"Mermaids, it looks like you are really stupid! 50 gold coins? 200 thick-fleshed starfish? Hahaha! You made a fortune selling empire badges last time, so you started spending money lavishly!"

An adventurer on the side started taunting him, and the smile on Ai Luo's face suddenly became stiff. He said with a slightly stubborn tone: "What... what do you mean stupid? Now... what are the thick fleshy starfish now?"

Don’t you know the price? Especially if it has mouthparts! That… that’s a huge sum! 50 gold coins… 50 gold… not much! I don’t think it’s much at all!”

"Ha! Idiot."

After taunting Ai Luo again, a guild leader walked towards the gathered villagers. After looking at some of the scars and bruises on their faces, he sneered, took out 25 gold coins from his arms, and grabbed

He passed the hand of the young man Fan Yi and patted his palm: "Half the price, 200 thick-fleshed starfish, deal! Okay, let's go catch starfish! Let's go!"

Old Man Hai seemed a little nervous, and he quickly stretched out his hand: "Ah! But..."

"But what?! Don't those thick-fleshed starfish belong to you? I'm warning you to stay out of trouble, if you don't want to be beaten by us again!"

The words of the guild leader frightened Old Man Hai, and he did not dare to speak anymore.

Seeing this, the members of this guild completely ignored the bewildered villagers and followed their president happily to capture the starfish. After seeing this scene, the other guilds were naturally unwilling to lag behind and immediately

He walked forward and took out his bag of gold coins.

But, just when the situation seemed to be developing towards a controllable situation for my mother...

"Wait a minute, why do we have to pay? Isn't this an illegal breeding site?"

As this voice emerged, Ai Luo knew that what he was most worried about had finally happened.

So many guild members gathered in the village now turned their heads. Even the guild that had just paid the money stopped and looked here.

The person who spoke was none other than the president of the Sea Shark Guild—Man-Eating Whale Big Wave.

The former pirate member carried his even more terrifying-looking shark-tooth knife and slowly walked from the back to the front, surrounded by other members of the Sea Shark Guild. He glanced at the frightened villagers over there, and then took the sword again.

His eyes shifted to Ai Luo who was standing aside, he sneered and said——

"According to the information we have received, this breeding farm should be illegal, right? In other words, there is no operating license here, which means that all the thick-fleshed starfish here are wild! We can catch as many as we want.

How much, there is no need to use the act of 'buying'! You said, President Aero Garcia of Mermaid Song, am I right or not?"

Human behavior has a certain herd mentality.

Especially if someone starts to take the lead in something, then the followers will unconsciously want to follow the footsteps of the pioneer. At most, they can get a little advantage without having to pay as much as the pioneer.

That's why Ai Luo announced in front of so many people that he spent 50 gold coins to buy 200 thick-fleshed starfish, in order to put the guild behind him into a situation where "they can buy them at a price slightly lower than the market price."

Thick-fleshed starfish" concept.

From the formation of the concept to the slamming of the brakes, it can at least be sustained for a while, allowing these villagers to minimize some losses.

But now, the brake appeared much faster than Ai Luo expected.

Facing the man-eating whale, Ai Luo just maintained a smile and said: "What are you talking about? Why don't I know?"

The man-eating whale snorted, and walked directly in front of the villagers. Compared to the slightly thinner villagers, this huge body was as terrifying as a giant.

The man-eating whale's eyes swept over the faces of these villagers one by one. Finally, he suddenly raised his hand and slapped Old Man Hai on the face. In an instant, Old Man Hai was slapped to the ground by this huge slap.

, the gold coins he held in his hand were also scattered on the ground at this moment.

"Ha! Sure enough, there is not as much as 50 gold coins at all. Mermaid, I have seen through all your little tricks, so there is no need to keep pretending!"

The villagers shouted loudly and went to help Old Man Hai, but the man-eating whale turned back, looking down at Ai Luo with a pair of hostile eyes, full of arrogance, sneered, and said: "Okay! You guys, go catch it.

Thick meat starfish! We don’t have to pay a single iron coin, because Mermaid Song has already paid for everyone here! Hahaha! Let’s go!”

With the man-eating whale taking the lead, the other guilds looked at me and I looked at you. With a blind obedience, they finally followed the Sea Shark Guild to the breeding farm over there. Even the one who paid first

Qian's guild also came back quickly and snatched the 25 gold coins from Fan Yi's hand. At the same time, he glared at Ai Luo with extremely disgusting eyes, turned around and left.

Immediately afterwards, there was a most wanton massacre.

Countless thick-fleshed starfish were dragged up from the farm. Just like what Mermaid Song did just now, these adventurers quickly removed the mouthparts of the starfish and threw the starfish aside to wait for death.

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Each guild needed 200, which meant that the project was huge! In the blink of an eye, the entire village was filled with starfish corpses. The village began to have no room for them, so they took off the mouthparts of the starfish.

Then throw it back into the sea.

Those thick-fleshed starfish that were dying were struggling on the ground, and blood was flowing out, even dyeing the place a bright red. The blood had even dyed the surrounding sea surface red, attracting some things.

Ai Luo exhaled and looked at the cabin over there again. He turned his head and looked at the villagers who were crying bitterly because all their hard work for a whole year had been destroyed.

Then...

"It is true that they do not have a business license. However, we are an adventurers guild."

Just when all the guilds were in full swing cutting up the thick-fleshed starfish and cheering for the mission they were about to complete, Airo's voice suddenly came from behind the man-eating whale.

The man-eating whale wiped the blood from his face, turned his head and saw the short president, who was only as tall as his chest, and couldn't help but sneer. He raised his foot and stepped on the remains of a thick-fleshed starfish, and said: "Why?

?You don’t want to say that you have never done this kind of thing, do you? Before we arrived, your guild beat him up first. Haha! Thinking about it this way, it saved me a lot of trouble. But think about it,

If they are not beaten by you, then those villagers will definitely be beaten by us. If they are beaten by you, they can only sustain minor injuries, but if they are beaten by us, it will not be so easy."

Ai Luo shook his head slowly and did not answer the question. He continued to speak in a voice that could be heard by the surrounding adventurers: "We are an adventurers guild, we are not a mercenary group. We do not engage in robbery or theft.

Murder and other illegal activities. The reason why the Blue Bay Empire agrees to the existence of adventurer guilds like us is because our guilds can be used to maintain local order in places where the empire's military forces are not under jurisdiction."

"So, even if these villagers don't have any business license, they have been cultivating these thick-fleshed starfish for more than a year, maybe even two or three years. If we really don't leave any money, then

It's like driving them to a dead end in one fell swoop."

"Let me say it again, we are an adventurers guild, not a mercenary group. We should not force a village like this into a dead end just to complete our own mission!"

Airl shouted so loudly that the adventurers next to him couldn't hear it even if they didn't want to.

The adventurers raised their heads, you looked at me, I looked at you, and then lowered their heads to look at the thick-fleshed starfish they were slaughtering.

If they are serious adventurers, they usually do things that accept commissions from neighbors. Of course, they cannot purely benefit themselves at the expense of others. Now, the expressions on their faces have also changed slightly, and some of them have stopped.

There seemed to be some wavering.

But for man-eating whales, such rhetoric is simply a joke——

"Forced into death? Hahaha! It's a joke! Mermaid, don't think I don't know what you are thinking. Don't you just pity these villagers! Don't you just want to get more money for them so that you can continue to live?"

If you really pity them, why don't you take out the money and give it to them? Instead, it's all on us?"

After a slight pause, the man-eating whale raised its head, snorted coldly at the villagers slowly gathering over there, and said: "Speaking of which, why couldn't they apply for a license? And what happened this time?

I also thought about it, why does a small task in the second mission require such a large number of thick-fleshed starfish mouthparts? If it is starfish meat, forget it, but what does it mean to ask for mouthparts? "

"But now I think about it, it turns out that's what it is! In fact, the original purpose is to drive out all the villagers on this island, right?"

With a crash, the man-eating whale pointed his shark-tooth knife at Airl and the villagers behind Airl, laughing loudly——

"In other words, if we kill all these villagers now, it will be a great thing, right? Hahaha!"

Ai Luo's expression changed slightly, but then he sneered and said: "You are too courageous. The most important thing about the mission is to drive them away. If you really kill them, it will be so troublesome.
Chapter completed!