Chapter 36: The Human Heart
Hong Menglong assigned a lot of tasks to Zhou Ming, a month is calculated as thirty days, on average, he has to successfully complete a hunt every six days, and the fierce beasts of this strength often do not appear in the outermost part of the forest, they will have their own territory, which invisibly increases the time required for hunting, because from the beginning of White Rock City to the outermost part of the Silver Moon Forest, if it is not like Zhou Ming and Hong Menglong to "run", it will take at least a day and a half, once you go back, three days have already passed.
Fortunately, Zhou Ming is not a person who will bow to difficulties, after enjoying the restful sleep that Zhou Ming had been looking forward to for the previous forty days, the refreshed Zhou Ming decided to go straight to the White Rock City Hunter Guild, he was not here to travel this time, and he didn't have time to waste time resting. The above is the official explanation of the reason for Zhou Ming's diligence, in fact, early in the morning, when Shenlong saw Lord Hong Menglong, who was not in sight, he directly played and disappeared, which made Zhou Ming, who had never been to Baishi City and was hungry at this time, not know where to eat breakfast anywhere else......
Anyway, Zhou Ming came to the Hunters Guild early in the morning, a glass of milk and a few slices of bread, a very simple breakfast Zhou Ming ate with relish and filled his stomach, Zhou Ming excitedly ran to the task board of the union and checked them one by one.
Every morning to noon, it is the time when the most hunters go out to hunt, some hunters form a fixed long-term team, cooperate to hunt fierce beasts that are stronger than their own strength, and some hunters are used to hunting alone, so the advantage is that no matter what material is obtained, it is their own, and there is no need to distribute. As for some hunters who came to Baishi City from other places, there are also temporary hunting teams, and the cooperation of these teams generally depends on the temporary reaction of the hunters, but it is always better than hunting alone, and what Zhou Ming is looking for now is such a team. However, what Zhou Ming and Hong Menglong didn't consider was that Zhou Ming's hunter level was destined to become a stumbling block for him to find a suitable team.
"Uncle, is there a shortage of people in the team?" Zhou Ming asked a middle-aged hunter who was recruiting.
"What rank are you?" the middle-aged hunter looked Zhou Ming up and down and asked hesitantly.
"Eh, hunter apprentice, but I ......" Zhou Ming just wanted to explain his strength, when he heard the middle-aged hunter over there laugh.
"Haha, apprentice, yes, you pay fifty gold coins, and I will take you to see the world, there is no guarantee that you will come back safely, and the material distribution will not be your share. The middle-aged hunter snorted haha, and he didn't take Zhou Ming in his eyes at all.
"The next is a three-star beast, I can only use the smallest part of the material. Zhou Ming was anxious, this was the fifth time he had been rejected because of the hunter level on the hunter card.
"Let me tell you little brother, don't say that you want the least materials, even if you don't want materials, we won't bring a burden into the forest, the increased risk is not proportional to the benefits you can bring, you know? "This hunter uncle is already very patient, and if he was replaced by the previous person, he would have already impatiently told Zhou Ming to get out of the way.
"Alas, it's not good to be a teacher...... Zhou Ming sat back on the stool with a wry smile, thinking about how to show his hand to let these old hunters get to know him again, at this moment, the waitress in front of the counter who was in charge of receiving and issuing hunting tasks suddenly shook the bell on the counter.
"Jingle bells, jingle bells!"
"Attention hunters present, urgent mission is now issued!" The bell rang, and the noisy guild fell silent for a moment, and all the hunters looked at the waiter at the mission bulletin board. This bell indicates that the Hunters' Guild has received an urgent time-limited mission, which requires a team of hunters to set off immediately, and generally speaking, such a mission will have a reward equivalent to two or more times that of a normal mission, so the hunters are eager to receive such a mission.
"There was a fierce beast attack in the coal mine in the southwest of the city, six miners are now hiding under the mine and dare not come out, the type of fierce beast is unknown, only known to be an insect beast, the strength is about three stars to four stars, I hope that the capable hunter will set off immediately, when the reward, amount, one gold coin and twenty-three silver coins, the beast material is distributed by the hunter, and the hunter who wants to take the task please register here. ā
"One gold coin, twenty-three silver coins?" are you sure?" one of the hunters laughed, "That's enough to issue an urgent mission? ā
Standing next to the waiter, a middle-aged man dressed as a miner was sweating and shedding tears while "snapping, popping", his dark skin, thin and slightly hunched body and rough palms proved his identity as a miner.
The miner rubbed his hands uneasily, he could see his anxiety in his eyes, the people trapped in the mine were his best workers, it was their desperate shouting to attract the attention of the beast that gave him a chance to escape and report the news, in other words, his workers entrusted their lives to him alone, believing that he could bring back the rescue in the fastest time, but now he desperately ran to the Hunter's Guild, only to find that all the money in his pocket was only one gold coin and twenty-three silver coins, in his opinion, this is a life-saving money, but at first, the waiter of the Hunters' Guild actually said that the reward is less than fifty gold coins and cannot issue an urgent mission, also to see that he was really eager to save people, and the sympathetic waiter made an exception to ring the bell for him.
"Sir, I can only help you so much, to be honest, one gold coin and twenty-three silver coins are really not enough for these hunters to stuff their teeth, this time the bell is ringing by an exception, I don't know how to be scolded by the leader when I turn around, otherwise, you go to another place to try, maybe the city's security team will be dispatched for free." The waiter's face was not good, and he regretted it after ringing the bell, and perhaps she would have lost her job because of this exception.
"However, the security team is in the east of the city, and it will take an hour or two to come and go, and I am afraid, I am afraid that they will ......" The thin miner clenched his fingers, and his bones and joints were already pale from blood.
"Ladies and gentlemen, listen to what I am going to say. At this time, a lewd-looking young hunter in the crowd answered with a smile, and the miner raised his head excitedly, thinking that his companions had finally been saved, "I think we still have to save people, but we also have to know what kind of strength this beast is, in case we go to people, we can't beat it, we will be in danger, not to mention, your workers will miss the best time to rescue." ā
"IāI don't know, I don't know, I don't know what level that beast is. The mood fluctuated so much that the miner's eyes welled up with tears, and every second he spent here was more dangerous for his companions. But how could the simple miner think that the young hunter's words just now were just to find a high-sounding reason for them not wanting to save people, even the waiter at the front desk of the Hunter Guild could estimate the strength of the fierce beast attacking the mine from the miner's description, if they really wanted to know the strength of the fierce beast, why didn't they ask some specific questions?
Pushing back the responsibility of not saving people to the anxious miners, the young hunter nodded with satisfaction, but pretended to regret: "Uncle, it's really not that we don't want to help you, but everyone will be afraid of death, and we are also afraid that we will not succeed in helping you and put ourselves in, otherwise, you should find another master." ā
The atmosphere in the Hunters' Guild became more and more solemn, the hunters were unwilling to face unpredictable dangers for one gold coin and twenty-three silver coins, and some hunters who felt a little guilty chose to take a simple task casually and set off hunting, and the three or five teams of hunters took the task from the task bulletin board beside him, and then staggered past him, after leaving the Hunters' Guild, the miners finally couldn't hold back the despair in their hearts, and knelt on the ground and cried.
"Hunters, you can do it, that's six lives, please, I, I kowtow to you, adults, please save them, I will repay you as a cow and a horse for the rest of my life, I kowtow, I kowtow, please......" The words of the eldest brother first, and then the adult's name were enough to prove his inner anxiety, and in the end, he was even a little incoherent, and fell to the ground in pain, still muttering, "Save them", "I kowtow to you".
The hoarse shouts finally failed to arouse the conscience of the hunters, and the hunters did not even have the enthusiasm of the onlookers, and turned away to do their own things, and when they saw this scene, the completely desperate miners trembled unconsciously, and repeated six names in their mouths: "Iron Baby, Briquette, Boss ......"
The obscene-looking young man didn't even hide his disgust this time: "Waiter, drag him out, it's a shame for me to fall in front of the Hunters' Guild in such a tattered out." ā
"Sir, go out, borrow enough money and come back, naturally there will be hunters who are willing to go. A waiter said as he pulled the miner out of the door.
"Stop, I'll see who dares to force him out of this door, I'll take this task!"