bestfiction Chapter 441
Chapter 441
"Don't think about anything else, let's make money first." Zhong Ming didn't care about these things at all, he was just keeping track of time.
"Oh, Brother Cuihong, you still need to be a little more socially savvy."
"No, I just don't consider things I can't even imagine..." Zhong Ming shrugged, his gait incredibly arrogant.
Xuan Jing was completely speechless; this guy's thought process was always a bit different from everyone else's.
"It's more important to find a better bounty than this."
On the bustling street, the cultivators who came and went were busy with their own things, and the whole street had a lively yet indifferent feeling.
The bounty board was as shiny as ever, and the bounties posted on it were usually taken down quickly. However, today, there was a strange phenomenon on a side board.
A man stands in front of a bounty board with a thick stack of reward notices. When someone tears one down, he puts up another one.
This amazing sight naturally won the hearts of the onlookers, who all gathered around, eager to see what kind of mission it was.
With the mindset that "might as well take a look," Zhong Ming went up and asked as well.
"Brother, what kind of bounty is this that requires so many copies?"
"It's not one, it's two." Only then did Zhong Ming realize that the top and bottom of the stack of bounties in the male cultivator's hand were different.
"Fellow Daoist, you should take one too. There's no penalty for not finishing it anyway."
Zhong Ming accepted the two bounties. One was an assassination order to kill a guy named "Mo Ran." The information was very vague. Because he looked somewhat androgynous, it was not even known whether he was male or female. He had stolen a treasure called "Sacred Monarch Vine" and run away. His cultivation level was... uncertain, but definitely not at the Qi Refining stage.
With such vague intelligence, it's no wonder they're resorting to a saturation assassination campaign.
The other offer was a reward for the purchase of the *Shengjun Teng* (a type of vine), mentioning several places where it had appeared before, but the chances were slim.
"I need this treasure to save my life. There's no other way but to offer a generous reward to find a brave man." The man said this, but his face was numb, indicating that he had been standing in the surging crowd for a while.
"Okay, let me take a look for you."
Zhong Ming glanced at the reward of 10,000 military merit points, didn't take it seriously at all, and casually handed it to Yue Kaishan.
"Come on, Xuanjing, Dahai, you guys help take a look too. It's best if it can be done within a month, and the military merit points will be more generous."
Yue Kaishan glanced at the bounty, then at the bounty list. The area was incredibly crowded, yet the bounties on the overall list remained high, indicating it wasn't something easily accomplished. Capturing the enemy from afar was a piece of cake.
The ranking list was the main focus of everyone's attention. Just as everyone was hesitating, Yue Kaishan immediately said, "Brother Cuihong, let's reveal that bounty. It's the sixth one from the left in the second row."
It was a hunting bounty, just for killing a second-grade demon beast. The military merit points weren't given based on time, but on the number of corpses, and there were only one hundred military merit points in total.
This amount of money is a bit small, because there is no station for transporting airships there, and if we travel slowly, we might even lose money.
"Are you sure?"
"Let's uncover it."
Yue Kaishan pointed to another order, "Take this one too, we can do it on the way."
Zhong Ming looked at him in surprise. "You even know the way? Do you have such a good memory for maps?"
He seemed to have discovered a new world. Brother Yue has this ability?
"I tried the technique Matt taught me, and I can roughly remember all the airship stations and towns in Yunzhou, but I can't remember the villages."
Zhong Ming: ...
'I can find Cat Mountain Taoist Temple on the map now because I have quick eyes,' he thought.
"Brother Yue, why don't you plan a route?"
Yue Kaishan said that it had been planned long ago, and he didn't care about the details of the reward at all. He just looked at the location and made the connection.
Zhong Ming looked at the list he was pointing to, and his eyelids started twitching involuntarily.
What... is all this stuff?
The dynasty's bounty list is definitely authentic; it only appears when someone asks for it and offers money. But it's also definitely not entirely without merit... because the dynasty sometimes needs to ensure that the "laborious masses" in the Qi Refining stage have work to do, and it would be best if the common people could benefit as well.
After all, population is the key factor.
Therefore, the bounty notices here include, but are not limited to: a cultivator playing the role of a river god who is in seclusion and needs help irrigating hundreds of acres of terraced fields; someone who has achieved great success on the path of cultivation but has forgotten the location of their father's grave and needs a cultivator using earth magic to search the mountains for it; and someone who is planning a family marriage alliance but is afraid of losing face due to insufficient strength and is looking for someone to back them up...
In short, the variety of these tasks is truly a spectacle of wonders in the world.
The tasks in this round of missions varied in amount, and the time was extremely tight. It took two days to travel by airship to and from the destination, and the rest of the time was spent working.
"We took on twenty-eight orders in one month, thirty days in total. Isn't that a bit too much...?"
“There are four of us. We can split up to do some of the work. If we split up, the chances of success are higher.”
"what?"
Yue Kaishan led the four away with satisfaction. After careful calculation, he conservatively estimated that each person would receive about five hundred yuan from this trip.
Not conservative at all...
"Fellow Daoist Yue, why did you suddenly decide to take this route?" Chen Dahai suddenly asked after they had left the bounty board several blocks away.
If the route was planned, shouldn't it start from the beginning? Why is the first place mentioned a randomly cut section in the middle?
"Hehehe." The person didn't say anything, just kept chuckling, clutching the two bounty posters from the beginning.
"Ahem, so you're just passing by, right?"
Xuan Jing coughed a few times, and Chen Dahai sighed, "As expected of Fellow Daoist Yue, he dares to think and act."
Zhong Ming disagreed; he would never prioritize luck.
"Let's go, get ready, and then board the ship!"
Just as the group was about to leave, they were drawn to the bustling shops along the roadside.
Zhong Ming sniffed and said, "How about we go take a look over here first?"
A teahouse also serves as an intelligence agency. The bounties posted here are all for matters unconfirmed by official intelligence, mostly described with phrases like "suspected," "possible," "highly probable," or "based on ancient records." The tasks are diverse, ranging from finding missing persons and forming teams for expeditions to collecting resources in disaster-stricken areas and exorcising ghosts...
Anyway... let's see if there are any tasks along the way. I don't know if I can do them, but they can serve as a negative example.
The places where they offer bounties can be marked as traps, and people can avoid them when leaving.