Chapter 445: Temporary Member and Buyer

Xia Nan's thinking was actually very comprehensive.

Combining gold coins, equipment, and combat technique levels, he made guesses about the rewards Luo Lin wanted.

This was naturally correct, and could even be called meticulous.

It's just that, perhaps limited by his own perspective as a person involved, he ignored the most important point.

For Luo Lin, where was Xia Nan's value?

Was it the gold coin reward he proposed at the beginning?

To be honest, for an adventure ship group like "Oath-Breaking Blade" whose core members were entirely composed of senior professionals, if they really wanted to accumulate wealth in a short time, saying there were ten thousand ways might be an exaggeration, but there should still be a hundred or so.

Four-digit gold coins were a huge sum, but compared to the following, it was far from enough to make the captain of an adventure team of this level feel moved.

As for enchanted equipment and combat techniques...

The former belongs to a very taboo thing among adventurer groups. Many times, even if they don't tell their teammates who have been together for many years, it is a trump card relied upon to save their lives in mission after mission.

But after half a day of getting along, the battle was not intense to the point of needing to fight for their lives. Even Haian and the twin warriors didn't know what enchanted equipment Xia Nan had specifically, let alone Luo Lin.

Naturally, she wouldn't have any requirements for him in this regard.

And combat techniques have considerable limitations.

With the gradual improvement of professional levels, going deeper and deeper on their own professional paths, senior people have often formed a set of combat styles unique to their own, combined with professional categories and combat habits.

For the choice of combat techniques, a very compatible fit is needed.

Warriors can't learn the rogue's use of shadow energy, and rangers won't swing a barbarian's two-handed heavy axe in the crowd.

The combat techniques Xia Nan has are of course good, but for other adventurers who have already embarked on their own paths, they are not necessarily suitable.

Even if they really got the training method of 【Spinning Slash】 from him, the final processing plan would just be continued interest exchange, using it to exchange for gold coins or other resources.

Right now, for Luo Lin, Xia Nan's greatest value——

Is himself.

What is Xia Nan?

A lv3 young adventurer under twenty years old;

A person who treats professional levels as challenge levels and has actual combat ability even stronger than many lv5;

A professional who has had cooperation experience with some teammates of "Oath-Breaking Blade" and has the endorsement of Hela, the boss of "Three-Footed Sea Dog."

In this case, for the "Oath-Breaking Blade" ship group whose team member mobility is extremely low, needs a lot of time to investigate before having the opportunity to join and become an official member, and happens to be lacking manpower, what could be more valuable than Xia Nan himself?

Of course, Luo Lin at least hasn't thought about initiating a formal invitation to the other party right now.

Since this black-haired young man's strength is not bad, and his credibility is much higher than those drunk adventurers in the tavern, and their team is in urgent need of combat power supplementation, and the other party happens to have a request.

Then maybe...

Can he come to their ship to be a temporary crew member?

Wait until he has withstood the double test of time and danger, and then consider the follow-up.

"There are still three months until the 'Moon Tide Feast'."

Luo Lin crossed her legs, her brown-red eyes gazing at Xia Nan in front of her.

"You come to my ship to help do something, and when the time comes, I will take you to the feast, how about it?"

Hearing this, Xia Nan's heart couldn't help but pause, and his thoughts flickered, already clear.

It means he has to go on her ship to work for three months.

It... is not impossible.

Compared to gold coins, equipment, and combat techniques, he could actually accept this more.

Although he basically went out adventuring as a "lone wolf" before, many times, limited by commission requirements or other factors, he also had many experiences of cooperating with other adventurers.

It's just that except for a few who were still okay, the endings of most temporary teammates were relatively miserable.

Xia Nan does not resist cooperating with others, especially when there is a clear purpose.

The reason why he doesn't have fixed adventurer teammates is on one hand because of his own combat style with 【Tooth Hunting】 as the core, which has high mobility. Fighting alone can better exert his speed advantage, fight if he can, decapitate if he can, and retreat directly if he can't. The enemy probably can't catch up, so he doesn't need to worry about others.

On the other hand, it is also because

Therefore, even with a friend like Alton, whom he trusted fully, he had absolutely no intention of forming a permanent team.

But for the sake of the 【Dream Weaving Corridor】 key, three months... is within a range he can accept.

While pondering, Xia Nan had already made a decision in his heart.

Yet he did not reply directly, instead turning his head to look at the Halfling beside him, who had barely spoken since entering the room and had left the initiative entirely to him.

"Alton, do you have any thoughts?"

"Anything is fine, I'll listen to you." The Halfling sat on the sofa, swinging his legs listlessly. His eyes were sometimes drawn to the birds darting past outside the window, and at other times he studied the patterns on the tablecloth in front of him; his inner thoughts were completely written on his face, looking as if he had no opinion at all.

The little guy's goal was also to attend the "Moon Tide Feast," but compared to Xia Nan, who was looking for a key, the other party was just passing through on a trip, wanting to join in the fun, and having happened to run into Xia Nan, an acquaintance, they had teamed up together.

As long as he could attend the banquet, he did not care about the method.

Come to think of it, given the other party's status as a favorite of the Goddess of Luck, Xia Nan even suspected that the little guy didn't need to do anything at all; as long as he truly wanted to attend, he would naturally appear at the banquet when the time came.

However, to a certain extent, the fact that the other party could so coincidentally run into him again, both aiming for the "Moon Tide Feast," was itself a form of luck.

Having anticipated Alton's answer in his heart, Xia Nan nodded slightly upon hearing him say this, his gaze turning once more to Luo Lin across the table.

"Very well, then shall we set the 'Moon Tide Feast' as the deadline?"

Tap—

The right leg resting on his left knee dropped back to the floor, the heel of his pointed leather boot colliding with the floorboards to produce a crisp sound.

Luo Lin exhaled the last puff of tobacco smoke from her mouth and crushed the cigarette butt into the small tray on the tabletop.

As her fiery red hair swayed, she suddenly stood up, reached out a hand toward Xia Nan, and wore a smile at the corner of her mouth:

"Pleasure doing business with you."

Also standing up from the sofa and shaking hands politely with his "temporary captain," Xia Nan asked:

"May I ask if our team has any plans for missions outside recently? I need to make some preparations in advance."