Chapter 49: Barbarian

"You have done well." Leiende nodded with satisfaction. Those responsible for calculating military merit had already finished their count; these Xiahui People had indeed achieved remarkable results, having taken down 47 rats.

They eliminated as many as came their way, without a shred of fear in their hearts.

They were far stronger than those recruited last year.

"I will issue each of you an additional reward of 500 Tana, and we will also provide 3,000 Tana in compensation for those who died. Rest assured, the War Church will not treat you unfairly. Being a soldier of Tana is no bad thing; your merits will be recorded in the register!"

"I thought the NPCs were quite flexible before, but I didn't expect them to spout such scripted lines."

"This is what an NPC should be. They were so fierce when killing earlier, it scared me to death; if I didn't know better, I would have thought they were a BOSS."

When they emerged from the Sewers and received their rewarded Tana, everyone was a little teary-eyed.

This game finally knows how to implement a money system.

10 Tana can buy a meal, but it can't buy anything else.

A short sword costs 300 Tana, and heavy armor is worth even more.

Players are all people who like to get their own equipment; what can you do without money?

The entire Bing Ying squad was filled with a cheerful joy, as if the comrades who had died were unimportant.

This mindset is simply the mindset of a suicide squad.

Leiende finally understood why someone in the Municipal Hall had recommended these guys to the Bing Ying.

It turns out these guys were indeed even stronger than he had imagined.

The players, possessing strong psychological resilience, walked behind the squad in high spirits, carrying their loot in one hand and their money pouches in the other.

The civilians outside had never seen so many Mutated Rat corpses and all hid as they walked by, terrified.

There were also some bold ones who pointed at the rats and discussed them animatedly.

Putaopi, who was carrying a corpse, nudged Zhuguli and said, "Tell me, they want to take these Mutated Rat corpses back; does that mean these things have some good uses?"

"The fur isn't great, it's all stinky, and the teeth are big buckteeth; they don't seem useful. The claws are sharp, but I don't know what they're for. They definitely can't be used to forge weapons, and the meat... I don't know who would eat rats from a sewer." Zhuguli thought this made sense. "Let's observe later. They hunt these rats every year, but they never manage to kill them all; there must be a reason."

The players had already started theorizing conspiracies, while the few injured veterans in front looked dejected.

These newcomers were too hard to deal with.

They had originally wanted to give them a show of force, but as it turned out, every one of them was quite ruthless.

They would rather die than retreat. With this kind of willpower, why bother coming to Tana City? Wouldn't it be better to stay in Xiahui?

Offline, the few players who had died out of the game began to talk freely about their combat; although they were dead, their souls remained.

Qige Hulu: This game just doesn't have a screenshot function. If I could take screenshots, I would definitely have captured the situation just now. You guys don't know, these rats were quite powerful. I killed three by myself, but in the end, it was just too fierce, and it took my neck, so I logged off.

Luolita: Is it really not because you're a noob? o(╯□╰)o

Qige Hulu to Luolita: A noob? You look down on me too much. There were seven monsters in total, and I killed three by myself. You don't know, the dead rats' eyes were wide open; you can't imagine how fierce I was!

Zhuguli to Luolita: Don't believe him. This kid was just hugging a rat's leg; we were the ones doing the work. But the compensation is really good, 3,000 Tana.

Qige Hulu to Zhuguli: Don't frame me, and remember to give me the money! That's what I traded my life for!

Zhuguli: I'm really afraid that in the end, everyone will trade their lives for money, so I have to say it: the base reward for everyone is 500 Tana, and killing one rat gives 100 Tana. Cherish your lives; if everyone goes to throw their lives away, there won't be anyone left to run dungeons later.

Luolita: What you said makes me want to go, but I'm currently adventuring on the mountain. It's pretty good here too; following the old Hunter means there's meat to eat.

Zhuguli to Luolita: What's the situation in the mountains?

Luolita: Let me introduce the situation in the mountains to everyone. There are three beacon towers on Beishan in Tana City. Near the beacon towers, there are hunter huts and patrolling soldiers. The soldiers are basically the kind wearing armor, not the guards like in the city.

The old Hunter usually hunts on the western mountain because it's the furthest from the battlefield. The mountains here are rich in produce; there are many mushrooms by the trees. If you can find truffles, they sell for 500 Tana per jin down the mountain, but the quantity is very small. Most are things like wood ear mushrooms, and the price isn't high, 2 Tana per jin.

If you have the ability to identify medicinal herbs, you can pick herbs, but none of us know how, and the old Hunter won't teach us. We've been up the mountain for two days and can only help carry things.

If you catch prey, it belongs to whoever caught it, but we don't have things like bows and arrows, so we can only dig traps. We haven't had any harvest in two days; we can only wait until we go down the mountain to see if there's anything in the traps.

Deer skin here is 400 Tana per piece, rabbits are 30 Tana each, and white ones are a bit more expensive, up to 50 Tana, but they are very hard to hunt. The mountains here have already been mostly picked clean.

The price of pheasants is even cheaper, 10 Tana each, but one chicken can be traded for a lot of black bread. The old Hunter likes to hunt pheasants because they can't fly.

If you have tools, I suggest going towards the east, but you have to be careful about encountering hostile forces. It's said that the Barbarian on the other side of the mountain are very powerful.

Luolita described the situation on the mountain in great detail. After sending it, Zhuguli reminded her.

Zhuguli: Why didn't you post this as a separate thread?

Luolita: Damn, I forgot. My mistake, my mistake.

You'eryuan: I still suggest the moderator highlight it, otherwise it's too much of a loss.

Luolita: Should I repost it as a new thread?

I didn't expect there to be so many types of prey on Beishan. You could say you can completely rely on the mountain for food. Why are the people of Tana City still so poor?

Is it really because of the Barbarian?

But looking at the defenses of Tana City, aren't they quite tight?

That evening, Leiende came from the city's training camp to the main camp on the mountain.

At this time, the mountain was full of the smell of blood. A small-scale battle had just taken place here; the Barbarian had attacked a fence here, but fortunately, they were discovered in time and blocked.

"These Barbarian came to attack the main camp again? Are they crazy?" Seeing several soldiers injured and fallen, Leiende shook his head. "Knowing that the main camp is heavily guarded, yet they insist on attacking it. Have they misunderstood something?"

"During the interrogation, they said it was an Oracle. Perhaps that God of the Wilderness hopes to devour the Red Moon Goddess here. It's a pity, the Red Moon hasn't descended at all, has it?" said Camp Commander Jili Kainsi.

(End of chapter)