Chapter 003: Adventurers Equal Freelancers, But ......
"Okay—everyone's done a great job——! That's all for today! Come on, that's today's daily wage. Pen % Fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Thank you. The foreman's brother has also worked hard——!
"Good work——!
Under the voice of the foreman announcing the end of the work, Ah Zhen and I took the salary and said a brief greeting.
"Guys, let's go first——!
"Let's go first——!
"Oh-, then I'll leave it to you tomorrow~."
"You're here~——"
No matter how I say hello, Ah Zhen will follow suit in a more energetic tone. I feel like since I borrowed money from the big sister at the guild counter, a certain main god has completely abandoned something, and now I often use my cute power to get benefits...... This was originally a cute woman who naturally sells cuteness anytime and anywhere, once she deliberately sells cuteness, she is completely invincible. By the way, my teammate also got more attention.
In this way, Ah Zhen and I said hello to our acquaintances and left the construction site.
Ah, I worked all day today. Even I couldn't believe I was a cocoon before.
Ah Zhen and I took the day's paycheck and headed to the big communal bath in town.
The large communal baths are almost the same as the bathhouses of the earth.
Based on the average salary, the cost of bathing here is more expensive than the earth's high-end bathing centers. I mean, of course, that the cost of health care is not included. None of the world's high-end bathing centers make money from simple bathing...... In a different world, because that kind of thing is also a legal business, the large communal bath will be relatively simple, and at most buy some drinks to replenish moisture. So in order to make a profit, it will be much more expensive than the earth...... But after the work is over, the bubble bath, once it starts, you can't quit at all~. As if it can wash away the fatigue of the day-
"Ah——...... The whole person is alive again——............
I soaked all the way down my shoulders in the hot tub and laid it back. After all, this is a place that looks like the Middle Ages, and I thought it would be a luxury to soak in another world or something, but it seems that this is just my one-sided preconception. After all, there is such an unscientific science as magic. Right, the earth is more like the 'country'......
"Speaking of which, Ah Zhen, what are you going to eat today? I want to eat a smoked lizard hamburger steak. And Coke that is so cold that it's so cold~!"
Yes, there are carbonated drinks like cola in this world, but these are small things, looking at Ah Zhen who was playing with the palm water gun next to me, I asked casually.
"I want to eat burgers, too. So, let's go to the uncle at the hotel and order two smoked lizard hamburger steaks."
"Let's order three guests! You little glutton, you're going to rob my ...... when you're done eating."
"I'll be fine if I'm AA."
"I'm talking about you~!"
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In this way, after taking a bath, Ah Zhen and I had eaten and drunk enough, because there was nothing to do, we came to the stable.
After picking the straw that has not been stained with horse manure and making a bed, lie down together......
"That's it, goodnight—"
"Okay, good night. Call...... Today is also a day of hard work......
So, with a much more comfortable sense of exhaustion, I fell asleep step by step............
"No, wait a minute."
I sat up abruptly.
"What's wrong? Forgot to go to the toilet before bed? It's so dark outside, do you want me to go with you?"
"Who wants it!
Wait, it's not. It just occurred to me how we could take for granted the life of ordinary manual laborers."
That's right.
For the last two weeks, Ah Zhen and I have been working on the widening of the town's façade.
That is, as a civil engineering worker.
This is a far cry from the adventurer job I want to pursue in this world!!
No, it should be said that Ah Zhen didn't complain or anything to adapt to this kind of life~!!
You're also a main god~~.
"Needless to say, if you don't work, you won't have anything to eat? You don't like workmanship, do you? Really, that's how Cocoon House Nit picks and chooses. In principle, there is also a job as a salesperson in a shopping street that can be done~! Restaurant—"
"It's not~! That's not the case~!! What to say; I'm looking for the kind of thrilling battle against monsters! It's life like that anyway!
Besides, where does this world look like it has been invaded by the Demon King and is in crisis? It's so peaceful that it's not a European town.,I haven't even seen the magic word of the demon king.、Hey!"
The more we talked, the more excited we became, and our voices couldn't help but get louder, which caused scolding all around us.
"Hey, it's noisy! Give me a quiet sleep!"
"Ah, I'm sorry! Sorry......"
I unconsciously apologize that the adventurers who are just starting out are poor.
Normally, it is impossible to book a room to sleep in a hotel every day. Usually they sleep in a bunk with other adventurers. For example, in an RPG game, waking up in a hotel, it is actually a reasonable reality that the whole team is in the same bed, or it is like us now, sleeping in the stable of the hotel and sleeping on straw.
Well, it's completely different from the life I imagined in another world, and the life of an adventurer I expected.
But...... Isn't staying in a hotel every day like sleeping in a hotel every day on earth?
For adventurers with unstable incomes, it is impossible after all!
…… That's right, our income is not stable. Or any profession in any world that is not good in the early days.
First of all, this is not an online game. Although it's impossible to kill a monster casually, it will burst out gold coins or something. You can also exchange the corpses of monsters for money...... The meat of ordinary monsters is very good......
If it's a corpse, it's okay to collect materials or something......
But now there are no monsters in the forests near the towns, and it is impossible for weak monsters to linger near large towns, which is not ecological at all. Although I shouldn't talk about ecology in this unscientific world, I don't say that weak monsters basically live in groups, and lonely monsters are often deadly strong. When encountering this kind of thing, these monsters are naturally classified as crusade-type tasks to deal with, is there still where he is left to wander~!
So after there are no monsters, the forest becomes safe, so almost no one will pay someone to do any collection tasks that often appear in online games.
Of course, that's right.
After all, even children can run out of town at will.
Although there are guards guarding the gate, instead of maintaining a high level of security all the time, since the forest itself is not too big, it would be better to destroy all the monsters that will harm humans inside. Although monsters are like weeds, once the ecological reproduction system is broken, even monsters will become extinct, and you will be refreshed after a burst of light in the game~!!
Actually, I really don't want to know anything so realistic.
So then again, a half-day trip into the forest is a wild herb that can be easily identified by adventurers who are only a little stronger than the average person. Do you think that by completing this kind of collection, you can pay for the hotel accommodation and meals for the day? So even if there is a simple errand collection task like in a video game...... I can't make a lot of money. Most of the collection quests are medium-to-high-grade herbs or monster materials such as elven herbs, four-leaf mint, fire dragon scales, etc......
How could there be such a lucrative job in reality!! This can be compared to the well-developed magical world of Earth. The reason why the low-level is called low-level is because this kind of thing can be mass-produced, so it is classified as low-level understandable?
And if you think about it, even in the developed countries of the world, there has never been a freelancer who receives a daily wage and can stay in a hotel every day. If you don't rely on your parents, you can rent a cheap house or a chase shop. That's it......
Subsistence allowance? Labor protection law? What's that, is it delicious?
The evil otherworld, at least one more class than the earth, is the sleeping stables between the street and the Chase Shop...... And sleeping in the stables is still the norm for most adventurers...... I heard that some high-ranking adventurers were used to sleeping in the stables for a long time, but later they would lose sleep if they didn't sleep in the stables...... Make a straw nest in your own house for sleeping......
Then again, this is a violent other world with demon legions and monsters. The average life expectancy of people is only 30 years old, 30 years old!! This also counts those immortals who can live hundreds or thousands of years old, and they don't sleep on the streets or in the wilderness of violent corpses, which is already a good life!
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Of course, these thoughts are only for a moment, and Ah Zhen, who listened to my complaints, expressed some helplessness -
"It's useless to say this to me. This is the farthest town from Demon King City! Who would come all the way to attack a town like this, which is located on the edge and only has novice adventurers...... In other words, Yu Hangni wants to engage in some more adventurous-style events, right? You haven't even got some decent equipment together!"
I can't argue with A's pointedness.
That's right, unlike Ah Zhen's high-attribute high-level class, adventurer classes like us need equipment the most, how to say it...... For example, Ah Zhen is now a great sage profession, and he himself has that kind of similar system professional clothing. It is a basic occupation that allows people to see at a glance what kind of profession this person is. A dress made entirely of magic. It's very magical, and it doesn't take any action to equip a warrior with gorgeous armor, and he can make an invisible golden broken sword or something appear in his hand as soon as he wants.
It's like playing with poisoned milk powder, as soon as the ghost swordsman appears, he obviously has no weapons. But he will also hold a wooden stick in his hand, and if he doesn't have any equipment, he won't be able to run fruitfully......
…… Anyway, it's still my fault, and I don't even have the minimum necessary items and equipment. With a loan of 2,000 to start with, I just wanted to get at least one of the cheapest Katasho swords in the store, and I saw that I could buy a nice novice leather armor for a little more money! That's why I found a safe civil engineering project and worked diligently. As a result, after the money for leather armor was enough, I wondered if I could get a bracer or something and other bits and pieces. Sportswear and leather armor are mixed and matched in RPG games, can you go out wearing like this? As a result, it has been working ever since...... I even forgot about the first encounter...... The so-called 'habit' and 'inertia' are really terrible things......
So—
"Yes, but it's not okay to do civil engineering all the time...... It seems that I have also risen a few stars inexplicably, and the purpose of saying that I came to another world is not to be a laborer! I came to this world without computers and without video games for adventure! And in the first place, didn't the reason why you sent me here was just to let me crusade against the Demon King?"
Hearing me say this, Ah Zhen first said, "What are you talking about?" , and then pondered for a while before tapping his palm and saying:
"Oh! So that's true!
Oh, I've forgotten about the joy of labor so much that I'm immersed in it, but it doesn't matter if you defeat the Demon King or not, Yuhang, I didn't report this hope in the first place, so I won't be disappointed."
"I'm talking about you~!"
As a god, should we praise him for being able to enjoy heavy physical labor happily...... And listening to his answer as if he was pretending to be stupid, I couldn't help but recall that the big sister at the counter said that this guy's intelligence value is lower than that of ordinary people. It seems that this is the case. As the saying goes, stupid and stupid...... Stupid in the front, cute in the back. So if you want to be cute, you have to be stupid first......
"Alright, alright, crusade, let's go crusade! Don't worry, with me, a great sage, it can be solved in three or two clicks! Brother will take you to pretend to be b, and take you to fly!" This can be regarded as learning and selling now, and even the action is ......
「…… It's fine, but I'm always very uneasy...... But yes, you're the main god. I'm all up to you!
Okay, then, I'll use the money I saved to buy the most basic assembly and the piece hand sword, and the insufficient part Ah Zhen you lend me first, and I'll pay you back after I get the bounty, then! That's it. I'll start practicing tomorrow and I'll be waiting!"
"Wrap it around me!"
"I told you not to make a noise, I don't understand! Do you want to be beaten!"
"I'm so sorry!" 」
While apologizing to the other adventurers, we didn't go to bed right away with a heart of excitement. Rather—
"(whispering)...... How much are you going to borrow? I'm going to pay back Sister Louis 3,000 G recently."
"(whispering) It's okay, I don't like to carry debts, so I have five hundred and forty yuan now, and if you give you five hundred, you should be able to repay the money of the big sister named Louis, usually you always say AA, but in fact, you eat at least half of my meal, so you just need to lend me sixty yuan." The rest of the equipment will be counted first...... Before I knew it, the money had been borrowed for two weeks, and it would be embarrassing to be longer...... How can you say that you are also a main god, and you don't want to pay for meat for a mere 3,000 yuan, right? Louis, she's probably willing......
It's not that I'm boasting, people like me who are afraid of death probably don't dare to go out of the city if they don't prepare to gather a complete set of equipment for junior adventurers. Of course, even if I have a full set of equipment for beginner adventurers, I don't want to go out of the city...... But it can't be helped, because of the sad base value, except for the beginner adventurer suit, even if I have any equipment, I can't wear it...... And this world naturally has the concept of light armor, heavy armor, plate armor or something, but there is no need to elaborate at this time.
That's right, in fact, the most basic piece of sword is 100 yuan, and after going around a big circle, it is still 'going to the meeting with a single sword'. I knew that I would go directly to the crusade mission that day...... By the way, although the unit of money in this world is 'G', it is still customary to use yuan to describe it. That's right, I've learned to be good, and now when it's two people, we usually talk in the language of the earth...... And at this time—
"(whispering) The ...... In that case, let's not pay back Sister Louis's money first...... Otherwise, let's do another day of civil engineering work tomorrow......
"Ah Zhen, how much money do you have left?" I asked in a normal voice, very seriously.
"Two or two thousand...... $500 ......"
"Good, you convinced me. I decided to agree with your suggestion, don't pay back Sister Louis's money first, 3,540 yuan should be able to buy a set of novice cloth clothes left! When we complete a crusade and pay back the money, we can also invite Sister Louis to eat a dish made from the monster meat obtained from the crusade as interest, so it's decided, go to bed quickly, and get up early tomorrow."
What can I say! What else can I say?! The leather armor profession with the best cost performance has become a cloth clothing profession without armor, and he should really be praised for spending money and being very planned! I'm so hehe......