Volume 19 Chapter 43 Guide

"Do you think I am the kind of person who will be accidentally injured due to terrain problems?" I didn't plan to accept the little girl's recommendation. The terrain of Sismin City is indeed very complicated. The possibility of ordinary people getting lost or being injured due to terrain is indeed very high, but I am not an ordinary person. If I can't even adapt to this terrain change, how can I get the title of No. 1 in the world?

The little girl seemed to be eyeing me today. After I asked, she immediately said: "With your strength, of course, you won't be injured because of a little terrain, but aren't you afraid of getting lost?"

I directly refused: "I have special equipment to identify the direction, and the guide is really not necessary for me. You should go find someone else. Don't waste time with me."

"But you are really sure you can find the place you are going with your own equipment alone? There is a magnetic field area between the peaks here. Ordinary equipment is useless."

I nodded with certainty and said, "Sorry, I really don't need a guide. If there is nothing else, please let me go." As I said, I moved sideways and walked around the little girl out of the teleportation hall. The little girl seemed very anxious when she saw me walking over, and seemed to want to stop me, but she didn't know how to speak. Of course, I saw all her actions, but I didn't say much.

This little beauty is definitely not an ordinary guide. Although I don’t know why she insisted on me hiring her, one thing is certain. She is definitely not the little reward that the guide can get.

After leaving the Teleportation Hall, I walked directly towards the North City Gate. The south city gate of Xismin City is located at the lowest point of the city, while the North City Gate is at the highest point of the city. After leaving the North City Gate, there is a winding mountain path outside. Walking up here, you won’t be able to encounter a small platform far away. There are three forks to the north of this platform, two of which are up the mountain, and the other is the entrance to a cave, but I don’t know where they all lead.

Although this platform is not big, there are many people. There are neatly arranged rows of street stalls near the entrance of the platform, and some players are selling various supplies and essential equipment for bench mountains. Because the street stalls here are outside the city and do not need to pay management fees to the system city, the things on the street stalls are much cheaper than the things in the city. Although many players don’t know that there is a free market here, they bought the things they need early in the city, but because the things here are really cheap, there are still many players here to linger and prepare to add some things.

In addition to the stalls and buyers, there is a large group of people gathered at the exit of this platform, but they are divided into two camps. One of the camps with a relatively large number of people is very diverse in equipment and professions, obviously players from other places, and they should be looking for team formation at the intersection. The other group of people on the other side is relatively small, but the professions are basically fixed in the two camps of archers and hunters. At first glance, they are local players. Judging from their performance, most of these people are working with the little girl in the previous teleportation hall, that is, the guide. However, these people in front of them are real guides, while the little girl before obviously has other intentions.

I rejected the little girl before because I saw that her intentions were impure, so I firmly rejected her guide's job. But in reality, I still need a guide. The work of a guide is not just a guide, they are often dangerous detectors. I don't know what kind of skills are in the mountain guide, but I used to hire a swamp guide. The swamp that looked exactly the same seemed to be no difference in me, but the guide could tell me exactly which place is hard ground and where it would fall into it. This is someone's experience. Moreover, in addition to the terrain, the guide generally has some understanding of local dangerous creatures. If you want to find local animals and plants or investigate a certain area, hiring a guide can often save a lot of time.

Because I understand the importance of a guide, I did not plan to enter the mountain alone. I had not looked for a guide in the city before. In addition to the reason for that little girl, there is another thing that I know that there are usually players who are guides at the entrance to the leveling area, and it may not necessarily be found in the city.

The things on the street stalls were useless to me, because of the existence of the Phoenix Dragon Space, I have always been short of reserve supplies and I don’t need to be replenished at any time. I went straight through the street stall area and walked to the middle of the group of guides. Before I could speak, the other party immediately surrounded me. These people were here to take on business all day long, so naturally they could see who wanted to hire a guide. I walked directly to this side and obviously had the idea of ​​hiring a guide.

"Would you like to hire a guide?" Although the group of people gathered around, they did not rush to start a business. Obviously, they had their own rules to decide who would take the business.

I nodded and asked, "What range does your guide's job include? I may have to run farther, and I don't want to run halfway because the guide refuses to leave before turning back."

An older person among the group of guides immediately replied as soon as I heard my words: "We have a few guests who need a guide every day, so we have seen all kinds of strange requests. If you just need to run farther, there is no problem. But in order for you to play well and avoid disputes later, you'd better make an appointment with us for the service content first."

"That's certain."

"Okay, then I'll ask you to answer. First of all, it's the way to calculate the cost. Do you set the price at one time or count the time?"

"Calling the time. I don't know how long it will take to come out."

The other party nodded and said, "So the next question, are you alone or with your companions? Because there are many people and few people, the difficulty of leading a team is definitely different, so the cost will be somewhat different. If your team has too many people, we may even need multiple guides to do the task together."

"I'm the only one, but I have a lot of summoning creatures. Does this count?"

"If your summoning creatures don't need us to be responsible for death, that's OK."

I smiled and said, "No need to be responsible. Of course, I am responsible for my summoning creature."

The other party nodded and said, "So do you need wizard protection during the mission?"

"Need not."

"Does the guide need to participate in the war? One of our agreements is that when encountering danger, the guide just hides himself and will not help the battle. The other is that the guide will also participate in the war, but will not fight to the death."

I thought for a while and said, "Don't participate in the war, you just need to protect yourself."

The other party nodded and continued, "Can you estimate the mission time? Is there a rough range? Do we need our guide to provide survival supplies?"

"I am not sure about the mission time, it should not exceed three days. I am responsible for the materials myself."

"The last question. Do you need to enter the advanced monster area when entering the mountain? High-risk areas must be guided by senior personnel with strong combat effectiveness, so the cost is definitely much higher than that of low-level personnel."

"I don't know this either. Anyway, I need to go deep into the mountains. I think there should be advanced creatures in that kind of place? As for the safety of the guide, you can rest assured that I can protect the guide and my own safety. But you'd better arrange a higher-level guide, because I have something to do when I enter the mountains, and the movement speed may be relatively fast on the road, so low-level personnel may not necessarily follow."

"Then I will arrange for you the strongest guide." The older guide waved to the back, and then two players came over. One of these two people is the archer mm of the elf clan, and the other is a player with the male hunter profession. "These two are the strongest guides under my command. Who do you want to invite? If you are not sure, I suggest you choose Aduo. Her profession and your profession are more coordinated. However, Soter's hunter profession has a strong comprehensive ability, and it depends on what you think."

"Can I hire two people together?"

"What? Please ask for two together?" The other party thought I would choose one, but I didn't expect that I would hire two guides at a time.

"What? Isn't it possible?"

The other party immediately replied: "It's not impossible to invite two guides at once. Sometimes we have sent more than 20 guides to the mountain for a tour. Of course, it's okay to invite two people together. But are you really sure you need two people? If two guides have to double the service fee."

"No problem, you can calculate the money."

Seeing that I was so determined, the other party stopped saying anything. He lowered his head and calculated it on the paper, and then said: "You chose to charge by time. According to the service content you chose, if you ask them two at one time, you will have to pay twenty-four crystal coins per hour. Are you sure?"

Two people have twenty-four crystal coins, that is, no one has twelve coins per hour. One crystal coin is ten yuan, which means that the charging standard for these two people is 120 yuan per hour. According to the actual tour guide salary, this fee is quite high. However, in the game, it is not like the actual tour guides who have shopping rebates, and the second is that this is a battle tour guide, and it may be hang up halfway. If the level is dropped, the players who are the tour guides will have to practice again. This loss is also considerable. Besides, I am going alone this time. If there are many people in the team, although the charge will increase, the average cost will be reduced by a lot of each person. So the high charge is a little higher, but it is understandable.

"No problem, twenty-four crystal coins per hour, I can accept it."
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