Chapter 229: Golden Bamboo Forest
After seeing off the distinguished guests in the evening, they continued to drink tea on the third floor, chatting and talking about "some" beer.
"I know this brand of beer. The sales in Province G are pretty good. I've had it a few times and it tastes pretty good." Westbrook has heard of this brand of beer.
"Since Westbrook said it's good, it must be good. I'll arrange for people to go to their production site for a real-life inspection in the next few days, and then I'll decide how to promote it." Xiaochao laughed and drank tea. , his red face could not hide his high spirits.
After Westbrook thought for a while, he continued: "Since the other party wants something from us, we can't just earn some publicity fees."
Xiaochao: "What do you mean?"
Westbrook: "General agent in the province."
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Game Day 104.
Today, the 20 days of free learning for the five-person team has ended, and the first team action will begin next.
The organizational structure of the Killing Hall is: hall leader, deputy hall leader, team leader, captain, and temporary team. The five-member fruit team they formed is a temporary team.
As a killer, their actions do not have many constraints, and can even be said to be very free, because they only need to pay a certain amount of contribution value to the Killing Hall within a fixed period of time to retain the title of killer.
But if you want something more and better, it definitely requires more effort.
The source of the contribution value is the various tasks of the Killing Hall, which are generally divided into: killing enemies, arresting criminals, obtaining special resources, detecting unknown areas, assassinating powerful demons, etc. Each team is free to choose the area of action based on its own capabilities.
However, when choosing a place of action, you must abide by a very important human prohibition. This prohibition is: "Demon cultivators will never enter the demon realm, and demon cultivators will never enter the demon realm."
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The five of them are both demon cultivators and demon cultivators. If they want to act together, they cannot go to the area occupied by the demon clan, nor can they go to the demon clan combat area. After discussion, we finally decided to go to the outermost part of the primeval forest in the Rift Valley Forest.
As the captain of the temporary team, Feng received the summons from the captain in accordance with the procedure. The captain gave him some verbal encouragement, hoping that he and his team could complete the mission and return safely.
Shortly after leaving the team leader's office, Feng suddenly received a summons message from the team leader, asking him to come to the team leader's office immediately.
After seeing this information, he felt very strange in his heart, because the team leader should only issue tasks to the team leader.
So, with doubts, he came to the team leader's office.
When the team leader saw him, he didn't beat around the bush, but asked directly: "Are all the people in your team from other worlds?"
"Yes." Feng replied honestly.
In fact, the information about people coming from other worlds has spread throughout the Kyushu Continent. It is no longer a rare thing and there is nothing to hide.
Team leader: "I know that you comers from other worlds have two artifacts, one is unlimited resurrection, and the other is instant information. But I hope you will not be too high-profile."
"I wonder what the team leader is referring to?" Feng was a little confused.
Team Leader: "Dueling Ground."
"Oh, I understand, I won't do it again." Feng understood what the other party was referring to. In fact, the battle with Nalan Minghuang that night was too fierce and his true strength had been exposed. The Killing Hall's warning to killers has always been to keep a low profile and keep their trump cards at all times.
Team leader: "It's good to know. If you don't do it next time, go ahead. I hope that when the city of killing opens again, you can all come back intact."
"Yes, farewell."
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Before setting out for action, they must make sufficient preparations, such as the necessary tools to build a temporary safe house in the wild, delicious dry food, necessary equipment, magic crystal lamps that can illuminate the cave, etc.
Of course, the most indispensable thing for a demon cultivator is a magic repellent. A magic repellent can prevent the warrior from being attacked by the spirit of the demons. The higher the grade, the higher the price. For Feng, the mist bead in his sea of consciousness was a powerful magic repellent, but in order not to arouse suspicion, he still bought two seventh-grade magic repellents.
Immediately afterwards, they came to the recruitment market together, which is where killers gather. There are player killers, ordinary NPC killers, and special NPC killers (game guides).
For their players, this is actually a place to rent temporary NPC thugs. The requirement for thugs is naturally that the higher the level, the better.
Piaomiao chose a strong man with peak strength at the eighth level to form a combination of "loli and macho".
As a long-range auxiliary magic cultivator, Human Fireworks lacked the most defensive ability, so she chose a defensive demon nun warrior as her personal bodyguard.
Lu Xiaobu chose a warrior who also used Fang Tian's painted halberd like him. If the two of them wore the same clothes, they could confuse the enemy.
Black Shark chose the long-range attack magic cultivator, and formed a close and one far attack combination with himself.
The four of them chose "goons" based on a very simple principle. They almost always chose whatever they lacked. Moreover, the training levels of these warrior goons were not low, almost all of them were above the eighth grade.
Feng went through many rounds of selections, but he still couldn't find a suitable fighter, because the one with high combat effectiveness was too expensive, and the one with low combat effectiveness was too useless. Just when he was hesitant, he saw a familiar figure.
"Sword Demon No. 1", Feng saw him again in the recruitment market. At this time, "Sword Demon No. 1" was still at the peak of the ninth level. This kind of strength would have been okay a month ago, but now it's rubbish.
Although the rental price of "Sword Demon No. 1" is very low, for current players, it is simply impossible to recruit NPCs with ninth-level combat power as thugs.
Feng didn't know how "Sword Demon No. 1" had spent these more than 20 days. He was dressed in sloppy clothes and there was no light in his eyes. Regarding this, he couldn't help but think: "Is it rare for an ordinary NPC like him to have his own story?"
I don't know whether it was due to some mistake or because of nostalgia, but Feng finally chose "Sword Demon No. 1".
When the other four people saw that their captain had actually recruited an NPC with ninth-grade combat power, they simply couldn't imagine it and they all started "soul torture" on him.
"Captain, are you so short of money?"
"Captain, why are you recruiting a burden?"
"Captain, you don't have a fever today, do you?"
"Captain, please answer their questions?"
Faced with several people's questions, Feng did not hide anything and told them stories about his relationship with "Sword Demon No. 1" and his travels together.
After hearing this, they also felt that this was a kind of fate, and it was reasonable to continue renting. It was just a short-term rental anyway, and it had nothing to do with elegance.
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After preparations were completed, the five-member Fruit Team took the aircraft and went directly to the town closest to the forest: Luojiang Town. We repaired some more at noon and arrived at the outskirts of the forest in the afternoon.
The virgin forest was divided into three areas by Zhenjiang, namely the southeast area, the northeast area, and the southern area. The southeast area and northeast area are on the human side, and the southern area is on the demon side. Their current location is in the southeast area. .
"Let's go to the Golden Bamboo Forest first." Feng opened the map and decided to go to the nearest bamboo forest to see if he could find the legendary Golden Heart Bamboo.
The golden bamboo forest is not golden, just because a kind of golden element of heaven and earth spiritual creature, golden heart bamboo, will grow here. Golden Heart Bamboo can not only be used to improve metallic weapons, but can also be used to refine metallic elixirs, and can also be used to improve a warrior's metallic internal strength.
Wherever there are spiritual beings in the world, there will naturally be guardian spirit beasts. The guardian spirit beast of Jinxinzhu is the Golden Bamboo Monster. The Golden Bamboo Monster is a metallic arthropod with a pair of sharp forelimbs. It is also a social animal and is very difficult to deal with.
Because the golden bamboo forest is very large, and the growth cycle and location of the golden heart bamboo cannot be determined, they divided the bamboo forest into five areas and then dispersed the search. Once you find Jinxinzhu, send a message immediately. If there is no trace of Jinxinzhu here, you can only come back later.
As the team leader, Feng gave himself the most dangerous position in the center of the bamboo forest. After the five people separated, everyone began to show their special abilities.
Black Shark released a little mouse. After receiving the owner's instructions, the little mouse disappeared into the bamboo forest in the blink of an eye.
Pianmiao was an alchemist. She released her two alchemy objects and walked in front of her. Then she sat on the big man's body and took a leisurely pace.
Human Fireworks is an extremely rare insect controller. She released several gold-seeking insects to scatter around, looking for traces of the Golden Heart Bamboo.
Feng, on the other hand, hid in a big tree, using Xiaojin and Xiaohuang as his eyes to explore both the sky and the ground.
Among the five, only Lu Xiaobu had no external help and could only lead his "exactly identical brothers" through the bamboo forest on his own.
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More than ten minutes later, they got good news and bad news.
The good news is that the gold-seeking insect of the human fireworks has found the location of the golden heart bamboo.
The bad news is that they discovered that another group of warriors were also looking for Golden Heart Bamboo in the golden bamboo forest. At this time, their location was in the area where Black Shark was searching.
"There are at least 50 people in this group. It should be a few players and a group of hunters." Black Shark analyzed this group of warriors in the team group.
The so-called hunters are actually a group of warriors who have difficulty making progress in martial arts cultivation. Most of these people are middle-aged warriors, and their cultivation level is below the seventh level.
In the Kyushu Continent, if a martial artist is unable to break through to the seventh level when they are around 35 to 40 years old, then their martial arts practice will probably not be able to improve in their lifetime.
As they age, the value of this group of people decreases step by step. In order to survive, this group of people gather together to form a hunting group.
