Heluwumu, a town affiliated with Wanhan City, is located 30 kilometers away from Wanhan City. It is bordered by grasslands and woods. It is the ultimate road for southerners to go to Wanhan City. All kinds of trade can be seen here.
It turns out that the prosperity of the town is almost comparable to that of a city-state. The town is supervised by Duke Adriaibel of the Protoss, and a thousand-man legion is also stationed in the town of Heluwumu.
The town is as large as a city-state and has military control, so naturally there is a mercenary club.
In the mercenary club, people were discussing something. Suddenly a strong man walked in, carrying a monster's corpse on his shoulders. Everyone looked over and started to look at the monster's corpse and started discussing the monster.
's corpse.
I saw the monster on the strong man's shoulder, and its belly had been opened by someone unknown. The internal organs inside had disappeared. The blood on the wound had long dried. The strong man's hands were covered with blood. Could it be that the strong man had cut the monster's body into pieces?
Eviscerated?
The messenger at the reception desk saw the strong man approaching and said, "Another corpse without a heart."
The strong man put the monster's body on the front desk and said, "Haha, I'm here to get the commission."
At this time, a man wearing a robe came over and shouted to the strong man: "Xiao Cheng?"
"Yo" The strong man saw clearly the appearance of the man in the robe and shouted: "Old Huang... you are here too, didn't you take the mission today?"
Lao Huang looked at Xiao Cheng carefully and said, "I just looked like you, so I came here to say hello. You said you, a hairy guy, why did you come to the mercenary club?"
"Haha..." Xiao Cheng laughed and said: "Hey... you don't know, I also went to raise Maotou today, but when I came back, I passed the woods outside the town, and I saw a tree outside the woods.
When I entered the woods, I saw a monster lying there with a pool of blood. I thought it was dead, so I went over to take a look. Who knew that the monster was not only dead? It had a big hole in its stomach, and even its heart was missing.
Yeah, I thought at that time that I had gotten a good deal, so I took out the remaining internal organs from the monster's belly. Then I took the monster to the mercenary club. Anyway, the monster's heart is highly poisonous, and those internal organs
It’s no use, bring a corpse back and you can get a commission.”
The messenger said: "You can't just find the corpse of a monster and get a commission."
The strong man felt disappointed and said, "Then my work will not be in vain."
The messenger looked at the strong man's shoulder. There was a brand on it that had been branded with an iron. This was the house number of a civilian in the town, indicating that he was a civilian in the town of Helu and Wumu.
With this kind of treatment, let me go and see if there is any mission for this monster you brought, and if so, I will let you receive the commission."
"Oh..." the strong man said excitedly: "Thank you, messenger."
The messenger walked to the task board, looked at it for a while, then took down a task list, walked over, and said: "Fortunately, there is one, I will accept this monster."
The strong man was excited. After seeing the messenger accept the monster, he went to the back room, and after a while he came out with the commission and handed it to himself.
The strong man took the commission, looked very happy, packed it up, and said to Lao Huang: "Old Huang, I'm leaving. If you are free in the evening, come to my house to eat meat."
"Okay" Lao Huang is also welcome.
The strong man turned around and left the mercenary club.
Old Huang returned to his table again, and there were two people at the same table with him, a man and a woman. The woman said: "During this period, the woods outside the town are really evil. There are such things being dug up almost every day."
The monster that took away the heart appeared in the stomach, but it gave some low-level mercenaries in this town an advantage, and they look for ready-made corpses almost every day."
But the man opened his mouth and said playfully: "How about we pick up a ready-made one."
The woman rolled her eyes and said: "Although there are monsters in the woods outside the town, they are all low-level monsters, and high-level monsters rarely appear. If you want to go, why bother to pick up ready-made monsters? I won't catch one and bring it back.
"
"Haha..." the man laughed and said, "Isn't this just talk?"
Old Huang looked at the mercenaries at other tables and said, "Do you know that not only the mercenary club, but also many civilians know that monsters with their hearts ripped out appear in the woods, and some of them have gone to Wanhan City
The business travelers now dare not approach the woods for fear of some monster appearing."
"Hehe..." The man smiled and said: "Old Huang, don't say so scary. To people, aren't those monsters just monsters?"
Lao Huang said: "You are right, but think about it. Looking at the entire continent, who doesn't know that the heart of a monster is highly poisonous? Who would kill the monster and not eat meat to fill his stomach, but choose to eat the monster?"
Heart in my belly, can you do it?"
"No..." the man said decisively: "What should I do with that heart? It's useless even if I use it to hand in tasks."
Lao Huang said: "No, no one knows what it is. Since we only take the heart of the monster, if it is eaten, it is not a monster. People can still understand the monster, but this thing has taken the heart of the monster.
, I don’t know what it is, it can only be called a monster.”
The woman said: "What Lao Huang said makes sense. Counting the time, it has been two months since these monsters with their hearts ripped out. Now, everyone is discussing this topic, and everyone wants to know what it is.
Something caused these monsters to have their hearts ripped out."
"Yes..." Old Huang said: "I heard that Duke Adrian sent several ten-man legions to investigate, but there were no results. Now they have posted notices asking civilians not to
Go into the woods."
The man said: "Wow... This monster is so impressive. Now that even Duke Adrian has paid attention to it and sent troops to investigate, if we can really catch the monster that eats the heart of the monster, I really want to go."
Let's see what it is. But having said that, during this period, our mercenary club is in the woods outside the town. There are not many low-level mercenaries to pick up the first and second level missions. Let me see.
, I guess I am afraid of this monster, but... life is still important."
"No..." Old Huang said: "Money is important, but it's not worth losing your life for a few gold coins."
"Old Huang..." the man suddenly shouted: "Tell me, should we go to the woods and have a look? Maybe we can actually find the monster that took out the heart of the monster. Think about it, even Duke Adrian Albert
Everything we care about, if we can catch that monster, maybe there will be a large reward?"
"Huh," the woman said, "You really have a beautiful dream. You don't even know what it is, so you dare to go?"
The man said: "Don't you think about it, if they are powerful things, why do you need to kill these low-level monsters?"
Lao Huang said: "It makes sense. Why don't we go tonight? Usually these weird things come out at night. Anyway, there are no suitable tasks in the mercenary club now, so let's go and have a look."
The woman thought for a while, and the man said: "It's okay. If that monster is really powerful, we won't be able to escape."
"Yes." The woman nodded, and the three of them left the mercenary club.