Xinghe doesn't enter dreams!
Luoyu remembered this guy.
When they were in the Lost Valley, they drove Yunting together. He was the driver and he was the gunner.
Unfortunately, this guy was not as lucky as himself. He was killed on the spot. Although he was also killed later, he got a "Xiaoyu" because of a disaster. Now think about it, if I was the gunner at that time, I guess Xiaoyu would have to be called "Xiaoxing" or "Xiaohe".
"Xiaoyu" is better.
Both of them are solo players. Although they have added friends, they have basically never formed a team. He never thought that he would meet this guy seven or eight hundred kilometers away from Dawn City.
This fate is simply!
"Do the task! What else can you do?"
Looking at the dumbfounded Luoyu, Xinghe smiled, patted the LD-47 hanging on his chest, and then said.
"The battle is over, and I should seriously level up... Damn, this game is too real, and I still haven't figured it out after several months."
If it were any other game, level 10 would be the level of a novice village, and you would get there by following the main line.
However, in Wasteland OL, although level 10 is also the level of a novice village, it takes a month or two to get there.
He has never played a game that is so difficult to level up!
The most outrageous thing is that although the experience value and level are quantified, the growth curve is not smooth. Sometimes you get experience for killing, and sometimes you don't.
Although there is a strategy written by Brother Fang on the official website, it is also very vague, and only mentions in general that "experience gain is positively correlated with risk."
In other words, only by constantly committing suicide can you level up quickly, but if you really die, the experience accumulated before the last save will be reset to zero.
How to balance benefits, risks, and losses at the same time, and upgrade with the highest efficiency, there is a lot of knowledge involved, and many T0 and T1 players are still studying it.
Of course, it is also possible to play without considering these.
Xinghe is like this.
Although he had the idea of leveling up, he was too lazy to think so much, so he simply took a mission to go out and see how big this game world is.
"This game is really annoying in inexplicable places," Luo Yu nodded in agreement, and asked casually, "... By the way, what is your mission?"
"There is a merchant named Zhou Nan in Shuguang City. He claimed that his parents and brothers were detained by a farmer near Hope Town, and asked me to bring a sum of money to redeem them."
This mission...
It sounds familiar.
Looking at Luo Yu who was stunned for some reason, Xinghe smiled and squeezed his eyebrows and said.
"Guess how much the mission reward is?"
Luo Yu swallowed his saliva.
"How much?"
Saving one person would cost 100,000 yuan, saving a family... wouldn't it be over a million?!
As if his guess was confirmed.
Xinghe had a smug smile on his face, and slowly raised a finger.
"Ten thousand!"
"..."
The air was quiet for a while.
The atmosphere was subtly cold.
Looking at Luoyu who had no reaction, the expression on Xinghe's face gradually changed from smug to embarrassed, and he coughed lightly.
"Uh... Are you scared? Wild NPCs do give more than official tasks, but relatively speaking, there are no contribution points and regional reputation, which is actually not exaggerated."
"How should I put it..." Looking at Brother Xinghe who was trying to save face in the wrong direction, Luoyu subtly moved his eyes away, "Pat your head?"
"What the hell do you want to pat your head?!"
Looking at the emotional Xinghe, Luoyu hesitated, but in the end he couldn't bear to watch him being exploited by the NPC, so he said it in a euphemistic way.
"Actually... I also received a similar mission as yours, to go to Songguomu Farm to rescue a person."
"One person?"
"Yeah," Luo Yu nodded slowly, "Probably, I was paid 100,000."
"100,000?!"
Xinghe's eyes widened, staring at him in disbelief, as if saying "It must be fake".
However, the truth is always so cruel.
Luo Yu suddenly thought of something and said, "Ah".
"Did you accept the mission directly in the tavern? Not through the mercenary guild?"
Xinghe: "Yes, but you can't blame me. I was on the road when I heard about the establishment of a mercenary guild on the official website."
So that's it.
Luo Yu's face showed a look of realization.
This solved the case.
"Tsk, no wonder... You didn't accept the mission through VM. Not only is the income low, but you don't even have mercenary professional experience."
"Fuck!" Xinghe almost vomited blood and was broken on the spot.
Good guy.
He thought that this task gave a lot of money and he had picked up a treasure, but he didn't expect to become a pure injustice.
Looking at Brother Xinghe who had begun to doubt his life, Luoyu couldn't help but blame himself. Shouldn't he tell him the truth?
"Maybe the difficulty is different? There are more than 50,000 people in that pine wood farm. I heard that it is a closed settlement and it is not so easy to enter... Moreover, the employer didn't mention the ransom. It is likely that he wants me to take the person away directly."
When he said this, Luoyu suddenly thought of something.
"Oh, right, the ransom... Did the NPC give you the ransom?"
Xinghe nodded with tears in his eyes.
"Well, five thousand dinars... one thousand per person, a total of five."
There is no fixed exchange rate between dinars and silver coins. It is just said that in the west of Zhongzhou, one thousand dinars can buy an adult slave with ordinary qualifications.
Human trafficking is prohibited within the territory of the alliance. Dinars are usually only used as rewards for mercenaries or bounty hunters, and have no actual purchasing power.
These five thousand dinars are both the ransom for redeeming the target and the advance deposit. He needs to bring the person back to Dawn City safely before he can get the full bounty from the employer.
Luo Yu scratched his head.
"I have an idea that can reduce your losses."
Xinghe asked immediately.
"What idea?"
Luo Yu: "You just snatch the person away... then the ransom will be yours, right?"
The mercenary guild's mission cannot be handled this way, but private work should not be allowed.
Although there is no official exchange channel for dinars and silver coins, some silver coins should still be exchanged on the black market.
Xinghe was stunned.
"Ah... this... is this okay?!"
Luo Yu nodded.
"I think it should be fine. After all, the target is the slave owner, and the goal is the slaves whose freedom is restricted. According to the terms in the Player's Handbook, active violence for the purpose of removing personal restrictions is not punishable. In other words, the slave owner's manor and slave-hunting team are not protected by the rules of the shelter."
Not only the slave owner.
There are also some NPC forces that are contrary to the values of the Alliance or are classified as chaotic evil. They are also not protected.
For example, the Torch Church, the Enlightenment Society, etc.
Although the Alliance does not recommend players to mess up other people's settlements.
After all, an unrecognized order is actually an order, and physically eliminating one or two people will not solve any problems, but may create new troubles.
However, the phrase "not punishable" awakened Xinghe.
His eyes became hot at a speed visible to the naked eye, staring at Luo Yu with a sharp gaze, and grabbed his arm.
"Good brother! Give me a hand!"
"Help you... How can I help you?" Luo Yu stared blankly at Xinghe with fiery eyes. Suddenly, he thought of something and was startled. "Damn, you didn't ask me to help you rob people? I have a mission to do myself, or you can help you when I come back."
Not being punished by the shelter does not mean that he will not be hated by the locals. He doesn't want to deal with the bounty on his head while doing the mission.
Seeing that this brother misunderstood his meaning, Xinghe hurriedly explained with a smile.
"Oh, the help I said is not the kind you understand."
"Then, what is that?"
"You just reminded me," Xinghe smiled sinisterly, pulled Luo Yu aside, and continued slowly, "Since the rights of slave owners are not protected by the Player's Handbook, then... it's okay to fool them, right?"
"Fool?" Luo Yu looked at him suspiciously, "How do you want to fool them."
There are many smart people in this wasteland.
Besides, this guy had just been cheated by an NPC, so it was hard for him to be optimistic that this guy could still fool others.
Xinghe continued with a smile.
"That's easy. Your exoskeleton is called K-10 'Iron Wall', right?"
"Uh, yes..."
"I remember that this equipment is only supplied to the Boulder City Militia and not sold to the outside world... Is that right?"
"That's not quite accurate," Luo Yu corrected him, "Last month, some of the equipment in Boulder City was reselling the equipment they had, and some of it was sold to the outside world."
For example, the set he was wearing and the ones Xiao Yu and the others behind him were all bought from Elder Fang at a discount of 10% at that time.
Otherwise, according to the current internal purchase price of 15,000 silver coins, he couldn't afford it.
"I know," Xinghe continued slowly after looking at the group of Xiaoyu behind Luoyu, "One thing really doesn't mean anything... but what if it's a group?"
"Just tell me... what do you want to do?"
Looking at Luoyu, whose eyes were gradually alert, Xinghe, who was showing his true colors, said with a smile.
"It's very simple. If that Zhou... is my employer, and he has become a guest of honor of a big shot in Boulder City, or he has become a big shot himself, then the militia comes to ask for people... do you think the slave owners here dare to say no?"
"Fuck?!" Luoyu's eyes widened, "You guys... want to pretend to be a militia to cheat? Aren't you afraid of causing diplomatic disputes?"
"Don't talk nonsense, what diplomacy does a small settlement have?" Xinghe said hurriedly, "And we are saving people! You know what saving people is?"
"But--"
Seeing that Luoyu was still hesitating, Xinghe continued to speak quickly.
"Don't worry, brother. We are hundreds of kilometers away from the Stone City. It is impossible to be exposed! Just consider it as a favor I owe you... By the way, don't you need to rescue people later? If this method works, we can do it again at the Pinewood Farm! This time you help me, and next time I will help you! We can cover each other, and we can get all the hostages out without spending a penny of ransom!"
Hiss...
It seems to make sense?
Luo Yu thought about it and felt that this idea might be a good one!
The Alliance had just taken over the Stone City, and the slave owners around were trembling when they saw it. If I go to the slave owners around in the name of the Stone City Militia to ask for a few hostages, wouldn't it be easy?
Do it when you think of it.
Luo Yu no longer hesitated, and took Xiao Yu and the fruiting entities and Xinghe to the south gate of Hope Town immediately.
Although there were roadblocks at the gate of the town, they only blocked goods and cars, and did not restrict people from entering and leaving. At most, they would advise that it was dangerous outside and not to go out for no reason.
As for ruthless people like Luo Yu who brought a group of fierce thugs, the guards standing at the gate did not dare to persuade them, and could only watch them leave silently.
The Hope Farm in the mission was just south of Hope Town.
A three-story artillery tower stood like a castle in the middle of a farmland. The concrete wall enclosed a large area of land, and there was only a muddy path leading to the town next door.
Most of the people living in the town were free people, and the row of shacks outside the artillery tower were probably where the serfs lived.
The landlord named Kong Lingkai lived inside the concrete wall, and it was said that he was also a well-known figure in the town.
Looking at the Maxim I and the "cavalry lance" mounted on the concrete wall, it is not difficult to guess that this guy made a lot of money by doing business with the alliance.
The two players exchanged information along the way, and while rehearsing the lines, they also used VM to translate some sentences that might be used.
It doesn't matter if the pronunciation is not standard, the residents of the shelter of the alliance speak like this, and unclear pronunciation makes them more credible.
A group of twelve people arrived at the edge of the artillery tower.
A fully armed guard stood on the four-meter-high gate tower and waited in full battle formation, as if he had seen them from a long distance.
Xinghe was about to explain his purpose when the guard on the gate tower shouted.
"Are you from the Alliance?"
Huh?
Are the people here quite sensible?
Seeing that the other party recognized them directly, Xinghe was delighted in his heart, but he did not show it on his face, and shouted with his chin raised.
"Good that you recognize them! Let your master come out to see me!"
According to the script he imagined, after learning that they were members of the Alliance, the guard should have run back to report the news, and then the owner here would politely invite them in and entertain them.
However, what the two players did not expect was that the guard's face was not afraid at all, but sneered with his nose.
"Hehe, I recognize you more than that? You are all here for the fifth time this month! You are so free to go to such a small farm!"
Hearing this, Xinghe and Luoyu were stunned on the spot.
"I Zhuo?!"
"People from the Alliance have been here?!"
It's impossible...
They go to the official website every day.
If the Alliance had been here, they would definitely be the first to know.
Seeing the two people's expressions of not understanding the situation, the guard curled his lips in disdain.
"Before, someone claimed to be from the Alliance to show us his power, asking us to either hand over all the slaves or get out of here. We almost believed it! Our master said that if someone else claims to be from the Alliance and comes to beg for food, let their manager come in person!"
Luo Yu and Xinghe looked at each other and communicated with confused eyes.
'Definitely not a player...'
'No need to be so sure, I can guess with my ass that it's probably a wastelander from outside! '
'Oh my god...'
'These dogs are too cunning! '
Doing bad things under the banner of the Alliance!
Is this what a human would do? !
Glancing at the translation on the VM, Xinghe gritted his teeth and shouted loudly to the gatehouse with a hint of threat in his voice.
"Are you not going to release them?"
The guard said with a smile.
"If you want them, you can pay for them!"
Twelve people are not worth his fear.
Even if they are wearing exoskeletons, what's the problem?
In the turret behind him, there are at least five Maxim machine guns, and there are fields and no shelters around. If they really fight, they can shoot these twelve people into sieves in a minute.
Seeing that the guard was not afraid at all, Xinghe grumbled in his heart and gritted his teeth and said.
"I have to see if the person is still alive first."
The guard on the wall looked at him twice more, and he was more fearless.
"Oh? There is already a target... Tell me, what's the name of that person?"
Xinghe took out a piece of paper, glanced at it, and shouted.
"Zhou Daniu!"
This name can be said to be so rustic.
However, the guard on the wall was stunned after hearing it, and then his face changed.
"Did Zhou Nan ask you to come?!"
Xinghe was stunned for a moment, not knowing why he reacted so strongly. Luoyu, who was beside him, hurriedly helped him and said in a low voice.
"Your employer is probably a businessman supported by the farmer here!"
"I know..."
"You know and still say that?!"
"What else?" Xinghe looked at him in confusion, "If I don't tell you who I want to redeem, how can I redeem the person?"
Luoyu said with a smile.
"Fuck... Do you really not understand or are you pretending not to understand? You want a hostage! Do you understand hostages? Do you expect to redeem someone with that little money?"
Either scare the person into handing him over voluntarily, or snatch him back directly. It is absolutely not possible to redeem him with the ransom.
That's a rope around the neck.
Even if he can be redeemed, it is definitely not something that can be done by spending a few thousand dinars. Depending on the size of the deal, it will cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of silver coins.
He was also confused by this guy's reaction.
Logically speaking, even if this brother didn't know the situation in Jinchuan Province, his employer should know something, right?
There was probably some misunderstanding.
For example, when he accepted the task, he asked "How can I redeem someone without money?", and the employer paid him these thousands of dinars as additional reward and deposit for the task.
This time Xinghe finally came to his senses.
"Fuck!"
Seeing the guard hurriedly turn around and go back to report the news, Xinghe suddenly became anxious, and hurriedly translated the words on the VM and shouted at the wall.
"Wait, friend, I don't know who Zhou Nan you are talking about... We are from the Giant Stone City Militia, and our superior asked us to come and ask for someone!"
It seems too late to say this now.
"Let your employer come by himself!" A loud voice interrupted him, and a man wearing an exoskeleton stood on the wall.
Unlike the manager, although he wrapped himself tightly with high-end equipment, he didn't look like a very capable fighter.
The pale old face made his beard look shiny black, and his black eyes looked like a mouse.
Behind him stood a dozen fully armed soldiers, half of the weapons in their hands were from Dawn City and half from Giant Stone City, which were excellent.
It was completely different from the artillery tower under his feet.
"Tsk tsk, his wings have grown hard, and he wants to fly away from me... It's not good to forget his roots. If it weren't for me, he would never have a chance to leave here in his life."
Looking at Xinghe with a stunned expression, the man smiled grimly and continued.
"Please tell your employer that I hate this kind of cleverness. If he uses this kind of clumsy means to test my bottom line again, I will chop off the hands of my parents and his eldest brother and send them to him."
"Of course, I am a very easy-going person. If you want to redeem your family, you can pay me back with interest! Let me think... 10 million Cr should be enough or 100 million dinars."
Luo Yu looked at Xinghe in confusion.
"Is your employer so rich?"
Xinghe shook his head in confusion.
"No... probably."
The guy seemed to be a merchant, doing a lot of business, but judging from his clothes, he didn't look very rich.
10 million silver coins.
That's a huge sum of money.
Looking at the silent group of people under the gatehouse, Kong Lingkai's eyes turned slightly and suddenly spoke.
"You are also employed by someone, right? How much did he give you?"
"One...two thousand silver coins."
Luo Yu glanced at Xinghe in surprise, only to see that the latter was confident and confident, and seemed to have grown up a little.
The man standing on the gatehouse smiled happily when he heard the number.
"According to the contract between me and him, he should give me the dividends for the second half of last year before March this year... I think it should be about one million silver coins."
Xinghe's eyes widened after reading the translation on the VM.
"So much?!"
"Of course, that man is very rich, and why do you think he can make so much? It's because I gave him the capital to do business and gave him cheap food. Logically, all his property belongs to me. He wants to take off the rope around his neck with ten thousand silver coins. This guy is too naive."
Kong Lingkai smiled and continued.
"Let's make a deal. You help me kidnap that guy from the Alliance and bring him here. I'll give you 200,000 silver coins!"
Hearing this number, the two were shocked.
Wow!
200,000!
There is a hidden option for this task? !
When Xinghe thought about how much RMB 200,000 silver coins could be exchanged for, he felt his hands shaking, but soon calmed down.
Kidnapping NPCs in the Alliance...
I'm afraid that even if I make money, I won't have a chance to spend it.
"Sorry, I can't promise you." Looking at the man on the gate, Xinghe said in a non-joking tone.
Hearing this, Luoyu almost sprayed.
"I'm so stupid! Are you stupid? Just refuse like that?"
Looking at the emotional Luoyu, Xinghe asked back with a strange look on his face.
"What else? Saving people does not violate the Player's Handbook, but the nature of kidnapping changes."
Seeing that this guy hasn't figured it out, Luoyu said with regret.
"No... Can't you just pretend to agree first, then win this guy's trust and take the opportunity to snatch the person back."
Xinghe was stunned for a moment, and was completely shocked.
"Fuck?!"
Can it be like this?
Looking at this honest guy, Luo Yu couldn't help but cover his face, ashamed that he felt that he had grown up for a moment.
"Is this your first time playing this kind of high-freedom RPG?"
But he didn't seem to have the right to laugh at him.
When he first played this game, he was also very honest, and believed whatever the NPC said.
Looking at the two people arguing, the man standing on the gate tower showed a hint of disappointment on his face, but it was only a little bit.
He shrugged and said indifferently.
"Then there's nothing to talk about."
Xinghe quickly raised his right hand.
"Wait a minute, I changed my mind--"
Before he finished speaking, the sound of bells suddenly rang from the town not far behind him, followed by several dense gunshots and bursts of rough roars.
Everyone present was attracted by the gunshots.
Especially Kong Lingkai, who was standing on the gate tower, heard the urgent bells, his face suddenly changed, and he vaguely realized something in his heart.
At this moment, a panicked servant ran behind him, gasping for breath.
"Sir! There was a call from the town--"
Before he could catch his breath, Kong Lingkai reached out and grabbed him, asking anxiously.
"What happened?"
"Mutants!" The servant's face was pale, and in the winter he was so anxious that his head was covered with sweat as big as soybeans. He said tremblingly, "Mutants, they are killing us!"