In the end, Su Nian still chose to give up the coverage.

After killing the remaining three skeleton warriors, Su Nian and Ji Yun, as well as the other two conscription warriors, sat on the ground exhausted and gasped.

As for the shield bones that opened their defensive posture on the side, since there was no threat for the time being, they didn't pay attention to it, trying to recover their strength as soon as possible.

During the chat, Su Nian learned that the bald man's name was Ge Long, who was 47 years old, and was an excavation machine maintenance worker in the "Night City", a city north of Tiandu City, and this was his fourth time entering the decaying world.

The knife-wielding woman beside him was named Ge Xin, who was Ge Long's niece.

They added friends through the spirit guides they purchased in Infernal City, and chose to explore the decaying world together.

This is a very common phenomenon since the era of drafting, and that is the team mode.

All you need to do is establish a spiritual connection, and you can travel to the Decaying World together.

But the party mode is not without its limitations.

The number of explorations is linked to the difficulty of exploration, and when a Recruited Warrior with a large number of explorations is teamed up with a Recruited Warrior with a low number of explorations, the difficulty will not be averaged, but the Recruited Warrior with the highest number of explorations will prevail.

In other words, Ge Long, who has explored the Corrupt World four times, and Ge Xin, who has explored the Corrupt World twice, team up, and the difficulty of exploring the Corrupt World is only affected by Ge Long.

Therefore, the targets of the conscription warrior team are basically the conscripted warriors with similar exploration difficulty.

Team up with a strong recruit warrior and it is easy to die in a difficult scenario.

When talking about why he chose to venture into the Blood City, Ge Xin, who had always been silent on the side, spoke at this time:

"This is the right choice to live a long life, and avoiding it will only make the road ahead more difficult."

"Yes, we are now in the lowest exploration difficulty stage, at this time, we can accumulate strength in order to gain an advantage in the higher difficulty challenges, if the lowest difficulty chooses to escape the side quest, the subsequent will gradually weaken as the difficulty increases." Ge Long also sighed at this time.

Hearing these words, Ji Yun beside Su Nian couldn't help but nod his head and agreed with their point of view.

Similar views are often seen on the Internet.

Those recruited soldiers who have entered the inner city have generally mentioned that they must take the initiative to explore the decaying world in the early stage and complete the side quests as much as possible.

At that point, it's too late to try again.

But with Shadow City in hand, Su Nian felt that he could completely embark on a new route that was both safe and highly profitable.

After half an hour's rest, the four of them got up and walked to the shield that was still in a defensive posture.

The body structure of the shield bones in the defensive posture has changed, and the bones on the body have melted in a large area, condensing into a bone shield that envelops the whole body, and no longer moves.

At this time, the shield bones had lost their threat.

With the splash of bone fragments, they took a lot of effort to smash through the defenses on the surface of the shield bone, stirring up the soul fire that was beating in the skull of the shield bone.

The shield bone died, and the soul fire dissipated, leaving behind a diamond-shaped black spar the size of a thumb.

This is obviously the soul fire mark on the shield bone, which is the goal of the side quest.

However, the side quest to kill the shield bone is not rewarded for everyone who participates.

There are four types of side quests.

The first is a common side quest where all participants can receive the same reward, such as destroying the Corrupted Node.

The second is a side quest with shared rewards, and after the completion of this type of mission, the ember rewards in the prize pool can be distributed among all the Recruited Warriors participating in the mission, and the income is calculated based on the contribution value.

The third type of side quest, which is the Kill the Shield Bone, is only rewarded exclusively for those who complete it.

As for the fourth side quest, also known as the hidden quest, it will be triggered in the communication with the native life of the Decay world, this type of quest has a wide range, it may be inheriting some kind of inheritance, or it may be helping the native life of the Rotten world to complete a certain task, this kind of quest is concluded in the presence of the Purgatory God, and the reward must be given to the conscripted warrior after completion.

There is not much information on the Internet about the hidden mission, and there is no detailed interpretation so far.

How to distribute the corrosive core of the shield bone, Su Nian took the lead, he looked at Ge Long and said:

"Uncle Ge, I'll take out more than 1,500 embers and give it to the three of you, how about giving me this soul fire mark core?"

Given the price of more than 1,500 embers, Su Nian had carefully considered it.

Complete the side quest to kill the shield bone, and the reward is 1200 embers + a skill.

The price of a "normal" skill in Purgatory City is 100-1000 Embers, so the reward value for completing the task is between 1200-2200 Embers, deducting the 300 Embers + a quarter of the skill share he deserves, giving 1500 Embers is very reasonable.

In the face of his request, Ge Long was silent for a long time and then nodded:

"The price is reasonable, this corrosive core is for you, and the three of us will share more than 1,500 embers."

As he spoke, Ge Long picked up the black diamond-shaped crystal from the pile of bones on the ground and handed it to Su Nian's hand.

After taking over the corrosive core, Su Nian's mind suddenly sounded a camp prompt:

[Faction Hint (Purgatory City): Discover the side quest items and complete the side quest after the sacrifice. 】

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): Discover the Corrosion Core, and obtain the Corrosion Skill after Sacrifice: Bone Shield (Entered into the Shadow Skill Library)]

Skill: Shield Bone

Skill Quality: Normal

Skill Passive: Increases the strength of bones throughout the body

Action Skill: Alters the form of bones, which can be used for defense or offense.

……

The rewards after the decomposition of the corrosive core are not as much as those given by the Purgatory God.

In other words, completing the quest Purgatory God subsidized the quest reward.

But the Infernal God obviously won't make a loss-making deal, focusing on the shield skills that can be included in the Shadow Skill Library.

Later, when he builds the Shadow Shop, the Recruit Warrior can purchase the skills that are included in his Shadow Shop.

This skill is equivalent to a template that can be copied paths, and in the future, he can be sold to the Recruit Warriors of his faction an unlimited number of times, earning a steady stream of income.

For example, copying a skill from the Skill Stack to a Levy requires 100 Embers, and he has a price tag of 500 Embers.

As long as a subordinate recruit soldier buys it, he can earn the difference of more than 400 embers.

This is also the reason why the God of Purgatory gives Ember a subsidy after completing the mission.

"It's dark."

Muttering in his heart, Su Nian summoned the panel and came to stand in front of Ge Long.

Suddenly, the trading icon appeared on the panel.

After clicking on the awareness, the trading panel emerges.

After entering 500 embers in the amount field and clicking OK, a wisp of blood detached from the flames above his head and merged into the blood-colored flames above Gronn's head.

[Faction Hint (Purgatory City): The transaction is complete, and 500 embers will be deducted. 】

Coming to Ge Xin, Su Nian concocted more than 500 embers in the same way.

Finally, there was Ji Yun, and before he could call out the trading panel, he saw Ji Yun waving his hand and saying:

"I don't need it."

"Your dreams need embers, don't be polite to me."

Su Nian glared at him, then summoned the trading panel and turned over to more than 500 embers.

After giving more than 1,500 embers, there are still 532 embers left on his body.

At this moment, he looked at Gelong, who was about to leave:

"Uncle Ge, in the process of destroying the node just now, did you harvest any broken equipment, I can buy it at a higher price than the sacrifice."

Seeing the confusion on Ge Long's face, Su Nian immediately explained:

"My extraordinary talent is quite special, and I need to devour equipment to be able to level up."

After thinking about it for a while, Su Nian decided to start his first business as an undercover middleman.