"Since you are from the Backfire Mercenary Group, why do you want to form a mercenary team with me?" The next day, Zach said goodbye to his sister at home and stood at the entrance of Sabah Town with Yue Jinghua.
Standing side by side with Yue Jinghua, smelling the dry and desolate wind of the Gobi Desert, Zach suddenly came to his senses.
In the tavern in the town, the mercenaries represented by Johnny have already made a bet on a mission of this rookie team.
Nearly 90% of people bet that they would not be able to complete the task.
Even so, Yue Jinghua still went her own way. After laying down her bold words in the tavern, Yue Jinghua went to the mercenary union in the town. She took out a letter of recommendation personally written by the deputy leader of the Backfire Mercenary Group.
A letter of recommendation from the famous Backfire Mercenary Group in the Eastern Continent is not an ordinary thing.
With the help of that letter of recommendation, Yue Jinghua symbolically conducted a physical fitness test and family background investigation, obtained mercenary qualifications, was assigned a mercenary manual, and wore a one-star mercenary star on her hand.
emblem.
"I need to become a two-star mercenary within a month and take over the mercenary tasks step by step. It will take at least ten tasks, which is about half a year, to be successfully promoted," Yue Jinghua has already studied the mercenary tasks.
Soldier's Manual.
The Mercenary Union is one of the oldest and most well-established organizations on the mainland. The mercenary system it has set up is now approaching perfection.
According to the regulations in the mercenary manual, mercenary levels are divided into six levels: one star, two star, three star, four star, five star, and star soul. The higher level is the mercenary king. The corresponding mercenary tasks are stone, shell, and
There are five major levels: Pearl, Diamond, and Wushuang. Each level is divided into three types: blue, yellow, and red according to difficulty.
The corresponding mercenary will receive the corresponding mercenary task. The mercenary union also provides cross-level tasks, but it requires more than two mercenaries of the same level to form a team before they can accept cross-level mercenary tasks.
For a shell-level mission, depending on the difficulty, blue shells, yellow shells, and red shells will deduct five, six, and seven stone-level missions respectively. The normal cycle to complete a mercenary mission is about five to ten days.
No wait, after all this calculation, Yue Jinghua had to form a team with others, so that he could have a chance to successfully advance by completing two shell-level tasks in one month.
"It's almost impossible to become a two-star mercenary in one month. There hasn't been such a person in Sabah Town for many years." Zach is well aware of the difficulty of mercenary advancement, not to mention Yue Jinghua is a mercenary who has never been a mercenary.
Experienced novice.
"The undefeated mercenary king Rob Kerry once said, 'What others can't do is a mercenary.' Nothing is impossible in this world." This is also the opening line of the mercenary manual.
Yue Jinghua looked around and saw that in front of the small town of Sabah was a vast expanse of frigid Gobi.
The Gobi seems to be barren of grass, but it has nurtured a lot of unique resources. There are Gobi snow lotus, Gastrodia elata, and various mysterious insects with high value.
Most of the mercenary missions in Sabah Town are related to the Tucker Desert. Every year, a large number of medicine dealers and business travelers pass through this desert, selling the products in the desert to every corner of the Eastern Continent.
Yue Jinghua and Zach's mercenary team's mission is to collect the stingers of a hundred Gobi venomous wasp-tailed scorpions.
The Gobi venomous bee scorpion is a kind of reptile mysterious beast. It is not big in size. Its most offensive features are its two pincers that can crush rocks and a poisonous stinger on its tail.
As long as they are skilled mercenaries, they have dealt with this kind of scorpion. This mission was commissioned by a drug dealer living in the town and released by the "Coconut Shell" Tavern. The difficulty of the mission itself is not high, and it should be a red stone step.
Task.
It's just that the time required by this medicine dealer is very short. One hundred poisonous bees and scorpions must be collected within two days, so the mercenary mission level has been upgraded to the shell level.
Although he still had doubts about Yue Jinghua's behavior, Zach still followed her into the Tucker Desert.
Zach spontaneously walked in front of Yue Jinghua, which also made Yue Jinghua notice that Zach was bringing a big cloth bag.
Zach was taller than the Shang people, but because his family was not wealthy, he looked thinner. He prepared a pocket with gloves for catching scorpions, a stick for pulling stones, and a light bulb.
lamps.
Zach, an indigenous child of his generation, has been dealing with poisonous insects in the Gobi since he was a child and is familiar with their various habits.
On the other hand, Yue Jinghua is like a traveler who came to enjoy the Gobi scenery without bringing anything.
Jian Yue Jinghua didn't even prepare basic protective equipment, and Zach suddenly felt a headache.
Fortunately, Zach is also a person who likes to take things as they come. He also knows that it is useless to talk too much, and he only waits to enter the desert before making plans.
The Tucker Desert is very large, and few people dare to go deep into its belly. The scenery along the way is surprisingly similar. When Zach walks, he will leave marks on the stones every five hundred meters. These are the names of Zach’s father in the past.
He mentioned it to Zach, and this time, he finally had a chance to practice it.
Before nightfall, the two of them had walked several miles. After passing through a Salix forest, the ground turned into a mixed area of sand and gravel filled with rocks.
"Venomous bees and scorpions like shade and like to live on rocks, in the shade and next to graves. They only come out at night. We will stop in this area tonight." After entering the Gobi, Zach had consciously acted as the leader of the team.
character of.
Thin dusk clouds floated to the west. The Tak Desert was much more dangerous at night than during the day. Even experienced mercenaries did not dare to cross the Gobi at night.
"I'm here to keep vigil, and I'll call you later," Zach said, feeling a little embarrassed as he was so old and had never spent a night alone with a woman.
Yue Jinghua took the luggage without comment.
The nights in the Gobi are so cold that one can freeze to death. There is not much vegetation around, and there are even fewer trees that can be used to start fires. The salix that Zach chopped down did not light up even after lighting it several times.
When Yue Jinghua walked to the Chai River, she didn't see her taking out the flint and "sneaking", a few wisps of flame jumped out from the firewood branches.
The color of the fire is very special, the blue flame heart is like a budding lotus.
With fire, the night becomes much easier.
In the dead of night, Zach was alert to his surroundings. Around midnight, he picked up the set of tools for catching scorpions, looked back at Yue Jinghua, who was sleeping comfortably by the campfire, and sighed slightly.
While Zach turned around, Yue Jinghua, who seemed to be sleeping, opened his eyes.
"Look at the rookie you're looking for, I bet he can't even catch a poisonous bee and scorpion," Qing Pu stood by the fire, Yue Jinghua pouted: "Who said we were here to - catch -
Scorpion’s.”
After saying that, she stood up and walked in the opposite direction to where Zach was catching the scorpion.
The poisonous bee scorpion is a variant of the third-level mysterious beast. Its reaction is very agile. When it encounters a powerful enemy, it will shoot a poisonous stinger from its tail. It is said that the wasp's tail stings, and this sting is enough to kill a huge animal.
The black turtle elephant fell to the ground.
Zach did not expect that the poisonous bee scorpion would be so difficult to catch. After one night, there was a faint light on the horizon, and he only caught one poisonous bee scorpion.
"If this continues, the mission will definitely fail," Zack thought pessimistically.
At dawn, Zach returned to the campfire dejectedly, carrying the empty bag.
The fire was still burning, and the novice mercenary Yue Jinghua sat by the bonfire, with a plucked Gobi eagle beside him.
"You are still interested in eating. I have been busy all night and only caught one poisonous bee scorpion. Are you planning to complete this mission?" Zach couldn't help but complain.
"Here you go," Yue Jinghua shrugged and threw the Gobi eagle to Zach, "I don't understand, why do you have to catch the venomous bees and scorpions?"
"Where did the stinger come from if you don't catch it? Do you really think that the stinger will come to your door by itself?" Zach became more and more annoyed and took the dark blue eagle, "I told you before entering the Gobi.
Yes, all the mysterious beasts in the Gobi are poisonous, and the eagle, which is a fourth-level mysterious beast, is no exception and cannot be eaten."
Zach stopped talking, how did she catch the sand eagle, a fourth-level mysterious beast? He lowered his head and saw that the sand eagle's feathers had been taken off, and its surface was covered with little black spots. Carefully
Look, those little black dots are actually stings, the stings of poisonous bees and scorpions.
A whole sand eagle with various poisonous stings distributed on its body.
"What we want is the sting of poisonous scorpions, so why go to all the trouble to catch poisonous bees and scorpions. When attacked by their natural enemies, sand eagles, the poisonous bees and scorpions will shoot out poisonous stingers from their tails. Clean them up and see how many there are.
If the stinger isn't enough, I'll find some sand eagles to use as bait tonight," Yue Jinghua wrote lightly.
Zach seemed to have been struck by lightning, and after a while he said: "You have already planned to use this method to obtain the scorpion sting?"
"Don't do useless work, this is my personal mercenary code." Yue Jinghua shrugged.
At that moment, Zak felt that there was a roar in his mind. The hard-working and hard-working ethics of the mercenaries that his father had established for him had all collapsed at that time.
He looked at the sand eagle in his hand and didn't speak for a long time.
Something suddenly flashed through his mind.
My mother’s kind face and soft voice are still in my ears.
"Zach, you must remember that you cannot judge a person by appearance and first impression. Some people, you think he (she) is a toad, are actually a beautiful swan. If you meet someone in the future
A person like that must cherish such an opportunity and follow him (her) well."
Yue Jinghua is undoubtedly that kind of person.
Next to him was a female mercenary who looked only slightly older than his sister. Only when he stood beside her did Zach realize that this foreigner who had just become a one-star mercenary was very beautiful.
Her beauty does not lie in her eyes, which are brighter than the morning stars, or her straight nose, but in a kind of innate beauty that is stolen from her bones.
This kind of beauty comes from self-confidence.
The next day, at dawn, Yue Jinghua and Zach left Tucker Desert. Only this time, Zach followed Yue Jinghua from beginning to end, following every step like the most devout follower.