I found a tavern nearby and sat down, and finally waited for the sun to go down when the adventurers' union gathered in front of the gate and slowly dispersed.

Raising his head and drinking the glass of water in his hand, Ruan Chi took Jialan and An Peiqi back to the door of the Adventurers' Union.

"I'm going to take on this task!"

Ruan Chi walked to the task application window and said to the staff inside.

"Show me your adventurer's card."

"Give."

After the staff took the document handed over by Ruan Chi, he just glanced at it, then returned it and said, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency's adventurer level is not enough to receive this mission. ”

Ruan Chi was stunned for a moment, and walked back to the billboard, and found that the adventurer whose joint mission to clear pirates required at least C-rank.

And Ruan Chi's current adventurer's certificate is still D-class.

Since pulling Rachel and them to set up the 38 Women's Adventure Group in Fortinchel, Ruan Chi has not done adventurer missions for a long time, and naturally his level has not been raised.

"It's really troublesome, now you can only care about your academic qualifications when looking for a job in another world?"

After knowing that he couldn't get the task of clearing pirates, Ruan Chi had no choice but to find another mission on the bulletin board.

Fortunately, due to the frequent piracy activities, many fishing boats operating in the fishing industry need to recruit adventurers to help escort them, so Ruan Chi deliberately found one of the escort routes closest to his destination, and then took the task.

Although the problem of going to sea was finally solved, after coming out of the Adventurers' Guild, Ruan Chi still felt pity, because he was very interested in the task of clearing out the Apollo pirates. Especially the merfolk artifact.

Artifact. Just listen to the name. Epic gear of at least orange quality, right?

Just as Ruan Chi returned to the hotel where he lived with regret, night fell, and at this time, it was located in the west of the Gulf of Aden, on a rich land built on the Gulf of Aden, in the center of the town known as the city of Aden, in a well-guarded castle.

"Madam, the Adventurer's Guild has completed the selection process, and a total of 100 adventurers with strength above the C level have been recruited." Now. A middle-aged knight was standing behind a richly dressed masked woman.

This masked woman is none other than the lord of this city of Aden, Marquis Isabella.

"Only 100 people?" The veiled woman frowned slightly, her magnetic voice tinged with a special charm. She looked coldly in the direction of the Gulf of Aden, and said coldly: "The Apollo pirates have been entrenched in the waters near our Gulf of Aden for hundreds of years, and it is difficult to wipe them out with this little people, not to mention that we are going to attack their lair this time. ”

"Madam, can't we really ask the king for an increase in the number of troops?" The middle-aged man's eyes lit up and he said in a deep voice.

A thick sadness flashed in Isabella's eyes, and she said lightly: "The king of Aden is not a stupid person. They live inland, how could they send their own soldiers to come here to help us out of pirates. If it weren't for the news that we specially distributed the merfolk artifact this time, he might not even be willing to mobilize those 1,000 soldiers. ”

The middle-aged knight was still unwilling, and said, "We can apply to the Federation, I don't think they will refuse." ”

"Give up, the Federation has already wiped out the Apollo pirates once more than ten years ago, isn't it a failure? Those federal soldiers who are accustomed to fighting on land will not be able to defeat those pirates who have been active at sea all year round, and besides, now that the federal election has just ended, it is impossible for the newly appointed Prime Minister Tianlongzi to send troops to a remote town like ours to deal with pirates at this time. Isabella shook her head.

"......" When the middle-aged knight heard this, he was silent for a long time, and he didn't know what the lady said.

For the sake of a group of pirates, the Federation will not make a big move, and the reason why the Federation sent troops more than ten years ago was because Prime Minister Ron had a certain friendship with their old lord. Now that Ron has stepped down and the old lord has passed away a few years earlier, this friendship has naturally disappeared.

"Who are the pirates who attacked the fishing boats of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce?" The masked woman asked suddenly.

The pirates that inhabit the Apollo Peninsula are made up of three evenly matched pirate groups: the Flying Fish, the Trappers, and the Wraith's Sons.

All three pirates were commanded by a pirate king, who was the ruler of the Apollo Peninsula, the unscrupulous emperor of the earth, who claimed to be the first part of the Gulf of Aden.

They often led pirates to rob fishing boats in the Gulf of Aden, which made many fishing merchants complain, but after this situation lasted for hundreds of years, the inhabitants of Aden City had long been surprised, and it was not reasonable enough for Isabella, the lord of Aden, to personally order an army to surround them.

However, the fuse that triggered this encirclement and suppression action was that as early as half a month ago, their largest fishing merchant in the Gulf of Aden, the only son of the president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce, was attacked by the Apollo pirates when he went to sea to play, and now the people have been caught, and the pirates extorted a ransom of 200,000 gold coins from the Zuan Chamber of Commerce.

This incident shook the entire Aden City, and the president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but he was more worried about his only son, their Zuan family was such a single seedling, if it was torn up by pirates this time, there would be no one to inherit the Zuan Chamber of Commerce's family business.

It's just that the ransom of 200,000 is too scary, because this figure is almost half a year's financial income of some small countries, although the Zuan Chamber of Commerce is one of the largest chambers of commerce in Aden City, but it is really difficult to come up with a ransom of 200,000 at once.

Besides, the president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce is a typical miser character, he has worked hard for most of his life to establish such a large business empire, if this money is taken out, their Zuan Chamber of Commerce will probably be in a state of despair from now on.

The president of the Zaun Chamber of Commerce did not want to lose his son's life and the ransom of 200,000 yuan, so he had no choice but to put pressure on the lord of Aden, that is, Lady Isabella.

Coincidentally, Lady Isabella's father, that is, the old lord, had a good relationship with the president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce in the past, so in this kidnapping incident, both public and private, Lady Isabella should help.

Although, she doesn't quite agree with the president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce.

But help is help, but this matter is far from being as simple as Lady Isabella imagined.

According to the experience of hijacking fishing boats in the past, as long as you sit down and negotiate, you can still put a pressure on the ransom, and the pirate lion's mouth is nothing more than trying to land a bargain.

However, when Lady Isabella sent someone to negotiate with the pirates, the news she brought back was not like this.

It turned out that the son of the president of the Zu'an Chamber of Commerce somehow offended one of the three pirate kings of the Abra Pirates a few months ago and played with one of the wives of others.

Now, it's okay, you let the dignified pirate king wear such a green hat, this is completely a mortal enemy, and there is no room for negotiation. The other party quickly gave an ultimatum, saying that none of the ransoms of 200,000 yuan could be missing, otherwise the ticket would be torn apart.

On the same day, the president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce also received a letter, and when he opened it, a bloody finger fell down, and the president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce fainted on the spot.

Lady Isabella was equally angry when she learned of such an incident, but it was the son of the Zaun Chamber of Commerce who was most angry to her.

Even if you play with a woman well, how can you play with other people's wives? It's okay to break in, you stay on land, and it's impossible for other pirates to come up to you, you just go to the sea to play, now it's okay, you were caught and blackmailed, not to mention, but also chopped off your fingers, isn't this an idiot?

But angry is angry, Isabella still needs to deal with this matter, after all, the president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce is an old friend of his deceased father, and he also helped him sit in the position of lord back then.

However, things got to this point, and Isabella soon found herself powerless.

The president of the Zuan Chamber of Commerce is a miser, and it is impossible to expect him to take the ransom money to replace him, and it is also impossible to get Isabella, the lord, to pay for the ransom.

Besides, they don't have that much money to ransom a playboy back.

If negotiations and compromises fail, then the only solution left is to forcibly save people, but the Apoll pirates are notoriously fierce, although the city of Aden has a guard of 500 people, but compared with the tens of thousands of pirates on the Apoll Peninsula, it is not even a fraction of the people.

In desperation, Isabella thought of borrowing troops from the king, but was rejected at first, and the king's reply was quite high-sounding at the time, saying that what happened in her territory was for the lord to find a way to solve it.

Lady Isabel was so angry that she threw the letter to the ground from the king's reply.

Everyone who understands knows that this is all an excuse, and the king of Aden does not want to borrow troops, simply because everyone in the world knows that the Apollo pirates are a hard bone that cannot be gnawed, and he does not want to waste his troops doing such a thankless task.

In the end, she came up with a solution, which was to fabricate rumors about the ruins of the merfolk pearl sea country, saying that the merfolk artifact had been found and that the artifact had been snatched by pirates.

This matter reached the ears of the king of Aden, and it immediately attracted "attention", and the next day a team of 1,000 people was sent, although it was still less than expected, but it was better than nothing, after all, the king of Aden was not a fool, and the artifact was priceless, but it was impossible to move the people for this rejuvenation.

However, even with the addition of these 1,000 people, it is still very unrealistic to encircle and suppress the pirates of the Apollo Peninsula, so Lady Isabella has no choice but to tell the lie all the way, and let the adventurers' union arrange tasks to attract those powerful adventurers to come and help.

This was the cause of this anti-piracy operation.

Hearing Lady Isabella's question, the middle-aged knight's eyes were solemn, his tone was a little heavy, and he said slowly: "According to the news, the pirate offended by the son of the Zu'an Chamber of Commerce this time is the son of a ghost. ”

"Ghost Child, that disgusting necromancer?" Lady Isabella frowned deeply, the current situation is not very optimistic, and she did not expect even worse news. (To be continued......)