Chapter 17: The Battle of the Underworld

Seeing her cousin like this, Ai Li's eyes rolled, and then she looked at Qin Lan, "Childe, look?"

"Let me see you first. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Qin Lan shrugged his shoulders indifferently, he just wanted to find a mercenary team who was familiar with the terrain to lead the way, who to look for, since Solens was Ellie's cousin, it was normal for people to give priority to taking care of it.

"Ahaha...... Childe has a good eye, the strength of our ghost group is not bad at all, and the strength of all the mercenary groups here is definitely superior. Solang whispered as he took Qin Lan to the outside of the mercenary union, at this time their members were all staying in the hotel, and he was just here to hand in the task.

The hotel is not far at all, just a few steps away, and then Qin Lan saw the members of the ghost group, and then he was speechless for a while, and it was really strong. Forget about the fox Sorans, whose strength is only of the fifth order, the fox people are not a combat race, and their role in the team is more about strategy and intelligence detection and collection......

However, a dwarven warrior with fifth-order strength can't say it...... Oh, you're still underage, well, who told you to have such a thick beard, who recognizes? You're a dwarf who doesn't go to iron and run to be a mercenary? Do you lack the money? What? Don't like iron?

A ...... of sixth-order strength Bard?Oh, you're a part-time swordsman, you know, your purpose is to join the group for the sake of the two elf ladies over there......

A white elf archer with sixth-order strength and a white elf mage with sixth-order strength are not bad, but they are two girls.

A sixth-order strength minotaur ...... It's weird, are you an underground minotaur? no wonder......

A fifth-order strength werewolf, oh, it turns out that your mount wolf is a sixth-order.

A female dark angel of seventh-order strength, tall and powerful, but unfortunately, she has a deep scar on her face, torn from her forehead to her chin, which looks very terrifying, but she is the leader of this ghost mercenary group.

One...... Qin Lan tilted her head, "What do you call Miss?"

"She was picked up from one of our expeditions and doesn't speak the lingua franca. Solons hurriedly explained, "We call her Nancy, she doesn't remember her past, but her strength is not bad......"

Hmph, the ninth-order strength turns out to be in your mouth is the strength is not bad?Qin Lan sneered, and then looked at Nancy strangely, spider?It turns out that the ninth-order Warcraft can turn into a *human form but can't speak yet?But he didn't say anything more, just nodded to the female dark angel, "That's you, I hired your ghost mercenary group to accompany me to the underworld, because I'm not sure how long I'm going to stay down, so your remuneration can be paid on a daily basis, you can make a price." ”

The people of the ghost mercenary group immediately got together, and after discussing for a while, the dark angel captain named Jessica walked in front of Qin Lan, "May I ask the purpose of your trip to the underworld?"

"I want to hunt some monsters. Qin Lan showed a smiling face, and looked at Nancy next to her.

"If that's the task...... Because you are someone known to Solens, we can give you some discounts, only eighty silver coins a day, but this time you have to go to the mercenary guild to entrust us with the Ghost Regiment...... The price of this kind of task is relatively high, because all the magical beasts hunted during the protection period belong to you, and our mercenary group has no extra money. After saying her offer, Jessica was afraid that Qin Lan would run away because of the high price, so she couldn't help but explain again.

In fact, there are not many tasks of hiring the entire mercenary group to protect and hunt Warcraft, many alchemists or magicians will hire mercenaries to protect themselves and hunt Warcraft because they need some special materials, and they are afraid that the mercenaries will not collect and damage the materials...... Most of the market for this kind of task is a day's salary between gold coins and gold coins, depending on the strength of the mercenary group, the ghost group gives a price of eighty silver coins, which is indeed very cheap.

Qin Lan nodded, "It's very troublesome to use silver coins, just one gold coin a day, it's so simple, I'll go and entrust the task now, you guys prepare it, prepare more supplies, because we may stay down there for a long time...... And I hope it will come out tomorrow. ”

"Okay, good" A gold coin One day, everyone in the ghost group showed a surprised face, there are 9 people in their ghost group, on average, one person can get a silver coin a day, and it is more than three gold coins a month, this is a lot of money, and the underground world is huge and complicated, if you go in to find a special magical beast, a few circles will pass in a month......" In fact, you don't need to worry too much about supplies, because there are several bazaars underground, although they are a little more expensive than the top, but they save us the burden of carrying a lot of things. ”

"......" Qin Lan narrowed his eyes and nodded, he naturally didn't need to worry about supplies, because when he left from the imperial capital, the demon refining pot was almost full of things......

According to the rules of the Mercenary Union, if Qin Lanbu needs to pay the full amount of the mission salary in advance, he also needs to pay the Mercenary Union a 5% handling fee, which is the guarantee of the Mercenary Union, and they will help you find the most suitable mercenary group to complete the task...... However, if it is a mercenary group designated by oneself, the handling fee drawn by the mercenary union is only %. Although Qin Lan took the initiative to increase the price, Jessica still asked Qin Lan to go to the mercenary union to assign tasks, the reason is also very simple, only the mercenary union will assign tasks to their rights can be guaranteed.

Although he is an acquaintance of Solangs, who knows if this kid has so many gold coins? If he dragged everyone underground for a few months, but only gave them a month's salary and then slapped his ass and left, the mercenaries could only be dumbfounded, and they couldn't kill him......

Faced with this question, Qin Lan shook his hand casually, and a large pile of gold coins fell on the counter, and the golden light dazzled everyone's eyes...... "The time is undecided, so these are all advances, you can do it." ”

It took a long time for the dark angel Jessica to come back to her senses, and she looked at Qin Lan suspiciously, where are you hiding so many gold coins?

It took the waiter of the mercenary union for a long time to count these gold coins tremblingly, a thousand gold coins, no more and one is not less, isn't this nonsense? The demon refining pot will make mistakes? One thousand gold coins, you can hire a ghost mercenary group to stay underground for three years, so far Jessica no longer has any doubts, she clenched her fist across her chest, "Then, Young Master Qin Lan, from now until the end of the mission, you will be under the protection of our ghost mercenary group for twenty-four hours a day......"

The person who can take out so many gold coins in one go will obviously not be an ordinary person...... After all, a thousand gold coins, even if you want to buy a sixth-order demonic beast, it's almost the same. When Jessica saw Qin Lan take out so many gold coins, her heart was not happy at that moment, but her legs trembled...... This mission must be completed well, or we may not recover

It was precisely because of this pressure that all the current leaders of the ghost mercenary group, Jessica, suddenly became stern, not only did she personally ask everyone for the first time if they were fully equipped, but also arranged a strict duty schedule, stipulating that someone in the group must follow Qin Lan whenever and wherever they are.

Not to mention that the members of the ghost mercenary group complained bitterly, even Qin Lan disagreed...... Are you kidding, when I'm exercising with Elle at night, you're going to stand around and watch?

As soon as Qin Lan said this, everyone was stunned...... Then Solens the fox cried out in disbelief, "Little Ellie, tell me that what he said is false...... Oh my God, you are the daughter of the patriarch of our fox clan, how can you be plucked by a human, this is absolutely impossible? We fox and human beings have no marriage at all......

"I'm Childe's person......" Ellie blushed, but she was still firm, "I've been with Childe for two years, and His Majesty personally promised me to Childe." ”

The Majesty in Ellie's mouth is, of course, the Beastmaster.

Suddenly, everyone was shocked again, although they still didn't know Qin Lan's identity, but the beast king actually promised the daughter of the patriarch of his subordinate race to a human being, obviously Qin Lan's identity was not ordinarily important. Qin Lan has always been hidden behind the scenes, although the name of Qin Lan is thunderous in the high-level of various countries and races, but after all, he has not appeared in the eyes of ordinary people, everything is basically the work of the faithful king, so it is normal for these people not to know Qin Lan, although Solang feels that the pronunciation of Qin Lan's name is a little familiar, but no matter how he thinks about it, he can't remember the race competition three years ago......

After a moment of silence, Jessica still firmly said that since she accepted the task, it was necessary to protect her employer...... Although you have a noble status, but when you go out, some things can be avoided, and you are only so young, doing too much is not good for your health, right?

Qin Lan frowned, I am the employer, I should have the final say, I said that I don't want you to keep it or not, where is there so much nonsense? If you want to keep it, you just guard the door.

Jessica spread her hands directly, "Then I'm sorry, we won't take this mission, although you are the employer, but we are the most experienced in begging for a living in the wild, if you want to point fingers, then please go and ask for another master." ”

She really has a lot of personality

Qin Lan had never been rejected like this, and the most important thing was that he was very interested in that Nancy now...... If Nancy is also from the underworld, then with her leading the way, Qin Lan can save time and effort to directly find the location of the high-level magical beast......

After thinking about it, Qin Lan nodded and agreed to Jessica's conditions, in fact, this problem is very simple to solve, it's a big deal I will take Elle back to the demon refining pot, although there are a little more things in it now......

Seeing Qin Lan's compromise, Jessica also breathed a sigh of relief, if such a big list was not forced to do so, who would want to push it out...... So in order to appease Qin Lan and appease the team members, she said that in the future, she would guard Qin Lan at night, and the others would take turns with each other during the day.

And so it was decided.

Qin Lan thought that the underground world was actually a cave-like entrance, but in fact it was not ...... at all Everyone first crawled up a hill, and then climbed over the hill, only then did Qin Lan see a huge circular cliff, as deep as a sinkhole, and even the bottom could not be seen at all.

There is a passage on the side of the cliff that allows two carriages to go in parallel, and they circle all the way down the passage, probably after going down to seven or eight hundred meters, the cliff is still bottomless, and now Qin Lan looked up and saw that there was even only a small bright dot at the mouth of the huge sinkhole, and he continued to walk down for three hundred meters, Qin Lan and the others finally arrived at a position like a huge arch, but is this the entrance to the underground world? Of course not......

After passing through a corridor that was more than 5,000 meters long, and then Qin Lan finally saw the exit, but Qin Lan who came out could only sigh, it was a huge sinkhole, and it was a spiraling passage, and after descending nearly a thousand meters again, he entered an arch again, this time Qin Lan finally saw not a long corridor, but a step down...... Fortunately, these steps are not very long, more than 100 steps, after walking down, Jessica, who has been standing beside Qin Lan, nodded to Qin Lan, "I didn't expect your physical strength to be good, you actually walked all the way down, I thought you would be the same as her." ”

She was referring to Ellie, because her own strength was not good, Ellie couldn't walk in the morning, so now she was carried on Jessica's back, fortunately, this little fox man was very lightweight, but it didn't add any pressure to Jessica.

Hehe...... Qin Lan didn't say anything, just looked around, there was such a difficult path, no wonder underground creatures rarely appeared on the continent...... One is that it is too troublesome to go out, and the other is that it is difficult for underground creatures to adapt to the days in the sun, Qin Lan walked all the way, and there was a kind of ringworm moss that would light on the wall, and the faint white light was not far away, but these ringworm mosses were densely packed everywhere, so it was not difficult to see things.

But this is the Underworld? I thought there would be a market here......

It's true that this is already an underworld, but it's just an entrance, and we still have a long way to go...... Jessica smiled, and everyone worked hard to keep up, trying to have dinner at Camp Moses tonight.

......

Three hours later, Qin Lan finally knew what Jessica's words meant, it turned out that the underground world was unimaginably huge, and it was definitely not as simple as he thought before...... In fact, the staircase that Qin Lan saw just now was just a passage leading to the underground world, and this passage that spread downward, Qin Lan and the others walked for three hours and did not finish it

No wonder Jessica would say that everyone should work harder

About four hours later, everyone finally walked out of the monotonous narrow and boring passage, this time Qin Lan was really sure that he had arrived in the underground world, after walking out of the passage, it was a very lively camp, only a few buildings were made of wood, and most of the places were tied with tents, so it was called a camp, what surprised Qin Lan was that the camp was surrounded by a circle of wooden fences, as if it was used to prevent some attack.

Although it is very lively, there are not too many people here, and there are more than 100 people back and forth...... The arrival of the ghost mercenary group caused a burst of cheers and whistles, it turned out that in this dark place underground, there were very few women, so it was inevitable that these mercenaries would see women...... Especially in the ghost mercenary group, there are still more women, Jessica plus two elves mm and Nancy, there are four, not to mention that there is now one more Ellie, five women appear at once, it is strange that these big and rough mercenaries are not excited.

Jessica calmly showed the thin sword in her hand to these guys, and those impulsive guys suddenly fell silent...... Qin Lan saw that her sword was actually a little similar to the Nuwa sword, but there was an extra finger guard on the handle.

"Hey, Jessica, it's you...... What assignment have you received this time?" a man of five big and three thick who seemed to know Jessica stood up with a quilt that looked like a huge wine vat.

"Article 13 of the Mercenary Regulations prohibits questioning of other teams' missions. Jessica still replied coldly, and then looked around, "Sourance, there's still a place over there, let's go camp over there." ”

"Yes, Commander. ”

The tent was set up quickly, and the mercenaries didn't pay much attention to it, they were all three or four people squeezing into a tent, and it was enough to squeeze two on weekdays, one for men and one for women, so that it was convenient to be a good helper if there was something, but now, Qin Lan naturally wouldn't squeeze with them, so Solang and Moriza, who was a bit ruffian and called himself a bard, set up three tents together.

Then Dwarf Bruce came up with his trick, he turned out to be the chef of the team, who said dwarves can only forge, Bruce will tell you that dwarves can also be good at cooking...... I'm afraid that's why Jessica let him, an underage dwarf who doesn't do his job, join the group. I have to say that Bruce's craftsmanship is really good, although he looks at his rough hands, but whether it is barbecue jerky or cooked dry food, it is delicious.

Qin Lan could nod his head, naturally proving that his craftsmanship was extraordinary, and he was about to say something, when suddenly Jessica, who was sitting next to him, waved her hand, and her thin sword was firmly rooted on the ground, and Qin Lan saw that a finger-sized was nailed to the ground by a spider.

“......”

Are you a little too cruel to let go of a little spider, don't you know that there is a spider spirit in your team? Qin Lan was about to tease Jessica, but suddenly saw Nancy suddenly scream and throw the delicious dry food and meat porridge in her hand, and then burrowed into the tent without looking back.

What's going on? Spider spirits are afraid of spiders???

Qin Lan was inexplicable, but Jessica and the others around him drank the meat porridge in their hands in two by three, then stood up, and took out their weapons, and the mercenaries who were drinking and punching over there also stopped moving, and then there was the sound of pieces of weapons unsheathed.

"Young Master Qin Lan, please go into the tent with Ellie, and you go and stay with Nancy. ”

"What's going on?"

"It's just a small problem...... Jessica had already pulled out her weapon on the ground, drew a beautiful Z in the air, and then turned her head and smiled at Qin Lan, "Young Master is obedient, hurry up and go in, the scene of waiting should not be what you see." ”

......Qin Lan originally wanted to say something, but looking at Jessica's eyes had turned cold, he nodded, "It just so happens that I have something to ask Nancy." ”

A tent can stop Qin Lan's eyes?

It's a joke.

When Qin Lan walked into the tent, Nancy was squatting and holding her head tightly, and her whole body was shaking...... The kind-hearted Ellie hurriedly went up to support her, trying her best to comfort her, while Qin Lan had already unfolded her divine sense.

Still the same sentence, as one of the ten major artifacts, the Demon Refining Pot, how could Qin Lan be bound by this small tent...... Then Qin Lan saw that outside the camp, there were mountains full of ...... Spider.

And they were pouring towards the camp like a tidal wave...... The size of these spiders is not big at all, they are all very small and small, and the largest is only the size of a fist, but the power of these spiders cannot be underestimated, Qin Lan watched as they gnawed down the wooden fence on the periphery of the camp with a few bites of their fangs, and then they rushed towards the people in the camp.

However, everyone seemed to have been accustomed to this kind of thing for a long time, as a mercenary who looked like a strong man threw the torch in his hand, and then a wall of fire suddenly ignited around the outside of the camp...... Between the two fences was a deep trench with oil stained with oil, and when the torches fell, flames rose to the ground, and the spiders rushed into the fire like a wave......

Almost for a moment, the smell of burnt paste filled the entire camp, and a cloud of smoke filled the air, and then several of the mercenary magicians began to chant magic, using wind or water magic to purify the camp, because ......

Qin Lan saw a large area of flying spiders in the distance swooping towards this area

This......

This is simply a realistic version of the galaxy warband, and the zerg is desperately rushing towards the human camp.

The only few wooden buildings in the camp, Qin Lan never knew what they did, and now he finally knew that their tops suddenly opened outward and turned into umbrellas with only skeletons, and then began to spin, so that they might not have any power, but when the holes in the skeleton spewed out violently rising flames, they became flame mixers, and the flying spiders that swooped down from the sky were burned off their wings as soon as they got close and then fell to the ground with a pop......

This is a camp completely covered in flames, and the mercenaries are each standing in some positions harvesting the fallen spiders to make sure that they don't threaten others, in fact, this is just in case, most of the spiders that fall through the flame mixer are not dead, only some flying spiders that come in through the cracks need attention.

The whole spider wave lasted about an hour...... When Qin Lan walked out of the tent, the camp had become a sea of spider corpses, and everyone was helping to clean up and sweep these spider corpses into the trench, and the huge trench with a width of several meters was actually full of spider corpses

That's kind of ...... Dismounted?