The clerk wearing the tiger mask didn't speak much, and he spoke quickly, as if he wanted to end the introduction in the shortest possible time, so as not to be remembered for the characteristics of the voice.
"When the task is confirmed, come and pick it up with the badge?" Jiang Baimian asked with a smile.
She had a deep impression of the customs of the Red Stone Collection and was not annoyed by being neglected.
"Yes." The clerk wearing the tiger mask nodded heavily.
Just as Jiang Baimian and the others took a few steps behind them and looked at the big screen together, Gaudí, who was wearing a cloth mask, asked:
"Can I go?"
"Yes." Jiang Baimian responded in a relaxed tone.
Gaudí thought for a while and emphasized a few words:
"After you leave the Red Stone Collection, you can't tell anyone the location of the underground entrance, you can only give a general range.
"Everyone who can enter here must have found a townsman from Hongshiji in the ruins outside, and he will lead the way."
Shang Jianyao asked curiously:
"What if no one leads the way and you find this place again?"
"The guards will stop you, interrogate you where you know the location of the underground entrance, and then blacklist the people and forces who leaked information to you." Gaudí seemed to have said this many times, without stumbling at all, "If it's really just luck, I will let you go back on your own and find a townsman from Redstone Market again."
"It's really a ritual." Shang Jianyao praised.
Jiang Baimian agrees with this, because she does not see that this kind of behavior can reduce external dangers.
This is closer to a religious ritual.
At this point, she also understood why Shang Jianyao's life and death brother, Feilin, the leader of the "Sangzi" business group, would not give specific location information.
Regarding Shang Jianyao's admiration, Gaudí and Youyin nodded proudly and said:
"This can please the 'aunt' who is in charge of the year."
He admitted that this was a ritual.
At this time, Shang Jianyao suddenly asked a question:
"If every townsman has Vierre's level of hiding, how can outsiders find him, wouldn't there be no new hunters and smugglers to reach your Red Stone Collection?
"In this way, the vitality of the Red Stone Set will slowly weaken and eventually be abandoned."
I remember the name quite clearly...... I suspect you want to play hide and seek with that Vierbi...... Jiang Baimian couldn't help but scold.
Gaudí was silent for a few seconds, as if he hadn't thought about this question at all.
After a while, he said:
"Not everyone can reach Vierre's level.
"And, moreover, if everyone forgets the Red Stone Collection, it means that we are hiding well and will be rewarded by 'Yougu'.
"We have opened up farmland in the surrounding hidden places, and there are many fish in the lake, and a momentary forgetfulness will not make us starve to death."
Jiang Baimian laughed:
"But you will no longer have oil and other industrial products to replenish, do you want to go back to the farming era of the old world?
"People who have enjoyed the afterglow of civilization cannot adapt."
"After that, 'Yougu' will lead us into a new world, where there is no longer danger, so there is no need to be so vigilant." Gaudí responded very firmly.
Jiang Baimian couldn't convince Gaudí, and he didn't want to persuade him, so he waved his hand and said:
"You can leave."
"Thank you." Gaudí, wearing a cloth mask, looked at them and exited the hunter guild step by step.
When the distance between the two sides became large enough, he turned around abruptly and ran into the safe passage on the side.
"What do you think?" Jiang Baimian retracted his gaze and asked.
Shang Jianyao immediately said:
"It's too rigid.
"He only cares about his head and not his belly, he only thinks about guarding against us, and does not consider whether there is danger behind him.
"If I had known, I would have thrown a banana peel behind him, and he would definitely step on it, stab it and fall down, and remember this lesson from now on."
Jiang Baimian laughed dumbly:
"First of all, you have to have a banana."
In this season, with the climate of the Nuhu area, it is impossible for this fruit to exist.
She didn't hit Shang Jianyao because of this, but nodded approvingly:
"Although Gaudí probably had observed the environment and was not worried about stepping on things he shouldn't step on while walking backwards, this direction of thinking is quite valuable."
Saying that, she looked at Long Yuehong:
"What do you think?"
Long Yuehong replied deliberately:
"Their concept sounds quite reasonable at first glance, but the more you understand it, the more extreme it becomes."
"Anything good will develop in a bad direction when it becomes extreme." Jiang Baimian nodded, "This is one of the reasons why many religions on the gray soil can be spread.
After commenting on Long Yuehong's thoughts, Jiang Baimian looked at Bai Chen again and said with a smile:
"Tell me about it too."
"I think their philosophy is a bit similar to some of the old world philosophies you told us, hmm...... Small country and widows?" Bai Chen said thoughtfully.
After the run-in of Weed City, on the way to Hongshiji, the three members of the "Old Tune Team" were much more relaxed than before, and Jiang Baimian took the opportunity to tell the team members some knowledge of the old world.
"It's true, but it's also extreme." Jiang Baimian smiled and looked around, "Remember, a single human being is very small, and it is called civilization when they cooperate and combine with each other."
Snapping, Shang Jianyao's applause came as scheduled.
Jiang Baimian didn't even bother to look at him:
"Okay, find out what tasks are worth taking."
She knew very well that unless Shang Jianyao was asked to make "friends", they would not be able to buy military exoskeleton devices with half of the materials they exchanged for Xu Liyan's bulletproof off-road, even if they were old models.
Therefore, her plan is to collect more hard currency at Redstone Collection to connect with guild missions.
As the team leader, she racked her brains in order to improve the strength and survivability of each team member.
As a result, the "Old Tune Group" was divided into two waves:
Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao stayed in place, watching the tasks scrolled on the big screen, while Bai Chen and Long Yuehong went to the surrounding tables to check the corresponding paper records.
"Actually, we can let your good brother Xu Liyan support one, didn't he say that after this incident, he will equip his guards and city defense army with a few more units?" Jiang Baimian said deliberately.
This time, the military exoskeleton device was lost on South Street and was almost useless.
The only thing to be thankful for is that those wild wanderers won't use it.
Shang Jianyao shook his head:
"Brother settles the score."
"I'm relieved about this." Jiang Baimian smiled.
"Although I am harder than yours, my moral bottom line is not low." Shang Jianyao replied.
"Huh? What did you say?" Jiang Baimian touched his ears and didn't want to continue the topic.
She knew that when Shang Jianyao was referring to the riots in Wild Grass City, she failed to make up her mind quickly to kill the man who killed the owner of the "time-honored noodle shop" in order not to starve to death.
Shang Jianyao glanced at Jiang Baimian's left arm and stopped at the right time.
As he spoke, Jiang Baimian found a very interesting task:
"Investigation of the incidence of heart disease in Hongshiji and surrounding areas."
"The reward is: be responsible for basic security during the mission, and then give enough food for half a month, choose any type, keep it at your own risk, hehe, this is not rigorous, when you meet someone like you who can eat, this cost may be doubled!" Jiang Baimian read the content of the task and said funny.
Shang Jianyao responded seriously:
"I'm only worried that he won't be able to take out the food I choose."
"Let me see who released ...... 'Fire Eye'? Is this all a code name to publish tasks?" Jiang Baimian has a further understanding of the style of the Red Stone Collection.
Of course, this must have been reviewed by the guild, and its reputation is still guaranteed.
At this moment, Long Yuehong took a record and walked back with Bai Chen.
"Team leader, this task is not bad." He handed the paper in his hand to Jiang Baimian.
Jiang Baimian took it with a slight curiosity and took a quick look:
"Mission: Help Hvig retrieve the stolen arms.
"Description: The owner of 'Gunfire', Hevig, had a batch of arms that could arm hundreds of people, and it was robbed in the lakeside area, allegedly with nearly ten robbers.
"Reward: one-fifth of that batch of arms.
"Mission level: C, 100 credit points.
"Tip: There is a certain danger, please try to team up.
"Mission personnel requirements: official hunters or above.
"Publisher: Hevig."
"One-fifth of that batch of arms? This is not a small number." Jiang Baimian's eyes lit up slightly.
"And the number of people is quite appropriate." Long Yuehong added happily.
He felt that with the strength of his group, it would not be a problem to play three, or even one to four.
Shang Jianyao immediately "analyzed" and said:
"Maybe during the robbery, there were still a hundred people ambushed around."
Long Yuehong was no longer as before, his face instantly frustrated, and he asked amusedly:
"How can there be a hundred people ambushing, but only seven or eight people will do it?"
At least forty or fifty are normal to conform to the normal logic of human beings!
"What if their leader is a mentally ill person like me?" Shang Jianyao is justified.
Jiang Baimian interrupted him and said thoughtfully:
"In the old world, there was a saying that described this situation, what is it called, eh, one core is difficult, eight cores are onlookers.
"Besides, there will be no fewer people escorting that batch of arms, and that group of robbers is either very powerful, or there must be more than seven or eight."
Without waiting for Long Yuehong to speak, she smiled and said:
"However, you can also take over, it's not that you don't do reconnaissance, if there are really too many people on the opposite side, we can invite other ruin hunter teams to participate."
She wasn't worried about not being able to pick it up, because Bai Chen was an "intermediate hunter".
After some exchanges, they took on the task in the name of the "Money White Squad", got a photo of Hervig, and learned the location of his store - the third floor of the underground building, near the C1 safe passage.
There is no doubt that there are no guns or people in this shop.
"It seems that we have to find the publisher of this task first." Jiang Baimian raised his right hand helplessly and glanced at the photo.
It was a chubby man, between thirty and forty years old, with dark green eyes and a shaved head.
"There's no one here." Shang Jianyao immediately gave a conclusion.
Jiang Baimian glanced at him and smiled slightly:
"Then why are you still here and don't look for it next to you?"
"We have to deal with it according to the process and cannot completely rely on capabilities." Shang Jianyao replied with a clear eye.
"Not bad." Jiang Baimian praised from the bottom of his heart.
As they spoke, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong had already dispersed, one looked up at the ventilation duct, and the other carefully opened the cabinet.
"Something is wrong there." A few seconds later, Bai Chen pointed up and said.
At the exit fence of the ventilation duct, a little black clothing squeezed out.
Jiang Baimian's expression suddenly became solemn.
Since Shang Jianyao did not sense human consciousness, and she did not find human electrical signals, it shows one thing:
The man hiding inside the ventilation duct is dead.
It's been a while since I died.
(End of this chapter)