"Peers?"

Hearing the other party's words, Rhodes was a little surprised, and then he retracted his gaze and carefully looked at the young man in front of him.

He looked a little younger than Rhodes, probably less than twenty years old, and his astringent face revealed the vitality of a young man. Dressed in an intricately crafted suit of armor, but clearly more ornamental than practical, he carried a small round shield behind his back and an ordinary iron sword hanging from his waist, which looked rather presentable.

"Are you ........."

"Oh, by the way, I haven't introduced myself yet."

In response to Rod's inquiry, the young man smiled apologetically and scratched at his somewhat shaggy hair, and continued.

"My name is Metzel, I'm the Divine Radiant Shield, the captain of the mercenary team, and we were planning to go to the Black Pine Ruins for the past two days, and we happened to hear what you just said······ I'm not trying to sell anything, but I think it would be safer and more appropriate to go there with more people, if you're interested........."

The young man did not finish his words, because at this time, a drinker next to him had already interrupted him with a smile.

"What, you're dreaming of adventure again? Metzel? Not everyone can go to that place in the Black Pine Forest, so you better go home and let your father know the truth, and be careful that he will break your leg again! ”

"Hahaha!"

Hearing the drinker's words, the others also burst into laughter, and began to ridicule the young adventurer, and the young man named Metzel was not angry at the merciless ridicule of these people, on the contrary, he showed a very helpless and depressed expression, but did not want to say anything.

In the ridicule of everyone, Rod finally knew the identity of this young man. He is the son of the mayor of Stone Town, and he is a second-generation official from his background. However, this second-generation official is more adventurous on weekdays, and he has pulled a group of his friends to form a nominal mercenary team that runs around all day long. Of course, there weren't many real adventurers among his subordinates, most of them were the children of Stone Town officials and merchants. In other words, these people formed mercenary teams not out of livelihood considerations, but more out of love of adventure. In fact, to put it bluntly, it's similar to many second-generation rich second-generation officials on the earth who are idle and have nothing to do to do drag racing——— but their behavior is at least beneficial to the town, and occasionally they will expel some beasts from other places or something, which is a very promising idea.

Frankly speaking, that "Divine Radiance Shield" really scared Rod, how powerful and domineering this name is, it really makes people feel that a king is rushing to his face·········

However, Rhodes also knew that the more powerful the general name is, the less accomplished it is. Take the player guilds of the Dragon Soul Continent as an example, none of the top ten guilds in the whole server have a very powerful name, they are all very ordinary, from the "Starlight" below, what "Crescent Moon Knights", what "Storm", what "Evil Shadow"...... It doesn't sound like the kind of name that makes people shake and shake when you hear it, but they do a good job. On the other hand, most of those guilds with names like "Overlord of the World" and "Eternal Legend" are obscure to everyone and have no achievements. In fact, many times players have nothing to do, and they have discussed what to do, and most of the names of those big guilds are commonplace, but those guilds with powerful and domineering names have always not developed. In the end, the discussion came and went to blame for the fact that these people like to spend too much energy on names, and it is not a waste of place - this is a bit like a writer who spends hundreds of thousands of words to write an outline, the world view, the various ethnic settings, and the continental structure, and as a result, he can't write half a word in the text. …,

"I'm sorry, Mr. Metzel, I have my own plans for going to the Black Pines Ruins, and I don't want to be disturbed, and I can't guarantee that our goals don't conflict...······"

Rod naturally resolutely rejected this young man who seemed to be quite kind, he could see that this young man was actually quite young, and his personality was straightforward and he didn't know how to hide his thoughts——— from the fact that he secretly looked at Anne beside him from time to time, and occasionally there was a little shyness on his face, it could be seen that this was a complete rookie.

Of course, Rhodes didn't intend to waste time for a few rookies, and he didn't go to the Black Pine Ruins for leisure tourism, so he simply rejected the other party's suggestion.

This gave the young man a look of disappointment, but he quickly picked himself up and smiled at Rhodes and nodded.

"That's right······ Then sorry to bother you both, and I hope you all the best. ”

He bowed to Rod very solemnly, then secretly glanced at Anne, who was also struggling with honey bread, and then turned away with some disappointment.

Looking at the young man's back, Rod raised his eyebrows.

The Metzel is still good, but his performance is too naïve, can such a person really stay in the mercenary circle? You must know that those adventure legends are more "legends", and there is always a gap between reality and dreams.

Thinking of this, Rod couldn't help but glance at Anne again, after such a long period of contact, he found that Anne is actually not stupid at all, she is very smart, but many times she pretends to be confused, or in other words, Anne is not like many smart people who want to show themselves to do something. More often than not, she is lazy to care even if she understands, she has lived in the mercenary group since she was a child, and she will definitely know more about the mercenary world.

So what does Anne think?

Thinking of this, Rhodes shook his head and didn't say anything more, he turned his mind to the mercenary group. According to the boss, the mercenary group only came here in the past two days, which is a very strange thing. Because the ban of the mercenary association has not yet ended, it stands to reason that the major mercenary groups should still be in the recuperation stage now, even if they go out of the task, they will not get points, and they may even be punished for violating the ban, who has the courage to dare to do things under the nose of the mercenary association?

Of course, this is none of Rod's business, he is not a member of the Mercenary Association, and whoever likes to make trouble has nothing to do with him, but the other party went to the Black Pine Ruins, which made Rod have to frown, what are they going to do there? What if they are aligned with their goals? Rod never meant to give away the fat in his mouth, and even if he didn't pour his mouth, he didn't plan to let it go, and if those guys were in line with his goals, then the next big trouble······ …

If he really had to do it, Rhodes wouldn't mind retrieving what belonged to him in another way.

Or let it belong to him.

He'd used this technique many times in the game, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with moving here to use Rod.

But Rod thinks that he still has to communicate with Annie, after all, this is not a fair and honest thing, but Rod doesn't think it's so unbearable, being a mercenary is sometimes the same as being a player, everyone is basically half a catty, no one can show how noble, that's not scientific. However, in this case, it is necessary to communicate first, or at least prepare the other party psychologically. Otherwise, you and your accomplices go out to steal something, and you suddenly want to rob halfway through······ Then everyone will definitely not want to go together. …,

After taking a comfortable hot shower and washing away the fatigue of the day, Rhodes came to Anne's room and knocked on the door. Soon, Anne's response came from inside the door.

"Who is it?"

"It's me, Rod."

Rod coughed and replied.

"I have a plan for tomorrow's action, and I'd like to discuss it with you."

"Commander? No problem? Come on in. ”

Hearing Anne's answer, Rod pushed the door open and walked into the room, then he closed the door with his backhand, turned his head and was about to say something, but Rod didn't say anything. He just looked helplessly at the scenery in front of him, and then reached out to hold his forehead.

“……… Annie? ”

"Huh?"

“…… Won't you catch a cold like this? ”

At this moment, not far from Rod's eyes, Anne was lying on the bed, holding an apple and gnawing happily, but this was not the point that Rod's wanted to complain, the biggest problem was ———that the girl in front of her was naked, naked, and it could be seen from her long golden and damp hair that Anne had obviously just finished taking a shower, but it seemed that she seemed to be more interested in returning to the original.

"Don't worry, Captain, Anne won't catch a cold.

Anne didn't seem to have any idea about what Rhodes was saying, she just straightened up and replied with a grin, while raising her head proudly and shaking her upper half

"Anne used to do this in the forest, and she never caught a cold. It's the same here, really, it's really uncomfortable to wear clothes for a long time, or it's a little more comfortable to take off naked. ”

Along with Annie's movements, the two plump protrusions on her chest also shook from time to time, showing Rhodes her presence.

"Anyway, you're a young lady."

Rod reached out and grabbed the sheets, then threw them directly at Anne's head, covering her whole body.

"It's better to be reserved in front of men, so that it will be more attractive, and if your appearance is seen by others, I don't know what will happen to Lu Dao."

"Anne wouldn't do that."

Pulling the sheet off her head, the girl looked dissatisfied, and then complained.

"Anne is not the kind of casual person, because she is the head of the regiment, Anne can rest assured, if it were someone else, they just wanted to see Anne and didn't plan to let them see it."

Hearing Anne's answer, Rod's brows furrowed slightly.

"Oh? What am I doing for the sake of the Devil? Let's go ahead and start with that, if you think I lack the threat of being a man, I wouldn't mind telling you about it with the facts, right? ”

But Anne, who heard Rod's answer, did not show any shyness at all, on the contrary, she chuckled a few times, and then showed a smile that made people feel suddenly heartbroken, full of wildness and charm, but unusually straightforward.

"Huhuhu, if it's the head of the regiment, Anne is completely acceptable?"

The girl chuckled, supported her body with her hands, and looked at Rhodes, who was standing not far away. The sheets slid down the girl's naked body, revealing the girl's snow-white skin again, and I don't know what it was, Rod saw a bit of unusual wildness in Anne's eyes.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became strange.