Chapter 40: Zheng Hu's Dream
"Let's stay here tonight!" Xu Changtian saw that this area was open and it was dark, and motioned for everyone to set up camp on the spot.
"Zheng Hu, when the time comes, you two will have a tent, no opinion!" he came to Ji Fan and the two of them and ordered.
"No opinion, no opinion, we will definitely not cause trouble for the team. ”
"Vigil or something, just follow the rules. ”
Zheng Hu smiled flatteringly.
Xu Changtian was very satisfied when he saw that Zheng Hu was in order, while Ji Fan stood aside and said nothing, he was unhappy in his heart, and he didn't say anything.
The cultivators in the early stage of the Spirit Mountain Realm couldn't get into his eyes, and even if they wanted to, they couldn't make any big waves.
Xu Changtian turned to leave, while Zheng Hu took a tent handed over by a mercenary and joined hands with Ji Fan to set it up.
Zheng Hu is "Brother Tiger", spread out the tent, looked at Ji Fan but stared at Xu Changtian's departing back, and sighed, "If you can bear it, you can bear it!"
"After spending the spirit crystal, you didn't get anything in the end, do you have to endure it?" Ji Fan helped Zheng Hu, nailed the tent to the ground, and stared at him.
Zheng Hu was silent, he looked at the people of the Xu family sitting around the fire behind him, "The Xu family is quite generous to us loose cultivators, and some families will not even release a little benefit. ”
"You shouldn't have to worry too much this time, the Thunder Three-Eyed Lion is in groups, they deal with the Lion King, we follow behind and kill the two are only a little weaker, and we will also gain something." ”
After setting up the tent, Zheng Hu was talking to Ji Fan while taking out a bag of black and smelly things from the storage bag and scattering them around the tent.
"The feces of a high-level spirit animal?"
"Yes, you can buy a large bag of spirit crystals, all after they are dried. This thing can create the illusion that there are spirit beasts in the Spirit Rain Realm nearby, and it has a very deterrent effect on some low-level spirit beasts. ”
Ji Fan knew these small details before he came to the Spirit Beast Forest, and if he wanted to be fully prepared, he should have also bought some high-grade spirit beast dung.
However, the spirit crystals on hand are indeed not enough, and as long as Ji Fan follows the mercenary team, he doesn't have to worry about these things. On the contrary, it is Zheng Hu, who often enters the spirit beast forest for casual cultivation, and often has a lot of them in his hands.
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The night really got dark.
Ji Fan and Zheng Hu sat around the fire, Zheng Hu kept talking about the adventures in the Spirit Beast Forest over the years, Ji Fan listened quietly to the interesting things he said, and then extracted some information about the Spirit Beast Forest from it.
Just as Zheng Hu was saying yes, a majestic mercenary captain walked over.
The flickering firelight gradually illuminated his thin face, and Ji Fan saw a black scar on his forehead.
The mercenary captain sat down next to Zheng Hu and quipped, "Why are you bragging to Xiao Young about the weird scene you saw that year?"
"You don't believe me, but I did see a huge thunder pool at the bottom of the cave. ”
Zheng Hu looked at Wang Kan, his eyes widened angrily, and his mood fluctuations were obviously great.
Wang Kan is a cultivator in the late stage of the Lingyu Realm, and he is the captain of the mercenary team, and his cultivation is a little higher than Xu Changtian, but he is willing to take the initiative to come over and talk to Zheng Hu, which shows that the relationship between the two is not ordinary.
"That's because they don't believe it, I never said I don't believe you, I just said you, don't tell this story back and forth to these young people who have just started the industry!" Wang Kan said with a smile.
"It's not that I don't believe it. Zheng Hu's verbal skills are not as good as Wang Kan's, if he argues with him, he will only suffer, so he will stop talking and look at the fire in a daze.
Wang Kan saw that Zheng Hu, who had always talked a lot, wilted, and it was not good to mention this matter again.
"What is the Lei Tan that Brother Hu is talking about?" Ji Fan wondered.
"I don't know if he was too seriously injured and had hallucinations in his mind, for so many years, I have never heard of Lei Tan in the Spirit Beast Forest. Wang Kan replied.
When Zheng Hu heard this, he didn't argue, just looked at the dark forest in a daze, and his thoughts seemed to have drifted into the distance.
Wang Kan smiled, wrinkled the scar on his head, and turned his head to look like Ji Fan, "Do you want to become a mercenary?"
"How can you ask that?"
"I have met many young people who have come to do mercenary missions before, and they all want to become mercenaries and live this kind of life of licking blood from the knife edge, and I see their shadows in you. Wang Kan looked at Ji Fan and said with a smile.
"Then did they all become mercenaries later?" Ji Fan asked rhetorically.
When Wang Kan saw Ji Fan ask like this, he was stunned for a moment, and his action of stirring the pyre also stopped, as if he remembered something sad.
It took him a long time to come back to his senses and sigh, "Many of them are dead. ”
"So for a lowly guy like you, I don't recommend dreaming of becoming a mercenary. ”
"Zheng Hu hasn't become a mercenary for so many years, half of the reason is because he was obstructed by me. ”
Wang Kan looked at Zheng Hu with mixed emotions in his eyes.
When Ji Fan heard this, he was surprised for a moment, he never thought that this kind fat man who likes to hold a machete will breathe in a low voice, and he likes to take some small favors and small favors. He would want to be a mercenary.
"Isn't it like that? Many old mercenaries said the same thing when they saw me. Zheng Hu saw Ji Fan's surprise and smiled nonchalantly.
"He stopped me all the time. As it turned out, he was right. He glanced at Wang Kan again.
"The barrier to entry for mercenaries is extremely high, because this is really a profession that can be used to lick blood on the edge of a knife. Cultivating newcomers who have no spiritual rain realm, no experience, and don't know anything, many of them are sent to death, and even drag the entire team back. ”
"Many of the people who had the same dream as me before have died, and even if they don't die, they have become crippled, living a life in Spirit Beast City. ”
"This profession requires new mercenaries to be able to lick the blood on the tip of the knife, and requires them to have the experience of fighting spirit beasts and wandering in the forest before they become mercenaries. ”
When Ji Fan heard this, he didn't interject, he is not a person in this industry, and he doesn't know much about these things. However, he was very curious about how Wang Kan got into the industry.
"Many of our mercenaries here are forced to become mercenaries is not their dream, nor is it my dream. Wang Kan guessed Ji Fan's thoughts.
"A lot of people are forced into this industry, and no mercenary enters the industry for the sake of entering the industry. ”
"In Spirit Beast City, the mercenary profession is very sought after, many men say that this is their dream, many women say that they want to find a mercenary as a companion, laymen may envy us, but those who really enter the industry know that this is just a joke. ”
"I tried my best to prevent Huzi from entering this profession, and it was also for his own good, even though he now has the qualifications to become a mercenary. ”
Wang Kan looked at Zheng Hu.
Ji Fan saw a trace of concern on the face of this sloppy rough man.
Zheng Hu didn't seem to be the first time he heard Wang Kan say this, and he didn't show too much expression, just smiled slightly.