"Speaking of this, what's going on with that lady?"

The old Walker returned to the study with a dusty face, and Rhode asked the first question.

"What's going on."

Faced with Rhode's inquiry, Old Walker was a little confused.

"As you said, it's hard to find a shield warrior, but you actually spent money to find one for so smooth......"

Rhodes sat behind the desk and knocked on the table.

"Aren't you going to give me an explanation?"

"Oh, you're talking about this."

Hearing this, Old Walker finally understood what Rhode meant. He breathed a sigh of relief, then sat on the chair and explained.

"To be honest, she was brought from the Macbeth Mercenary Group."

"Markbeth?"

Rhode frowned at the hearing of the name.

"That big mercenary group in the top three? How did you bring people from there?"

"This is how it is..."

Under Old Walker's explanation, Rhode finally understood why the girl named Anne joined her mercenary group. Speaking of which, this is also related to the current power dispute between the Macbeth mercenary group.

In a previous mission, their leader was seriously injured and was unable to recover from his life. Next, the leaderless mercenary group naturally had to elect a new leader, and the two vice presidents below were fighting for this position. They all had their own supporters and were working hard to get this position. In the intertwined, Annie expressed her anger about this. She was not weak and had many elderly people support her, but she was an orphan adopted by the old president, so she was naturally present.

Before the old president's body was cold, these guys began to fight for power and profit to express their dissatisfaction. However, Anne was still young after all, and both vice presidents had been in the mercenary group for many years. They had a deep foundation and had no good end to fight them. After several repeated dissuasions, Anne was despaired and ignored this matter. Her personality was as generous as the old president, and she was not upset. Can't I afford to offend me? So she decisively proposed to leave the mercenary group.

However, even though Anne is the adopted daughter of the old president, mercenaries are not qualified to provide conditions to the mercenary group in this regard. Although mercenaries choose mercenary groups and mercenary groups choose mercenaries in a way that is similar to the company's employees, there is no equal treaty here, and naturally there is no contract period. Basically, all mercenaries will follow the mercenary group after joining the mercenary group. Unless there are major changes in the mercenary group, such as dissolution or destruction, rarely will mercenaries choose to withdraw. After all, the danger of working alone is higher, and in the mercenary group, even if you die accidentally, at least you will have companions to collect corpses for yourself without worrying about corpses being in the wild. What's more, for mercenaries, leaving their mercenary group is equivalent to labeling themselves as a "betrayer". Such people are difficult to be blunt by other mercenary groups. Therefore, Anne's decision is not undecided.

Annie wanted to leave, but the two vice presidents didn't want to keep her because she was also the old president. Although she was still young now, she was not weak and was a shield warrior. She had a great influence on the mercenaries. They were all afraid that if this little girl grew up and led her supporters to come back to threaten their position as president in the future, but they were all afraid that if Annie was let go, they would gossip for people, so they finally made a decision that anyone could take Annie away if she could pay 300 gold coins.

Three hundred gold coins are a very painful amount of money for those small and medium-sized mercenary groups. They are numerous and a large group of people want to live. Although the rewards given by a task are not small, one person can't get much after it is spread out. And a medium-sized mercenary group has only four or five hundred gold coins with a full calculation of working capital, and they can't afford so much money at all.

The concerns of those large mercenary groups that could afford to pay were similar to those of the two vice presidents. They all saw that this was an internal conflict between the Macbeth Mercenary Group, and no matter who became the president in the future, they would definitely not be in the same way as this lady. Most of the large mercenary groups have contact with each other. Unless they really have deep hatred, they would not do anything like buying the enemy of the other party. In addition, they basically have no shortage of manpower, and Anne is good, but for the large mercenary group, it is not worthy of offending a mercenary group for one person. However, there are really enemies of the Macbeth Mercenary Group who want to pay money to buy Anne back and disgust their opponents. Unfortunately, the enemy of the Macbeth Mercenary Group is naturally Anne's enemy. Although she is now indifferent to the Macbeth Mercenary Group, this does not mean that she can agree to accept the invitations of those guys she hates.

There are also many wealthy businessmen who paid for the money and wanted to buy this beautiful girl back, but Anne was not stupid. She didn't go anywhere except the mercenary group and directly refused the invitations and offers from these people. It was obvious that the girl had no interest in being a bedmate and a concubine.

Most of the news between the mercenary groups was in communication with each other, so many mercenaries had heard of Anne's affairs. When Old Walker heard Rod say he wanted someone, he immediately thought of Anne.

Anne herself seems to be very satisfied with this transaction. The small mercenary group means less pressure and less trouble. The large mercenary groups don’t want her. In fact, she doesn’t really want to go to those large mercenary groups, because the greater the power, the more disputes there will be. In the battle for the new president, Anne is already tired of such disputes. Now she just wants to be an ordinary mercenary, just do tasks and live without thinking about those complicated things.

"I see."

After listening to Old Walker's explanation, Rhode nodded and put down his doubts.

"So, let's talk about the serious business...How about the one I entrusted you to investigate before?"

"Hey, don't say it, boy, this is really strange."

When he mentioned this, Old Walker immediately became energetic.

"I followed your instructions to investigate the thirty-two mercenaries, but what do you think? Except for those who currently have tasks, they all went to those tasks related to the undead, and the departure time was almost the same for those days!"

"They all took on their own tasks?"

"Not at all."

Old Walker waved his hand.

"The mercenaries all know how difficult it is to deal with the undead creatures. Unless they are those big mercenary groups, who would be foolish and joke about their lives? According to the news I heard, these mercenary groups were entrusted, and the other party also paid a large deposit, so they agreed to take over the task."

"What's the case now? How are they?"

"There are five mercenary groups that have returned, most of which have suffered heavy casualties, similar to Red Eagle. Many of them have insufficient staff, and it sounds like they have not completed their missions. This is indeed a big blow to these mercenary groups."

"Do you know the specific location and content of their mission? Also, have you collected the client's situation?"

"I don't know this, boy."

Faced with Rhode's inquiry, Old Walker spread his hands helplessly.

"These are the secrets of the mercenary groups and they rarely tell others. It is not convenient for me to inquire more. However, I think the mercenary association must have records, because these commissions must be confirmed by the mercenary association. But then again, this matter itself is indeed a bit strange. No one entrusted so many things related to undead creatures on weekdays... What's wrong?"

"I'm just guessing right now."

Rhode sat in a chair, pondering and lit the table with his fingers. Things were indeed a bit abnormal. When he recalled everything that happened in the game, he seemed to have noticed something. By the way, at that time, many players from the Land of Light appeared here. I heard that they were here to complete a very generous task in the early stage, and as for the content of that task... Thinking of this, Rhode raised his eyebrows.

So that's it, but you still have to continue investigating it before you can draw a conclusion.

"But I'm sure there should be any connection between these things... I'll go to the Mercenary Association tomorrow to see if I can get any clues."

"Mercenary Association?"

Hearing this, Old Walker frowned.

"You want to deal with those guys? Then don't blame me for not reminding you that those guys have very strict mouths. It's not easy for you to take out something from them."

"I have my own sense of responsibility."

Rhode shook his head, then he closed his eyes and thought about it again.

"Next, you can continue to find out what those mercenaries are doing. Also, pay more attention to whether there are any strange mercenaries entering the Deep Rock City recently."

"Stranger mercenaries? These guys are there every day. As a big city, isn't it normal for Deep Rock City to attract those guys?"

"It's normal, but it's not normal if it appears in a large number of cases in a very short period of time."

"You mean..."

Hearing this, Old Walker's face also changed. He was not confused. Rhode asked him to investigate so many things, and it was all such abnormal things. Old Walker naturally saw that there was a problem, but he didn't know who dared to do this...

"Someone wants to attack the mercenary group in Deep Rock City? Boy, do you have any news?"

Looking at Old Walker's expression, Rhode rolled his eyes helplessly. What news could he have? If it were on weekdays, Rhode would only think that this was a bit abnormal and would not think too much. But now it is different. He knows what will happen in the near future. Because of this, Rhode will immediately notice the abnormality of the present and become alert.

"If I have any news, I will tell you."

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Chapter completed!