Chapter 33: Rupture
Strictly speaking, there are two kinds of employment relationships between the caravan and the adventurer, most of the time it is ordinary employment, when the value of the transported materials is not very high, the caravan will generally choose some adventurers on the same road to go forward, and will not deliberately spend money to hire adventurers, in this case, although nominally the relationship between the caravan and the adventurer is also a relationship between employment and employment, but because of the relatively low danger, the caravan often only gives the adventurer a very small reward.
In addition to ordinary employment, when caravans need to transport some more expensive materials, they will often spend a lot of money to hire some more capable adventurers to accompany them, and the remuneration depends on the value of the goods transported. Before the caravan hires adventurers, it will generally go to the adventurer's guild to make a price assessment of the materials it needs to transport, and then the adventurer's guild will provide it with a list of adventurers who are willing to help the caravan transport materials, and the caravan will select the members it needs according to the list, and then pay the adventurer according to the adventurer's ability and the proportion of the total value of the transported materials.
Wu Song belongs to the halfway team, he did not get on with the Cardomo caravan through the Adventurers' Association, so the Kadomo caravan did not sign a magic contract with Wu Song at first, but later when Lina discovered the value of Wu Song, the relationship between Wu Song and the caravan changed, and he became the main pathfinder thief of the caravan, and the leader Lina also gave Wu Song a valuable commission, but... After learning something from Pearson, Wu Song felt that Lina's commission was too small compared to the total value of the materials she transported!
"This unfortunate caravan is really too much of a king, transporting such an important material as magic energy Xingchen Iron, and has already targeted a bandit gang of the scale of the Black Pine Mountain Gang, but only gives the buddy a commission of three hundred crystal coins, and three hundred crystal coins want to buy Lao Tzu's life? Fuck it! There are no doors! The more Wu Song thought about it, the more angry he felt, if it weren't for the second-level body doubling assistance this time, he would probably have already fallen into the other party's path in the battle with Pearson, and if he hadn't cast a soul summoning spell on Pearson on a whim, he would also be very likely to get into big trouble in the battle between the caravan and the Black Pine Mountain bandits in the sneak attack in the second half of the night. He didn't know if Domi, the person in charge of the Milltown Merchant House, knew what this Kadomo caravan was transporting, but at least Wu Song was sure of one thing, that is, the leader Lina didn't tell the truth when she signed the magic contract with him.
"Stinky! Lao Tzu will soon let you know what kind of price it takes to fool Lao Tzu! Wu Song searched Pearson of all the valuable things on his body, then cursed fiercely, and then sprinkled the corpse and the surrounding blood stains with powerful rotting powder (an alchemical potion that can quickly decompose the corpse until it dissipates).
Under the effect of rotting corpse powder, Pearson's body quickly disappeared, and Wu Song carefully handled the scene again, he didn't want the caravan behind him to find out prematurely that Pearson had evaporated from the world. Now it is only half the way, there are still two hours before dark, if he knows that there is no way to pass through the canyon before dark, the caravan is likely to choose the same way to turn back and spend the night in the wilderness on the south side of the Frank Canyon.
Solve Pearson, Wu Song did not rush back to contact the caravan, but a more hard-working person took on the workload of him and Pearson, he wanted to get the magic star iron, and he had to completely cut off the caravan's retreat, only by letting the caravan collide with the Black Pine Mountain bandits in the complex terrain canyon, he had the skills to attack, and ensure that he had a chance to escape after the attack. Therefore, Wu Song chose to move on, and chose to lead the caravan to a place where there was no return.
In the caravan, the team of thieves responsible for pathfinding is a very independent team, in the West Francian Gorge, the thieves are not only responsible for detecting and disarming traps, they rely on the advantage of stealth to move forward to dismantle traps, if there are no irresistible factors during this period, in order to ensure that the speed thieves generally do not frequently report the process and the large force of defense, and in most cases the caravan is to send some hunters with strong perception and wild survival ability to put between the thieves and the large army, These hunters play a role of undertaking, if the thieves encounter any danger, as long as they send a distress signal, the hunters will rush over to help as soon as possible, and if the thieves encounter any accidents, the hunters will sense the danger, and will also notify the caravan behind them to stop in time, so as to avoid the whole caravan from falling into danger. This also means that as long as Wu Song can ensure the speed of advancement, the caravan behind him will basically not notice the abnormality in the thief team in front.
The next hour was a painful process for Wu Song, although Wu Song had a good ability in perception, and the speed of helping him dismantle the trap was not slow, but doing the work of several people alone still made Wu Song so tired that he almost vomited blood, so an hour later, when he dragged his tired body to meet the hunters behind him, Wu Song almost didn't have to pretend, and he achieved the effect he wanted.
"Thief, what's going on?" When Wu Song ran back, several hunters were carefully checking every inch of land that the caravan was about to pass through, and when they saw Wu Song rushing over, the old hunter who led the team yelled at the front, and the teammates behind him were all best prepared for battle.
"That... That guy is going to kill me! Wu Song ran to the hunters, panting and shouting behind him.
"Who's going to kill you?" As soon as the old hunter raised his hand while asking, a flare shot at the place where Wu Song came, and in the next second, a dazzling white light flashed in the forest, and a flux of more than ten meters around was irradiated, and several hunters faced the strong light, staring at the light without blinking, but unfortunately there was nothing in the forest.
"It's Pearson!" Wu Song gasped, his face full of anger and roared at the puzzled old hunter, "Damn, what kind of bullshit teammate are you matching me with?" It's the first time I've met a teammate who puts a cold arrow in his back! Lao Tzu has to detect traps, guard against mutant beasts and mole people, and now beware of his teammates releasing cold arrows in the rear! I can't fucking do this job! ”
After listening to Wu Song's words, the old hunter looked at the arrow wound on Wu Song's leg, and roughly understood why this new thief was so excited, the old hunter pursed his lips, and did not distinguish the truth of Wu Song's words at all, and directly escorted Wu Song with a few teammates to retreat, he knew that as a pathfinder, it was the most important thing to convey the news to the caravan when encountering such an emergency, and it was the duty of the team leader to find out the truth of the matter and then make corresponding decisions.
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