I saw Gerthia exhale heavily, under the reflection of the light, a layer of crystal sweat beads appeared on her forehead, Lin Jue saw this scene, and was suddenly a little surprised, and wondered: "What's wrong?"

Gerthia didn't know what she was thinking, and she obviously hadn't come back to her senses at this time, but she shook her head in hindsight and said, "Ahhhh ”

At this time, the drink she ordered had been brought to her by the waiter, unlike the mead that Lin Jue liked, what she had in her hand was jasmine wine made from jasmine pollen, she raised the cup, but she just took a sip absentmindedly, looking preoccupied.

Seeing this scene, Lin Jue's heart began to mumble, it was just an escort mission, and it was not a mission to go deep into the tiger's den in Longtan, besides, isn't the Crazy Dragon Mercenary Regiment a mercenary group that has a record of slaying dragons?

At this time, he remembered what Lu Haoyue had said to him before: "The number of mercenaries in Phoenix City has been increasing recently. ”

At that time, he didn't take this sentence to heart, and thought about it carefully, since the number of mercenaries has increased, the difficulty of receiving mercenary commissions should increase, and someone should take over this task, but Lu Haoyue's later performance seems to be telling Lin Jue that this is not the case.

Looking back now, it seems that Lu Haoyue already knew the reason why no one took this escort mission.

So he looked at Lu Haoyue and asked, "What did you mean by what you said before, the number of mercenaries in Phoenix City is increasing?"

Lu Haoyue shrugged her shoulders indifferently and said, "Don't ask me, I'm just guessing, I'm a person, you know, I won't say it casually without a definite answer." ”

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Haoyue said in an uncertain tone: "By the way, not only is the number of mercenaries increasing, but also the backlog of commissions in the mercenary guild is also increasing, it feels like the mercenaries are on vacation collectively, as for the reason, why don't you ask Miss Gerhia, she is a mercenary, these situations, she should be very clear." ”

Hearing this, Gerhiya sighed softly, didn't wait for Lin Jue to ask, nodded and said, "That's right, Lord Lu is worthy of being a detective who has investigated countless cases, and you can notice these things that have nothing to do with you." ”

"Recently, in Phoenix, no, not only in Phoenix, it should be said that a large number of mercenaries have gathered in the cities on the eastern border of the entire human colony, the only difference is only the number, but there are so many mercenaries in a state of idleness, and the mercenary guild has indeed accumulated a large number of commissions recently, and no one has taken them. ”

After the two of them said this, Lin Jue immediately understood what they meant, not that the entrusted task he issued was too difficult and no one dared to undertake it, but that there was something else hidden in this matter.

Even Lin Yue stopped teasing the little guy in her hand, and she was also aroused by the curiosity of the two's words.

Gerthia picked up the wine glass again, took a sip, and said: "Not only the mercenaries who fight alone, but even the mercenary group, all of them have stopped recently, just like Lord Lu said, this meeting is indeed rare, as if the mercenaries are on vacation collectively, but for such a situation, even our dragon mercenary group is helpless." ”

"Moreover, when such a situation occurs, the biggest loss is not the mercenaries who fight alone, but our A-level mercenary group, the dragon mercenary group has a big business, even if they don't do anything every day, there will be a lot of capital expenditure, to be honest, this situation has happened for more than a month, and for more than a month, we have been in a state of loss every day, not that we are willing to be idle like this, but that we really dare not take any entrusted tasks related to the Southern Forest. ”

After Gerthia gave a detailed introduction, Lin Jue figured out the cause and effect of this situation.

This has to start with the basic situation of the Eastern Continent, in fact, the reason why there are people in the Eastern Continent who are willing to come to immigrate, and there will be a large number of mercenaries who are willing to cross the ocean and leave their homeland to settle in the Eastern Continent, which is thousands of miles away, is because the magic industry in the Eastern Continent is too prosperous.

According to the statistics of Dawning City, eighty percent of the trade share of this section of the route between Dawning City and Splendid City last year was occupied by the magic industry.

In this era, all the feudal kingdoms have not yet realized what a new continent represents, for the entire human civilization, no country has taken the initiative to intervene in this land officially, it stands to reason that even if this place is discovered by humans and colonized by humans, it is only regarded as a dispensable land, after all, the countries are beyond the reach of the whip, even the powerful Yan Empire can't control the affairs here.

But in this world, because the magic industry in the Eastern Continent is too prosperous to be underestimated, although all walks of life have not yet realized the value of this continent, but because of the magic industry, it has slightly driven the development of immigrants in the Eastern Continent.

The reason why the magic industry in the Eastern Continent is so prosperous is based on the raw materials of magic materials that cannot be found in the central continent, whether it is trading with the indigenous races of this continent, or the actual exploration and gathering of human beings, as long as the people who participate in the development of this industry can get a lot of valuable rewards.

And the prosperity of the mercenary group in the Eastern Continent is under the background of the prosperity of the magic industry in this era.

After all, the huge population base of the Central Continent has created a large number of magicians, and the greater the number of magicians, the more the consumption of raw materials required for magic is increasing day by day, and relying only on the exploration and collection of ordinary people and the income from trading with the aborigines has long been unable to satisfy the appetite of the magicians.

At this time, the mercenaries took a fancy to the profit value of the property.

Here, people need to understand a concept, what is a mercenary? To sum it up in one sentence, taking people's money and eliminating disasters for others is a mercenary.

As long as the profit is sufficient, there are naturally a large number of mercenaries who are willing to risk their lives, and most of the people who are willing to become mercenaries are some outlaws, or people who really don't have a skill to gain a foothold in society.

These people, they can only fight for their lives, do something that others dare not do, step on the trajectory of the scythe of death, earn profits, and support their families.

It is true that the number of raw materials for the magic industry on the Eastern Continent is extremely large, but many magical materials are not found by people walking in the mountains and forests, and some special materials can only be obtained by existing in some strange secret realms, and money cannot buy them, and they can only be obtained occasionally by trading with the aborigines of the Eastern Continent.

But the wealthy masters don't care about these, what they need is only materials, and they can't buy them at the standard price, so double it, and then they can't buy it, and then double it, if they still can't buy it, then the mercenaries will have the task of coming.

Their task is naturally to go to some places that the aborigines of the Eastern Continent are very reluctant to enter, to search for these scarce materials.

As one of the secret places in the eyes of humans, the southern forest is undoubtedly the most abundant in resources and the least dangerous place, because the aborigines who live here have a very friendly attitude towards humans.

In the southern forests on the periphery, ordinary people can walk in, and naturally there is no need for mercenaries, but in the depths of the jungle, professional mercenaries are needed to take risks.

It is precisely because of this that the commissioned mission of the Mercenary Guild, Eight CD, was released for the scarce materials in the southern forests.

Gethia took a sip of jasmine wine, sighed softly, and said: "But on the contrary, people think that the southern forest, which is the safest, has happened for more than a month, and the relative safety advantage here has been wiped out. ”