Duan Lie warned Old Ward and said: "If my guess is right, the activities of the Blood Scythe Thieves Group have always been successful in the past, so I won't hold a grudge against anyone, but this time it's more troublesome, they have lost more than two hundred people, and they will definitely make a comeback, this time remind everyone to be careful, the guards of the Royal City of Los seem to be of great help, I suggest that everyone organize some fighters with fighting spirit and be on duty in shifts, at least when the thieves group comes again, everyone can escape in advance to seek the protection of the Royal City." ”

Leo nodded: "Mr. Appraiser is right, there are still some young men who can fight in the northern outer city, I know one person, we will immediately let them organize the manpower." ”

Duan Lie said: "A lot of craftsmen died tonight. ”

Tyr said sadly: "Their luck is not good, they didn't expect that good days were coming soon, and they were actually killed by the damned thieves." ”

Duan Lie's heart moved, and he sighed: "That's it, count the list of dead people and hand it over, I will give each person a pension of two gold coins, and the imperial side will fight for you yourself, I believe you can also get some compensation, this is not because today's incident is my fault, I just don't want their families to have a hard time." ”

Ward was moved: "Mr. Appraiser, you are really a great person, and I thank you for your great kindness on behalf of their families." ”

"Hehe, you're welcome, what I want to say is that the manpower still needs to be added, these things you have to worry about, I need to ensure the normal development of the project. ”

"No problem. ”

The three old men thanked them and left Duan Lie's residence.

After a while, Nick rushed back after receiving the news, and before entering the house, he didn't even knock on the door because he was in a hurry, so he hurriedly greeted: "Elder, I heard that the outer city has been ransacked by the thieves, are you okay?" ”

Duan Lie was studying the defensive layout outside the branch on the table, and when he saw Nick sweating profusely, he motioned for him to drink saliva first, and then said: "I'm fine, but a lot of people have died outside, this place is not very peaceful, it seems that our defense force is going to be formed in advance, you went to Wangcheng to find the mercenary group today, is there any progress?"

Nick sighed in frustration when he heard this, and said: "Originally, we brought a lot of gold coins, I thought to give them a reasonable price and they would definitely agree, but when it came to the northern outer city, many mercenary groups retreated, I finally found a few mercenary groups, and finally determined two of them, but they asked for an interview with you, I think they want to open their mouths, and the credibility cannot be guaranteed." ”

Duan Lie was not surprised, if Nick said this before tonight, he would probably not understand, but now it is different, the chaos in the northern outer city is far beyond his imagination, it is incomparable to the inside of the royal city, and even under the city wall, although the mercenary group is all fighters, but the power of the thief group is not weak, if it really fights, it is impossible to say who wins or loses, and no one will pin their heads to the waistband of their pants because of gold coins.

But fortunately, two mercenary groups had already agreed to meet, which was a good start, and Duan Lie believed that he would come forward in person and would definitely lobby them to agree.

Because it had been sacked by the thieves once, and the residents were still immersed in grief, Old Ward did not immediately propose to gather men, and the work was temporarily stopped, but Leo patted his chest and promised that the work would be restarted within three days.

Building a branch is a long-term development strategy, and it is useless to be in a hurry, so Duan Lie planned to take advantage of these two days to rest, so the next day he cleaned up the matter of following Nick to the Rove Tavern in the royal city to negotiate cooperation with the mercenary group.

Rove Tavern is an ordinary tavern in the royal city, the scale is not large, located in the slum trade area, here is a mixed place, ruffians and hooligans can be seen everywhere, and there are more guys who swagger and deceive under the banner of mercenary groups, but Nick is also cautious, the mercenary groups he is looking for are all selected from the adventurer's association, and there is a good guarantee from the reputation, of course, the strength is also a hardware, which cannot be ignored.

The two mercenary groups that Nick found are very famous in the local area, in fact, they are not very famous and dare not take this kind of job, everyone knows how chaotic the outer city is, the thief group and the mercenary group are simply a gray area mixed in the black and white world, if you want to say that they are kind, there must be, but there must not be much.

At about twelve o'clock at noon, Duan Lie and Nick rushed to the Rove Tavern, the weather in March and April was not hot, but it was not cool, the owner of the tavern, Rove, was dozing off in front of the counter, and the only waiter was lazily wiping the wine glass, there were not many people in the tavern, and a few big men who had not woken up all night were drinking beer in front of the table with red faces.

Arriving at the tavern, Rove saw two men in identification robes walk in, yawned boredly, and walked out from behind the counter: "What to drink?" he asked weakly with a piece of paper.

"Two glasses of juice!" Duan Lie said happily.

"Don't drink?" Rove's Tavern is mainly engaged in liquor, but there are also fruit juices, but it is not very profitable, Rove asked very unhappily: "Outsiders, our ale wine here is very fragrant and mellow, and the price is not high, only selling for fifty silver coins." ”

"Fifty silver coins isn't high?" Duan Lie knew that he had entered the black shop, and the ale in the Cold Wind City Tavern was just a few silver coins and a large glass, and he bought one and got one free.

However, Duan Lie was not interested in discussing the price of wine with Rove, but replied with a smile: "We have other things, we can't drink, just two glasses of juice." ”

"Okay. Luo Fu gave Duan Lie a blank look and said nothing more.

And at this moment, a loud voice came in from the door: "Rove, quickly serve me two barrels of ale, ask for a large barrel, haha." ”

As he spoke, a black bearded man appeared at the door, this person was not tall, holding a huge plate axe in his hand, wearing black armor with a diagonal half, the armor was not high-end equipment, it was almost of high quality, and there were damaged parts.

Nick glanced at Dahan at this time, and quickly whispered: "He is the leader of the Maigao Mercenary Regiment, the giant axe Maigao, a first-class war division." ”

Duan Lie nodded.

At the same time, another person appeared, it was a tall and thin middle-aged man, with two triangular eyes, wearing a neat and tidy medium-quality battle robe, he looked at the tavern when he came in, and quickly sat next to Nick, and introduced himself: "It's you who negotiated the mercenary task, let me introduce myself, my name is Wesley, and I am the deputy head of the Adam Mercenary Regiment." ”