Chapter 60: Playing with Fire and Immolating Yourself
"Hey, hey, what do you want?"
Wednesday was studying the advanced task when he suddenly heard Chrissy's voice, and quickly turned his head and said, "It's nothing, what do you want to say." β
"I said, I'm going to hire you as a bodyguard," Chrissy said word for word.
"Okay," Wednesday nodded, and then put forward his own conditions, "but it's only for half a year, and we'll talk about it when it's over." This is also considered by Wednesday himself, half a year is just the right time for him to adapt to these skills of his own, not to delay his own affairs, and not to be tied up by Chrissy because of too long.
Chrissy was not very satisfied, "A year, how can there be half a year?"
Wednesday waved his hand, "It's only half a year, if you don't want to, then I can't help it." He was determined that Chrissy would not refuse his condition, because Chrissy is now penniless, and has no self-defense at all, so it is better to find an unfamiliar person to be bullied, if she is sold to her brother backhanded, where will she cry?
That is, Wednesday, who doesn't care about other people who want to improve their strength, will help Chrissy without complaint. The situation was understood on Wednesday, and Chrissy herself understood.
Chrissy sighed in a pretended to be plaintive, "Okay, who is reluctant to let you you." β
Wednesday smiled secretly in his heart, not reluctant, but not dare. Of course, he doesn't have to worry about this little thing with a girl, he understands in his heart and then takes what he needs.
"Ding: Get the new quest 'Chrissy's Bodyguard', please complete it as required. β
Chrissy's bodyguard: In the next half a year, ensure Chrissy's personal safety, (task reward: good and evil +100, contribution +100, intermediate gold sore medicineΓ 5, acupuncture bronze Γ 1. οΌ
What does this do? Although I don't know what kind of effect this acupuncture bronze figure has, it must be related to the knowledge of meridian acupuncture points, which is also a good thing for Wednesday.
Thinking of his advanced mission, Wednesday said to Chrissy: "Let's go, go to the city and rest for a while, our enemies shouldn't have chased here." β
Chrissy nodded, "This kind of seaside town is generally not taken seriously, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you to bring me here, and the city here is not very tightly guarded, it is easier to enter and exit, and it is easier to escape." β
Wednesday's hairstyle now looks like an inch head, similar to the hairstyle of many people in this world, and it is not as conspicuous as a bald head anyway, so he doesn't wear a cloak anymore. As for Chrissy, because her face is so beautiful, Wednesday has no choice but to help her roughly put on makeup and draw it ugly, so that she will not be so eye-catching.
Wednesday didn't believe it, in this world without cameras, there are still people who can tell their identity at a glance.
The guards here are really not very tight, and even the soldiers who are guarding the gate to collect taxes are listless. Come to think of it, most of the people living in such a coastal city are fishermen who don't have much money, and they don't necessarily collect much even if they collect taxes. It's not like Earth, and the closer you get to the coastline, the more desolate it becomes, because the nautical industry is almost zero.
After handing over fifty copper plates, the two men entered the city. This small city is not big, but it is quite clean, but there is always a faint fishy smell in the air, after all, it is a city that eats by the sea.
In the past few months, Wednesday and Chrissy have been on the road almost all the time, and at this time they hardly want to do anything in their spare time, just want to find a hotel to take a comfortable hot bath and then sleep beautifully.
As the two of them walked down the street, Chrissy suddenly pulled Wednesday's arm and pointed to the entrance of a courtyard in the distance.
The yard looked quite ordinary, except for their old acquaintance, Margaret, standing in the doorway. Margaret stood in the doorway with her left hand and her right elbow, still looking a little nervous, and when the door opened, she couldn't help but take a step back.
However, a group of people ran out of the gate, respectfully welcomed Margaret into the courtyard, and then cautiously closed the gate.
"Her relatives?" Chrissy asked curiously, she didn't know Margaret's true identity, she only knew that Margaret was an ordinary girl on the edge of Sean's kingdom.
Wednesday didn't plan to explain anything, shook his head and said, "I don't know, it should be, her grandfather just asked me to bring her here, I don't know the specifics," he said, pulling her into a hotel, "Don't worry about it so much, let's think about how we should live first." β
When you first arrive in a foreign country, life is indeed a big problem. Wednesday doesn't care about gold or anything, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need it, so he can't go to the field every day to pitch a tent. And you need gold coins to eat, dress, and so on, and you really can't do without it.
Moreover, it is not a problem for two people to live in a hotel every day, especially on Wednesdays, when you want to practice, you need a decent venue and some training facilities. For example, "Golden Knife for Palm Skill" needs a room, or an open space the size of a room.
Chrissy is a rich lady, and when she spends gold coins, she is measured in 10,000 yuan, where she knows what livelihood she has, and in the end she has to figure it out by herself on Wednesday. Wednesday doesn't know much about the world, and the only way he can think of to make money is to be a mercenary.
Mercenaries are the mainstream adventurer status in the world, and the largest group of adventurers is the Mercenary Guild. According to Chrissy, almost one-tenth of the entire continent's population has mercenary status. Of course, most of them are the lowest-level D-rank mercenaries, and they can only take on some of the simplest tasks. There is no way, who makes it costly to register for soldiers.
However, such a large group of mercenaries also makes the whole society have an atmosphere of contract-oriented. Under normal circumstances, once the contract between two people is reached, no one will go back, just like the chivalry of the Western Middle Ages, duel is still very popular as an important means of combat.
Of course, these are just Wednesday's own feelings, he is not a professional sociologist or a Western historian, he just acts on his own feelings, and takes advantage of some advantages, such as Jeffritz of the bearded mercenary group who was cheated by Wednesday once.
Thinking of the bearded mercenary group, Wednesday thought of the Flame mercenary group, and the bandit leader mage Terry, and finally turned around and returned to Margaret. Thinking of Margaret, Wednesday shook his head and laughed, he himself didn't know how to get a stiff relationship with her, maybe it was a misunderstanding, maybe it was something else.
But it won't matter anymore, Margaret found her father's old department, and she also changed from that ordinary girl to a princess of a country, although this princess is more down, but it is still much better than before, especially since she is a princess and has many powerful subordinates.
Thinking of this, Wednesday shook his head and sat on the stool, listening to the sound of Chrissy taking a bath in the washing room, and his heart was filled with a hint of sadness, and then he quickly recited the heart mantra silently. Although Wednesday is a monk of wine and meat, he never dares to touch the color. Eating meat and drinking wine or something, his master and brother may only scold him twice, but if he dares to break the color ring, his master and brother may kill him.
Therefore, this color ring has always been the bottom line of Wednesday's wine and meat monk, and it is also a high-voltage line, and he will never dare to touch it. Along the way, there was often physical contact with Margaret and Chrissy, but Wednesday insisted on reciting his desires.
I have to say that this heart purification mantra is really effective, especially when the mind is unstable, recite it silently, and the mental state will stabilize at once.
A few minutes later, Chrissy came out of the bathroom, wrapped in a bath towel and beckoned to Wednesday, "It's your turn." β
Wednesday smelled the body fragrance emanating from Chrissy's body, and the mind that had just calmed down was suddenly chaotic again, and a heart fluttered much faster. Wednesday, who was a little uncontrollable, hurriedly ran into the bathroom, and secretly screamed as he closed the door, is this the disadvantage of low concentration? But it is really rare for a monk with such low concentration as Wednesday.
Of course, it is also because the environment is much more stable now, when they are on the road, they only care about running for their lives, where do they have the extra mind to think about other things? Now that the matter is settled, the tense nerves are relaxed, and the unstable heart begins to stir.
What's worse is that the bathroom is also full of Chrissy's body fragrance, which makes Wednesday feel even more soulless. After rinsing for a while, he ran out of the bathroom and almost ran into Chrissy head-on.
"You, what are you doing at the door?" asked Wednesday rhetorically, pretending to be calm.
Chrissy laughed coquettishly, threw the little balls in her arms in another room, and then leaned sideways into Wednesday's arms, her slender index finger picked up Wednesday's chin and said charmingly, "What do you think I will do?" said and blew slightly into Wednesday's face.
Wednesday understood what it meant to exhale, and his already unstable mind suddenly showed signs of collapse. But after thinking about it, why is this girl so strange today? It can't be that someone has been given an aphrodisiac when she is taking a bath, right? Thinking about it, it feels impossible, with little Dandan by her side, she doesn't have to worry about outsiders approaching them at all.
Thinking of this, Wednesday whispered: "Don't play with fire, you'll get burned." β
"Really?" Chrissy raised her white slender neck and said provocatively with silky eyes, "I'm here to see who burned it?"
Wednesday secretly pinched his fingers to regain some attention, and then let out a low roar: "You brought it on yourself," the voice fell, and he picked up Chrissy and strode into the bedroom.
Throwing Chrissy on the fluffy mattress, Wednesday pounced on her without taking off her clothes, pressing Chrissy under her, staring at Chrissy with a pair of eyes as if she was on fire, "You brought it on yourself, don't blame me," he said and stretched out his big hand to grab Chriss's body in her frightened eyes.