Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVII
The province bordering the province of Cecilia to the west was called the Cauberna, and the trade route connecting the two provinces was called the Simpuru Trade Road.
Although the magic technology of the world of Feanster is very advanced, many things are still not possible.
Just like the teleportation array, teleportation within the province, for adventurers, you can teleport for 100 gold coins, but for ordinary residents and local mercenaries, you are not qualified to teleport, and you will not be teleported if you have money. As for inter-provincial teleportation, even adventurers are limited in the number of teleportations per day.
Because the teleportation array needs to consume magic crystals, when there are no adventurers, even low-level magic crystals are very rare things, not to mention the high-level magic crystals in the inter-provincial teleportation array, which are combat preparation resources, and it is impossible to use them at will. However, this situation will change when the level of adventurers is higher.
As for large business groups, there are basically several teleportation qualifications per month, but each time is limited to 1 person. Therefore, there is often a person with several gorgeous rings to do an inter-provincial teleportation array. (Note: The smallest space rings held by the aborigines are a few cubic meters, and the largest is several hundred cubic meters.) It looks big compared to the adventurer, but each slot of the adventurer can be stacked with items. Take putting stones as an example, an adventurer's lattice can stack 1,000 tons of stones, but a ring of several hundred cubic meters can't fit it. )
If you let the adventurer deliver the goods in private, it is a crime, and if you are caught, you will definitely be punished to bankruptcy, so no one will do it.
So, as in other novels, mercenaries escorting caravans from city to city abound. Generally, the aboriginal squad is more willing to take on this kind of escort mission, the danger is smaller than killing monsters, although there is no case of getting rich overnight, but if you can sign a contract with a fixed caravan, then the income will be very stable.
The Simpuru trade route is generally a safe trade route, except for a section of the Andus Forest at the intersection of the provinces of Cecilia and Courberna.
Andus Forest, known as the Enchanted Forest. There used to be many people who wanted to clear the forest on the side of the trade road to ensure that nothing suddenly appeared on the side of the road. But the day after the clearing is done, the forest returns to its former state. There are many such forests, and the results of the investigation show that the concentration of magic in the forest is higher than that of the outside, and it is not enough to reach the level of the land of death, so such forests are called magic forests.
The types of monsters in each magic forest are different, and the main threat in the Andus Forest is the level 20 to 33 monsters, which are similar to the goblins (ugly monsters) in many games, so they are named forest goblins.
For the evaluation of goblins, in addition to the individual ability can be rated as a monster of level 20 in terms of blood volume, other attribute abilities are not as high as when the average adventurer is level 15.
Before the magic surge, this trade route basically encountered dozens of goblins at once, which was rare, and it was still easy for a well-trained mercenary team to get rid of it.
However, after the magic surge broke out, there were hundreds of goblins encountered each time, and at most they could encounter thousands. And for the convoy, which has only 20 mercenaries, it can be said to be a terrible blow.
Thankfully, there have been no reports of loss since the magic surge, but the cargo can't be recovered. Therefore, the Selved Imperial Business Association invested 500,000 gold coins to ask the mercenary union to clear the goblin gathering place in the Andus Forest.
Albert is responsible for cleaning up dozens of level 20 goblin clusters in Cecilia Province (Note: Goblins in Cecilia Province are basically level 20 to 28, and Goblins in Kuberner Province are level 25 to 33).
In order to make up for Lin Feng's loss, Albert reduced the mercenary cost of other mercenaries and gave it to Lin Feng, otherwise the general settlement fee is about 20,000 gold coins. And what Lin Feng chose was a relatively small gathering place.
Although this mission will take a few days to go, the employment fee of 50,000 gold coins is really exciting, and there is a lot of experience Dan rewards. Therefore, Lin Feng and the others, who had arranged all the trivial matters, came to the military town on the edge of the Andus Forest in the afternoon.
The military town is small, except for the queues of soldiers wearing imperial armor that can be seen at any time, and the streets are mostly mercenaries and merchants, and the civilians here are generally small family members of the army.
And the soldiers here are mainly responsible for patrolling the borders of the Andus Forest to prevent a large number of goblins from escaping into the province.
Goblins breed very quickly, and a 1,000-goblin colony can increase their numbers to more than 10,000 in a month's time when food is plentiful.
Even a few dozen goblins escaping from the forest would pose a huge threat to the security of Cecilia Province.
As for letting the army clear the goblins, who will patrol the defenses? If you really want to leak out a dozen goblins, no one will find them, and when you see them, there will basically be hundreds of thousands. This is something that has happened in history, so the army of the empire cannot carry out the clearance.
And this time, Lin Feng and their mission were in two small gathering places in the depths of the Andus Forest, so Lin Feng and the others set off directly without resting.
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Walking on the forest path, the sunlight shines through the overlapping branches and leaves, the low bushes are dotted with colorful flowers, and the birdsong from time to time constitutes a perfect picture. If it weren't for the corpses of goblins all over the ground, it would be nice to take a dip here.
After walking for more than 3 hours, everyone came to the goblin gathering place more than 10 kilometers away from the trade route.
Zhang Tong carefully probed the situation in the camp. Returning to Lin Feng and the others, he reported: "It is basically consistent with the records on the data, there are probably hundreds of goblins. ”
Lin Feng said: "Then let's start working, and strive to clean up twice before going to bed at night." ”
Three hours later, Lin Feng and the others camped and rested in the middle of the two gathering places.
The crowd sitting around the campfire grilling the food began to discuss.
"Big brother, aren't your goblins refreshed, how can it still involve breeding."
"That's why the world of Feanster is closer to the real world. After the monster dies, it will be refreshed, and if you don't fight that monster in the game, then he will always be so lucky.
And here they will reproduce, so that when the number reaches a certain number, they will invade the human world. In this way, things like beast tides will happen, which is also a reasonable explanation for monster siege (.2.), rather than brushing it out of thin air, resulting in no sense of reality. ”
Lin Feng flipped over the barbecue, sniffed it and continued to roast, and said: "I'm saying that people are inert, and if there is no sense of crisis, there is no motivation to fight monsters." And this setting drives everyone forward. That way it doesn't get boring. ”
Zhang Tong opened his mouth and asked: "Then after 150, we are all so strong, and 100,000 goblins are easy to kill, how can we make people motivated?" ”
Zhang Jiaqi opened his mouth and said: "Don't say you know me when you go out in the future, you have pulled our average IQ to the level of the mentally handicapped, after we reach level 150, if we encounter 100,000 level 100 monsters, we will not have to braid, idiot." ”
Zhang Tong was roasting the meat and didn't speak. And Ye Zixin asked, "Then when will we be counted like this?" ”
Lin Feng picked up the barbecue and took a bite, and said vaguely: "Howling." As a result, Ye Zixin glared at her, then swallowed the meat in her mouth vigorously, and continued: "Good question, it's not my little leaf." ”
Ye Zixin said angrily: "Who is your little leaf, say it quickly." ”
Lin Feng said with a grin: "The general duration of the magic surge is about half a month, this has been 13 or 4 days, maybe it will end tomorrow, and the things that affect it are not certain, and this time it is to make the number of goblins change."
Goblins are brushed every 3 hours, and in our two gathering places, the normal situation is to farm about 100. Now it's about 500 every 3 hours. So we only need to kill them until they only spawn about 100 monsters, and we're done. ”
Everyone was surprised: "Huh? ”
"After 3 hours, I won't sleep anymore."
"Not sleeping is a woman's natural enemy."
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Looking at the two girls chattering there, Lin Feng also felt helpless, and said, "Actually, there is a good way, but it depends on Zhang Tong." ”
Looking at Lin Feng's gaze, Zhang Tong suddenly shuddered, as if he was being targeted by a dog...... Bah blah, the same as meat.
Zhang Tong asked tremblingly, "Boss, what do you want me to do?" I'm scared. ”
Lin Feng laughed and said, "Don't be nervous, it's not that scary, after the goblin is refreshed, it's not a state of hunger." Therefore, they usually go out to forage for food 2 hours after the refresh.
They're omnivorous monsters, so you just need to plant plenty of edible plants on the periphery of the two colonies. They don't run around at all. Then we'll just go and kill them tomorrow morning. What do you think? Simple, right. ”
Zhang Tong asked, "How much food do you need?" ”
Lin Feng said: "It's not much, their food is not large, when the time comes, I will tell you how much to plant, and you can quickly give birth." ”
In this way, after cleaning up the goblins once, Zhang Tong followed Lin Feng's instructions and gave birth to a large number of edible plants on the edge of the two gathering places. Then they rested.
Sure enough, after waking up early the next morning, the goblins in the two gathering places did not leave, but ate the plants spawned by Zhang Tong in the gathering place. However, there are dozens more than the number of yesterday.
After all, the goblin is the most rudimentary monster, and he already knows the basic cooperation, but this kind of cooperation full of loopholes is not seen in Lin Feng's eyes at all. But this is an excellent opportunity to train the troops. Although Ye Zixin and the others have already been able to release their skills while running, it is still very early to reach the state of sending and receiving freely.
Especially in this situation of being surrounded by a group of monsters, how to deal with it is also a test. Therefore, Lin Feng and the others quickly cleaned up the goblins on one side, and left one side for training. After all, the faster you kill, the faster they will refresh, as long as you master the time.
During training, Lin Feng would not take the initiative to kill monsters, but when he saw anyone in danger, he would help him. And keep reminding them of the Tao.
"I said Ye Da Beauty, what are your thighs for? Is it tempting? You don't know how to kick the monster that haunts you away? ”
"And don't be happy with others, what are you doing circling that goblin? Want to marry him? It's full of suitability. Can't you just run around with the fat man? ”
"And you dead fat man, you've been with me for so long, why are you stupid to be chased by a monster? What did I teach you about Liuyunbu? Can't you walk up and bundle them one by one? ”
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In this way, Lin Feng's taunts ended the day's fighting, and he didn't know that something more terrible was waiting for him.