Chapter 6 Sudden Entrustment
(Yesterday, this book was released for the first time. I didn’t write a chapter all day long. To celebrate the first time, today’s doubles are better. Seeing that I am so sincere, friends who have passed by will ask for a collection and recommendation.)
"Hey, ladies and gentlemen." The old coachman's laughter came from the front of the carriage and woke up four sleepy passengers: "The crying cave camp is here, it's time to get off."
Although it is called the Crying Cave Camp, it is actually just a flat land of only about 400 square meters. It is surrounded by stones and wood to form a wall to prevent wild beasts from entering. There is no defensive facilities or guards. The camp is divided into two areas inside and outside. The outer area is only near the camp gate. Here, four large tents are built side by side with two fronts and two backs. The first is an open-air blacksmith shop. The furnace and anvil are placed outside the tent, and are only responsible for repair.
The second is the tailor shop, responsible for repairing cloth armor and leather armor. The third is the pharmacy, which operates various herbs and detoxification agents. Occasionally, external healing potions and internal spiritual recovery agents can be seen, but the price is more than twice that of pharmacies in nearby towns. The fourth is the grocery shop, which mainly sells various low-grade crystals and some small items such as thieves' opening and locks, flint and velvet for making fire, and various seasonings for cooking.
After passing through four tents side by side, you will enter the inner area. The inner area is a large open space, with several temporary tents scattered on the open space, which is the rest area for adventurers. A large tent is also set up in front of the rest area. Potato soup is stewed on the fire in the tent, wine barrels are placed beside the fire, and there are about a dozen tables and chairs outside the tent. Several people are sitting by the tables and chairs and eating. It is obvious that it is a temporary tavern in the camp.
This small camp is mainly for hired coachmen, adventurers who temporarily come out of the cave to rest and a very small number of travelers passing by. Occasionally, wild beasts that are hungry for food are also cleaned up by adventurers who rest in the camp. Although there is nothing good here, it is better to be safe. After a long period of intense battles in the cave, adventurers are willing to spend some money here to relax.
Three members of Nellie's adventure team and their temporary teammates jumped out of the car, and Catherine walked to the coachman: "Mr. Trump, as agreed this time, we hire you for sixteen days. But when we go into the cave to explore, you don't need to wait here all the time. This way, you can go back and wait for us in fifteen days before picking us up."
"Don't have to be so troublesome, little lady." The emperor replied with a smile: "Last time, it was because the little bastard of Little Scarter privately told me that you would be disappointed if you stay in there for two or three days. It was a short-term adventure, so I'll wait for you here. If you have determined to take a long-term adventure this time, will you see the stable in front? Then you can go back to find a carriage inside. I will also wait at the stable. Someone comes to rent a car and I will leave. In this way, I don't have to wait for you anymore, and you don't have to spend a lot of money. You just need to pay one gold coin from me today."
Catherine suddenly realized, looked at the sky again, and asked with some concern: "But it's getting late, do you have to rush back tonight? You can't get to town before dark, what if there is anything insecure..."
"Haha, little lady, don't worry, the coachman here knows that he can't return after noon, otherwise he will definitely have to go in the dark."
"Then you're going tonight..." Catherine handed the coachman a gold coin, but was not very worried about the coachman's residence tonight.
"We coachmen live directly in the car so we don't spend money to rent a tent inside. It's too wasteful. You might as well get in quickly, don't worry about me." The coachmen said, waved their hand and drove the carriage to the stables.
"Mr. Pannis." Catherine watched the coachman leave with a little unhappy expression: "Why didn't you tell us this?"
"What?" Panis asked in an unknown way: "What do you tell you?"
"About what Mr. Trump said." Catherine stared at Pannis' eyes and asked seriously: "You must be very clear, why don't you tell me?"
"It's not my business." Panis shrugged indifferently and replied with a relaxed look: "I just care about the things related to adventure. As for the others? Haha, does it have anything to do with me if you spend more money or less?"
"It has something to do with you now." Katherine emphasized her tone: "If there is such a thing again in the future, you must remind me and point me out the problem."
Panis sneered and laughed at him: "If you eat less or forget to sleep at night, do I also want to remind you?"
Catherine was not angry, she said in a dull but firm manner: "This is an order."
Panis opened his mouth wide and looked at Catherine's unquestionable expression speechlessly. He was stunned for a moment and sighed as if he had accepted his fate: "Your will, Lord Captain."
"Then let's go in and take a break and prepare to enter the hole." Catherine nodded, turned around and started moving forward, but no one saw it. The moment she turned around, a smile appeared on her face.
"You can remind me that I often think about problems when I eat, forget to chew and swallow it. I almost choke to death several times."
"You can also remind me that I often forget to sleep at night and forget to sleep at night. The next day I am so sleepy that I can't even open my eyes."
"You guys are still daytime now, don't start dreaming now." Panis turned his head, looked at the two beautiful faces with a twitching corner of his mouth, and left with a sentence.
"Although according to Mr. Pannis, there is no difference between day and night in the cave and you can enter at any time, considering our living habits, we will still rest in the camp tonight and start the task in the best condition tomorrow morning. Do you have any opinions?" Outside the tavern at the crying cave camp, four people occupied a table, and Catherine began to ask everyone for opinions. But it was obvious that the other three people were not concerned about this at all, and were still reading, dazed, holding a large glass of ale and pouring them into their stomachs.
Seeing Panis pouring ale one after another, Catherine frowned slightly: "Mr. Panis, I suggest you should not drink too much wine during your mission."
"This is also an order?" Panis stopped the movement in his hand.
"No, this is just a suggestion." Catherine muttered in a voice that all four could hear: "Anyway, you can't drink anymore after entering the cave."
Panis smiled bitterly and shook the wine glass in his hand: "Actually, you don't need to worry. The impact of ale on my body is already very small. I can't get drunk because of drinking ale. Or, the impact of the wine itself on me is already very small. Unless I keep drinking it for days and nights, it will be difficult for me to get drunk."
"Since you can't get drunk, why should you drink it?" Seeing that Catherine and Panis look at her with different meanings but both surprised eyes, Lina first smiled at Catherine mysteriously and proudly, and then gave Panis the book in her hand: "Chatherine Chronicles, Page 231, Chapter 58, Eunnis said."
"Maybe, there will always be some effect, right?" Panis said uncertainly, his eyes scattered and melancholy, as if he was staring at the wine glass, and as if he was looking at the dim sky reflected in the wine. For a moment, the four of them fell into silence.
There are a little more adventurers in the cave camp tonight than usual, and about ten tables are almost full. Most of the people who come and go in this camp are some low-level adventurers who don’t know the secrets of the crying cave at all, and they can only hunt monsters on the upper level to obtain materials or complete tasks. Of course, among these low-level novices, there may occasionally be a team of high-level adventurers above the silver level. It is obvious that these high-level people are all aiming for the lower level of the cave. The dress of these high-level adventurers is no different from ordinary low-level colleagues, but in the eyes of other high-level adventurers, their behavior and temperament are completely as obvious as lions hidden in the flock.
"Do you four also want to go down to the 'in'?" The two words intensified allow those who know the inside to understand the implicit meaning of the other party. The four people turned to look at the origin of the voice, and a female ranger walked slowly from not far away. When they got closer, the woman was about to speak, suddenly saw Panis clearly and exclaimed: "Penis? That's great."
"Do you know me?" Penis asked in confusion.
"Yes." The woman said with a little excitement: "Seven months ago, our team sneaked into the Mount Wolf Thieves Camp in the hills of Carnes to rescue Baron Stone's heir. He once hired you as an archer. I have a deep memory of your archery."
"Uh." Penis lowered his head and recalled: "I forgot, I never remember anything that has nothing to do."
The woman smiled awkwardly: "I'm here to ask for help, please help me, it's related to the life and death of my teammates."
"I never help people." Panis's voice was calm to the point of being almost cold: "And the life and death of your teammates has nothing to do with me."
"This lady." Catherine smiled, with a calm and peaceful power in her smile: "Please sit first and talk about what the situation is."
"I am Lisa from the Moonlight Adventure Group." The woman pulled a chair and sat down: "Who are you?"
"Nelly Adventures." Katherine replied: "I am Katherine."
"It's also a silver-level team?" Lisa's eyes lit up, her hands clenched into fists, and said hurriedly: "My priest and I just escaped from the cave this afternoon. Fortunately, we met you, otherwise there would be no hope. We went in seven days ago, but the day before yesterday, we first encountered a large-scale commotion of cavemen. After trying our best to escape, we were sneak attacked by two mages. I had broken an arm and three ribs at that time. The priest also exhausted my last mana to cure me. The leader had no choice but to hold them back with the mages in the group and asked Wen and me, ah, the priest in the group, to escape first and find a way. I hope to entrust you to rescue the leader and the entrusting fee, we can give two thousand gold coins."
"Maybe they have been killed." Panis said bluntly without sympathy: "Even if you escape, a place like the second floor of the cave, without the existence of the explorer, you won't live long. You are the explorer in the team, then they must not be. So your commission has no meaning."
"No." The anxious Lisa didn't care about Panis's unlucky words: "When they attacked, they said they wanted to catch the alive, and the commander and the others would definitely not be killed."
"Adventurers attack each other, and once they are found, they will be severely punished by the guild, and the other party should not be an adventurer. Do you have any clues? What strength do you have?" Catherine asked carefully: "Are there only two people? Or are there other accomplices?"
"We have no idea who the other party is, and we are very confused when we are attacked. We only know that the other party is very strong, maybe at the golden level. As for the accomplices, we didn't see them nearby, so there shouldn't be any."
Catherine frowned and thought for a while before answering: "Okay, I agree. But I can't guarantee anything, I can only say go and look for it. Also, if your teammates are really saved successfully, you need to go to the Adventurers Guild to reissue the mission."
"No problem." Lisa breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you so much. I don't know what to do without you."
Catherine smiled and accepted Lisa's thanks: "You write about your leader, the wizard, and the characteristics of the other two people for a while, and you don't have to go in. You have just broken bones and still have an arm. At least five days, you can't exert force. Your priest has just experienced a strong battle and needs rest. You should cultivate in the camp."
"Okay, I'll send you the information here later." Lisa left immediately with tactfulness.
"You are too cold, Mr. Pannis." Catherine said seriously: "It is the virtue of a knight to help those in need. We cannot ignore the suffering of others, as this is contrary to the spirit of a knight."
"I'm not a knight." Panis said indifferently: "I don't need to help them."
"But I'm a Knight." Katherine strengthened her tone: "And I'm still an employer."
Penis lowered his head weakly and groaned in a low voice: "You are always right, sir, employer."
Catherine smirked and explained in detail: "Actually, I have considered it, but this does not conflict with our mission. Moreover, these two guys who attacked adventurers also pose a great threat to us, so I made such a decision. We don't need or have the ability to take the initiative to find the enemy, but if the enemy comes to our door, we will not be afraid of fighting."
Chapter completed!