Chapter 650: The Second Batch of Finalists
Seeing that Ji Pengyun's behavior was a little abnormal, the two henchmen who followed him suddenly had a misunderstanding, and subconsciously became vigilant and looked around.
"Don't be nervous!"
Sensing the small movements of his subordinates, Ji Pengyun hurriedly stopped them in a low voice.
However, his gaze still followed the group of Savior's Guild masters passing by, until the other party's figure disappeared into the crowd of the market, and then he withdrew his gaze and fell into thought.
In the squad that had passed by just now, a silver-tier warrior inexplicably gave him a familiar feeling.
But Ji Pengyun could be sure that he didn't know him, and he hadn't seen that person before.
That's very strange.
Another person may laugh at himself, suspect that he has been dazzled, and have a delusion. But Ji Pengyun was very confident in his vision and intuition, and seriously traced it back in his mind.
It took seven or eight seconds for his eyes to light up and remember something.
Equip!
That's right, the familiarity didn't come from the master himself, but from the strange suit on his body, which was made of fiery red metal and inscribed with a large number of fire runes.
In the last days, although there are thousands of pieces of equipment, the vast majority of them are parts. There are very few pieces of equipment that can be matched to form a set. It was precisely for this reason that Ji Pengyun subconsciously felt abnormal at the first glance of the other party: just a quarter of an hour ago, he happened to see another person, wearing the same suit!
You know, it's relatively rare to meet a professional who has put together a 5-piece set.
Right now, in a short period of time, meet two professionals in one place who have collected the same suit?
Is this really a coincidence?
In Ji Pengyun's heart, a little doubt rose.
Just as he continued to wander around with this doubt in mind, the personnel who had been sent to contact the Rescuers Guild in advance hurried in. Beside him, followed by a team of masters of the Guild of the Rescuers.
Among this batch of masters, there happened to be silver-level warriors wearing the same suits!
"Can't be wrong!"
Ji Pengyun's heart sank completely.
The things of this world have never been repeated. If it's just that the two of them have the same suit, maybe there is a coincidence. But it's only been a long time since a third set has appeared, which can only illustrate one point.
The Guild of the Rescuers, who have mastered the channels through which they can obtain it stably!
Maybe it's dropped by some specific monsters, maybe it's a subclass forge...... But the latter is undoubtedly more likely!
If you think about it carefully, you can arrange equipment for silver-level professionals uniformly, which proves that the grade of this unknown suit will definitely not be low. At least it's a third-order well-made, maybe even a fourth-order suit, and the attributes should be very good.
This inference and discovery hit Ji Pengyun far more than what he had seen before.
After the establishment of the Jinzhou base, although it also increased its investment in the deputy position, it lost a large number of manpower in two war preparations, defeats, and compensation, which seriously slowed down the development of the base's deputy position. Up to now, the blacksmith deputy of the Golden State base can only mass-produce second-order magic-level equipment, and the failure rate is still very high, and it is not competitive in terms of scale or price!
Their enemies are already capable of producing a fourth-order suit!
"Bear the burden of humiliation...... Taoguang Yang ......"
Thinking of the words that Zhao Wangsun and other high-level officials of the base often talked about, Ji Pengyun couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
The gap between the two sides is so big, and it is still widening, will there really be that day?
………
Ten minutes later.
Ji Pengyun was "escorted" by a team of professionals from the Rescuers Guild and entered the guild's territory.
The second batch of compensation materials and gold coins transported by the convoy has been basically counted. Now he just needs to wait for him, the person in charge of the escort team, to complete the confirmation with the high-level of the Rescuers Guild in charge of receiving it, and get the receipt, and then he can leave.
Pretending not to squint, An An followed in, he had actually been taking the opportunity to speak, and he had been looking at the changes within the territory of the Rescuer's Guild with his spare eyes.
Although he couldn't see much from just a superficial peep, and the Rescuers' Guild didn't keep the basic information too secret, Ji Pengyun still didn't want to miss this opportunity - it was because the changes he saw in the market center were too amazing.
It seems that, at a time, with a slight interval of time, some of the information previously gathered is seriously outdated.
And this time, he did make a new discovery.
Right next to the original magic spire, the Salvation Guild has built a new stone tower with a simple shape.
As the director of the Blackwater Bureau, Ji Pengyun still knows a lot of information, knowing that the vicinity of the magic spire is the core area of the Salvation Guild, and professionals who do not have sufficient authority are not allowed to enter at will. The significance and role of the buildings that qualify to be located there are naturally extraordinary.
He had the heart to knock on the side, but he was afraid of causing unnecessary hostility, so he could only keep it in mind for the time being, and planned to investigate slowly after he returned.
But even so, what he had discovered was enough to make him breathless, like a heavy stone pressing on his heart.
What a lot of bad luck has fallen in the Golden State base, so that there will be such a powerful neighbor!
………
Only a few minutes later than Ji Pengyun and his party left, Fang Jin, who had returned from going out to level up, teleported back to the guild.
He was already level 28 last month, and he is using all the time to upgrade. This time I came back, just to repair equipment, clean up a batch of loot, and by the way, deal with the affairs that the guild has accumulated recently.
Huang Cheng, who rushed to hear the news, reported the important matters that had been prepared one by one.
"The graduation trials of the second batch of the National Career Program have been completed, and 1,600 survivors have finally advanced to the gray iron level!"
This is the Salvationists' Guild's top priority lately.
Compared with the first batch of about 3,000 people who were promoted, the number of people who were promoted this time is undoubtedly much smaller, just over half, including many people who participated in the first batch of training but did not pass.
However, given the scope of the selection of the first trainees and the severity of the phase-out, this figure is actually in the acceptable range.
In addition, as of the latest statistics five days ago, more than 200 of the 3,015 gray iron professionals in the first batch have been successfully promoted to the bronze level.
Even among the remaining members, many of them are close to promotion, and the overall improvement speed is very fast.
Just like the catfish effect, under the stimulation of the former, many low-level professionals who have become gray iron ranks a long time ago and have not been promoted for a long time also feel a strong threat. In order to keep his treatment, he had to level up, and two or three hundred new bronze ranks were promoted one after another.
As for those who still get by in this case......
The Guild of the Rescuers is not charitable, and since it does not know how to be motivated, the guild will never mind offering the rules of reward and punishment that have been drawn up a long time ago. Give a warning first, and those who do not change within the time limit will be directly expelled from the status of peripheral members.
Perhaps only then will they understand what it means to regret it.
The major events that followed the second batch of the National Professionals Program were naturally the re-operation of the Tower of Trials and the arrival of the second batch of compensation at the Golden State Base. It can be said that these two good news are of great significance to the current Salvation Guild: on the one hand, it expands the ways for members to hone themselves, and on the other hand, it effectively alleviates the financial constraints that have been slightly tight recently.
After dealing with these things, Fang Jin took a break for a day.
Then, he flew to the Wuhu Death Forbidden Land again without stopping.
It is not far from the end of the 3rd year of the end of the world, Fang Jin has already made up his mind, this time he will definitely rush to the golden level in one fell swoop!