Gold is Justice

But now, Song of the Mermaid has left her territory to go to other cities. She has to face the underground passage system of a big city that she has never explored before, and then she has to face the corpse that has become unknown now. King, such a mission is too dangerous, and the coefficient of uncertainty is too big.

But seeing Earl Garp like this, he shouldn't allow himself to retreat without doing anything, right?

Hmm... let's try first.

"Honorable Earl, the difficulty of this task may be a bit—"

"If you from Song of the Mermaid refuse to accept this case, then I can only ask you to stay here indefinitely."

As if she had directly guessed what Airl was thinking, Margo blocked Airl's mouth with one sentence.The mistress waved her hand slightly, and the soldiers around took a step forward as if they had received an order, making it clear that they wanted to threaten Song of the Mermaid.

Seeing such a battle, Brad, Buffy, Coco, and Cream behind them all became vigilant.But before they could react, Arrow reached out his hand first, preventing them from posing for a fight.

"The difficulty of this task may be a bit high, so correspondingly, Song of the Mermaid should be able to get a considerable amount of reward after completing the task?"

Facing Airl, Margo tilted her head, her slightly scarlet eyes seemed to see through the president's mind, and scanned him from head to toe again, and then laughed again: "The reward will definitely not be less. After completing this task...Look, how about ten gold coins?"

If it was before, Airl would probably really think that this is a huge sum.

But there is no way, now that I am used to seeing a lot of money, I am afraid that these ten gold coins can only be regarded as a warm-up, right?

At that moment, Ai Luo shook his head and said with a smile: "I think the price should be at least ten times higher, right? After all, what we are dealing with is that group of people who will immediately turn people into human beings if they are slightly scratched or bitten." An unknown monster of a zombie."

Margot turned her head and exchanged a glance with Earl Garp. The earl seemed to feel a little pain in his heart, and his face was full of reluctance.But under the signal of Margot's eyes, he finally nodded and said, "As long as you can solve this trouble! As long as...you can get rid of those damn monsters, all zombies! Even those who have suffered a little Kill all the injured people! One hundred gold coins...that's one hundred gold coins! But you must promise me! After entering the underground system...you must kill everything in it! I don't want to What troubles are left behind!"

At this point, Airl finally laughed out loud. He nodded emphatically, took out the power of attorney and pen that he had prepared long ago, wrote the entrusted matters clearly on it, and handed it over to Earl Garp.

Earl Garp was also unambiguous, and signed his name in the column of the client.At this point, the commission is established.

"Well, since the entrustment has been established, Song of the Mermaid will take over this job. Now we want to be able to make some preparations and take a rest. I just don't know if there is any vacant room on the earl's side for our guild members Get ready? Wait until tomorrow, and we will immediately go to Tianhe City's underground system to carry out the crusade against the Corpse Eater King."

Empty rooms are not a problem, Earl Garp quickly asked the maid to arrange a room for Song of the Mermaid to stay.And after everyone in Song of the Mermaid left the room, he breathed a sigh of relief, and collapsed on the sofa as if he had exhausted all his energy.

"That's it, right?"

After exhaling a long breath, Earl Garp turned his head and looked at Margot.

Margaux just smiled, but the countess on the opposite side snorted coldly, got up and left, no longer caring about the affairs of these two dogs and men.

——1302年6月21日，伙食费：-4铜2铁，旅费：-4银4铜1铁，杂物委托：3铜，工资：-3铁，结余：487金6银6铜8铁——

corpse eater.

A mermaid song can be regarded as a monster that has dealt with many times.

It grows in the mines of the Eternal Sleeping Mountains. The specific origin is unknown, but it has strong resistance to slashing and striking weapons, and it is not even afraid of fire magic.If you want to kill it, you must use a sharp instrument to pierce its heart, so that you can kill it.

Throughout the rest of the night, Arrow's mind was full of all kinds of information about corpse eaters.

In fact, he has already memorized those monster illustrated books by heart, but now that he has nothing to do, he still takes them out to look at them from time to time, and at the same time see if there is any content that can be updated.So much so that when he got up in the morning, he read it again while having breakfast, and he was relieved to confirm that there were no mistakes in his memory and the illustrated book.

Song of the Mermaid's rectification operation did not last too long. After breakfast, he checked all the equipment on his body and looked at the blood beads, antidotes, and magic healing aerosols in his pockets. Under the guidance of a soldier, the talent walked towards the backyard of the Earl's mansion.

The backyard of the mansion can also be regarded as being built against the cliff of the entire Tianhe City. In a corner of the backyard, after the soldiers opened a door attached to the cliff, a dark and bottomless passage appeared inside. .

Looking at this passage, the soldiers leading the way did not plan to take another step inside.So far, only Song of the Mermaid continued to move forward, that is, when everyone entered the passage, the soldiers behind him had already closed the gate non-stop, and immediately after that, they could still hear the blocked fire from outside. sound.

"Hey! What do you mean? The one who invited us to destroy the monsters or locked us up?!"

Brad couldn't help but strode to the door, wanting to raise his hammer and smash it.

But Ai Luo still stopped him, and said with a smile: "He's afraid, we should understand this situation. Anyway, he gave us a hundred gold coins to make us work."

Brad curled his lips, and now he could only take out a torch to light it up, serving as a source of light for the crowd.

Cream looked at the tightly sealed iron door, and said, "President Airl, what do you think of this mission?"

Airl shrugged, turned his head and looked at the well-trimmed passageway ahead, covered with marble and lampposts, and slowly said: "What do you think? How can I look at the task after being forced to do so? Although I can be sure that this The earl must very much hope that we can go back alive, but I am also sure that he has no intention of paying us as much as 100 gold coins at all."

Hearing Ai Luo say such words, everyone was a little relieved.Ke Ke then waved and summoned the undead soldiers and skeleton dogs. She leaned beside Airuo and said, "Brother President, why didn't that fat earl plan to pay us? Is he planning to renege on his debt?"

Brad also nodded, and said with a puzzled look: "Yes, yes, President, where did you see that the earl wants us to go back alive? I don't think he looks like he wants us to live at all. Well."

Airl raised his head and smelled the air, but so far he didn't smell blood.It seems that this section of the road should not have any problems.

At the moment, he walked with his family members and said: "The same sentence, there is no conflict of interest between us and Earl Garp, he has no reason to trouble us, let alone kill us. These have helped him a lot Busy 'comrades'."

"Have I said it many times before? We humans are intelligent creatures. No matter how stupid a person looks, his actions will definitely echo the logic of action of intelligent creatures."

"Killing one's 'comrade-in-arms' for no reason is a completely meaningless act that will waste money. When this kind of behavior has no benefit at all for oneself, it is impossible for anyone to do this kind of thing that goes against interests."

"So, the Earl definitely didn't call us here to kill us. Because that would be too wasteful, not easy at all, not even frugal at all. A big noble, especially a big noble with a lot of wealth wants to wipe out a remote small The small guild in the town really has too many methods, there is absolutely no need to choose such a wasteful method."

When the members of Song of the Mermaid heard their president talk about how to "eliminate the guild frugally", they all looked at each other in blank dismay, the expressions on their faces were as embarrassing as they wanted.

However, Airl didn't seem to notice, and continued to say as he walked: "Now that it is confirmed that the Earl will never call us here just to kill us, then let's move on to the next question. Does the Earl really want to Want us to solve the city's problems? From what I've seen, probably not."

Chapter 260 Seventh Dark Tunnel

"The corpse eater king is indeed very powerful, but the little corpse eaters he created are not very good. Only half a year has passed so far, even if the corpse eater king really cultivated in the process If there are a lot of little corpse eaters, then these should also be young corpse eaters, and their combat effectiveness should not be strong. In this case, if a riot really occurs, the earl can completely let his soldiers go and take these Solve the problem. Among them, the only one that can be considered a problem is the Corpse Eater King."

"Under such circumstances, where is it our turn to fight? So I judge that this earl probably didn't want us to destroy the Corpse Eater King. This is precisely because we are not expected to destroy the Corpse Eater King , That's why the earl was so forthright when he signed the reward of 100 gold coins. Because he knew that he would never give out the money, even if he signed 1000 gold coins. "

"Since the earl didn't intend to kill us intentionally, nor did he want us to destroy the Corpse Eater King, did he want us to be bait? It's not possible at all." "We It's the Adventurer's Guild, and we have rich experience in fighting corpse eaters. If it's purely used as bait, there are many innocent people in Tianhe City who don't know about it. Isn't this earl afraid that we will kill the real ones? Did killing this corpse eater king completely bankrupt his gold nugget ranch plan?"

"Based on all the above situations, I came to a conclusion. That is, Earl Garp didn't want us to die, at least he didn't want our entire army to be wiped out. The situation should be that we failed the mission, went back to see him in despair, and then he didn't give a single iron coin, and directly kicked us out of Tianhe City."

Hearing this, Buffy seemed dizzy. She sat on Brad's shoulder, reached out and nodded her head, and said, "President, I don't understand. Call us here in a hurry." , but don’t want us to do anything, let us experience a mission failure and then leave, what does this mean? In your human terms, is it too idle?”

Arrow held his chin, walking all the way, thinking all the way: "This is exactly what I was thinking about. The count wants us to live, entrusts us with missions, and hopes that our missions will fail... I always feel that Count Garp should still hide There is something that has not been told to us. And this hidden secret may be the key to solving this problem."

Just when Airl was still thinking hard, Brad, who was at the front of the team, stopped suddenly, handed the torch to Airl behind him, took out the shield, replaced the hammer with a long sword, and stood still.

Airl took a closer look, and saw about 20 meters away, a Corpse Eater was lying there, constantly wandering, pacing back and forth as if lost its direction.

And judging from the size and the teeth and claws that haven't fully grown, it should be a young corpse eater.

"Get ready. Be careful not to get hurt."

Airl muttered softly, and Song of the Mermaid immediately put on a fighting stance, carefully approaching the baby corpse eater.

The young corpse-eater seemed completely unaware that someone was approaching, the two light-emitting organs emitted a faint light, but he still couldn't find his way.

When Brad approached the young corpse eater at a distance of about five meters, he rushed forward!The sound of quickening footsteps caused the young corpse-eater to quickly turn to Brad, open his mouth, and was about to scream!

But before it could make a sound, a violent shield impact hit its mouth heavily.With the lift of the shield, the baby corpse eater was immediately turned upside down with his chest up!Immediately afterwards, Brad straightened out the long sword in his hand and stabbed steadily, ending the life of the monster in an instant before it realized the resistance.

This set of movements is smooth and flowing, without the slightest pause.Obviously, being able to make such a smooth attack is undoubtedly due to the daily exercise.Arrow was very pleased with this.

Pulling out the sword, Brad flicked it, shaking off the blood on it.

Cream stepped forward, glanced cautiously, and said, "President, there is one more thing I don't seem to understand."

Airl also came up, put on gloves, and gently opened the wound on the young corpse eater's heart. After checking it, he was only disappointed, and then said, "Do you mean the infection?"

Cream nodded: "Before when we faced corpse eaters, we were more or less injured. The number of times we were scratched and bitten was not uncommon. But we were not turned into zombies before, but now Tianhe City But it is occupied by zombies? This is a bit too strange."

In this regard, Airl also agrees: "If it is said that being scratched and bitten by a corpse eater and turning into a zombie is not that Margaux is just bragging and perfunctory us, then it can only represent one result."

After a short pause, Airl let out a breath slowly: "It is the corpse eater king here who has mutated. Through the mutation in the past half a year, he has mastered the power to spread this kind of plague or magic. , can turn people into living zombies.”

"And this kind of mutation has never happened before. The information we have received so far is too little, and there is no way to accurately deduce what happened here."

After thinking for a long time, Airl glanced at the young corpse eater on the ground, and said slowly——

"Anyway, our only goal now is still the Corpse Eater King. Killing that monster should be the first task of our trip. Brad, Buffy, Coco, Cream, do you have any? Confidence to complete this task?"

Although it is still a bit nervous to really face the corpse eater king, when Brad was able to easily deal with a young corpse eater just now, everyone knew that their strength had really improved a lot in the past six months.At that moment, everyone nodded their heads one after another, continued to cheer up, and walked cautiously deeper into the passage.

Tianhe City's underground system appears to be very complicated, the area where the prison is held is near the area where the huge waterfall falls from the sky.

Judging from the partial map of the underground space given by the Earl, that area seems to be the location of the entire city's power system and prison.

As he walked, Airl pondered over the map over and over again.

how to say?

Just relying on this map alone, Airl felt that the earl must have something very important to hide from him.

After all, judging from the boundaries of this map, although this underground network does not occupy the entire Tianhe City, it still occupies at least half of the area.However, judging from the guiding route on the map, the earl obviously only gave the route to the area below the waterfall.Other roads are either shown as dead ends or blocked.

What's even more exaggerated is that some roads marked with emergency passages are also marked with dead ends.

It seems that the earl really hopes that his team can go to the area marked on the map, and then come back after the mission failed.

"Shh-"

Just as Airl was walking cautiously, Brad, who was in the lead, stopped and motioned for everyone to hold their breath.

With the light of the fire, one can clearly see several red dots flickering in the darkness ahead, accompanied by the very familiar sound of the corpse-eater's claws rubbing against the ground.

Brad raised his shield and long sword, Buffy flew into the air and sprinkled the scent of flowers on everyone, Cream picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it towards a fork in the road ahead.As the stone knocked on the ground, the two corpse eaters immediately broke into the range of the firelight from the darkness.

After half a year, when he saw the Corpse Eater again, Arrow didn't think there was anything to be happy about this reunion.

And compared to the mine, the physical characteristics of these corpse-eaters really gave Airl a kind of...disgusting feeling.

Their bodies are still covered with fragments of clothes that they used to wear when they were humans, and the surface of their entire bodies looks sticky, full of the bloody feeling of fighting.Especially when they opened the mouth formed by the neck, the teeth inside were mixed with blood stains and minced meat, which was definitely several levels higher than the corpse eaters in the mine in terms of ferocity.

The two corpse eaters rushed to the fork in the road, wandering around the place where the stone landed, as if they were desperately searching for the direction of their prey.

Seeing this, Airl raised his hand, took out a bloody bead from his pocket and threw it towards the front of the team.

The strong smell of blood immediately attracted these corpse eaters, maybe because they have never smelled this smell before, they all gathered in front of the bloody bead, constantly moving left and right, and at the same time stretched out their claws to grab something. To put it, but in the case of loss of vision, it can only leave a scratch on the marble floor.

Song of the Mermaid waited silently.

At the moment when the two corpse eaters turned their backs to the team, Brad rushed forward without Airl making a sound!He raised his long sword and hammer, and slammed them down on the tailbone of the two corpse eaters!

The huge force smashed and chopped off the tail vertebrae of the two corpse eaters almost instantly.The severely injured Corpse Eater yelled in horror, turned around and wanted to fly towards Brad!But the two monsters that lost their center of gravity couldn't stand still at all, and fell directly to the ground.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Brad raised his shield again to block in front of him. Cream and undead soldiers flashed out from his left and right sides, and quickly circled behind the two corpse eaters. It pierced through the heart of the corpse eater, bringing the filthy lives of these two monsters to an end.

Chapter 260 Eighth Why Are You Two Again

Arms drawn, and waiting for the two ghouls to remain still, Arrow nodded to his members.

After the battle just now, everyone also understood that their strength had improved a lot.At the moment, everyone showed a little smile on their faces, and it seemed that their confidence was stronger.

"But we still have to be careful. It's best not to deal with more than two corpse eaters at a time. We don't even know how many of these monsters are hiding here. Unlike in the past, we can't suffer any injuries."

The members who seemed a little happy just now nodded after hearing Airl's reminder, got ready to go again, and walked towards the passage ahead.