Chapter 1855 Explorer Jenkins

It has been seven years since Miotao Jenkins came to the New World. All the people who came to the New World with him to make a fortune have died here, and he is the only one who is still alive.

Now he has completely lost the ambition he had when he came here. The idea of ​​making a fortune has not appeared in his mind for a long time. He now wants to earn enough money to repay his debts, and then buy a boat ticket home, back to the home that he despised so much.

To this day, he still clearly remembers that he joined the New World expedition team after reading the announcement of the New World exploration and treasure hunting. In that announcement, the description of the New World is full of gold and countless gems, as if you can make a fortune as long as you pick up something casually in the past. There are even people who have been to the New World and made a fortune and came back to tell them that the wealth in the New World is so much that the entire lake is full of gold and gems.

Back then, under this temptation, he and his companions did not tell their families and directly joined the expedition team to the New World. On the ship, he fantasized about making huge fortunes in the New World and becoming the scene when those nobles returned to their hometowns.

However, when they arrived in the New World, they found that things were completely different from what they thought. They did not see the legendary gold and gems, but only saw endless jungles and countless dangers hidden in the jungle.

In less than half a month, five of his companions on the same ship died in the camp due to dysentery caused by poisonous insect bites, and the rest of the people also died in the endless dangers in the jungle in the pioneering groups organized again and again.

Only he survived, and the reason he survived was not because of his great ability, nor because he was an excellent hunter in his hometown. In fact, the hunter skills and experience he learned in his hometown were of no use at all in the New World. The reason why he was able to survive was entirely because he had an unusually keen sense of danger since he was a child. When danger was about to appear, he could clearly feel it and move to a safe place in time to avoid danger.

For example, once when he was carrying out an exploration mission of the pioneer group, he and several companions passed through a rainforest that seemed to have no danger. However, when approaching the rainforest, he sensed a strong danger from the rainforest, so he suggested bypassing the rainforest and going somewhere else.

But his companions were unwilling to do so, because they only needed to pass through the rainforest to complete the established exploration mission and call it a day. If they took a detour, they would need to walk for several more hours, and they might not even be able to get out after dark. Moreover, it was raining at the time, and the entire ground was so wet that people felt like they were soaking in water. Everyone wanted to complete the mission as soon as possible and go back to the stove to warm up, so several companions chose to go directly through the rainforest.

As a result, when those companions approached the rainforest, a large number of spiders fell from the branches of the rainforest and bit them. The spider venom made them unable to escape and they were all paralyzed on the ground. After that, he stood in a safe place and watched the thick vines stretching out from the rainforest trees, slowly wrapping them up and dragging them into the depths of the rainforest. To this day, he clearly remembers the fearful eyes of those people when they were dragged into the rainforest, as if it happened yesterday.

It is precisely because of this that he has great trust in his perception of danger. Even if the situation he perceives is unreasonable, he will follow the prompts of his perception and respond accordingly, and this behavior has become the key to his survival.

He still remembers the shocked expression on his boss's face when he handed the employment contract seven years ago to him and said that he had completed the execution period of the employment contract. You know, no one who joined the pioneer group before him could complete the employment period. All of them completed one or two years and couldn't stand it and terminated the contract early, leaving with very little commission. For an employment contract like this that completed the term, he could get a large sum of money at one time.

The senior management of the pioneer group did not do anything about the commission. Not only did they pay all the commissions and corresponding bonuses in full, but they also gave an additional reward and used him as an example to publicize to other pioneers how high the remuneration of the pioneer group is, how good the benefits are, and how trustworthy they are. As long as the contract is completed, they will definitely get enough money, and they will not be greedy for commissions like other pioneer groups.

As the party involved, Jenkins was not disgusted with the behavior of his previous employer, and was even willing to cooperate actively. After all, there was money to be made. For him now, money is the most important thing.

Although his commission and bonus were very generous, it was still too little for him, because he needed to divide the money into several parts and give them to the fellow countrymen who followed his proposal to join the pioneer group. He felt that he had an unshirkable responsibility for the death of those companions in the New World. Although it would not alleviate the pain of the companions' families, it would at least make him feel a little better.

It was precisely because he urgently needed a large sum of money in a short period of time and did not want to stay in the New World for a long time, so when the pioneer group he was in before proposed to hire him as a captain of the pioneer group, he chose to refuse.

After that, he selected various employment tasks and finally chose the pioneer group explorer employment task of the Nature Association.

Explorers are an important position in the pioneering group. Usually, when the pioneering group officially sets out to the depths of the jungle and open up new colonies, a large number of explorers will be sent to collect intelligence information in the jungle, understand the environment there, and then adjust the plan according to the intelligence information. Therefore, the intelligence fed back by the explorers is crucial to the success or failure of the pioneering group's plan.

However, even though explorers are so important, the basic commission of explorers is not particularly high, only equivalent to the captain level of the pioneering group. What really attracts explorers is the additional intelligence bonus. Once a piece of intelligence is adopted and confirmed to be effective, the explorer who puts forward the intelligence can get a large bonus far exceeding the basic commission. In addition, explorers can also collect some rare plants and catch some rare insects in the depths of the jungle. Many rich people like these things very much and are willing to pay a high price for them, which is also an additional income for explorers.

The reason why Jenkins chose the Nature Association is mainly because among all the forces that have gathered in the New World, the Nature Association is definitely the one with the best reputation. Not only do they never default on commissions, but they also provide sufficient supplies for every hired person, unlike the pioneering groups of other countries or forces, many supplies need to be prepared by themselves.

In addition, if you can find a sufficiently precious species in the jungle, you can sell it directly to the Nature Association, and the purchase price offered by the Nature Association is also one of the highest prices. Even if you don't capture a precious creature, you can still get a considerable reward by providing information about the location of the precious creature.

Jenkins believes that he can survive smoothly in the jungle with his sense of danger, and any area he senses as dangerous must have some extremely dangerous precious creatures, and a large part of these creatures should not have been discovered by scholars in the colony. If he provides relevant location information, then the intelligence reward he can get must be very high, and may even be more than directly capturing some precious creatures, which will undoubtedly help him get a lot of money in a short period of time.

Therefore, after joining the pioneering group of the Nature Association, he immediately applied for the latest pioneering mission, but what he didn't expect was that the pioneering mission he applied for was to support another pioneering group, and that pioneering group seemed to be in the preparation stage. Just when he thought he was unlucky to choose the wrong mission, he heard that someone in the pioneering group camp was organizing a pre-exploration team to enter the jungle to collect intelligence before the pioneering group set out. The issuer of this mission and the leader of the expedition team turned out to be the famous Big Talker Joe.

You should know that in various colonial settlements in the New World, Big Talker Joe's reputation is often more famous than the governor of the colony, but this reputation is not in a good way, but all extremely negative. All the stories about Big Talker Joe are without exception that Big Talker Joe told a lie, which led some unlucky people to go to the place mentioned in his lie to find some treasure, and then became the prey of the natives.

Because of this, when they learned that the mission issuer and expedition leader was Big Talker Joe, very few people responded in the pioneer group camp. Even though the reward was high, not many people were willing to participate in this mission. In the end, it was the Nature Association that formed this expedition team.

Unlike other members who passively joined the advance expedition team, Jenkins took the initiative to join the expedition team when he knew that the advance expedition team was to be formed. And he took the initiative to join not only because he wanted to complete the mission as soon as possible, go deep into the jungle, and find precious creatures, but more because of Joe Matthew. Compared with the misunderstanding of Joe by most people in the colony, he was more aware of Joe's ability and knew that those rumors were some unfounded slanderous rumors.

The reason why Jenkins thought of Joe in this way was that when he was performing an exploration mission in the past, he was accidentally involved in a conflict with an indigenous tribe and was captured by the indigenous tribe. Joe happened to be nearby and saved him from the hands of the indigenous tribe. At that time, he saw that Joe and the indigenous tribe seemed to have an unusual relationship. After that, he had cooperated with Joe several times. Each cooperation process was very good, and there was almost no danger. The mission objectives were completed easily, so Jenkins believed that the advance expedition team formed by Joe this time would not be too dangerous.

Not long after the advance expedition team was formed, left the camp, and entered the jungle, Jenkins asked Joe to act alone. Joe also knew Jenkins's ability very well, so he agreed to Jenkins' proposal and took out a simple map and gave it to Jenkins, instructing him to explore a certain area on the map.

Over the years, although Jenkins has participated in various exploration missions and has gone deep into the jungle hundreds of times, the exploration mission area designated by Joe this time is deeper into the jungle than any place he has explored in the past. It is a place he has never been to.

Jenkins knew that the reason why Joe assigned him this task was because Joe was also very clear about his own abilities. He knew that this task might be a life-or-death struggle for others, but it was not particularly difficult for him.

So after receiving this task, he did not make any additional requests. He just replenished various supplies to the maximum extent, especially the special arrows used to deal with some large beasts. Then he explored the area marked on the map alone.

Although the map drawn by Joe is not as accurate as those of real map surveyors, this simple map is enough for Jenkins, because Joe marked some terrains with obvious features and special plants on the map, such as the huge tree in front of him that is much taller than any big tree.

In the primitive jungle of the New World, the most abundant thing is those tall and dense trees. In the Novat continent, trees of dozens of meters are extremely rare, but here, trees of dozens of meters seem to have become the basic height, and trees of 100 meters are the norm. However, the huge tree he saw now, which is 200 meters high, has never been seen in these years. If measured by the standards of precious species, this tree is definitely one of the most precious species. The only problem is that this tree cannot be dug by anyone, so for those rich people and nobles who like to collect precious species in the New World, the value of this tree is equal to zero.

He thought of the tree that had been marked on Joe's map. Obviously, Joe knew the location of the tree. Since Joe did not announce the location of the tree, Joe should have thought the same thing as him.

Now the location of this huge tree is at the border of the area that Joe instructed Jenkins to explore. Passing this tree is considered entering his mission area.

He did not enter the mission area immediately, but chose to camp under this huge tree, rest for a night, and recover his strength before setting off again.

As usual, Jenkins carefully checked around the tree. He did not find any abnormalities, and his sense of danger did not appear. Obviously, the area under this huge tree should be very safe, but he still felt a little uneasy in his heart. This uneasiness did not come from intuitive perception, but his many years of experience in surviving in the jungle made him find that the surrounding environment was a little abnormal and too quiet.

There might be a lack of wild animals in some areas of the jungle, but there would definitely be no lack of insects and birds. So no matter which area of ​​the jungle you are in, you can clearly hear the calls of birds and the rustling sounds of insects. But now Jenkins can't hear any of these sounds at all. Except for the sound of collision between trees and branches, there is no other sound around. This is obviously a bit abnormal, but the problem is that his sense of danger indicates that it is very safe here, which makes it difficult for him to choose for a while.