the only savior

Chapter 1024 The Investment Plan of the Rat Exterminator Team
"Really? You can buy it for only 16 points?"

After the man's voice, several other companions on the table put aside their previous disputes and discussions, and moved their heads together to look at the reward redemption list above.

"It seems that it really only costs 16 points. I remember seeing a mission just now. If we can go to the black market in the East District and collect information about the super mutant base, we can reward more than 20 points. Does that mean..."

"That's right! What are we waiting for here? Hurry up and finish the mission first, come back and submit the information! Otherwise, if you give others a step ahead, you'll lose a Corona suit!"

"However, after all, the East District is the territory of super mutants. Those brainless muscular idiots are no different from monsters. They ate every survivor they could see. We just rushed over like this, will it... "

"Coward, what are you worrying about! We used to collect fungus in the East District before, but now we just go there again with a different excuse. If you dare not go, then wait until we finish the task and sell the fungus. You don’t have any of the supplies that Lorna’s battle clothes exchanged for!”

"..."

Several people quarreled again.

It's just that this time is different from the previous ones. The original person who questioned the origin and motivation of the Star Alliance has now become the one who wants to do the mission the most.

Listening to the conversation of a few people not far away, the man who had been sitting in the middle of the tavern drinking slightly raised the corners of his mouth, showing an imperceptible smile.

"interesting……"

The man gently put down the wine glass in his hand, as if he was passing the boring time. A few meters away, he just quietly listened to the discussion of those people.

In the eyes of those people, the two sides are so far apart, and they and others are discussing in such a low voice, they should not be heard.

However, who would have known that the man's physique had already exceeded their expectations by far.

Even if the two sides are separated by seven or eight meters, you can still hear what they are saying just by listening intently.

No way, this is the natural information gap between the two.

Although the Star Alliance has been on this planet for several years, due to the special environmental factors here, all electronic equipment cannot be used in the range of the red light zone, and news should not be expected to be delivered quickly. .

Therefore, the survivors of City No. [-] still don't know much about the abilities of these awakened ones.

He was still making judgments based on his past impressions of genetic warriors and mutants, but he didn't know that the conversation he had just had had been heard by the other party.

But at least one thing these people said was right, that is, this man was indeed an awakened person from the Star Alliance.

And his identity is the first batch of bounty hunters of the Star Alliance on this planet, the captain of the rat extermination team from the Wildfire Tavern, Maurice Martin.

Morris led his team to join the interstellar exploration plan of Wildfire Tavern three years ago, becoming the first group of expeditioners here.

They signed a one-year expedition agreement with the tavern, and they carried out missions here. Although the dangers they encountered were much greater than those on the water blue star, the rewards they got would also be more generous.

Three years ago, the few of them completed the elimination of a super mutant camp around the World Tree base, won the appreciation of that existence, and were directly granted the qualification for promotion.

From an ordinary mortal, he has become a dark spirit who can control extraordinary power.

That experience gave them opportunities and progress that far surpassed others, allowing them to take the lead in the next actions and earn a lot of points.

And apart from these points, the most important thing is the improvement in strength after becoming a dark spirit.

After three years of unremitting efforts, the strength of the Rat Exterminator team has all been raised to the level above the average spirit enlightener.

This progress is already one of the few in all bounty hunter teams.

Regardless of the fact that the average strength of the Rat Exterminator team doesn't seem to be high, Morris, the strongest captain among them, is only close to a high-ranking spirit enlightener.

Compared with those who have passed the examination and joined the three holy halls in a serious manner, they are much slower.

But you must know that those who can pass the test by virtue of their strength and become awakened people can be said to have super talents.

They are the elites carefully selected by the Star Alliance among the billions of people around the world, and their perception and cultivation of dark spiritual power is far beyond that of ordinary people.

Put it in Xiuxian novels, this is a genius with extraordinary talent, and it is natural to get twice the result with half the effort when practicing.

Most of those Morris who obtained the opportunity to awaken by relying on their own record are just ordinary people with mediocre aptitude, and they are naturally incomparable with geniuses.

However, this does not mean that their team is weak.

On the contrary, compared to the awakened people in the Star Alliance main base, these bounty hunter-born awakened people also have their own advantages.

Because they live in such a harsh environment all year round, they face all kinds of dangerous tasks and strange enemies every day, and they already have their own fighting methods.

At least in terms of actual combat experience, these bounty hunters are very rich.

Now, a long time has passed since the agreed expedition plan.

Some of the bounty hunter squads that came with Morris and the others had completely slept in a certain corner of the planet.

Some went back early to recuperate after being injured.

Only a small number of people who were lucky enough to receive generous points rewards like them, and became a dark spirit as they wished, possessing the power to control the extraordinary.

Morris gently put down the rusty wine glass in his hand, and a small flying insect that could not be named was soaked in the light red rumque in the glass.

The tabletop looked like it was stained with old grease.

The stubborn stains seem to have taken root and sprouted on it. Even if you scrape off a layer of the entire tabletop, it seems that they cannot be completely cleaned.

Morris squeezed out the flying insects in the cup with two fingers, and then threw them on the ground full of melon seed husks—this was his masterpiece of being here for an hour just now.

He is already used to the living environment here.

Dirty, chaotic, and full of corruption everywhere.

It seems that as long as you search casually in the ditch by the roadside, you can find a rotten and smelly corpse.

This is the life in the dark zone of the ancient prism at this stage.

Survivors deal with death every day, and they are also accustomed to this different way of life from the past.

The Wildfire Tavern in City No. [-] was just established, and it hasn't been remodeled or refurbished yet, so the environment isn't much better.

And the rat extermination team is the manager here.

After they earned a lot of points through missions, they could have waited for a while before returning to Water Blue Planet, leaving this doomsday scarlet world, and returning to their dens to live a good life for a while.

However, after several days of discussion among the people, everyone decided to stay.

There is no other reason. Compared with the water blue planet, the mission here is much more dangerous, but the reward is also more generous.

As a team of bounty hunters with extraordinary power, Morris and the others were unwilling to give up their advantages and return to the Water Blue Planet to earn the pitiful points in their eyes.

Besides, the exterminator team has a better plan, which is to invest in subduing a tunnel worm.

Although this early stage will cost them a lot of points.

But as long as they wait for someone to capture the tunnel worm, even if they don't do any tasks in the future, they will get a steady stream of income.

Things went as everyone expected.

After spending a certain amount of points to buy the contract imprint, Morris and the others bought a few spiritual fruits to cultivate feelings with the tunnel worm.

Immediately afterwards, they spent half of the deposit and obtained information about the location of the tunnel worms.

In the end, he hired a powerful high-level spiritual enlightener to help himself and others restrain it, thus completing the work of subduing it.

After this series of operations, the savings that the rat extermination team had worked so hard for for two years were almost wiped out.

What they got in exchange was an adult tunnel worm that belonged to his team and was more than 200 meters long and 20 meters wide.

As Morris's pet, this tunnel worm can answer the call anytime and anywhere.

Not just for digging underground tunnels, it's also a very powerful battle pet.

Of course, the Rat Exterminator team is reluctant to let their group pet baby play the role of fighting.

After all, although this thing is a little bigger, it is still very fragile when it encounters a foreign species that can really use dark energy to attack.

Besides, this is their cash cow. It's too late for the baby, so how can it be possible to let it participate in the battle.

After having their own tunnel worm, the Rat Exterminator team has almost earned back the cost after a whole year of fighting monsters and upgrading.

This made them very excited and thankful that they had made the right choice in the first place.

Not only them, but also many other veteran bounty hunter teams chose the same path as them.

These people each captured a tunnel worm of their own, and now the number of tunnel worms under the control of bounty hunters on the ancient edge planet has reached nearly half of the total.

It is worth mentioning that Xu was influenced by Zhang Xiaoman who named the tunnel worm "Xiaolan". When these people named the tunnel worm, they all agreed with a certain color in naming format.

Such as little green, little red, big yellow...

Even later, because of the fear of duplication of colors, they couldn't tell the names of the insects, and finally came up with strange names like "little light blue" and "little pink".

Naturally, these people don't know why Star Master's tunnel worm is called "Xiaolan", but since that existence has become like this, it seems that there is nothing wrong with waiting for others to follow suit.

In this way, the Nydus Worm Legion shouldered the important task of connecting the underground network and began the excavation work on this planet.

Now, the tunnel worm "Rhubarb" led by the Rat Exterminator team has opened up the seventh city.

And as the first batch of bounty hunters, they got the priority to open the Wildfire Tavern.

Of course, the rodent extermination team, who are good at investing, won't let go of this opportunity. They won this spot immediately and became the manager of the wildfire tavern in the seventh city.

In other words, Morris is actually the manager of this tavern.

If the guys next to him who said bad things about the tavern and the Star Alliance knew, they would definitely break out in a cold sweat.

However, Morris has been hanging around on the Ancient Lens for three years, and he already knows the virtues of the survivors here, so he doesn't bother to argue with them.

Three years of doomsday life has completely turned these survivors into egoists who put the interests of survival first.

As long as they can keep themselves alive, even if they are working for the real invaders, they probably won't refuse.

This is not to say that these people have lost their blood.

It's just that they have become more forbearing and mature.

In the face of reality, it is inevitable to bow your head. As long as you can survive, there is still hope for everything.

After all, innocent people have already died within three years.

Morris has seen many similar scenes.

At the beginning, those people complained about the taverns and spread conspiracy theories that the Star Alliance is the invaders.

But later, when they realize the benefits brought by the tavern, one by one they will start to perform the law of true fragrance.

He believed that within a month at the latest, people here would be crying and clamoring to join the tavern and become bounty hunters.

At that time, with the improvement of the tavern's performance, the task indicators obtained by his people from the Wildfire Department will also be converted into rewards and added to his small treasury.

Only now, Morris does have some headaches.

He secretly took a look at the environment of the tavern, feeling a sense of nervousness in his heart.

"It's still too dilapidated, why did the Overseer come here at this time..."

At this moment, the only people who can make a bounty hunter like Morris feel nervous are those powerful extraordinary people.

And this time, the person who is about to come to the tavern is not only a powerful dark spirit, but also an existence second only to Polar Star in the entire Star Alliance.

One of the seven star masters of the Star Alliance, codenamed "Yaoxing".

At this moment, Morris experienced the feeling of being led to the countryside for inspection.

The most important thing is that the tavern here has only just been established, and everything is in disrepair.

The house was bought from the leader of one of the largest gangs in the area. Although it was large enough, it hadn't had time to start doing various decorations.

With such a dilapidated appearance, if the star master sees it, it will leave a very bad impression.

"This is too sudden. How could the Star Lord come to a place like me? Is there any new discovery near the city?"

Morris scratched his hair.

While he was in distress, there was a sudden sound in his ears. It turned out that the door of the tavern was opened from the outside.

(End of this chapter)