Chapter 29: The Quiver
"Wu Song, a thief in Milltown." Wu Song smiled and stretched out his hand to shake it lightly on Lina's white and tender little hand, and then let go.
If this is changed to the time in the global village, if someone is condescending and changing their faces so quickly, Wu Song will most likely be cold-eyed, but in the past few months, I have seen too many similar things, Wu Song has become numb to the behavior of the Spelberg Continent that changes their faces faster than taking off their pants, and he now considers things to be completely measured from the perspective of interests, as for the attitude of the partner, Wu Song completely ignores it, this guy's current concept is that getting benefits is the king, as for what others think, it is better to let them go, anyway, you can't drop a piece of meat if you are scolded twice or take two blank eyes.
"Okay, Mr. Wu, I think you have also seen the current form, it is obvious that someone wants to be against us, you are a temporary person, and you do not belong to our caravan, I have no right to ask you to advance and retreat with the caravan in such a dangerous situation, so if you want to leave, you can leave at any time, but if you are willing to help us cross the West Frankish Gorge, then our caravan is willing to give you a rather generous reward, what do you think of three hundred crystal coins?" I can pay you half of the money first, and as soon as the caravan passes through this canyon, I will pay the other half at once, and you think about it, and if you agree, we will sign a magical contract immediately. ”
After shaking hands with Wu Song in a friendly manner, Lina couldn't wait to say what she thought.
The caravan generally has to pay a corresponding proportion of commission when hiring adventurers to accompany them, adventurers like Payne and Phantom Light are invited by the caravan at a great price, but for Wu Song, a "teammate" who joined halfway, Lina had no intention of spending money to hire him, she just regarded Wu Song as a bastard who hitchhiked, and did not take this level 10 thief too seriously, including asking Wu Song to come over to help before, in Lina's eyes, this is just the price that Wu Song should pay for hitchhiking.
But... The current form is not for Lina to pay attention to the little thief in front of her, the thief she spent a lot of money to invite was killed and injured, but this little thief who didn't spend a penny helped a lot, in this case, the relationship between the caravan and Wu Song has undergone a big reversal, at this point, it is not only Wu Song, the little thief, needs to be attached to the caravan, but the caravan in turn needs Wu Song's help more, because of the form, even if Lina is the caravan leader, she has to lower her posture and talk to Wu Song about cooperation.
"I promised." For Lina's proposal, Wu Song only thought for a few seconds before agreeing, although this time the battle with the mutant insects in Boulder City achieved a certain victory, but he expected that it was unlikely that the insects around Boulder City would completely retreat, which meant that it was still possible to enter Boulder City and confront the insects, in this case, it was obviously more reliable to move forward with the large army, not to mention, Lina offered such an attractive price, three hundred crystal coins, which was almost equivalent to half a month's income for Wu Song.
After signing the magic contract with Lina, Wu Song naturally put the one hundred and fifteen crystal coins into his pocket, and then happily continued to explore the path with a few thieves.
Before becoming a superpower, Wu Song's tasks were all low-level tasks, although these tasks were not difficult to complete, but the same reward was not very good, after completing more, he would be given twenty or thirty crystal coins, and when he was few, he could not even give five crystal coins, so for Wu Song, who was extremely short of money, these three hundred crystal coins could indeed be described as a windfall.
The phantom light was carried back to the caravan by Lina, and the remaining four thieves continued to move forward in two groups, this time Wu Song and Pearson were in charge of the west road, while Lusha and Payne were in charge of the east road.
The west side of the West Frank Canyon is the green hilly area inhabited by the mole people, so the further west the canyon is, the more traps there are, among the four thieves, Wu Song has the fastest detection speed and the strongest perception ability, while Pearson is the strongest ability to disarm the trap, and the west side where the two people get together to solve more traps happens to be about the same as the advance speed of the other group.
The time required to dismantle the trap is always more than the time required to probe the trap, under normal circumstances, the allocation of personnel in the thief team is basically two to one of the pathfinder and the dismantling of the trap, but now there is not enough manpower in the caravan, so it can only be a path to be dismantled, and Wu Song and Pearson discussed it, and finally decided that Wu Song would help solve the magic trap while exploring the path, and the rest of the traps would be handed over to Pearson to dismantle.
Wu Song and Pearson cooperated tacitly, the two of them spent less than two hours to explore almost half of the distance in the canyon, this speed made Wu Song feel very happy, it was only three o'clock in the afternoon, although it was dark earlier in winter, but Wu Song believed that how could two more hours solve the problem, as long as all the mechanisms could be removed before dark, and the caravan could pass through the canyon and enter the jurisdiction of Boulder City.
Wu Song was full of enthusiasm to complete another 500-meter distance, holding a note marked with the coordinates of the trap and returning to the original way to find Pearson, only to find Pearson in front of a big tree staring at a mechanism box on the trunk and frowning.
"What's wrong? Is there a problem with this trap? Wu Song stood seven or eight meters away from Plzeň and asked, he vaguely remembered that this should be a relatively simple quiver mechanism.
"You're just in time." Pearson turned his head and saw Wu Song, so he tiptoed back towards Wu Song, and said as he walked, "This doesn't seem to be a simple quiver mechanism, I opened the mechanism box and found that there was a magic device hidden inside, I'm good at this, so you should go and take a look."
"And the magic trap?" Wu Song hesitated for a moment, he didn't find that there was a magic mechanism when he probed before, but Pearson said that it was a compound trap, and he didn't think much about it, and after Pearson retreated to a safe area, Wu Song performed a light body technique, and then walked in the direction of the trap box.
The quiver is a relatively simple engineering trap, this thing is the same as most engineering traps, it is triggered by the vibration of the footsteps, and the thief after performing the light body technique, the vibration of the ground when the footsteps hit the ground is extremely slight, and it is not enough to trigger the trap, so Wu Song didn't care much about this trap and went directly to the trap box, but when he walked to the distance of more than two meters from the trap box, he suddenly heard a muffled sound of stones hitting the ground not far behind him.