"This number does not seem like much, but considering that the Corpse Hunter Guild was established in the middle of the Yuanjiang Anti-Japanese War, the total population of Yuanjiang at that time did not exceed 300,000, of which the number of corpse hunters accounted for almost 1 percent, and the ratio with the regular army reached 5.4 to 1."

"Of course, this comparison is meaningless, because keeping more than three thousand archives does not mean that there are more than three thousand corpse hunters at the same time." Speaking of this, Pei Qingxian's gaze dimmed slightly, "Corpse hunter is a high-risk profession, and the casualty rate was even higher than that of the regular army at one time, because the regular army has equipment, logistics and a perfect command system, while corpse hunters most of the time fight alone in the form of squads, and once they go deep into the dangerous area, it is easy to encounter accidents." ”

"Before the development of T-virus serums, corpse hunters generally had only one reason for retirement: death. Later, when T-virus serum began to be sold, the mortality rate of corpse hunters decreased, and the disability rate began to increase, and a small number of corpse hunters had to take a back seat due to physical disabilities. ”

"After being far from the front line, corpse hunters who are forced to retire must find a way to make a living...... While Corpse Hunters are paid well for completing their missions, Corpse Hunters often don't save much money. ”

"Why can't I save money?" Liu Zhongqian asked, during the Yuanjiang Anti-Japanese War, he was always hidden by Liu Yuanzhou and rarely went out, and all kinds of things in the Yuanjiang period were never recorded in the database of Zero One, so Liu Zhongqian did not know.

Pei Qingxian was stunned, he only thought that Liu Zhongqian was the observer of this report, but he didn't expect him to ask out loud, after asking Yang Xiaoqian with his eyes, Pei Qingxian turned his head to look at Liu Zhongqian, and replied seriously: "As the president of the Corpse Hunter Guild, I am not a simple manager, but also a corpse hunter who often runs on the front line, so I know this phenomenon better." The corpse hunters during the Anti-Japanese War were like, uh, like those adventurers in Western fantasy who fell into a strange circle, earning a lot, but not saving. ”

Why is this so? Because corpse hunting is not a video game, if it is an RPG game, the game designer will arrange for NPCs to send you equipment in order to make you want to play, and there will be monsters to give you explosive equipment. But being a corpse hunter is not like this, the Yuanyuan Rescue Association gave a lot of support in the early days of the guild's establishment, but at that time, the situation of Jiangxin Island and Xinyuanjiang was also difficult, the equipment was limited, it was impossible to take the equipment of the regular army to give it to the corpse hunters, and handing over high-end equipment to most of the corpse hunters was also a waste of military resources, so the corpse hunters had to figure out their own way. ”

"The conventional weapons and equipment are okay, the price is not too high, and with the help of the Far Rescue Society and the front finger of the corpse, the guild also has the ability to arm the first batch of corpse hunters in the early days of its establishment. But the main job of the corpse hunter is to hunt zombies and mutants, and they are destined to leave the safe zone and run around, so in addition to weapons, they also include ammunition consumption, fuel consumption, food, clothing, shelter and transportation, which are not small expenses. In addition, the corpse hunting industry is all dancing on the tip of a knife, and the head is tied to the waistband of the trousers every day, and the mental pressure is particularly high, so the vast majority of corpse hunters need a vent channel, and they generally go to the settlement to drink, gamble, and recruit prostitutes, which is quite expensive. ”

"And fighting monsters will not explode equipment, only the brain core can be collected, sometimes a battle is fought down and the damage to personnel and ammunition is counted, but the gains outweigh the losses, most of the time it is not the brain nuclei of zombies and mutants that really make the hunters profitable, but the materials found in the danger zone, these things generally have to be handed over, and they will be converted into corresponding silver coins and handed over to the corpse hunters, currency, it is always more difficult to keep for a long time than materials."

"Therefore, the corpse hunter really can't save money, and even if he is lucky enough to make a windfall, the corpse hunter will often not choose to wash his hands and retire, but will choose to buy better equipment, recruit stronger teammates, stock up on stronger alcohol, and then get drunk, sober up and continue to hunt corpses. Maybe this seems silly to the people in the peaceful city, but almost every corpse hunter has a blood feud with zombies and mutants, so they will choose this profession, even if they are forced to become a corpse hunter by their livelihood, as long as they go out on a few missions, they will hate zombies and mutants to the core. ”

"They are all people who have killed red-eyed, although this career is not long, but for most people, 'corpse hunting' has changed from a profession to a part of life and even the meaning of life, so as long as they are not dead or disabled, they generally will not stop."

"I see." Liu Zhongqian nodded, Pei Qingxian didn't shy away from the tricks that the corpse hunters did in the settlement, but Liu Zhongqian didn't displease, he liked the feeling of being treated like an adult.

"Well, because they can't save money, the corpse hunters who retire due to disability will not and can't sit back and find a way to find a job and get re-employed, after all, it was a time of war, and there was no place to raise a waste idler, and I don't think any corpse hunter would allow himself to become a parasite."

"However, some physically disabled corpse hunters did not have the livelihood skills needed at that time, for example, some corpse hunters used to be telemarketers and online merchants, and the skills they learned in normal society could not allow them to find enough jobs to fill their stomachs during the anti-corpse war, and they were disabled and could not bear manual labor, so they found the department responsible for arranging reemployment and asked for help."

"In the end, under the guidance of the Far Rescue Society, some retired corpse hunters have started a training industry to teach the experience of fighting zombies, and another part of the corpse hunters have joined the guild to expand additional business, turning the Corpse Hunter Guild from a non-governmental organization only responsible for hunting zombies and mutants into a large intermediary similar to the Adventurer's Guild Mission Hall, where anyone can issue bounties in Fort 1 and Fort 2 after paying bounties and intermediary fees, and Corpse Hunters are slowly becoming more like adventurers in adventure."

"By the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the corpse hunters distributed in Xinyuanjiang, Jiangxin Island and various settlements would not only explore dangerous areas to search for supplies, but also undertake tasks such as patrols, sentry posts, and guards, which greatly eased the pressure on the regular army."

Pei Qingxian paused and explained carefully: "For example, the sentry in a certain settlement found that there was a small wave of corpses moving towards the settlement, and at this time, if you want to transfer troops from Xinyuanjiang or Jiangxin Island, it will cost a lot, but you can't sit idly by and ignore the corpse commander, then you can issue a bounty task and hand over the problem to the nearby corpse hunter team to solve." Similarly, people can fund or raise funds to publish tasks. ”