"Why is it a mandatory mission? Didn't it say at the beginning that you can choose to accept or reject the mission?"
Paine remembered the prompt when entering the world.
"The Fool, a seventh-level player, used another strange object in this world to solidify the task and make it a mandatory task."
The smart assistant's words made Paine angry and helpless.
Scarlett Hao looked at the man with changing expressions in front of her, thinking that he was thinking of dealing with her, and quickly said, "I can compensate you."
"Compensation? What compensation?"
Scarlett Hao sadly took out a string of crystal bracelets from her pocket.
This crystal necklace is made up of large and small oval crystals connected in series. The color is warm and elegant. The large and small circles blend into each other to form a harmonious whole. The dazzling light shows its elegant and mysterious identity.
Strange Item Name: Gambler's Lucky Crystal Necklace
Description: Luck +3, as long as you have it, you will always be luckier than others, whether at the card table or elsewhere.
"What is the luck attribute? Why don't I see it on the panel?"
After taking the necklace, Paine asked the intelligent assistant.
"This attribute is a hidden attribute and requires players to explore it by themselves."
"As expected of a witch, she was indeed generous." Paine immediately hung the crystal necklace around his neck, "This is considered as interest for offending me. Is there any other compensation like this?"
Scarlett Hao secretly hated Pa En for his greed, but then she thought about it and felt that this greedy guy might have some other uses.
"Tara Manor is impoverished now, but there are still some good things at home in Atlanta."
"oh?"
Paine naturally knew that this woman had bad intentions. Atlanta was currently being occupied by the Northern Army. It might not be easy to get in. However, after all, he was assigned a mandatory task. He had to sneak into Atlanta and help the southern resistance forces retake the city. things.
"I don't accept bad checks, witch. You still haven't settled the matter you deceived me about."
Paine stretched out an index finger towards her and shook it, "Even as compensation for deceiving me, you should first come up with some other guarantee to make me feel better. Otherwise, cooperation will be impossible. Atlanta is now being controlled by the North. The army is occupying it, so it would be very dangerous to venture there."
"Then what do you want to do?!"
"What are you thinking?" Paine knew that the woman in front of him was thinking wrongly. "I mean, don't think that I don't know that you just want to trick me into accompanying you to Atlanta. You want to confirm that the monster has been created in the city. What a mess, right?”
"Then what do you say that's guaranteed to make you feel better?"
"You just treated me to a meal of sweet potatoes and drove me into the swamp where I almost lost my life. Shouldn't you let me have a good meal? Don't say there is nothing in the manor, I don't believe it!"
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Atlanta is the most prosperous city in the South, but like all cities in the New World, Atlanta is quite young. In fact it was only nine years older than Miss Scarlett.
Nine years before Scarlett Hao was born, the city was first called Ternas. Later it was called Marthasville, and it was not until the year of her birth that it was renamed Atlanta.
Atlanta was born from a railroad and grew with its railroads. When the four main lines were completed, Atlanta was connected to the west, south, and coastal areas, and also to the north and east through Augusta. It has become the hub of transportation from east to west, north and south, and has developed from a small village into the largest and most prosperous city in the south.
If Atlanta, which developed around a railroad crossing, was completely controlled by the North, the South would have no hope of winning.
It was not a happy day for the citizens of Atlanta or the Union soldiers. The violent storm all night turned the street into a red mud soup. The mud in the open space next to the station was constantly collapsing and stirring due to the coming and going of vehicles and pedestrians, and it was about to become a big mud pond for sows to wallow in.
Military carts and ambulances were flowing continuously, busy loading and unloading military supplies and wounded soldiers brought by trains. Some drove in desperately, and some struggled to get out. The driver cursed loudly, the mules and horses jumped and screamed, and the mud splashed several feet. Far away, which made the muddy and chaotic situation even worse.
A beautiful lady in black mourning clothes, with a crepe shawl hanging down almost to her heels, timidly stood on the steps below the carriage carriage, stretching out her little hand towards the man standing below.
"Don't go too far, Miss Scarlett." Standing on the muddy ground, Paine politely let Scarlett step on his legs to get out of the carriage, and said softly to her, "I am not your groom."
"Of course you are not my groom, you are now my housekeeper, Mr. Ronald." Scarlett Hao kept her ladylike smile, "This is also part of the plan. You agreed before."
