rescue

"yes, Lake's pursuit team is missing. 」

Until your teammates surprise you, you'll always think he's a normal person, because you can't even imagine that he's going to do something incredible.

A week later, Joy Meets learns that Lake's pursuit team has gone missing.

A ten-person adventurer with a well-configured class goes after a mage who has run out of mana, only to fail to return and lose contact after a week. This is equivalent to a group of hunters with high-tech equipment being killed by a wounded lion, and a group of selected people driving the first machine being killed by someone driving a zagu, which is impossible to believe if the mage did not explode the seed and meet happily.

Of course, the explosion is just a joke, I'm afraid the mage was ready for an emergency escape from the beginning, and the location he teleported to must have some large number of instant magic items. When you get there, you can use a variety of items to restore your state and use traps, golems, wands, and other things to complete counter-kills...... Thinking in terms of rational thinking is indeed the case.

"Heh, you said I should go to the rescue, I'm a mage who doesn't even know Rank 2 arcane?"

"Don't say that, Zhou Zhuo, you are a reliable newcomer who has exhausted the magic power of a fifth-order mage alone. ”

When Adeline anxiously finds a happy encounter, he feels that he still has a lot of information to tell, and it is not a good idea to rush to the rescue when he can't tell whether Lake is friend or foe. If Lake is a friend, it's okay to say, if Lake is an enemy, then it's probably a trap for him.

However, the instinct of the happy encounter did not react at all this time, and it can usually be detected, but this time it was somewhat ineffective for Lake...... Does this mean that Ryker is a high-level spellcaster, or does it mean that Ryker has special abilities as well?

"That's a trap. He could teleport to cover and block my view, but he still spent a lot of magic to keep flashing in the air. This behavior is definitely tempting me, and that mage has a hole card to counterkill. 」

Although the other party does have the purpose of testing the performance of the electromagnetic cannon and the ability to meet each other, they also have a plan to kill or capture the happy encounter.

"But there really aren't that many people in the guild temporarily, and you're already a very reliable person among them. You won't be the only one to go, this rescue team is a large team of 25 people, you don't have to worry about any danger, just play your part. ”

"Why don't you cooperate with the city lord? Oh yes, no one wants to disperse when the celebration is approaching. 」

According to the propaganda of the Guerrilla Guild, a guild of local adventurers, their relationship with the government is excellent. In normal times, there is often a lot of cooperation, but in special moments, it is at best a symbolic support.

"Actually, I don't recommend that you send people out to rescue at this time, it's more important to solve the known trouble in front of you first. You don't even know what hole cards that mage has, isn't it just to send someone over, or are you treating everyone other than Lake as consumables?"

"I didn't, is there anything wrong with getting my friend back?"

"It's hard for me to say anything as an outsider...... But I have my own things to do, so I won't go. 」

Originally, Happy Meeting was a newcomer who had just joined the guild for less than a week, and with such a short time together, even an ordinary person couldn't cultivate any sense of collective honor. Not to mention people like Happy Encounter, who didn't plan to stay in the guild for a long time in the first place.

Inviting a happy encounter to participate in this kind of rescue is not a normal thing in itself.

"Woooooo

"What's in your room? Besides, won't you invite me in and sit down?"

It wasn't until there was a sound of unknown meaning coming from the house that Adeline realized that he hadn't allowed herself to speak until now. So he immediately began to suspect that there was something illegal about Xixiang.

"Zhou Zhuo, illegal detention is punishable by imprisonment, don't mess around. ”

"I know, I know, I'm not going to mess around. 」

"No, let me go in and have a look. ”

After Adeline finished speaking, before she could say yes, she directly knocked him out of the way and broke in.

The room was like a normal hotel room, with no decoration or features, but four people were left in the room. All four of them were tightly tied, and their mouths were stuffed with cloth. Three of the four were horribly injured, and it looked like they had been beaten by a heavyweight boxer.

"You're not messing around, you're definitely breaking the law. ”

"Would you say that if you knew they were also members of the Ivy League?"

Adeline wanted to say yes, but fell silent. If this group of people were indeed Ivy League people and knew valuable information, then it would be much easier for her to organize their rescue activities. Although I don't want to admit it, no one will want to go to a rescue without a plan or intelligence. If the success rate is high, then naturally no one will refuse too sure. Driven by profit and reputation, there will be people who are willing to participate.

"Then I don't worry, I'll just watch you here. Then take them all to the guild, and they will all be contained by the guild before the city lord sends someone to collect them. ”

"I'll do whatever you want when I'm done. 」

After closing the door, he locked it from the inside, and took the cloth from the mouth of the still awake man from the four. That swiftness made Adeline want to ask why he was so skilled, and how many times he had done it.

It seems that she saw Adeline's problem and turned back with joy.

"I said I'm busy, and people always come looking for me. 」

"I've counted what I said before, and if you tell me what I want to know, I'll let you go. The rest of your companions will be handed over to the guild, which will then pass them on to the guards. 」

As early as when Joy Meets secretly kidnapped them into their rooms, they had been put in a prisoner-like predicament.

The prisoner's dilemma is when two people commit a crime together but there is insufficient evidence, so confessing to them will result in release and the other person will be sentenced, but silence will also be sentenced (but for a short period of time).

The key is to separate the two so that neither of them can fully trust the other and confess, resulting in both being sentenced.

But in reality, the problem encountered by Xixiang is that the suspects in his hands are all fanatics, and it is inconvenient for him to create a separate environment for them.

So he had to knock the others unconscious when he questioned one of them, which is why they were almost all wounded—he was just going to see if the prisoner's plight could get them to confess.

And the effect was unexpectedly good, as soon as the words of happy meeting were finished, this tightly bound young man decided to confess.

"I said, I'm willing to tell you everything I know. ”