Following the strong bearded man named Xin Lei, Gao Yuan pretended to be curious and asked about the reason for his previous conflict with the skinny old man.
After seeing Gao Yuan's combat power token representing the "Best" strength, Xin Lei was much more polite to Gao Yuan.
In addition, he really had a lot of complaints about that ungrateful butcher, so Gao Yuan just raised his head, and Xin Lei himself started talking.
This man looked rough, but his conversation was quite organized. It didn't take long for Gao Yuan to get a rough idea of the whole story.
Xin Lei's team is a professional "backpacker" team composed of five fixed members.
Except for the captain Su Qing, the woman Gao Yuan met just now, who is a monk at the ninth level of Qi training, the other four members are all at the eighth level of Qi training.
The main business of this team is to accept the material transportation entrustment issued by His Highness, Qingliang City Service Highness, and transport various materials between the oasis base camp deep in the "grey desert" and Qingliang City.
Due to the long distance between Qingliang City and the Oasis Base Camp, the total distance for a round trip is almost two thousand miles. Not only does it have to pass through the wild forest, but it also has to trek hundreds of miles outside the 'grey desert'. There are many dangerous places on the road.
Therefore, although what they were asked to transport were the most basic daily necessities such as food and water, the rewards were quite generous.
Although there were not many members in Su Qing's team originally, it was only the minimum number of people required by the Service Hall.
However, they have cooperated with each other for many years and have safely completed many tasks assigned by His Highness. In order to maximize mutual benefits, they have never considered recruiting additional team members.
But just after Su Qing accepted the transportation task and handed over a large sum of spiritual stones as a deposit to the Service Hall ten days ago, one of the members of their team disappeared for no reason.
After searching for several days without finding any clues, Su Qing decided to find a replacement out of desperation. The first person he found was today's skinny old man Tu Fei.
Tu Fei is also an old man who has been working as a "backpacker" for many years. He also has the strength of the eighth level of Qi training. He was once saved by Su Qing's team when he was attacked by the "Shadow Demon", so when Su Qing came to his door
When asked, Tu Fei naturally agreed.
This matter had been settled originally, but for some unknown reason, the butcher went back on his word today, which made Xin Lei furious.
The strong man obviously concealed the reason why Butcher suddenly regretted it, but Gao Yuan didn't care much.
He no longer has to join the other party's team, because he has already extracted the information he needs from the conversation just now.
First, seven hundred miles southwest of Qingliang City, there is an endless "grey desert". It is said that the area that has been explored is several times larger than the Northern Territory.
Second, there are a large number of ancient ruins and various precious resources in this 'grey desert'.
Therefore, various cities in the Northern Territory have stationed a large number of people in the Gray Desert all year round to excavate ruins and collect resources. The so-called oasis is a temporary camp specially opened to facilitate these people to survive in the Gray Desert.
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The third and most important point is that there are a large number of monsters living in this 'grey desert', including 'Shadow Demons'.
With so much useful information, Gao Yuan feels much better.
Following Xin Lei, it didn't take long to arrive at a house not far from the Service Hall, where members of Su Qing's team were stationed.
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After hearing Xin Lei's words, Su Qing's face flashed with surprise.
Not only has this young man’s cultivation reached the seventh level of the Qi Training Realm, but his actual combat ability has also been recognized as ‘Best Level’?
This shows that the other party is also quite sophisticated in the art of magic!
If the other party is over forty years old, it is not impossible to understand.
But this young man looks like he is only in his early twenties, which is a bit strange!
Could it be that he is a member of the family who came out to practice?
This thought flashed through Su Qing's mind. She hesitated for a moment and solemnly said to Gao Yuan:
"Little brother, to be honest, your strength exceeds my expectations and fully meets the recruitment standards of our team. But before you decide to join us, there is news that I think you need to know."
Xin Lei on the side suddenly became anxious after hearing this, and winked at Su Qing.
But Su Qing didn't seem to see it, looking at Gao Yuan and said:
"Do you know why that person rejected my request today?"
"I don't know, what happened?"
Gao Yuan was also a little curious about this, and asked casually after hearing this.
"The night before yesterday, the last team escorting supplies came back. According to them, on their way back from the oasis base camp, they were besieged by more than twenty humanoid 'Shadow Demons'. After a bloody battle, their team of eight
Only three of them came back alive."
Su Qing looked directly at Gao Yuan and then said:
"Actually, this kind of situation happens from time to time in the Gray Desert. Just like the butcher you saw today, his team encountered this kind of situation before. If we hadn't happened to encounter us at that time, he probably wouldn't have survived.
Come down.
So when he heard what happened to the previous group of people, he immediately came to me to ask for his resignation."
Gao Yuan was stunned when he heard this. No wonder Xin Lei didn't mention the reason why the skinny old man declined before. It seemed that he was afraid that he would also be scared away.
Then he remembered Su Qing's previous words and said curiously:
"The humanoid 'Shadow Demon'? Does this monster have other forms?"
Su Qing was startled when he heard this, and quickly remembered that the other party had just completed the combat power rating today. It seemed that the other party knew very little about the "grey desert".
Then she explained:
"'Shadow Demon' does not refer to a specific kind of monster, but a collective name for various elementary monsters in the outer areas of the 'Gray Desert', and the humanoid 'Shadow Demon' is one of its branches."
Only then did Gao Yuan understand, and then asked again:
"I wonder how strong these humanoid 'shadow demons' are?"
"The absolute strength of the humanoid 'Shadow Demon' can almost reach the level of 'Armour', but as an elementary monster, its intelligence is very low. We monks also have the help of talismans and magic weapons. With your strength, little brother, a pair of
The chance of winning is still very high." Su Qing thought for a moment before saying.
Hearing this, Gao Yuan immediately felt relieved. With the almost instantaneous enhanced version of Pyroblast and Ice Shield after he advanced to the ninth level of Qi training, not to mention more than twenty shadow demons, even doubling them would not be enough.
He killed it.
So he nodded and said, "I have no problem."
Su Qing glanced at the other party in surprise and said with some uncertainty: