A very large human gathering of about 30,000 people is still within a thousand kilometers of the depression.
The first time he heard this "big news", Sumo wanted to reject it directly.
After all, when moving the depression, we analyzed the various camps on the map.
It can be clearly seen that most of the human gathering places are concentrated on the lower left side of the coast of the New World, together with many ordinary small alien tribes.
Few humans dare to go to the middle of the New World, let alone to the upper right corner where the depression is now!
Being within the mainland means that once a war breaks out, you will face the embarrassing situation of being attacked from both sides.
Without sufficient strength, there will be hungry wolves behind you and tigers in front of you, and you will be prey to others wherever you go.
At the same time, without the supplement of marine fish food inland, most humans cannot have enough food to survive the recovery of crop production like in the depression.
Only a small group of people who think they are quite powerful and have sufficient basic resources dare to go deep into the tiger's den and seek common interests and development with the foreign races in the interior.
And these people will never expand their scale to the number of 30,000, resulting in a situation where they are too big to lose.
"Within a thousand kilometers"
"The distance we directly cross from the coastline is about 1,600 kilometers to 1,800 kilometers, within this range."
After trying hard to recall the details recorded on the map and filtering out some useless corner maps, a vague topographic power map appeared in Sumo's mind.
There are four powerful neighbors near the depression, several small tribes spread out by the tree people, and a large, colorful and medium-sized tribe gathering place.
In addition, there are still many places that are temporarily unclaimed lands.
From top to bottom, based on the scale of 30,000 people and the general situation of the terrain, Sumo began a detailed analysis.
A moment later, as the entire passage came to an end and the two returned again, Somo raised his head thoughtfully:
"Hao Qiang, has this person ever told you the direction of this human gathering place?"
"Direction?" Hao Qiang was stunned, then thought for a moment, and said uncertainly: "When he shouted to me, I was afraid of exposing my identity, so I didn't have any communication with him, but he seemed to have
I mentioned the direction of the mouth, let me think about it, it’s probably the southeast direction?”
"hiss"
One guess may be a coincidence, and two guesses put together may be a conspiracy.
But when three, four, or even more guesses are put together, the cost of falsehood is undoubtedly far more than the fact itself!
Draw a circle with the depression as the center and a range of 1,000 kilometers.
There are endless great plains in the north, west, and east directions, which are most suitable for the development of large-scale forces here.
Only in the south, a little to the east, within a thousand kilometers, the terrain is not like the terrain near the depression. There is wilderness everywhere.
Among the marks on the map, the southeast is almost full of rolling mountains, with a length of up to four to five hundred kilometers.
According to normal people's thinking, these mountains are barren and desolate, and basically cut off from communication with the outside world. It is indeed not a good place for development.
But if you change your thinking and become "Tibetans", let alone 30,000 people, there will be no problem even if 300,000 people come!
"Come on, take me there to see if what this person said may be true!"
"But the chances of us being discovered"
"No, we will not be discovered. Hao Qiang, you still haven't completely changed your mentality. Think carefully about your identity now!"
Understanding one's own identity is the most important part of the lurking process.
And this was also the first lesson Hao Qiang himself took when Su Deben opened the latent class.
"Current identity?"
"Now I am."
Looking at his silver-white lower body, and then at the shimmering blue mark on his arm, Hao Qiang was startled, and then his eyes quickly became enlightened.
From the perspective of a lurker, if you see your own captives in the enemy camp, you will naturally be afraid of having your identity exposed, so your mentality when considering the problem will immediately return to the state before lurking.
But if you think about it carefully, from the perspective of the Demon Soul Clan, a super-large human gathering place of 30,000 people is indeed a possible "sweet potato".
"With his current arrogant attitude of yelling at everyone, there's no need to guess."
"I guarantee that as soon as he appeared in this place, many people must have known the news, and even the true location of the gathering place in his mouth must have been told to more than one person."
"But until now, no one has redeemed him, and let him work hard to solicit customers here, which proves that the value of this news is not equivalent to his efforts at all."
"Hao Qiang, don't think that people like the Demon Soul Clan are as clumsy as children learning to walk in the market, but when it comes to profit trade-offs, we can't keep up with these people even if we try to flatter them!"
It's like talking to oneself, but also like teaching on the spot.
By the time he completely walked out of the exchange, Somo had become completely interested in what this human said was a super-large human gathering place.
Admittedly, it spans hundreds, even nearly a thousand kilometers.
For people like the Demon Soul Clan, no matter how much profit there is, the initial investment alone requires an unimaginable amount.
The people who can afford this amount of money, including all the names in the city, are only the top ten exchanges, the escort team, and a few scattered people who can be regarded as having some strength.
For the top ten exchanges, the benefits brought by 30,000 ordinary people may not be as great as crushing one of their peers. There is absolutely no need to take this risk.
As for the guards, the complex situation in the city and the relentless pursuit of the Empire of Light outside the city have already made them anxious enough, and they have no intention of caring about the whereabouts of these humans.
As for the remaining individual investors, they will even less invest money.
Compared with other people, they have the most difficult time getting money. On weekdays, they would rather break a dollar in half and spend it. How can they invest money in such a bottomless pit full of risks?
Taken together, this super-large gathering place that the captive humans talked about has become something that everyone wants, but no one is willing to pay for.
Tasteless!
"Hey, Master Hal, this is..."
"Oh, he is the new shopkeeper in my shop. I just heard him say that someone in your alien sales said that he has news about a large human gathering place. I am very interested in this!"
After leaving the exchange in a remote place, I walked all the way back to the entrance of the exchange where Hao Qiang was talking about. The servants greeted me skillfully.
After hearing Somo's intention, the servant did not show any surprised expression. Instead, he smiled with a mixture of pity and strange apology:
"Oh, Mr. Hal, I'm so sorry. This person has been listed for sale here for five or six days. The price is not high. Many people have seen it, but no one bought it."
"When your shopkeeper first came here, he also knew that his brain was not suitable. Most people would just take a look at it for fun."
"But unfortunately, our external steward in Free City, Mr. Stone Ninja, just came over and picked this person away without anyone asking for it. This is true."
After touching his head, the servant spoke and quietly gestured to his shopkeeper from behind.
In Liberty City, people doing business in the outer city will be at a higher level than those in the inner city because they face greater competitive pressure and target more people.
Similarly, people who do serious business in the city will be one level higher than those who sell mercenaries in the inner city.
Adding the two together, even though they are both merchants selling things, the identity of the owner of the Xinhuo Exchange is still much higher than that of the ordinary mercenary exchange owner.
I was thinking about the past incident where two high-status people fought in the inner city because they fell in love with a mercenary at the same time, causing a huge uproar.
Immediately, the shopkeeper of Mingtang Exchange came up wiping his sweat.
Like the servant, the shopkeeper was straightforward and offered today's 10% discount without saying anything, which was a sincerity from the very beginning.
"It's such a pity, but I'm just interested. Since the Stone Ninja Manager likes it, that's okay!"
Smiling awkwardly, Sumo had a look on his face that showed that even though he was unhappy, he could only force a smile.
The next moment, after walking inside the exchange and taking Hao Qiang for a walk around again, Sumo walked out of the exchange with a "gloomy" face.
Throughout the entire performance, although Sumo didn't say anything, anyone who saw him could see that he was holding back his anger.
And this is exactly in line with Hal's fiery temper and his tendency to get into fights when he gets upset.
However, after walking to the sparsely populated area behind the street corner and entering what Hal called a "high-end" exchange again, Sumo's expression returned to normal instantly.
"Director, the person was actually bought, could it be?"
"Don't worry, I have been in contact with Shi Nin. He will not be interested in this person. It is more likely that he will."
Halfway through his words, Somo suddenly stopped and looked at the cage with a wooden sign marking the information.
Different from ordinary mercenaries seen in other exchanges, after coming to these high-end exchanges, although the price has more than doubled, the quality has also increased several levels simultaneously.
First of all, in terms of living, the accommodation here is not a small cubicle with a size of only three square meters, making it difficult to even turn around.
Everyone who can live here is allocated a small residence of eight to ten square meters with all living facilities.
Except for the fence used to separate the entrance and the iron chains that still exist on the feet and hands of each mercenary, the mental state of them living here is obviously much better.
In the first few exchanges, most of them were manual mercenaries, and occasionally you could see an intellectual type, and the price was very expensive.
Here, for the first time, Sumo finally saw the so-called "all-rounder".
"You used to be a fourth-level professional, but because your template was forcibly stripped away and all your resources were given to your brother, you have now lost all your strength and become an ordinary mercenary."
"What you are good at are small-scale combat, latent operations, basic business operations, and basic housekeeping services."
"The master you desire is someone who is motivated, unsatisfied with the current life, and promises to be free after five years of employment."
"Your price is four thousand contribution points!"
As Somo read the message on the wooden sign word by word, the thin man who was imprisoned on the stool raised his head, with a trace of complexity flashing in his eyes.
Unlike other mercenaries in other places, when they see a strong person, they kneel on the ground and beg him to take them out, but when they see a weak person, they don't even bother to raise their faces.
The man's attitude was very upright and he knew his identity as a prisoner.
Although his eyes were full of resistance, he still showed himself as much as possible in the face of Somo's scrutiny.
"Can I ask you a question?"
During the selection process, guests and mercenaries can have a brief conversation to determine the compatibility of both parties.
But there are also some people who look down on each other and will choose to keep silent and pretend to be mute so as not to be picked up by buyers.
Facing Somo's question, the man was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly.
"What's the one thing you most want to do?"
"What do you want to do most?"
It seemed that Sumo would not expect that such a question would be used as an opening statement between the two of them, so the manuscript that the man had prepared before was not used.
However, after reacting for a moment, he said categorically: "What I want to do most is of course to take revenge if I have any grudges. I want everyone to know that I will get back what I lost with my own hands!"
"Very good, you have been chosen by me. I will take you to go through the formalities in a moment!"
Wow!
Almost as soon as the man finished speaking, Somo responded and pressed the selection button on the fence.
As the button buzzed, a stone stirred up a thousand waves, and an unavoidable commotion suddenly broke out in other cells that were originally quiet.
At the same time, some bold people stuck their heads out, curiously looked at what kind of people they were, and bought their "colleagues".
"Are you going to buy me now?"
"Why, don't I need to pass your test before I buy you?"
After the button sounded, the servant in charge of the transaction moved quickly. In less than half a minute, the figure appeared at the end of the cell.
Seeing the smile on the servant's face, the man clearly realized that Somo's identity was not as ordinary as the template showed.
"No, no, I mean, if you're going to buy me, you'd better consider them!"
"They are very strong, even stronger than what is recorded!"
In just a moment, the man quickly changed his position and began to think about his master.
In response to this, Sumo turned his head curiously and began to walk forward along the path pointed by the man.
Half a moment.
As a whopping 34,000 contribution points were deducted from Turner's account, and with a pleasant sound of arrival, the mercenary shake-up was finally successful.
"Master Hal, do you think we should help you handle the formalities for these mercenaries, or should you handle it yourself?"
"I have already arranged the person. If you take him away now, we can go through the formalities right away!"
More than 30,000 contribution points are not many in this Free City.
But considering that Sumo is not like other people, taking it back as stock trading, buying today and selling tomorrow, then these 30,000 points are real profits.
Faced with such a huge sum of money, considering several reasons, even if there is a guard behind this exchange, its attitude is still sufficiently humble.
"Let's go over there and deal with it together. It just so happens that I have to deal with it for him too!"
Pointing to Hao Qiang beside him, after confirming other procedures, the group of people began to walk towards the inside of the street.
After walking along the twists and turns of the street, we arrived at a place that was said to only handle large-value transactions, and the procedures began to go through quickly.
From the authority management of all mercenaries to the fine for changing Hao Qiang's identity, the whole process was successfully completed with only one thousand contribution points, which was extremely convenient.
At the same time, half an hour after the formalities were completed.
The seven mercenaries purchased by the group were processed through express procedures and quickly delivered to the office.
From left to right, there are a total of five men and two women, and the templates all use the first-order arm modifications provided with the exchange.
Looking at their new boss, everyone looked nervous with a hint of surprise.
Obviously, they had fully learned the identity of their master on the way here.
"Hal, are these people capable? I feel like they are not as powerful as those traitors in our family!"
Next to Somo, Turner, who had just paid a huge sum of money, looked distressed.
You know, the total price of the seventeen mercenaries purchased before was only two thousand!
Nowadays, the number of people has doubled, but the price is more than ten times higher.
It was completely different from the brand new and unique feeling that I had imagined. The seven of them looked like they had no characteristics at all, just like mass merchandisers that could be bought for a few hundred points each in an ordinary exchange.
"Don't worry, you still have to use it to know whether you are a mediocre person or a genius. But in terms of loyalty, at least we don't have to worry about what we ate today. Someone will know it in the next second!"
After taking the formal sealing procedures from the seven people together with Hao Qiang, and putting them into his arms, Sumo had a long-lost smile on his face.
In terms of ability, these mercenaries may only be considered mid-level, not outstanding.
But when it comes to loyalty, Sumo believes that it only requires a certain degree of reasonable training.
These people will all become sharp knives in his hands!
When the time comes, even the Demon Soul Clan and Liberty City will be completely penetrated by this sharp knife filled with hatred, leaving only ruins and debris!