Cataclysm King

Chapter 82 Conspiracy
"Townsend" is a mining town.

Most of the residents in the town rely on the buried iron mines to survive, surrounded by a city wall more than ten meters high.

The houses are made of stone, with mud-red gabled roofs.

Ji Xun tested the grenade, and after verifying the space rules, he walked towards the city gate without any further delay outside the town.

At the door, an old man with a white beard and several militiamen are welcoming these "bounty hunters" who came from afar.

According to the information provided by the Black Wolf Hunters, this old man is the mayor, Barn.

When entering the city, hunters have to sign their names on the employment contract.

Then Enlightenment will display the task prompt of "Accept Employment".

It is roughly equivalent to signing an employment certificate.

After hunting the werewolf in this way, he can use the werewolf's claws to get some extra rewards such as gold and silver coins, ore, etc. from the old man.

There was a table at the gate of the city, and the hunters rushed to sign their names and rushed into the town.

When Ji Xun came, most people couldn't wait to go to the city to find opportunities.

But looking at the densely packed names on the parchment, he suddenly thought of a question.

What happens if you don't sign it?
Theoretically speaking, if you don't sign, you won't get the reward from the mayor, and you may end up losing tens of thousands of dollars worth of rewards.

But Ji Xun didn't come here to collect money.

I didn't expect a space with C-level catastrophic difficulty to reward any good things.

Ji Xun thought together: "It seems that Qidi didn't say that he can't go out without signing the employment contract, right?"

Look again at what enlightenment shows.

After confirming the conditions for going out, there is only one point: hunt and kill a werewolf.

There are no other strings attached.

He had read the information before, and the werewolf in the C-level dungeon would not be violent, and the strength was about four or five high-level card master apprentices who could kill it together.

This level of threat is not a big problem for Ji Xun's current strength.

Moreover, there are a lot of werewolves, so it is very simple to simply pass the level.

Since everyone has chosen to sign the contract, why not try something different?

Anyway, C-level difficulty is for getting familiar with the plot.

If you don't try at this time, the difficulty is even more impossible.

Thinking of this, Ji Xun walked to the table, picked up a quill pen and made two random gestures.

The NPCs also didn't find out whether there was one more or one less among the densely packed names.

No signature, no enlightenment.

In this way, Ji Xun mixed into the town.

The plot of this [Greedy Mine] space seems very simple.

It was werewolves who attacked the town, and the residents paid for witchers to hunt them down.

A story with cause and effect.

But there is a lot of other information hidden in it.

Like, why are werewolves here?What happened in the burial mountain mine?
As Ji Xun walked, he was also thinking about the problem in his mind.

The breaking point of the plot mode must be the plot.

Hunting a werewolf is just the basic requirement.

If you want a high clearance evaluation, it is the right direction to dig deep into the "truth of the mine mutation".

Therefore, to explore the plot, we have to work hard on the residents of Townsend Town.

But this extra-dimensional space has been explored many times, that is to say, all the ordinary information held by the residents of the town should have been explored.

But those information still failed to allow the Black Wolf Group to achieve a high evaluation clearance.

So if you want to find a breakthrough, you may have to find some breakthroughs that are different from others.

A total of three days of exploration time,
Ji Xun is not in a hurry.

He walked on the streets paved with crushed ore, looking at the small town residents coming and going, thinking.

There are vendors selling fruits and vegetables on the street
Ji Xun walked over and asked a few questions tentatively.

For example: how much is an apple, what is the king's name, is there a magician or witch in the city, what's wrong with the mine.
The answers I got were: five copper coins, His Majesty Aoun, I heard from the bard that yes, you can ask the mayor of Barn about this.

A perfectly logical answer.

It's like a whole world.

This is also where Ji Xun was most amazed.

The spell card masters seem to have gotten used to it.

But to Ji Xun, a traveler, this surprised him even more than the different-dimensional space itself.

It was as if he traveled through time again, and he came to a magical town in the European Middle Ages, where there are magic, werewolves, and witches.

These NPCs are exactly like living people, with flesh and blood, warmth, and emotional intelligence.

It's like a corner of a whole world.

But if not every time a hunter enters, the story of Townsend Town will repeat itself.

Ji Xun will definitely think that this is a real world.

Different people come and do different things every time, which will lead to different development of the space plot.

This is why the plot of the main storyline remains the same, but many branch lines are completely different.

"Different planes, or parallel spaces? Or the mirror world created by some high-latitude creatures?"

Ji Xun didn't know how to understand the world he saw right now.

This kind of doubt beyond cognition made him feel more in awe of the mysteries of the universe.

This kind of "different-dimensional space" that transcends time and space makes people incomprehensible, but they are deeply shocked.

Ji Xun walked on the street for a while, and the shock in his heart gradually dissipated.

He didn't waste any more time.

At this time, he had reached the center of Townsend Town.

There is a bell tower more than 30 meters high, which also seems to be the tallest building in the town.

Seeing that there was no one around, Ji Xun jumped suddenly. His super agility and strength allowed him to climb up to the bell tower with a little help from the rocks outside the bell tower.

The field of vision suddenly widened.

Ji Xun overlooked the entire town, and also wrote down the general layout of the building.

When he came to a strange place, observing the environment was a habit he developed.

Scanning the street, Ji Xun quickly found some colleagues.

The costumes of the hunters were changed by the rules of the space, and the NPCs could not see anything abnormal.

But Ji Xun, who is also a hunter, can tell the difference at a glance.

The hunters who had flooded in before were now going around the town to collect wealth.

It is said in the intelligence that most of the things in urban residential houses are plot items and cannot be taken out.

But there are some rare items that can be brought out of different dimensions.

The hunters are frantically collecting those things.

Saying it was a "demon hunter", it was more like a group of robbers came in.

Anyway, as long as they stay for three days, the hunters regard this place as a carnival for plundering.

Moreover, most of the residents here are ordinary people, and they don't even have room to resist.

Not just looting wealth, but also sex.

The hunters of Innocence City are a group of guys who have no legal and moral constraints, and they are even more unscrupulous in the different-dimensional space.

All behaviors that can vent desires are being staged.

You can find good-looking women anywhere, and Townsend has no shortage of them.

From the bell tower, Ji Xun saw in the windows of several private houses, those hunters not only plundered, but also raped and humiliated the female house owners.

Seeing this scene, he didn't know what to think of, and grinned: "Human nature!"

This is happening everywhere.

Ji Xun's gaze wandered around the town.

At this time, he saw the five members of the Black Wolf Group walking straight into the only tavern in the town, with a playful look on their faces.

This is the management staff lined up by the Black Wolf Group.

Said there were only five.

But Ji Xun knew that it should be seven.

A total of fifty hunters gathered together from the Windmill Tavern in Innocence City before, but a few of them did not come in.

Ji Xun clearly remembered everyone's attire.

So apart from the five "administrators", he was sure that among the 45 hunters who came in this time, there were two outfits he had never seen before.

If it's not someone who joins the group, there is a high probability that it is the "plain clothes" of the Black Wolf Group.

So, why did the guys from the Black Wolf Group pretend to be hunters and sneak in?

Obviously, there are some shady things that make it inconvenient to use the identity of the Black Wolf Group.

Ji Xun found out when he came in before.

But I also feel that it doesn't matter.

Some people mess up things, which is exactly what he wants.

These guys should know how to trigger some hidden branches.

What's more, Ji Xunben also feels that in such a profitable alien space, the Black Wolf Group only collects some tickets, which is not at all the style of the simple and honest hunters of Innocence City.

It wouldn't be normal if there weren't some black and black routines in this wilderness.

But the space limits the rank of the entrants, and the strongest administrators are only the first rank.

Ji Xun also felt that the risk was within the controllable range.

What he has to do now is to learn some information as soon as possible, and make preparations before those guys do things.

As Ji Xun guessed.

The administrators of the five black wolves walked into the tavern, and they came to the second floor of the tavern familiarly.

Close the door, there are already two guys in hunter costumes waiting here.

It was the two who Ji Xun found strange in their costumes.

"The leader said, let those guys clean up the werewolves on the first and second floors first. Tonight, let's get some aconitum and lure out the B-level calamity werewolves on the third floor of the mine, and let those scattered people drag them. Then we will go in and see the situation on the fourth floor."

"Captain, do we need to be so anxious? Go in person?"

"Don't be in a hurry. The leader speculates that this space has too many low-difficulty entries, and it may collapse. If you don't try to find a way to challenge the high-difficulty, you may never have the chance to find such a good werewolf material in the future. You must take this risk."

"You guys don't know how powerful the [Spades 4-Werewolf] refined from the two pieces of silver material was. The vice-captain of the fourth team, Xiao He, fused that silver professional card. Just after fusion, the combat power after transformation is close to that of the veteran first-level spell card master in the team. Moreover, the werewolf material is much higher than the upper limit of ordinary monsters. In general, the increase in the werewolf card is at least [-]% different from other beastwalker cards of the same quality."

"Hiss is so strong? It's a pity that silver materials are not easy to produce."

"Don't worry too much. We're just exploring the plot this time, not killing monsters. What's more, the leader went to the Thunder Tigers to borrow the assassin's exclusive relic. We are going to the fourth floor to be safe and guaranteed. Just be careful, it's not a big problem. I estimate that when we go down to the fourth floor, our customs clearance evaluation will be very high by then, and the probability of producing silver materials will also be high."

"But if the B-level disaster on the third floor of the mine is brought out, I'm afraid not many people will survive this time. If it spreads out, our group's reputation may not be very good."

"Live? The leader means that no one will be left except ours."

"Otherwise, do you think that the people who came in the last two batches really encountered an accident to trigger the B-level difficulty, with so many casualties? Hehe, as long as they all die, the things here will not be spread. Besides, the higher the death rate, the higher the evaluation we have to pass the level."

"Ah."

"But having said that, the last time the ninth team came in to hunt down the B-level werewolf on the third floor, they suffered heavy casualties, and the team didn't dare to organize a B-level challenge again. What happened when the A-level plot was triggered?"

"No one knows. When the three elite teams of our regiment came in, all of them died, and the information didn't come out. Only one outsider came out alive. He didn't see what happened, but only knew that a werewolf of A-level disaster level appeared in Townsend Town. He followed the smell and killed all the hunters. Later, after questioning by the team leader, he found out that the surviving guy rushed into the city without signing his name, so he got away with his life. Otherwise, we wouldn't know how to get out of the space alive."

"The werewolf's combat power is indeed terrifying. Among the monsters of the same level that I have seen, it is definitely ranked among the top three. A B-level calamity can already match the combat power of a second-level spell card master. If it is an A-level, it will be impossible to kill in this limited space. We can only start from the plot."

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Townsend.

Just when a group of hunters were hunting for treasure in full swing in the city.

Ji Xun was teasing the children with candies on the street.

"Children, do you want to eat sugar mom?"

"think."

"Where's mom?"

"Mom is dead."

"How did mother die?"

"Die from the plague."

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"Do you still want candy?"

"I want to, but the mayor's grandfather won't let you talk to outsiders."

"Ah, enough is enough, I can't hold it anymore."

"I told you quietly, you can ask the alcoholic Jack in the town, he has the best news. You can find him at the big windmill in the town."

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NPCs in different dimensions are intelligent.

Except for certain messages beyond the cognition of this world, which cannot be seen or heard, they are completely indistinguishable from normal human thinking.

In Ji Xun's eyes, this is the biggest breakthrough.

Residents in the city are afraid and jealous of outsiders, and they are obviously secretive when they mention certain topics.

But the kids don't.

After asking a few more questions, Ji Xun found out that a plague seemed to have occurred in Townsend Town a year ago, and many people died.

This is not in the information.

People from the Black Wolf Group have been here so many times, so they must know.

But they did not write these key information in the sales information.

Because this may be the key to breaking the plot of "Greedy Mine".

Ji Xun suspects that there may be some connection between the plague and the appearance of werewolves.

Apparently, the plague is gone.

Ji Xun wanted to ask who cured the plague, but many people avoided talking about it.

From the mouths of the children, I learned that it seemed that a passing "witch" had cured the plague, and that Baron Ross, the lord, had sent a team of knights with bright armor.

But these are dead leads.

Ji Xun roughly sorted out the timeline of the story in his mind.

A plague broke out in the town, and witches and knights came. When the plague was cured, they came when the werewolves appeared.

These events are like scattered beads, but there is a key causal thread behind them that connects them.

There is another important clue.

The children said that there are terrible monsters in the buried mountain mine.

This is also where the task of "Investigating the Truth about the Mutations in the Mine" in Enlightenment points to.

Ji Xun didn't intend to rush to the mine where the monsters gathered.

He intends to ask about the situation first.

The townspeople are wise, and the robbery of this new wave of "demon hunters" spread throughout the city in a short time.

Probably because the demon hunter came to help hunt the werewolves, and the mayor suppressed the anger of the residents, so there was no big disturbance.

But once the news spread, it was impossible to ask any questions from the residents.

Anyone who sees a stranger in a strange costume will run away.

Forced questioning may also yield some information.

But Ji Xun felt that this method might trigger some kind of special plot, or trigger the space mechanism.

And definitely a bad direction.

After all, there was a stern warning in the intelligence, not to kill the townspeople casually, otherwise they might be kicked out of Townsend Town.

Presumably someone has tried it before.

At that time, there will be no shelter from the town, and everyone will be in the wilderness, and it will be difficult to survive for three days.

Ji Xun was also helpless about the stupid and greedy behavior of those "companions". This action almost ruined the possibility of triggering all valuable plot branches.

But he also thought of another way.

Since it is an intelligent NPC, there must be human greed.

Relying on the lock-picking technology, I went to visit several houses and got a large bag of coins.

These gold coins that can't be taken out of the space are probably useless to other hunters, but they are very good tools in Ji Xun's hands.

He found "Drunk Jack."

With this huge sum of money, another key clue was asked: "For information about the mine, you can find Uncle Sam in the blacksmith shop. He can not only silver-plate your weapons, but also the only person who has been to the depths of the mine before and survived. Oh, don't say it's mine. After all, this topic is taboo in Townsend Town."

And at the same time, Ji Xun also asked an interesting piece of information.

Although this alcoholic Jack knew that he was an adventurer from another place.

But he didn't even think of him as a "demon hunter"!
Ji Xun also guessed that this may be related to the contract signed at the city gate before.

After signing the contract, the space has blessed the identity of a "demon hunter".

Walking along the small river in Townsend Town, Ji Xun saw a blacksmith workshop with exhaust gas rising from the chimney.

It is written in the information that hunters who use firearms can come here to ask the boss of the workshop to help silver-plate the bullets.

Silver-plated bullets deal burn damage to werewolves.

Ji Xun didn't come in a hurry before, because he didn't think it was necessary.

The process of silver plating is not complicated, he can do it himself.

Just came over and happened to meet two colleagues.

The two came out of the blacksmith shop cursing.

"Fuck! I wasted so much time in vain, I thought I could find out something. That damned information dealer, he must settle accounts with him when he returns to Innocence City! He also said that he sold top-secret information, and said that the owner of the blacksmith shop went to the fourth floor of the mine. In the end, he didn't ask anything."

"I've told you that we can think of finding clues. People who came in before must have thought about it long ago. You just don't believe this. If you don't grab the things, you will lose at least tens of thousands. If you want to get back your money in the next few days, you can only take the risk of going to the mines to hunt werewolves."

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Ji Xun listened to the conversation between the two who were walking farther and farther away, with slightly different expressions.

He was not surprised that someone knew that the blacksmith might have clues, after all, he had done it so many times.

But the intelligence merchants in Innocence City are so powerful?

Do you know this kind of information?
Sure enough, after exploring many copies, the secrets became less and less.

But since the intelligence merchants said so, Ji Xun felt that the owner of the blacksmith shop was very important.

If you didn't ask, there is a high probability that the way of dialogue is wrong.

(End of this chapter)