Lord Hunter needs a commission

"Hehehe, is that right? But although I am old, I still remember that the legal age for marriage is just right!"

"Hey~!"

"Hahahahahaha, have you become angry from embarrassment? So, Xiao Luo, you still haven't grown up!"

Chapter 2 Two Commissions

Facing Vesemir's ridicule, Charlotte's face suddenly collapsed, but because of Vesemir's status, it was not easy to get angry, so she could only stir the milk in the glass with a spoon without saying a word. .

Although at first glance, Vesemir was just watching the billboards in the office on the second floor of the Kaer Morhen Tavern, but in fact he was an old man with billboards.Some people may say that in this kind of story, shouldn't the billboard be a young and beautiful girl or a beautiful elf?

However, it is a pity that that kind of situation can only appear in RPG games. In reality, how could a girl come here to work as a kanban, especially in an industry like Charlotte's.

Whether it's Livia City or other cities, all those who make kanbans in the strongholds of this industry are actually experienced and knowledgeable seniors.It's just that these seniors could no longer be on the front line due to various reasons, so they were arranged by the guild to do some easy work in the strongholds in various cities and take care of them.

For practitioners who have to deal with various monsters and supernatural phenomena after entering this industry, there is no need to expect them to have much awe.Sometimes, a slightly more aggressive practitioner would even ignore the law, openly pulling out an RPG on the bustling street in order to kill the target as soon as possible to say hello.

From here, it can be seen how lawless people are in this business. If these practitioners hadn't been required to deal with more troublesome monsters and supernatural phenomena, they would have been classified as terrorists by the federal government and besieged by the army.

And it is basically only those seniors who have retired from the front line that can make these dangerous elements a little more peaceful, so as not to smash the stronghold.

This is also one of the default rules for this line.

Of course, the more important reason is that the predecessors of these kanbans are in charge of task distribution and task settlement, as well as the wages and part-time finances of all practitioners.

Vesemir happens to be the finances of the practitioners in Livia City. In addition, it is said that when he was young, this old man was also fighting on the front line, but he was fighting against a large-scale invasion of a kind of spirit monster called Wild Hunting When he was injured and was dying, he almost belched on the spot.Later, even if he was rescued and came back, he would never be able to go to the front line again.

But it's better than just dying there.

However, Charlotte once heard gossip from some seniors who were more than ten years older than him that the original part-time job board of the person in charge of the Kaer Morhen Tavern in Livia City was not the Kaer Morhen Tavern, but another nicknamed "White". Wolves' peers.

The White Wolf was an old man of the same era as Vesemir, and he also participated in the fight against the large-scale invasion of wild hunting spirits. After that, like the injured Vesemir, he retired and changed his job as a Kanban.But in less than a year, the white wolf quit and went to eat the soft food of two sorceress lovers.

Now the largest casino in Livia City is run by this eater, and he is also a well-known master of Quint, the No. [-] veteran gambler in Tianzi.

It was after White Wolf switched jobs that Vesemir, who had been leisurely running a farm in the Baiguoyuan countryside, was dragged here by the headquarter to work as the person in charge and part-time Kanban.

……

Jokes are all jokes, Vesemir is also very aware of Charlotte's problem.

After all, strictly speaking, Charlotte grew up in the Kaer Morhen tavern, and he also saw Charlotte undergoing trials with his own eyes, and he has been unable to dream since he was 12 years old.

And after the age of 13, faced with one after another 'advent', as well as the threat of Dream Chrysalis and Pale Hunter, even if he once held a sword and was able to wildly hunt spirits and monsters, he was helpless.

Strictly speaking, neither the Dream Chrysalis nor the Pale Hunter is much more dangerous than the Wild Spirit Hunt.It can be said that it is one of the few monsters that is incomprehensible to mortals.

Not to mention the new era in which all the gods are extinct and the abyss and hell are all destroyed. Even before the dark age, when it is said that there are still gods, these two monsters are like natural disasters.

One is the abomination, the product of undeserved and unforeseen divine power, a monster for which even the gods would have headaches and distress.

The other is a legendary spirit monster, a monster that cannot be truly killed in the material world, and always hunts down its prey.

It is conceivable that in the face of the threat of these two kinds of monsters, it is a miracle to be able to live safely.What's more, Charlotte has to face all kinds of "prey". Even sleeping will trigger nightmares at any time, and she will be caught in a series of fights.

It is simply the shelter of the goddess of luck.

Of course, Vesemir didn't know the specific situation in Charlotte's nightmare.

Dream Chrysalis and Pale Hunter didn't come to him once or twice, it's just that these guys were relatively unlucky.Either he encountered the dream of the demigod and half-human descendant of the Sky Crystal in a certain strange crystal wall, and was bombarded to the brim with the Sky Crystal Sword Art; Construct each other's delicacies on the plate of the ancient gods who have trapped themselves in their dreams.

In a sense, this is indeed the shelter of the goddess of 'luck'.

……

"Okay, I'm also very old, I don't want to care so much, and of course I'm not qualified to interfere with Xiao Luo's marriage."

"Hey, I've said enough!"

"Hahaha, okay, okay, I won't say anything." Vesemir laughed loudly, and then patted the sign beside the counter. "Hey, there aren't many buddies anymore. After all, you little bastards were in a much better and crueler era than we were back then. You killed almost all the wild goblins and kobolds near Livia City, and the remaining The lower vitality is no more endangered than the upper two."

Hearing that, Charlotte's face was a little bit down.

It's no wonder that the reality is not that the game does not have a refresh mechanism. After the popularization of gunpowder weapons in the new era, all the monsters that could have caused headaches for humans were massacred by humans who unlocked their incredible talents, and many of them went extinct.

Under such circumstances, even the competition among practitioners has reached a rather fierce level. It is almost a well-known fact that grabbing tasks equals eating more food.

Although it is not impossible for them to change jobs to do something else, for example: the old white wolf who has a soft meal and opened a casino by himself and works as a part-time master of Gwent.

But not everyone is so lucky. Basically, they are either reduced to bodyguards or go to construction sites to move bricks... This is not as good as continuing to work until they retire safely and then transfer to a part-time job as a regional manager.

"Is there any one with a little more money? I'm a little nervous to repay the debt!" Charlotte asked helplessly, "I've been working for five years, and I'm just a little bit short of being able to pay off the debt owed for the ceremony... ...Well, help me, old man."

"It's useless even if you beg me, the rules are the rules." Vesemir spread his hands and replied, "You don't even look at what time it is now, and if you oversleep and get all the tasks taken away by your peers, you can't say that others are wrong."

"Ah~"

"However, the city of Livia is gone, but there are airborne commissions in other places, can you do it?" Vesemir turned around, rummaged through the drawers of the cabinet at the back, and then took two bound copies together. The documentation is turned back. "Nah, can you see if you want to take over? One is from the city next door, and the other is from the Northern Skyrim Province."

Chapter 3 Two Commissions

Airborne entrustment, also known as a request for assistance, is a way for the person in charge of a region and other practitioners to seek help from other surrounding regions after encountering unsolvable problems.

Generally speaking, such requests for assistance are very rare. After all, it is equivalent to assigning tasks in one's own area to colleagues in other places to reduce one's own income, which seems unreasonable no matter how you look at it.

However, such unreasonable things are often so troublesome that they are beyond the capabilities of local organizations.Generally speaking, there is nothing to do about the hunted target, and hunters in the headquarters or nearby areas are required to provide reinforcements and cooperate to complete the task.

In the end, this kind of mission, no matter whether it can be completed or not, is likely to cause heavy casualties. If it is more tragic, there have even been cases where the entire army was wiped out along with its supporters.

The large-scale invasion of wild spirits participated by Vesemir and the old man nicknamed White Wolf was an airborne request, which came from other regions.It is said that there were a total of 153 hunters from all over the country at that time, including 1000 or [-] garrisoned by the federal government.

However, after the battle, only 153 of the 22 hunters survived, with a death rate as high as 80.00%.The local garrison of the federal government suffered heavy losses, with only 32 people surviving.

These 32 people were all logistics and civil servants, so they survived by luck.

"It's not the kind of campaign-level support mission you think." Vesemir seemed to see what Charlotte was thinking, and said directly, "That kind of campaign-level mission is impossible as long as the headquarters is not completely crazy. Let Xiao Luo, a newcomer who has been in the industry for less than ten years, participate."

Reaching out to take the two documents that Vesemir handed over, Charlotte muttered, "Many old birds over ten years old are not enough for me to type..."

"It has nothing to do with whether you can fight or not." Vesemir knocked on the countertop. "Little Luo, you are indeed better than many hunters because of that special ceremony. Even if I haven't retired, I am no match for you... ...But this business doesn't care so much, at least not before the end of the world."

"Is this about bureaucracy?"

"Wrong, it is right to respect the old and love the young."

"Well, it's a virtue to respect the old and love the young." After that, Charlotte began to focus on the two documents in her hand.

The first document, labeled [Novigrad Abandoned Factory], was from the city of Novigrad, an area next door to the city of Livia.

Like the city of Livia where Charlotte was located, this city also developed into a large city at a high speed after the federation was established.Of course, compared to Livia, which is famous for its various casinos and holding gwent card tournaments, Novigrad is not that kind of tourist city, or it used to be, but not anymore.

Today's Novigrad city does not have the old-fashioned situation of X-houses everywhere. Now, under the influence of the development of new alchemy, this city has become a leading industrial city decades ago, producing All kinds of assembly line machinery and products.

Here in Livia City, because it has become a 'famous' tourist attraction, the environment is very good under the governance of the city government. Although it is not as good as Hundred Gardens, it is still a good place.

But in Novigrad, the sewage, the smog, and the litter are all everyday things that can be seen everywhere. One can imagine how bad the environment there is.According to the statistics of some federal scholars, the average life expectancy of residents in Novigrad has been reduced to about 46 years old, and the incidence of various diseases is 70.00% higher than other places.

And in terms of law and order, it's a mess over there.

Even though Livia City is called a gambling city, the security conditions here are top-notch. Any illegal forces who intend to reach out here will often be judged by the Livia City Government as robbing business and tax revenue. Those gangs will do anything for tax revenue. The tax bureau of the city government will not hesitate to pull the garrison to shoot all these dragons crossing the river.

Including extortion, drugs, sex industry, illegal transactions, gangsters... Anyone who is judged to be stealing money from the tax bureau's pocket and not paying taxes is the enemy of Livia City.

Correspondingly, Novigrad is terrible. There are industries that exist here in Livia, and there are industries that are not in Livia. The gangsters in that city have blatantly upgraded from trading drugs to The extent of arms reselling.

The most outrageous thing is that the largest gang in the area is actually the city government and garrison in Novigrad. One can imagine the degree of chaos.

Compared with Novigrad, Livia City is simply treated in heaven.

"Although this kind of messy city does not lack all kinds of prey who intend to make a fortune." Charlotte flipped through the contents and looked at the contents roughly, "but according to common sense, the colleagues over there should You won't give up this easy prey..." After a pause, Charlotte then added, "...the city government and the garrison there won't be crazy enough to let a group of bloodthirsty dangerous beasts join in, right?"

"It's hard to say." Vesemir said sarcastically, "But this time it's because of the civil strife in the family in charge of the city government and the challenge from emerging forces, and the garrison completely ignores it. Recently, there's been a lot of exaggeration over there."

"and then?"

"Then, Xiao Luo, you should have heard what kind of fellows our colleagues in that city are." Vesemir shook his head, "They are simply derivatives of an unscrupulous school in the old era, no, they are strengthened version." He said with an undisguised expression of disgust, "Especially now, compared to dealing with those prey who sneak in to sneak in, it is estimated that the colleagues there are more willing to participate in gang fights or act as private bodyguards and mercenaries."

"Okay!" Looking at the content in the document, Charlotte shrugged. "Everyone has their own ambitions, so they outsourced the squeezing task?"

"Well, outsourcing is a good word to use."

"Thank you for the compliment."

Throwing Novigrad's outsourced task document on the table, Charlotte then began flipping through the second document.

"Is it the Northern Skyrim Province? There are really remote areas!"

The second document was marked with [Skyrim Winterhold College Ruins Development Coordination], which made Charlotte feel a little overwhelmed. "Vesemir, since when did our business get in touch with the school? Could it be the Hunter Academy there?"

"It's the King of Fighters Academy." Vesemir said a joke that Charlotte couldn't understand but didn't explain anything, instead he asked mysteriously, "Little Luo, do you know what the special product of Skyrim Province is? "

"Snow? Or mountains?" Considering the cold climate there, Charlotte replied hesitantly, "Perhaps, wild animal nature reserve?"

"Hehehe, I think the Wild Ghoul Nature Reserve is pretty decent."

"Aha?"

"It is estimated that apart from the North Skyrim Province, other areas do not have such a rich nature reserve." Vesemir said, "For details, you can go to the fifth floor to find information. Anyway, I will accompany a group of strong fighters." Scholars are just investigating. And the time is one and a half months later, enough time for you to go to Novigrad to deal with the outsourcing there, and then take a boat to Solitude."

Chapter 4 Departure

After looking at the two documents in his hand and reviewing the contents in detail, Charlotte said to Vesemir, "However, it will take at least two months to go back and forth like this."

"If you're lucky, it will only take two months." Vesemir replied leisurely, "After all, the affairs in Novigrad are easy to deal with. If there is no accident, they will only be some sneaky little guys."

"However, the most troublesome thing over there is not the cowardly prey, but the chaotic local security environment... If you are not careful, you will probably get shot."

"How low is the quality of our colleagues there?" Charlotte understood what Vesemir said, and her face became weird.

Leaving aside the commission of Winterhold College from the northern province of Skyrim, after all, according to Vesemir, the start time is one and a half months later, which is enough time for him to go to Solitude.

But Novigrad...

Although I had heard that the quality of the peers over there was very poor due to local conditions, it surprised Charlotte a bit.

According to the meaning in Vesemir's words, doesn't it mean that the colleagues in Novigrad, because they are more willing to take on private jobs, have played tricks on each other and "insiders"?

Ordinary gangsters are not very worried about fighting Charlotte. No matter how hard they fight, they will not shoot each other with iron fist bazookas to demolish the city. If they really do this, no matter how bad the local garrison is, they will attack them.

If his peers joined in, I'm afraid the situation would be very bad.

In an industry like theirs, they often have to face some prey whose physical fitness is too much higher than that of humans.For example, there are not a few prey that are large in size, extremely fast and flexible, and have various strange abilities, and there are even some spirit bodies that have no real form.

Therefore, in order to cope with this situation, various training methods, witchcraft, magic knowledge, special blood and other extra things are not rare in this industry.After a series of these supernatural things came down, many of my peers could be called 'superman', and the last one was the kind of sharpshooter who could shoot ten rings casually, or an expert in close combat, or had various supernatural abilities, spell abilities and pressure The secret of the bottom of the box.

Let'Superman' blend into the fights and chaos of various gangs, isn't it sure that it will make the chaos even bigger?

"No one cares?"

"Although there is such a thing as the headquarters, in fact, the independence of each division in our business is quite high." Vesemir spread his hands, "There are various freedoms in different regions according to their customs and cultural characteristics, is this justifiable? .”

"So, Xiao Luo, do you accept these outsourcing?"

"...Come on, after these two orders, I can be debt-free and have a little savings." Charlotte handed back the two documents, "The province of Skyrim in the Northland is a bit remote, and it will take several days even by sea. , so I'll hurry up."

"Just watch and prepare yourself."

"Please contact the station to pre-purchase tickets for me."

"Small." Vesemir replied casually, "But you have to pay for the ticket yourself." He stood up and walked to the rotary phone at the other end of the counter.

"Ah~! I see."

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= a few days later =

Recently, due to the absence of tiring dreams, Charlotte's sleep quality has improved a lot, but she is still robbed by her peers.It's just that after taking over two outsourcing tasks, he has the right to rest.

After packing up some change of clothes and getting ready for some travel on the road, I put the revolver named [Blue Rose] together with the holster and bullets into the interlayer of the suitcase, then picked up the staff of civilization, put on the gray After putting on a black coat and hat, Charlotte pushed the door open and stepped out.

Follow the stairs from the sixth floor all the way to the second floor, carry the suitcase and walk to the front of the counter.

Today, Vesemir was reading the morning newspaper as usual, and the stickers that should have existed on the surrounding billboards were snatched away by colleagues who came one step earlier, showing that Charlotte was once again a step behind.

"Little Luo, you are one step slower." Hearing the sound of footsteps, Vesemir put down the newspaper in his hand, and joked to Charlotte, "Going to have a tryst with the beautiful lady again?"

"Sorry, I didn't dream last night." Charlotte rolled her eyes, ignored Vesemir's joke, but leaned the Civilization Staff in her right hand behind the counter, and reached out towards Vesemir, "Hey, I want Let's go, where's the ticket?"

Shrugging his shoulders, Vesemir turned around and took out a brown file bag and handed it over. "Take it." Vesemir said, "In addition to your train ticket, there are documents proving your identity. When you arrive in Novigrad and Solitude, remember to report to the local branch. By the way, Don't lose it, or you can figure it out yourself."

When he found the file bag, he untied the noose on the seal. After opening it, Charlotte looked at a bundle of bound documents and a red square bill with the federal emblem printed on it.