Chapter 64 Harvest and Journey Home (Part 2)
~.-~ Chapter 64 Harvest and the Journey to Go Home (Part 2)
I forgot to upload it! oo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Although Cameras City is only more than 100 kilometers away from Redstone Fortress, in fact, in Chen Kai's view, the two cities are two worlds. The Redstone Fortress is a war-filled area, while Cameras City is a peaceful and prosperous western commercial city, as if it was Andosen before the undead attack. Of course, Cameras is definitely more prosperous than Andosen, after all, its existence is hundreds of years earlier than Andosen.
The city of Kamelas had existed before the establishment of the Redstone Fortress. At that time, it was the most marginal city in the western border of the Rohan Empire, and it was also the city closest to the foggy forest at that time. However, as the trees in the foggy forest were constantly being cut down, the forest slowly retreated past the Redstone Mountains, which is the mountain where the Redstone Fortress is located, and now it has retreated to fifty kilometers west of Andoson.
Of course, retreating is just the fog in the fog forest, not entirely a forest. At least there are large forests around Cameras City. There are also many low-level monsters in these forests, and even monsters with a level of more than eighth level appear. However, the number of high-level monsters is not large, and there are large populations of rafts gangsters buck-tooth rabbits living in the wild, as well as the Mokui Goblin community. These two communities have become the most troublesome species between Redstone Fortress and Cameras. The rafts gangsters buck-tooth rabbits are better. At most, they are just food that women rob, but Mokui Goblin is different. They eat almost everything from ordinary food to human flesh. As long as they can be stuffed into their mouths, they can eat it.
At the same time, the number of Moquegoblins is the largest and largest. There are at least tens of thousands of Moquegoblins living in the jungle in the south of Kamelas. They form tribes to attack the residents of Kamelas and the army of the Redstone Fortress. Once, there were even a large tribe cluster that attacked the troops transporting supplies from the Redstone Fortress. The guards of the three thousand cavalry were destroyed by them. Not only were the supplies stolen, but the face of the Redstone Fortress army was also lost.
Therefore, when Chen Kai and Xu Fei walked into the mercenary guild of Kamelas, the first thing they saw was the task that was hanging on the mercenary guild that was never possible to complete at this stage. "Totally clear out the Moque Goblin tribes around Kamelas!" As long as the players who are clear-headed will not do this task, because they know that under the control of the aunt of the system, even if you eliminate all the Moque Goblins in Kamelas for a while, new Goblin tribes will migrate to reproduce again, and even the number will be greater than in the past. The worst thing is that you may not be able to successfully eliminate all the Moque Goblins, unless a torch burns all the forests around Kamelas, but if you really do that, you may be beaten to death by tens of thousands of residents who rely on the forest to eat before you receive the reward.
"Only those who are brainless will want to complete this brainless task!" This is the definition of this task by all Kamelas players. In fact, more players would rather run to fight against the robbery of grassland than deal with Mokui Goblins because they are too disgusting and so devastating.
"Goblins are definitely the most disgusting species in the game? What do you don't know what goblins are! They are the swamp monsters that are even more disgusting than Amoeba Protozoa and Tumenba Soft Monsters. Of course, they are jungle monsters in Cameras, but they are just as disgusting!" This sentence is the voice of many Cameras players. In the last half of the sentence, it is basically the voice of many players in the game.
Because of this, many players who take on missions in the Mercenary Guild are unwilling to accept the daily task of clearing goblins. In the end, most mercenary guilds have no choice but to use this task as a cycle that the mercenary group must complete. Within a week, you must run to eliminate a certain number of monsters, otherwise you will deduct mercenary points. Of course, for mercenary points, it will be very important for players who are just determined to get involved in the Mercenary Guild, but for Chen Kai and others, it is definitely not their purpose to get mercenary public mission experience. Of course, this time Chen Kai did not come to accept mercenary tasks. In fact, he came to publish the mission, but when he just stepped into the gate of the Mercenary Guild, he heard a familiar voice.
"Aha! Isn't this Lord Berkner 'Flame Two-Headed Lion'? Aren't you staying in the Redstone Fortress? I heard that you and the fat man Zaf teamed up to humiliate the Miranda's two-character nobles!" The person who spoke was not someone else, but the very familiar old mercenary Hammerta.
"Hey! Although we are familiar with Uncle Hanmota, I still want to sue you for slander if you say this! What does it mean to join forces with that fat man Zhafu? I was cheated by that bastard! I took a golden key as a gift, but I was poisoned and chased by Miranda's idiot, and almost died in the Redstone Fortress!" Chen Kai knew after seeing Hanmota that he didn't have to find someone else, especially when he shouted loudly, the mercenaries who had originally surrounded him instantly were half less than half of the time he shouted loudly.
Although Miranda and Count Zaf competed for the commander of the Redstone Fortress, the middleman in this incident, who led Viscount Miranda from the old nests that were defending each other, was a giant over three meters tall. According to some gossip news, Viscount Miranda admired Chen Kai's muscles and wanted to capture him as a male lover, and Baron Zaf, who also admired Chen Kai's muscles, was finally killed by Baron Zaf.
Of course, as long as you are clear-headed, you will know that this is not the truth, but many indigenous poor people like to listen to some gossip news about aristocratics. However, as the protagonist of gossip news, Chen Kai's face was not good after hearing these gossip news mixed with his news from Hammerta, while Xu Fei, who was sitting next to him, held back his smile and kept twitching his mouth.
"Just laugh if you want to! There is no need to endure it so hard!" Although Chen Kai spoke very relaxedly, Xu Fei knew that he was absolutely angry, even if Chen Kaixin turned into the protagonist of gossip news with a big belly.
"Okay! Lord Berkner has finished doing homework, and now we are talking about business! This is the reward that the Count asked me to give you. He knew that you were not short of money and did not give you a bonus, but I think you would definitely like this thing!" Hanmerta slowly took out a letter covered with a golden seal from his pocket and handed it to Chen Kai, but when Chen Kai wanted to open the letter, he stopped the other party.
"By the way! This letter is not what you read, but it is to be handed over to the border between the Rohan Empire and the Hansting Empire, that is, the Earl of Anfros of Kazmodo, the border fortress of your Hansting Empire!" Seeing that Chen Kai wanted to open the letter and read the content, Hammota immediately stopped the other party. If the seal was destroyed, the letter would be useless. Chen Kai looked at Hammota with suspicious eyes, and he didn't understand what the other party meant.
"Believe me! Just hand the letter to the Earl of Anfros and you will get what you want!" Hammerta didn't look like a rough and reckless man at this time, but instead looked like a smiling old fox.
"We'll talk about business after the main business is over! Lord Berkner, you're not good, have we agreed? If you want to find a mercenary group, you must find my mercenary group. How can you not keep your promise? Is my mercenary group not strong enough? You must know that I have six eighth-level knights, more than thirty seventh-level swordsmen, five professional scouts and jungle archers. Even in Kamelas' mercenary group, their strength is first-class even in Kamelas' mercenary group!" At the last moment, Chen Kai felt that the other party was like an old fox, but at this time Chen Kai was definitely so merciless and so greedy.
Even if the old mercenary Hanmota was not inclined to discuss the cost of mercenaries, in his words, Chen Kai and the others had made a lot of good things in Andosen. These things were sold at Hans Court for only half of the price, which was enough for Chen Kai and the others to become a wealthy man worth tens of millions of gold coins. Why should such a wealthy person make things difficult for him as an old friend for such a little mercenary fee? But Chen Kai and the others disagree, because in their opinion, the protection fee of 200,000 gold coins is not a little mercenary fee. This can hire a 200-level B-level mercenary group to go back and forth between Kamelas and Hans Court's border fortress Kazmodo.
However, in the end, Hammota's words made Chen Kai and the others agree to the other party's request, "You must know that you have offended the noble senate forces of the Rohan Empire now! Apart from me, there are probably few people in Kamelas who are willing to take over your business!"
"Damn it! This is definitely a blackmail! ** naked blackmail!" Although he was holding the mercenary agreement that had just been signed, Xu Fei was still very angry because he did not take any advantage in the negotiations with Hammerta. Not to mention reducing the employment price, he didn't even say a single gold coin.
"Okay! Xiaofei, don't care about this, we have earned enough anyway! I think this should be because the system is limiting us to obtain more gold coins. After all, it cannot allow a player to easily earn millions of gold coins. Only with efforts will you gain! And what Hammota said is not wrong. In Kamelas, it is probably only he who will accept our mission!" Chen Kai's eyes glanced at the Mercenary Guild. He found that several mercenaries were looking at him with greedy eyes, but the moment they touched Chen Kai's gaze, they immediately turned their heads and pretended that nothing had happened.
"By the way, did you say where we should gather?" Xu Fei looked at Hanmota who was walking away with their magic crystal coins, and suddenly remembered something, which was where they had not agreed to meet with each other. At that moment, Xu Fei and Chen Kai looked at each other, and then quickly ran towards Hanmota.
After Chen Kai and the others left the Mercenary Association, several mercenaries stood up from their seats almost at the same time and left the Mercenary Association. The old man who recorded the mission looked at the mercenary who walked out of the Mercenary Association and murmured in an extremely low voice: "A bunch of idiots who are eager to die!"
When Chen Kai and his team planned to leave Kamelas, it was already seven days after they arrived at Kamelas, which was the fourth day after they signed the agreement with Hamelas. Because during this period, the group of people were contacting the goods, in Xu Fei's words, he wanted to earn back the employment fee of Hamelas. As a result, when Hamelas brought the mercenary group to the road to Kamelas to the center of the Rohan Empire, they found that the originally expected carriage six or seven people turned into six or seven carriages, and the carriage was filled with exquisite cashmere fabric wrapped in waterproof canvas and various spices and spell materials from the Lost Forest. All items were worth at least three million gold coins, and this did not include Chen Kai and his team's backpack space, space rings in their hands, and the things in the space package they carried with them.
"Lord Berkner! This time I really understand why Count Zaff said that you are not short of money at all!! I asked for an increase in the commission. The value of the goods exposed alone is no longer something that can be dealt with by 200,000 yuan. And I have to find someone else. I will feel that this trip will not only pay for money, but also pay for my life!" Hanmota's face was melancholy. To be honest, he originally thought that it was enough to bring fifty people with him, but when he counted the value of Chen Kai's goods, he found that his staff was not enough at all. Don't look at the fact that fifty people were already considered the pinnacle of a small mercenary group in the mercenary guild, and
Moreover, their strength is also very strong, but the three million goods will not attract small thieves. If they are really robbed, they will be at least a large robber group of hundreds of people. In the end, Chen Kai and the others had to pay 200,000 gold coins again, and Hanmota quickly attracted more than 50 trustworthy players in the Mercenary Association. Although these guys looked crooked, as if they were crooked, Hanmota knew the character of these guys from the records of the Mercenary Association. Even though some of them were much worse than Chen Kai and the others, at least they did not have any records of committing crimes or robbing employers' property.
Although most mercenaries generally do not rob the employer's finances if they want to do it for a long time, it is not said that these mercenaries do not secretly and easily escape some small objects from the employer. Most of the time the employer will not care about these slight losses, but for Hammota, such a person is definitely not trustworthy. Although this is just an ordinary task for most mercenaries, Hammota, who knows the situation, knows that he must not have any stains in this task. It doesn't matter if the price is higher because it is a normal profit. But if there is a phenomenon of custody and robbery during the mission, perhaps when the mission is over, it is time for him to lose his good impression of Count Zav. A person who cannot even control his subordinates will not be trusted by an earl. Moreover, in Hammota's eyes, Count Zav is no longer just an earl. If nothing unexpected happens, the chubby former baron has the qualification to compete for the highest throne of the Rohan Empire.
Even though Chen Kai and Baron Zafu's relationship was not as close as he believed, this time it was Baron Zafu who asked him to protect the other party, so he would not allow the mission to fail anyway. Of course, it is necessary to make some mercenary fees that he should earn, after all, those mercenaries who follow him rely on money to make a living.
By the time everything was ready to go on the road, it was almost ten o'clock in the morning. At the same time, Chen Kai had to hire two more four-wheeled carriages to transport the mercenaries and various debris. However, one or two carriages in the entire team were super large, which was the six-carriage carriage that Chen Kai specially found for himself. This carriage was larger than the four-carriage carriage, because Chen Kai had a huge size and could only ride in this carriage. The most important thing is that the carriage was very strong. Its axle was made of all metal, and the wheels also had metal spokes with one side of the weight of more than one ton, which could carry three tons of carriages. Generally speaking, this carriage was a special carriage specializing in transporting heavy armor in the army, but the boss of the carriage house bought an abandoned carriage from the army and renovated it and turned into a new carriage in the carriage house and rented it by Chen Kai.
However, Chen Kai's weight and the carriage still made the carriage creak. If it weren't for the carriage boss cursing and swearing that there would be no problem with the carriage. Even if it was twice as much weight, it could be safely driven. Chen Kai would ask the other party to change to a new carriage. As the carriage wheels slowly started, Chen Kai and the others began a long journey from Kamelas to Kazmodo. It might have been a month since Chen Kai and the others arrived at Kazmodo according to the speed of the carriage. This does not mean that there is no faster way to move. In fact, if there is not so much carriage, Chen Kai and the others can use the teleportation array to quickly transmit, but if they carry a large amount of goods, the transport fee will be very high. According to Chen Kai and his friends' current items in the backpack and space ring, the transmission fee alone will be millions, which does not include all kinds of miscellaneous expenses.
Although the player only costs 100 gold coins to buy a teleportation reel, it is a teleportation within a fixed range. If you want to teleport from Cameras to Kazmodo, the distance between at least a thousand kilometers will double the transmission fee for every 100 kilometers. Moreover, the more goods, the higher the price. Finally, Chen Kai converted it and found that the gold coins to be transferred to Kazmodo's pocket were not enough. He had to choose the current method that seems inconvenient but absolutely economical and practical. However, although the carriage transports goods at a low price, the speed is not fast enough. It is only suitable for large-scale freight. If it is just a small batch of goods with high value, the practical teleportation array will undoubtedly be much faster.
Although all the horses pulled by the carriage were slow horses, they were all the best endurance horses in the entire Cameras carriage. They could run for at least three or four hours in a row without being tired. During this period, Chen Kai and the others were able to travel dozens of kilometers. Because they left Cameras late, the lunch for the group was resolved on the carriage or on the horse. They did not get off the horse and rested. They continued to rush until the sky began to slowly darken, and they arrived at the first supply point of the trip, located in the town of Cameras on the eastern border of Cameras.
In Kadogrera, Chen Kai and the others met many players, of course, more were indigenous adventurers and merchants. After all, players in the western part of the Rohan Empire are now concentrated around the Redstone Fortress, and more are moving towards Andosen with the idea of picking up bargains. However, Chen Kai knew that most of the players who went to Andosen had gone back without going back or returned to death. Although there was no news to prove that Anma Lagas, a member of the dark council, was alive, but there was no evidence to prove that the other party was dead. If Chen Kai chose, he would rather believe that the other party was alive and hid in Andosen safely, so in Chen Kai's eyes, he would definitely seek death.
However, there are many players in the game who go to die for money. After all, even if they drop the level, they can be practiced immediately. Moreover, even if players above level five die, they only clear their current accumulated experience. As long as they are not upgraded before death, the cumulative experience in the experience slot is not less than one percent, the level will not be reduced, so many players will be willing to exchange for some money to spend money.
Cardogrera is an important intersection leading to the central part of the Rohan Empire. Here you can choose to head north to Kadosmo, east to Kadosmo, or south to Dominico. There is a third-level main city in either direction, which is an important site on the golden trade route of the Rohan Empire. However, because of this, the robbers around Cardogrera are also the largest number of Rohan Empire. There are at least seventy or eighty thieves moving on the road to other cities in the east of the town.
The bandits and hundreds of bandits. This is not the gangsters who acted as robbers at zero time and the Mokui Goblins. Of course, there are also the Cadogrera wild boars who rushed out from time to time to harm the surrounding farmland. The huge army of nearly a thousand wild boars is the most unique picture of the entire Cameras leader. Fortunately, they usually only harm the farmland, and basically only seek cornfields, and will not cause trouble for humans. After the mayor of Cadogrera organized people to plant a cornfield on the edge of the forest every year, this situation improved slightly.
As for why you should plant a corn field and let the wild boars harm you instead of sending people to destroy them, the reason is very simple. No mercenary group is willing to fight three purgatory wild boars with a level of more than 9 and eighteen abyss demon pigs with a level of more than 8. Although these two species are not pure demon species with bloodlines, they will not attract the encirclement of the temple, but for ordinary mercenaries such monsters are already powerful enough. Because the cost of destroying the wild boars is too high, even if some crops are damaged every year, the mayor of Cardogrela still has no brains and sends people to trouble those wild boars. One day, he simply planted some corn on a whim and organized personnel to watch the wild boars harm the corn field. Unexpectedly, this whim became the Cadorella Festival - Wild Boar Festival.
When Chen Kai and his friends arrived in Cardogrera it was the annual Wild Boar Festival. In the past, you could see many children wearing hats decorated with wild boars on their heads and begging for corn from house to house. When they collected all the corn, they would send it to the large kitchen set up in the center of the town to cook, and then share it with each family to pray that the wild boars would not go to their fields to find food in the next year. Of course, the remaining corn would be gathered.
Come, put it in the wild field outside the town for the wild boars to eat by themselves, and this is also the best part of the Wild Boar Festival. Many young people will deliberately ambush around the corn plate to wait for the wild boars to arrive and then rush up to catch their hair. As a result, over the past few decades, the wild boars around Cadogrera have become no longer afraid of people, and even when the young men rushed towards them, the wild boars did not avoid the situation of letting the young men pluck their hair and eating corn on their own.
After that time, the Wild Boar Festival program changed again. The residents of Cardogrera would call a wild boar in the wild and bring the other into the town on this day of the year. The wild boars could freely eat corn in the town until they could not eat it. Although this would cause a certain amount of food to be eaten by the wild boars, at least the time when wild boars were injured in the past ten years, and no beasts came out of the forest to attack the villages and towns. Hunters once saw the leader of the wild boar herd, the three largest purgatory wild boars and a flaming tiger fight that wanted to rush out of the forest to attack the villages, so now the residents of Cardogrera love wild boars very much, because they are definitely wild boars to protect them.
Now, for Chen Kai and the others, after entering the town, what they saw were the wild boars with their families swaying on the streets of the town. He even saw a few children riding on a huge wild boar and running along the street.
"Let's go! Don't look at it. You will have the chance to see the wild boar celebration of Cardogrera in the evening. It is said that the purgatory wild boar has evolved into a golden purgatory wild boar this year. I guess if nothing unexpected happens, you can see it today! That guy can fight against the existence of the titled Sword Saint, but I have a good temper. I pulled its mane when I was young!" Hanmota sat next to Chen Kai. As soon as he stretched out his hand, he hooked two huge cooked corn from the arms of the child beside him. He threw a silver coin to the other party as a tip and stuffed the hot corn in his hand into Chen Kai's hand.
"Eat it! Cardogrera's corn is the best food in the western part of the empire, it is absolutely fragrant and glutinous! Look, that guy is what I call the Golden Purgatory Wild Boar. Everyone here calls it Momoto! Beside him are Ziana and Emmara, both of which are his wives!" Hammota just stuffed the corn into Chen Kai's arms and saw a golden wild boar with a length of more than five meters appeared in his sight. Putting such a huge monster in other places, such a huge monster would definitely scare away a large group of people, but in Cardogrera, people here have regarded the wild boar as their family and friends, and even some wild boars simply lived in the houses of residents. They love to clean and run to the stream of Cardogrera to take a bath every day.
When Chen Kai and his friends walked into the town, they saw many wild boars rolling in the river, and there were children playing with them around them. The scene was very weird but absolutely not scary. In fact, Chen Kai found that the wild boars wandering in this town were definitely not ferocious, but they were very chubby and cute, especially the few pigs looked very silly, and they were very interesting when they called.
Of course, for Chen Kai, his purpose is not to see the scenery of Cardo Grera, but to have a good rest and pay for the expenses of taking care of the horse before preparing for what he needs tomorrow. Although most of the matters are under the responsibility of Hammerta, the mercenary leader, Chen Kai still has to be responsible for paying the money.
~.-~
Chapter completed!