Cataclysm King - #82 - Chapter 82: plot

  Chapter 82 Conspiracy

   “Townsend” is a mining town.

   Most of the residents in the town rely on the buried iron mines to survive, surrounded by a city wall more than ten meters high.

  The houses are all made of stones, with mud-red triangular roofs.

  Ji Xun tested the grenade, and after verifying the space rules, he walked towards the city gate without any further delay outside the town.

  An old man with a white beard and several militiamen at the door are welcoming these “bounty hunters” who came from afar.

   According to the information provided by the Black Wolf Hunters, this old man is Mayor Barn.

  When entering the city, hunters have to sign their names on the employment contract.

   Then Enlightenment will display the task prompt of “Accept Employment”.

   It is probably equivalent to signing an employment certificate.

   After hunting the werewolf in this way, you can get some extra rewards such as gold and silver coins, ore from the old man with the werewolf’s claws.

  There was a table at the gate of the city, and the hunters rushed to sign their names and rushed into the town.

  When Ji Xun came, most people couldn’t wait to go to the city to find opportunities.

   But looking at the densely packed names on the parchment, he suddenly thought of a question.

   What happens if you don’t sign it?

  Theoretically speaking, if you don’t sign, you won’t get the reward from the mayor, and you may end up losing tens of thousands of dollars worth of rewards.

   But Ji Xun wasn’t here to make money.

   I didn’t expect a C-level catastrophic difficulty space to reward any good things.

  Ji Xun thought together: “It seems that Qidi didn’t say that he can’t go out without signing the employment contract, right?”

   Looked again at the content displayed by Enlightenment.

   After confirming the conditions for going out, there is only one point: hunting a werewolf.

  No other conditions attached.

  He has read the information before, and the werewolves in the C-level dungeon will not go berserk, and the strength is about four or five high-level card master apprentices, and they can be killed steadily.

  This level of threat is not a big problem for Ji Xun’s current strength.

   And there are a lot of werewolves, so it’s easy to just pass the level.

  Since everyone has chosen to sign the contract, why not try something different?

  Anyway, C-level difficulty comes to familiarize yourself with the plot.

  If you don’t try at this time, the difficulty is even more impossible.

  Ji Xun thought of this, walked to the table, picked up the quill pen and made two random gestures.

  The NPCs didn’t find out whether one more or one less name was written in the densely packed names.

   No signature, no enlightenment.

  Ji Xun mixed into the town like this.

  The plot of this [Greedy Mine] space seems very simple.

   It was the werewolves who attacked the town, and the residents paid for the hiring of demon hunters to hunt and kill the werewolves.

  A plot with cause and effect.

  But there is a lot of other information hidden in it.

  For example, why are werewolves here? What happened in the burial mountain mine?

  While walking, Ji Xun was also thinking about problems in his mind.

  The breaking point of the plot mode must be the plot.

   Hunting a werewolf is just the basic requirement.

  If you want a high clearance evaluation, digging deep into the “truth of the mine mutation” is the right direction.

  So the exploration of the plot has to work **** the residents of Townsend Town.

   But this extra-dimensional space has been explored many times, that is to say, all the general information held by the residents of the town should have been explored.

  But those information still failed to allow the Black Wolf Group to pass the level with a high evaluation.

  So if you want to find a breakthrough, you may have to find some breakthroughs that are different from others.

   The exploration time is three days in total.

  Ji Xun is not in a hurry.

  He walked on the streets paved with crushed ore, looking at the town residents coming and going, thinking.

  There are vendors selling fruits and vegetables on the street

  Ji Xun walked over and asked a few questions tentatively.

  For example: how much is an apple, what is the name of the king, is there a magician or witch in the city, what is wrong with the mine.

  The answers I got were: five copper coins, His Majesty Ornn, I heard from the bard that yes, you can ask the mayor of Barn about this.

   Completely logical answer.

   It’s like a whole world.

   This is where Ji Xun is most amazed.

  Spell card masters seem to have gotten used to it.

   But to Ji Xun, a traveler, this surprised him even more than the different-dimensional space itself.

   It’s like traveling again, he came to a magical town in European medieval times, where there are magic, werewolves, and witches.

  These NPCs are exactly like living people, with flesh and blood, warmth, and emotional intelligence.

   It seems to be a corner of a complete world.

   But if not every time a hunter enters, the story of Townsend Town will repeat itself.

  Ji Xun will definitely think this is a real world.

   Different people come and do different things every time, which will lead to different development of the space plot.

  This is also the reason why the plot of the main story remains the same, but many branches are completely different.

   “Different planes, or parallel spaces? Or the mirror world created by some high-latitude creatures?”

  Ji Xun didn’t know how to understand the world he saw right now.

  This kind of doubt beyond cognition made him feel more in awe of the mysteries of the universe.

  This kind of “different-dimensional space” that transcends time and space is incomprehensible to people, but it shocks their hearts.

  Ji Xun walked on the street for a while, and the shock in his heart gradually dissipated.

  He didn’t waste any more time.

   At this time, he had reached the center of Townsend Town.

  There is a bell tower more than 30 meters high, which also seems to be the tallest building in the town.

  Ji Xun saw that there was no one around, so he jumped suddenly. His super agility and strength allowed him to climb up to the bell tower with a little leverage on the rocks outside the bell tower.

  The field of vision suddenly widened.

  Ji Xun overlooked the entire town, and also wrote down the general layout of the building.

   When he came to a strange place, observing the environment was a habit he developed.

   Scanning the street, Ji Xun quickly found some colleagues.

  The costumes of the hunters are changed by the rules of the space, and the NPCs can’t see anything abnormal.

  But Ji Xun, who is also a hunter, can tell the difference at a glance.

  The hunters who poured in before are now wandering around the town to collect wealth.

   According to the information, most of the things in urban residential houses are plot items and cannot be taken out.

  But there are some rare items that can be brought out of different dimensions.

  The hunters are frantically collecting those things.

   Said it was a “demon hunter”, more like a group of robbers came in.

   Anyway, as long as they stay for three days, the hunters regard this place as a carnival for plundering.

  And most of the residents here are ordinary people, and they don’t even have room to resist.

   Not only looting wealth, but also sex.

   The hunters of Innocence City are a group of guys without legal and moral constraints, and they are even more unscrupulous in the different-dimensional space.

  All behaviors that can vent desires are being staged.

  You can find some good-looking women anywhere, and there are not many in Townsend.

  Ji Xun saw in the windows of several private houses from the bell tower. In addition to plundering, those hunters also raped and humiliated the female house owners.

  Seeing this scene, he didn’t know what he thought of, and grinned treacherously: “Human nature!”

   This is happening everywhere.

  Ji Xun’s gaze roamed the town.

  At this time, he saw the five members of the Black Wolf Group walking straight into the only tavern in the town, with a playful look on their faces.

   This is the management personnel lined up by the Black Wolf Group.

   Said there were only five.

   But Ji Xun knew that there should be seven.

   There were fifty hunters gathered from the Windmill Tavern in Innocence City before, but a few of them did not come in.

  Ji Xun clearly remembered everyone’s attire.

  So apart from the five “administrators”, he was sure that among the forty-five hunters who came in this time, two of them had never seen their costumes before.

   If he is not a member of the group, he is most likely to be the “plain clothes” of the Black Wolf Group.

  So, why do the guys from the Black Wolf Group pretend to be hunters and sneak in?

   Obviously there are some shady things that make it inconvenient to use the identity of the Black Wolf Group.

   Ji Xun found out when he came in before.

   But I also feel that it doesn’t matter.

  Someone is doing something, which is exactly what he wants.

   These guys should know how to trigger some hidden sidelines.

   Besides, Ji Xunben also felt that in such a profitable alien space, the Black Wolf Group only collects tickets, which is not at all the style of the simple and honest residents of Innocence City.

  It wouldn’t be normal if there weren’t some black-and-white routines in this wilderness.

   But the space limits the rank of the entrants, and the strongest administrators are only the first rank.

  Ji Xun also felt that the risk was within the controllable range.

   What he has to do now is to learn some information as soon as possible, and make preparations before those guys do things.

  As Ji Xun guessed.

  The administrators of the five black wolf groups walked into the tavern, and they came to the second floor of the tavern familiarly.

  Close the door, there are already two guys in hunter costumes waiting here.

   It was the two whose costumes Ji Xun found unfamiliar.

“The leader said, first let those guys clean up the werewolves on the first and second floors. Tonight, let’s get some aconitum and lure out the B-level calamity werewolf on the third floor of the mine, and let those scattered people drag it. Let’s go in and see what’s going on on the fourth floor.”

   “Captain, do we need to be in such a hurry? Go in person?”

“Don’t be in a hurry. The team leader speculates that this space has too many low-difficulty entries, and it may collapse. If you don’t try to find a way to challenge the high-difficulty, you may never have a chance to find such a good werewolf material in the future. This risk Definitely have to take a risk.”

“You guys don’t know how powerful the [Spades 4-Werewolf] refined from the two pieces of silver material produced before is. Xiao He, the deputy captain of the fourth team, just fused the silver professional card. Just fused, the combat power after transformation It is close to the veteran first-tier spell card master in the regiment. And the werewolf material is much higher than the upper limit of ordinary monsters. Overall, the increase of werewolf cards is at least 50% higher than that of other beastwalker cards of the same quality. The gap in combat power.”

   “Hiss is so strong? It’s a pity that silver materials are not easy to produce.”

“Don’t worry too much. We’re just exploring the plot this time, not killing monsters. What’s more, the leader went to the Thunder Tigers to borrow the assassin’s exclusive relic. We are going to the fourth floor to be safe. Be careful, it’s not a big problem. I estimate that after going down to the fourth floor, our customs clearance evaluation will be very high, and the probability of producing silver materials will also be very high.”

   “But if the B-level disaster on the third floor of the mine is drawn out, I’m afraid not many people will survive this time. If it spreads out, our group’s reputation may not be very good.”

   “Live? The leader means that no one will be left except ours.”

“Otherwise, do you think that the people who came in the last two batches really encountered an accident to trigger the B-level difficulty, with so many casualties? Hehe, as long as they are all dead, the things here will not be spread. What’s more, the higher the death rate, we The evaluation will be higher if you pass the customs.”

“Um.”

   “But having said that, the last time the ninth team came in to hunt down the B-level werewolf on the third floor, they suffered heavy casualties, and the team didn’t dare to organize a B-level challenge again. What happened when the A-level plot was triggered?”

“No one knows. That time when the three elite teams of our regiment came in, all of them died, and the information did not come out. Only an outsider came out alive. He didn’t see what happened, he only knew that there was an A-level disaster A werewolf of the U-level appeared in Townsend Town. Then he followed the scent and killed all the hunters. Later, after interrogation by the team leader, he found out that the surviving guy rushed into the city without signing his name, so he took his life by chance. Otherwise, we And I don’t know how to get out of space alive.”

“The werewolf’s combat power is indeed terrifying. Among the monsters of the same level I have seen, it is definitely in the top three. The B-level calamity is already comparable to the second-level spell card master’s combat power. If it is A-level, this restricts the level. It cannot be killed at all. We can only start from the plot.”

  “.”

   Townsend town.

   Just when a group of hunters were hunting for treasure in full swing in the city.

  Ji Xun was teasing the children with candies on the street.

   “Children, do you want to eat sugar mom?”

“think.”

   “Where’s Mom?”

   “Mom is dead.”

   “How did Mom die?”

   “Caught the plague and died.”

  “.”

   “Do you still want candy?”

   “I want to, but the mayor’s grandpa won’t let me talk to outsiders.”

   “Ah, enough is enough, I can’t hold it anymore.”

   “I told you quietly, you can ask the alcoholic Jack in the town, he has the best news. You can find him at the big windmill in the town.”

  “.”

   NPCs in different dimensions are intelligent.

  Except for certain messages beyond the cognition of this world, which cannot be seen or heard, they are completely indistinguishable from normal human thinking.

   In Ji Xun’s eyes, this is the biggest breakthrough.

  The residents of the city have a kind of fear and fear of outsiders, and they are obviously secretive when they mention certain topics.

   But the children will not.

   After asking a few more questions, Ji Xun found out that there seemed to be a plague in Townsend Town a year ago, and many people died.

  This is not in the intelligence.

  The people from the Black Wolf Group have come so many times, so they must know.

  But they didn’t write these key information in the sales information.

  Because this may be the key to breaking the plot of “Greedy Mine”.

  Ji Xun suspected that there might be some connection between the plague and the appearance of werewolves.

   Obviously, the plague is gone.

  Ji Xun wanted to ask who cured the plague, but many people avoided talking about it.

   From the mouths of the children, I learned that it seemed that a passing “witch” had cured the plague, and that Baron Ross, the lord, had sent a team of knights with bright armor.

   But these are dead leads.

  Ji Xun roughly sorted out the timeline of the story in his mind.

   A plague broke out in the small town, and witches and knights came. When the plague was cured, they came when the werewolves appeared.

  These events are like scattered beads, but there is a lack of a key causal thread behind them to connect them.

   There is another important clue.

  The children said that there are terrible monsters in the buried mountain mine.

   This is also where the mission “Investigate the Truth of the Mine Mutation” in Enlightenment points to.

  Ji Xun didn’t intend to rush to the mine where monsters gathered together.

  He intends to ask about the situation first.

  The townspeople are wise, and the robbery of this new wave of “demon hunters” spread throughout the city in a short time.

  Probably because the demon hunter came to help hunt werewolves, and the mayor suppressed the anger of the residents by force, so there was no major disturbance.

   But once the news spread, it was impossible to ask any questions from the residents.

  Everyone will run away from strangers in strange costumes.

  Forcibly questioning may also get some information.

  But Ji Xun feels that this method may trigger a special plot, or trigger a space mechanism.

   And definitely a bad direction.

   After all, there was a stern warning in the intelligence, not to kill the townspeople casually, otherwise they might be kicked out of Townsend Town.

   Probably someone has tried it before.

   At that time, there will be no shelter from towns, and everyone will be in the wilderness, it will be difficult to survive for three days.

  Ji Xun was also helpless with the stupid and greedy behavior of those “companions”. This action almost ruined the possibility of triggering all valuable plot branches.

   But he also thought of another way.

  Since it is an intelligent NPC, there must be human greed.

   Relying on lockpicking skills, I went to visit several houses and got a large bag of coins.

   These gold coins that cannot be brought out of the space are probably useless to other hunters, but they are very good tools in Ji Xun’s hands.

  He found “Drunk Jack.”

With this huge sum of money, I asked another key clue: “For information about the mine, you can find Uncle Sam in the blacksmith shop. He can not only silver your weapons, but he is also the only person who has been to the depths of the mine before.” So far. Oh, don’t say it’s mine. After all, this topic is taboo in Townsend.”

   And at the same time, Ji Xun also asked an interesting piece of information.

  Although this alcoholic Jack knows that he is an adventurer from another place.

   But he didn’t even think of him as a “demon hunter”!

  Ji Xun also guessed that this may be related to the contract signed at the city gate before.

   After signing the contract, the space is blessed with the identity of a “demon hunter”.

  Walking along the small river in Townsend Town, Ji Xun saw a blacksmith workshop with exhaust gas rising from the chimney.

   It is written in the information that hunters who use firearms can come here to ask the boss of the workshop to silver-plate the bullets.

   Silver-plated bullets deal burn damage to werewolves.

  Ji Xun didn’t come in a hurry before, because he didn’t think it was necessary.

  The process of silver plating is not complicated, he can do it himself.

  Just walking over, I happened to bump into two colleagues.

  The two came out of the blacksmith shop cursing.

“Fuck! I wasted so much time in vain, I thought I could find out something. That damned information dealer, he must settle accounts with him when he returns to Innocence City! He also said that he sold top-secret information, and said that the owner of the blacksmith shop had been there. The fourth floor of the mine. As a result, nothing was asked.”

“I’ve told you that we can think of finding clues. People who came in before must have thought about it long ago. You just don’t believe this. If you don’t grab the things, you will lose at least tens of thousands. I want to go back in the next few days Ben, we can only risk going to the mines to hunt werewolves.”

  “.”

  Ji Xun listened to the conversation between the two who were walking farther and farther away, with slightly different expressions.

  He was not surprised that someone knew that the blacksmith might have clues, after all, he had done it so many times.

   But the intelligence merchants in Innocence City are so powerful?

  Know this kind of information?

   Sure enough, after exploring many copies, there are fewer and fewer secrets.

  But since the intelligence merchants said so, Ji Xun felt that the owner of the blacksmith shop was very important.

   Didn’t ask, most likely the way of dialogue is wrong.

  (end of this chapter)