Doomsday Mage Summons the Undead.

Chapter 264 Rules
At midnight, in a dilapidated building in the small town, this is the seat of the mercenary union.

This is a place where countless strivers gather. They chase money and glory, abandon ordinary lives, and choose to fight with swords and swords.

Even at midnight, there are still some mercenaries wearing weapons and staying behind their respective corner tables, silently waiting for the arrival of a mission.

Of course, there are also some people who can't stand loneliness and will fight wantonly because of task conflicts, assignment conflicts and other big or small issues.

In this regard, the staff of the mercenary union did not say anything.

This kind of thing is common, as long as the winner can clean up after it's over and take away the loser's body.

Outside the heavy door of the mercenary union.

In the night flooded by heavy rain.

A figure staggered over.

The drizzle fell on Cheng Xiao's shoulders, accompanied by a hint of coolness.

The ragged clothes were soaked and looked like they were struggling to withstand the rain.

The headquarters of the mercenary union loomed in front of his sight. Ignoring the blood slowly dripping from his chest, he stepped into the heavy door at a faster pace.

After entering the hall, Cheng Xiao immediately felt a strange atmosphere.

Most of the mercenaries stopped what they were doing and turned to look at him.

Cheng Xiao looked miserable at the moment.The scars on his body were still bleeding, and the bright red blood stained his tattered ancestral leather armor.

The once upright body now looked rickety, as if it had endured too much pain and torture.

His face was pale and tired, but there was a hint of persistence in his eyes.

Did something happen to this misfit?

"Cheng Xiao, are you here to take over the mission?"

The mercenary who had something up his sleeve shouted to Cheng Xiaoyao who was looking around for something in the hall.

The latter just nodded to him and did not make any reply.

The time Kane gave was before dawn.

Cheng Xiao must hurry up.

Soon, Cheng Xiao found the target person of his trip at the wine table in a corner.

A bearded mercenary holding an animal bone wine glass and drinking heavily.

Unlike other mercenaries, Big Beard is an official mercenary affiliated with the trade union.

To put it simply, bearded men are organized.

Others are not prepared.

Those who are organized have certain rights.

At least here in Steam Town, Big Beard is one of the few people in the mercenary union who has the intelligence to acquire it and officially gives the price on behalf of the union.

Of course, the important thing is that Big Beard has a high prestige among mercenaries and is quite an honest man.

Selling information to such a person would help Cheng Xiao reduce the drama of interception and killing for the sake of wealth.

After all, mercenaries are just horse bandits when they cover their faces, and one moment they may be mercenaries for one side to fight against the other side, and the next moment they may turn their swords around to kill the previous employer because of the high price offered by the other side.

Because of this, many people are prejudiced and hostile towards mercenaries.

Cheng Xiaosan ran over in two steps, sat down weakly in front of the bearded man, looked at the bearded man who was also looking at him curiously, and directly explained his purpose.

"Master Engel, I have important information that I want to sell you."

As soon as these words came out, before the bearded Engel could say anything, the surrounding people burst into laughter.

"Hahaha!"

"Cheng Xiao, what valuable information can someone like you bring back?"

A slender face next to Engel sneered: "I'm warning you, the mercenary union has its own verification method. If you dare to deceive and defraud money, your daughter, Mr. Alice Pug, has been in love for a long time!"

The implication is very clear, the union has its own verification method, if you dare to cheat money, I will sell your daughter to Pug!
Cheng Xiao turned his head and glanced at the slender face. He knew that this was Engel's colleague,

In order to check and balance power, generally speaking, each local mercenary union will have several leaders with the same rights.

When faced with tasks such as task release, remuneration pricing, intelligence collection, etc., several people need to vote at the same time.

Cheng Xiao couldn't afford to offend someone with a slender face.

Because as long as the other party says no, even if Big Beard is willing to acquire his information, things will become very delayed.

They even have to wait until they contact different people behind each to confirm again, and then give an answer after balancing.

This time may be very fast, or it may be very slow.

Cheng Xiao couldn't afford the gamble, so he could only lower his profile.

Seeing that the other party had given in, the slender face just snorted disdainfully, and then stopped looking at this unsociable mercenary who had repeatedly rejected his 'good intention to join the gang'.

As for Engel, after observing the injury on Cheng Xiao's chest, his drunken eyes suddenly became clear.

"What information?" Engel put down his wine glass and asked with a belch.

"Vehicle, alien vehicle." Cheng Xiao said immediately.

"Hahaha!" After hearing this, the slender face put down the wine glass and mocked with disdain: "Return the alien's vehicle?"

"fart!"

With a slender face and a look that said I've seen through everything, he stood up unsteadily, pointed at Cheng Xiao and cursed: "This is a steam town! Not Huangsha!"

"Can there be a fucking alien vehicle here?"

"want me to say"

The slender face snorted coldly, and turned his gaze to Engel: "I guess he is here to cheat money just like the mercenary last month."

"My lord, what I said is true."

Without waiting for Cheng Xiao to explain hurriedly, Engel pushed Cheng Xiao back again.

Engel stroked his beard and gave Cheng Xiao a look of reassurance. Then he looked at the slender face and smiled: "You can't lie, doesn't he have a daughter? You don't have to worry about the cost of the test. If he cheats, We, I remember that his daughter happens to be of a good age and has a good appearance and figure, so she can be sold at a good price to offset this."

"That's nice to say, you and I are on duty together today. If something goes wrong, we shouldn't have to share the testing fee equally?!"

The slender face groaned: "His daughter doesn't know that she can sell it in the Year of the Monkey, and I'm still waiting for my salary to be paid at the end of the month."

"The testing fee is mine!" Engel glanced at the injury on Cheng Xiao's chest again from the corner of his eye, while recalling information about Cheng Xiao in his mind.

A mercenary who doesn't fit in with others but does what he says.

So far, none of the employers Cheng Xiao has taken over have said anything bad about Cheng Xiao.

100% favorable rate.

This is rare among mercenaries.

Engel thought about this and said with a smile: "If it is true, you and I will achieve half the results."

"Yo?!" The disdainful expression on the slender face suddenly turned into joy: "This is what you said!"

The slender face shouted to the surrounding wine tables: "Cooper! Alex! You two have to prove it to me!"

"Don't look back and Engel doesn't admit it!"

"no problem!"

The episode ended quickly with Engel's guarantee.

Cheng Xiao was led into a small room and quickly conducted a polygraph crystal verification test.

Engel carefully took out the polygraph crystal from the safe with the self-destruction pattern.This is a white quality polygraph crystal only.

But for the mercenary union in Steam Town.

enough to use.

After Engel recited the incantation given above, the originally dim crystal soon became radiant.

The escaping light illuminated Cheng Xiao's happy eyes and the happy eyes on his slender face.

The former is because he can get two gold coins immediately to redeem Lao Tian's daughter.

The latter is because you can have a chance to achieve a performance without taking any risks.

"It's too late for you to regret it now."

Engel looked at Cheng Xiao and finally reminded: "If the crystal shows you lied later, you can't afford the consequences."

The lie detector crystal requires additional precious crystals for charging after each use, and those crystals have a quota.

Once it is wasted in vain, the price cannot be paid by the higher authorities.

"No problem, let's start!" Cheng Xiao nodded to indicate that it was no problem.

"What kind of vehicle? When and where was it discovered?" Engel asked quickly after seeing that Cheng Xiaowo had made up his mind.

"The outside is inlaid with strong armor plates, like armor."

Cheng Xiao tried hard to recall the appearance of the armored vehicle.

"There are alien weapons on the top of the vehicle. The long one should be something called a gun."

Cheng Xiao gave many descriptions of the appearance of the armored vehicles, including time, location and other information.

During this time Engel kept staring closely at the crystal ball.

So far, the crystal ball has not shown any signs of Cheng Xiao lying.

This made Engel finally put aside his last worry. After all, charging crystals is not a small sum of money.

Finally, Cheng Xiao thought about it carefully: "There are some markings on the car body. I don't know what they mean. Maybe they are signs of some kind of power? I can help you draw them."

"Here!" The slender face next to him, after observing the crystal ball and showing that everything was normal, eagerly handed Cheng Xiao a pen and paper as if he were a different person.

As Cheng Xiao scribbled on the paper, a slightly distorted image of a dragon slowly appeared on the paper.

At the same time, Engel also raised the crystal ball and asked Cheng Xiao again: "Did you see this from that vehicle?"

"Yes, there is not only this strange creature, but also others."

When Cheng Xiao told all the information about the armored vehicles he saw in the ruins, the crystal ball still showed that everything was normal.

Engel, who didn't see any movement in the crystal ball, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I didn't take any chances, I didn't have to bear the recharging costs myself, and I still got results.

Although he has to be half the same as Slender Face, half of his performance is enough for him.

"How much do you want?"

The slender face asked first, his tone full of impatience.

Cheng Xiao replied without hesitation: "Two gold coins!"

Hearing this, the slender face secretly rejoiced. This unsociable man had no intention of bargaining at all, and directly stated the price of two gold coins.

Two gold coins are too few!
According to the pricing of the mercenary union, the acquisition price of this kind of information is three gold coins!

Moreover, for some unknown reason, the City of Yellow Sand has recently increased the price of relevant information.

Especially related to alien cities, especially the price of alien armed vehicles.

The urgency of the city of yellow sand has caused the premium to reach more than 100%!

In other words, the purchase price of Cheng Xiao’s information is supposed to be six gold coins!

"Okay! Just two gold coins!" The slender face responded quickly, as if he was extremely afraid that Cheng Xiao would regret it.

"No, six!" Engel glanced at the injury on Cheng Xiao's chest, and after finishing the painting, his right hand habitually touched his back.

Engel could tell at a glance that Cheng Xiao's injury was caused by a standard steel knife.

This kind of weapon is only available to the mayor's Flower Guard in Steam Town.

And the injury is fresh.

This shows that Cheng Xiao had a certain conflict with him.

In this place, there was a conflict with the official violence agency, but he was not immediately arrested and brought to justice?

This reminded Engel of what a drunk mercenary said in the lobby earlier.

The general idea is that in the afternoon, a scene happened in the family of Lao Tian, ​​the richest man who settled in the nearby village.

The mercenary told Engel a message in his words.

Cheng Xiao followed a man in black robe.

Kane, the leader of the Flower Guard, seems to be afraid of the man in black robes and his ill will towards the Lao Tian family.

It reminds me of the recent flower road and forced tax collection by the mayor.

Engel felt that Cheng Xiao's money seemed inappropriate.

He doesn't want to lose the good life he has now just because he gets involved in trouble.

Even if it is a huge sum of three gold coins.

But Engel looked at the blood dripping from Cheng Xiao's chest and kept warning himself to suppress his greedy words: "Life is the most important thing."

Faced with Cheng Xiao's confusion and the constant winks from his colleagues' slender faces.

Engel repeated again: "This information is worth six gold coins!"

The certainty and indubitability in his tone made the slender face look at Engel with a ghostly expression.

Although the two of them usually don't deal with each other due to issues with the faction behind them, how come this Engel is acting like a fool in this matter?
They could simply report six gold coins according to the real-time price of the mercenary union.

Then if Cheng Xiao wants two coins, give him two coins!
The remaining four gold coins can be divided equally between the two of them!
The slender face suddenly said with dissatisfaction: "Engel, you"

"Don't think I don't know how you got this position! I said six gold coins!" Engel loudly pulled out the sword at his waist, and the cold light from the sword's edge went straight into his slender face.

The latter suddenly looked confused.

what's the situation? ? ?
Why are you still drawing your sword? ? ?
"Okay, okay! Six gold coins!"

Seeing the posture of Engel, who was a powerful soul, his slender face had no time to think about what was going on and quickly gave in.

A hero never suffers immediate losses. Even though he is a golden-ranked man, he can usually defeat Engel by relying on his backstage and not violating Engel's bottom line.

But in this world, strength always has the final say.

The slender face was not ready to fight Engel immediately. At this moment, he also understood that there must be something fishy about this matter. He avoided the edge for now and planned to make plans later.

However, the slender face did not give in completely.

"According to the rules, we can only pay you a [-]% deposit in advance, and the subsequent remuneration will not be given to you until we verify it on site."

Seeing that Engel had no objection, the slender face continued to face the ugly Cheng Xiao: "Six gold coins, which is a deposit of sixty silver coins."

"Can you?" Cheng Xiao pleaded.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Engel: "Rules are rules, no one can break them."

Engel slapped the unsheathed sword on the table and said no more.

(End of this chapter)