Chapter 884 Not every player is a high-level player
Chapter 884 Not every player is a high-level player.
In the northern suburbs of Yongye Port, on the windward side that is hit by wind and sand, there is an alley called Black Water Lane.
This is the slum of Yongye Port, where most of the residents are marginalized groups other than the Willant people.
Among them are natives from the Great Desert, expelled people from the Legion’s homeland, natives of the New World, and even the Borneo people.
The complex racial composition and sharp contradictions have created a mixed bag here.
Although local gang members dare not fight openly under the eyes of the Willant people, vendettas and fights often occur, just like the West Sail Port after the Southern Legion took over. The
Willant people don’t care about the life and death of these scraps. They are just cheap and easy-to-use labor. Although they struggle on the line of life and death between poverty and food and clothing every year, they have never been seen to die.
They are like weeds, always coming here for various reasons, and after the spring breeze blows, they grow new shoots one after another.
So it is no wonder that the Southern Legion is dissatisfied with the civil service group in Triumph City.
Triumph City’s exploitation is too inefficient, even weak.
If the idiots in Triumph City could build a “mutually harmful” society at the bottom like them, letting flies and rats fight each other for a mouthful of shit, and spit on each other for who is more smelly, the initial riot in Xifan Port would never have happened.
For example, Evernight Port.
There will be no laborers dying of exhaustion on the docks of the Willant people.
Before they fall down from exhaustion, they will be buried quietly in a place where no one can see them with their remorse and laughter.
For example, Blackwater Alley.
After all, they are not Willant people, and it is impossible for them to be buried in the same place as the losers of the Willant people.
Walking in this “garbage disposal plant”, several players whispered quietly, exchanging some words that might be beaten if understood by the locals.
Medical Miracle: “…In fact, the Weyland people are not extreme enough. They actually allowed these sugarcane residues to rot at their doorsteps instead of burying them in the Great Desert.”
Angry Fatty Liver: “No way, if we drive people to the Great Desert, won’t they become plunderers?”
Pickled Fish: “You can also be the mother of goblins.”
Medical Miracle: “Tsk, pay attention, I said bury. You think you are treating me to a meal, but you are so polite to send me to the door.”
Angry Fatty Liver: “Are you crazy?! Who will work for you then?”
Pickled Fish: “+1, you are a bit too extreme.”
Listening to the conversation of the three brain-dead people behind him, the Taran Raider was full of black lines.
Why does he feel like he has recruited a group of expensive things again?
Thinking about it carefully, it seems to have been the same before. His desert legion has never recruited normal people.
No wonder he can’t rush to T0!
No matter how you think about it, it’s the fault of these members!
”Shut up, you guys, don’t you think your foreign language is not eye-catching enough here?”
Hearing their boss speak, the three players finally quieted down for a while.
It’s not because they have already submitted to this boss.
The main reason is that they are worried that Caibi will mess up the mission and blame themselves.
Taran breathed a sigh of relief and turned his attention back to the streets on both sides of the alley.
In order to prevent his team from looking like a picnic, he deliberately only brought three confidants he had just met. As for the other thirty new members, he arranged for them to get a room in the hotel.
After entering the Great Desert, they will be useful. As
for now, too many people will get in the way and may be targeted by the Willant people.
Finding clues is not easy.
The houses on Blackwater Street are all built randomly. Not to mention the house numbers, some houses even take a while to find where the doors are.
The address on the note is also written in an extremely abstract way, and few people can even understand it when asking for directions.
But this is not difficult for him.
Taran’s eyes searched along the street for a while, and soon his eyes lit up.
”Horseshoe Tavern…three doors from the right, go in the alley and turn right, I found it! It’s here, follow me!”
Seeing his excited look, the Medical Miracle who was following him couldn’t help but remind him.
”Boss…we have passed by that horseshoe-shaped sign three times.”
The pickled fish beside him also nodded, with a positive expression on his face.
”+1, I remember it too.”
Taran’s face turned red and he glared at him.
”Why didn’t you tell me earlier!”
Medical Miracle suddenly looked innocent.
”I asked you what you were looking for for a long time, and you told me to stop asking and follow you. I thought you knew where to go…you should have told me earlier if you were lost.”
Taran blushed and couldn’t speak.
The pickled fish next to him looked at the unreliable leader suspiciously, and said doubtfully.
”…Brother, can you do it?”
Taran said angrily.
”…Shut up!”
The three players exchanged glances with each other, and the suspicion in their eyes became stronger and stronger.
Maybe…
this task is really not that important.
Otherwise, it is really hard to explain why the task was given to this idiot…
The four people at this moment did not know that at the same time they turned into the alley, several Willant soldiers appeared in the place they had passed before.
Although the Southern Legion and the Alliance did not declare war on each other, both sides had already fought each other in the province of Borneo. At this time, the Alliance suddenly appeared in the territory of the Southern Legion. How could they not be targeted?
Even with a visa from Triumph City, it would not work!
As early as when these blue rats got off the dock, the garrison stationed near the dock had already targeted them and caught a group of people at the door of the hotel. The
garrison planned to interrogate the group of blue coats suspected of being spies separately, but when counting the number of people, they found that the number of people they caught did not match the number of people who got off the ship. The commander of the garrison
immediately ordered people to chase them after they found that there were fish that slipped through the net.
In this way, the group of guards, led by a centurion, chased them all the way from the dock to Blackwater Street in the north.
They were about to catch up, but after turning a few corners, they found that the person was gone.
”Damn it, I lost him!”
The decapitated captain, who led the team, had a gloomy face and cursed at the stinking street.
The several Weilant guards beside him all looked as if they were facing a great enemy, and their eyes looked around the dark alleys and the closed doors and windows.
Although Blackwater Alley is also considered the territory of Evernight Port, ordinary Weilant people would never come here.
Following the decapitated captain, a guard swallowed his saliva and asked nervously.
”Boss… what should we do now?”
The decapitated captain narrowed his eyes and looked around the two sides of the street for a while.
There is indeed something wrong with this group of blue gophers. If
there is no problem, why would they run away?
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated and immediately gave an order.
”These guys can’t run far, they must still be around Blackwater Street… Contact the local gangs and issue a reward!”
The guard’s face became serious and he immediately accepted the order.
”Yes!”
…
Getting lost was just a small episode during the journey and did not affect the Desert Corps’ mission.
Following the small note provided by the [Key NPC], Taran “quickly” found the next key NPC in the task chain – the mercenary named Nok.
Everything went smoothly, just like the ancestral toilet of the “Cup Club”.
Looking at the man leaning against the door of the small house with stubble on his chin, [Taran Raider] vividly confessed what he came here for and who he was looking for, focusing on sincerity.
After listening to his narration, the NPC “Nok” standing at the door touched his unshaven chin and said thoughtfully.
”Martin… This name sounds familiar to me, but I can’t remember it for a while. Why don’t you come back in a few days?”
Taran was overjoyed when he heard this, but he didn’t show any expression on his face. He calmly took out two twenty-denomination dinars.
”Maybe this can help you remember something.”
Looking at the gold coins in his hand, the unshaven man suddenly showed a surprised expression on his face, and then accepted it with a smile.
”Martin! I remember, I know this guy! I drank with him yesterday, at the…what’s the name of the tavern at the intersection.”
”Horseshoe Tavern, right?”
Admiring the jaw-dropping face, Taran smiled slightly and threw two heavy gold coins into his hand, patting his greasy shoulders.
”…This is just a deposit. If you can bring him to me, the balance will be a hundred times this money.”
Hearing the generous promise made by the leader, the three brothers following him took a breath of cold air.
4,000 dinars!
Even if converted into silver coins at the best exchange rate, it would cost 800 silver coins!
This amount of money is a small number for those big guys, but it is still a lot for newcomers like them.
It can be seen that their leader has also spent a lot of money for this mission!
The man named Nok really showed a greedy expression on his face and put the gold coins in his arms.
”No problem, but… after I find him, how can I contact you?”
Taran smiled faintly and said slowly.
”I’ve been staying at the Oak Barrel Hotel in the port area these days. The eye-catching beer barrel is the sign. You can find the waiter in the hotel and tell him my name, Taran, and he will naturally take you to see me.”
His brothers have booked the entire hotel, and there are all his people there.
Although there are many newbies in his army, he is not a newbie, but his presence in the server is relatively low. After
participating in so many expansion packs and getting so much wool from A Guang, the investment of only 4,000 dinars is still very easy for him.
As long as the task can be completed, everything is worth it.
After explaining the things that need to be paid attention to, Taran turned around and left with his three younger brothers.
Seeing that the leader looked like he had “done it”, Suan Caiyu asked with some concern.
”Boss, is it over?”
Taran smiled faintly, with a look of confidence on his face.
”It’s too early to finish the story, but it’s almost time.”
Since the guy named Martin is at the port, everything will be much easier.
The local gangs may be better at finding people than the police.
The next thing to do is to wait patiently for the flowers to bloom.
Fatty Liver, who had been silent, frowned and whispered thoughtfully.
”But I always feel that it’s too simple… That Martin is just a coincidence in Evernight Port?”
”Indeed…” Medical Miracle touched his chin, “If this task is really that simple, then anyone can do it.”
Seeing that this bunch of scumbags looked down on him, Taran rolled his eyes.
”This is called money ability, you know nothing.”
Angry fatty liver: “…”
Pickled fish: “Boss is awesome!”
Watching the backs disappear at the alley, the man named Nok turned back to the house and gently closed the rusty iron door.
Just at the moment he closed the door, the bright smile disappeared from his face, and the two soybean-sized eyeballs emitted a fierce light.
A bald man in a vest came out of the next room with a rusty saw in his hand. He looked at “Nock” who had returned to the house and asked.
”Boss, who’s outside?”
The man had a centipede-like scar on his collar, which looked very hideous.
If there were any locals here, they would be scared to death by the scar.
His name is York, nicknamed “Doctor”, but he doesn’t usually treat patients. Instead, he leads a group of Hyena Gang members to collect debts on Blackwater Street.
As for the man whom he respectfully calls the boss, he is naturally not called “Nock”, but Morse, the leader of the Hyena Gang.
The gang members on Blackwater Street call him “Severed Finger”.
The reason for this name is mainly because almost half of the gamblers on the entire Blackwater Street have left their fingers on him.
”I don’t know. They are a group of outsiders, and they seem to be from far away… Their dinars smell like the sea.”
Morse put his nose on the two gold coins and took a deep breath. His eyes narrowed slightly, and a playful smile gradually appeared on the corners of his mouth.
”They called me Nok, but they didn’t recognize my face… I guess they don’t actually know the owner of this room.”
York, who had a scar on his chest, had a fierce look in his eyes, and said with a grin.
”But maybe they can pay back the money for that dead dog.”
”Pay back the money?” Morse smiled faintly and said slowly, “York, open your mind a little. Are you satisfied with just paying back the money?”
4,000 dinars?
Such a generous offer at the beginning, if he doesn’t ask them for 40,000, it would be unworthy of his reputation as a “broken finger”!
With a greedy light flashing in his eyes, Morse paused for a moment and said with a smile.
”My intuition tells me that we can get more from those rich men…more and more.”
The richest people in this port are the merchants who go out to sea.
After all, in their eyes, the most lucrative docks are for those merchants.
The key person is a guy named Martin, and they seem to have mentioned an organization called the Enlightenment Society.
Morse doesn’t care what the organization is, he only cares about how much money he can get.
As he spoke, he passed by York and walked into the next room.
I saw a skinny man sitting in the corner.
His face was dark blue, his eye sockets were deep, his forehead was protruding, and he was dying like a wild dog.
This guy was the real Nok.
It was said that this unlucky guy was once a “powerful” figure in the market. He worked as a sailor under a wealthy man in Triumph City. The settlements he had visited could be written into a thick book.
Unfortunately, he was unlucky. After changing his career to become a mercenary, he did not give up the gambling habit he had acquired when he was a sailor. He also got involved in the “snake grass” smuggled from Snake State to Evernight Port, and owed a debt of nearly 20,000 dinars.
For ordinary people, this is undoubtedly a huge sum of money.
The Hyena Gang spent 1,000 dinars to acquire this bad debt, so naturally they could not be satisfied with only 40 dinars back.
They never do business at a loss.
Walking to Nok’s side and squatting down, Morse took the dagger from the younger brother next to him and gently patted Nok’s trembling face with the back of the knife.
”Do you know a guy named Martin?”
The terrified eyes were like seeing a demon, and Knox shook his head tremblingly.
”No, no… I don’t recognize him – ahhh!!!”
A heart-wrenching scream rang out in the room, and a dagger was inserted into his thigh.
The blade was completely gone in.
Seeing that heart-wrenching scream gradually turned into breathless sobs, Morse smiled at the dead dog and reached out to cover his mouth gently.
”Shh… Don’t scream so miserably, I avoided your artery.”
When he said this, his tone suddenly changed again.
”But next time it may not be the same… You’d better think it over before answering my questions.”
As he said this, he placed his calloused palm on the handle of the dagger, squinting his eyes and moving closer.
”Enlightenment, Martin, do you remember anything when you hear these two words?”
Knok shrank back in fear, his mouth opening and closing, his head pressed against the wall, his eyes fixed on the dagger stuck in his leg, like a pig in a slaughterhouse.
His consciousness was on the verge of fainting, and he didn’t even have the strength to beg for mercy.
If it were before, he would never have been forced to the end of his rope by a few villains.
However, he is no longer the same person he was back then, and gambling and drugs have hollowed out his body.
Morse was getting impatient, and he slightly exerted force on the dagger he held, ready to teach this dead dog a lesson.
At this moment, a younger brother walked in from outside and said in a low voice.
”Boss, the Weilant people have issued a bounty, saying that several spies from the alliance have sneaked into Blackwater Street… 1,000 dinars for the dead, and 2,000 for the alive.”
Morse’s eyes narrowed into a slit.
”Where did the bounty… come from?”
The younger brother answered immediately.
”The garrison of the port!”
York looked at Morse and said with some excitement.
”…Do you want to do this job?”
The work of the Willant people is generally more reliable. They say that they will pay as much as they are paid, and they have never defaulted on their debts.
Moreover, the people of the garrison are also worthy of their flattery. It is best to find a guard they know to do a favor.
Morse did not answer. He silently calculated for a while in his heart, frowned and looked at the younger brother.
”Besides the news of the bounty? Is there any other news? For example… about the characteristics of those spies, and the location of the last sighting.”
The younger brother was stunned for a moment, and then thought hard for a while before answering.
”… The people of the garrison did not say it clearly, but just asked us to pay attention to unfamiliar faces.”
When he said this, his heart moved, and he shouted as if he remembered something.
”Oh, by the way, I heard that guard say that they seemed to have lost the person at an intersection not far from here, and he asked us to look for more in this area.”
York, who was standing aside, muttered in a low voice.
”The intersection nearby… the intersection of the main road? Next to the Horseshoe Tavern.”
Horseshoe Tavern!
Hearing this name, Morse first showed a surprised expression on his face, and then his eyes narrowed quickly.
At this time, the younger brother nodded quickly and continued.
”Yes, yes, right next to the tavern… and, they seem to have caught a group of them, at the door of a hotel called Oak Barrel in the port area.”
”Can you finish your words at once, don’t squeeze them like toothpaste.” York slapped the younger brother’s head hard and cursed.
The younger brother had a frightened expression on his face and shrank his neck tremblingly.
”That’s all…”
”It turned out to be them…”
Listening to Morse’s mumbling, York’s face showed a surprised expression.
”Boss… do you know them?”
”Rather than saying I know, it’s better to say that they were just at our door.” Morse had a weird expression on his face. Is
n’t this too coincidental?
York was also stunned for a moment, then threw away the saw in his hand in ecstasy.
”I’ll go after them now!”
Seeing York hurriedly preparing to go out, Morse pulled out the dagger stuck in Knock’s thigh and signaled the younger brother next to him to bandage him.
”You don’t know what he looks like, I’ll go with you.”
The Enlightenment Society, Martin…even the Alliance’s spies were involved.
The 1,000 dinars were worth it.
Morse’s shoulders shook slightly, and a happy smile appeared on his face.
Ordinary people see risks, but he sees golden dinars.
Things are getting more and more interesting…
Nok, who was dying and leaning against the wall, looked at the madman in front of him desperately.
He always felt that he was involved in something incredible…
…
At the same time when all the gang members in Blackwater Alley were getting restless, on the roof of an abandoned factory building not far from Nok’s house, two men were holding binoculars and looking in the direction of Blackwater Alley.
Like the guy named [Taran Raider], the two were old players who got the closed beta qualification in the early beta test. They have been playing the game for more than two years and their levels are all above level 30.
As the best players who just want to get by, although they are not as good as those T1 and T2 big guys who stir up the whole wasteland world, they have seen all kinds of tricks to cut leeks.
They have seen both the routines of players and NPCs.
That is why they didn’t pay any attention to the guy’s deception at all, and left the team as soon as they landed.
Sure enough, not long after they left, something happened to the rookies.
The group of big noses and Brother Fang beat their brains out in the Borneo Province, but these guys actually swaggered through the customs with the visas issued by Triumph City and even went to the hotel to get a room.
This is not taking the “realism” of this game seriously at all!
However, from the perspective of the overall situation, this is not a bad thing.
Those newbies at least landed on the shore with the electronic passports issued by the Sticky Community. In other words, their legal identities are recognized by Triumph City.
The Southern Legion could not find any evidence of spies from them. As for the forged evidence, they could only deceive their own people at most.
But for the Alliance, this matter could be used as a bargaining chip in the diplomatic game.
Anyway, the one detained was a “clone”, so it was not a risk to the lives of citizens.
Even if he was accidentally “heroically martyred”, he would be done in three days.
In addition, Taran did not know that he was not the only one who received the task.
The two old players standing on the roof can now be sure that as long as they are above level 30, they can trigger the task of investigating the Enlightenment Society.
And there are only three players above level 30 on the entire ship.
”That idiot made a lot of noise. The whole Blackwater Alley was restless.”
[Desert Eagle] laughed and put down the telescope in his hand.
The teammate standing next to him looked at him and asked.
”Are you just going to leave him alone?”
Desert Eagle shrugged and said disapprovingly.
”There’s no need to worry about it. Even if he’s caught, what can he do? Besides, it’s not a bad thing to let him make some noise. Going to the Great Desert to look for the Enlightenment Society is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It’s better to startle the enemy and let them know that we are looking for them. Maybe they will take the initiative to look for us.”
”At that time, we might be able to find some clues.”
In fact, the mission briefing made it clear that the Alliance’s Guards Corps was not sure that the Enlightenment Society was involved in the war in the Borneo Province. They just heard that a researcher who was a resident of the shelter appeared on the Southern Legion’s side.
That guy used the technology of the Prosperous Era to develop a virus called “Death Agent”.
This is very much like something the Enlightenment Society would do.
Considering that most of the colonies of the Southern Legion are located on the edge of the Great Desert, the Alliance reasonably speculated that the Southern Legion should have reached some kind of agreement with the Enlightenment Society.
This mission has a high degree of freedom.
Any information that is confirmed to be valuable can be exchanged for contribution points and silver coins, and as the investigation deepens, it may further trigger hidden missions.
However, precisely because of this extremely high degree of freedom, the difficulty behind this mission must be very high.
Just like the mother nest of Baiyue Province, the tasks issued last year have not been completed this year.
After listening to this idiot’s strategy, [Junichiro Shoka] couldn’t help but give a thumbs up.
”Awesome… This wave of selling teammates is really awesome.” He
didn’t mean to be sarcastic.
He really thought it was awesome.
However, the idiot was not satisfied with his statement and refuted with a click of the tongue.
”What do you mean by selling teammates? This is called stirring up trouble and throwing stones to test the water. Learn from this!”
Strictly speaking, this group of individual players are all stones thrown by the administrator.
And it’s the kind that takes the bait willingly.
As for the idiot named Taran, he was the stone thrown by him.
If that guy is caught, the Enlightenment may take the initiative to find him.
Xiaojiang was impressed when he heard it.
”If you say so, then it is.”
(End of this chapter)
