The carriage went without incident and returned to the artificial city on the tenth floor.
The group of sneak attackers with unknown origins were all wrapped up tightly. When they launched the battle, they did not report their names before fighting, and the entire process was kept secret.
They didn't speak until they killed Simon and Akane in the dream, but very little information was revealed.
Simon couldn't tell which adventure group the other party belonged to based on his accent. The Earth Dragon Secret Realm was open to almost everyone, and it was impossible to investigate. He could only find a team with investigation business to investigate.
As long as they can afford it, the capabilities of these professional teams are still good.
For example, the team Simon is about to find is called the Hound Adventure Group. Their leader is a summoner from a supporting profession who can summon special hounds with his skills.
Hounds can track enemies through scents or objects at the scene. As long as they don't deliberately eliminate the scent, they can follow the scent all the way back.
Before Simon returned to the man-made city, he picked up a few weapons that they accidentally lost when they escaped, which greatly increased the chance of finding them.
After a while, Simon came to the station of the Hound Adventure Group.
This is the corner area of the tenth-level mountain city. Next to it is a wall made of wooden fences and wall-climbing tigers, enclosing a large courtyard where various plants and animals grow.
It was the first time for Xiao Qian who came with the team to see such an animal kept in a garden. The place was full of life, with a clear stream running through the garden, an old black cow lowering its head to gently drink water, and a big yellow-haired dog wagging. With his tail in hand, he jumped on the wall and stuck out his head, looking at the two people outside the wall.
At this time, the two of them noticed that the wall was one and a half meters high, and that the big dog was a little taller than the wall. He only needed to lightly kick his legs to get up and pounce on the wall.
Two people and one dog looked at each other.
The big yellow dog stuck out its big tongue, exhaled hahaly, rolled its eyes, and looked at the carriage behind the two people. The two black and white dogs in the carriage shrank back, seeming a little afraid of strangers.
"Hello, I'm looking for your master for tracking business." Simon said.
The big yellow dog let out a bark, put down his legs and landed on the ground. He disappeared in a flash and rushed into the house.
After a while, someone rode a big yellow dog out of the house and came to Simon very quickly.
"Hello, Mr. Simon, who do you want to track specifically? Do you have any targets?"
"It's a team I don't know. These are the weapons they use." Simon turned around and opened the curtain of the carriage. There were several weapons lying on the floor inside.
Simon didn't put these weapons into his space backpack, mainly because they took up too much space, so they might as well be mounted on a carriage.
The man riding a big yellow dog patted the dog, and the dog jumped onto the carriage with a strong body.
Both cats jumped out of the window and ran away, getting on the shoulders of Simon and Xiao Qian, afraid of this oversized yellow-haired dog.
The yellow-haired dog grinned, and the two cats became even more frightened. They shrank their heads, hooked their paws on their clothes, and huddled on their backs.
"Dahuang, work hard."
The man patted the yellow-haired dog and looked at the appearance of the weapon. Then he got out of the carriage and asked Simon about the situation.
Simon once approached them for tracking business.
At that time, someone wanted to cause trouble with the white fruit, but Simon could not find the troublemaker.
The family power behind Plum Fruit and White Bones could not find out what the problem was.
In the end, Simon spent team funds to hire a professional team to investigate, and then found the mastermind behind the scenes.
At that time, everyone in the Hound Adventure Group and more than half of the main members were two-star adventurers. On paper, their star strength was about the same as that of the White Fruit at that time.
Now all members of the Hound Adventure Group have reached the third level and have enough money to live in the tenth level city.
When the hound leader saw Simon again, he couldn't help but sigh that the changes had been too great. Simon had become the most popular adventure group at the moment, second only to the Four Heavenly Kings adventure group.
Now there are many people who want to join the Snow Mountain Adventure Group, but Simon has not started recruiting people aggressively and has been on vacation since he came back.
If you suddenly come to see him today, you must be in trouble.
After listening to Simon's general story, the hound leader said: "I know who it is."
"Who?" Simon was a little surprised. After hearing this information, this guy just made a blind guess?
Why don't you follow the weapons and look for evidence?
"It's just a guess." He patched himself up in time. "I guess it's the team of the Four Heavenly Kings, or it's some group in the Earth Dragon Alliance."
"The killer team they sent missed the target and ran away like crazy. They will definitely not attack again in the near future.
“They will observe you calmly for a period of time to see how you react, and they may directly eliminate the evidence.
"Time is a bit urgent. We have to find them before they silence us. As for the cost, since it is expedited, I will give you 5 million in the early stage. The remaining costs will be made up later depending on the difficulty.
"I'll pay you if you agree. Time is urgent. We can set off now. Everyone in my group happens to be here and can go out immediately."
The hound leader said at the end, showing five fingers.
This asking price has increased ten times compared to before it grew up.
And, that’s the upfront cost.
The later costs are immeasurable because the Hound Adventure Group doesn’t know what kind of resistance they will encounter later.
When Simon heard the offer, he felt good about it.
Money is something that should be spent.
Moreover, it involves people and events, and the background is very large, which cannot be investigated by a small team.
If you are not careful, someone may die.
"You said that the team of the Four Heavenly Kings are involved. They are dissatisfied with their own resources and want to kill me and take my resources?"
Simon was not a fool. He thought about the possibility and felt that it was very possible.
"There are two possibilities. The first is to kill you and seize your resources, but smart people will definitely not do this. They should have expected that the killer will fail. You probably won't die, but your life will definitely be in danger and you will be held accountable seriously.
"The second possibility is to force you to expand your manpower, quickly arm each resource area, and start developing the resource area immediately.
"Where do these short-term urgent recruitments of manpower come from? They can only be selected from full-time adventurers. It is impossible to recruit a group of two-star trainee adventurers and slowly train them to full-time positions. We must find people with strength, otherwise in the first On the tenth floor, it is easy to die. Not to mention the waste of money, the time wasted is not a small amount.
“And many of these people are spies of the Great Adventure Group, or simple informants.
"The reason why I emphasize the second possibility is mainly because this is a common control method used by the Four Heavenly Kings to infiltrate the new big adventure group through a large number of idle people in society.
“You will definitely not see the effect in the early stage, but you will know it as time goes by.
"As the leader of a group, you can't interfere with everything. With so many resource areas, there are always areas that you can't control.
"Many adventure groups with no background are secretly sidelined like this. They grow very fast and have no time to train their own people. If they want to covet the resource area, they can only be sidelined."
After listening to this, Simon felt that he was right.
The team of the Four Heavenly Kings can stand in Haizhen for so long. Twenty years later, the four teams are still the kings and hegemons. It turns out that there is this trick waiting for him.
If you don't want to be fooled by this trick, you can only sell the resource area, streamline the number of personnel, and focus on building a small but beautiful adventure group.
But they didn't know something.
Simon didn't care about the interests of this three-acre land, and he was ready to climb the mountain a year later.
Things that he couldn't take away were of no use to him. At most, he could make some money by selling the land.
(End of chapter)
