Volume 19 Chapter 43 Guide

"Do you think I'm the kind of person who will be accidentally injured due to terrain problems?" I had no intention of accepting the little girl's recommendation. The terrain of Westminster City is indeed very complex, and the possibility of the average person getting lost or injured due to the terrain is indeed very high, but I am not an ordinary person. If I can't even adapt to this change in terrain, how can I deserve the title of No. 1 in the world?

The little girl seems to be eyeing me today. After I asked her, she immediately said: "With your strength, of course you won't be injured just by a little bit of terrain, but aren't you afraid of getting lost?"

I refused directly: "I have special equipment to identify directions. There is really no need for me to have a guide. You should go find someone else. Don't waste your time with me."

"But are you really sure you can find where you are going with your own equipment? There are magnetic fields between the peaks here. Ordinary equipment is of no use."

I nodded with certainty and said: "Sorry, I really don't need a guide. If there is nothing else, please let me go." I said, took a step to the side, walked around the little girl and walked out of the Teleportation Hall. , the little girl looked very anxious when she saw me walking over, and seemed to want to stop me, but she didn't know how to speak. Of course I saw everything she did, but I didn't say much.

This little beauty is definitely not an ordinary guide. Although I don’t know why she insisted on me hiring her, one thing is for sure. She definitely wasn't doing it for the little reward she could get as a guide.

After leaving the Teleportation Hall, I walked directly towards the North City Gate. The South Gate of Westminster is located at the lowest point of the city, while the North Gate is at the highest point of the city. After exiting the North City Gate, there is a winding mountain road outside. If you walk up here, you will encounter a small platform not too far away. There are three forked roads to the north of this platform, two of which go up the mountain, and the other is the entrance to a cave, but I don't know where they lead.

Although this platform is not big, there are many people. There are rows of stalls neatly lined up near the entrance of the platform, where some players are selling various supplies and necessary equipment for the bench. Because the street stalls here are outside the city and do not need to pay management fees to the system city, the items on the street stalls are much cheaper than those in the city. Although many players didn't know there was a free market here, so they bought the things they needed in the city early, but because the things here are so cheap, there are still many players staying here to prepare to buy some more things.

In addition to the people setting up stalls and purchasing, there was also a large group of people gathered at the exit of the platform, but they were divided into two camps. Among them, the camp with the larger number of people has a lot of miscellaneous equipment and occupations. It is obvious that they are players from out of town. They should be looking for a team at the intersection. The group of people on the other side is smaller in number, but their professions are basically fixed in the two camps of archers and hunters. At first glance, they are local players. Judging from their performance, most of these people have the same job as the little girl from the teleportation hall before, that is, they are guides. However, these people in front of them are real guides, but the little girl from before obviously had other intentions.

The reason I rejected the little girl before was because I saw that her intentions were impure, so I resolutely refused her job as a guide. But as a matter of fact, I still need a guide. The job of a guide is not just as simple as leading the way, they are often also danger detectors. I don't know what skills a mountain guide has, but I have hired a swamp guide before. There was no difference between the swamps that looked exactly the same to me, but the guide could tell me exactly where the hard ground was and where I would sink if I stepped on it. This is people's experience. Moreover, in addition to the terrain, guides generally also have some knowledge of local dangerous creatures. If you want to find local animals and plants or investigate a certain area, hiring a guide can often save a lot of time.

Just because I understand the importance of a guide, I have no intention of going into the mountain alone. I haven't looked for a guide in the city before. In addition to the little girl, another reason is that I know that there are generally players who act as guides at the entrance to the leveling area. It doesn't necessarily have to be in the city.

The things on the street stalls are of no use to me. Because of the existence of Fenglong Space, I have always had enough reserve supplies, so I don’t need to replenish them at any time. I walked directly through the street stall area and walked into the middle of the group of guides. They immediately surrounded me before I could say anything. These people are here all day long to take care of business, so you can naturally tell who wants to hire a guide. I walked directly this way, obviously with the idea of ​​​​hiring a guide.

"Do you want to hire a guide?" Although the group of people gathered around, they did not rush to solicit business. Apparently they had their own set of rules to decide who would take the business.

I nodded and asked: "What does your guide work include? I may need to run farther, but I don't want to go halfway and turn back because the guide refuses to leave."

One of the older people in the group of guides immediately replied as soon as he heard what I said: "We only have one or two thousand guests who need guidance every day, so we have seen all kinds of weird requests. If you just If you need to travel farther, that's no problem. But in order for you to have a good time and avoid disputes later, you'd better agree on the service content with us first."

"of course."

"Okay, then let me ask you to answer. First of all, the cost calculation method. Do you set the price all at once or do you time it?"

"Time it. I don't know how long it will take to get out."

The other party nodded and said: "Then the next question is, are you alone or with a companion? Because the difficulty of leading a team is definitely different with more people and less people, so the cost will be different. If your team has too many people , we may even need multiple guides to go on a mission together.”

"It's just me, but I have many summoned creatures. Does this count?"

"It doesn't matter if we are not responsible for the death of your summoned creature."

I smiled and said: "You don't have to be responsible. Of course I am responsible for my summoned creatures."

The other party nodded and said, "So do you need the guide's protection during the mission?"

"Need not."

"Does the guide need to participate in the battle? One of our agreements is that the guide will just hide and not help fight when in danger. The other is that the guide will also participate in the battle, but will not fight to the death."

I thought for a moment and said: "There is no need to join the war, you just need to protect yourselves."

The other party nodded and continued: "Can you estimate the mission time? Do you have an approximate range? Do we need our guide to provide survival materials?"

"I'm not sure how long the mission will take. It should not exceed three days. I am responsible for the supplies myself."

"Last question. Do you need to enter the high-level monster area when you enter the mountain? High-risk areas must have high-level personnel with strong combat capabilities to act as guides, so the cost must be much higher than that of low-level personnel."

"I don't know about this. Anyway, I need to go deep into the mountains. I think there should be advanced creatures in such places, right? As for the safety of the guide, you can rest assured that I can protect the safety of the guide and myself. However, You'd better arrange for a higher-level guide, because I have something to do when I enter the mountain, and I may move faster on the road, and lower-level people may not be able to keep up."

"Then I will arrange the strongest guide for you." The older guide waved to the back, and then two players came over. One of these two people is an elf archer, and the other is a male hunter professional player. "These two are the most powerful guides under my command. Who do you want to invite? If you are not sure, I suggest you choose Aduo. Her profession is more compatible with yours. But simply The special hunter profession has relatively strong comprehensive abilities, but it depends on what you think about it."

"Can I hire two people together?"

"What? Invite both of them together?" The other party originally thought that I would choose one of the two guides, but he didn't expect that I would invite two guides at once.

"What? Isn't it possible?"

The other party immediately replied: "It's not impossible to invite two guides at one time. We sometimes take relatively large tour groups into the mountains and have dispatched more than 20 guides at one time. Of course, it's okay to invite two people together. But you Are you really sure you need two people? If you have two guides, the service fee will be doubled."

"No problem, just calculate the money."

Seeing that I was so determined, the other party said nothing more. He just lowered his head and calculated on the paper, and then said: "You choose to charge by time. According to the service content you choose, if you hire two of them at once, You need to pay twenty-four crystal coins per hour, are you sure?"

Twenty-four crystal coins for two people, that is twelve crystal coins per hour for no one. One crystal coin is ten yuan, which means that the charging standard for these two people is one hundred and twenty yuan per person per hour. Calculated based on the salary of a real tour guide, this fee is quite high. However, first of all, the tour guide in the game does not have shopping rebates like real tour guides. Secondly, this is a combat tour guide, and it is possible to quit halfway and drop the level. Players who work as tour guides have to practice again, which is a huge loss. Besides, I went alone this time. If there are many people in the group, although the fee will increase, it will be much lower per person on average, so the fee is a bit high, but it is understandable.

"No problem, twenty-four crystal coins an hour, I can accept it."

"Okay, let's sign the contract now. The working hours will start ten minutes after the contract is signed. You must first pay the three days' fees to the system. When you come back, it will be based on the time you set foot on this platform. Calculate the task time, and then the system will automatically deduct the fee and return the excess to you. If the task time exceeds the three days you set, you can choose to pay the agreement fee and continue the contract, or our guide will terminate the contract and leave immediately. No problem, just agree.”