The clerk wearing a tiger mask didn't say much and spoke quickly, as if wanting to finish the introduction in the shortest possible time to avoid being remembered for his voice.

"After confirming the mission, we'll bring the badge to pick it up?" Jiang Bai Mian asked with a smile.

She already had a deep impression of the customs of Redstone Town and wasn't annoyed by the neglect.

"Yes." The clerk wearing the tiger mask nodded emphatically.

Just as Jiang Bai Mian and the others took a few steps back, all looking at the large screen, Gaudi, wearing a cloth mask, asked:

"Can I leave now?"

"Sure." Jiang Bai Mian replied in a relaxed tone.

Gaudi thought for a moment and emphasized a few things:

"After you leave Redstone Town, you can't tell anyone the location of the underground entrance, only give a general area.

"Everyone who can enter here must have found a resident of Redstone Town in the ruins outside to lead them."

Shang Jian Yao asked curiously:

"What if someone finds this place without being led?"

"The guards will stop you and ask where you learned the location of the underground entrance, and then put the person and force that leaked the information to you on a blacklist." Gaudi seemed to have said this many times, not even stuttering, "If it's really just good luck, they'll let you return on your own and find a resident of Redstone Town to come back with."

"Very ritualistic." Shang Jian Yao praised.

Jiang Bai Mian agreed with this because she couldn't see how this behavior could reduce external dangers.

It was more like a religious ritual.

At this point, she also understood why Shang Jian Yao's sworn brother, Fei Lin, the leader of the "Sangzi" Trading Company, wouldn't give specific location information.

In response to Shang Jian Yao's praise, Gaudi nodded with a sense of pride:

"This pleases the Ruling God 'Gloomy Aunt'."

He frankly admitted that it was a ritual.

At this moment, Shang Jian Yao suddenly raised a question:

"If every resident had Vier's level of hiding, and outsiders couldn't find them, wouldn't Redstone Town have no new hunters and smugglers arriving?

"In that case, Redstone Town's vitality would slowly weaken, and it would eventually be abandoned."

*He remembers the name quite clearly... I suspect you want to play hide-and-seek with that Vier...* Jiang Bai Mian couldn't help but mutter to herself.

Gaudi was silent for a few seconds, seemingly having never thought about this question.

After a while, he said:

"Not everyone can reach Vier's level.

"And, and, if everyone forgets about Redstone Town, that means we're hiding very well and will receive 'Gloomy Aunt's' reward.

"We have opened up farmland in hidden places around, and there are plenty of fish in the lake. Temporary oblivion won't let us starve to death."

Jiang Bai Mian laughed:

"But you won't have oil and other industrial products to replenish. Do you want to regress to the old world's agricultural era?

"People who have enjoyed the twilight of civilization can't adapt to that."

"Afterward, 'Gloomy Aunt' will lead us into a new world, where there is no longer any danger, and we don't need to be so vigilant," Gaudi replied with great certainty.

Jiang Bai Mian couldn't convince Gaudi and didn't want to, so she waved her hand and said:

"You can leave now."

"Thank you." Gaudi, wearing the cloth mask, looked at them and retreated step by step out of the Hunter's Guild.

Once the distance between the two sides became large enough, he suddenly turned around and ran into the safety passage on the side.

"What are your thoughts?" Jiang Bai Mian withdrew her gaze and asked.

Shang Jian Yao immediately said:

"Too rigid.

"Only cares about the beginning, not the end, only thinking about guarding against us, not considering whether there is danger behind them.

"If I had known, I would have thrown a banana peel behind him, and he would have stepped on it and slipped and fallen with a 'sizzle' sound, remembering this lesson from now on."

Jiang Bai Mian couldn't help but laugh:

"First of all, you need to have a banana."

In this season, with the climate of the Angry Lake area, such a fruit couldn't exist.

She didn't discourage Shang Jian Yao because of this; instead, she nodded approvingly:

"Although Gaudi may have already observed the environment and doesn't worry about stepping on something he shouldn't when walking backward, this direction of thinking is quite valuable."

Saying that, she looked at Long Yue Hong:

"What are your thoughts?"

Long Yue Hong considered his answer:

"Their ideas sound quite reasonable at first, but the more you understand, the more extreme they seem."

"Anything good will develop in a bad direction if it becomes extreme." Jiang Bai Mian nodded. "That's one of the reasons why many religions on the Greylands can spread. They repackage some very reasonable things from the old world into the way they want them to be and add a lot of their own stuff."

After commenting on Long Yue Hong's thoughts, Jiang Bai Mian looked at Bai Chen again and opened her mouth with a smile:

"Tell us your thoughts too."

"I think their ideas are a bit like some of the old world philosophies you've told us about, um... small country, few people?" Bai Chen said thoughtfully.

After the adaptation of Weeds City, on the way to Redstone Town, the three members of the "Old Task Force" were more open than before. Jiang Bai Mian took the opportunity to tell the team members some knowledge of the old world.

"Indeed, but equally extreme." Jiang Bai Mian smiled and looked around. "Remember, individual humans are very small. Only when they cooperate and combine together is it called civilization."

*Clap clap clap,* Shang Jian Yao's applause arrived as expected.

Jiang Bai Mian was too lazy to even look at him:

"Alright, let's look for a mission worth taking."

She knew very well that unless they let Shang Jian Yao make "friends," they wouldn't be able to buy military exoskeletons with half of the supplies they had exchanged for with Xu Li Yan's bulletproof off-road vehicle, even if it was an old model.

Therefore, her plan was to take on some guild missions in Redstone Town and save up a batch of hard currency.

As the team leader, she was racking her brains to improve the strength and survival abilities of each team member.

Thus, the "Old Task Force" split into two groups:

Jiang Bai Mian and Shang Jian Yao stayed in place, looking at the missions scrolling on the big screen, while Bai Chen and Long Yue Hong went to the surrounding tables to check the corresponding paper records.

"Actually, we can completely let your good brother Xu Li Yan support us with one. Didn't he say that after this incident, he would equip his guards and city defense forces with more?" Jiang Bai Mian said deliberately.

The military exoskeletons in this incident were lost in South Street and were hardly used.

The only thing to be thankful for was that those wasteland wanderers didn't know how to use them.

Shang Jian Yao shook his head:

"Close brothers keep clear accounts."

"That puts my mind at ease." Jiang Bai Mian revealed a smile.

"Although I'm more ruthless than you, my moral bottom line isn't low," Shang Jian Yao replied.

"Huh? What did you say?" Jiang Bai Mian touched her ears, not wanting to continue this topic.

She knew that Shang Jian Yao was referring to the time during the Weeds City riot when she hadn't been able to quickly make up her mind to kill the man who had killed the owner of the "Old Brand Noodle Shop" to avoid starving to death.

Shang Jian Yao glanced at Jiang Bai Mian's left arm and stopped at the right time.

While speaking, Jiang Bai Mian found a quite interesting mission:

"Investigation of the incidence of Heartless Disease in Redstone Town and surrounding areas."

"The reward is: basic support is provided during the mission, and afterward, enough food to eat for half a month, any type you choose, responsible for your own preservation, hehe, that's not rigorous enough. If they run into someone like you who can eat, this cost might double!" Jiang Bai Mian said amusingly while reading the contents of the mission.

Shang Jian Yao replied seriously:

"I'm only worried that he won't be able to produce the food I choose."

"Let me see who posted it... 'Fire Eye'? Are they all posting missions with codenames?" Jiang Bai Mian had a further understanding of Redstone Town's style.

Of course, this had definitely been reviewed by the guild, so the credibility was still somewhat guaranteed.

Just then, Long Yue Hong walked back with a record in hand, along with Bai Chen.

"Team Leader, this mission is not bad." He handed the paper in his hand to Jiang Bai Mian.

Jiang Bai Mian took it with a slight sense of curiosity and quickly scanned it:

"Mission: Assist Hervig in retrieving the hijacked arms.

"Description: Hervig, the owner of 'Gunfire,' has a batch of arms that can arm several hundred people. They were robbed in the Lakeside area. It is said that there are nearly ten robbers.

"Reward: One-fifth of that batch of arms.

"Mission Level: C, 100 Credit Points.

"Hint: There is a certain degree of danger, please try to team up.

"Mission Personnel Requirements: Hunter of Formal Rank or higher.

"Posted by: Hervig."

"One-fifth of that batch of arms? That's not a small amount." Jiang Bai Mian's eyes lit up slightly.

"And the number of people is also quite suitable," Long Yue Hong added happily.

He felt that with his team's strength, taking on three or even four opponents would not be a problem.

Shang Jian Yao immediately "analyzed":

"Maybe there are still a hundred people lying in ambush around during the robbery."

Long Yue Hong no longer became instantly dejected like before. He laughingly retorted:

"What's the logic of having a hundred people lying in ambush while only seven or eight people take action?"

At least forty or fifty would be normal, which would fit the normal logic of humans!

"What if their leader is a psychopath like me?" Shang Jian Yao said righteously.

Jiang Bai Mian interrupted him and said thoughtfully:

"There's a common saying in the old world to describe this situation, what was it, um, one core in trouble, eight cores watching.

"Besides, there wouldn't be few people escorting that batch of arms. Either the robbers are very powerful, or there are definitely more than seven or eight of them."

Without waiting for Long Yue Hong to say more, she smiled and said:

"But, we can also take it on. It's not like we won't do reconnaissance. If there really are too many opponents, we can invite other ruin hunter teams to participate."

She wasn't worried about not being able to take it on because Bai Chen was a "Mid-Rank Hunter."

After some communication, they took on this mission in the name of the "Qian Bai Team" and obtained Hervig's photo, knowing the location of his shop—the third floor of the underground building, near the C1 safety passage.

Without a doubt, the shop "Gunfire" had no guns and no people.

"It seems we still have to find this mission poster first." Jiang Bai Mian helplessly raised her right hand and glanced at the photo.

It was a chubby man, between thirty and forty years old, with a pair of dark green eyes and a shaven head.

"There's no one here." Shang Jian Yao immediately came to a conclusion.

Jiang Bai Mian looked at him and smiled slightly:

"Then why are you still staying here, why don't you go look next door?"

"We have to follow the procedures and not completely rely on our abilities," Shang Jian Yao replied methodically.

"Not bad." Jiang Bai Mian praised sincerely.

While speaking, Bai Chen and Long Yue Hong had already dispersed, one looking up at the ventilation ducts and the other carefully pulling open the cabinets.

"There's something wrong there." A few seconds later, Bai Chen pointed upward.

At the outlet grille of the ventilation duct, a bit of black clothing was squeezed out.

Jiang Bai Mian's expression immediately became serious.

Since Shang Jian Yao hadn't sensed any human consciousness, and she hadn't detected any human electrical signals, that meant one thing:

The person hidden in the ventilation duct was already dead.

Dead for a while.