Chapter 23: Locke and El (3)

The sun is shining and it will be a good day today.

As soon as the college was on vacation, Shi Fatzi took on a private job, transferred the group of the Lorist envoys, and was tired and busy for three days before he prepared all the items that should be needed. Now, he and Yuri are loading iron cages from their rented house onto a four-wheeled carriage, which are needed for this mission, mainly to set traps against small monsters.

Yuri is a cadet of Dawn Academy, and is also a teaching assistant in the equestrian teaching major, and the second order of Black Iron. Like Lorlist, he works and studies part-time, and often teams up together to take on low-level tasks from the mercenary guild to earn some extra money.

After the fourteen iron cages were loaded into the car, they were tied and fixed to the car with ropes, and Lorist checked the things he needed to bring again, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he got out of the car and took a water bag, twisted the pine cork, and drank a few sips of water. Everything is ready, just wait for Shi Fatzi and them to come back and set off.

The so-called private work generally refers to the tasks that the mercenaries receive without being notarized and recognized by the mercenary union, and privately negotiating the remuneration with the employer, which avoids the task commission of the mercenary union, but increases the risk of the task. It is not uncommon to regret afterwards, turn your face and deny it, eat black and eat black, make cameo appearances as robbers, and so on. It's just that the commission of the mercenary union is too ruthless, and after eating the employer and eating the mercenary, the commission of some well-paid tasks adds up to three or four. So if the conditions are good, the mercenaries don't mind taking the risk of doing some private work.

"Hey, Brother Locke, what are you doing?" El swaggered over with a coat, and when he got to the carriage to look at the iron cages, he looked into the carriage again, "Oh, you're going to do a mission again." ”

Lorist felt a headache when he saw El, and he was unlucky twice when he ran into El twice in the past six months. The first time was a loss of money, of course, Lorist would never admit that he was a little obsessed at that time, he thought that if it weren't for El playing a scoundrel and not admitting defeat and holding his feet, maybe he would have gone back to the room a long time ago, and the stinky girls would not have had time to steal so many things. The second time was purely unjustified, and he kindly lent El an outer cloak but was beaten for nothing as if he was Eyre's accomplice. The most annoying thing is that he can't fight back, they are ordinary people like the old lady, the old man, the little daughter-in-law, and the uncle, and they don't dare and can't make a move on them, so they can only suffer a loss.

So in Lorlist's eyes, El is a living disaster, and it's not good to run into him himself. You have to be careful today, lest you have to be unlucky again.

But El himself has no consciousness of a disaster, and he comes out in broad daylight to wander around. I dealt with Lorist twice and thought I was already a friend.,Call brothers and sisters so intimate.。 No, looking at the mission supplies prepared on the carriage, El thought it was time to give his old brother some guidance from his seniors.

"Ahem, I said Brother Locke, it's not interesting to deal with these low-level demonic beasts all the time, and there is no future. As a mercenary, you should take a long-term view. Places like the Warcraft Forest in the depths of the Sunset Mountains, the Doomsday Beach in the Kingdom of Chigda, the underground caves of Ulubaha, and the Ruined Islands of the Tranquil Sea are the places where mercenaries should go on adventures. Although these places are a little more dangerous, the harvest is very rich. Didn't the unicorn mercenary group come back from the Warcraft Forest last time, and they made a fortune that time, and each of the forty-three people in the group was given more than a hundred golden fords. El's mouth was foaming.

Lorist rolled his eyes, this old man is standing and talking without backache, and the names of places reported in his mouth are all recognized as dangerous places on the mainland, you let me go to those places with a black iron rank to deliver food to the door of the demonic beast. Listen to some gossip in the market, and don't want to think about how many people the unicorn mercenary group turned out to be? One hundred and twenty-five silver rank and above entered the Warcraft Forest, and only forty-three came back in less than a month, and after handing in the task, the head of the regiment and the deputy head of the two gold rank masters squatted in the hall of the mercenary union and cried like a five or six-year-old child, and the people who saw it were sad.

"I said that you are a black boss, are you idle and have nothing to do, wandering around in broad daylight, what should you do. You don't understand the matter of mercenaries, don't talk nonsense. Lorist was unceremonious.

"Heh, you kid is not convinced, right, my brother is also a mercenary, or a silver mercenary. Triumphantly, El took out a silver badge issued by the Mercenary Guild out of nowhere and pinned it to the chest of his coat.

"Huh, why do you get a silver mercenary badge from a black boss? You don't need it. Lorist wondered.

"This mercenary badge was obtained by him in the previous mission in the academy, it was originally black iron, and later he became the black boss and was promoted to the silver rank, and then he got the mercenary union to exchange it for the silver mercenary badge. The voice of the fat man came from the side, and he answered for El.

Lorist looked up and saw that Fat Man and Telman had returned on two horses.

Telman is a member of the Academy's Law Enforcement Department, a Silver Order, and one of the few close friends of Lorist at Dawn Academy.

When he got closer, Fat pointed at El and said to Yuri and Telman, "You know him, his name is Brunan Evangelbert." is also from Dawn Academy, and is considered your senior. He and I were in the same class at the time, but after graduating, he became the boss of the club organization in this neighborhood. ”

"Hello, I'm Juventus Reedes, call me Yuri. ”

"Hello, my name is Vipoli Telman. ”

El nodded to them, and they knew each other. Then El asked curiously, "Fatty, where are you going to do the mission?"

Shi Fatzi said: "In the Christophe Hills, there is a mine over there where a gold eater has been found. We're going to have to destroy them. ”

The Gold Eater Rat is a low-level, small-scale group monster that likes to eat metal ores, as large as a cat or a dog, and resembles a mouse. Timid but ferocious by nature, once the ferocity is aroused, it will often be entangled to the end, never dying. When ordinary people encounter gold devouring rats, first of all, they must not panic, they must try their best to make a threatening appearance, form a confrontation, and then slowly retreat, so that they can get out of danger. If you awaken your fighting spirit, even a bronze star can easily deal with a lone gold-devouring rat. It's just that the gold eater rat is rarely left alone, and the enemy will often call friends, attracting a large number of the same kind to besiege.

In the professional course of Warcraft knowledge learned by Lorist, the gold-eating rat is very famous, because legend has it that the fierce monster that the first warrior to awaken his fighting spirit encountered was the gold-eating rat, and luckily it was a lonely, and the gold-eating rat would only leave the group to find a mate during the estrus period. Otherwise, the warriors will not have a chance to awaken their fighting spirit, and mankind may have to spend another thousand years of darkness.

On the recipes of many demonic beasts underground, most of the gold-devouring rats are among the top spears. Therefore, for the human mines, the discovery of the Gold Eater Rat is a big deal, and the Gold Eater Rat must be wiped out, or at least the female Rat King of the rat colony, so that the remaining Gold Eater Rat will leave the area. Otherwise, a large number of rats will inevitably attract other fierce predators underground, which will easily damage the mines.

One of the three major empires of Gelintya, the Romon Empire, once had such a famous mining incident, which was the largest gold mine in the Romon Empire, due to poor management, the gold rat was plagued, and as a result, two huge unicorn pythons occupied the mine, and the death toll of the miners was as high as more than 3,000 people. In the end, the Romon Empire dispatched the Sword Master and more than sixty Gold-Rank masters to kill the two unicorn rock pythons at the cost of heavy casualties. Afterwards, there were more than 40 nobles who were implicated in this incident and beheaded their families. After this incident, all the mines in the mainland took this as a warning, and found that the gold devouring rats were killed one by one, and they would never let go.

"What's the matter, Steve, they didn't come?" Lorist saw that the two of them went back to the two of them, and it was a little strange that they didn't make an appointment.

"Well, these guys are of the opposite sex and inhumane, isn't that art second and third class going to Benzgang to sketch and paint? yes, it's better to keep a beautiful woman than to go to the mine with us. Shi Fatzi was very annoyed, he took over this private work and was busy preparing things, forgetting to say hello early and pull the queue, but when he set off, he found that he was short of manpower.

El on the side heard Shi Fatman's eyes light up when he heard Shi Fat Man say that he was short of manpower: "Hey, hey, fat man, how do you see me." Why don't I come with you?"

Shi Fatzi said: "Er, do you want to go? Your black boss has done a good job, why do you want to take risks with us? Besides, this trip is private work, and it is very risky." ”

Lorist resolutely objected: "Shi Fatty, don't listen to his nonsense, if the black boss wants to take the risk, he will go to the Doomsday Beach of the Warcraft Forest or something, so he can't look down on such a small business as killing the golden rat." He's just kidding. ”

Er Zhengse said: "I'm not joking, to be honest, you know, fat man, I was forced to be this black boss, and I can't help it if my brothers force me to put me in this position." They're in charge of everything, and I'm a black boss who has nothing to do and it's really boring to wander around the neighborhood every day, and I want to take risks in my dreams, so I miss the time when I followed everyone to do mercenary missions in the academy. You and I have known each other for many years and know who I am. Well, okay, anyway, you're short of manpower now, plus my strength should be enough to deal with the risk. ”

"This ......" Shi Fatzi hesitated a little.

"No, I can't. Lorist objected again, it was better not to be entangled in this mission by this plague, everyone should go back to sleep in vain, otherwise they would definitely be unlucky.

"Fatty, you know what the attributes of my cultivation are Dou Qi, you know my natural skills very well, and it will be of great benefit to me to go to the mine and bring it with me. El added another weight to the scales.

Well, this guy has a natural skill? Lorist came to his curiosity.

"Locke, what's your reason for opposing him joining?" asked Lorist.

"This ......" Lorist said to himself, I can't say that he is a disaster, it will be unlucky to let him join the group: "He has not done a mission with us, I am afraid that he will not be able to cooperate." ”

Finally finding a reason, Lorist wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"I will obey the command. El said.

"You promise?" asked Fat Shi.

"I promise. ”

"Well, then you're welcome to join this adventure party, I'm Captain Schreider. Now I'll give you half an hour to prepare, and then come back to assemble, and we're about to go. This time to go to the Cristo Hills, it is estimated that it will take more than 20 days to go back and forth, no problem, right?" Shi Fatzi made the final decision.

"No problem. That, fat man, oh no, captain, I think we'd better meet at the Crow Tavern. It's a private work center.,You ask my uncle to show you the entrusted book.,If there's any task that you can take along the way.,You just say I'll let you go.,In fact, the dead old man will believe you when he sees Locke.。 "As soon as I joined the team, El gave me a big gift.

Shi Fatzi's heart was moved, it turned out that the Red Crow Tavern secretly had such a hand, this was digging the corner of the mercenary union, but it was a good place for us mercenaries, after all, the tavern was always less risky than contacting him privately, and besides, the tavern owner would not provide a guarantee for people who did not know and were not related.

"Alright, let's meet at the Crow Tavern. ”

In fact, before Shi Fat could figure out how to say to the owner of the Red Crow Tavern, Garry Lando saw Lorist, and when he heard that they were going to complete a private job, he took the initiative to take out the small notebook that recorded the entrusted task, and beckoned Lorist and them to go over and see if there was anything they could complete along the way.

Shi Fatzi looked at the small book, and found that most of the above were commissions for running errands and buying things on behalf of him, if these commissions were released by the mercenary union, they were basically bronze or black iron mercenary errands, but if they received these commissions from the mercenary union, there would be no good income, at most they would be brought along the way. And if you pick it up from the Crow Tavern, the reward for these commissions is enough for one person to make a special trip.

Shi Fatzi discussed with everyone and accepted seventeen commissions, and if they were all completed, each person could have an extra Kingford income, which was really good. Garrilando also said that although the amount of these commissions is small and the remuneration is not high, it is better than the quantity, and he often has a headache about not being able to find a mercenary he can trust. If this time is done well, then everyone is welcome to come here to take private work and earn extra money.

El came in wearing a brand new salamander leather armor, this kind of salamander skin leather armor can effectively maintain the temperature, repel mosquitoes, flies, snakes and scorpions, and is a very good underground exploration equipment. The price is not cheap, and it is a high-end item that ordinary mercenary adventurers cannot equip. The silver mercenary's badge was pinned to the left chest of the leather armor.

El greeted everyone he knew loudly in the tavern, eager to let everyone know that he was a mercenary and was now going on an adventure. To Lorlist's surprise, his uncle, the tavern keeper Galillando, seemed unimpressed by El joining Lorlist's adventure, and instead happily offered each of them a glass of black plum ale and wished everyone the best of luck on their trip.

After leaving the city, Fat Shi rode close to the carriage and asked El, who was sitting next to the driver's seat and arguing with Lorist who was lying behind: "Why does your uncle believe in little Locke so much, and take the initiative to take out the task commission book when he sees him?"

This question is also very strange for Lorlist, he only met Old Gal twice, and the first time he fought with each other, why did Old Gal treat him differently?

El glanced lazily at Lorlist, and replied listlessly: "The dead old man said that Xiao Locke has a good character, and although he was deceived by a stinky girl for the first time, he was fooled because he was honest and helpful." The second time he was wrongfully beaten by those ordinary people, he was able to restrain himself from fighting back, and would rather be beaten badly than hurt others. It's really rare to see such a young man who has his own sense of proportion and his own way of doing things, which is why the dead old man admires little Locke so much and asks me to learn from him. But I don't want to think that I'm a silver master, and I'd rather run away than shoot at the ordinary people chasing me behind, this kind of tolerance and generosity are much stronger than Xiao Locke. ”

"Cut ......" Lorist sneered: "Don't forget that you were naked at the time, and you didn't have time to run and dare to turn back and do it?"

The crowd laughed.