Chapter 20: The Evil Spirit Beneath the Ruins

An army of several hundred men was not allowed into the camp, and after the leader showed his identification, the local garrison generously donated a piece of land for the desert lizards.

At the same time, in order to avoid too much commotion caused by the shape of Lulanke's "Jackal God", everyone had to temporarily separate from Lulanke for a while, and the latter continued to pretend to be a ghost and try to get the necessary materials, while Tang Ruiyi and the others simply went to the camp to find clues about Cursed Town by themselves.

The Ranger Camp, though called a camp, is more like a military town, where you can see women wearing white scarves and holding clay pots, adventurers wrapped in linen cloaks and swords pinned to their waists, and vendors shouting on the roadside.

There were only three wells in the camp, on which drinking water depended, and the local monetary system was rather chaotic, with the exception of small plates issued by the Russaiyan Treasury (clay glued on both sides and inlaid with a mixture of silver and copper), rare metals, dried food, and cool spring water were used as currency.

At the same time, although the camp is small and full of sparrows, all kinds of buildings are relatively complete, such as simple shack schools, temples made of sand and stones, fruit shops selling all kinds of exotic plants, etc., but because of the remote location, there is a lack of shops selling luxury goods such as jewelry stores and fur shops.

Silently feeling the peaceful and peaceful atmosphere in the camp, Tang Ruiyi's originally irritable heart also calmed down unconsciously.

But the strange thing is that such a prosperous camp seems very gloomy, and most of the pedestrians on the road are in a hurry, sighing and sighing, and rarely see a smiling exchange, is there anything unspeakable? But I didn't see anything bad happening along the way.

Tang Ruiyi was very puzzled by this, just because he was also thirsty, so he simply found a fruit shop and walked in, the owner of the fruit shop was a young woman with bronzed skin and a bewitching and sexy figure, and the thin gauze could not hide the two proud waves on her chest at all, but don't look at people's beautiful parents, it is really not soft at all to fool people.

As soon as she saw Tang Ruiyi walk in, the young woman took a closer look, her slender wrists, fair skin, no calluses on her hands, and delicate clothes (he took off the God graffiti suit before entering the camp, and now he is wearing casual clothes designed by Luopu), which is completely in line with the image of a little noble heir.

The young woman's eyes lit up immediately, and she immediately surged up with great enthusiasm, and opened her mouth: "This adult, what do you want to buy?"

Tang Ruiyi said: "Is there any thirst-quenching fruit?" ”

The young woman smiled: "Oh, it just so happens that I just bought a batch of Yayoi fruits, which are guaranteed to be big and sweet." ”

With that, the young woman took a pimple-covered green oval fruit from the cupboard.

Tang Ruiyi poked the pimple with curiosity, and found that although this fruit called "Yayoi Fruit" looked scary, with a little force, the juice suddenly splashed, revealing the dark yellow flesh inside and a refreshing fragrance.

"Well, yes, how much is one?"

The young woman smiled and said, "It's not expensive, it's only 20 small plate coins." ”

Faint to death! 20 small plate coins are still not expensive? Tang Ruiyi was really thundered, you must know that even a regular desert rider's monthly salary is only 50 small plate coins!

"Haha, it's really not expensive. Tang Ruiyi laughed twice, and was already ready to flash.

Seeing this, the young woman hurriedly said, "Don't go, the price is negotiable." By the way, I also threw a wink.

"Uh...... Then you can give a reasonable price. ”

The young woman pretended to be embarrassed: "What about the 14 small plate coins?"

Tang Ruiyi frowned, and made another movement to turn around

The young woman had no choice but to pout aggrievedly and say, "Okay, how much do you think is appropriate!"

Tang Ruiyi thought to himself, and said that it would be 8 small plate coins, after all, it is not easy for others, so let her make some money.

When the young woman heard this, she immediately became anxious, and she didn't do anything alive or dead, and finally she raised the price to 10 small plates.

Tang Ruiyi thought about it, and if he suffers a loss, he will suffer a loss! It is estimated that the reasonable price is like this, (after a long time, he knew that 3 small plate coins were the right price!)

He used silver nuggets to settle the bill, and the young woman accepted it happily, while eating delicious fruits, Tang Ruiyi asked vaguely: "Has something happened in the camp recently? Why does everyone look sullen?"

As soon as she said this, the young woman also sighed, put her hands on her chest (cough cough) and made a gesture of divine blessing: "You are an outsider, right? Well, that's a long story, for a long time, our Ranger Camp has been a symbol of prosperity, whether it's sweet fruits or beautiful artifacts from ancient ruins, and the Ranger Captain Fercel Bush stationed here is very popular. Qingshi is a very enthusiastic and good man, never leviing heavy taxes on everyone, and often helping everyone to drive away wild beasts and monsters, even a few kilometers away Shabor has heard of us, and often admires travelers and adventurers to settle here, but unfortunately the good times are short-lived, since the gang angered the gods, everything has changed. ”

"Oh, did something happen?" Tang Ruiyi asked curiously.

"Hmm...... A week ago, a group of strange people entered the ruins and stole the statue of Sid (the god of scorpions and vipers) that had been enshrined in the Hall of the Damned, and after that, things got out of control, and countless giant scorpions erupted from the ruins, causing a great impact on people's lives. ”

Tang Ruiyi said thoughtfully: "Is it because of these monsters that the camp is so depressed?"

The young woman nodded: " Yes, at the beginning, the giant scorpion was relatively restrained and did not dare to attack the crowd, but as the statue was lost for more and more time, the scorpions became more and more violent, and many people who went out to fetch water were sneak attacked, although the commander of the youth division had issued a wanted warrant to reward the group of thieves, but with little success, and finally everyone had to take up arms against the scorpions, but then things became more and more weird, at first the well dried up, and then the plants stopped growing, and the land became more and more desolate, fortunately, every household has the habit of stockpiling food, so the matter is not too serious。 But later, terrible mutations began to occur among the giant scorpions, and more than once it was said that they had seen the 'golden scorpion' that could burrow into the ground. Then the archaeologists couldn't dig into the ruins, the miners couldn't dig the veins, and some of the unruly residents moved away, and my husband died because of the scorpions, and he ...... die. ”

Talking about the sad place, the young woman couldn't help but have red eyes, Tang Ruiyi hurriedly comforted, and finally waited until the young woman wiped away her tears and calmed down, and then he continued to ask: "How is the strength of those scorpions......?" I mean, how does it compare to the average soldier?"

The young woman sobbed and said, "I, I...... I don't know very well, I just know that those scorpions are infinitely powerful and invulnerable, and ordinary soldiers can't do anything about them. ”

Hearing this, Tang Ruiyi thought for a while: The level of the desert rider is level 5, and ordinary soldiers should be a little lower, almost level 4, plus some weapons can't even break the defense of the scorpion, so the level of the scorpion should be at least above level 7.

The young woman suddenly screamed, as if she remembered something, and hurriedly said to Tang Ruiyi: "Ah...... I remember, I heard that the commander of the Youth Division is recruiting strong warriors to enter the ruins to explore the source of the disaster, you can go to him, he should know a little more. ”

As soon as the live sound fell, the commission of the system came: [Obtain a temporary C-level commission: investigate the evil spirits under the ruins, for details, please go to the Ranger station to ask the young master, reward: Black iron level equipment scorching sun necklace, arbitrary architectural drawings, archaeology, excavation]

Tang Ruiyi slammed his head, fainted, the job transfer task has not been found yet, and now there is another C-level task, the system are not joking with me, right? How can I have so much spare time?

However, when he saw the pitiful pleading appearance of the young woman, he still relented, if he let it go, when the scorpion completely lost its restraint, it would be these innocent civilians who would suffer first, right?

Tang Ruiyi comforted himself and walked out.

Then I visited a few shops and collected a few rare hundred-year-old poplar branches, which must be good for practicing carving.