"Townsend" is a mining town.
Most of the residents in the town depend on the Mianshan Iron Mine for survival and are surrounded by a city wall more than ten meters high.
The houses are all made of stone and have mud-red triangular roofs.
Ji Xun tested the grenade, and after verifying the rules of that space, he walked towards the city gate without any further delay outside the town.
At the door, an old man with a white beard and several militiamen were greeting these "bounty hunters" who had come from afar.
According to the information provided by the Black Wolf Hunter Group, this old man is the mayor Barn.
When entering the city, hunters must sign their names on the employment contract.
Then the task prompt "Accept Employment" will appear in Enlightenment.
It is roughly equivalent to signing an employment certificate.
After hunting the werewolf in this way, you can use the werewolf's claws to get some gold and silver coins, ores and other additional rewards from the old man.
There was a table set up at the city gate. The hunters rushed to sign their names and rushed into the town.
When Ji Xun came, most people could not wait to go to the city to look for opportunities.
But when he looked at the densely packed names on the parchment, a question suddenly occurred to him.
What happens if you don't sign?
Theoretically, if you don't sign, you won't be rewarded by the mayor, and you may end up losing rewards worth tens of thousands of dollars.
But Ji Xun was not here to make money.
I don’t expect a C-level disaster difficulty space to reward anything good.
Ji Xun thought together: "Qidi didn't seem to say that you can't go out without signing the employment contract, right?"
I looked at the content displayed by Enlightenment again.
The conditions for going out were confirmed: hunt a werewolf.
There are no other strings attached.
He had read the intelligence before. C-level dungeon werewolves would not go berserk, and four or five senior card master apprentices could work together to kill them.
This level of threat is not a big problem for Ji Xun's current strength.
And there are a lot of werewolves, so it's very easy to just pass the level.
Since everyone has chosen to sign the contract, why not try something different?
Anyway, C level difficulty is just for getting familiar with the plot.
If you don’t try it at this time, it will be even more difficult.
Ji Xun thought of this, walked to the table, picked up the quill and made random gestures twice.
Those NPCs didn't find out whether there was one more person written in the densely packed names, or one person was missing.
There was no signature, and Enlightenment didn't show up.
Ji Xun just blended into the town.
The plot of this [Greed Mine] space seems very simple.
It was werewolves that attacked the town, and the residents paid to hire witchers to hunt the werewolves.
A plot with cause and effect.
But there is a lot of other information hidden inside.
Like, why are the werewolves here? So what happened in the Zangshan mine?
As Ji Xun walked, he was also thinking about problems in his mind.
The breaking point of the plot mode must be the plot.
Hunting a werewolf is just the basic requirement.
If you want a high clearance rating, digging deeper into the "truth about the changes in the mine" is the right direction.
Therefore, the exploration of the plot must focus on the residents of Townsend Town.
But this extradimensional space has been explored many times, which means that all the ordinary information possessed by the residents of the town should have been explored.
But that information still failed to allow the Black Wolf Group to pass the level with a high rating.
So if you want to find a breakthrough, you may have to find some breakthroughs that are different from others.
The exploration lasted for three days in total.
Ji Xun was not in a hurry either.
He walked on the streets paved with crushed ore, looking thoughtfully at the town residents coming and going.
There are vendors selling fruits and vegetables on the street
Ji Xun walked over and asked a few tentative questions.
For example: how much does a pound of apples cost, what is the king's name, is there a magician or witch in the city, what's wrong with the mine.
The answers obtained are: five copper coins, His Majesty Aoun, I heard the bard say yes, you can ask the mayor of Barn for this question.
Totally logical answer.
It's like a whole world.
This is where Ji Xun was most amazed.
The spell card masters seem to have long been accustomed to this.
But for Ji Xun, a time traveler, this was even more surprising than the extradimensional space itself.
It was like traveling through time again, and he came to a magical town in the European Middle Ages, where there were magic, werewolves, and witches.
These NPCs are exactly like living people, with flesh and blood, temperature, and emotional intelligence.
It seems like a corner of a whole world.
But if a hunter didn't enter every time, the story in Townsend would happen again.
Ji Xun will definitely think that this is a real world.
Different people come and do different things every time, which will lead to different development of the space plot.
This is also the reason why the main plot remains the same, but many branch plots are completely different.
"Different planes, or parallel spaces? Or maybe a mirror world created by some high-latitude creatures?"
Ji Xun didn't know how to understand the world he was seeing.
This kind of doubt beyond cognition made him feel more and more awe of the mysteries of the universe.
This kind of "different-dimensional space" that transcends time and space is incomprehensible to people, but it is deeply shocked in their hearts.
Ji Xun walked on the street for a while, and then the shock in his heart gradually dissipated.
He didn't waste any more time.
At this time, we have reached the center of Townsend.
There is a bell tower more than thirty meters high, which seems to be the tallest building in the town.
Ji Xun saw that there was no one around and jumped up suddenly. His super agility and strength allowed him to use some strength on the rocks outside the bell tower and climbed to the bell tower.
My horizons suddenly broadened.
Ji Xun overlooked the entire town and wrote down the general layout of the buildings.
When he comes to a strange place, he has developed a habit of observing the environment.
Scanning the streets, Ji Xun quickly spotted some of his peers.
The costumes of the hunters were changed by the rules of space, and the NPCs could not see anything unusual.
But Ji Xun, who is also a hunter, can tell the difference at a glance.
The hunters who had poured in before were now going around collecting wealth in the town.
The intelligence said that most of the things in urban residential houses are plot items and cannot be taken out.
But there are some rare items that can be brought out of extradimensional space.
The hunters were frantically harvesting those things.
To say "witchers" is more like a group of bandits coming in.
Anyway, as long as they stay for three days, the hunters will treat this place as a plundering carnival.
Moreover, most of the residents here are ordinary people, and they have no room for resistance.
Not only plundering wealth, but also plundering sex.
The hunters in Innocence City are a group of guys without legal and moral restraints, and they are even more unscrupulous in the extra-dimensional space.
All behaviors that can vent desires are being performed.
You can find some good-looking women anywhere, and there are quite a few in Townsend, too.
Ji Xun saw from the windows of several private houses on the bell tower. In addition to looting, the hunters also raped and humiliated the female owners.
Seeing this scene, he didn't know what he thought of, and grinned: "Human nature."
This happens everywhere.
Ji Xun's eyes wandered around the town.
At this time, he saw the five people from the Black Wolf Group walking straight into the only tavern in the town, with a hint of amusement on their expressions.
This is the management staff that came in from the Black Wolf Group.
Said there were only five.
But Ji Xun knew that it should be seven.
There were fifty hunters who had gathered together from the Windmill Tavern in Innocence City before, but a few did not come in.
Ji Xun clearly remembers everyone's attire.
So except for the five "administrators", he was sure that among the forty-five hunters who came in this time, two of them had never seen their costumes before.
If he is not a group player, he is most likely a "plainclothes" member of the Black Wolf Group.
So, why do the guys from the Black Wolf Group pretend to be hunters and sneak in?
Obviously there are some shady things that make it inappropriate to use the identity of the Black Wolf Group.
Ji Xun discovered it when he came in before.
But I also think it doesn’t matter.
Someone stirs up trouble, which is exactly what he wants.
These guys should know how to trigger some hidden side plots.
What's more, Ji Xunben also felt that for such a profitable extra-dimensional space, the Black Wolf Group only charged some tickets, which was completely unlike the style of the hunters of Innocence City with simple folk customs.
It wouldn't be normal if there wasn't some trickery in this wilderness.
But the space limits the rank of the entrants, and the strongest administrators are only at the first rank.
Ji Xun also feels that the risks are within control.
What he has to do now is to learn some information as soon as possible and be prepared before those guys cause trouble.
Just like Ji Xun guessed.
The five administrators of the Black Wolf Group walked into the tavern, and they arrived at the second floor of the tavern by familiar routes.
After closing the door, there were already two guys in hunter costumes waiting here.
It was the two people who were dressed strangely to Ji Xun.
"The leader said, let those guys clear out the werewolves on the first and second floors first. Let's get some aconite grass tonight to lure out the B-class disaster werewolf on the third floor of the mine and let the random people drag it. Come. Let’s go in and take a look at the situation on the fourth floor later.”
"Captain, do we need to be in such a hurry? Are we going to go in person?"
"There's no need to rush. The leader speculates that this space may collapse after being entered too many times on low difficulty. If we don't find a way to challenge high difficulty, we may never have the chance to find such good werewolf materials in the future. This risk It’s definitely a risk.”
"You don't know how powerful the [Spade 4-Werewolf] refined from the two pieces of silver material was. Xiao He, the vice-captain of the fourth team, fused the silver professional card. Just after the fusion, the combat power after the transformation It is close to the veteran first-level spell card masters in the group. Moreover, the werewolf material is much higher than the upper limit of ordinary Warcraft. Overall, the increase of the werewolf card is at least 50% higher than that of other beastwalker cards of the same quality. The gap in combat power.”
"It's so strong? It's a pity that silver materials are not easy to come by."
"Don't worry too much. We are just exploring the plot this time, not killing monsters. Besides, the leader went to the Thunder Tiger Regiment to borrow the assassin's exclusive relic. We will be safe on the fourth floor. Be careful, it won't be a big problem. I estimate that after reaching four levels, our clearance rating will be very high and the probability of getting silver materials will be very high."
"But if a Class B disaster is triggered on the third floor of the mine, I'm afraid not many people will survive this time. If word spreads, our group's reputation may not be very good."
"Alive? What the leader means is that no one except ours should be left alive."
"Otherwise, do you think that the last two batches of people who came here really encountered an accident and triggered the B-level difficulty, with so many casualties? Haha, as long as they are all dead, the news here will not be spread. What's more, the higher the mortality rate, we The higher the rating will be, the higher the level will be."
"Um."
"But having said that, the last time Team 9 came in to hunt the B-level werewolf on the third floor, they suffered heavy casualties, and the team did not dare to organize another B-level challenge. What happened when the A-level plot was triggered?"
"No one knows. That time when three elite teams from our regiment came in, all of them died, and the information was not transmitted. Only one outsider came out alive. He didn't see what happened. He only knew that there was an A-level disaster. An E-level werewolf appeared in Townsend. Then he followed the scent and killed all the hunters. Later, after interrogation by the group leader, he discovered that the surviving guy hurriedly entered the city without signing, and he was lucky enough to escape with his life. Otherwise, we I don’t know how to get out of space alive.”
"The combat power of the werewolf is indeed terrifying. Among the monsters I have seen, the combat power of the same level is definitely among the top three. B-level disasters are already comparable to the second-level spell card masters. If it is A-level, this kind of limited level The space of bits cannot be killed at all. We can only start from the plot aspect."
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In Townsend.
Just when a group of hunters were in full swing hunting for treasures all over the city.
Ji Xun is entertaining children on the street with candies.
"Kid, do you want to eat sugar mummy?"
"think."
"Where's mom?"
"Mom is dead."
"How did mom die?"
"Die from the plague."
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"Do you still want some candy?"
"I think the mayor won't let me talk to outsiders."
"Ah, that's enough, that's enough. I can't pretend anymore."
"I quietly told you that you can ask the drunkard Jack in the town. He has the best information. You can find him at the windmill in the town."
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NPCs in extradimensional spaces are intelligent.
Except that certain messages beyond the cognition of this world cannot be seen or heard, they are completely no different from normal human thinking.
In Ji Xun's eyes, this was the biggest breakthrough.
The residents in the city are afraid and jealous of outsiders, and they are obviously secretive when talking about certain topics.
But kids don’t.
After Ji Xun asked a few more questions, he learned that a plague seemed to have occurred in Townsend Town a year ago, and many people died.
This is not in the intelligence.
The people from the Black Wolf Group have been here so many times, so they must know.
But they didn't include this key information in the intelligence they sold.
Because this may be the key to the plot of "Greedy Mine".
Ji Xun suspected that there might be some connection between the plague and the appearance of werewolves.
Apparently, the plague is over.
Ji Xun wanted to ask who cured the plague, but many people avoided talking.
From the children, they learned that a passing "witch" seemed to have cured the plague, and that the lord, Baron Rose, had sent a team of knights in bright armor.
But these are all clues.
Ji Xun roughly sorted out the timeline of the story in his mind.
A plague broke out in the town, and witches and knights came. After the plague was cured, they came when the werewolves appeared.
These events are like scattered beads, but there is a key causal thread behind them to connect them.
There is another important clue.
The children said that there were terrible monsters in the Burying Mountain Mine.
This is also the place where the mission of "investigating the truth about the changes in the mine" in Qidi is directed.
Ji Xun had no intention of rashly going to the mine where monsters gathered.
He planned to ask about the situation first.
The townspeople are wise, and the banditry of the new wave of "devil hunters" spread throughout the city in a short time.
Probably because the witchers came to help hunt werewolves, the mayor also suppressed the anger of the residents, so that no big trouble was caused.
But once the news spread, it was impossible to get any questions out of the residents' mouths.
Everyone will hide away when they see a stranger dressed in strange clothes.
You might be able to get some information through forced questioning.
But Ji Xun feels that this method may trigger some special plot or trigger a space mechanism.
And it's definitely a bad direction.
After all, there was a stern warning in the intelligence, not to kill the townspeople casually, otherwise you might be kicked out of Townsend Town.
Probably someone has tried it before.
Without the protection of the town, it would be difficult for everyone to survive for three days in the wilderness.
Ji Xun was also helpless with the stupid and greedy behavior of those "companions". This almost ruined the possibility of triggering all valuable plot branches.
But he also thought of another way.
Since he is an intelligent NPC, he must also have human greed.
I used my lockpicking skills to visit several houses and got a large bag of coins.
These gold coins that cannot be taken out of the space may be useless to other hunters, but they are very good tools in Ji Xun's hands.
He found "Drunkard Jack."
With this huge sum of money, I asked for another key clue: "For information about the mine, you can ask Uncle Sam at the blacksmith shop. Not only can he silver-plate your weapons, he is also the only living person who has been to the depths of the mine before. Until now. Oh, don’t say it’s mine. After all, this topic is taboo in Townsend.”
And at the same time, Ji Xun also asked for some interesting information.
Although this drunkard Jack knew that he was an adventurer from somewhere else.
But he didn't think of him as a "witcher"!
Ji Xun also guessed that this might be related to the contract signed at the city gate.
After signing the contract, the space confers the identity of a "demon hunter".
Walking along the river in Townsend Town, Ji Xun saw a blacksmith workshop with exhaust fumes coming out of the chimney.
It is written in the information that hunters who use firearms can come here and ask the owner of the workshop to help plate their bullets with silver.
Silver-coated bullets deal burning damage to werewolves.
Ji Xun didn't come in a hurry before because he didn't think it was necessary.
The silver plating process is not complicated and he can do it himself.
As I walked over, I happened to meet two colleagues.
The two men came out of the blacksmith shop cursing.
"Fuck! I wasted such a long time, I thought I could find out something. That damn information dealer, I will definitely settle the accounts with him when I return to Innocence City! He also said that he was selling top secret information and that the owner of this blacksmith shop had been there The fourth floor of the mine. In the end, I didn’t ask anything.”
"I've told you that we can think of looking for clues. People who came in before must have thought about it. You just don't believe it. It's better now. If you don't grab the things, you will lose at least tens of thousands. I want to go back in the next few days. Ben, we can only risk going to the mines to hunt werewolves."
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Ji Xun's expression was slightly different as he listened to the conversation between the two people walking further and further away.
He was not surprised that someone knew that the blacksmith shop might have clues, after all, he had searched so many times.
But are the intelligence dealers in Innocence City so powerful?
Do you all know this information?
Sure enough, after exploring the dungeon many times, there were fewer and fewer secrets.
But since the intelligence merchants said so, Ji Xun felt that the owner of the blacksmith shop was very important.
If you didn’t ask, it’s most likely because the conversation method is wrong.
(End of chapter)
