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Zeqi woke up from his mind just now and looked at the wrinkled old man who was talking to him.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?" Zeqi asked.

"Several children in our village have disappeared one after another, can you ask your mercenary group to help find them? The old man pleaded.

"Grandpa, as long as you post a mercenary mission, someone will naturally go back to pick it up. If you don't understand, you can also ask the waiter over there for help. Zeqi gestured to the left side of the bar.

"To tell you the truth, our village is very poor, and the whole village has a total of 5 gold coins, but the waiter over there said that it is difficult to find a few children who disappeared in the Warcraft Mountain Range, and the difficulty of the task is D-level, and it takes at least 20 gold coins to be released. Alas......" said the old man helplessly.

Zeqi thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Grandpa, it is indeed difficult to find the missing child, but if you just want to know the clues of the missing child, it will be simple." You can change the mission to find clues to the missing child. In this way, the estimation task will only be F-level, or E-level. ”

Mercenary mission levels, from low to high, are: G-level, F-class, E-class, D-class, C-class, B-level, A-class, S-class, SS class, and SSS class.

"But it's useless to just find clues, we want to find those children. The old man was anxious.

"Indeed, it is better to have clues than to waste them here because of lack of money, right? When you have clues, it's not too late for you to find a way to find them. Zeqi explained to the old man.

The old man nodded suddenly, "That's what I said." ”

Zeqi led the old man to the bar to reissue the task.

When the waiter at the bar saw the old man coming, he smiled and said, "Old man, do you have enough money?"

"Hello, old man, he wants to change his mission to find clues to the missing child. Zeqi replied for the old man.

"Yes, I'm going to change the mission. The old man answered.

"Okay, based on the information you provided earlier, we'll re-evaluate the mission level and confirm with you. ”

The waiter took out a piece of paper and wrote it with a quill. When he finished writing, he turned and stuffed the note into an open window.

After a while, the note was handed back in. The waiter retrieved the note, looked at it, and said, "Old man, after your mission was changed to find clues to the missing child, the level was assessed to F level, and the task release fee that needs to be paid is 1 gold coin." Is that okay?"

"Yes. The old man replied, and took out a pocket, counted out 100 silver coins from his miles, and handed them to the waiter.

"Okay, old man, I'll read the task to you, and then I'll stick it on the task wall. ”

The waiter held up the note and read:

"Mission No. F-2043

Mission Name: Find clues to the missing child

Mission Level: Grade F

Reward: 50 credits

Bonus points: 50 points

Mission Details: Several children have recently disappeared in my village, and the children have all played outside the misty forest in the Warcraft Mountains before they disappeared, and I am not sure if they have ever entered the misty forest. Ask the mercenaries to help find clues to the missing child. ”

When the waiter read the Misty Forest, Zeqi's heart tightened.

"Grandpa, did they get lost outside the Misty Forest?" Zeqi asked.

"Yes. I told them not to go there to play, but they just wouldn't listen. Alas......" the old man sighed, stretched out his withered, wrinkled right hand, and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"Grandpa, we have taken your task. Zeqi said with a smile.

After a while, Zech came to Angus's table and sat down.

"How about it, Zeqi, what tasks have you chosen?" Angus looked strange, just now Zeqi stood for a long time in front of the task of "looking for the traces of the disappeared Mujiling Mountain and a few friends", and he was ready to reject Zeqi.

"I took a fancy to two, one was the task of collecting the claws of the night hunting rat, and the other was to find clues to the missing child. Zech gave Angus the numbers for both missions, and continued, "Both missions are located in the Misty Forest. The second quest was issued by the village chief of a village who lived outside the Misty Forest. When we do the mission, their village can provide us with housing, so that we don't have to camp in the wilderness. ”

"Good!" Angus clapped his hands, "the Misty Forest is full of fog, and the Night Mouse Hunt has made many holes in the ground. Spending the night in the Misty Forest, that's extremely dangerous. In the middle of the night, he was bitten off by a night hunting rat that came out of the ground. ”

Angus relieved himself after speaking, and there was more praise for Zeqi in his eyes. Then he took out his mercenary badge and walked towards the bar.

After receiving the task, the mercenary team went to the misty forest in the Warcraft Mountain Range.

The old man also followed Zeqi into the carriage of the mercenary team, and made a bumpy ride.

"Grandpa, why is your village on the edge of the Demon Beast Mountain Range? "Zeqi has always been curious, you must know that it is very dangerous in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, even on the edge of the periphery, there are often demonic beasts.

"Alas, it's a long story, the harsh government is fiercer than the monster. The old man sighed.

"Harsh government is fiercer than Warcraft?" Zeqi heard for the first time.

"Taxes are paid on housing, taxes on arable land, and taxes on military provisions、...... And so on, even marrying a wife has to pay taxes. The old man said helplessly, "If you don't pay taxes, those lords will send armies to rob them, and those armies are the armies we keep with paying taxes every year." Every year, he suffers hardships, but he fills the lord's pocket and starves his own baby. Some families have even watched their children starve to death. ”

"Ahh Zeqi was shocked when he first heard about these things. He grew up as a slave in the Nord family, and he didn't know anything about the lives of freemen and commoners.

"In some places, it's worse than slaves. However, we still yearn for freedom and are not willing to sell ourselves into slavery. In desperation, our entire village left the lord's territory and came to the Warcraft Mountain Range, which is not affiliated with any empire or kingdom. The old man's face looked even more haggard and pale on the bumpy carriage.

"Then what if you encounter danger and encounter a powerful demonic beast?" Zeqi worried.

"In the cottage, we gathered young and strong men and built our own guards. As long as the demonic beasts that are not too powerful enter the village, we are sure to kill them. The old man said reluctantly.

"Then you have to go out of the village to work. Zeqi asked, after all, nestled in a cottage, the cottage does not grow enough to eat.

"So we carry weapons every time, and the groups go out of the village and into the village in groups. There are also often people who go out alone for various reasons, and the encounters they face are either lucky to come back or eaten by demonic beasts. Alas, why didn't those hard-working children listen to persuasion and had to run out?"

Hearing this, Zeqi's whole person was not good. Since leaving the manor to follow the mercenary team, Zech has seen a lot of injustice, fighting, and death. And the words he heard today completely subverted the thoughts in his heart. Like his father, he has always longed for freedom, but he didn't expect that even if he is free, he may not be able to survive well.

"Strength! I want to work hard to improve my strength!" Zeqi thought silently in his heart.