Mechanical Alchemist

Chapter 137: Wild Hunting Town

When Su Lun returned to the convoy camp, it wasn't time to get up and pull out of the camp.

The night watchmen smoked boredly around the camp, and there were flickering lights in the darkness.

He crept back into the tent from the top of the rock wall, but no one noticed.

After being busy for most of the night, now it is empty, Su Lun also began to count the harvest of the night.

After all, the "Iron Knights" were peripheral members of the Umbrella Organization, their equipment was pretty good, and they could sell for a good price even when they were packaged.

And what Su Lun cared about most was the fortune-teller's storage ring.

In addition to some strange divination materials, there is the crystal necklace he used for divination before.

At a glance, it was expected to be an ancient curse.

【Serea's Crystal Pendant】

Description: A crystal necklace inscribed with the inscription 'To my dear Serea';

Curse feature: when you have a difficult choice, it can help you make a decision; depending on the level of the divination, pay the equivalent lifespan in exchange for it;

Detailed explanation: Although the refining method is not too clever, it is an alchemy necklace full of love; wearing it, it has a high probability to protect you from the divination exploration of no more than second-order spells; it can be used as a 'pendulum fortuneteller' employment materials;

Su Lun felt that the name "Serea" was a bit familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

But because this is also a very common female name, I didn't think about it.

In terms of effect alone, this is a very practical necklace.

Su Lun was a little worried about his whereabouts being detected by fortune-tellers, and the "anti-detection" property of this pendant just solved this problem.

The curse feature is also acceptable, and the use of divination will reduce the lifespan.

Su Lun is not a fortune teller, and although he has acquired a little divination skills, he thinks that he will not vomit blood and lose his life like the guy before forcibly divination.

Wearing it on the body, it is good to have passive attributes.

The thing is good, Su Lun wrapped the pendant around his wrist to cover it up, and muttered again: Sure enough, robbing professionals with precision is the "shortcut" to obtain exclusive items for that profession.

After counting the spoils, Su Lun lay down on the sleeping bag, thinking carefully about what happened that night.

Now that the origin of the original owner was clarified, a big rock fell in Su Lun's heart.

He also wanted to understand what happened to the reward in the black market. It must have been done by the hostile forces "outside the tower" by the original owner.

Even if they are exiled in this underground world, they must be slaughtered.

But this is also good, at least the enemy is not a big family in the inner city.

What Su Lun has to face is just an increasingly useless wanted notice.

He was not recognized before, and now that he has been injected with "X serum", who can connect the blue-skinned, sinewy self with the original owner's appearance as a handsome and noble boy?

Not long after, the assembly order in the camp sounded.

The transport team started a new day's escort journey.

I heard that there will be monster attacks in the D24 area before, and it made everyone in the team tremble with fear. But after a few days of walking, their transport team went surprisingly smoothly.

D24 and D25 went all the way, except for a few small-scale aberration monster attacks, and did not encounter any battles that could be called dangerous.

On the way, I saw many traces of battle, but the bodies were cleaned up. It seems that a very powerful team has come before, and it has been cleaned up all the way.

There is no battle, and the hunters in the team are also happy to relax.

After a few days, they finally arrived at the ruins of Dawn City.

Once again, Su Lun was quite emotional when he came to Dawn City, the "birthplace" that he had just crossed over.

Once upon a time, it was like a mass grave, lifeless.

But now, with the "Storm Manor" as the center, all kinds of buildings are under construction.

From a distance, you can see that the camp is brightly lit, and the towering steam boilers are bursting with white smoke. These boilers can provide a steady supply of energy to the large workshops in the camp and speed up construction.

In the manor, there are also two sets of large-scale mechanical equipment composed of various tanks and pipes like a chemical factory, which are "air filtration device" and "drinking water treatment device". This is also the most important device to ensure the long-term survival of the wild hunters in the dark and violent underground.

Said to be a camp, more like a war town.

The wild hunters used stones and steel supports to build a super large hunting camp that can accommodate 100,000 people. Caravans are still bringing in various building materials from the old Lingdun city. Later, it will become a lively small city.

However, when Su Lun saw Stormwind Manor, his eyes became distant.

Revisiting the old place, he thought of Pestoia.

The little ghost girl who gave him the "Puppet Master" advanced materials.

"Stormwind Manor has been invaded, that is to say, the cursed space has been broken."

Su Lun frowned slightly as he watched.

Quite a little girl with a good appetite, although she is not a human being.

Oh, almost forgot.

There seems to be a brooch she gave, buried somewhere.

Coming to the ruins under the D33 area, the concentration of dark spiritual power is already several times that in the old Lingdun city.

For normal humans, this is a dangerous area that can easily cause body distortion after staying for a long time.

But for Su Lun, it had no effect at all.

On the contrary, he felt that in this environment, the pores all over his body were relaxed.

After the increase of "X Serum", his body is very comfortable with this high concentration of dark spiritual power. He doesn't even need to meditate. The increase in the value of dark spiritual power in his body now is almost the same as when he was meditating before.

Moreover, there is no sign of distortion by absorbing this dark energy too quickly.

This concentration is only on the hillside. In the relic city far away from the field of vision, there is a "specially dense area" filled with black mist.

It can be expected that under this kind of environment, Su Lun's dark spiritual power value will soar rapidly. Perhaps in the next month or two, his dark spiritual power may reach the threshold of a second-order professional.

If he finds suitable advanced materials at that time, maybe he can successfully break through the second order.

"Okay, our employment contract is over, thank you for your conscientious escort. According to the contract, there is no loss of goods, and an additional 10% of the escort fee will be paid."

"Oh, praise the generous Mr. Abagon!"

"Our chamber of commerce will return to the city in ten days. If you are interested in continuing to take the escort mission back to the city, you can sign up at the camp office."

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Arriving at the destination, the task of the hunters of Su Lun has been completed.

Abagong sent the rest of the employment payment to everyone and went to deliver it.

Because there were no hard battles and no additional battle subsidies, Su Lun only received the basic commission, but he also received nearly 100,000 lisos.

High risk comes with high reward.

Everyone took the money and went away.

Su Lun looked at the camp not far away, but did not rush to go there.

The hated warrior is his life-saving weapon, and naturally he has to carry it with him.

However, its three-meter-high body is too burly. Even if there is a shroud to hide, it is easy to be found in crowded places.

And because the living corpse has vital signs, it cannot be put into the storage ring, which is the most troublesome.

Su Lun felt that in his second-order advancement direction, he would definitely give priority to curse materials that could awaken "spatial ability".

Otherwise, there will be more puppets under control in the future, and it is estimated that it will be like walking a duck, with a large number of puppets behind it.

In the end, after some tossing, Su Lun bought a steam dog from a caravan returning to the city, disguised the corpse as a cargo and carried it with a mechanical dog, which made it less conspicuous.

Su Lun led the robot dog towards the wilderness hunting camp.

At this moment, there was a long line of people entering the city at the entrance of the camp.

Before he came, Su Lun thought that the camp at Dawn Ruins was supposed to be an idle camp with tents everywhere. Never thought that in such a short period of time, the scale has reached a high wall surrounding the town.

Heavy machine guns and artillery are erected on the walls, and some heavily armed guys are setting up cards at the gate.

I thought it was an identity check, but it turned out to be just city fees.

Su Lun calmly looked at the layout of the guards at the entrance of the lower city, and instinctively estimated whether a real conflict would be able to retreat completely.

Then, he silently lined up at the back of the line.

He listened to the conversations of the people in front of him, and also figured out the general situation in the city.

The high entry fee also made the new hunters curse.

"Damn, to stay in this camp for one night, you actually have to charge 3,000 li to the city?! I only earn 100,000 after escorting me, and I have to spend it all for a month?"

"One month? You think it's so beautiful! I heard from the buddy who went in before that everything in this camp is expensive. There are three or five hundred ordinary beautiful women in the old Lingdun city, and here it costs five thousand. Drinking water is even more old. Ten times that of Lingdun! There are also food, medicine, and ammunition supplies, which are also several times."

"So expensive? Then we took our lives to hunt the famine, didn't we earn it all for this unscrupulous businessman?"

"Actually, it's not too expensive. Everyone is here to hunt the famine. Who is here to live for a long time? At most, you can rest for a while, and you won't be able to stay in the city for a few days. What's more, those big chaebols spent huge sums of money to build the city, After getting so much equipment, it is natural to recover the cost.”

"Damn it, I haven't started to make money, so I'm going to spend this unjust money"

"If you don't want to pay, you can also camp outside the city. It's just that the aberrations near the ruins attack frequently, and there are looters and thieves. I'm afraid that you will fall asleep and die inexplicably."

"Actually, there are ways to avoid paying the city fee."

"How to say?"

"Join the hunting team of the five major financial groups. Just obey their orders and participate in some collective hunting missions."

"The hunting team of the five major financial groups?"

"yes."

"If you join, there will be a salary for employment. It's just that the treasures found in the hunting will be sold to them first, and there are no other restrictions. I have asked, and the price is fair."

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After listening to a few words, Su Lun had a general understanding of the situation of the camp.

Several big chaebols in the inner city mobilized a lot of resources to build camps, and then made such an entry and exit fee.

If you don't want to pay, you have to join their hunting team, listen to the arrangement, and perform some fixed-point exploration missions.

Su Lun didn't plan to join the chaebol's hunting group.

After all, he didn't take his life to hunt the famine to make money.

He knew very well that those chaebols probably wanted to recruit "cannon fodder" to detect mines.

After all, no one will know in advance what the danger level of the "cursed space" is, and it requires human life to be explored.

In case of encountering a "T-level" with no survivors, it would be a pity that a high-level professional would be damaged in it. Go to some cannon fodder to explore the path first, and you can roughly figure out the degree of danger.

Not long after, it was Su Lun's turn to line up.

He paid the money, got a colored sign and hung it in a prominent place, and entered the city smoothly.

Su Lun didn't plan to set up a tent outside the city, and a hunter who couldn't even pay the fee to enter the city probably didn't have any good things in his hands. He wanted to go to the Hunting Square in the city to have a look first, it would be better if he could buy the materials he needed. If he couldn't buy it, he would also go to the Wild Hunter Guild to inquire about some news. Instead of blindly diving headlong into the dangerous ruins.

There are no ordinary residents in the wild hunting camp, and there are no superfluous buildings.

Weapon shop, gun shop, machinery shop, medicine shop

After entering the city, there are dense supply shops on both sides of the street.

The signboards also bear the names of major firms in the inner city.

After walking a few steps, you can see the familiar feasting and feasting.

The speculators opened the tavern and the custom field to the camp immediately.

Probably because it was troublesome to explain, there were signs with prices on the door.

"Girls from £3500"

"Rye wine from £400/bottle"

Even though the price is ten times higher than in Old Lington, the business looks good.

After Su Lun passed these few steps, he could see the wild hunters hooking their shoulders and walking in giggling.

It is not easy to send such a group of delicate and weak custom girls to the ground, and there is a reason why they are more expensive.

The precarious days have put a lot of mental pressure on the hunters, and they need to vent. The wine and meat business is more marketable here. What's more, the hunters who can survive from the ruins have money in their pockets.

Su Lun walked all the way.

Before, he had seen the plan of the camp at the gate of the city, and knew that there was a street in the east, which was a market place for wild hunters to plan and sell things.

He led the mechanical dog and walked two streets, when he heard the noise like going to a market coming from that direction.

"The silver inauguration material that just came out of the ruins yesterday [Eyes of the Human-faced Owl]."

"Come on, the ancient alchemy scrolls just unearthed are limited in number"

"Ancient weapons, two-handed swords that cut iron like mud, alchemy crossbows, dwarven shields"

"Freshly produced curse materials, black iron and silver quality are available, the price is beautiful."

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Hearing a voice in his ear, Su Lun became interested.

In the mouths of those traders, the names of many rare materials appeared.

In the old town of Lington, it is impossible to see the scene of silver materials being sold on the street stalls anywhere.

Even in the black market of Shadow Alley, silver materials are rare and sought-after.

But here, they are sold as ordinary commodities by the hunters.

This is the benefit of primary sources.

Because there are no shops, antiquities worth hundreds of thousands of millions are arbitrarily ripped up and placed on the ground for sale.

There are many people on the street.

There are well-dressed speculators, and more are hunters dressed as adventurers.

Most of the cursed objects left over from ancient times are rare goods, and even black iron materials are much better than those refined in this era.

Here, hunters who want to be advanced professionals can find real high-quality materials.

As soon as Su Lun walked into the Fangshi block, the first stall caught his attention.

(End of this chapter)