Every morning, various tasks would be posted all over the bulletin board of the Mercenary Guild. There were low-star tasks of one or two stars, relatively few above three stars. Among them, the most were the non-star basic tasks. These tasks lasted at most two or three days, most of which could be solved on the same day.
Now it was morning time. The bulletin board was already covered with various basic tasks. Ye Chui glanced over them, then tore down the flyers for these basic tasks one by one. He counted them, enough to have thirty-four sheets.
Seeing Ye Chui so bold, some people were secretly shocked. There was no requirement for the number of tasks accepted, but if tasks were accepted and not completed, one would receive certain penalties, and task failures would also be recorded. This would affect star levels and reputation, after all, when some big families hired people, they also valued the success rate highly.
The director stood to one side with a cold face and said: “President Ye Chui, if you do not complete so many tasks, you will have to pay a fine, and I will not be lenient at all in registering the failure rate.”
“Rest assured, we will complete all these tasks, and we will bear all consequences.” Ye Chui said with a smile. He registered those tasks one by one with the serving girl. The tasks were varied.
The city lord’s son’s white cat was lost. Finding it back could get a reward of 40 silver coins.
Doctor Kukesa needed three eggs of the wind swallow bird, purchase price 20 silver coins each, no upper limit, time limit five hours.
Alice from the west district released a task. Her husband had been missing for ten days. Please find her missing husband, reward 80 silver coins, note: corpse also counts.
Eileen from the middle city alley released a message: Find the whereabouts of a black-clothed vendor. Not long ago, bought a magic scroll from him, verified to be useless, reward 50 silver coins.
The wandering singer Ketans from Unicorn Alley released a task. Please help him confess to his beloved Miss Meris, reward one song.
The Dry Forest Tavern acquires deer meat, 15 silver coins per pound, at least ten pounds needed.
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These tasks were all sorts, doing these tasks was more like being a handyman than a mercenary. The Mercenary Guild in this world undertook all kinds of service industries.
Watching Ye Chui complete the registration of all the tasks, the director and some onlookers, mercenaries, magic guilds all showed low voices of mockery. They knew Ye Chui and his group were not ordinary people, even Ye Chui’s illegitimate child identity had already spread out, and they knew he had recently killed over a hundred people in one go, but this could not dispel their current disdain for Ye Chui. After all, the swordsmen and magic tutors who were killed were mostly from north of the Warm Water River, while they, the southerners south of the Warm Water River, had a strong sense of superiority.
In the Star Empire, with the Warm Water River as the boundary, north and south formed distinctly different regions and customs. Both sides also often had some disputes, for example, southerners despised the north for being barren, northerners despised southerners for not being straightforward, even arguing over whether to put sugar or salt in pudding could cause conflicts… Ye Chui just could not understand, how could one put salt in pudding?
Debbie, Lesa, Green looked at these extremely complicated tasks, and all frowned. These tasks would probably take at least two or three days to complete, or even more. You know, finding people, catching cats, such things were the most time-consuming. They all looked at Ye Chui with some worry.
However, Ye Chui had a calm face. He walked to a small table for resting in the Mercenary Guild and sat down, asked Green for paper and pen, then beckoned to the old man from Joker Town who was standing dazedly to one side. After the other came over, Ye Chui asked: “Old sir, do you understand Ganglu City well?”
“I often come here, I know every corner of this city best.” The old man said, then showed difficulty. “But letting me help find people to do tasks, this, this I cannot do.”
“No need for you to help find people, you just need to tell me where the places are.” Ye Chui said comfortingly with a smile, then summoned the iPad magic guide book, clicked open the browser, and began to input the keywords from those tasks one by one.
“White cat” “wind swallow bird” “Alice” “black-clothed vendor”…
He continuously queried, occasionally recording some things on paper, then asking the old man some questions, like where the place is, what direction it is in. A circle of people surrounded them, but most people could not see what Ye Chui was doing, so the number of onlookers dispersed, only some idle people still stayed in place.
Soon, the news that Whatever Name Magic Guild accepted thirty-four basic tasks spread throughout the entire Ganglu City. At the same time, the news that Ye Chui had just summoned a giant dragon and defeated the Tenth Prince’s Dragon Rider Guards in one go also spread. When hearing these two news, most people’s first reaction was: Is this really done by the same group? No mistake, right?
The Tenth Prince at this time had already slipped away with his people and left Ganglu City.
In that dim room, when the Joker Girl heard her confidant report the whereabouts of Ye Chui and his group, she frowned and stood by the window pondering, not understanding what deep meaning Ye Chui and the others had in doing this. Could there be some profound and unpredictable reason?
It could not possibly be really wanting to complete thirty-four basic tasks in one go, right?
How could someone be so bored!?
Then, after staying in the Mercenary Guild for more than half an hour, Ye Chui and his group started to move.
Some busybodies directly followed behind them, and constantly reported their actions to others in Ganglu City, that appearance as if doing a live broadcast, and soon, countless people were shocked and boiled up.
First, Ye Chui and his group, led by the old man, came to an abandoned manor in the city. Originally living here was a duke, but two years ago that duke left Ganglu City, and this house was also abandoned, overgrown with weeds inside, rarely visited usually.
They had just entered when they heard a cat meow, then saw a white cat hurriedly run towards the room. Ye Chui used [Shadow Stealth] to quietly approach the white cat, and caught it. He learned from a child’s memory that the white cat had been seen here. The white cat was a female cat, it had recently been often mixing with another black cat here…
From that child’s memory, Ye Chui also knew that on the abandoned tower of this waste house, there was a nest of wind swallow birds.
After Ye Chui caught the white cat, he immediately climbed the abandoned tower, harvested a nest of wind swallow bird eggs, a total of five.
He brought the wind swallow bird eggs to the pharmacy of old pharmacist Kukesa. When Kukesa wanted to pay Ye Chui the reward, Ye Chui refused with a smile, requesting Kukesa to replace with a bottle of potion. That was the newly developed medicine for treating water hemp by Kukesa, with significant effect, but Kukesa had never mentioned it to outsiders.
“How do you know about this potion?” He asked in surprise at that time.
“Hehe, just heard someone mention it.” Ye Chui responded. He actually knew it from Kukesa’s own memory. He was quite proud of this potion, just wanting to find someone to boast about it greatly.
After getting the water hemp potion, Ye Chui brought people to a small inn in the city suburbs.
In a small room on the second floor of this small inn, Ye Chui found a listless man.
“Who are you people?”
“Your wife Alice asked us to find you!”
“Alice… Tell Alice, I, I let her down, I do not want to go back…”
The man showed embarrassment on his face.
Ye Chui let Debbie, Lesa, Guni leave the room, then slyly said to that man: “I understand your difficulty. Is it not that you accidentally spent ten companions to mix with a prostitute for one night, then contracted water hemp, so ashamed to go home?”
Water hemp is a kind of illness not suitable for children, usually related to promiscuity, a kind of illness that makes people very ashamed.
“You, how do you know?” The man said in panic.
“Although not many people know about this kind of thing, it is not impossible to find out.” Ye Chui said with a smile. He found the clue from a memory article of an inn clerk. The man met the beautiful Miss Woshiji in that inn, had a promiscuous night then got the illness. The inn clerk had always treated this matter as a joke to mention to people.
“I, I have no face to see Alice…” The man held his head, said with a face full of bitterness.
“Although water hemp is troublesome, it is not incurable. Take this bottle of the latest water hemp potion developed by Kukesa. It takes effect in two hours. Essential for outdoor promiscuity, you deserve it.”
“…”
“Cough cough, I can give you the potion, but I have something to ask you. Did you see a black-clothed vendor yesterday, and bought a bottle of potion claiming to treat water hemp from him, but it was completely ineffective? Can you tell me where I can find him?”
After leaving this small inn, Ye Chui immediately found the black-clothed vendor who was selling his goods in a remote alley, caught him. When escorting him to the city guards, Ye Chui also took a bottle of love water potion from him. This potion is made from the stamen of the blue tang flower, its function is aphrodisiac, listed as a banned drug, only available from unscrupulous merchants like the black-clothed vendor.
Then Ye Chui arranged the wandering singer Ketans and Meris to meet in a small alley sprinkled with love water. They hid aside and witnessed a perfect confession and the subsequent passionate, shameless…
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Since Ye Chui and Debbie formed the magic guild, they had not accepted such basic tasks. Now accepting a bunch at once, doing these tasks under Ye Chui’s perfect task strategy was like playing a domestic pay-to-win online game with built-in task navigation, smooth and enjoyable, as they conquered one task after another in a chain.
Those who were originally waiting to see their joke all closed their mouths.
Their mockery turned into amazement, deeply understanding that being able to reach four-star at such a young age was not unearned reputation…
When it reached noon time, back and forth only four hours, Ye Chui brought the guild’s little partners back to the hall of the Mercenary Guild with a smile, handed a stack of completed task flyers to the director.
The director’s face looked so ugly that he almost cried. This group of four-star guild actually completed a pile of basic tasks… And within four hours!
