The Ruined Forest is a very magical place, there are no plants, only an endless stretch of reinforced concrete, the ruins are crumbling, the shape is strange and dangerous, although it has experienced nearly a hundred years of nuclear storm baptism, but there are still some tall buildings that have not completely collapsed, the building that was once hundreds of floors high, now only seventy or eighty meters high, but it is still a behemoth, these ruins, always shock the little heart of Lyon - those huge buildings were once the home of humans? Don't you need to defend against mutant beasts all the time? Don't you have to worry about being frozen at night? Don't you have to pull out the stool because you can't eat fiber tablets......? How happy it would be if you grew up in such an era.

What excites him even more is that the legendary Upper Town Reserve is like that, and Leon's eyes light up every time he thinks about it.

At this moment, the three teenagers were in the underground rest point of a building, chatting about those legends, and their eyes were shining. Figama swallowed even more, and the hungry Leon kept talking about the food that MGM had told him, about cakes, about real cream, about fresh apples...... They had only eaten dried apples, and they were all covered with red mold.

Just as he was saying that he was happy, the squid on Leon's head suddenly snorted again, but this time the content was terrifying.

"Dut...... Hairy...... Doodle...... Multi"

Black Forehead was the first to jump up, making Fei Jiama inexplicable, and Black Forehead just said one word briefly: "wolf"

Leon also understood that long-haired mutant beasts are often dangerous, which means that they can move on the ground, and they are correspondingly more resistant and lethal, and if they are in a group, they are most likely needle wolves.

The needle wolf, the most dangerous mutant beast near the Nine Domains, is close to three meters long, and the largest can reach three and a half meters, but the huge gray body moves very fast, its teeth and claws can kill people, its sense of smell and hearing is extremely developed, and the dense hard hairs on its body are as sharp as steel needles, and ordinary alloy blades can't hurt their flesh and skin at all.

But the most dangerous thing about needle wolves is that they are a pack as soon as they appear.

Leon's sleeping bag was still an old object from 15 years ago, and according to Lake, it was a lonely old wolf, who seemed to have been hungry for a long time, otherwise he would not have been able to kill the mutant beast with his ability at that time.

Blackforehead stood up, but there was no next move, he stood there quietly, closed the closure on his helmet, and reached out to block the fat man's breathing hole.

They were still, they had no smell coming out, and they were hiding underground, believing they could avoid the nose and ears of a needle-pricking wolf. Leon is a child who grew up in a thief mercenary group, and his stealth skills are definitely not weaker than ordinary mercenaries, and the only problem now is the fat man Fei Jiama, I don't know how long he can last.

As time passed, the fat man's body began to shake, and his ability to hold his breath had almost reached its limit. But Leon, who had sharp ears, still did not signal the black forehead to let go of his hand, he heard the soft sound of those sharp claws rubbing against the fierce wind passing through the hall overhead, and heard the heavy gasps of the needle wolves, they were still hovering overhead, they must have leaked the smell before burrowing into the ground, or maybe it was the rat in the skin that leaked their whereabouts.

"Woo...... Woohoo......" The wolves suddenly howled, loud and high-pitched, startling the fat man, and then a fierce running sound sounded above their heads.

The wolves seemed to have found a new target and ran away with a bang.

"I ...... Damn it...... I can't do it......" The fat man gasped rapidly, crawled on the ground with his heels, pouting and crying.

"Okay, fat mom, don't cry, they're gone" Leon dutifully comforted the fat man, as for "fat mom", it was the nickname he gave Fei Jiama, and he called it for five or six years, and the fat man had already recognized it.

"Ang, I ask you something!" Fei Jiama clumsily got up from the ground, and excitedly grabbed Leon's protective suit, almost scratching the clothes, "Lend me your upgrade card......! I'm going to be a fucking mercenary too!"

Leon looked at the fat man in a daze, a little unbelieving his ears, Fei Jiama is timid and greedy, although his skills in making food are first-class, but he has not killed any mutant beasts except for violent rats, the most important thing is that he has a stable life and an enviable good job. Why do you want to be a mercenary?

Looking at Leon, who did not express his position, Fighama obviously misunderstood, and he sat on the ground dejectedly,

"I know that upgrading the crystal card can only be used five times, and if you use it once, it will depreciate once, of course you can't bear it" The fat man began to cry again, "But I just want to be a mercenary, I am always so scared, I am always so cowardly, how can I go to the city...... Woowoo...... How could you have eaten the cake......"

Leon couldn't help but laugh as he listened, what kind of ideal was this! Is he going to be a mercenary just for the cake? But after a while, he figured out again, what about his ideal? Isn't it also going to the upper city? Isn't it also to see a better world? Why can't a fat mother take cake as an ideal?

"Okay, fat mom, I promise you! Let's go to Lao Jiao's place when we go back!" he squatted down and touched the fat man's helmet like a big-eared dog, "Let's work together, be mercenaries, level up, and go to the city!"

The fat man threw himself on Leon's lap and cried, "...... And eat cake ......."

“......”

After a moment, Leon remembered a serious question, "But fat mother, you ...... Is there any money?"

The three of them stayed underground for nearly three more hours before slowly emerging from the surface, and the hunt for rats had to be stopped, and they had to rush back to report that there was a pack of needle-piercing wolves near the Nine Domains, and the news was sent to the Five-Star Guild, which was worth at least 5 metal coins. And there are already a lot of rats in their skins, and it is estimated that there will be no problem with eating them for two days, even if Leon is now a big stomach.

They traveled quickly in the direction of the Nine Domains, and they couldn't run quickly, and that kind of bumpy vibration would often wake up some mutant beasts that were dormant during the Red Moon, and it would not be good to provoke a few wild dogs or a pack of thorny bats.

Seeing that he could see the gate of the Nine Domains by bypassing a tall circular building again, the black forehead suddenly stopped, and his nose shrugged and sniffed.

"Dut...... Hit, hit, hit" The squid also began to coo, and Leon's face in the helmet crumpled,

"What does this mean?" he was really helpless about this squid, no matter what he said, he was like a baby, and he couldn't express it at all.

"Fighting" The black-fronted one-eyed looked at a row of walls in front of him on the left, raised his hand and pointed, "Over there"

"Let's go back quickly" The fat man had already begun to tremble, the shock he had just received was too great, and he couldn't wait to rush into the warm door of the Nine Domains immediately.

"No, fat mom, we're going over...... You should see how the mercenaries work."

Dragging the reluctant fat man, the three of them climbed up the circular building, secretly sticking out their heads to look down, they carefully selected the downwind outlet, so that they would not easily expose themselves.

At this moment, the wind is already very strong, the huge crater of the red moon has slowly gone away, among the swirling red ash particles, I can only see a few figures moving and jumping in the distance, although I can't see the details clearly, but I can see a large group of needle wolves hovering around them, and they quickly swim around like a meat grinder, it seems that someone has been injured, and the excited howl of the wolves can be faintly heard, and there are many of their fallen companions, but the smell of blood is enough to make them cheer.

It turned out that the acupuncture wolves just now had discovered these people, this seemed to be a small mercenary convoy, which was exactly what Leon wanted the fat man to see, such a battle, should let Fei Jiama take a good look at it, and let him consider his choice again.

What kind of challenges do you have to face as a mercenary? This is definitely not a group fight like the one at the door of the cream bar, this is a tragic, just survival battle!

Suddenly, Leon saw a familiar black shadow, not a man, but a weapon, spewing flames wildly, it was a large cross.

"MGM ......" Leon only felt his heart lift, Lake should be with him.