Chapter 40:

Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan came to the Mercenary Guild in Spring City.
After the arrival of the magic seed, the most important place in almost every human base will be the mercenary guild in the base, and Spring City is no exception.
The guild’s vast lobby is divided into several areas. There is an announcement area for posting various notices, a recruitment area for recruiting personnel to find teams, and a trading area for trading a large number of advanced magic body potions and weapons.
All major mercenary teams have their entrances here, which are used to recruit manpower and accept others' entrusted employment.
Scattered small groups or individuals gathered in front of those classified bulletin boards, looking at the various notices densely pasted on them. Some traveling caravans hire bodyguards, weapons forgers look for certain special materials, or some find people, ask questions, and find information about high-level monsters. Selling items, selling news, collecting information...there are numerous.
This provides a variety of effective ways to obtain wealth for most of the saints with strong military value.
Compared with the life market where ordinary people gather, it is more like a place for the saints to trade and exchange separately.
Walking through the lobby on the first floor are mostly some relatively low-level warriors. There are also some high-end trades and alliances, which are carried out in the luxurious private rooms on the second floor, which are areas that Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan have not yet reached.
Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan walked past the crowd.
It's winter, all kinds of demon hunting operations have been reduced, and the people here are relatively not as crowded as they used to be.
A staff member in a guild used a horn to broadcast a notice of encirclement and suppression of desecrators and rescue of trapped persons.
Some people in the crowd talked,
"How many days have this been broadcast? Is there no team to pick it up?"
"The bounty is mentioned again. I heard that the son of a certain caravan owner was caught in the cave, so he wanted to fish out at any cost."
"The bounty is high and it's useless. High-ranking bosses look down on it. Like us, who dares to break into the lair of the blasphemer? Isn't it looking for death?"
Desecrators are monsters with low combat effectiveness and relatively low ranks. Their greatest feature is that they have an IQ that ordinary low-rank monsters do not possess, and they rarely live together in groups. They tend to gather in hidden underground caves, and the captured humans are generally not killed right away, but are dragged into the depths of the cave as a reserve for food. Compared with those sluggish and brutal monsters that directly prey on humans, the act of keeping humans in captivity in this way is even more creepy.
For high-level saints, besieging such a large number of low-level monsters is laborious and unforgiving. Not only can they not get any seeds and materials needed by their own level, but they may even encounter trouble in the siege of monsters. . It is even more dangerous for low-level saints to enter such a complex gathering place for monsters. Therefore, everyone avoids such monsters. Even if the victim's family members offer relatively generous rewards for the task, no one cares about it.
Several staff members of the guild separated the crowd, walked to the notice board, and posted a new red notice in a prominent position.
The crowd huffed around, buzzing and talking,
"Sell the body fluids of the executed, the seventh-tier, I rely on."
"This is awesome, hehe. Who can stand it."
"It depends on whether you can afford it."
There was a burst of ambiguous laughter from the crowd.
"What is it?" Chu Qianxun had never heard of this term, and asked Gao Yan beside him.
"The secretions of high-level executioners can make a person's limbs weak and energetic," Gao Yan whispered in Chu Qianxun's ear, "It has the effect of... It is very popular."
Chu Qianxun opened his mouth a little, and returned a clear expression. Many years after the arrival of the magic seed, the various development and utilization of the monster body by humans have gradually matured. Not only have they learned to use the hard parts of the monster body to make various tools and weapons, they have even developed various secretions of the monster to produce various types of remarkable curative effects. drug.
In every corner of the hall, many people holding signs are temporarily recruiting saints with special abilities in order to execute battles against certain special monsters.
Such a temporary squad is not familiar with each other's abilities and qualities, which means that there may be too many variables when fighting, which is a very unstable behavior. It is an action that only small mercenary teams and scattered people who lack manpower will take.
The combat saints who have a little bit of strength and live in Spring City for a long time often choose to join some large corps with strict management. Participate in collective actions organized by the Corps. You can also invite regular members who are familiar with each other in the corps to go out for hunting monsters to improve the safety of battle.
Chu Qianxun came to the entrance of the Red Wolf Mercenary Corps where he was located, and reported that she had returned. She had been away for more than half a month and needed to register the situation and indicated that she could continue to participate in the Corps operations.
The clerk in charge of registration opened the record book,
"Chu Qianxun, um, let me see. I'm sorry, Wang Dazhi, the captain of your team, died a few days ago during the demon hunt. You can wait to see which team you were assigned to."
The clerk was talking about misfortune, but there was not much misfortune in his tone. He sat here and crossed out the list of the dead from his notebook every month. For him, reading out these has only become a formal work. That's it.
"I heard that his wife moved to another man after she rolled her stuff within two days of the accident. The child was thrown into the black street and no one cares about it. It's really cold." The clerk said with emotion. Even if it sums up the situation behind the captain.
When Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan walked out of the guild gate, their hearts were a little heavy. Their captain is not a particularly good captain, probably because the family has a child and a wife, and the captain Wang will be very stingy every time he distributes the trophies, and he always takes as much as possible into his own pockets. . He often hides behind during the battle, and he is almost invisible when charging into the battlefield.
But in any case, he is not a bad person, at least he can at the end of the battle, try not to leave anyone behind, and retrieve every injured team member back to the base. When there is a conflict between the players, he can always stand fairly on the oppressed side.
It's not a short time to get along, and the captain who fights together every day is gone. It was just a daily demon hunt, not even in a special large-scale battle. A familiar life did not light up any sparks, and it disappeared quietly. The only trace was a scratch on the list by the clerk.
Chu Qianxun shook the handle of the knife at his waist and walked towards the city gate.
It has become her habit to go out every day to hunt demons, obtain demons, and exercise her abilities. The most important thing for her right now is to improve her abilities. Only the truly strong can live without regrets.
"Thousand, Chihiro." Gao Yan called to her, "Should we go?"
Gao Yan's habit is to travel with the team members. The team members take care of each other, and the main combatants are in front. They only need to stand safely behind. The battle will not be so hard, and the danger is not that great. Although the spoils that are finally distributed to everyone are very limited, they can always guarantee food and clothing.
"Ah, no, Sister Yan. You don't have to go. I can do it all by myself." Chu Qianxun turned his head.
Outside of the city of Spring, the city is ruined everywhere.
The original construction of Spring City was based on the industrial park surrounding a large city in the golden age. Outside the base, the tall buildings of the once prosperous city struggled among the dense green vegetation to reveal one or two mottled glass walls, revealing the remains of a highly civilized existence on this planet.
Gao Yan stood on the deserted block, very nervous. There are only two people, she and Qianxun, facing a fierce Tier 5 monster. She was accustomed to hiding in the army and making soy sauce, and she suddenly felt very insecure.
The monster let out a low roar and rushed out of the gap between the two buildings, making the entire ground bang with every step.
Chu Qianxun wiped the dust off his eyes with his sleeves, and jumped into the air. The two knives threw out several arc-shaped wind blades. The flying wind blades rolled up the dust all the way and staggered towards the monster, banging. Bang Bang hit the face and body of the monster one after another.
With her antelope-like agile figure, she rolled over beautifully in the high air, turned behind the monster, and stepped on the monster's shoulder. The light of the knife flashed, cutting open the back of the monster, revealing the green in it. Chu Qianxun smiled and stretched out his hand to seize the magic seed.
The monster’s sharp claws came suddenly, pierced her shoulders, grabbed her from her body, and threw her to the ground. At the same time, he opened the mouth of the blood basin, and sprayed a corrosive canopy towards Chu Qianxun on the ground. liquid. Chu Qianxun rolled on the ground several times, got up quickly, and avoided danger, but it was inevitable that a little liquid was gradually applied to his face and neck, and the skin was nourished by corrosion, and plumes of blue smoke appeared.
She knelt on one knee, cursed, and didn't pay any attention to her shoulders. She turned to fight again.
The process of their fight was very rapid. Gao Yan had just awakened, and a burst of rubble fell cracklingly, and on the side of a skyscraper in front of her, a monster with a human face and eagle wings turned out.
This Tier 4 monster was attracted by their battle.
"What, what to do? Qianxun. Let's run?" Gao Yan quickly cried. At Tier 4, she didn't think she had the ability to single out monsters of the same tier.
"A Tier 4 monster, you can deal with it." Chu Qianxun didn't look up, with wisps of smoke rising from his body, and the sword was constantly fighting with the monster in front of her.
A word came out from the smoke and dust in the sky,
"You contain it, I will solve this one, and I will help you."
The huge monster climbed down the outer wall of the tall building, shaking its beautiful feathers, and a pair of golden pupils on its humanoid face looked roundly at Gao Yan.
Gao Yan's lips trembled and raised her arms. This was the first time she faced a monster alone.
"I shouldn't have followed. Chihiro, shall we run? I, I'm going to run, I'm really running!"
She trembled and screamed indiscriminately, but she exerted her full power in her hand. Gravity increased sharply in a rectangular area where the monster was, and the sudden invisible pressure pushed the big bird lying on the outer wall down. On the ground.
The monster with human face and bird body twisted his neck, stood still, and slowly stood up under the pressure.
Gao Yan desperately used her own abilities, pieces of invisible rectangular squares kept falling from the air, pressing on the monster's body one after another. Although the monster bends down continuously under pressure, it still walks slowly towards Gao Yan with difficulty.
"Ah ah ah." Gao Yan yelled in horror.
A black figure passed by the monster, the arc-shaped silver light flashed, and the monster's claws broke.
"Okay, don't shout so loudly. Two more monsters, you have to run if you don't run." Chu Qianxun kicked the monster, and the tip of the knife picked out the Tier 4 monster from the monster's abdomen and threw it to Gao Yan. Stepping on the demon body, he threw the fifth-order demon seed that he had just acquired, and said with a smile: "How is it? Good harvest, right?"
After returning to the residence in the base, Gao Yan completely recovered. Thinking of going out this time, she actually got a whole Tier 4 demon seed and a complete Tier 4 demon body, and her heart couldn't help but be beautiful. This is her. Going out with the squad to hunt the demon ten times may not be a reward.
Turning her head to look at Chu Qianxun’s badly wounded face, she felt a little distressed. Although the saint’s ability to recover is far different from that of ordinary people, if you don’t spend a magic seed to ask a healer to treat such an injury, I’m afraid it is also necessary It hurts for many days.
"Is it okay? I'd better invite someone to come and have a look. I didn't have much effort. Take my magic seed to the healer."
"It's okay, I'm used to it." Chu Qianxun reached out and opened the door indifferently.
Then she slammed the door quickly, looked at each other with Gao Yan for a while, took a step back and looked at the house number, and made sure that it was really her own house and that she didn't go wrong.
Then he carefully pushed the door open again.
How messy was Chu Qianxun's room originally? Basically, I walked into the house. There was no clean place except the bed for sleeping. Gao Yan's room was even more exaggerated than her, and even a bed was full of clothes.
This is not to blame for the two of them, most people in this era live such a life. There are still a few people who can spare their energy to take care of their lives.
But at this moment she opened the door, and her room was so clean that she could hardly recognize it. The side of the wall was neatly tired with a stack of cardboard boxes. All the waste she had thrown in the corners were collected into it, and the category was clearly marked on the box with a marker.
The tabletop and floor can be seen from the unprecedented light, and even the windows of the windows are dazzlingly polished. The sheets and pillowcases were obviously cleaned and re-laid, and a small bottle was placed on the small square table for eating. In the early winter season, a lovely flower could be inserted in it.
When they went out, Gao Yan gave her the key to Chu Qianxun’s house, and Chu Qianxun handed it to Ye Peitian. She knew that Ye Peitian might have to clean up his own house on the first day.
"If you need anything, go and get it in my room. You're welcome." She explained.
"Then I will help you clean up by the way." Ye Peitian replied casually at the time.
As a result, the man cleaned up like this by the way!
"I want a lemon, Qianxun. You are the man you were looking for there. Tell me, I'll find one too." Gao Yan said sourly.
At dinner, Gao Yan resolutely avoided, "Let you cultivate and cultivate your feelings. When it is finished, am I still afraid that there will be no meal?"
Ye Peitian sat at the table and served Chu Qianxun a bowl of corn rib soup.
The wound on Chu Qianxun's face was a bit painful, and he hissed slightly while drinking the soup carefully.
"Tomorrow I want to go together." Ye Peitian said suddenly.
"Ah, what are you going to do?" Chu Qianxun carried the bowl of hot soup, "Those are low-level monsters, which are of little help to you. You can adapt to the life here before..."
She didn't finish her words, her hand was empty, and the warm bowl was taken away.
Ye Peitian twisted her hand and looked at the scarred back of her hand for a while, then suddenly lowered her head and kissed the wound. He raised his eyes and glanced at Chu Qianxun, then kissed them bit by bit along the scars.
Chu Qianxun's originally hot and painful wound felt a cool feeling, and the pain immediately diminished, and the injury quickly improved with the wet kiss.
Ye Peitian's healing power is not limited to his blood.
"Don't lick it, it's itchy." Chu Qianxun laughed.
But that man rarely did not mean to obey her, but approached more intimately, took her face up, didn't dislike the brutal wounds at all, and gently kissed those wounds carefully.