"Pick a mission." Asker looked away, forcing himself not to think about the inexplicable question of "why his team is full of beautiful NPCs".

"Can I choose all the tasks?" Nora also stared at the screen and began to transcribe the contents of the tasks scrolling on it.

"yes." "The tasks are all freely available, and the only problem is cost-effectiveness." ”

"Value for money?" Eleanor was puzzled.

"First of all, everyone should understand that the content, difficulty and reward of the task are all given by the task publisher himself." Asker pointed to the screen and said, "The Mercenary Guild is only a third-party platform for information exchange, and it generally does not and cannot review or restrict the authenticity of the mission, so there will inevitably be a problem of lying about the mission information." ”

"For example, it is clear that the enemy is a goblin tribe with ogres, and the mission publisher is afraid that there will be no mercenaries to take it, and they lie that there are only two or three goblins, so it is the most common lie to deliberately reduce the difficulty of the mission." Asker continued, "Another example is that the quest pays 100 pounds, but the quest is issued by a farmer in a nearby village. How is it possible that a farmer could afford to spend 100 pounds to post a task? There is no doubt that the other party made a false price, and made up the idea of paying less or even defaulting on the bill afterwards from the beginning. ”

"If we waste a lot of time on such cost-effective tasks, it will be very detrimental to the development of the team." Asker finally concluded, "A senior who played mercenaries once said that the best mercenaries are not the ones who can fight the most, but the best at actually receiving the reward for their tasks. ”

Nora nodded intently beside her, and wrote a sentence in her notebook: How to actually get paid for the task (emphasis circle).

"So how can we distinguish from the massive list of tasks that are truly cost-effective and worthwhile?" Eleanor asked.

"This can only be seen by experience, and practice brings true knowledge." Asker stared at the screen and said, "Huh, Heavenly Mountain? ”

"Heavenly Mountain?" Nora looked at the screen, but didn't see a word related to "heaven", only to see that Asker had already communicated with the lady at the counter, as if to designate a certain task, and the latter replied fluently:

"The Blue Sword Mercenary Regiment, No. MS-995017-247, requests to take on the mission 'Black Sea Fishing Vessel Missing', No. 1000000012763212. The task publisher has a message, do you want to answer it? ”

"Listen." Asker said.

So the lady at the counter took out a microphone from under the table and clicked on the corresponding audio file in the computer:

"I am the head of the village of Burgas, in the province of Thrace. Last month, several fishermen from our village were fishing in the Black Sea, and they disappeared that day and never returned. The latitude and longitude coordinates of the last letter sent by the fishing boat were 43 degrees 32 minutes 11 seconds north latitude and 32 degrees 2 minutes 26 seconds east longitude. ”

"The family of the missing person and other villagers in the village were paid about three pounds. If you can find and rescue them, we're willing to pay 3 pounds to thank you; If you only find their remains, we are willing to give you 30 silver dinars as a thank you. ”

"That's it." Asker said.

"Then please scan the QR code at the bottom of the counter to download our 'Constantinople Mercenary Guild' APP." The lady at the counter said, "Your default account is the mercenary group name spelling, the default password is 8 8, after logging in, you can post task logs online, and listen to related task audios." After completing the task, you only need to bring people or remains to the guild, and the reward will be sent to your APP account, please remember to bind a bank card. ”

"A month has passed, and the probability of survival of the accident should be very low." Medea analyzed, "If we just find the remains, I'm afraid it won't even be enough for us to go back and forth." ”

"Anyway, we're just practicing, and it doesn't matter what tasks we take." Asker smiled and said, "Maybe there will be unexpected gains." ”

An unexpected bonus? Medea frowned, picking out what Asque meant. The others were on mercenary assignments for the first time, and they didn't know anything, so they didn't raise any objections.

The Black Sea is located north of Constantinople, and to the north is the Principality of Kievan Rus', and the trade between the two countries is mainly in the fur and timber business, and there are also fleets running corresponding routes. Asker and the others searched in many ways at the docks of the Golden Horn, and finally found a merchant ship willing to carry them.

"43 degrees 32 minutes 11 seconds north latitude, 32 degrees 2 minutes 26 seconds east longitude?" The owner of the ship looked at the coordinates and said, "I did see a new island in the waters near there when I was on my route to Ochakiv recently. ”

"A new island?" Nora was immediately intrigued when she heard this, "Have you ever been to the island to see it?" ”

"Little girl, it's not a good thing to be too curious at sea." The owner shook his head with a smile and said, "Anyway, it's not the earth's crust changes, it's some supernatural event that caused this new island to appear, maybe there will be some dangerous transcendent creatures on it." For example, there is a large viper island near that sea, which is full of spiritual snakes, and if you bite it, you will die instantly, and the poison is so violent that it is said that even the soul will be annihilated. ”

"Snake Island?" Nora immediately felt goosebumps rise all over her body.

"yes, so this new island may not be safe." "The missing fishermen you're looking for do have the possibility that the boat ran aground and forced to go ashore, but I can't let my sailors risk it," said the ship's owner. At most, I'll send you to the shallow waters near the island, and then I'll give you a small boat to get to the island on your own. ”

"A day later, my freighter will return from Kievan Rus' and will wait for you near the island for a maximum of two hours. If you don't show up, we'll go out on our own. Also, you will have to pay 5 pounds for a one-way ticket. Pay 1 pound upfront and another 4 pounds after disembarking. If you make it back from the island alive, you'll have to pay another 5 pounds. ”

In other words, even if the missing fishermen can be found, the mission is destined to lose 7 pounds. Medea didn't speak, but squinted at Asker, only to hear him happily agree:

"Yes, it's a prepaid 1-pound bill."

Sure enough, Asker's plot wasn't a task reward at all. Is there a problem with the identity of the fishermen who are missing? Or is it a problem with the island itself? Medea was secretly suspicious.

"Yes." The owner of the ship accepted the bill and said, "My cargo should be loaded, you can come with me." ”

The freighter docked at the quayside, known as the White Iliana, is a perennial offshore freighter that travels the Black Sea. In the center of the deck is a recess for containers, along which sailors run back and forth along the aisle close to the side of the ship, responsible for keeping the ship moving.

Asker and the others boarded the ship, and immediately attracted the curious eyes of the surroundings. These sailors were ordinary people, with neither supernatural strength nor any firearms, so it is no wonder that the ship's owner said that it was impossible for these sailors to "take risks".

After reporting to the port office in Constantinople, White Illiana set sail. It was 6 p.m., and it was time for dinner, so the mercenaries had the privilege of enjoying a "dinner at sea" with the sailors in the cabin: boiled hard salted pasta, a small bag of tomato sauce, canned pork stewed with beans, and canned sardines.

Peggy boredly picks up the beans from the canned pork and eats them, with no expression on her face. Eleanor had an appetite, dipped the pasta in tomato sauce, and began to deal with the sardines again. Nora opened two cans, just smelled them and lost her appetite, stirring the pasta with a fork and eating it slowly.

"Give." Medea handed Nora a red sausage, "I bought it with a sailor." ”

"Thank you." Nora politely thanked her.

"It can't be 'bought' with your psychic ability, is it?" Aske teased.

"You care about me?" Medea rolled her eyes.

Asker ate a little bit of each dish and filled his stomach. Looking out on the side of the ship, night had gradually fallen, and the sailors had gone back to their cabins to rest, leaving only a few men on duty for the night. The owner of the ship asked the first mate to bring some sleeping bags, which did not look like the sailors' bedding, but probably the captain's own treasures.

So they lay down in the cabin with their clothes. It was about 3 a.m. when Asker was awakened by a knock on the door and opened his eyes.

"Your destination has arrived." A sailor opened the hatch and said.

Peggy crawls out of her sleeping bag and pushes Eleanor next to her awake. Medea sat up, covered her mouth and yawned, and her beautiful burgundy hair was messy. Only Nora seemed to be a little out of bed, and Eleanor woke her up for a long time, and the whole person was a little depressed.

When they stepped out of the cabin, they saw the outline of the island looming in the night on the sea to the left side of the ship. The first mate commanded the sailors, put five people's dry rations, cables, oil lamps, two oars and a few flares on the small boat hoisted on the side of the board, and then shouted for everyone in the mercenary group to get on board.

After paying the remaining four pounds, the boat carrying the crowd was gradually lowered and plunged into the icy water. Even Nora, who hadn't woken up yet, had now woken up, looked at the undulating sea around her and asked:

"Shall we row over next?"

"Of course." Asker said. He and Eleanor each picked up a pair of oars and paddled the water to propel the boat towards the island.

Although the island was not far away, it took everyone half an hour to reach the shore. Luckily, there was a sandy beach on the edge of the island, so the boat was washed ashore by the sea.

"The cable must be tied to the tree on the shore, otherwise the boat will be washed away by the high tide." Asker said. Working together, one end of the cable was tied to a nail in the bow of the boat, and the other end was tied to a tree trunk on the shore a few times.

Asker looked at the beach and settled down. The island...... Sure enough, it's the same as in the game in the previous life. The only difference is that in the previous life, countless player guilds rushed to land on this island, and there was almost a group PK incident on the shoal, and in this world, only their own team of five people came to land on the island.

The owner was right. Eighty percent of new islands like this sudden appearance for no apparent reason are the result of supernatural events. The danger is definitely dangerous, but the benefits may not be profitable, so the NPC mercenaries who don't think it's worth it will basically not come.

However, for undead players, the danger is a joke at all. Players only care about whether the benefits are big or not, since your island is brought by supernatural events, there is a high probability that there are high-value things on the island that meet the corresponding difficulty.

In the end, it turned out to be true.