Chapter 1072 Mission City
Due to the high degree of profit and commercialization, the Western Eight Heavens have many places that are completely different from other major heavens. For example, the News City, of course, is definitely not just a News City. So, for example, the Mission City.
The Mission City, as the name suggests, is a place where major forces, even the military, use to issue missions and then let mercenaries come to accept them.
In the Mission City, a large number of mission transactions are carried out every day, and countless mercenaries come here in the hope of earning fairy jade. The flow of fairy jade here is definitely not less than that of ordinary market towns. Even occasionally, large missions can lead to rare sky-high hiring.
The Mission City of Xijianchengtian is not the largest, and according to He Laowu, no military has issued missions here. However, Huanyin still chose to go to the Mission City of Xijianchengtian first.
There are three reasons. One is that Huanyin is more familiar with Xijianchengtian after all, and He Laowu is also a local, so it will be much more convenient for Huanyin to accept missions here. Another reason is that Huanyin likes to be low-key, so he thinks it is appropriate if there is no place where the military issues missions. After all, the rewards for the military's missions might be very high, but Huan Yin didn't want to deal with the military at this time. As for the third one, He Laowu said that there are many powerful forces in Xijianchengtian, so the mission city here may not be the largest, but there are many big missions, which will not disappoint Huan Yin.
Soon, Huan Yin followed the instructions given by He Laowu before and came to a street in the northeast of Xijianchengtian. Walking along the street to the end, Huan Yin saw a large area of high white walls. In the middle of the wall, there was a huge archway seven or eight people high. There were three words written on the archway, which was "Mission City".
Under the archway, there stood four sturdy men, all of whom had good cultivation, and they were all in the realm of great perfection of life and nirvana. In front of these four men, a somewhat wide stone tablet was erected, with two lines of words written on it: The weak are not welcome here, nor are the poor.
Huan Yin stared at the stone tablet with interest for a while, and then he noticed that there were people coming in and out under the archway, and inside the archway, it was like a scene of a bustling market.
"It seems that this mission city is really popular." Huan Yin smiled and finally walked up.
Following the queue, Huan Yin found that everyone who wanted to enter had to be checked by the four big men before they could be determined whether they were qualified to enter.
Some people were strong, and one of the big men took out a compass and measured it. The light was shining, and they could directly enter the mission city. Some people were not strong enough, and the light on the compass was dim, or even there was no light at all. In the contemptuous eyes of the big man, he could either take out 100 fairy jades and go in to watch the excitement, or he could only leave in disgrace.
Not long after, it was Huan Yin's turn. The big man holding the compass was still fiddling with Huan Yin, and then an extremely strong light burst out from the compass. This light was dazzling, and it was directly like a small sun!
The people standing behind Huan Yin were stunned, and the big man holding the compass was also stunned. He had never seen such a situation before.
But soon, the light of the compass dimmed rapidly, and then it made a "crackling" sound, and cracks appeared, and finally broke into pieces.
Everyone looked at Huan Yin in disbelief, and Huan Yin felt extremely embarrassed. He wanted to keep a low profile, but he had never seen this compass before, so how could he have thought that it would react so violently to him?
Scratching his head, Huan Yin said: "That... that sir, has your compass been used on too many people, so it broke?"
The big man heard Huan Yin say this, and saw that Huan Yin was delicate and tender, not like the kind of peerless strong man, so he frowned and said: "Wait a minute, I'll try another one."
Not long after, the big man took the compass and fiddled with it again. This time, Huan Yin cleverly lowered his cultivation to the initial stage of the God of Life. So, although the compass was shining, it was reacting normally, without any abnormality.
Huan Yin saw the light and rushed to say: "Sir, I meet the requirements, so I don't have to pay the fairy jade, right?"
When everyone heard this, they thought that Huan Yin was afraid that he would not be able to get through, so he spoke quickly. Therefore, the previous scene was considered by everyone to be the compass that was broken, not Huan Yin's problem.
Waving his hand, the big man said: "Go, go."
Huan Yin walked in with Qing Yi, and heard the big man behind him muttering: "It's strange, this compass has been used for less than three months, how could it suddenly break. No, I have to go back and tell the owner that there is a problem with this batch of goods. I have to pay attention next time and don't get cheated!"
Huan Yin smiled slightly and had already entered the market.
The huge market was full of stalls of all sizes. Behind the stalls, there were often one or several people sitting. They were the persons in charge of issuing tasks sent by major forces. Above the stalls, the names of various forces were often written, and some even had a lot of tempting slogans written on them to attract people.
People shuttling between the stalls were naturally mercenaries like Huan Yin who came to take on missions. Huan Yin took a casual look and found that there were indeed many people who made a living from this, and there were people from all walks of life. Even if you just glanced casually, you could see that all kinds of people had almost completely occupied the large and small channels of the entire mission city.
"Go away, what are you looking at? Are you here to watch the fun? Get out of the way. This place is not suitable for a weak scholar like you." Huan Yin was watching the fun when a big man pushed him with disdain in his eyes.
Huan Yin didn't care. He smiled slightly and took two steps back. He saw a group of people surrounding a young man with five scars on his face behind the big man. The young man was quite strong and was swearing.
He Laowu told Huan Yin that there are generally two types of tasks in the task city. One of them is ordinary tasks. This kind of task is usually generated because the major forces are short of manpower, so they need to find someone to complete it. It is often not difficult and is directly sold by the major forces.
However, there is another kind of task that is completely different. This kind of task is usually generated because even if the major forces try their best, they cannot complete it, so they can only pay a high price to ask the strong to help. This kind of task is often very difficult, but its goal is often extremely precious.
Therefore, mercenaries need to swear an oath when accepting the second type of mission. First, they guarantee that after completing the mission, they will not keep the things they get for themselves, but will definitely exchange them for commissions. Second, it shows an attitude of taking life and death at their own risk. As for the third, because this mission itself may also be an important piece of information, such as representing the hiding place of a treasure, so the mercenaries must guarantee that after accepting the mission, no matter whether they can complete it or not, they will not disclose the information.
"It is the young master of the Jackal Mercenary Group. No wonder the formation is so big, even the high-level mission of the Dong family in the west of the city dares to accept it." A voice whispered beside Huan Yin.
"Isn't it? The Jackal Mercenary Group is one of the best mercenaries in our area. This time their young master personally took action, it seems that it is another big deal." Another voice said.
There are still voices continuing. It seems that this Jackal Mercenary Group is really famous in this mission city. However, Huan Yin didn't care about these. He walked away and headed towards another shop.
While walking and strolling, Huan Yin wanted to find a task that suits him. What is suitable for Huan Yin? The higher the reward, the more suitable it is.
However, Huan Yin strolled for a long time, but he didn't encounter a task that paid more than 30,000 fairy jades. Even some tasks that require a Taoist oath are commonplace in Huan Yin's eyes and are not worth doing at all.
After strolling for a long time, Huan Yin felt a little bored and helpless. He could never take action for tasks with mediocre rewards. After all, he is a powerful man, so why would he waste time on such tasks?
"Forget it, let's go to the task city of other cities to have a look." Helplessly shaking his head, Huan wanted to leave. But at this moment, a long rainbow appeared in the sky and came quickly.
And Huan Yin clearly saw an old man in the long rainbow. He held a jade slip in his hand, and the direction he looked at was exactly the task city where Huan Yin was.