Volume 2 Wild Ambition Chapter 12 The Poor Employer (II)
Everyone didn't believe what this old woman said, but she immediately took out a bank document from the pocket sewn into her clothes, which clearly marked that this old woman named "Kulan" had a deposit of 7,000 gold coins in the bank!
When Nur and the others saw the figures, they couldn't believe that this impoverished old woman actually had a deposit of 7,000 gold coins—you must know that in the harvest season, after an ordinary farmer excludes the grain used to pay taxes, all the remaining grain, vegetables, and fruits cannot exceed 100 gold coins, even if they are all exchanged for money. But the old woman in front of her really has such a huge amount of wealth, and the bank certificate is also written in black and white, stamped, and it doesn't look like a fraud.
One-eyed Marcus walked up to Fidel's side at this time, bowed down and whispered in his ear, "It should be fine, because the people in the mercenary house will review the employer, and if the employer is her, she will probably be able to afford fifteen hundred gold... Eighteen hundred gold coins!" Marcus took the mission announcement in his hand, this mission announcement to eliminate plants was different from other ordinary mission announcements in that it did not state the real name of the employer, but only the detailed residential address of the employer.
Marcus, who had previously been the head of the mercenary group, knew that this was a secrecy measure for the announcement of the special mercenary mission, in order to prevent other mercenaries from knowing the true identity of his employer. Sometimes, in order to keep the employer's information more confidential, even other situations are not informed to the mercenary group at the beginning, and only the person in charge of the mercenary house can understand and act as an intermediary to handle the handover of tasks.
"Hey, how long are you boys going to stand at my door?" the old woman grumbled impatiently, trying to get the bank papers back, "If you are mercenaries, hurry up and go to work! What are you doing around me old woman?!"
Noor had no choice but to give her the bank's papers, and then said to Fidel, "The reward shouldn't be a problem, let's think about how to get rid of those green-stemmed plants." ”
After the others saw the old woman's deposit certificates, they were all instantly full of fighting spirit and full of confidence to complete this task, because the old woman also promised to pay an extra 300 gold coins as a bonus.
The old farmer was going to follow behind Feld and the others, and he wanted to see how to get rid of the green-stemmed plants.
"Then will the old man tell us where the plants are?" asked Avi to the old woman Kulan.
"Listen! I'll just say it once!" the old woman looked very energetic and her voice was very loud, "about ten minutes walk from my house to the other side of the forest, there will be a pond, and there will be several plants around that pond that attack people, and you can get rid of them all, and then stay there for the night, and if there are no more plants attacking you, then the mission is done!"
Kesi and Fan both looked disgusted when they heard that they had to stay there for the night to make sure the strange plants were gone. Although they were mercenaries, this place seemed to be full of snakes, insects, rats and ants, and wouldn't it be doomed if they were attacked by those green-stemmed plants while sleeping at night?, Kesi immediately pulled Fidel's arm, she was now more and more dependent on this wooden-faced man.
"Sister, no problem, I can go all night without sleeping," Greif said, patting his chest, "If you really don't want to sleep next to the pool, then go back to the Holy Light City and rest and wait for our news!"
When Greif said that, Kesi didn't want to. Although the big-nosed fan showed an expression of disgust, he was just putting on an expression, and he would definitely not "escape", if he went back like this time, he would definitely be looked down upon by everyone. She glanced at Ayana who was standing behind, and the little girl who was a few years younger than herself didn't say anything, of course she couldn't admit defeat so easily.
"Old man, aren't you afraid to live here by yourself?"
"What are you afraid of! Those things don't eat old skin and old meat!"
When they had agreed on their opinions, they took their weapons and went deeper into the forest, and the old farmer followed, but he left the oxen at the old woman's house.
Fylde was at the front, and Koth was right behind him, and the others were very vigilant, keeping an eye on the ground. It was already afternoon, and when they reached the pond, they began to take out some dry food and water, and sat down nearby to rest.
"This is just an ordinary pond, where are the attacking plants?" Blake was good at climbing trees, and he had climbed to the relatively high trees to check the surroundings. The direction of the old woman's house is not far from the plain, and the rudiments of the Holy Light City are not visible from the trees, and the other three directions are forest areas, and a large dense forest blocks a lot of sunlight behind the leaves, so as soon as Blake peeks out of the leaves, he is so exposed to the fierce sunlight that he can't open his eyes.
"If those plants were like the one just now, they would definitely sneak up on you when you weren't looking, so you won't see them!" Leonard, the leader of the squad with small pimples on his face, sat in the cleanest place ever, and he was always on the lookout for small bugs crawling on him.
The rest of the rest of the rest, the patrol of the patrol, Fielder did not assign any orders to them. Avi led the "king" into the wooded area, and he pulled the horse to the side of the pond, but the "king" did not bow his head to drink, and he did not eat the grass here.
As the sky darkened, nothing changed in the vicinity of the pond, and even the water in the pond was as quiet as a mirror. However, the people of the Potato Mercenary Regiment did not let this go, they all knew that those green-stemmed plants were most likely lurking nearby, and since the employer said that the plants that would attack people were in this area, they needed to be patient and wait for them to appear.
"I'll look deeper, you don't have to come along. Ayana didn't look at anyone and said this, but as soon as she finished speaking, she walked inside. Of course, no one stopped him, after all, even the deputy head of the regiment Feder didn't take a second look, and the others wouldn't do it.
It was already autumn and winter, so everyone had brought an extra piece of clothing just enough to last the night tonight. Greif gave Kesi his clothes as mats to spread on the ground, and he and the Marcus brothers built three fires next to the pond to deal with the wooded area that was about to cool down.
"It's really boring, there is no movement, if there are no green stem plants by tomorrow, will we also be able to get paid?" Although Big Nose Fan was not as good at climbing trees as Blake, he also climbed a very thick tree trunk three meters high and sat there in a daze.
"Whether the green-stemmed plants are there or not, we have to be very careful. Patrick had been on the alert in one direction, his twin swords on the ground, his eyes slightly closed.
Ayana had been gone for hours, and from the direction she had left, there was not a single flash of fire. Feder began to worry about the strange little girl, after all, the forest was unfamiliar to everyone, and the green-stemmed plants were attacking humans.
But while Fidel was worried about others, the danger around him was already approaching.
Patrick was the first to open his eyes, and the enchanted armor "Dragon Blade" on his body slowly turned from grayish white to golden yellow, which reminded Fede of the night he and his opponent were in the quad ring.
"There's a tree on this side—" The tree where Van was lying was right above Patrick's head, and he saw something moving toward the ground in their direction. But before he could finish his sentence, a green-stemmed plant sprang out of the ground, just below where Patrick was sitting.
Patrick leapt into the air with his twin swords as support, and out of the ground was the blood-red spike. The cone stabbed straight into Patrick's lower body, but Patrick twisted in the air, allowing the enchanted armor to take the blow. Before the sharp cone touched the "dragon blade", it seemed to be slashed by an invisible blade, and a hole was instantly cracked in the sharpest place, and some blood-like liquid splattered out of it, with a strong fishy smell.
However, the blood-red spike did not flinch, but continued to stab upwards and hit Patrick, and the champion fighter also fell to the side because he was hit by the armor on his back, but he was protected by the armor and was not injured.
The green-stemmed plant couldn't hit it and immediately wanted to retract into the ground, but the big-nosed fan who was lying on the trunk of the tree had already taken out his catapult iron spear and jumped down from the air, and the tip of his iron spear had already ejected towards the hole where the blood-red cone was sticking out.
The tip of the iron spear caught up with the blood-red spike that retracted, and the collision of the tip caused the blood-red cone to burst instantly, and the catapult iron spear also took advantage of the momentum, piercing the head of the greenstem plant and plunging straight into the bottom of the hole.
There were also green-stemmed plants approaching in other directions of the pond, and at the same time Patrick was attacked, four green-stems had already emerged from the ground, and their attacks had chosen those who were sitting on the ground, and the attacks were all on the lower parts of the crowd. Fortunately, the situation on Patrick's side alerted everyone, and even Noor, who had already squinted and slept, jumped out of the way, dodging the blood-red spike that came out of the ground.
With a cry that Clars had forgotten, she pulled the crossbow from her back and tried to shoot the blood-red head, but the three-pointed harpoon in Greif's hand pierced the cone before she did. As if he had stuck a fork in the thick noodles, Greif pulled out the whole green-stemmed plant that was hiding in the ground and threw it to the ground, but the plant with the blood-red head pierced was dead and motionless.
At this moment, a green-stemmed plant wrapped around the tree like a snake and struck the head of the team leader Bowen from a high place. Seeing that Bowen was about to be impaled through the head, Ayana's arrowless arrow had already flown in, directly hitting the protruding blood-red cone.