This brave man is a scumbag

Chapter 9 Beware of XX Playing XX Cards

In the bustling wooden house, Linghai, dressed in black leather armor, sat on a clean chair, drinking fruit wine popular among female adventurers.With a pretty face, she raised her cheeks slightly, her sea blue eyes secretly scanned her surroundings, her brain was running fast and memorizing everything around her.

This place is the brave union of the city-state of Victoria, and it is also the first professional union on the entire continent that was established by the original brave and carved runes and inscriptions.This trade union is not under the jurisdiction of the City Lord's Mansion, and even the "Twelve Quarters" organization co-founded by the Twelve Churches cannot directly govern the Brave Union, at most it has a little right to propose.

Therefore, this professional union located on the outskirts of the Twilight Forest once became the freest and most "clean" union on the entire continent.As a freelancer, if you want to join the Brave Union, you only need to meet two conditions:
First, do not believe in religion.

Second, in the magic circle of "Instinct Mapping", maintain yourself and not be swallowed by negative emotions.

The former is easy to understand, and the latter is also easy to understand.The so-called instinctive mapping is to project your most recent behaviors to let others know whether you are bloodthirsty or have special hobbies.

XP doesn't count.

And just yesterday, Linghai, who had received the blessing of Sombra, chose to join the Brave Union.After a series of screenings, she passed.

It's just that the price is a bit high.

Fortunately, XP does not count.

Thinking of this, Linghai sighed softly, put the wooden cup on the stand, left three copper coins behind, got up and left, and walked under a huge screen.She raised her head and began to browse the contents carefully.

"Hunting and killing silver-level horror beasts (early stage), the location is in the east of Twilight Forest..."

When he saw a line of text marked "important", Linghai's pupils shrank slightly.A silver-level horror beast is very dangerous. Although the panel shows that it only has the strength of the early silver level, in fact, such a fear beast is completely comparable to the general late-silver or even gold-level extraordinary. become compost.

but……

Looking at the very attractive bounty and rewards, Linghai pursed his lower lip, and fell into a dilemma for a while.But at this moment, she suddenly saw another task in her peripheral vision.

"Explore the Goblin tribe that has changed and collect information. The reward depends on the detail of the information."

Goblins...

Linghai loosened the gray scarf a little. The goblin tribe itself is very weak, and Linghai is already a late-stage silver player with a "high" dyeing degree. As long as she wants, she can check the layout of the goblin toilets Clearly.After seeing this task, Linghai no longer hesitated.She went directly to the front desk and took on the two tasks of hunting the beasts and exploring the goblin tribe.

Kill two birds with one stone.

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"We have money to reward adventurers!!!"

At this time, in the largest thatched hut in the goblin tribe, Elma, dressed in blue priestly clothes, looked at the long mission statement in her hand, and said in a trembling voice: "You don't want to default on the debt of the brave union, do you?" ? Don’t you know that even the king dare not owe money to the Brave Union?”

"Ok?"

At this time, his legs were resting on the table presumptuously, and Zhou Li raised his head while flipping through the book dedicated to the brave in his hand, and then continued to read the book in his hand, without raising his head, he said: "What are you worried about? You are not I didn't read my plan, this is a business where money makes money, and I don't want my children to be tied to wolves."

"But we have no money! We have no capital at all!"

Elma's voice was a little crying, she pointed to the statement in her hand, and her anxiety broke through the sky: "With our current level of security, any silver-level shadow transcendent will be able to investigate us clearly. When they go back and directly submit information to the trade union, and directly collect payment from you, what will they do then?!"

The more she talked, the more frightened she became. Elma sat on the chair, holding her head and muttering to herself without grace: "I think about it, I think about it, I still have three jewels bestowed by the gods, but there are gods on them that can't Sell. Two scrolls...can't be activated without the blood of the gods, wait a minute, I still have a platinum hair card left by my father, if I sell this..."

After finishing the calculation, Elma stretched out her hands and slumped on the table, "It's not enough..."

"Ugh…"

Zhou Li glanced at Elma and sighed helplessly.Obviously she was determined to go her own way, but this silly girl immediately wanted to sell the things her father left her to pay off her debts.Thinking of this, Zhou Li couldn't help but look at Elma with some soft colors in his eyes.

That's why in the previous life, Erma hadn't improved in her abilities for 20 years, but she still brought Erma by her side and treated her extremely equally.

Twenty years have passed, and Zhou Li still remembers that in the last time and space, he will be involved in a war in the near future.Blood and explosions filled his nerves, and every swing of the sword was a scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere.In hundreds of battles, large and small, Zhou Li was on the verge of death dozens of times.And every time, the one who escaped from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood with him on his back was the one who knew only tricks and was always ridiculed by Zhou Li for only escaping.

Zhou Li once asked Elma why she went to him again and again to save him during that war.He also remembered that in a battle called a meat grinder, it was Erma who rescued himself from a collapsing fortress. When he woke up again, Erma's flawless face was carved with a knife A hideous scar, and the thumb of her right hand was finally replaced with an iron joint.

You know, just before crossing, Zhou Li, whose mind was affected by the seeds of gods, once hated Elma, who had low combat effectiveness, and would often ridicule her.But in the end, Elma still carried the stubborn Zhou Li from the brink of death, taking one step at a time, and staggeringly dragged him back to the city-state.

"Ugh?"

Elma in that time and space was caught off guard when she heard Zhou Li's question, and then she thought about it, and replied as a matter of course:

"It was I who summoned you into this world, of course I am responsible to you."

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Ok?
Zhou Li, who broke away from the memory, was startled for a moment, a thought flashed through his mind just now, but it was fleeting.Now he couldn't catch the tail of that idea just now, and then he could only give up.

"I ask you, what is the way the unions rate intelligence missions?"

Zhou Li came back to his senses and asked Elma a question: "How can the trade union be sure that that person's information is valuable to me?"

"Hmm..." Elma thought for a while, then she raised her head and replied with some uncertainty: "Is it an equivalent magic circle?"

"Yes."

Zhou Li nodded and continued: "After the executor chooses to submit the information, I need to go to the Brave Union and enter the equivalent magic circle. In the magic circle, the executor and I will hand over the known information to the law Formation, the degree of coincidence between the two is assessed by the law circle itself. The higher the degree of coincidence, the less reward the executor will receive, this is the way of assessing the value of intelligence."

"Wait a minute, don't you mean????"

For some reason, Elma understood Zhou Li's meaning in an instant, and she said to Zhou Li in a panic: "Aren't you taking advantage of a loophole? Can this work?"

As for the information about the current Goblin tribe, who knows as much as Zhou Li?If it goes on according to what Zhou Li said, the person who accepts this task will not be able to exchange a penny in his life, because no one knows goblins better than Zhou Li.

"Of course not."

Zhou Li smiled, and then he put down the exclusive for the brave, and said to Elma and Heishu who was frantically taking notes: "You have to remember that it is the most stupid act to cut Philippine vegetables directly from the roots. Because you cut this One crop, there is only one crop. But if you are willing to invest in watering, sunlight and fertilizers, then you will reap more Philippine vegetables. Come on, black tree, what is this called?"

Facing the boss's test, Hei Shu closed his notebook with a clang, stood up straight and replied loudly: "Sustainable fishing in the dry lake!"

"Yep."

Zhou Li snapped his fingers, and then he looked at the moonlight outside, a smile appeared on his face involuntarily.He waved his hand, and Hei Shu left the thatched hut with great interest, and then returned home and began to sum up his daily experience.At this moment, there were only Zhou Li and Elma left in the room.

"Do you remember the twelve cards of the gods?"

Zhou Li's question stunned Elma for a moment, then she poked her own head with her fingers, and said helplessly, "Although I sometimes can't keep up with your thoughts, I still have brains."

"The gods cannot directly interfere with the world, so they established a religion to popularize grace. At the same time, in order to strengthen the power of the world, they deprived themselves of half of their godhead and power and created twelve cards, corresponding to December in the world. This time we In addition to fighting the demon king who is about to wake up, another task is to collect all the twelve cards and let the gods reappear in the world."

"I found the first card."

Zhou Li interrupted Elma's narration, and Elma immediately opened her eyes wide, looking at Zhou Li in disbelief.

"The sacred card forged by the God of Life who controls plants and creatures - the Crowned Sacred Tree." Zhou Li faced Elma and said word by word: "I found it."

"Twilight Forest is a divine card."

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In another time and space, the Twilight Forest was not Zhou Li's first stop in search of the divine card, but his last stop.

At the same time, this is also his last battle before defeating the Demon King.

The reason is simple, the gods guide the brave, the breath of the abyss in the twilight forest is on the verge of breaking through, all the dream beasts are polluted, and all intelligent creatures in the forest have become slaves of the abyss.Therefore, the brave who uphold justice and glory need to crusade against the Twilight Forest, and the way to crusade is...

Kill all living creatures.

In the end, Zhou Li succeeded.

Goblins, slimes, twilight elves, twisted dryads, white spirit tigers, millennium butterflies... a total of 210 three kinds of creatures were completely extinct, all dream beasts were torn apart in reality, and even a team broke into the forest inexplicably , Adventurers who have been polluted are no exception.

All perish.

When Zhou Li killed the last creature, the Twilight Forest was reduced to ashes in the darkness, and a card representing new life and hope rose from the ashes and fell into Zhou Li's hands.

"This is nature's reward for your righteous deed!"

God said so.

(End of this chapter)