Chapter 35: A Strange Caravan

After Li Gang finished registering the hunters, he went to the arms market organized by the hunters under the leadership of Gao Lei.

The Hunters' Organization is the only legal institution capable of buying and selling weapons. From this we can also see its relationship with the state. Of course, the black market still exists.

After taking a turn in the arms market organized by the hunters, Li just realized how poor he was.

Those weapons made of ordinary steel can only be regarded as crafts at best, and even the defenses of some low-level mutant creatures cannot be broken, let alone mentioned.

The weapons that are really useful against mutated creatures are all fortified with added solidifiers, or high-tech weapons, each of which is expensive to death. The cheapest dagger with a curing agent will cost 600,000, and Li Gang will only have more than 300,000 points in total, and now he understands that Gao Lei said that his big hammer of more than 8 million yuan is not bragging.

"Is inflation so bad right now? 300,000 can only buy a dagger? Walking through the underpass lined with weapons shops, Li Gang complained.

"The main thing is that the solidification material is expensive, and now the extraction technology is only in the hands of a few large companies and the state, which is basically a monopoly, and it is no wonder that it is not expensive." Gao Lei explained.

In the end, Li Gang didn't buy any decent weapons, but just spent a few thousand dragon coins to buy two stainless steel daggers without cured substances, and seventeen alloy throwing knives, although these things are not solidified, they can still play a good role if they are used well, especially against guys like brainless men.

Originally, there were eighteen knives in this set, but one of them was bitten off by the curious tofu flower

It can be seen that this weapon without adding solidified substances is indeed useless against powerful mutant beasts.

After coming out of the arms market, Li Gang went back to pack his luggage and went to the agreed place of the caravan with Gao Lei.

The caravan is scheduled to depart at 11 a.m., the departure point is the south gate of New T City, the hunters who accept the caravan escort mission need to arrive before departure, if the deadline is overdue, the employment relationship will be automatically terminated and the mercenary will notify the hunter organization, which will be counted in the credit rating of the corresponding hunter. The Hunter's Reputation Rating also affects the Hunter's promotion and serves as a reference for the Hire. General escorts, protections, escorts, assistance for this type of task employers will pay more attention to the credibility of the hunter. Tasks such as collecting materials, cleaning up mutant creatures, and exploring information are not required, and the publisher only needs to hand over the tasks and commissions to the organization and wait for the results.

As Gao Lei came to the north city gate, he saw a group of people and a convoy gathered at the city gate. When I saw the convoy, Li Gang thought he was dazzled, this is indeed a convoy, not an ox cart, but a real fuel car.

The convoy consisted of five large trucks, two jeeps. All five trucks were full, and it was impossible to tell what they were when they were wrapped in canvas. Of course, whatever it was and it didn't matter to these hunters, they just needed to make sure that the caravan arrived safely in Mingquan City and complete the mission.

And the hunters who participated in this escort were not only Gao Lei and his group of hunters, there were dozens of people around the convoy alone, and it was initially estimated that there were about forty people, some of whom should be the caravan's own people.

"Boss, this way!"

Gao Lei and Li had just walked out of the north gate, and Gao Lei's team members waved like him. Li Gang also walked over with Gao Lei.

Gao Lei looked around at the many hunters around him, frowned slightly and asked his team members, "These are the hunters hired by the caravan?" ”

"Yes, Boss, in addition to our team, there is also a team of hunters called 'Thick Earth', there are 12 of them, and the captain seems to be a high-level evolutionary. The rest were scattered hunters, a dozen of them, and the rest were caravan men. ”

"Generally speaking, just an escort mission, a team of hunters with high-level evolutionaries is enough, how can this caravan still find such a person?" Gao Lei wondered.

"Maybe their boss is a coward, or maybe he has money to spend, you care about him so much, how good is paddling." Li Gang didn't care.

"You really want to open it, I think his caravan is weird."

"You think too much, I said that this kind of intelligent role is not suitable for you, and you are more promising as a hot-blooded youth."

"Can I understand that you are humiliating me?"

"You said it yourself."

“。”

Although Gao Lei thought it was a little strange for this caravan to hire so many hunters as guards, he didn't think too much about it, because it was very likely that such a larger caravan would carry something valuable, and it was reasonable to find more guards to protect it. Moreover, the hunters are not in a group, and they also have the effect of deterring each other, which can greatly reduce the probability of the guards intending to attack the caravan and steal themselves. This kind of thing has not happened before.

Li Gang easily joined the ranks of guards under Gao Lei's recommendation, but since he was not a task in the hunters' organization, it was a private job, so even if he completed it, he would not have any contribution value. The reason why I didn't pick it up in the hunter organization was because this guard mission was a D-level mission, and Li Gang, who had just registered, only had a G-level and couldn't receive it at all.

The so-called private work is to bypass the hunter organization and directly reach an employment agreement with the employer, so that there is naturally no level limit, and the intermediate fee handed over to the hunter organization is also saved, and the contribution value for completing the task is also not obtained to improve the level of oneself, and can only get the commission negotiated with the employer.

And employers who hire hunters directly without the tasks issued by the hunter organization are like finding a nanny without housekeeping, which is cheap but not guaranteed.

The lack of protection applies not only to employers, but also to hunters who work for private purposes. For example, the employer deliberately defaults or withholds commissions, and the promised reward conditions are not met. You must know that employers who dare to do this are not good at stubble, even if you are a hunter of high-level evolutionaries.

And no matter which side of the private work suffers, the hunters' organization will not be responsible for it, and can only consider itself unlucky.

The boss of the caravan hired Li Gang, a G-level hunter, in the face of the high-level evolutionary Gao Lei, but the commission was only given to the lowest, because he had already hired enough guards through the hunter organization, and they were all hunters above D, and the evolution level was also intermediate or above, so he didn't want to fill in an additional commission, so he still gave a G-level hunter. It's just that Gao Lei said that this is his friend, and this boss has the right to sell this high-level evolutionary to bring one more person with one face.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the caravan departed on time, five large trucks divided into two in front and three in the back, and in the middle of the trucks were two off-road vehicles. In front of the two SUVs sat the caravan owner and his seemingly bodyguard-looking guys, and I don't know who was in the second car, because the glass of both cars was pasted with blackout paper, and the second car had never opened the door, so I couldn't see who was inside.

Dozens of hunter guards were sitting on the roof of the big truck, and Gao Lei and his team sat on the roof of the rear one with Li Gang.

Tofu Hua, who was riding in the car for the first time, was very excited, running around on the roof of the car, like a dirt bun that had never seen the world.

On the roof of the car at the very head sat half of the Thick Earth Hunter squad, and their captain Thick Earth was also on it.

"Boss Houtu, I heard about the hunter team at the back of the car, it's called the Fudo Hunting Team, and the big guy is their captain called Fudo Mountain, and he is a high-level strength-type evolutionary."

"Nonsense, of course I know he's a power-type high-level evolutionary, and you still need to say it? What about the ranks and evolution types of the other team members? ”

"This time is too short, I haven't found it yet"

"Waste, I can't even do such a thing, get out of here!"

The scolded team member immediately retreated to the corner of the roof of the car, not daring to make a sound.

"Captain, don't be angry, there are only a few people in that team What is there to worry about, except for that high-level evolutionary who is a bit difficult, I don't think the others are much stronger, as long as the black demon can deal with it alone, I am worried about the guy who just joined." Sitting beside Houtu, a white man with gold-rimmed glasses and a scholarly aura said gently, while he looked at Li Gang, who was trying to quiet down with excited tofu flowers on the roof of the last car.

"I've inquired, that person is a G-class hunter, codenamed Second Knife, and he seems to be an animal trainer."

Houtu glanced at the eye-eyed man beside him, then at Li Gang, and said, "Literati, don't sell Guanzi, what if you are a beast tamer?" ”

Houtu's attitude towards this glasses man is obviously much better.

"Hehe" The man with glasses called 'literati' lifted his glasses, he was used to this simple-minded captain, and said with a smile: "The problem is that he is an animal trainer, haven't you noticed it, captain?" Isn't it strange that he, as an animal trainer, doesn't have any beasts on his side except for a little girl? ”

"yes, where is his acolyte?" Houtu was surprised.

The literati shook his head, he no longer had much hope for this captain, and said slowly: "I have observed that that Fudo Mountain has a very good attitude towards him. There are two possibilities for this, one is that they are very good friends; The second is that he has the same strength as Fudo Mountain, so he is respected by Fudo Mountain as a high-level evolutionary. Judging from the fact that the other members of the hunting party kept their distance from him, consciously or unconsciously, I deduced that it was the latter. ”

"You still haven't said where his acolyte is."

The literati felt a sense of powerlessness and said, "Did you see that little girl?" If you're not mistaken, she's the two-knife beast! ”

"Are you kidding? What's the use of that little bit? ”

"Captain, have you forgotten? Isn't it true that the first mutant creature on the "Illustrated Book" that has been making a lot of noise recently, inhuman illusions can also be disguised as human children? ”

Houtu looked at the little girl who was pressing Li Gang's hand, and his eyes suddenly widened and exclaimed, "It's an illusion?" Now it's a problem! ”

"Don't be nervous, I didn't say it's an illusion, as far as I know, the illusion also has a high resistance to spiritual attacks, plus it is inhuman, with extremely high intelligence, if you want to accept the illusion as a beast, I am afraid that the most powerful beast tamer may not be able to do it."

Hearing the words of the literati, Houtu was a little relieved, thought about it and said, "But I heard that there is a beast tamer with illusions who entered the city yesterday, could it be him?" ”

"Illusions are not the only mutated creatures that can disguise themselves as humans, or maybe they're the living dead who have been subdued. No matter what it was, since he could be respected by high-level evolutionaries, it meant that his strength should not be underestimated. ”

"Yes, the combat power of two high-level evolutionaries is really difficult." Gao Lei said worriedly.

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much." The literati said again.

"What do you mean by that?"

"He's a beast trainer, the beast trainer is a powerful beast, but it's not very strong, as long as he attacks himself, the result can be imagined!" The literati lifted his glasses, and the reflection of the lenses made it impossible to see his expression hidden behind the lenses.

"Yes, why didn't I think of this, you are so smart, haha, we will definitely succeed this time!"

"Captain, keep your voice down and be careful to be heard." The literati reminded of the thick soil that got carried away.

"Rest assured, who knows what we're talking about"

"There is no big mistake in being careful, and it is not too late to be happy when things are done, and we cannot afford to be wrong this time."

"Understood, I'll pay attention." The hot-tempered captain unexpectedly accepted the advice.

On the roof of the rearmost car.

Li Gang and Tofu Hua sat facing each other, Li Gang held a small piece of meat in his hand and shook it in front of Tofu Hua, "Meat!" ”

"Meat?"

"Be smart, reward you." Li Gang threw the meat into the tofu flower's mouth, it opened its mouth to catch it, and it fell into its stomach in a few clicks.

Gao Lei, who acted as an audience, said: "Is it okay for you to train it like a dog?" ”

"The effect is obvious, now that I have learned a few words, I can also understand some of my simple instructions, it's only been a long time, this guy does have a little bit of wisdom." Li Gang proudly touched the head of the tofu flower.

"Tofu flower, roll."

After receiving Li Gang's order, Lori Tofu rolled neatly on the roof of the car.

Li Gang patted the little head of the tofu flower with satisfaction and praised: "Not bad, not bad, promising." ”

Gao Lei Waterfall Khan, "What kind of purpose are you training it for?" Then what are you going to teach it besides training it to roll, somersaults, and sell cuteness? ”

"Think about it," Li Gang pinched his chin and thought seriously for a few seconds, then said, "By the way, I haven't trained it to take off its clothes!" This is important. ”

As soon as Li Gang's words fell, he attracted the contemptuous eyes of everyone.

"You're a beast!"

"How can you slander me who is so pure and kind? I'm more wronged than Dou E and her brother! ”

The crowd was silent and continued to look at them with disdain

"Okay, okay, I surrender, I just don't want it to play with me every time it transforms, diligence and thrift are virtues!"

"There is no need to explain, explanation is a cover-up." Gao Lei patted Li Gang on the shoulder and said: "I can understand what you want to do with a perverted lolita like you, but you can only mole this inhuman girl, if you dare to harm a real human little girl, even if you are a friend, I will not let you go!" ”

"In your hearts, how scummy am I?" Li Gang asked Cangtian speechlessly

In order to reduce the danger, the caravan avoided all the towns on its way, and took the main road in the open area. Although there will be a lot of more roads to walk, it is nothing compared to life safety. It is expected to take four to five days to reach Myeongquan City.

Overall, the escort mission was quite easy, and the hunters had been sitting on the roofs of their cars chatting and dozing off, with nothing to complain about except for the wind and the bumps. It's best to get your hands on your commissions and contributions so easily. Even the occasional encounter with the living dead or mutant beast would not hinder the massive convoy.

The convoy ran until it was completely dark, and then stopped to rest. The wagons formed a semicircle on the side of the road, two off-road vehicles were parked between the wagons, and caravans lit fires in front of them to cook. The hunters, on the other hand, either eat together in the same group or eat separately. Hunters do not eat with caravans, and caravans do not provide food to hunters.

It is an unwritten rule that hired hunters bring their own food, and it is difficult to say why. Some say that hunters are worried about others doing their hands and feet in food for safety reasons; It is also said that the service is provided by the hired person, which may easily lead to conflicts due to the taste of the hunter. Others say that the employer will reduce the commission on the grounds that the food provided is expensive, and there may even be cases where the hunter not only works for nothing, but also loses money. In short, there are different opinions, and the exact reason is no longer verifiable, and the unwritten rule that the hunter should bring his own food for the escort duty has been continued.

Gao Lei's team lit a small fire on the side of the convoy and sat around eating their own dinner, including Li Gang and his pet tofu flower.

Looking at the little meat left, and then looking at the gobbling up tofu flowers, Li Gang had a headache.

"The meat that I bought for more than 30,000 yuan was eaten in less than a day, and of course it was eaten in the restaurant, and it was less than a day since last night. If you buy it for it to eat, it will definitely be eaten bankrupt, and it seems that in the future, you have to find a way to let it solve the food problem by itself. Just like the mutant pig it killed that night, it can also solve the food problem of my master. ”

Touching the little head of the tofu flower, Li Gang said: "You should be more leisurely, you have eaten everything today, what will you eat tomorrow?" ”

"Huh?"

After the meal, the caravan arranged for the hunters to take turns to keep vigil, and the two hunters' squads of Fudong and Houtu each sent three people to keep watch in the first half of the night, and then three in the second half of the night, while those who did not have a team were divided into two halves, half in the first half of the night and half in the second half of the night, and the caravan also arranged a few of its own people to keep vigil. This arrangement can play the role of mutual monitoring, guarding against external dangers and effectively preventing internal risks.

Think about it, if there is a team to keep vigil completely, if this team has any bad intentions, won't the unsuspecting people be served by Lian Fang? Therefore, the arrangement of the caravan can be regarded as clever.

Because Li Gang was introduced by Gao Lei, Li Gang was classified as Gao Lei's gang. The immovable hunter team kept vigil in the first half of the night with Gao Lei, Ma Ning, and Han Xiaodong, and Li Gang, Jiang Yan, and Ren Youwei were on duty in the second half of the night.

After assigning the order of night duty, Li Guodao: "Since I have nothing to do in the first half of the night, then I'll go find something to eat!"

With a few words, he disappeared into the night with the tofu flowers.

When the people of the caravan saw someone leaving, the person who seemed to be the manager of the caravan, and who had arranged the night vigil just now, immediately came to Gao Lei and asked, "Where did he go?" ”

"He just walked around the neighborhood and helped us make sure it was safe around the area." Gao Lei had no choice but to lie, he couldn't say that that guy was going to trouble the mutant beast.

"I didn't expect you to be quite thoughtful, I will report to the boss and improve your evaluation."

"Hehe, that's really thanks, in fact, it's all what we should do." Gao Lei was ashamed.

After fooling the steward away, Gao Lei's team members were about to burst into laughter, and someone went to desert to play soy sauce, which was inexplicably praised.

Li Gang, who was running wildly in the night, didn't know that his departure was also praised, and two figures swept through the night without leaving a trace.

In the evening, Li Gang had seen a village from afar, and at this moment he was running in that direction with his pet tofu flower, where there should be mutant beasts that could be used as food.

After running wildly for about half an hour, the deserted small village appeared in front of Li Gang's eyes.

Touching the top of the tofu flower's head, Li Gang said: "Now is the time for you to show your skills, quickly find out the mutant beasts that can be eaten." ”

"Huh?"

"Eat." Li Gang made a eating gesture at the tofu flower, "Do you understand?" Meat, meat to eat. ”

The extremely low visibility could not hinder the supernormal vision of being a phantom, and it could see Li Gang's movements clearly.

"Meat!" Tofu Hua finally understood what he meant after Li Gang's several consecutive words and gestures, raised his little head and sniffed vigorously, and then pulled the corner of Li Gang's clothes, "Pig ~~" At the same time, he pointed to a certain location in the village.

"What? Got mutant pigs? Li Gang looked in the direction of Tofu Hua's finger, and he couldn't see anything in the dark.

"Pig ~ Pig ~"

"Dear, are you calling me? Even if you can only pronounce one sound at a time, you can pronounce it correctly, the master's 'main' tone is three, with arcs, not a flat sound. ”

"Pig ~~"

"Whatever you want, is there something there? Ok we're on! Wait"

As he spoke, Li Gang suddenly took off the big T-shirt that was on the young body of Tofu Hua.

"How does this act look like a pervert who molests a young girl?"

"Huh?" The sleek Lori looked at her master suspiciously, and her stunned appearance made people laugh.

"Smack!"

Li Gang slapped it on the little buttocks of the tofu flower and said, "Okay, don't sell cute, quickly turn into and grab the meat." ”

This time, the tofu flower understood, and raised his head to the sky and roared.

"Ah~~roar~~~"

The crisp Lori clear voice suddenly turned into a deafening roar that resounded through the four fields, and the one-meter small body beside Li Gang instantly swelled to three meters away, turning into a howling wind and rushing into the village shrouded in darkness.

"Whoa~~Roar~~~"

There was a brief roar and the heavy sound of buildings collapsing from the village. Then there was a sharp clamming sound from far and near, and the ground trembled with the sound of impact.

Touch!

A huge black shadow landed in front of Li Gang, bringing a strong wind. Even if he couldn't see his fingers now, Li Gang could still see clearly that this was a combat form illusion, and he was still carrying a mutant beast corpse twice as big as him.

This mutant beast was also wearing heavy armor, and it was full of exaggerated armor thorns, each of which was like a sharp blade, and these armor thorns were even more terrifying than the illusionary ones. It had horns on its head, and the big horns that looked like a scimitar were a meter long, and it should have been two, but now only the right one remained, and the other disappeared along with half of its head.

The mutant beast's skull was empty, and Li Gang's scalp was numb when he saw it. As for where its brain went, the red and white remnants on the big mouth of the tofu flower had already explained its whereabouts well.

Tofu Hua didn't even take two minutes to go this time, whether it was too strong or this mutant beast was just a good-looking paper tiger Li Gang didn't know, but he knew a little bit, the food for the next two days was available, and the leather armor of this mutant beast could also be sold at a good price.

Throwing the mutant beast to the ground, the tofu flower quickly shrank into a meter-tall loli.

Although Lori is very cute, Li Gang will never admit that this Lori, who has changed from a hideous to a bad guy, has a dime to do with the contrast and cuteness.

Tofu Hua ignored Li Gang's tangled expression, stretched out his little hand and grabbed the corner of his clothes, shy and white little face, and shouted at him in an authentic Loli voice: "Meat~Meat~"

"You've just had dinner, and you're still eating? Even the rice bucket should be empty! ”

Li Gang looked at the cool Lori in front of him, there was no trace of blood stained in its combat form just now, and the young Lori's body was clean as if it was spotless white porcelain.

The day before yesterday, it got the pig mutant beast, so that Li Gang, who had not yet turned it into a pet, seemed to have this situation when he roasted it, but Li Gang and the others were too nervous to remember it at that time. Now it seems that the inhuman illusion transformation also has the side effect of cleansing the body, so it's no wonder that whether it is the phantom demon disguised as a baby who almost wiped out the rescue team, or this tofu flower, when they see them, they are clean as if they have taken a bath, and they don't look like they have been rolling in the dirty ruins all day.

"Meat~" Tofu Hua persistently pulled the corner of Li Gang's clothes.

After looking at the time, it was still very early until midnight, and it was too late to go back after a supper, but this supper was a little early