Chapter 5: Who doesn't have a nickname yet
Pedestrians rubbed shoulders one after another, and a fast sign was erected in the crowd: Nurse on the outskirts of the Fallen City, the land of ice, the fire attribute speed report the more the merrier, and the Pluto space station dimensional weapons are given priority reception...... Although the ark has adventurers to team up to recommend, but this kind of desperate work is best to inspect teammates, so there are people stationed in this trading hall all year round, these people holding signs are not necessarily the main force of the team, but they can help the team recruit people and give the team time to run in, such as the armor man and Gu Zheng, the team that does not run in after the team is a very small number after all, unless the time is particularly urgent, it basically takes more than a month to run in. Each other's attack habits, attack intensity, reaction speed, and team's cooperation...... The tacit understanding between the teams is grinded out little by little by time, and it is the trust that is exchanged for back-to-back support between life and death. And characters like Gu Zheng, who no one cares about, are collectively referred to as playing soy sauce.
Any team needs the existence of soy sauce, after all, every extra person in the team means an extra share of the spoils, so all teams are basically a radish and a pit, and everyone has an important position. But after all, this is to fight with your life, for the greater good, after the strength is improved, you will naturally go to more dangerous places, which means the unknown. Every new location needs to be explored by itself, after all, there must be people in every place, and no one will put their interests in the hands of others, so they need human lives to fill in.
Traps, the attack methods of monsters in the new environment, the materials that can be obtained...... There are countless maps in the world today, all of which are filled in with one life after another. And the so-called maps, all of them are killing chickens and eggs, basically after a team is almost wiped out, the remaining fires in these teams have to sell the news filled in with their lives in order to resurrect their teammates. It is conceivable that these people are still thinking about exploring again after their teammates are resurrected, how can they be able to tell the truth, although there will be no traps, but there must be a large degree of concealment. What's more, there are only a few teams that destroy the group, and more teams will protect the information they get as confidential. Although the Ark will also take the initiative to explore, whether it is the maps circulating on the market or the places explored by the Ark, in this huge world, it is just a drop in the bucket. And the role of soy sauce is to step on the trap and fight hard as a death squad in the ranks! For these people who have nothing and can be resurrected after death, it is of course a profitable business. When a person doesn't care about anything but his life, there will always be a way to what he wants.
In the past, Gu Zheng was used as soy sauce at the beginning, fighting with his life. But later it was found that all the soy sauce could get was only a compensation for its own life, and what it got was even inferior to some high-grade materials, so Gu Zheng gave up the business of making a living from soy sauce. After picking mushrooms for a few years, I desperately began to explore. In fact, the initial accumulation is not difficult, when soy sauce, strengthen itself with life, and continue to be soy sauce after consuming a certain lifespan, so as to accumulate strength in a continuous cycle. After all, soy sauce needs to be compensated, if the life span is too high, no one will buy it at all, so you can only squeeze your own life to five to ten years, and then get double the resurrection, and there is only some compensation. However, as long as you grow up and have the ability to explore alone, as long as you don't die, the speed of development will be much faster.
Looking at the teenagers, girls and even old people in animal skins who kept wandering around the square, Gu Zheng shook his head helplessly. At this moment, there was a sudden weight on his shoulders, and a person stood behind Gu Zheng and said, "This little brother, I see that your equipment is just ready to face this dangerous world......?"
"Old snake, when it comes down to making trouble, don't joke about your brother. Gu Zheng turned his head and smiled: "What's the matter, Brother Snake has a good job for the younger brother? The younger brother is a professional soy sauce, and his life span is only three years, and he needs very little, everyone is reasonable, how much do you think I am worth?"
Standing in front of Gu Zheng at this time was a man about 1.6 meters tall, with a slightly hunched back, his face was covered with wrinkles, and his glasses narrowed when he smiled, looking extremely kind. He was dressed in a gray classical costume, which is said to be called a Tang costume, and he was wearing simple thick-soled cloth shoes, which was very eye-catching among the crowd wearing various armors. No one knows this person's real name, and he has a wide range of contacts, no matter what he lacks is a useless soy sauce or a talent with rare attributes, as long as he is given three days, he will definitely be able to find out. Although it looks kind, it is said that when he is ruthless, he can swallow all the bones and flesh of a person, hence the name Old Snake. After all, there is a good saying that names can be wrong, but nicknames can never be wrong.
The old snake was slightly stunned for a moment, and then took a step back: "Be reasonable? Your boy's parents named you Gu Mantang, just because they want your children and grandchildren to be full of people, but what about you? What you are talking about is reasoning with people everywhere, when did you not use strong words to anger others? After so many years, no one knows Gu Mantang, but Gu Zheng is quite famous! Gu Zheng Gu Zheng only cares about Zhengfeng! You, sooner or later, you will suffer a loss on this broken mouth! I heard that your boy is so frightened by a girl that he doesn't dare to get out of the nest, why, out of the mountain?"
Stretched out his hand and patted Gu Zheng's shoulder, the old snake sighed and said: "Your father Gu Yan was grown up by me, do you look at your equipment, is it worthy of your strength? ”
This can make Gu Zheng happy, after making a deal with the armor man just now, it will be nearly two hundred and fifty years after he gets it, and the old snake will go to a fraction of a mouth. Shaking off the hand hanging on his shoulder, Gu Zhengshou raised his hand and said: "Here is a twenty-year lifespan, plus the standard money, you can get me a war knife of about twenty catties of the Tang Dynasty in China, give me three states of solidity, sharpness, and demon breaking, each enchantment has a low-level effect, and the rest is considered an errand." You don't have to do it yourself, and the profits in the past two years are not too small, I'm really not rich now, and I'll look for you next time. ”
The old snake was originally teasing, but at this time he was really curious: "D-class adventurers come as standard? I said that even if you have no family background at all, it will take you a few days to equip a set of equipment? Do you want to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, or is the time really so tight?"
"D-class adventurers don't have to pretend to be pigs, okay?" Gu Zheng said helplessly: "Didn't you hear about the incident a while ago, I was ...... The girl was so scourged that she almost got a job in the ark and never went out again, and the equipment was almost sold. Who can I pit at my level, those E-class kids? Why am I so inhumane? I'm really in a bit of a hurry this time, you can help me as soon as possible. ”
The old snake looked Gu Zheng up and down, frowned, and said, "Your kid's dimensional backpack can't be sold, and the rest of the patchwork is about two thousand years old even if it is sold cheaply, so it won't be used as standard...... The soul lamp and the spirit fox dart are more than that. ”
As an adventurer, although he has hole cards, to be honest, there are not many who can hide his hole cards so that everyone doesn't know. Every expedition is a contest of life and death, even if it is a three-person team like Gu Yan, for the sake of interests, he often has to cooperate with other teams, and it is not impossible to think about hiding his strength between life and death, but Gu Zheng did not do it. In the past few years, the means of becoming famous have long been touched. Fortunately, the D-class explorers have a record in the Ark, and they can be regarded as incumbents of the Ark, and there are not many enemies in Gu Zheng, so they have not been targeted. As for the dimensional backpack, it is a high-end thing on Gu Zheng's side at one end and inside the ark at the other end, unless Gu Zheng sells it himself, even if Gu Zheng dies ten thousand times, ordinary people can't get through it if Gu Zheng doesn't want to sell it. Of course, if there is a power that can touch the soul to engage in Gu Zheng, then Gu Zheng can't do anything, but to that extent, who will be idle and mess with Gu Zheng.
Rolling his eyes, Gu Zheng smiled bitterly: "Old snake, don't you know it clearly." I offended the girl because of my cheap mouth, and I was killed twice on the spot, and if I hadn't been lucky enough to gamble with that little life, I'm afraid you wouldn't have seen me at this time. ”
The old snake laughed and said: "It is said that you were eating in the small shop at that time, and when you saw that the girl was beautiful and cheap, you were killed on the spot by the girl's entourage, and you were killed again and again." If you hadn't coaxed that girl to look like your dead sister, and coaxed her to go to the Colosseum and buy a spirit fox as an apology, I'm afraid you would have been taken away by that girl and tortured. ”
In fact, it's pretty much the same. But the only difference is that the girl didn't want to torture Gu Zheng if she wanted to arrest him, but said that she did have a long-lost brother, and she had to take Gu Zheng back to recognize her relatives. The father of the family is a high lord, Gu Zheng's background is clean, if it can be the girl's brother, it would be strange, if this girl is brought back, it will be a complete death. Frightened, Gu Zheng panicked on the spot, coaxed the girl to be happy, and sold all the equipment to buy a cute-looking spirit fox, and then coaxed the girl home. It is said that the girl already knew that she had been deceived when she left, but she did not pursue it afterwards, which allowed Gu Zheng to save a small life.
As he spoke, a man of about sixteen or seventeen years old walked over, bowed his head and handed the old snake a space backpack. The old snake waved his hand, and Gu Zheng took it easily, and it was only ten minutes before the standard equipment arrived.
The so-called standard equipment is actually an iron light armor helmet, a low-end pulse pistol, five talismans to ward off evil spirits, and three bottles of antidote, exorcism, and healing. Add ice, fire, wind, thunder, earth, water, six scrolls of first-order magic, and finally an enchanted short sword, these are the so-called standard equipment. Although there are not many items, whether it is magic, supernatural, or cold weapons, they are all involved. The price of this standard configuration is not expensive, and it can be exchanged for about ten years of life. And in the far corner of the backpack, there is a Tang-style war knife lying quietly, of course, the war knife itself is not worth ten years of life, but this weapon is enchanted with the three effects of sturdy, sharp and demon-breaking, it is worth about five years. As for the rest, it is to let the old snake know that the D-class adventurer Gu Zheng has returned, and if there is a task, you can contact it. Of course, the premise is that Gu Zheng can come back alive after this mission.