"Choose a mission." Asik looked away, forcing himself not to think about the unexplainable question "Why are all the beautiful NPCs in my team?"
"Are all tasks selectable?" Nora also stared at the screen and began to copy the contents of the scrolling tasks above.
"Yes." Ask said, "All the tasks above can be taken freely. The only problem is the cost-effectiveness."
"Value for money?" Eleanor was a little confused.
"First of all, everyone needs to understand that the content, difficulty and reward of the task are all given by the task publisher himself." Ask pointed at the screen and said, "The mercenary guild is just a third-party platform for information exchange. It itself is generally
It will not and cannot review or restrict the authenticity of the mission, so the problem of false reporting of mission information will inevitably arise."
"For example, the enemy is clearly a goblin tribe with ogres, and the mission publisher is afraid that there will be no mercenaries to take it, so he lies that there are only two or three goblins. This kind of false report that deliberately reduces the difficulty of the mission is the most common." Asker continued.
, "For another example, the reward for a task is 100 pounds, but the task publisher is a farmer from a nearby village. How could the farmer be rich enough to spend 100 pounds to post the task? There is no doubt that the other party made an inflated price, and from the beginning
Make up your mind to pay less or even default on the bill afterwards.”
"If we waste a lot of time on such tasks with questionable cost performance, it will undoubtedly be very detrimental to the development of the team." Asker finally concluded, "A senior who played mercenaries once said that the best
Mercenaries are not the ones who are the best at fighting, but the ones who are best at actually collecting the rewards of missions."
Nora couldn't help but nodded beside her, and wrote down a sentence in her notebook: How to get the mission reward for sure (key circle).
"So how can we distinguish from the massive task list those tasks that are truly cost-effective and worth doing?" Eleanor asked.
"This can only depend on experience. Real knowledge comes from practice." Asik stared at the screen and said, "Hey, Paradise Mountain?"
"Paradise Mountain?" Nora looked at the screen, but did not see any words related to "Paradise". She saw that Asker had already communicated with the lady at the counter, and seemed to be designated to take on a certain task. The latter answered fluently.
road:
"Cang Qing Sword Mercenary Group, No. MS-995017-247, requested to undertake the mission of 'Missing Fishing Boat in the Black Sea', No. 1000000012763212. The mission poster has left a message, would you like to answer it?"
"Listen," Aske said.
So the lady at the counter took out a microphone from under the table and clicked on the corresponding audio file on the computer:
"I am the village chief of Burgas village in the Thrace province of the Empire. Last month, several fishermen from our village were fishing on the Black Sea. They disappeared that day and never came back. The latitude and longitude coordinates of the last fishing boat message
It is 43 degrees 32 minutes 11 seconds north latitude and 32 degrees 2 minutes 26 seconds east longitude."
"The families of the missing persons and other villagers in the village have collected a reward of about 3 pounds. If you can find and rescue them, we are willing to pay you 3 pounds as a reward; if you only find their remains, we are also willing to pay 30 pounds.
To thank you in silver dinars."
"I'll take this," Asik said.
"Then please scan the QR code under the counter and download our 'Constantinople Mercenary Guild' APP." The lady at the counter said, "Your default account is the full spelling of the mercenary group name, and the default password is
8 by 8. After logging in, you can publish task logs online and listen to related task audio. After completing the task, you only need to bring people or remains to the guild. The reward will be sent to your APP account. Please remember to bind your bank card.
"
"A month has passed, and the probability of the person surviving the accident should be very low." Medea analyzed, "If we only find the remains, I'm afraid we won't even be able to pay for our round trip fare."
"Anyway, we are just practicing, it doesn't matter what mission we take." Asik said with a smile, "Maybe there will be unexpected gains."
Unexpected gain? Medea frowned and heard the implication of Asker's words. The others took on the mercenary mission for the first time and didn't understand anything, so they didn't raise any objections.
The Black Sea is located to the north of Constantinople, and to the north is the Principality of Kievan Rus. The trade between the two countries is mainly fur and timber business, and there are also fleets running corresponding routes. Asik and others searched through various sources at the Golden Horn dock.
Finally, they found a merchant ship willing to take them on board.
"North latitude 43 degrees 32 minutes 11 seconds, east longitude 32 degrees 2 minutes 26 seconds?" The ship owner said looking at the string of coordinates, "When I ran the route to Ochakiv recently, I did see a new ship appearing in the waters nearby.
of islands.”
"A new island?" Nora was immediately interested after hearing this, "Have you ever gone to the island to see it?"
"Little girl, being too curious is not a good thing at sea." The captain smiled and shook his head and said, "Anyway, it was either a change in the earth's crust or some supernatural event that led to the emergence of this new island. There may be any dangers there.
As for extraordinary creatures. For example, there is a big poisonous snake island near that sea area. It is full of spiritual snakes. If you are bitten, you will die immediately. The poison is so strong that it is said that even the soul will be annihilated."
"Snake Island?" Nora immediately felt goosebumps all over her body.
"Yes, so this new island may not be safe." The boat owner said, "There is indeed a possibility that the missing fishermen you are looking for will be stranded and forced to go ashore there, but I can't let my sailors do this.
Take risks. The most I can do is send you to a shallow sea area near the island, and then give you a small boat to go to the island on your own."
"One day later, my cargo ship will return from Kievan Rus and wait for you near the island for up to two hours. If you don't show up, we will leave on our own. And you need to pay 5 pounds for the one-way ticket. Prepay 1
pounds, and you will pay another 4 pounds after the boat is released. If you can come back from the island alive, you will need to pay another 5 pounds."
In other words, even if the missing fishermen can be found, this mission is destined to lose 7 pounds. Medea did not speak, looked at Asker sideways, and only heard him agree happily:
"Okay, this is a prepaid 1 pound note."
As expected, what Asker was planning was not the reward for the mission at all. Is there a problem with the identity of the missing fishermen? Or was it a problem with the island itself? Medea secretly had doubts in her heart.
"Okay." The ship owner accepted the banknotes and said, "My cargo should be loaded. Come with me."
The cargo ship docked at the dock is called the "White Illiana". It is an offshore cargo ship that travels to the Black Sea all year round. In the center of the ship's deck is a groove for holding containers, and the sailors are clinging to the groove.
Running back and forth along the aisle of the ship's side, she is responsible for maintaining the normal navigation of the freighter.
Asker and others boarded the ship, immediately attracting curious eyes from around them. These sailors were ordinary people, with neither extraordinary strength nor any firearms. No wonder the ship owner said it was impossible for these sailors to "take risks."
After reporting to the port office in Constantinople, the White Illiana officially set sail. The departure time was 6 p.m., which was exactly the time for dinner, so everyone in the mercenary group was lucky enough to be in the cabin with the sailors.
Enjoyed a "dinner at sea": boiled hard salted pasta, a small bag of tomato sauce, canned pork stewed with beans and canned sardines.
Peggy picked at the beans from the can of pork in boredom, with no expression on her face. Eleanor had a great appetite and ate all the spaghetti dipped in tomato sauce, and then started to deal with sardines. Nora opened two
I just smelled the canned food and lost my appetite. I stirred the pasta with my fork and ate it slowly.
"Here." Medea handed Nora a red sausage, "I just bought it with a sailor."
"Thank you." Nora thanked her politely.
"You couldn't have used your psychic I ability to 'buy' it, right?" Ask teased.
"You care about me?" Medea rolled her eyes.
Asker ate a little of each dish and filled his stomach fully. Looking outside the ship's side, night had gradually fallen, and the sailors had gone back to the cabin to rest, leaving only a few people on night watch. The captain asked the first mate
Several sleeping bags were delivered. They did not look like sailors' bedding, but were probably the captain's own collection.
So everyone lay down in the cabin with their clothes undressed. At about 3 o'clock in the morning, Aske was awakened by a knock on the door and opened his eyes.
"Your destination has arrived." A sailor opened the hatch and said.
Peggy crawled out of the sleeping bag and pushed Eleanor next to her to wake up. Medea sat up, covered her mouth and yawned, her beautiful burgundy hair was messed up. Only Nora seemed to be a little awake.
Angry, Eleanor called her for a long time before waking her up, and her whole body felt a little depressed.
When everyone walked out of the cabin, they saw the outline of the island vaguely emerging in the night on the sea on the left side of the ship. The first mate directed the sailors to put a day's worth of dry food, cables, and oil lamps for five people on the small boat hoisted on the side.
, two pairs of oars and a few flares, and then shouted for everyone in the mercenary group to get on the boat.
After paying the remaining four pounds, the boat carrying everyone was slowly lowered and fell into the cold water. Even Nora, who had not yet woken up, was now awake and looked at the undulating sea around her.
asked:
"Shall we row across next?"
"Of course." Asker said. He and Eleanor each picked up a pair of oars, paddled the water, and pushed the boat towards the island.
Although the island looked not far away, everyone rowed for half an hour before reaching the shore. Fortunately, there was a beach next to the island, so the boat was easily washed ashore by the sea water.
"The cable must be tied tightly to the trees on the shore, otherwise the boat will be washed away by the rising tide." Asike said. Everyone worked together to tie one end of the cable to the iron nail on the bow of the boat, and the other end on the shore.
It was tied several times to the tree trunk next to it.
Ask looked at the beach and felt at ease. This island... is indeed the same as in the previous game. The only difference is that in the previous life, countless player guilds rushed to the beach to land on this island, and a group PK almost occurred on the shoal.
An incident occurred, and in this world, only a five-person team came to land on the island.
The ship owner was right. New islands that appear suddenly for no reason like this are probably caused by extraordinary supernatural events. The danger is definitely dangerous, but the benefits are not necessarily profitable, so basically NPC mercenaries who think it is not cost-effective will not do it.
Come.
However, for immortal players, any danger is simply a joke. Players only care about the benefits. Since your island is caused by supernatural events, there is a high probability that there will be high-level enemies on the island that meet the corresponding difficulty.