Zhang Xiaoman touched Jiujiu's head and took out an osmanthus pill from the space ring for it to eat.
There was no Niyang around to fight with it, so the little guy was eating happily.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Xiaoman sighed secretly, feeling quite guilty.
With his current stardust, he can actually exchange it for a World Tree branch.
The amount of stardust required for a World Tree branch is a full four hundred points, which is a very huge expense.
According to the envisaged plan, as long as it is available, it will be possible to open up the ancient continent of God and the original world, and travel to and from Aquablue Star through the original world.
However, Zhang Xiaoman cannot place the branches of the World Tree here now.
Because there is still a dying world that he needs to make connections with.
That is the ancient star.
He has already made a decision to plant the branches of this World Tree on the Ancient Length Star first.
Compared with the relatively stable Shengu Continent, the situation on Ancient Lengxing is much more critical. If the World Tree is planted one day earlier, more people may be saved.
Moreover, whether it is possible to leave the ancient continent through the door under the tree is only a conjecture so far.
In the final analysis, it is not certain whether it will succeed, so there is no way to gamble.
Therefore, even though Jiujiu was very much looking forward to going home, Zhang Xiaoman was unable to do anything but comfort him for the time being.
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United States, Button City.
Borong Street.
This is a very old neighborhood full of medieval-style buildings.
Churches and nursing homes almost occupy this place. The only place where young people can come is perhaps the museum on the street.
At night, the wide eaves will become the residence of homeless people, preventing Borong Street from completely turning into a "ghost street" that no one cares about.
The time is now 10:20 in the afternoon, and the sky has plunged into darkness.
The brilliance of feasting and feasting lights up the Button Market, but only this place is forgotten.
Several dim street lamps stood crookedly on both sides of the street. When the cold wind blew, you could hear the sound of "crack-crack" metal friction, which was quite strange.
"Rumble!"
The furious roar of the engine came.
A modified version of the Mustang Bronco off-road vehicle quickly drove into this neighborhood, instantly breaking the silence here.
The homeless man was awakened from his deep sleep. He glanced at the red light at the rear of the car, then turned over with a curse and continued his sweet dream.
"Zi la..."
The off-road vehicle braked suddenly and stopped in a certain area in the middle of the street, leaving two black marks on the ground.
Here is a green-gray wall, and inside the wall is a monastery. Other than that, it is empty, not even the simplest grocery store.
On the huge off-road vehicle, five muscular men quickly ran out. The leader was walking while controlling the star mobile phone on his wrist.
This man's name is Maurice, he is from Gaul and he is a professional bounty hunter.
Now, Morris has reserved a special task. The level of this task is set to S level. The relevant content and information are all unknown and confidential. They can only be viewed after actually accepting the task.
The only information known now is that this mission will be a long-term "expedition mode", and it is said to be extremely dangerous, but the rewards are also extremely generous.
But these difficulties are nothing to a professional bounty hunter like him.
What is remote?
At most, they would just let themselves and others lurk in the deep mountains and forests for a long time. It was not like they had never taken on such a job.
As for the degree of danger, there is no need to mention it.
For people like Morris, they have long been accustomed to the days of licking blood from the edge of a knife. They are dancing with death every day. As long as the reward is in place, all difficulties are no longer difficult.
Moreover, with the current strength of Morris' team, he no longer paid attention to ordinary tasks.
After all, he is a man who has taken four bottles of sun essence. His physical fitness has already surpassed the limits of ordinary people and embarked on the path to extraordinary.
His other temple members were similar. Even Lowell, the weakest, had taken two bottles of sun essence and reached the limit of human beings.
And their team, the "Rat Exterminators", has reached the level of a B-level bounty team.
Once upon a time, they were just a group of ordinary bounty hunters, active in Eero and other areas, doing the most dangerous tasks and earning a pitiful amount of money.
However, just over half a year ago, Morris and others learned about a special place through friends in the circle. They heard that they could easily receive a large number of tasks with rich bounties there.
So, after they finished dealing with the matters at hand, they walked in with the attitude of giving it a try.
What surprised Morris was that his friend did not exaggerate this time. They really earned a large amount of bounty there, and one mission was enough to beat many in the past.
However, the goals of these missions are much more difficult to deal with than before.
They are no longer armed gangsters with guns, nor are they rich people who need protection, but groups of mutant creatures with different shapes and powerful fighting capabilities!
Fortunately, the team is composed of experienced hunters, and combined with the firepower output of modern weapons, they have completed many simple bounty tasks.
Later, Morris's team even hunted a large number of mutated rats in Paris. By submitting the corpses of those rats, they made a lot of money, which gave them initial start-up funds and bounty points.
Relying on the funds and points, they exchanged a lot of advanced equipment there, and even some extraordinary items whose principles were inexplicable.
Because of this, colleagues in the circle jokingly call their team "rat exterminators".
Later, Morris and others simply officially registered the name and used it as a sign for themselves and others.
Don't look at the fact that their team is currently only B-level.
But in fact, this is considered very rare in the entire bounty hunter circle.
There are only two or three A-level bounty teams that they know of so far, and they are all dragons who see the beginning but not the end.
Walking around, Morris looked at the interface projected by the watch and adjusted the angle left and right, as if he was looking for something.
"The tavern in this area should be here, it's right here on the map..."
He murmured, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and his eyes were fixed on a position about fifty meters ahead on the left.
From the street, there are empty blue-gray walls, and there is nothing except a trash can placed on the roadside.
But when Morris pointed the projected image through Fanxing's mobile phone, it was obvious that a special group was displayed on the interface of the watch.
It was a group of violently beating flames.
The crimson flames burned extremely vigorously, as if they were going to devour everything around them. Just looking at it made it feel like it was burning into people's hearts.
"This is it!"
Morris let out a low voice, and then called on his companions to walk over.
"Hey, it's my first time to come to the pub here in Button City. I don't know what it's like. Are there any hot and sexy girls..."
From behind, a black man covered in explosive muscles spoke.
Obviously, he had experienced similar scenes more than once.
"Okay, Kiko, today we are here to gather to take over the task. Don't make any trouble for me. It's best to put away your sperm-stained brain."
Morris warned.
The rest of the people laughed, and the atmosphere seemed very relaxed.
As they spoke, they had arrived at the position marked in the watch.
Morris stepped forward and began to fumble on the green-gray wall in front of him with quite skillful movements.
"Here it is!"
Suddenly, his right hand touched a flame-shaped pattern, which was exactly the same as the flame displayed on the watch projection interface just now.
He took out a silver micro-seal from his pocket, and Morris carefully placed it into the flame pattern.
The next moment, the pattern suddenly lit up, and the flames seemed to suddenly come to life and began to beat slowly.
Immediately afterwards, the surrounding environment also distorted, as if it were undulating water, giving people the feeling of being in a dream.
Everyone stood there with no surprise on their faces, looking expectantly at the blue-grey wall in front of them.
As the distortion marks intensified, the wall gradually began to change.
I saw that a series of exquisite decorations had appeared on the originally bare wall surface.
There is a window, a door, and a black signboard placed on the top of the door, with this row of characters written on it - Wildfire Tavern.
This is an illusion used to conceal the existence of the tavern.
Only when the bounty hunters use their own bounty emblems to put them in can they break the illusion and successfully find the entrance.
"Click~"
The door of the tavern was opened, and a man in waiter's clothes came out. After bowing slightly to a few people, he took the key handed to him and walked out.
He would help Morris and others park the off-road vehicle and place it in a nearby parking lot, while the other party attracted the attention of others on the roadside.
"Let's go."
Morris just took a moment to look at the surrounding environment, and then took the lead into the tavern.
No. 36 Borong Street.
This is the Wildfire Tavern in Button City.
It was here that Beru accepted the mission and became the spokesperson of the Star Alliance.
Although the facade of this tavern looks small and even a little shabby.
But there is a unique space inside, and the decoration is quite exquisite. It has a nostalgic and simple atmosphere, making people feel like they have walked into an elderly hippie bar from sixty years ago.
"I like the style here."
"Me too, I feel a sense of unfettered freedom here... Damn it, why can't Barry's Wildfire Tavern be like this?"
"Who says it's not? The one in Bali was designed by some crazy designer. It's decorated like a colorful children's paradise. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm back in the kindergarten. The feeling of the period..."
"Eh? Look! What about the girl holding the plate in front? That kind of figure is definitely the type that Morris likes!"
"Shut up! We're almost there!"
"..."
During the conversation, several people had already walked through the long and narrow tavern corridor and entered the hall on the underground floor.
This is the public area of the Wildfire Tavern, and is also the place where tasks are accepted and submitted.
At this moment, there were already many people sitting in the hall. At a glance, there were at least fifty people.
Normally, there wouldn't be so many people in the Wildfire Tavern.
After all, they generally only accommodate bounty hunters, and taverns are distributed all over the world, so it is rare for so many hunters to gather in the same tavern.
But today is a little different. Because of that mysterious figure, many hunter teams have accepted expedition invitations and come to meet at this tavern in Button City.
"Look! Our distinguished guest is finally here!"
Morris and others had just entered when a hoarse shout came from their ears.
Looking up, it turned out to be a big white man sitting in the crowd, smiling maliciously at them.
"Terrence! It's still two minutes before twelve o'clock, and we are not late!"
Morris glared at the other party angrily, and then without further entanglement with them, he led his people to find a seat and sit down.
The big white man obviously knew the rules here, but after shouting so loudly at the beginning, he said no more.
"Damn, it's that guy Terrence again! I knew they wouldn't miss this opportunity!"
As soon as Fang sat down, someone in the team started to complain. It could be seen that the two sides seemed to hate to see each other.
"The Titan team, like us, is a B-level team. The tavern will definitely issue invitations to them for this operation."
Morris was not surprised by this.
"Damn it, last time those guys robbed one of our mutated wild boars from Erro, this time I must find a chance to get it back for them!"
The black muscular man said angrily.
"Calm down! Kiko!"
Morris knocked on the table lightly and reminded:
"This mission is provided directly by the tavern, and with so many hunters summoned, it will definitely not be easy, and it will also attract great attention."
"Under such circumstances, I don't want you to mess around with me. You all know the rules in the tavern, right?"
"If someone breaks the rules here on impulse, all of us will be unlucky!"
When he said this, his face became extremely serious, and finally he fixed his eyes on the muscular black man.
"So, I don't want you to cause trouble for me at this juncture! Even if you want to take revenge, you have to wait until this mission is over!"
PS: Thanks to "Fei Dan'er" for the 1,000-coin reward, and thanks to "book friend 20210104151119808 for the 100-coin reward, thank you!"
