Fifty Great Knight gold coins were more than enough for the "Old Task Force" to stay in Gehrman Sparrow for a long time, pay the corresponding electricity bills, eat and drink every day, replenish the necessary supplies, and still have a lot left.
—One Great Knight gold coin can be exchanged for one hundred Knight silver coins, one Knight silver coin can be exchanged for one hundred Squire coins, and an ordinary worker in Gehrman Sparrow, even if he works hard until he is fifty years old and has not died, has little hope of saving fifty Great Knight gold coins after deducting daily expenses.
Jiang Bai Mian, who was just lamenting the lack of money and supplies, couldn't help but be a little tempted, so she turned a blind eye to Shang Jian Yao's behavior of not paying attention to the Bodhi statue but only caring about the amount of the reward.
"Yes." Genava moved his metal neck up and down. "And this task is not only posted in Gehrman Sparrow, but also in many important gathering points of the 'White Knights'. The several ruins hunters who were communicating on the street at that time came from other places, chasing generous bounties."
Jiang Bai Mian nodded thoughtfully:
"The people at the table in the restaurant who mentioned Bodhi should also be here for the bounty, but, they seem more like people outside the 'White Knights'."
"It's normal for this kind of task that doesn't involve the struggle between major forces to be posted in places like 'First City'." Bai Chen affirmed the team leader's speculation.
Shang Jian Yao asked, eager to try:
"Then should we take it?
"If we do this, we don't have to work hard to save money to buy supplies, and we can also deal with the Hunter's Guild in a legitimate way to collect intelligence."
Do a job… it sounds like a robbery… Long Yue Hong muttered.
Jiang Bai Mian nodded slightly:
"It's possible."
In the next second, she smiled:
"But we have to wait until all the high-performance batteries are fully charged."
The current in the hotel room is undoubtedly limited. Once overloaded, it will trip the circuit. The "Old Task Force" cannot charge all the high-performance batteries in one go, at most three at a time.
And it takes several hours to fully charge one.
"Then we have to wait two more days." Shang Jian Yao looked like "I'm so worried about the team", "By then, the Bodhi statue may have been found by someone else. Opportunity knocks but once!"
The honest Genava quickly explained:
"This task has been posted for a month or two, and no one has found any useful clues yet."
Jiang Bai Mian followed up with Shang Jian Yao:
"I told you, it's been a month or two, and it doesn't matter if you charge for two or three days."
Seeing Shang Jian Yao's disappointed face, she slowly exhaled:
"However, we can go to the Hunter's Guild tomorrow to take a look, take the task first, get the corresponding information, come back and read it carefully, analyze the direction, and make good use of these two or three days of free time."
"Team leader..." Long Yue Hong didn't quite agree with this.
Didn't we agree to stay in the hotel in peace and just go out for dinner regularly?
Didn't we agree not to cause trouble and accidents?
The Hunter's Guild has always been a gathering place for trouble and accidents!
Jiang Bai Mian smiled and said:
"Gehrman Sparrow has become so lively, and things are obviously related to Buddhism, related to Bodhi. If we blindly avoid it and seek stability, it may not be useful. Maybe it will make the trouble bigger and the accident more shocking. By then, we won't even have time to prepare a plan.
"Well, it's not to say that we should jump into the vortex now. Our electricity and supplies have not been stored yet. What I mean is, on the premise of stability, appropriately understand this matter and obtain corresponding information to lay a good foundation for formulating subsequent plans."
"That's right." Bai Chen nodded slightly.
Long Yue Hong no longer objected.
Shang Jian Yao had already become excited and asked:
"Are we going now, or tomorrow morning?"
The Hunter's Guild doesn't close too early.
"Tomorrow morning." Jiang Bai Mian looked at the dark night and the lights outside. "We've been running around for so many days. Let's have a good rest tonight."
Gehrman Sparrow has quite a few power plants. At this time, most of the factories have finished work, so the power supply of the entire gathering point is abundant, the price is low, and ordinary people can also turn on a light to dispel the darkness and bring light.
This makes the night view of Gehrman Sparrow no worse than the Red Wolf Street and other places in First City. At a glance, the lights are brilliant and dreamy, like a galaxy flowing on the ground.
In a sense, Jiang Bai Mian felt that this might be a symbol of civilization.
The only bad thing is that the places illuminated by the lights are dusty, many and obvious.
"Oh." Shang Jian Yao said that he understood.
He then asked:
"Can I explore the rooms in the 'Mind Corridor' tonight?"
"Have a good rest." Jiang Bai Mian repeated.
Shang Jian Yao was a little disappointed and did not object.
Then, they chatted for a while, watched some old world entertainment materials, and entered their respective rooms to wash and sleep, leaving only Genava in the living room.
The night was uneventful, stable and peaceful, only the sound of some factories still operating came intermittently from a distance.
The next morning, Shang Jian Yao got up early, woke up Jiang Bai Mian, and knocked on the doors of Long Yue Hong and Bai Chen.
"Eat breakfast, eat breakfast, and then go to the Hunter's Guild." He urged.
"You have to give us time to wash our faces and brush our teeth!" Jiang Bai Mian replied unhappily.
As soon as she finished speaking, the big clock in the castle was struck again.
Dang! Dang! Dang!
In the misty and hazy weather, Gehrman Sparrow woke up at once. Lights lit up in different households, and there were soon noisy voices in the streets.
When the "Old Task Force" finished washing and was about to go out, a large number of people began to go to the factory area.
For employees of "Pangu Biology" such as Long Yue Hong, such a scene was filled with an unspeakable sense of familiarity and intimacy.
—In the underground building, every day at 6:30, the street lights would turn on to inform the employees that it was time to get up and go to work.
"What to eat, what to eat..." In Shang Jian Yao's low voice, the four members of the "Old Task Force" besides Genava went down to the hotel lobby.
The receptionist on duty at this time was a woman.
Her honey-colored hair was casually tied up, revealing her slender neck. Her head was nodding little by little, making people worry that it would hit the surface of the table in the next second.
If she wasn't sitting, she would have fallen because she couldn't stand still.
Dong dong dong, Shang Jian Yao rushed over before Jiang Bai Mian could stop him, bent his fingers, and tapped the surface of the table.
The woman sat up abruptly and looked at the guy in front of her with sleepy eyes.
"How many rooms do you want?" she blurted out.
This woman was in her twenties. At first glance, her appearance was quite good, but on closer inspection, her skin was rough and her features were stiff.
Jiang Bai Mian suspected that she might not have drunk the A-series gene modification potion and relied entirely on her natural endowments.
"I'm here to say hello, good morning!" Shang Jian Yao replied with a smile, "And there are more and more people on the street. Guests can come to the hotel at any time."
The female receptionist's lips moved a few times, but she didn't open them in the end.
Shang Jian Yao asked without any self-awareness:
"Didn't you rest well last night? You should be able to sleep on the night shift."
As far as the hotels he had stayed in were concerned, because there were no guests staying at night, the front desk could go to the corresponding room to sleep, but they had to be prepared to be woken up at any time to solve problems for the guests who had already checked in, such as tripping circuits and broken flushing buttons.
"How can I sleep?" the female receptionist replied weakly, "Three batches of guests came last night."
"Someone checked in so late?" Shang Jian Yao chatted.
The female receptionist glanced at him:
"Not everyone is as rich as you, not caring about the price difference between day train tickets and night train tickets."
"Oh, oh." Shang Jian Yao had a "I completely understand" expression on his face.
At this moment, the male receptionist from yesterday entered the lobby and waved to his colleague:
"Gittis, I'll go to the bathroom and come back to replace you."
The female receptionist Gittis was slightly surprised:
"Spant, you're so punctual today."
Spant chuckled:
"I'm not like you, always late."
The "Old Task Force" did not participate in the communication between the two, left the lobby, and found a nearby coffee shop for breakfast.
Perhaps because it was too far north, and the "White Knights"' communication with the outside world was mainly to obtain food, arms and other materials, there was no coffee in the coffee shop. The reason why it was still called a coffee shop was due to the habits left over from the old era.
After having a breakfast consisting of oatmeal and toast, the "Old Task Force" came to the Hunter's Guild near the ancient castle.
It is located in a gray-black building that looks like a giant bunker. As soon as Jiang Bai Mian and others entered, they noticed a piece of information scrolling on the big screen.
That was the task of finding the Bodhi statue.
According to the introduction, the Bodhi statue was lost three years ago. At that time, an ascetic monk brought it to Gehrman Sparrow. As a result, he died next to a steelmaking furnace in the factory area, and the Bodhi statue disappeared.
"It's been three years since it was lost before they released the task to find it?" Long Yue Hong muttered in a low voice.
Isn't this too delayed?
Jiang Bai Mian nodded:
"On the Greylands, communication between two adjacent gathering points is often not smooth, let alone those that are far apart.
"Maybe the force to which the ascetic monk belonged only recently found out about his whereabouts and knew that he died in Gehrman Sparrow."
While speaking, Jiang Bai Mian looked at the description of the item:
The Bodhi statue is fifty centimeters high, made of pure wood, brownish-brown in color, with compassionate eyebrows and eyes, and a bitter expression on its face.