Chapter IV: Cash-for-Work

At half-past three o'clock in the morning,

Ten miles southeast of Gale City, on a dark fortification on the outskirts of Gale City, hundreds of heavily armed soldiers were on alert, and the rifles in their hands were all covered with dark blue bayonets, flashing faintly in the darkness.

It is so luxurious that only the government's army can afford to equip it.

At this moment, in front of a huge sign under this fortification, Qin Ge stood silently in the crowd, very inconspicuous.

The crowd numbered in the hundreds, and was gradually increasing, with more people appearing to be coming farther away.

There were men and women, old and young, strong and thin.

Some people are dressed in beautiful and tough leather armor, and their weapons are luxurious and majestic, and there are many who carry sniper rifles or light machine guns.

Others wore tattered cotton coats, and their weapons consisted only of spears sharpened from steel bars, or simple hunting bows.

There are also groups of people who shout five or five, obviously a well-organized team

Others just stood there like statues, alone.

However, they all have one identity in common, and that is bounty hunters.

Perhaps in some novels or games, these four words represent a chic knight, a free mercenary, and a thrilling, alcoholic beauty, and a life that is never monotonous.

But the reality is often so harsh.

The so-called bounty hunters who appear here at this moment are nothing more than a general term for refugees, proletarians, hungry people, vagrants, robbers, scoundrels, and adventurers in the city.

In order to alleviate the plight of material shortages and economic collapse, the government requires every city to issue this special cash-for-work task every day.

Taking Gale City as an example, hundreds of anti-virus missions with no star difficulty, even if they only reward a few hard steamed buns after completion, they can mobilize thousands of the weakest so-called bounty hunters.

Then there are dozens of one-star anti-virus missions, which can pull away a thousand stronger bounty hunters, and such rewards often range from a few silver coins to a few gold coins.

Finally, there is the two-star anti-virus mission, which is dominated by anti-virus hunters, and only the best bounty hunters can take it, otherwise it is a dead end, although the mortality rate of such a mission has always been extremely high.

As for antivirus missions with a danger of more than two stars, they will not be released here at all.

There are a total of four release mission sites like the one in Dafeng City, which are located on the four anti-virus frontlines in the southeast, northwest and northwest suburbs, which are also the government's garrison defense line in Gale City, which can effectively curb the occurrence of virus invasion events in the city.

In the crowd at this moment, Qin Ge's eyes kept staring at a certain anti-virus task written on red paper on the notice board, which was also the C1-level doomsday virus eradication task that he had been optimistic about a few days ago.

He was waiting, such a two-star mission, sometimes the government would send anti-virus hunters to lead bounty hunters to complete, and sometimes it would be completed by an unofficial team of anti-virus hunters, as long as they met the mission requirements.

At this point, a bounty hunter like Qin Ge has no right to speak.

They are like long-term laborers working for the landlord.

At 4:32 in the morning, many non-star anti-virus tasks on the notice board had been accepted, and there were not many one-star anti-virus tasks left.

Then, a fat man in the team turned his head, looked at the large group of bounty hunters, smiled playfully, and shouted, "Fifty bounty hunters, each with a base bounty of 15 gold coins, must kill up to 30 walking corpses, and an additional reward of 5 copper coins for killing an additional walking corpse, those who are willing to go have come to sign up." ”

As soon as these words came out, many bounty hunters who were staring at this anti-virus task were in an uproar, because the rewards were all said on the notice before, how to change it?

However, in an uproar, slander in the belly, except for the bounty hunters who have another purpose, the rest of the bounty hunters who feel that they are good in strength are rushing forward, in fact, everyone understands.

The previous reward was given by the official government, and if it was an anti-virus hunter team sent by the government, then it would be distributed according to the previous reward standard, and the government is now trying to rebuild credibility, and it will not allow such a thing to happen.

However, this time it was a private team that took over the task, similar to a small package foreman, so naturally, they would try to squeeze the bounty hunters who had little choice at all.

Qin Ge also rushed forward, although this time he purchased an additional ghost suppression talisman, a little ghost asking way talisman, plus materials for various gunpowder bullets and crossbow arrows, the cost was close to 25 gold coins, but the ghost suppression talisman and the little ghost asking way talisman may not be used.

In addition, this is the first time he has carried out a two-star anti-virus mission, which seems to be the easiest, and it should not be missed just to gain experience.

It's just that the anti-virus hunter squad wants fifty bounty hunters, and there are more than one hundred and fifty people in this brainstorm.

"Don't crowd, come here and line up, if you have the conditions to assess, those garbage and waste are better not to fish in troubled waters in front of the uncle!"

The fat man shouted, pointing to the side, and his companion had already gone to the side of a steam truck, and with a single brush, he lifted the black tarpaulin from the compartment, and immediately revealed the iron cage inside, which contained more than two dozen cyan walking corpse infected, who were now grinning and letting out a low howl.

"You can use a gun, a bow and a crossbow, a dagger with a long knife, a spear, any weapon, my requirement is three seconds, a safe distance of ten meters, those who can kill the walking corpse alone are qualified, and if you can't kill it, get out, ask yourself if you don't have that strength, get out, the uncle is busy in a hurry." ”

The fat man gave the assessment method again, and this time, many bounty hunters who were busy queuing up changed color, and after a moment's hesitation, many people chose to give up.

This condition is too harsh, it is not too difficult to kill the walking corpse infected, as long as it is far away, there are countless ways to do it, what traps, triplines, lassoes, bows and arrows, crossbows, shotguns, spears are too many.

As long as he has experience, a professional bounty hunter can hunt forty or fifty walking corpse infected people in a day.

However, everyone knows that the speed of the walking corpse at close range is about 30% faster than that of ordinary humans, especially the power of the bouncing and pounce, even if a man in the prime of life carries a large shield to defend, he can instantly pounce on it.

If there is a combat team to cooperate, the big shield is in front, the spearman is behind, and with the machete, it can be easily killed, but now this anti-virus hunter team actually asks for a single kill, which directly eliminates most people.

Many people were unwilling to look at the government officials working on the spot, but the government officials did not stop it, although this assessment is strict, it is actually within a reasonable range, after all, this is a two-star difficulty, and now it is better to be brushed off than to die in the task.

Qin Ge didn't leave, and there were still many people who didn't leave, as long as they had the confidence to take on the two-star antivirus task, they didn't pay attention to this assessment at all, because this was the most basic requirement.

The situation in the wild is complicated, no one knows where the walking corpse will come from, and if you don't have the ability to kill quickly, you are looking for death, and no one will save you at that time.

"You, you, and you, pass!"

The fat man's eyes were very poisonous, and some bounty hunters who were very experienced and had strong combat effectiveness at a glance were directly passed, and there were many people who were already known in the first place.

So in the end, there were people like Qin Ge left, less than ten.

In front of Qin Ge was a beard in his twenties, he was wearing a very neat combat uniform, carrying a tactical backpack, and the weapon in his hand was a black wooden spear, which was two meters long, giving Qin Ge the feeling that this beard was very calm, very calm.

"Brother, are you ready?"

The fat man glanced at his beard, and there was a hint of praise in his eyes.

"Yes. ”

The bearded man took a few steps forward and stood ten meters away from the iron cage, no more, no less.

At the same time, the fat man grabbed the heavy iron door with one hand, and lifted it up slightly, and immediately a cyan walking corpse howled and pounced, almost at the same time, Qin Ge saw that the bearded man had jumped up, and pierced the black wooden spear in his hand directly into the left eye of the cyan walking corpse at a faster speed, and the tip of the spear passed through the back of the head.

All movements are like birds rising and falling, extremely smooth.

A lot of people next to me didn't even see it very clearly.

"Good!"

The fat man shouted and cheered.

Qin Ge in the back also admired in his heart, this bearded man should be the best among the bounty hunters, except that he was not as good as the anti-poison hunter who had awakened his bloodline.

"Next, little friend, what weapon do you use?"

The fat man asked at Qin Ge at this time, his eyes swept over the waist inside Qin Ge's windbreaker, where there were two homemade short-handled smoothbore guns, this guy's poisonous eyesight.

Qin Ge smiled and didn't speak, although he was only seventeen years old, but his mother taught him a lot of experience, when he went out, he didn't show his hole cards.

A few steps forward, he stood ten meters away from the cage, no more, no less, and his sense of distance was also accurate.

"Click!"

The fat man released a cyan walking corpse like lightning with one hand, and in an instant, Qin Ge directly raised his left hand and continuously clasped the crossbow, and three ten-centimeter-long crossbow arrows shot out with lightning, one nailed to the forehead of the cyan walking corpse, one nailed to the left eye of the cyan walking corpse, and one nailed to the right eye of the cyan walking corpse.

"Bang dang!"

The cyan walking corpse fell to death, and Qin Ge's body didn't even move.

The fat man crooked his neck and glanced at Qin Ge an extra look.

"Pass!"