The sun once again illuminates the wilderness and the city, and Zhou Qi prepares to restart the adventure he has stopped for three days. This is certainly not because he overcame his fear of the unknown that had happened to him, but because of the poverty of reality. In order to prevent the inexplicable hunger from taking his life at a critical moment, Zhou Qi decided to form a team this time.

The air in the outer city was polluted and chaotic, and the smell of garbage mixed with the smell of urine made Zhou Qi pinch his nose. With few intact houses to look around, sleepless people sleeping under stacks of garbage, and the occasional rat gnawing at unknown corpses, even the barely subsistence scavengers live in Midtown that is far more than a paradise compared to here.

Zhou Qi skillfully walked on the roads of the outer city, this was not the first time he had been here, every time he saw and heard was a reminder of how difficult life is, there are mostly old scavengers or crippled losers in expeditions, and of course, there are cowards who are too timid to go out of the city.

What catches your eye is an old dome and dilapidated house, the paint on the outer walls is slightly faded, and this is already a rare good house in the outer city. Zhou Qi pushed the door in, and the dim environment and the pungent smell of inferior wine made him frown. As the only tavern in the outer city, there are often scavengers fooling around here, and of course, some homeless people will also come here for a drink when they have silver coins in their hands, and send away the difficulties in front of them and the hope in their hands.

"Yo Yo Yo, look, how come our university scholars have time to come here." There was a rugged man holding a wine glass to make fun of him.

Zhou Qi directly ignored him, that guy was just a powerful mouth, and he was beaten more than once for talking nonsense. Straight to the bar, a middle-aged man with red hair was carefully wiping his wine glass, he was very short and fat; pale complexion, with some scars between wrinkles; A disheveled red beard that has not been taken care of for a long time. The clothes were dirty and torn, and it seemed that they had not been mended or washed for years. No one knows the man's name, everyone else calls him Old Cat, and naturally, this house that barely serves as a bar is also called Old Cat Tavern.

Speaking of which, Zhou Qi is not familiar with the old cat, and he rarely comes to this kind of place, after all, he has ideals and pursuits, and part of the money he earns is saved for the elderly and part is used to live, and he is really not interested in the old cat's slaughtering tavern. His deceased father had helped the old cat a lot, and I don't know exactly what he helped, but the old cat would occasionally visit him and ask if he needed his help, except for giving money, he was a qualified strict elder.

"You kid is indeed a rare guest, it's rare to see you here." The old cat did not stop his movements and did not look up.

"Have you had any commissions lately, or is there anyone planning to go out and try your luck or something?" Zhou Qi picked up a glass of lemonade next to him and took a small sip.

"If there's nothing for you, it's all petty fighting, and I can't afford to pay your consulting fees." The old cat looked at the wine glass in his hand and thought about it carefully, "Hey, wait, there is indeed a tracing commission, from the inner city, and the reward is exaggerated, but it is difficult to complete?" ”

Zhou Qi played with the wine glass in his hand, but did not take another sip, he pursed his lips and said:

"Tsk, it's a shame on it, it sounds very troublesome, forget it, take it, who to find."

However, the old cat stopped what he was doing, looked at him carefully, and suddenly smiled: "I'm short of money, I have already asked you not to save so much pension money, except for you, there is no scavenger who saves ninety percent of the remuneration for retirement." ”

"The one who lost it was the only daughter of the financial magistrate in the inner city, who was very expensive, and somehow left the city. It is said that he was kidnapped, but some people say that he ran away. The Minister of Finance said that if he could find clues, of course, he would provide a reward of 5 gold coins, and if he could find someone, it would be ten times, 50 gold coins. He explained the unexplained commission in detail, and of course, it was more like a missing person notice.

"Tsk, it's really a rich enough reward, but it's a pity that it's too troublesome, the wilderness is such a big ghost knows where to look, is there nothing else?" Zhou Qi didn't care how people lost it, 50 gold coins, ninety percent of the deposit, and 5 gold coins left. Even if he spends unbridledly, it is enough for more than two years of expenses, but unfortunately this commission can only rely on luck, and it is really not suitable to go out to find it.

"No, nothing else is suitable for you, or you can go find Xu Yao, he also has plans to go out recently." The old cat didn't care about him anymore and continued to get busy with the work in his hands.

"Okay, so I'll go first?" Zhou Qi slipped towards the door as fast as he could, but the cup in the old cat's hand was faster. Click~ With the crisp glass shattering, the sound was the slightly dissatisfied voice of the old cat:

"You didn't pay."

"But I only took one sip!!"

"You have to pay for one bite!"

Looking at the old cat's suddenly flushed face and the other wine glass in his hand that had been crushed, Zhou Qi reluctantly handed over the few silver coins he had left. No way, can't beat it.

The old cat was also a famous pioneer a long time ago, and for some reason, later opened a tavern in the outer city. Although he has been unfamiliar for many years, not many people doubt that his skills have regressed, because there will always be people who are in arrears and will be knocked unconscious and hung on the wall outside the tavern.

"Damn, I knew I wouldn't come, and the old thing is still so picky." Zhou Qi walked towards Xu Yao's house, in fact, he respected the old cat a lot, after all, he was his rare elder, but this did not mean that he was willing to be exploited by the old cat for the meager property in his hands.

Like Zhou Qi, Xu Yao is also an outlier among the scavengers, but different. Zhou Qi knows a lot of strange knowledge, including but not limited to where there may be treasures and antiques, where there will be some kind of mutant beast, how to slaughter him if he has a good harvest today. Xu Yao is simply unlucky for the people around him, some people say that he is a "lonely star" according to the old saying, whoever comes will die. Some people had tried to go out with him, but now the grass on their graves had grown two or three times. Only Zhou Qi, after several joint explorations with Xu Yao, came to the conclusion that Taicai still suggested staying in the city.

From a distance, I saw the conspicuous spired house, which was of course not Xu Yao's house, but the office of the Tianzheng Church in Yiqing City next door to his house, referred to as Yiqing Church, which is currently in charge of Aponia.

For no reason, Zhou Qi remembered the nun who seemed to be out of line last night, he shook his head slightly, so that he no longer thought about this thing, and walked into Xu Yao's house with a familiar car.

As soon as he came in, he saw Xu Yao beating sandbags, Xu Yao was still so strong, his tendons and flesh were shining with a healthy bronze luster, his eyebrows were in the sideburns, his phoenix eyes were facing the sky, and his scalp was shiny.

"Tsk, how many times have I seen this bald head so happy." Zhou Qi thought to himself in his heart, but his face did not change half a point, he had received this professional training, no matter how funny he was, he would not laugh, after all, he could bear it now.

"Lao Xu, if you want to go out of the city, if you want me to wait, I will be with you." Zhou Qi skillfully sat aside, cooperated several times, and the two became friends who had a fairly good relationship.

"I just wanted to find you, now man!" Looking at his friend in front of him, Lao Xu's slightly sad face also became a lot better-looking, but he still couldn't help sighing. "Alas, too superstitious!"

Politely patted Xu Yao's shoulder, and Zhou Qi comforted: "It's okay, buddy, I'm not with you." ”

"Indeed, our brothers are also tacit partners." Xu Yao sat opposite Zhou Qi and began to briefly introduce the mission. "You also know that some people above love to eat game, and this time someone is a heavy collector of dwarf deer, whether they live or die, as long as they are adults, 3 gold coins a piece."

Zhou Qi thought for a moment, the dwarf deer, a D-level mutant beast, is characterized by running fast and small in number. "It's easy to do, just the two of us?"

"Yes, I can't find anyone else, and you should know where there are dwarf deer." Xu Yao wiped the sweat on his face, the long-term exercise made him a little tired, and he felt a little hot inexplicably.

"Naturally, then pack up and let's go?" Zhou Qi had already packed up the supplies for leaving the city before going out, after all, he was so poor that he couldn't open the pot.

Xu Yao pointed to the package in the corner, "You go and prepare, I can do it at any time." ”

"I'm going too." An ethereal, solemn voice rang out from the window. Zhou Qi's eyes widened, this unfolding was a little too familiar.

Click~ The sound of the window cracking sounded in my ears, and Aponia was standing outside the window, just like last night.

"No, nun, won't you go through the door, and we're going on an adventure, can you follow us like this?" Zhou Qi complained about the nun who seemed to be really not very good.

In response to him and the pig's liver Xu Yao's face, I don't know why, the nun who suddenly appeared in the room from the window and the holy light in her hands that was pure white and did not have a trace of earthly breath.