Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

The mercenaries on the side suddenly started whistling like a cheer.

Especially those guys who have succeeded in bidding and have won a beautiful woman are very proud.

Zong Shen stood there without even taking out any weapons. He tilted his head slightly and looked at the menacing and ferocious mercenary.

"Damn it, I'm going to cut your head off!"

He said viciously to Zong Shen, obviously a fierce fight was about to happen.

No one came forward to stop it, and everyone even wanted to watch a show.

Everyone, including Ram and other little thumbs in the tavern, had joking expressions on their faces.

Zong Shen stood there and had already seen through his true nature. .

The guy had been hit hard on the head and part of his skull was shattered.

His life was saved, but his face was disfigured.

His level is only level 32, and his strength is equivalent to that of a captain-level monster of the same level.

He should be able to fight Bajie for a few rounds, but for Zong Shen, it is simply not worth mentioning!

"Are you done?"

"Then go die!"

Zong Shen said indifferently, and immediately activated [Glory Headbutt]!

This is one of the skills that comes with the [Silver Knight Helmet] he wears.

Just because of the special nature of the skill, he rarely uses this move!

After the headbutt was activated, the battle helmet burst out with light and slammed into the phase-breaking mercenary.

"Bang!"

As the holy light flashed, the mercenary was knocked away viciously.

The impact produced a dazzling light, which was actually a bit dazzling.

At the same time, two damage values ​​appeared on his head.

【-322】

【-50】

This cleared away one-third of his health.

The level and talent of the phase-shattering mercenaries are not high, and as humans they have no health advantage.

This collision caused him serious injuries.

The damage of [Glory Headbutt] depends on the strength attribute, which is 1.5 times the strength attribute. In addition, it can also cause an additional 50 points of holy light damage!

At this time, Zong Shen shook his hand and quickly took out his usual finger tiger and put it on his hand.

He rushed forward and started beating him "bang bang bang".

"ah!"

Shouts of pain echoed in the tavern.

The people around him remained silent.

Two punches killed the mercenary with a sunken skull.

Behind him, there were several people who seemed to be his companions. They originally wanted to help, but when they saw that Zong Shen ended the fight with only two punches, they did not dare to step forward.

Everyone knows that Zong Shen is definitely a strong man!

[Kill the members of the Tree Nail Mercenary Group and break their heads LV32]

[Gain 2980 experience points]

[Get 150 reputation points]

This guy's experience points are quite good, and he also has 150 reputation points.

As for the things on his body, Zong Shen had no interest at all.

Now his horizons and net worth have risen with the tide.

Everything on this mercenary, or to be precise, this dead mercenary named "Bad Head", is all junk. Only a short sword is of excellent quality, but its durability is only a quarter.

Speaking of which, the name "Broken Head" is quite appropriate.

Many farmers, mercenaries, and adventurers are not as sophisticated as nobles.

Their names are often single names or even nicknames.

These people never care about inheritance anyway.

After cleaning up the "broken head", Zong Shen walked towards Ram slowly with blood dripping from his fists.

This move attracted the attention of the mountain warriors.

"Uga!"

One of the highlander warriors, who should be the leader, patted his chest and shouted.

Immediately, other Highlander warriors lined up the crowd and surrounded him.

"1,000 dinars, I want her."

Zong Shen raised his hand and pointed at the dancer with heroic qualifications, and said loudly.

Without looking at the menacing Highland warriors, he reached into his waist with his blood-stained hands, took out ten large coins of 100 denominations and handed them to Ram.

"Very well, Betty is yours tonight."

Ram took the dinar and waved to the Highland warriors. The tall Highlanders immediately stopped. Then he pushed behind the dancer named Betty and pushed her towards Zong Shen. In arms.

Zong Shen hugged Betty with one arm. It must be said that the bodies of these dancers are indeed very soft.

The figure is also graceful and graceful, and it can arouse men's protective desire in minutes.

Betty said nothing, stared at Zong Shen with a smile, and rested her head on his chest.

As a dancer of the Aldrich Dance Company, she is very professional.

Smile and dependence are soft temptations that no man can refuse.

At this time, the bartender came over, handed him a bronze key, and clapped his hands at the same time.

"Solley! Take this gentleman to the VIP room on the third floor."

The bartender shouted, and soon a waiter came over and took Zong Shen upstairs.

The Little Ear Tavern has a total of five floors. The first floor is the pub, and the second to fifth floors are hotels.

They are also considered to be the more famous underworld forces in Wintrobon City.

Although there are occasional lamb hunts, most of the time it is relatively safe to stay here.

People with small ears will not allow other street rats to intrude on their territory.

Of course, they themselves don’t count.

After Zong Shen followed the waiter upstairs with Betty in his arms, the crowd suddenly burst into boos.

These boos are all for the Tree Nail Mercenary Group.

It wasn't until Po's head was beaten to death and Zong Shen left that the members of the Tree Nail Mercenary Group dared to come up and collect the body.

They first took away the dinar from the broken head, and then carried the body to prepare a report to the regiment leader.

As a fourth- and fifth-rate mercenary group, Tree Nails also has hundreds of brothers who are active in the southern cities of the Nord Kingdom. They only came to the city of Winterlow two months ago on a river boat from the upper reaches.

Not long after establishing a foothold, one of the members was beaten to death in the tavern.

This is simply a slap in the face of the Tree Nail Mercenary Group!

After the body was taken away, the waiters in the tavern quickly wiped away the blood on the ground, straightened the crooked tables and chairs, picked up the fallen wooden cups, and tidied everything up properly.

No one wanted to find the city defense army.

A lot of black street fights and secret fights like this happen every day in Bangcheng.

The city defense army will only protect the citizens of the state.

Although the entire city of Winterlow claims to have a permanent population of one million, only less than 100,000 people have obtained the citizenship of the city.

The Endless Continent does not have an elaborate census system.

Usually Jucheng orders a self-inspection to his subordinate Bancheng and then reports back.

This gives an approximate population figure.

These population figures are more than three times smaller than the actual population.

Because the larger floating population and population in settlements are not counted at all.

…

In the guest rooms on the third floor, the so-called deluxe rooms are slightly more spacious.

There is a semi-terrace inside the house, and you can see the street when you open the doors and windows.

A large solid wood bed with cotton and linen bedding is quite neat.

In addition, there is a bathroom with a circular bathtub built in it, and several candlesticks provide limited lighting in the house.

The bedroom is covered with burlap carpet.

As soon as she entered the room, Betty took off her thin leather skirt and leather vest, her movements were so skillful that it made people feel distressed.

She has a hot figure, but her face is a little green and childish.

His skin is as white as the snow on the ice plateau, and the towering peaks are straight and rounded, with a little red on the top of the peak, forming an attractive shape.

The waist and legs are very slender, and there is a faint vest line on the abdomen.

With the legs together, the gap between Bai Hu's legs is particularly eye-catching.

"Sir, do you need a bath?"

"Betty is very knowledgeable about massages."

"If you don't need it, Betty can also serve you directly."

As the dancer Betty said, she knelt down in front of Zong Shen and raised her hands to take off his leg armor.

Zong Shen looked at the attractive body in front of him and could completely understand why those mercenaries and adventurers were willing to spend a lot of money for Chunxiao.

Although his abdomen was a little hot and dry, Zong Shen quickly calmed down these normal physiological reactions.

"Betty, get up."

"That's not what your talents should be used for."

"I am a lord. I have thousands of warriors and tens of thousands of people under my command."

"After you follow me, you will be free and you will no longer have to sell your body to please anyone."

"Will you come with me?"

Zong Shen reached out and grabbed Betty's arm and pulled her up.

His power is naturally not something that Betty can resist.

"First...Sir, I don't understand what you mean..."

"Are you saying you want me to come with you?"

"This matter requires Mr. Ram's consent..."

Betty stood up tremblingly and said with some embarrassment.

"You should have seen my strength just now."

"No one can stop me from taking you away."

"Not even those highland barbarians!"

Zong Shen said seriously.

"No...no sir."

"My younger brothers and sisters are all under Mr. Ram..."

Betty said subconsciously, then she remembered something and quickly covered her mouth.

I don't know why, but Betty was inexplicably panicked when she faced Zong Shen.

Zong Shen's invitation to him had a mysterious attraction.

She didn't know what was going on.

Betty also received many customers and was not timid about this aspect of communication.

But after meeting Zong Shen, everything went out of control.

Only Zong Shen himself knew that this was the lord's instinctive attraction to masterless heroic talents.

"You mean, your younger brothers and sisters are all in Ram's hands?"

"It doesn't matter, I can help you rescue them."

"I only have one condition. You follow me back to my territory and be loyal to me!"

Zong Shen caught the key point of her words and understood her concerns and difficulties.

Hearing what he said, Betty fell silent.

Under the influence of many factors, she trusted Zong Shen's words.

She believed that Zong Shen had the ability to rescue her younger siblings.

"If you can really rescue my brothers and sisters, then I am willing to be loyal to you!"

After a moment of silence, Betty raised her head and looked at Zong Shen and spoke word by word.

At the same time, a line of task prompts also appeared in front of him.

[Aldrich Dancer: Betty, I’d like to send you a mission invitation]

【Accept】【Reject】

Zong Shen naturally chose [Accept], and without caring about anything, he directly took out a set of women's light armor and spare cotton and linen clothes from the storage compartment and handed them to Betty.

He took out the spare crossbow and a bag of crossbow bolts and gave them to Betty.

"Very well, let's take action now!"

When she saw Zong Shen taking things out of thin air, she thought he had precious storage space props on him.

Usually only wealthy nobles and businessmen have storage space props.

Seeing that Zong Shen was serious about it, Betty also became a little excited.

At this time, the follow-up to the mission appeared in front of Zong Shen's field of vision.

"Get dressed quickly."

He waved his hand to Betty and focused on the subsequent tasks.

[Task: Betty's concerns]

[Requirement: Go to the Aldrich Dance Company’s stronghold on the outskirts of the city and rescue Betty’s brother and sister]

[Rewards: [Betty’s Allegiance], [Level 3 Hero Qualification Improvement Scroll (Blue) × 1], Experience Value × 1000, Dinar × 500]

The rewards were all within Zong Shen's expectation. Except for the [Level 3 Hero Qualification Improvement Scroll], this was the first time he had seen this thing. Just by looking at the name, he knew it was used to improve hero qualifications.

Those farmers and warriors can use souls of corresponding levels to improve their qualifications.

But the hero cannot. Other props and items are needed to enhance the hero's qualifications.

This is the function of this scroll, it can turn excellent qualifications into excellent qualifications.

It's better than nothing. It just so happens that the territory has a large number of heroes with average qualifications. A slight improvement would be good.

After checking the follow-up of the mission, Zong Shen looked at Betty again.

Lines of information appeared next to him, allowing him to understand Betty's situation.

[Hero: Betty (Blue)]

[Qualification: Excellent]

【Age: 19】

[Race: Human]

[Level: LV9]

[Experience value: 672/2380]

[Health value: 165]

[Number of people to rule: (cannot be viewed if you have not surrendered)]

【Strength: 9】

[Agility: 25]

[Intelligence: 13]

[Charm: 17]

[Remaining assignable attribute points: 0]

[Remaining allocable skill points: 0]

[Remaining assignable weapon proficiency: 0]

[Detailed attributes: (Click to expand)]

[Weapon Proficiency: (Click to expand)]

[Hero skills: (click to expand)]

[Lord level passive skills: (cannot be viewed before surrendering)]

[Loyalty: (not surrendered)]

There are many attributes related to the lord that are prompted (cannot be viewed if you have not surrendered)

The four major attributes are similar to Howie when he first joined the territory.

It's just that Howie's intelligence attribute is higher, while Betty's agility attribute is higher.

What surprised Zong Shen the most was Betty's age. She was only two years older than Mariel.

This once again proves that what Ram said about training for fifteen years is pure fart!

No wonder she still looks a little childish.

There are beautifying products like cosmetics in the Endless Continent, but they are precious pharmaceutical products that only noble ladies can afford.

These dancers are basically bare-faced. At most, they apply some natural pigment ground from flower petals on their lips. They mainly rely on their original beauty and sexy movements to complete their charm.

Zong Shen thought about it and clicked to view Betty's [Hero Skills] to see what her talent was.

[Passive skill: first impression (increase others’ first impression of yourself)

Body flexibility (can learn to be compatible with some scout skills and have a more flexible body)]

Both passive skills are quite vague.

The first one is to increase others' first impression of Betty. It seems that she can cooperate with [Persuasion] to be responsible for external diplomacy and negotiation.

The second [Body Flexibility] allows Betty to learn some of the scout skills, which means that if there are extra scout skill books in the future and Betty can learn them, they can be given to her.

Maybe Betty should be transferred to Howie as deputy.

It would also be good to train her to be the first-generation diplomat in the territory.

Betty's image is great, and she has the blessing of [First Impression]. As long as she adds more [Charm] and [Persuasion] from the lord's passive skills, she will be a qualified diplomat.

Although Betty had been a dancer and had a bad past, this did not prevent Zong Shen from finding a way out for her talents.

After reading her attributes, Zong Shen turned off the attribute information with a thought.

At this time, Betty was wearing cotton and linen clothes and was putting on leather armor.

Although the leather armor given by Zong Shen was for women, it was slightly larger, and Betty wore it very loosely.

After she was fully dressed, Zong Shen pointed to the crossbow he had thrown on the bed.

"Can you use a crossbow?"

Betty nodded, raised the hand crossbow, checked the trigger, and carried the crossbow bag behind her back.

"I will take you to personally participate in the rescue operation tonight."

Zong Shen originally wanted to put her in his big pocket, but after thinking about it, he decided to let her participate in person.

He estimated the time and found that there were still two and a half hours to move around.

It will take at least more than three hours for the Eye of Cthulhu to get here.

Considering that the distance from Wintrobang City to the territory is more than 9999 kilometers, and it is necessary to return a certain distance in advance to open the portal, Zong Shen reserved an extra hour or so.

Now all he has to do is leave Little Ears' room.

This was not difficult. He already knew by asking the strategy module that no monitoring magic was deployed here.

There are people guarding the area around the tavern.

Moreover, people from the tree-nail mercenary group to which the "broken head" that he killed before also came.

Hundreds of mercenaries were guarding the street in front of the hotel.

Because of Little Ear, a gangster in the underworld, they didn't dare to break in directly.

But if Zong Shen leaves the Little Ear Tavern, they will immediately surround and kill Zong Shen in revenge!

After thinking about it for a while, Zong Shen felt that [Levitation Technique] was the most reliable.

It was already past one in the morning, and all his [Levitation Technique] had cooled down.

Originally, he wanted to open the big bag directly in the room, let the flying tiger crowd the room and fly out directly from the terrace!

After being promoted to the dragon-veined scorpion-tailed tiger, Feihu's size reached 13 to 14 meters, which was basically the same as Yingjiang and Xiao Heizi.

Once it appears, the room will be packed in minutes!

Although it was pleasant to do so, he didn't care about Little Ear's revenge.

But Zong Shen wanted to take advantage of this time to go to the market in Bangcheng to purchase a batch of supplies!

It's a rare trip, and it would be a pity to take only one hero-level talent back.

The territory is now in great demand for supplies, especially food, so we need to reserve more!