Chapter 30 The Value of Intelligence
The Hunter Guild of the Original City is located northwest of the Red Giant Wolf District, with a crowded street coming and going.
It has a unique five-story building with a lobby area of several times that of its colleagues in Wild Grass City, but its electronic level is not as good as that. It has only arranged twenty machines that can watch and receive tasks by themselves, and the rest are all completed through large screens and windows.
This led to the local Hunter Guild having a large number of employees, and many people could make a living by explaining tasks to the remains hunters who did not know the words. The entire hall was crowded and very noisy.
After Bai Chen informed a receptionist of his information about selling it to the guild, he soon walked through the hall and climbed to the second floor under his guidance.
During this process, Gnava received a lot of attention, but compared to other places, the frequency of robots appeared in the city at the beginning was much higher. Many teams of ruins hunters had such a member, so no one found it strange.
Second floor, in room 205.
Bai Chen, Long Yuehong and Gnava met an old man with a very straight nose, slightly gray hair, and a black robe.
He was about fifty years old, and his light blue eyes reflected the appearance of the two people on the other side:
"What information do you have to sell to the guild?"
Before Bai Chen could answer, Gnava, who had barely let himself sit on the chair, asked:
"I don't know what to call you?"
The old man laughed:
"It's rare to encounter such a polite robot."
Most robots have priority to obey their master's instructions.
When Long Yuehong heard this, she said "bad things" in her heart and quickly said to Gnava:
"Who taught you to ask someone else's name directly without considering the context?"
Gnava's eyes flashed a little red:
"It's what Hey said, he said you should be polite."
Sure enough... Long Yuehong was not surprised at all.
He asked just now, in order to guide the half-bian opposite to him to think in the direction of "this robot was ruined by his master", rather than the robot in front of him may come from "mechanical paradise" and belongs to the intelligent man.
"Don't always listen to him, his mind is different from that of a normal person." Long Yuehong has a rare opportunity to say bad things about Shang Jianyao behind his back, so of course he would not let it go.
The old man opposite raised his hand and pressed down:
“It’s not a bad thing to be polite.
"My name is Fredrich."
Bai Chen nodded gently:
"Mr. Fredrich, we have information about the white giant wolf in the mountains of the North Shore."
"Is that?" Fredrich was a little surprised. "You have just returned from the north shore mountains?"
"No." Bai Chen took out a neatly stacked piece of paper from his pocket. "We have encountered enemies similar to the white giant wolf before, and we believe that there should be certain similarities between the two, and we can obtain some useful information from this and that."
Frederi's right index finger tapped the surface of the table, thinking for a few seconds:
"That is, you can't be sure that this information will come in handy?"
"Yes." Bai Chen did not deny it, "but equally, you can't be sure it will definitely not come in handy."
This conversation is like a tongue twister. Xiaobai's Honghe language is still much better than me... Long Yuehong muttered silently.
He dared to shout Bai Chen's nickname in his heart.
The same is true for "Dabai".
Only "heat", he would shout from time to time. Anyway, he and Shang Jianyao were used to each other's criticism. The only thing they need to consider is whether they can withstand the other party's language counterattack in the future.
As for "Lao Ge", it was not meaningful to make fun of him, and he didn't think it was okay.
Fredrich withdrew his right hand and said with a smile:
“It makes me feel like I’m gambling.”
"But you are the dealer." Bai Chen responded calmly.
The relic hunter sells intelligence directly to the guild, which requires the consequences to be taken into account.
This is not a one-time transaction. If the guild gets information and reads it, it will find that you are suspected of fraud. The mildest one will recover the reward, deduct a certain credit point, add the corresponding record, and the severe one will add you to the blacklist, and even give the task of arresting you.
Compared with guilds, individuals always seem small. As long as they still want to eat the ruins hunter industry, few people are playing tricks on this.
Of course, there are also cases where you have to cheat the guild by burning your butt, so you can only consider turning into a "dark hunter" and not accepting tasks and handing in guilds, just like the earliest ruin hunters.
Fredrich smiled:
“You are calm.
"Tell me, how much compensation do you want?"
"400 Aure." Bai Chen offered the price.
This is enough for a family of three in the green olive area to live for a year. If they are more frugal, they can even use it for two years.
But compared with the price of military exoskeleton devices and robotic arms at "10,000", this is really a drop in the bucket - this type of material is often at a price but not at a market.
For the "old commissioning team", this information was mainly filled with shy wallets first. After all, they did not give all the information related to Qiao Chu, and they did not know so well about the abilities of this Eighth Institute special envoy.
Fredrich thought for a while:
“Hope it deserves the price.”
He immediately picked up the phone on the table, dialed a number, and asked the other party to go through the process now and entitled 400 Ore to come out.
When he hung up, Bai Chen pushed the folded paper over.
Fredrich picked up the reading glasses placed next to him, spread the paper in his hand, and read it carefully:
"...We once met a man named Qiao Chu, whose intelligence bounty in the guild was a ton of flour... He could make people involuntarily like him, obsessed with him, obey his orders... This is suspected to be a price, not the Awakener's ability... His ability is currently known to have the 'hobby of forcibly changing goals', 'make people frustrating', and the rest are unknown... If the giant wolf in the mountains on the north bank had not gained the ability to charm others through distortion, then he would need to consider it and there were other abilities..."
Fredrich raised his head and looked at Bai Chen and Long Yuehong:
"Have you met Qiao Chu?
"You can actually get rid of him and live until now?"
He was surprised by the subsequent incident.
Bai Chen pointed to Gnava next to him and said without changing his face:
"He's there."
"He?" Fredrich asked back.
In Honghe language, he and her are different words, and you can hear them at first.
Bai Chen casually explained:
"I am a wilderness wanderer. My parents died early and were all taken care of by intelligent robots to live to adulthood."
"That's it..." Fredrich expressed his understanding.
Long Yuehong was stunned by the hearing, but she didn't expect Xiaobai to be lying like the team leader.
There was obviously no robot at that time!
Moreover, it was not Gnava who took care of her and grew up!
I don’t know if Xiaobai was like this, or was influenced by the team leader... Long Yuehong fell into deep thought.
At this moment, Fredrich sighed:
"It seems that the charm does not work for the robot, which is also a very important message.
"Okay, your information does have a price of 400 Ore."
Jiang Baimianding 400 Aure mainly refers to the previous reward: the price of one kilogram of ordinary-grade flour in the initial city was about 4 to 6 drasai, which is about 0.5 Aure.
Of course, in the disaster-free years, in the initial city and the Wild Grass City, in many settlements of gray soil, a kilogram of flour can be worth a life in some cases.
In general, 400 Aure is about 800 kilograms of ordinary flour, which is about the same price as the previous reward.
Soon, Bai Chen received a total of 400 Aure's banknotes.
She counted 50 Aures out of it, and pushed it to Fredrich and said:
"I want to entrust a task."
Fredrich pointed to the floor:
“The commissioned task is below.”
Bai Chen did not stop and continued:
"The content is to help us find a friend. He is very sensitive and is also a ruin hunter. When he sees someone posting a task to find him, he will definitely hide. We can only ask the guild for help and privately entrust some ruin hunters who have enough connections locally.
"There is no need to get detailed information to tell us where he lives or where he often appears in."
——The Hunter Guild always has a vice president who directly manages a task that does not publish publicly and has the need for confidentiality.
Fredrich took the stack of paper money and said with a bump:
"If there is only this little reward, it's hard to say. No one will mobilize everyone they know to help find it for 50 Aure."
"No problem." Bai Chen took out another piece of paper.
The above is the appearance of Han Wanghou depicted by Jiang Baimian, which is lifelike.
At the same time, she also marked the color of her eyes, the name of the person, and other contents next to her.
After entrusting this matter, Bai Chen led Long Yuehong and Gnava back to the first floor lobby.
They casually browsed what tasks they had recently and did not consider taking them. They mainly used this to understand the current situation in the initial city.
After leaving the hall and returning to the street, they were about to turn to another place when they suddenly saw a convoy passing by on the road ahead.
These are all cars, dark black, and the glass seems to have been processed and the interior cannot be seen from the outside.
Such a large convoy made Long Yuehong feel like a momentum was coming to her face, and she subconsciously held her breath.
He turned his head and looked at Bai Chen, and found that she was staring in front of him.
"What's wrong?" Long Yuehong asked when the convoy disappeared at the end of the road.
"Nothing." Bai Chen shook his head.
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Harvest bathroom, in one room.
"Do you think this matter is related to the 'anti-intellectualism'?" Jiang Baimian thought about it and asked, "Is it the Zhao family who assassinated Xu Liyan? No, Zhao Zhengqi and Zhao Yide were also in the nobles' convention hall, and they would be killed together! There are conflicts within the Zhao family?"
Shang Jianyao did not respond to Jiang Baimian's question and said to himself:
Chapter completed!