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Twilight began to fall, and a team of more than ten people was preparing to rest overnight in a cave site outside the extreme northern mountains. ◇↓

Under the command of the middle-aged male captain who looked strong and half-armored, the mercenary team of more than ten people burned the fire, ready to start guarding around and began the process of staying overnight.

It can be seen that most of the members of this mercenary team are experienced guys in the wild. Except for a few clumsy and obviously newcomers, the other mercenaries basically cooperated extremely tacitly and quickly cleared the cave into a temporary camp at night, and a burning fire began to rise.

Of course, the camp was built so quickly because this cave was often used by the mercenaries in and out of the Northern Mountains as campsites. This mercenary team was just like rebuilding it directly in a arranged place.

"William, have the trap been laid out?"

"Quick! Help bring the firewood over and get some more tincture oil!"

"Check for any poisonous insects or other 'cute' nests on the ground and on the cave walls. It is best to sprinkle them with deworming drugs, otherwise you will never want to have any contact with those things at night!"...

Several mercenary veterans looked at the actions of three novice in the team, and smiled with a smile on their faces. The three newcomers who had joined the mercenary squad for the first time in less than half a month after joining the mercenary squad.

It seems that it is the same in that world and industry. The old man will "bully" the newcomers, or simply squeeze the newcomers in the name of "education" and "instructions". The three new mercenaries who joined the team are obviously "enjoying" the instructed treatment of the newcomers, and are ordered by the old fried dough sticks like servants.

"Okay, don't go too far!" In the end, the mercenary captain was a little embarrassed and interrupted the evil taste of the old fried dough sticks under his command. Then he turned to look at the three awkward newcomers for a while before speaking: "William, take a newcomer out for a patrol. The other two newcomers vigil in the middle of the night!"

The captain, who has been in the mercenary industry for almost ten years, is obviously more knowledgeable than the mercenaries under his command, and as a superior, he knows how to maintain the relationship between the old and the newcomer. Although the three newcomers have just joined the team and have not performed well in the entry into the Far North Mountains this time, they are at least the combat power of the gray iron lower position. It is hard to say whether they will become the backbone of the team in the future...

"Yes! Captain!" *n

Listening to the words of the mercenary captain who established a high prestige in the team, people, including the old mercenaries, looked at each other and agreed.

Then, the mercenaries calmed down and began to prepare their evening supper and sleeping places. A mercenary who looked in his thirties also left the cave with a newly joined mercenary to patrol the cave.

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In the woods outside the cave, Wright looked at the uncle William who was patrolling silently in front of him, and finally couldn't help but complain about Uncle William whom he knew.

"Uncle William! Is this what the life of a mercenary is like?"

Above the horizontal line, Wright, who had short chestnut hair and strong body, ignored the smell of leather armor that had been wearing more than ten days, and complained to Uncle William who was exploring the way forward.

As the youngest son of a freeman in a noble territory near Ernst territory, Wright himself was strong since he was a child and entered the military camp on the territory when he was a teenager and received relevant training from soldiers. As a result, he successfully reached the standard of a warrior under the gray iron when he was fifteen or sixteen. This speed is actually quite good, and it is a little bit beyond the normal level of ordinary people.

Then, after hearing some businessmen brag about the story of a poet's adventure with a few half-barrels of water, Wright was unwilling to be lonely and rejected the proposal of his father to find a relationship to join the garrison in the aristocratic territory where his family was located, and resolutely joined the mercenary squad where Uncle William, who had some relatives, was in.

However, after coming out, Wright realized that the difficulty of the adventure life was definitely not as pleasant as he imagined. On the contrary, compared with the life of the mercenaries inside and outside the house, it was so difficult that it was a certain level.

Although the mercenary team among the four major items of clothing, food, housing and transportation, itinerary will solve the three aspects of food, accommodation and itinerary, it is natural that it will not be as comfortable as Wright's home.

The cheapest black bread (can be used as a throwing weapon or brick for a few days), and air-dried meat (if you don’t deal with it, you can directly break the front teeth of ordinary people). That is the most common food, and accommodation is the cheapest hotel or even sleeping in the wild. As for what you can do, you can just use your feet to measure the vastness of the earth!

If this is the case, Wright, who was dazed by those heroic adventure stories, might be able to endure it with future expectations with enthusiasm, but then the mercenary team escorted a small caravan to Baron Ernst, and the action entering the extreme northern mountains completely left Wright speechless!

Just entering the outer edge of the mountains, I spent two days hunting a few mutant beasts that were not monsters, and found more than a dozen herbs and then returned the same way? Is this really the kind of mercenary adventure life I imagined?

"Ha? Little Wright, what do you think if you don't?"

Listening to the words of the little guy behind him who had some relatives with him, William, who had been working as a mercenary business for almost twenty years, certainly understood the meaning of the little guy behind him, and answered Wright behind him in a very so-called way.

However, William felt that as a relative of this little guy, he would just mention this little guy a little.

"The mercenary business is accompanied by dangerous professions. If most mercenaries live as they want, they will never survive the day they will quit the business!" While watching the movement ahead of them, William, who explained the little guy behind him, listened to the heavy breathing voice behind him, and continued to explain slowly: "I'll give you a piece of advice. If you want to quit the mercenary business alive and be with your family, don't apply the things in the adventure story to yourself!"

"..." Listening to Uncle William's words in front of him, Wright, who had originally wanted to say something, suddenly felt like he was poured on his body by a wooden bucket of cold water.

The expectations I had once held were broken and it would not be easy to pour cold water on. What's more important is that Wright's rationality told him that Uncle William, who had some relatives, was correct. Judging from Wright's personal experience for more than half a month, the mercenary business is indeed not as beautiful as he imagined. It can even be said that at most, the income is much higher than that of free people or farmers, but it is also much more dangerous in terms of danger and safety.

However, Wright was still deceiving himself at that time, but now that his relative Uncle William broke the relationship, he didn't know how to convince himself after his dream was shattered.

"Click--"

Just as Wright felt a little confused in his mind and didn't know what to say, a crisp and broken sound suddenly came from under his feet.

"Yeah"*2

Hearing the sound, William and Wright both suddenly asked a question, and then looked at Wright's feet.

When William and Wright used their weapons to push away the sounding grass, they found a half-exposed broken bone arm.

"It is probably the corpse of a mercenary who died here before!" After just looking at the hand bones with a pair of leather gloves on it, William, who had seen many dead people and corpses, summarized this information from it.

"Boy, let's help dig a hole and bury the corpse!"

He stabbed the ground with the long sword in his hand a few times, and confirmed that there was a corpse in the soil less than half a foot deep below. William began to dig a hole on the other side and shouted to Wright, who was still standing stupidly.

"oh?!!"

Wright, who was not sure what he was thinking, was awakened by William's words, responded and walked to William like a sleepwalking, and then began to pull out his dagger and began to help dig a hole.

Although daggers are not suitable for digging pits, as a warrior with gray iron upper position and gray iron lower position, it is not a big problem to use a dagger to dig a pit one meter wide and half a person deep, and it does not take much time.

"That... Uncle William, why do we dig a hole? Do we have to bury this guy?"

When he saw William carefully starting to slash the bones of a human on the other side, Wright, who finally woke up, asked Uncle William in confusion.

"That's right! Boy, this is also a default rule for mercenaries..." William, who had just dug out a human skull, didn't look back, and then continued to dig and said: "If you see dead mercenaries outside, people who are also mercenaries will help dig holes to bury the corpse! Because no one knows if they die outside one day, the corpse will turn into a delicacy for beasts or monsters..."

"So that's it..." Listening to William's explanation, Wright looked admiring, and when he was about to come forward to help, he heard William's second half of what he said.

"Of course, the money and weapons carried on the burial bones will belong to the burialist! Wow, it seems that there are some benefits this time. The wallet on this unlucky guy has not fallen. Let me see..."
Chapter completed!