Chapter 36: Searching for Someone
The opinion of the think tank is completely unanimous. In any case, we need a relatively large team of magicians, so that it is possible to form the orchestra we need. Moreover, Rose also said that the guild should handle all the upgrade tasks for the Magic Musicians. The Magic Player is more suitable as an auxiliary character before becoming a combatant. They are like priests who are responsible for adding status to people, so their tasks are difficult to complete alone. This is why the Magic Player needs a lot of manpower support. .
After agreeing on a rough plan, we started taking action immediately. I will be responsible for adding people with the four magicians who have already joined, but before that, the intelligence unit of my guild needs to find the location of these people for me. But until today I didn't know how powerful a professional intelligence team is. The group of people that General Wu entrusted to me were all handed over to Rose, and now they are the eyes and ears of the guild. As professionals, their penetration capabilities are absolutely top-notch. Of course, what is more important is their intelligence interception and analysis capabilities. Those who can collect intelligence are only second-rate intelligence agents. Those who can analyze and filter while collecting are first-rate intelligence agents.
The information from the Hell's Eye, a guild affiliated with the Frost Rose Alliance, quickly reached my hands. It startled me at first glance. "Are these all magicians from China?" I asked the intelligence adjutant next to me.
This professional intelligence staff officer in the army is not just a casual person. His professional level is absolutely excellent. "This is relevant intelligence that we sorted and screened from all aspects of intelligence. We also made an appropriate classification and reverse-verified the target to prove that the intelligence was correct."
The four little girls around me could only open their eyes in a daze. To them, these people's abilities were simply superhuman. I felt dizzy looking at the thick stack of information on the table. I originally thought that magicians were extremely rare and precious animals, but who knew there were so many of them. "How many people are here in total?"
"One thousand and seventy-one people."
Bingbing held the document and sighed: "I thought my profession was rare!"
Crystal Flame said: "China really has a lot of people! There are so many such unpopular professions!"
Bing Ling said: "A thousand nods. It is less than one millionth of the number of players in the country. It is indeed an unpopular profession."
I asked the intelligence adjutant: "You just said that you have classified them. Is there anything among these people that can be classified?"
"That's it." The intelligence adjutant said: "Because we need to find people to join our guild, I took the current affiliation of these people as the first factor to screen. Anyone who has joined a relatively large guild and is capable People with average strength and unlikely to be poached will be the first to be eliminated.”
"Yes." I nodded: "This elimination method is very reasonable, so how much is left?"
The intelligence adjutant rummaged through the documents for a while, found a location and separated the document, leaving the top part. The bottom half of the stack was all taken aside. "Only the ones above are valuable, the ones below have been eliminated. There are three hundred and twenty-three people left in total."
"Are there any of the people you just eliminated who are particularly powerful?"
"There is only one player, and he is quite good in terms of strength. However, that player is the president of a medium-sized guild. If we force the merger, it will be bad for our reputation."
I nodded. "There is still a lot of information left!"
The intelligence adjutant immediately said: "We have also made a second division in this part, deleting all the weaker ones and leaving only high-level personnel."
"How do you divide your strength? Is it based on combat effectiveness?" the princess asked.
The intelligence adjutant immediately said: "Because we are selecting music auxiliary talents, of course they cannot be calculated based on combat effectiveness. We have divided them based on the performance level and the characteristics of the actual auxiliary effect. Anyone who is useful has strength. The own combat level does not matter. It’s not within the scope of the test. But what’s interesting is that those who have more powerful skills often don’t have too bad their own combat effectiveness.”
"Then show me the parts you selected."
The adjutant quickly dug out a thin stack of documents from the remaining parts. "These thirty-three people are the candidates we think are most suitable for recruitment, including three male players and thirty-three female players."
"Why is there such a big difference?"
"Because most of the people engaged in music are women. They don't like to fight directly, so they specialize in other things. Therefore, the proportion of men in the main occupation is higher, and the proportion of women in the auxiliary occupation is higher. .”
Bing Ling said: "I finally know what the fine traditions of our guild are all about."
Crystal Flame has just joined our guild, and we don’t know any good traditions yet. "What fine tradition are you talking about?"
Bingbing smiled and asked, "Didn't you notice that there are so many female players in our guild?"
After being told this, Crystal Flame immediately nodded and said, "You don't think it until you say it, but if you think about it carefully, it seems to be really special."
"This is our fine tradition. Our guild has had a relatively high proportion of women from the beginning. The reason is that our guild attaches more importance to the auxiliary industry than other guilds. Since most of the auxiliary professions It's women, so in the end our guild has more women than men. However, the ratio has been adjusted back recently, and men and women are basically equal." I explained.
The princess suddenly asked: "What are the levels of the three male players? Are they outstanding among the thirty-three people?"
The intelligence adjutant said: "Not really. It can even be ranked in the bottom five. There don't seem to be many male players who are good at music."
After hearing this, the princess turned to me and said, "Can the male players be deleted?"
I thought for a moment and said, "You mean you want to form a purely female-oriented band, right?"
The princess nodded.
I thought about it and nodded. "Then let's do this. Get rid of the three male players and show me the rest."
Thirty pieces of character information is not a lot, so I quickly flipped through it. The four band members also had veto power, so they all read it too. I deleted two of them from the perspective of guild interests and three from the perspective of combat effectiveness. After that, I only have twenty-five pieces of information left here.
After Bingbing finished turning over, seven more people were removed. These are repeat musicians with poor overall performance. Eight of the remaining eighteen pieces of information were deleted by Bing Ling because their appearance affected the team's image. Fortunately, these eight people were not there, otherwise they would have had to fight with her.
Crystal Princess was relatively shy and only deleted one person. The reason was that the lady’s bamboo sheng had too strong ethnic characteristics and was not suitable for use in large public events.
Crystal Flame symbolically deleted one person because the overall score was too low.
Unwanted information was taken away by the intelligence adjutant. The last eight pieces of information were lined up on the table. Waiting for us to choose.
Bingbing read it several times and then asked me: "Brother Ziri. Should we win over all eight of them, or only some of them?"
"Try to fight for them all, at least three people must join."
"So where do we start?" This is what Crystal Flame asked.
"Two of them." I pulled out two of them close together. "Qingxin and Mingjing. Qingxin's guzheng and Mingjing's pipa are the kings of the ensemble themselves, and Bingbing's flute is actually an important combination in this soundtrack. With the two of them joining, at least a small orchestra can be created temporarily. According to The think tanks of this bank have speculated that once the instruments play an ensemble, their power will increase significantly. In order to verify this speculation, we must first find a way to get the two of them to join. Moreover, these two actually belong to the same industry. Companions who know how to do it, we can just deal with two people at once."
"Is the other party's guild very strong?" Crystal Flame asked worriedly: "Will we be attacked by that guild?"
"You don't have to worry about attacks. It's hard to say in the world. There is no guild in China that we can't deal with. Besides, this small guild actually only has seventeen members. It's better to say it's a guild than a large team. I I plan to be courteous first, then to fight, and first win them to join our guild as a whole. Anyway, annexing a guild with only a dozen people will be a stone into the sea for us. If that doesn't work, I will lobby them to leave the guild and join alone. Us. As for the guild's revenge, what can fifteen people do? If it doesn't work, then we have to consider extraordinary measures. But I think they will agree to the annexation. The conditions for our peace, except for a few who are self-righteous or like Feng Yin Piaomiao With a powerful person like Yan Yu, few people will refuse our invitation."
"That's good." Crystal Flame said, "Where is their address? Let's go there right away."
"The address is the only troublesome thing. There are too few members in their guild and it is impossible to have their own territory. The location recorded in the current data is an NPC city. The problem is that their guild went out to do tasks collectively the morning before yesterday. So far, one He didn’t come back either.”
"Isn't it? How to find it?" Bing Ling asked exaggeratedly.
"The people who collected intelligence only knew that they had taken on a guild mission, and they didn't know anything else. After all, they were just asked to find musical talents. There was no way they could investigate every one of them in detail with more than a thousand people. We only have to do the rest. Do it.”
"Okay then. Let's check it out ourselves."
"It's best to bring the true red and gold coins." Bingbing suddenly said: "In the country, the two of them should have a certain influence. After all, they are also the holders of our country's national weapons."
"That's right, I'll call them."
Taking the true red and gold coins, we left Essinger. I found the NPC city according to the location recorded in the data. It was not large in scale and had not many people. However, the architectural design was unique and it was considered a good small city. Soon we found the location of the small guild. In fact, it is a two-story building. The ground floor area does not exceed one hundred square meters.
"Is this their headquarters? It's so shabby!" Bingbing sighed.
Crystal Flame said: "The headquarters of most guilds are like this. Those who can afford a good house to use as their headquarters are the more formal medium and large guilds. It would be good for a small guild like this to have such a house. .”
"But how do we know where they went?" Bingbing asked.
"It's very simple. Even a very poor guild will still have NPCs manning the headquarters." I said as I opened the door and walked in.
Like I said, the room was not empty, but I was even more surprised when I saw the official. Bingbing and the others who came in behind were all stunned, and the princess who came in last couldn't help but scream.
"I'm sorry, all the members of the guild have gone out to do tasks, and it will take some time to come back. I am Ling Mei, the general manager of the guild. Do you need any help?" The speaker was a beautiful elf beauty, but Her costume is really amazing. It was a black maid outfit with lace edges, and it was too short to imagine. This is obviously an NPC, and it is impossible for players to dress like this in semi-public places. The president of this guild is really evil! But with a maid like this, I would rather become evil... No, no, I'm distracted!
"Hello, we have something to ask the people in your guild. Do you know where they are?" The NPC is a dedicated staff member of the small guild. It has multiple functions such as housekeeper, nanny and guard. The only drawback is that his abilities are not outstanding, but the advantage is that the hiring price is relatively cheap and he is relatively loyal. At the same time, because they oversee all the work of the guild, they know a lot, and it is very convenient to inquire about information.
The beautiful maid smiled. "I'm sorry, this is a confidential matter of our guild and cannot be disclosed to outsiders."
"Then can you tell us where they took the mission?" I continued to ask.
"I don't know that!" the maid replied, still smiling.
I turned to Bingbing and said, "How charming are you now?"
"Thirty-two. Original points plus later growth."
"Who is higher?"
The princess whispered: "I am thirty-three."
"Then I'll do it!" He turned around and walked out of the room. He walked back a second later, of course now in Silver Moon state. Anyway, this trumpet is full of charm. The original charm plus the current basic bonus and the improved attributes of the equipment, the total charm is already over 100. "I'm sorry, could I ask if the owner here took on a mission and left here?"
"Yes." The maid enthusiastically poured me a glass of water. and answered.
Hehe, it seems to be exactly what I thought. "Then can you tell me where they took the mission?"
"This...!" The maid began to hesitate.
The system setting has the attribute of charm, but charm has no effect on players. The system will not leave a useless setting, so the charm lies more in the pairing. Of course it is also affected by charm. When asked about the mission content in her purple sun form, she directly said she didn't know. Now that she was asked the same question in the silver moon form, she began to hesitate. It was obvious that her charm was working.
The maid thought for a long time before speaking: "Don't say it was me who told you what I told you. I only told you to see that you don't look like a bad person. In fact, the adventurers in the guild were grounded in the city lord's mansion. The mission seems to be to find some rocks. I really don’t know the rest!"
After thanking the maid, we quickly set off towards the city lord's mansion, but were stopped by the stable as soon as we reached the door. It’s true, it’s really troublesome to communicate with NPCs if your charm value is low. I just switched back to Ziri and was blocked again! I was going to explain. An NPC who looked like a squad leader suddenly ran out and gave the guard a lesson before letting us in. The reason was gold coins and true red. National weapons indeed have many functions within the country. One of them is that the holder of the national weapons is similar to a hero to the NPCs in the country. The team leader actually knew the national equipment suit, so he immediately came up and put us in.
When the city lord heard that it was a national weapon holder asking for an audience, he immediately ran over. He was just a small city lord, and there were hundreds of them in the country at a glance. Of course, he had to be polite to the only two national weapon holders in the country. After our inquiry, the city lord immediately began to think. I quickly thought of what the specific mission of that team was. And told us all.
In fact, the tasks they took on were not complicated. What big tasks could a small guild with only seventeen people in total take on? Their mission is just to help the city lord find a very hard metal ore. Better steel can be smelted from this ore. Prospecting missions generally don't go too far, but the trouble is that the other party is also looking for something, and the search area is large, so it is not easy for us to find them again.
After bidding farewell to the City Lord's Mansion, we went directly to the forest outside the city. The mission prompt said that an old hunter once discovered high-grade ore in the forest outside the city, so as long as the other party was not an idiot, he would definitely go to the forest to look for ore.
Crystal Flame originally thought he was going to search aimlessly, but who knew that as soon as the two national weapon holders and I entered the forest, we immediately started looking for connections to help find the person.
I touched the evil dragon guardian ring, and the purple mist of death quickly seeped out. However, in order not to interfere with the work of the other two, I compressed the evil energy into a ball and injected it into the ground. After a while, the ground around me suddenly bowed upward, and a white bone hand stretched out from under the ground. The scared princess and the flame screamed and jumped away to both sides. I went directly over and grabbed the bone hand and pulled out the skeleton below, and then took out a small pinch of crystal powder. "Answer my question, these are yours. Do you understand?"
The skeleton nodded immediately.
I took out the magic image on the document and showed it to the skeleton. "Have you seen these two women?"
The skeleton nodded. Then he squatted down and started writing on the ground with his fingers. After doing this for a long time, this guy's level is too low and he can't speak. I simply pulled him up, then sprinkled the crystal powder on him first, and then took out the same amount of crystal powder. "Answer the question, and the rest is yours too."
The skeleton had been upgraded with the help of crystal powder, and he immediately replied: "Two women ago, these two women entered the depths of the forest with fifteen other people."
"Do you know where they are now?"
"They entered the Demon Grotto this morning and never came out. I don't know what happened after that."
I nodded and sprinkled the crystal powder on him. "you can go now."
The skeleton thanked me and then got into the ground again. The flame and the princess stared beside me in a daze. They didn't expect that I still had this ability. But when they both turned around, they discovered that I wasn't the only one who knew how to do this. Zhen Hong was holding a small animal that looked like a poodle and was asking something, while Jin Coin was squatting under a tree talking to an old man with a white beard less than one meter tall. In fact, that poodle should be a young unicorn. Despite its small size, its level is not low. However, the special ability of the true red national weapon suit is to command all Chinese mythical beasts, and Qilin is also within its jurisdiction. However, this kind of commander-in-chief is only effective during foreign wars. In normal times, you can ask them to help inquire about things. As for the little old man who is talking to the gold coins, all Chinese people should know him, because he is a land father-in-law. The national weapon of the gold coin is called Tianzun. It can be imagined that its special ability is to communicate with fairies. It is not easy to summon the father-in-law of the land to inquire about something.
After Zhenhong asked the question, she threw the "puppy" into the sky. The princess screamed and was still worried that such a cute puppy would be dropped. Who knew that the little guy flew up all the way and never came down? Only then did she realize that it was a flying one. Higher organisms. After Jin Coin finished asking, the land father-in-law also got into the ground. Jin Coin came back and asked, "Did you find out anything?"
I nodded: "It is said that I entered a cave called the Demon Grotto."
Zhenhong also said: "It's the same here. The unicorn saw the other party entering the cave and told me the location."
Jin Coin said: "It seems that I have inquired more. The land here says that there are ferocious beasts living in the Earth Demon Grotto. It is said to be very powerful. The monsters nearby do not dare to approach, and even the mythical beasts do not approach that cave. Too close. The Qilin Zhenhong asked about just now seemed to be too young and entered that area by mistake. However, no matter how young it is, it is still a Qilin. If a ferocious beast wants to attack it, it must consider the big family behind it. We are helpless like this. It could be dangerous for a helpless person to go in."
Bingbing said: "It won't be that serious, right? The other party is just a small guild. If the task is so difficult, it will definitely not be completed. The tasks given by the system have different levels of difficulty, but generally there is a possibility of completion. If it is really super difficult, How could a task be assigned to such a guild of seventeen people?"