Chapter 90: Fishing in Troubled Waters

"Hah...... Thank you to the merciful Lord. However, this time I got the news late, and I worked hard to get some fresh goods from the southwest to deliver them here, and the result was ...... I didn't know anything had changed until yesterday. Now I can't wait to get everything done here and minimize the losses. I can't help my old brothers. Old Tom bowed and gave a circle salute.

"What's new, take it out and take a look, maybe it will help you digest it." "Someone was going to interface right away.

"Nothing, I got some supplies from that beautiful blonde demon. Thank you to the merciful Lord. Old Tom said as he plucked two weapons from the back of the adventurer beside him, a knife, which was completely different from the standard saber, with a blade less than half a meter long and a set of 1-meter-long blades behind the blade, and a long-handled sickle, which is also something only seen in paintings of the Renaissance.

The adventurers were immediately interested, this kind of long weapon, small mercenary groups are completely useless. Moreover, these army-standard weapons, maybe how they were obtained, in the future, if the Alcatraz army occupies this place, it will definitely not be able to deal with it.

"This guy seems to be quite interesting, and if you look closely at the big men with their faces behind him, they seem to ...... It's a little stronger, and this arm is several laps thicker than even a berserker. Amy whispered to Da Qingshan, then turned her head and said to Qingluo, "Elder, go and try and see if you can join them." We're going to get the job done anyway. ”

Obviously, this old Tom is a serpent, and if he can join this caravan, he may be able to easily blend into the circular waterway through them.

The gold-clad iron mercenary is nothing more than a golden signboard, and in addition, there is no charge for it, no caravan will refuse such a good thing.

Unexpectedly, after Elder Qingluo whispered a few words, he took out his mercenary diary, and Old Tom was really shocked, and a smile immediately appeared on his face, and then, Qingluo came back with a smile to deliver the task.

The next day, the sky was just white, and most of the adventurers had already gotten up. Qingluo and his team joined Old Tom's caravan at the door of the bar.

I knew that iron-clad gold would not be too simple, but almost everyone in Qingluo's team shocked Old Tom!

The first thing that caught his eye was of course the Dwarven Knight Bronze Hammer leading his mount, and the appearance of the Great Pangolin immediately reminded Old Tom of the treasure of the Mountain Dwarf Kingdom. There has never been a position for dwarf knights on the battle spirit list, that is because the dwarf knights never leave the ground, if they really pour out of the nest, I am afraid that there will be no other races on the war spirit list...... This is obviously beyond the level of the Great Mage, it is very likely that it is a Wood Magister, and Her Majesty is also following a monster that no one has ever seen before, which adds to the mystery of Her Majesty.

As we all know, dwarves and forest elves represent the two extreme forces of force and magic respectively in the creation god realm, and the dwarven knight and the elven magister are the pinnacle of these two extreme powers, and they are seen here at the same time.

In addition to the dwarven knight and the elven magister, another teenager had a small dragon tattooed on his cuff, if it weren't for the boy who looked less than 20 years old, then he would have been a dragon knight...... The appearance of Sha Ruo also surprised Old Tom, at this time, Sha Ruo, who has experienced too many ups and downs, has approached the second turn mark in terms of priests, and his gestures show the unique elegance and nobility of the clergy to the fullest, and he only said a few words casually, but it is also a quote from the scriptures. A priest of this level has already been recalled by the Holy See, and appearing here immediately increased the strength of this iron-clad mercenary squad by at least doubling.

In comparison, Da Qingshan and Amy, who are also masked, are inconspicuous. Among the mercenaries, there is no shortage of swordsmen with big shoulders and round waists.

"Mr. Mingyan, your teammates are also mercenaries, and the goshawks are always accompanied by sparrows, I don't know what their mercenary levels are?" asked Old Tom with a smile.

This is in the middle of a thorough investigation, and several of them have been on guard, which is not a lot of care.

"The old gentleman is polite, thanks to the captain's care, we have also mixed up in the past few years. As she spoke, Amy pulled out her mercenary diary......

The most inconspicuous one of the seven people turned out to be iron-clad red, listening to the voice, this person is still a teenager, and the gold content of this mercenary team is probably only comparable to that of the S-level Golden Dragon Knights. Hehe, of course they don't know, the other people who look very powerful are all very poor in terms of mercenary qualifications, and the two people who look the most powerful are actually a pair of clean little whiteboards that can't be cleaner.

"Mr. Ming Yan, if it weren't for the troubled times, with the strength of Your Excellency and your teammates, I believe that you would be able to create an A-level mercenary group within 10 years. Now, what a pity. Old Tom shook his head as he spoke, Old Tom understood the plight of these mercenaries.

After entering the War of the Gods, in order to avoid large-scale armed rebellions and enhance military strength, the empires adopted effective means to incorporate the mercenary organizations in their territories, including the five major mercenary groups, all of which eventually became the military force of the country, and a large number of mercenary groups below the B level were completely incorporated and disrupted into the regular army.

However, years of war, the blockade of the borders of the empires, and the use of all military forces in frontal warfare have led to the rise of bandits across the continent, which in this case has greatly increased the demand for mercenaries. In such a strange circle, the mercenary remuneration has increased by more than 5 times compared to before the war.

This has led to a strange phenomenon: a large number of high-level or even super-level mercenaries have left their respective mercenary groups and re-formed new mercenary groups with a scale of 10~30 people. Most of these mercenaries held high positions in the major mercenary groups before, but now they are strong and powerful, and their network resources are extremely extensive, so they are very objective in terms of income. In addition, just in time for the good time, a large number of old mercenary monsters who have retired have re-emerged from the mountain and started to earn money for licking blood with knives.

In order to avoid attracting the attention of several warring parties, when the level of the new mercenary group is close to the D-rank, these high-level mercenaries will not hesitate to disband the mercenary group and establish a new G-class mercenary group.

Qing Luo shook his head with a smile, and changed the topic as he walked: "Dude, you often come and go, is there any good way to enter the Realm Forest?" Qing Luo felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he vaguely felt from the entourage behind Old Tom that there seemed to be an evil force hidden inside. However, since it was Amy's arrangement, he couldn't say anything, just stood firmly in front of Her Royal Highness the Queen.

"Before I put it, there was no problem, not to mention just a few dozen people, I could easily enter it with an escort team of more than 200 people at a time. Now that the sky has changed, a lot of things are hard to say. ”

By noon, the adventurers were standing very close to the continental road, and the biggest change was that the forest was getting brighter and brighter, and there were much fewer foliage overhead, which must have been active in the vicinity before the war. At this moment, two members of the old Tom team ran in front of the team: "Captain, it seems that someone is following us, at first, it was not obvious, but just now we saw a figure shaking in the distance." ”

Qingluo and Ling Bao'er put their hands on the big tree beside them at the same time, and after a while, the faces of the two of them were full of surprise: "No?"

Old Tom and Qingluo were embarrassed on their faces, this matter is a little troublesome, one side said yes, the other side bit to death, then the result is that someone must be lying, if someone has been watching, then, as a forest elf, but he insists that there is no, what does it mean, think about it according to this line of thought...... The answer is obviously terrible.

Qingluo arched his hand: "Thank you for taking care of you all the way, we might as well be in the ......"

Old Tom laughed, his gray beard trembled, and he reached out and pressed it on Qingluo's hand: "Don't say it again, it will really hurt your feelings if you say it again." Let's go together, since the beginning of the war, his grandmother's, the experience accumulated after living all his life, suddenly became useless, maybe, it was the rabbit cubs of Fanos who got something unsightly from that continent with many fathers and few mothers...... Haha, dad has more mothers, his grandmother's, His Royal Highness Amy, the little mercenary king, is really fucking incisive when he says it. ”

"Captain, Xiaoqiu and I should also go and have a look. Amy stood up solemnly.

"I'll go too!" Her Majesty jumped out.

"Forget it, I'll go by myself. "Dark Qiusheng still has a full understanding of Her Majesty's lethality, and he originally went to touch the bottom of the enemy and bring His Majesty with him...... It must be to find out the enemy.

"Okay. Be careful. "Qing Luo doesn't know much about the small mercenary group blocking the swordsman battalion, but he also knows that Dark Qiusheng is the main commander of this gray swordsman battalion, and with such a title, as long as he can be equal to Chang Qing in terms of combat power, there should be no big problem.

Old Tom and his team thought that the young man was going to summon a dragon to patrol the air, but out of complete surprise, Dark Autumn took out a black, green, blue and brown cloak from the package behind him, wrapped himself tightly from head to toe, and then, silently, felt it out from the side, and the speed was still very fast—he couldn't feel it when he walked side by side just now, but now he clearly noticed the difference, this young man seemed to melt into the forest with every step, and after walking less than 10 steps forward, the whole person had completely integrated into the forest......

"Let's keep walking, so that the other person doesn't notice. Qingluo was also secretly surprised, the chief officers of the little mercenary group at this level were all so good.

"Won't he get lost, then?" said old Tom worried.

"No, it won't. Let's go. Amy continued—short-distance woodland patrols are the six routine testing items of fencers, and Dark Autumn is the best among them.

The team walked forward for more than an hour, and just when they were about to stop to prepare lunch, Dark Qiusheng quietly stood up less than 1 meter on the side of Old Tom and Qingluo, this time, it really scared Old Tom, if this young man was really hostile, he could kill himself three or four times without any room to fight back - the strength of these seven people was simply terrifying.

"Captain, there is, I have seen three groups, about three people in each group, about 500 meters away from us, and the opponent has obviously spotted me. Dark Qiusheng gently wiped the dew off his forehead, and smiled apologetically at the old man in front of him after speaking.

Qingluo's face was feverish. In the fairy forest, every tree is a mid-level, upper-level, lower-level wood elf, they have their own independent consciousness, and for the forest elves, these low-level wood elves will cooperate 100% - this is why the forest elf magister can manipulate trees in the fairy forest. The trees of the other forests are all lower-level elves, and they only have the lowest level of consciousness, such as pain and joy...... It doesn't work with the forest elves, but you should never lie to the forest elves either!

Now, Qingluo has a strange sense of the forest in front of him. This was the first time in his life that Elder Wu of the Elven Kingdom had felt like this.

Old Tom's face was not much better: "Senior, my initial idea was to get by in the dark, we have more than 60 people together, more than 100 pack horses, and I used to trade things from here...... Although the goods are somewhat prohibited this time, as long as they can be sent in, they will definitely find a good buyer. But...... Now it seems that we may be in danger. I think the idea you put forward earlier is still very good......"

It is worthy of the old rivers and lakes, and it should be broken, without dragging the mud and water at all.

Qingluo immediately took it: "You're polite, then you can stay for lunch, we have few people, let's go first." "Your Excellency the Elder is also very annoyed, originally there are a lot of people here, and I want to mix in and get by...... As a result, something went wrong at the last step......

"Captain, let Ah Qing explore the way in front, and Xiao Qiu will be in charge of the back of the palace. Amy whispered, Qingluo was stunned for a moment, nodded in agreement, and the team of 7 immediately set off to the northeast.

As soon as they walked two or three miles, Da Qingshan and Sha Ruo changed the direction of travel, and the team turned westward, and Dark Qiusheng stayed behind, and when he confirmed that there was no one behind him, he erased the road sign left by Amy, and then changed direction.

After walking a few more miles, Amy sat down on the ground: "Everyone come and rest!"

"Your Royal Highness the Regent, what should we do next?" Old rivers and lakes like Qingluo are also a little blind now.

"Sleep!" Amy replied neatly.

"Sleep, then we're not going to complete the mission?" One of the little whiteboards is now eager to complete this B-rank mission, so that he can become a mid-level mercenary in one fell swoop.

"Who said we were going to complete the mission?" Amy smiled and scratched the bridge of the nose of one of the small whiteboards: "Our task now is to stir up the water, use the investigation mission to cover up our true purpose, use the delivery mission to cover the investigation mission, and use the old Grandpa Tom's caravan to cover the delivery mission, and completely muddy the water." ”

"Do you mean to let Old Tom and them go through the level first, and we will observe later, and then decide what to do?" Qingluo probably understood.

"Yes. By the way, Elder, who knows more about the forest than the elves? Could it be the dark elves?"

"I don't know, but it certainly won't be a dark elf. If there must be one race that knows the forest as well as we do, it is the Druids, the Children of the Forest, but even so, the trees do not fail to feel their traces, let alone lie to the forest elves. ”

"It is said that knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles, and we are now on the losing side. I don't even know what the enemy really is. ”

Qingluo's face immediately turned red, as a senior hunter, this is probably the harshest evaluation.

"Elder, don't be embarrassed, before you, Da Qingshan and I were also known as the people who knew the forest best, and they even made the forest their home. We're all here this time. Amy wasn't uncomfortable at all, and she still had a smile on her face.

Qingluo was completely speechless.

Dark Qiusheng touched it back and stood up on the side: "Commander, no one is following us." ”

"I guess people don't need to follow us, Elder Qingluo, I feel like I was in the Fairy Forest last time, as if I was completely calculated. "The only things I can laugh at now are Amy and the heartless little tabula rasa. From this point of view, the so-called husband and wife, the so-called not a family, do not enter the door...... There really is a three-point truth.

"And we're going to be watched all the time, and old Tom must want us to find a way, I guess...... In a little while, the outer explorers of their caravan will also be here. Your calculations...... It is possible that it will fall short. Qingluo felt that Amy's wishful thinking was wrong.

"Really?" the smile on Amy's lips grew stronger, "Elder, I promise, they won't be able to find us from now on...... Unless...... We're willing to show up......"

"Your Royal Highness, you're not kidding, are you?" Qing Luo was a little dizzy - this kind of dizziness has been there from the beginning, as a veteran hunter, in the previous decades of mercenary career, Qing Luo has always felt that he has reacted quite quickly, including in the expeditionary force, he can also keep up with Tayang's thoughts. After setting off with Amy, Qingluo did feel old...... Sometimes I can't even understand what Amy is saying.