Volume 1: The Boy Shows His Edge Chapter One Hundred and Four: The Grass Gray Snake Line
The next day, Jinguancheng Liuye Bookstore.
From the moment Mu Qing entered, he found that the layout at the back of the bookstore seemed to be no different from that of Suzaku City, and in the "Ding" room, the thick black cloth still blocked the only small square window.
Fortunately, there is still a lamp like a bean, and when the two sit opposite each other, they can see each other's faces, but when the flame shakes, the figure is like a ghost.
Mu Qing has been accompanied by the bright spring color for a while, and when he suddenly returned to the place where he should have been familiar, he felt a little uncomfortable all over, his starry eyes were slightly bright, and he took the lead in saying: "I'm here to hand over the task." ”
Because of some things in the city in recent days, Lu Fei's face was a little haggard, and he was looking at Mu Qing with a strong spirit at this time.
There are two lines of information coming and going in the hidden valley, one bright and one dark. The bright line is naturally the information exchange and summary of the bookstores in the Quanfu line, and the dark line is the tracking and exploration of the "hidden vision" of the palm law line.
Both lines recorded the things surrounding Mu Qing relatively clearly. Therefore, the final result in the Xinghang Great Forest was transmitted back to Lu Fei in a few days.
Lu Fei looked at Mu Qing's flickering appearance under the candlelight, and sighed that the other party was young, and couldn't help but think that not long ago, Yue Jiu and himself had sat on each other like this, when the other party still looked down on him, but now, only one sword was left and returned to the Hidden Valley.
He was faintly jealous of Mu Qing's poisonous cultivation methods, but as long as he thought of what was next, he felt a little pleasure in his heart that he was above the so-called geniuses and let them be buried in the conspiracy and calculation.
Seeing that Lu Fei had been looking at himself, and there was still a weird smile on the corner of his mouth, Mu Qingjian frowned slightly, and said again: "I'm here to hand over the task." ”
In order to hide for Yuejiu, before coming here, he also went to find Yuejiu, checked and filled in the gaps, weaved the lies enough to confuse the truth, and finally got to know the person in front of him by the way.
Lu Fei, Sanpin Xiuwei, the deacon of Quanfu, the shopkeeper of Jinguancheng Liuye Bookstore, Yuejiu's words at that time seemed very casual, it seems that this person's strength is not worth looking at.
Lu Fei nodded, there were two booklets on the desktop, his fingers tapped lightly on them, he smiled, and said, "I know you, Mu Qing." Not to mention killing Cao Mo, but also killing Yuejiu, as a novice assassin, you are really powerful. ”
Mu Qing's eyes narrowed, shook his head and said, "I don't know what you're talking about, I just took a task with a rank of Ding from Shopkeeper Chen." ”
Speaking of this, Mu Qing's tone was slightly aggrieved, "And it's also the task of escorting the caravan, where is the time to kill the two people you said I don't recognize." ”
Lu Fei nodded, and asked with a smile, "You should always have an impression of the caravan's affairs in the Iron Bone Village and the Starfall Forest, right?"
Mu Qingjian's eyebrows were finely adjusted, with a look of surprise, and then he suddenly said, "You mean them?"
Mu Qing laughed in his heart, but pretended to be depressed and said: "I almost died in these two places, naturally I am deeply impressed, the old man in the Iron Bone Village seems to be called Cao Baiqi, but the sword cultivator I met in the Xinghui Forest doesn't know what his name is." ”
"Besides, I have to say that that sword cultivator ran away after being poisoned, and I'm not sure if he died or not. ”
"These are all our arrangements, how likely do you know?" Lu Fei felt a gimpant in his heart, Mu Qing's performance at this time was consistent with the information that came, and he pretended to be profound: "The news has come, and we have determined that Yue Jiu died in your hands." ”
"In addition, I can tell you one more thing. The Quanfu first vein issues tasks, and it doesn't care about the same goal, whether you want to save or they want to kill, you can survive to the end without knowing anything, it seems that the survival masters cultivated by Hidden Valley this time are quite worthy of their name. ”
Mu Qing raised his eyebrows, of course he knew what Lu Fei said, and pretended to be angry and asked, "It means that you already knew that someone else came to intercept and kill the caravan, but you didn't tell me?"
Lu Fei's eyes narrowed slightly, leaned back in his chair and sneered: "The employer who buys the murder-homicide is looking for me, and the employer who entrusts someone to escort is the archdeacon who is looking for it, although every once in a while, our bookstores around the country will exchange information about the tasks on the willow leaf record, but there must be a time difference, right?"
"Say it again. Lu Fei looked at Mu Qing's angry appearance and said coldly: "Since you are an assassin from the Hidden Valley, you naturally know the rules of the Hidden Valley for a long time, and we will never take the initiative to intervene to prevent such a thing from happening." ”
"Boy, you have to understand that in the assassin industry, chaos and bottomlessness are flesh and soul, you kill each other in your respective tasks, survival of the fittest, and if you want to survive, you can only speak with strength. ”
Mu Qing was silent, after surviving the hellish elimination training in Hidden Valley, he understood that there was no warm reason with Hidden Valley, and at this time, Lu Fei said it again, but it was only to strengthen his determination to break away.
Seeing that Mu Qing was silent, Lu Fei thought that his mood was still difficult to calm down, his tone slowed down, and he said with a smile: "Don't talk about this." You said that today is the handover of the mission, right? ”
Mu Qing's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said in a slightly impulsive tone: "Liuye Lu Ding Book, escort the Liu family caravan, rank Ding." ”
Lu Fei nodded, opened the Liu Ye Ding book, wrote a few strokes on the latest page, raised his head and said: "It seems that your performance is very satisfactory to the employer, and the Liu family sent a hundred gold yesterday, saying that it is the balance payment for the successful completion of this mission." ”
"One hundred gold?" Mu Qing was really surprised this time.
Lu Fei nodded, his curious gaze fell on Mu Qing's face, and sighed: "The deposit is four taels of gold, and the final payment is directly one hundred taels of gold, what kind of valuable thing is the Liu family pulling? Or did you kidnap the eldest lady of the Liu family?" (1 tael of gold is about 2,000 yuan)
Mu Qing's heart jumped, and he pretended to complain and said: "I saved the other party so many times, I almost died, and all the medicinal herbs they pulled were used, and some of them were far from worth the price." ”
"That makes sense, I thought you kid was fascinated by people on his first mission. Lu Fei jokingly said, "Don't blame me for not warning you, an assassin from the Hidden Valley should not think that he can still start a family freely." ”
Mu Qing said impatiently: "Hurry up and hand over the task, how much money can I get this time?"
Lu Fei buried his head and continued to add words to the Liuye Lu Ding Book, and read it in his mouth: "In the eighteenth year of Tianjiao, on April 5, the novice assassin Mu Qing completed a task on Ding Shang and received forty-one taels and six coins. ”
"Wait!"
Lu Fei was still writing, but Mu Qing interrupted his voice and asked suspiciously, "Isn't there a total of one hundred and four taels of gold?" ”
Lu Fei frowned slightly, raised his head and glanced at Mu Qing coldly, and after finishing writing, he twisted his neck and said: "The commission of the novice assassin should have been divided into three or seven, you three and I seven, but we read that it was not easy for you to complete the task this time, and we should be content with the increase in your share, right?"
Mu Qing's eyes narrowed, and he sneered and said, "So I four of you and six of you, you didn't do anything, isn't this a money grab?"
If he wants to become a deacon of Quanfu, he is naturally extremely concerned about the matter of money, and Lu Fei said in a stiff tone: "What?
"If you are a wild man like Cao Mo, we can give you another 10%. ”
"But have you forgotten who cultivated your ability?"
Although he was not very enthusiastic about things like money, Mu Qing was still extremely unhappy in his heart, he knew this, it was better to just call Wei Rui to give it, and he was made so much by Quanfu.
Lu Fei saw Mu Qing's dark face, knowing that the fire was coming, his tone changed sharply, and he comforted: "But you kid don't have to be angry and can't make more money." ”
Mu Qing's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked bluntly, "What do you mean?"
Lu Fei said: "We have a very good and good rule in Yingu, but it is not put on the surface. ”
"If you kill anyone on the Assassin Rankings, you can skip the lengthy way of leveling up by mission contributions, in other words, you're now in third place on the Assassin Rankings. From now on, you will be able to take on more higher-level tasks, and the split ratio will become seven for you and three for me. ”
Mu Qing stared at Lu Fei directly, and found that the other party didn't seem to be cheating, and sighed: "Is it because of that sword cultivator named Yue Jiu?" I didn't expect that he could directly take his place. ”
Lu Fei nodded with a smile and said, "What level of task can you take on Liu Yelu, it generally depends on contribution rather than strength." But since a few years ago, the Three Elders have added an article that if anyone can directly kill someone on the assassin list, they can replace him. ”
Mu Qing thought of a more serious question and asked, "Do you know this rule?"
Lu Fei shook his head and said, "Since you haven't put it on the bright side, naturally you don't know it." You won't know until you do it. ”
Mu Qing said: "Don't you think you are encouraging us to continue doing this in disguise?"
Lu Fei smiled contemptuously, and said with a memory in his eyes: "The third elder said that what if he is the first of the ten earth lists, what he wants is fresh blood that can rush into the heavenly list, and some people who rely on their positions but are willing to fall should be given to the latecomers." Speaking of this, Lu Fei paused, looked at Mu Qing seriously and said, "For example, you, such a young man has given way to his position." ”
Mu Qing smiled and asked coldly, "Then what level of task can I take on now?"
A light flashed in Lu Fei's eyes, and only then did he take out the book under the Liuye Luding book, and said, "The top three on the ground list can take over the task on the armor." But it's a pity that first-class tasks are all sought-after goods, and now there are none, but there are still a few second-class tasks. ”
Mu Qing nodded, and said indifferently: "I remember that every time I complete a task, there will be a period of rest, so I won't take the task for the time being." ”
Lu Fei frowned, and said bluntly: "You have only completed the task of the Ding level, and you don't have much time to rest freely." ”
Mu Qing noticed the change in Lu Fei's expression, and wondered if there was a new plot, so he pretended to be depressed and asked, "Then what suggestions do you have?"
Lu Fei flipped through the book of Willow Leaf Record B in his hand, pretended to flip through a few pages, and then raised his head and said, "There just happened to be a task that was rated as "B", and the target was in Vermilion Bird City, are you interested?"
Mu Qing's heart moved, the other party had calculated his own thoughts, and when he went back, he was going to pass through Vermilion Bird City, if he didn't take this task, it would make people suspicious, and he said vaguely: "Tell me more details." ”
Lu Fei said patiently, "The target of the employer this time is a man named Zhang Anping, if you kill him directly, you can get fifty gold." ”
Mu Qing asked, "He's very powerful?"
Lu Fei looked at Mu Qing's eyes and said, "The strength is not clear, I heard that it is the remnants of the surviving minions of the former royal family." ”
Mu Qing suddenly felt a shock in his heart, thinking of Bai Jiahe who had been saved by him, Senior Sister Ning Chu also told him about the relationship between Wanhua Valley and the remnants of the former royal family before leaving, could this be a conspiracy against Wanhua Valley?
Mu Qing raised his head and said simply, "Okay, I'll take it." ”