"I am."

Old Walker turned to look and saw a beautiful young man who did not look like a man sitting in front of him, he had never seen this man before, but the blonde girl beside him was a little impressed.........

"Who are you?"

"I'm Rhodes. Elant, is the leader of the Starlight Mercenary Regiment. ”

"Starlight?"

Old Walker frowned, thought for a moment, and then nodded as if he remembered something.

"Oh......... You're the ............ who took over the Bow of the Moon."

With that, Old Walker raised his glass and gestured to the blonde girl beside him.

"I remember, you're that spirit master girl, oh, I hope you don't be too sad, the mercenaries are like this, busy, wind and rain, no one knows when they will die........."

"Mr. Walker, we're here to find you this time because we need your help."

"Oh?"

Although he was a little unhappy with Rod interrupting him, the elder Walker reluctantly opened his eyes and turned to the young man.

"What's the matter?"

"I want you to join my mercenary group."

Rod didn't hesitate and said it very directly. But old Walker, after being stunned for a moment, suddenly opened his mouth and laughed.

“……………… Poof, ha ”

As if he had heard a joke, he kept hammering the table, and even spilled the wine in his glass. Lijie watched the old man's sudden behavior in surprise and surprise, but Rhodes was very calm, and he even had time to wave to the bartender, signaling them to ask for two glasses of fruit wine.

It wasn't until the bartender was ordered to leave that the old man barely calmed down, and he gasped for several breaths like a bellows, and then leaned back and leaned back in his chair.

"Did I hear me right, boy, you want me to join your mercenary group?"

"Questions?"

Rod raised an eyebrow.

"Of course."

And only then did the old man sink his face, he straightened up, and looked at the young man in front of him defiantly.

"Do you think I'm that kind of old fool? I want to ask you a question, how many people are in your mercenary group right now? ”

"Two."

Rod's answer was very quick and without any hesitation.

"That's not right?"

The old man spread his hands.

"Two people? Mercenary group? What do you take on the mission? Complete the mission? It's not long before late spring, and now your Starlight points are still zero, not to mention that you've failed once before. No one will come to the door to provide a commission, and now the tasks issued by the Mercenary Guild ......... Frankly, boy, you simply can't do it. ”

Saying this, the old man waved his hands.

"Don't look at me as old, just think I'm so confused that I don't know anything, boy, I've been here for decades, and I know exactly what's going on here every day, so I'm sorry, I won't get on your broken ship."

Old Walker's speech was unceremonious, which made the girl next to her unable to sit still, and she looked anxious to say something, but could not say anything. On the other hand, Rod still looked bland, he even had time to pick up the wine glass, taste the light and sweet fruit wine, and then speak.

"Mr. Walker, what are you afraid of?"

“…………… What do you mean? ”

"I just want to know what you have to be afraid of."

Rod's tone was as flat as ever, but there was a hint of explicit mockery in his voice.

"It's true that I'm in a bad position to end up being forced to dissolve during the year-end recess, but ......"

Rod held out a finger.

"Even if it is disbanded, it will be a year later, will it? What if you fail? Either we die, or we are disbanded and we are left to live like ordinary mercenaries. What does this matter to you? Look at the way you are now, even if we are disbanded, you are just going back here and continuing with your current life, right? Or are you afraid of death? ”

"Don't think you're going to provoke me with that little trick, boy."

The old man's face became more and more gloomy.

"Over the years, I have seen everyone, I am not afraid of death, but I don't like to be deceived, you have no future, of course I will not choose this path without a future." …,

"It's a good excuse."

Rod clapped his hands as if in praise, but his expression didn't change in the slightest.

"When you abandoned the Wind of Light, you made this excuse for yourself."

"Bang !!"

Hearing Rod's words, the old man's face changed, and he slammed the wine glass on the table, startling Lijie.

"They abandoned me! You little bastard, you don't know anything at all, don't talk nonsense here! Get out of here! ”

"Treating yourself as a victim is a trick that everybody can play."

But in the face of the angry old man in front of him, Rhodes did not waver in the slightest.

"But what right do you have to complain? Grievance? They gave you a chance, they gave you time, but what about you? Look at you now, like a panicked jackal after being injured. Lying in your own nest, not daring to move, you are scared, you have lost confidence, so you dare not face it. Isn't it? ”

"Huh!"

The cold dagger clung to Rod's throat for a moment.

"Shut up, boy."

The old man's face was gloomy, like a fierce wolf.

"You're not qualified to say that to me."

"That's what I should say to you."

For the threat of the old man, Rhodes didn't pay attention to it at all, in fact, he knew very well that the old man's life experience was ——— in the game, he was a rare cost-effective NPC in the early stage of Deep Rock City, and his attributes were quite good, but this does not mean that his IQ was necessarily good, in fact, in his personal task "Rediscover the glory of the past", this old man's actions were considered by many people to be a representative of idiots——— in that mission, the mercenary group he used to be in was attacked by the monsters, And after getting the news, the old man decides to go to the rescue, and of course the player wants to go up and help. But what makes many players unhappy is that it is only a few dozen minutes away, and this old man is as entangled as the marriage of his little daughter-in-law, and he stops on the side of the road at every turn and worries about whether he should really go back? Do they still want to see themselves? An old man in his fifties and sixties is like a woman, and his mother-in-law and mother-in-law are eager to step forward and strangle him to death.

And the price of the entanglement is that when he arrived, all his former companions became snacks in the stomach of the monsters, and it was only at this time that the old man finally reflected on his mistakes, and then the small universe broke out, and those monsters died together, which can be called a heroic drama of the prodigal son's return.

But it's a pity that this play was not popular with players at all, because of the old man's hesitation and delayed on the road for three or four hours, and finally surrounded by the Warcraft herd, the players couldn't hold back their anger, they didn't respect the old and love the young, and the old man was evaluated only with two words and a high middle finger.

Rhodes is also one of them.

It was precisely because of this mission that he knew very well what had happened to old Walker, and his companion had given him enough patience and time, but the old man had lost his self-confidence because the blow was too deep, and he shrank himself in his shell like a turtle, completely rejecting the kindness of his companion, and he never recognized his mistake, but blamed everything on others. Although he repented until the last time, but this kind of thing appeared in the novel to improve the artistry, no one in reality wants such a thing to happen——— you have a fart to repent, and the most repentant is not dead after the end? The person you want to save is also dead, you are also dead, and you have wasted so much of our time, what did you get in the end?

And now that Rod said these words, on the one hand, it naturally stimulated him, this old man's character is really a bit of a turtle, if you don't push him to be anxious, he can't jump up at all, and on the other hand, he also has the meaning of communiqué personal vendetta, and Rod who was the whole task at the beginning was also miserable enough, and there was no response to the scolding in the game, so it's good to vent when you see a real person.

"At least I'm going to face it, not like a coward and hide in a corner and drink alcohol."

With that, Rhodes stood up and took out a few silver coins and threw them on the table.

"I'll give you a day to think about it, and if you figure it out, you can come to the Cyrell's Mansion and find me. If I don't see your shadow tomorrow, then I don't want to see you again. ”

With that, Rod turned and left. And Lijie, who was frightened by the scene in front of her, also hurriedly stood up and followed Rod out of the road.

After the two had left, old Walker sat back in his chair, his teeth clenched, his hands trembling with anger, but after a moment he let out a long sigh, then buried his head between his arms, and never spoke again.