Chapter 43: The Meeting of the Ash and the Rough Stone
Now that you have arrived at the city gate, all you have to do now is to go into the city and meet the beginner trader. But now there is a very serious problem, they do not know the conditions to enter the city. Now it is clear that only Wang Jie, who has a pass to enter the city, can enter the city, and the others do not have a pass and cannot be sure whether they can enter the city.
"What now?" the five of them got together to discuss, and Ma Li said, "It stands to reason that there will be no tasks that are completely unsolvable, and novice tasks should be easy to use." "Then let's go over and ask if we're going to trigger some special mission to enter the city." Said the "gym curator" with a short axe.
"That's really the way to do it. Ma Li first agreed. As the person who brings one together, Ma has a faint higher voice in the squad than others. "But before we do that, we still have some questions that we don't know the answers to. Wang Jie said: "We don't know how friendly the soldiers guarding the city gate are with us, if it is hostile, it is very likely that they will be killed as soon as we meet." ”
"Radish is right. "There is another question, is this really the right destination?" we came here only to guess that we were in a city where there was a church, and then found the nearest big city through the map. If our reasoning is wrong in the first place, then there is no point in whether the city can be entered. ”
Now, the only thing the five of them can do is try their luck with the guards. After deciding on the matter, only the choice remains.
At this time, Wang Jie became the best choice. Wang Jie, who knew this result, naturally wouldn't let others point it out, and stood up: "I'll go, I have a pass, at least I won't be killed." ”
Ma Li nodded: "Then trouble you." As he spoke, he handed over his hammer.
Wang Jie looked at Ma Li's movements: "What are you doing?"
Ma Ma said, "Take this, you go there alone empty-handed, what if anything happens?" I will lend it to you, and you will return it to me when you get back the news." ”
Wang Jie didn't answer, turned around and walked and said, "You can take it yourself, I can't use this." ”
Wang Jie walked to the gate of the city and found that the people entering the city were lined up, in order not to attract attention, Wang Jie also lined up at the end of the line, and at the same time observed the movements of the people in front of him.
Soon, Wang Jie saw that people here would pay a certain entrance fee when they entered the door, and it seemed that there was no problem with silver coins here. Moreover, there is a clear record of both the entry fee and the commercial tax for the entry of goods, and there is no sign of enriching one's pocket. The security management in this city is good, Wang Jie thought that in a place with good public security, there should not be a situation where a knife is drawn to kill people without saying a word.
When it was time for Wang Jie to line up, Wang Jie took out the pass to enter the city. "Huh?" The city guards looked at the document and brought Wang Jie to the side.
"What's wrong?" his companion asked. The city guard said, "Letters of recommendation from the church school, you should go and inform Pastor Arjun first." ”
"Letter of recommendation?" His companion naturally knew what to do when he heard it: "You wait a minute. With that, he turned and ran to the side. The students of the church school are likely to become knights or priests in the future, but they are not something that an ordinary city defense soldier can afford to neglect.
Wang Jie waited in the rest area for a while, and the soldier who left came over with an old man, probably the pastor Arjun they were talking about.
Because it is the admissions season, there are many candidates who come here to report, and the process is also very standardized. After registering the basic information, Pastor Arjun learned that Wang Jie had no place to stay in the city, so he told him the address of the commercial market. After expressing his gratitude, Wang Jie asked, "Pastor, I have a few companions who have come all the way with me, can they enter the city?" Pastor Arjun said, "Yes, are they your guards? If your guards are less than 10 people, you don't even have to pay the entrance fee." After thanking Pastor Arjun, Wang Jie told Pastor Arjun that he was going to call his companion and turned away.
Walking to the meeting place, Wang Jie told the others what he had heard, and said, "Since this is the address mentioned in the recommendation letter, then the direction we are thinking about is not wrong." Jian Wu Feiyang clapped his hands: "This is good news. And now we have a way to get into town. Wang Jie nodded: "That's right, as long as you say it's my guard, you can enter the city." But now there was a new problem, the pastor told me the location of the commercial bazaar and recommended a few inns, but we didn't have the money. At this point, everyone fell silent. Indeed, among the five people now, Ma Li, Jian Wu and the curator all chose weapons, Wang Jie and Piaoxue Girl obviously chose special equipment, and none of them chose silver coins. Fortunately, they don't have to pay the entrance fee to enter the city now, otherwise they may not even be able to enter the door.
"I still believe there won't be a dead mission. Ma Li finally said: "Let's go to the city first, if this is really the mission location, find the trader first, maybe the key to breaking the game is the trader." ”
Indeed, the only way in front of them now is to enter the city, and as for the rest of them, they can only take one step at a time. At least, they found the right direction.
"Speaking of which, did you see the others?" said the curator suddenly, "We've met a lot of players along the way, right?
Indeed, I met people along the way. Maybe they found their way to the process, or maybe their clues didn't point to the trader. Sword Dance said, "Let's go to the city first, I'm sorry for you, Radish." ”
Wang Jie said that there was no need to be so polite. In other games, Wang Jie is similar to a transparent person, and it is rare to be able to undertake such a task alone, which feels pretty good when you think about it.
Due to Wang Jie's leadership, the group naturally entered the city smoothly. After that, Wang Jie said that he wanted to go to the commercial market mentioned by the pastor, and the others did not want to go anywhere, so he decided to go together, especially the information obtained through the NPC is likely to be the clue to the next activity.
As soon as they arrived at one of the gates of the commercial market, they suddenly noticed a cursor floating in the air in the market. Everyone's spirits were excited: although this broken game was troublesome, it seemed to be doing a decent job in terms of difficulty.
Walking towards where the cursor was, Wang Jie found that they had reached the vicinity of the hotel that the priest had told him. He told the others the news. "I knew that the location given by that NPC was a plot location, but luckily I was as witty as I am. Jian Wu smiled and patted the curator who wanted to go to the city just now, and said.
The group walked to the location indicated by the cursor and looked at the store without any decorations or signs. In the end, Wang Jie complained: "Is this to reduce the cost of making fewer models? Or is it another conspicuous style?"
However, he had already found a location, so he naturally wouldn't just watch here, and finally the snow on a sunny day pushed open the door.
The doorbell rings and the five of them walk into this offbeat store.
John, who was sitting at the edge of the counter reading a book, looked up when he heard the doorbell: "Welcome." Huh?" Upon seeing the five, John's True Eye spotted their anomaly: a strange symbol hanging from each person's head.
"Otherworldly souls?" John said, thinking about the description of the big plan, "you're not bad at speed, and you're coming here so quickly." ”
When he heard John say this, he asked, "Hello, has anyone been here before?"
John came out of the counter: "Yes, there are two batches in the morning, and you are the third batch. ”
Horsepower thought of something and said, "Is there a reward for coming early?" John shrugged, "There's no such thing." I mean, if you come along, I'll just explain it once, and I don't know how many times I've done this repetition. ”
"So that's the reason!" Wang Jie can't complain anymore, this NPC really has a personality.
"First of all, you have to come here with a legal identity. John rubbed his chin: "It's not particularly necessary, but if you don't have legal status, some things will be restricted, such as applying to join the national army." John read the information in his head.
"Identity?" asked Ma Mou, a little nervous, "Can you tell us more about it?"
"It's fine, sit down. John gestured to the table next to him. The five of them went to the table and sat down, as John had said.
"As you know, when you get here, you generally have no identity. As he spoke, he looked at Wang Jie and Piaoxue who were sitting next to him: "You two have identities, right?" The two nodded.
John continues: "While it's good to have an identity, like you can do something with it, or if it gives you some benefits, there are limitations. Piaoxue and Wang Jie nodded: "That's right." ”
"But with an identity, you can better integrate here, and at the same time, there are advantages in some aspects, and in general there are more advantages than disadvantages. John said.
"But the three of you are more troublesome. John looked at the other three and said, "Many things are inconvenient for you without identity. After all, people of unknown origin are rarely reused. ”
"How do you solve it?" the three of them asked as soon as they heard that there was a limit.
"There are three paths. John stretched out his hand and raised his fingers: "One, join the mercenaries." Mercenaries are originally a job of licking blood from the knife edge, no one cares who you are, and whether you can come back on the battlefield is another matter. This is the easiest way to do it, but mercenaries are not liked by ordinary people, and they have no chance of becoming at the top of society, after all, no one wants to accept the leadership of the war hyena except themselves. John put away a finger and continued, "Second, it is not impossible to become a member of the upper echelons of the church by joining the church, but it is very slim. Nowadays, in addition to the church schools that attract the aristocracy, many young children are selected from the families of believers to be cultivated from an early age, so that they can have enough devout faith. If you join, you will at most become a logistical backup for the Knights Templar, and you will not even gain full membership without major changes. Seeing that the faces of the three were a little dull, John shook his vertical index finger: "The last one, sell yourself to the nobility and become the guard of the nobility." The nobles can have their own garrison, and if they are appreciated by the nobles, they can be regarded as the number one person. Moreover, if the nobles who are loyal are big nobles, they may also become retainers or even accept sub-feuds and become minor nobles. In fact, most of the nobles came this way. ”
Hearing this, Wang Jie thought for a while and spoke: "My identity is a descendant of a lonely nobleman, can I make them my guard?"
"Oh?" John clasped his hands to his chest, "It is easier for someone who can have this status to become a nobleman, but you don't have this right yet." ”