulder, and it seemed that she had gone out early in the morning to buy food.

Seeing Lina's basket, An Xu suddenly thought of something and asked, "Lina, has there been any change in the price of grain in the market recently?" ”

Lina replied: "I was still complaining just now, the price of food has fluctuated so much recently, almost twice as much as a month ago, I didn't buy it when I saw that it was too expensive, anyway, there is enough food at home for a few days." ”

An Xu pondered for a while and said, "No, Lina will trouble you to go out again in a while, buy a little more grain for storage, it's okay if the price is more expensive!" ”

Speaking of this, he thought for a moment and said to Fanny on the side: "You go with Lena, this matter is very important, it is best to do it as soon as possible." ”

"Why are you going to store so much food?" Doudou said strangely: "The food supply in the Hidden Moon City market has always been sufficient. ”

"Isn't this winter? I happened to encounter a rise in food prices, and I was worried that something would happen, so I had better prepare a little more to prevent it! ”

An Xu didn't elaborate, when Yayun Ling left, he explained that there might be turmoil in the kingdom, and the price of food would not rise for no reason, which must have something to do with this matter.

At this time, An Xu also discovered a big deficiency in his team, that is, the news was too closed, and they were completely blind to some major events that happened in the kingdom.

Some mercenary organizations often train their own intelligence officers to collect useful intelligence information for the team at all times, so that they can make early adjustments according to changes in the situation, and they can also get a head start in some large-scale missions.

Like An Xu, there are almost no sources of information, and the tasks are also random, and if you are lucky, you may be able to receive the right task, but most of the time you tend to miss the opportunity and are in a situation where there is no task to do.

Opportunity waits for no one, and this phrase could not be more appropriate to describe the work of mercenaries.

Therefore, the training of the team's intelligence personnel must start as soon as possible, such a person does not need to have a high level of strength, but only needs to be clever and pay attention to the available information around him at any time, which can provide great help to the team.

However, there is no suitable candidate now, and An Xu can only wait to discover slowly.

Although Yayun Ling had already left a warning, due to the lack of intelligence information, An Xu had been uneasy recently, and after thinking about it carefully, he called Lin Qingqing again: "Qingqing, when the team has no task, you can go back to school first!" The Demon Martial Arts Academy is all over the country, and if there is any news, it should be known in advance. ”

"Okay, Captain!" Lin Qingqing has always trusted An Xu very much, and almost didn't think about An Xu's reason for doing this, so he immediately agreed.

"It's food storage again, and it's information exploration, is there something big going to happen?" Noel was much more sensible, and An Xu's series of arrangements made him aware of something.

"I've received some bad news, but hopefully it never happens!" An Xu smiled bitterly, thought about it, felt still a little uneasy, and said: "I'll go to the city to have a look, and the family will be handed over to you!" ”

"Wait, you need some materials to renovate your house, so let's buy some when you go out!" Knoll handed over a list of items that were urgently needed right now.

"No problem!" An Xu nodded, took the list and turned out of the door.

Just as An Xu thought, under the calm appearance of Hidden Moon City, there was a trace of unusual atmosphere, and the most intuitive change was in the East Street.

As the area with the highest concentration of traders, the flow of people on East Street has decreased significantly, and the small stalls and vendors on the street are as usual, but the large trade groups seem to have disappeared.

These caravans are often the most well-informed when they travel from city to city, and even they have reduced the traces of their activities, which is indeed a big problem.

That's right! Ask the black scorpion about it, the entire Hidden Moon City has his intelligence network, maybe he knows something.

An Xu quickly thought of this intelligence dealer, in fact, it was not easy to find the black scorpion, but fortunately, An Xu had only been in contact with him for a short time, so it didn't take too many twists and turns.

"I do have the information you need here, but...... You know! In the face of An Xu's inquiry, the black scorpion did not show any surprise, but just smiled and rubbed his fingers.

An Xu had long been accustomed to the way of dealing with black scorpions, so he directly took out a handful of gold coins and handed them over.

The black scorpion weighed it in his hand, nodded with satisfaction, and then said in a low voice: "Recently, the kingdom will not be peaceful, many people have heard the rumors and hid at home, it is said that His Majesty abroad is no longer good, and before the little prince becomes an adult, Her Royal Highness the princess will temporarily be in charge of the government!" ”

An Xu already knew about these news, and he was worried about other aspects, so he asked: "Then do you know what will happen?" ”

"I can't say for sure, and how can Her Royal Highness the princess's actions be figured out, but I do have some information!"

The black scorpion looked around, then attached itself to An Xu's ear, and whispered: "My brother has already investigated, and most of the troops in the nearby cities have been drained, so if you don't make a noise about this matter, it will cause me big trouble." ”

An Xu frowned slightly, and the black scorpion's words made him have a very bad guess.

"You mean there is a possibility of war?" An Xu thought of the incident of the barbarians before, when Yakumo Ling said that the country of Qianze had been preparing to start a war, and now that there was such a change in the kingdom, it was impossible for them not to act.

The black scorpion made a silent gesture and glanced at An Xu meaningfully: "I have already said what I should say, listen to my brother's advice, prepare more supplies, and wait to avoid this limelight." ”

On the way home from East Street, An Xu was still digesting the news he had heard.

Although he has been a mercenary for many years, he has never experienced a large-scale war, and it is inevitable that he will be a little upset at this moment.

When he came to the door, a burst of laughter pulled An Xu back to reality from his distraction.

He looked up and saw that An Xin had already come home from school, and was squatting under the locust tree in front of the gate with Dai'er, and beside them, there were a few children living nearby, tied into a pile.

On a stone in front of the locust tree sat a young man in a white cloak, dressed like a bard, wearing a large white felt hat with a few beautiful feathers stuck in the brim, holding a thick book in his left hand and a short cane in his right.

When An Xu walked up, he happened to hear him just reach the end of the story.