At night, at the junction of the Longshou Mountain Range and the hilly terrain.

　　 Ning Yuan kept a cowardly look and squatted in a corner of the simple camp surrounded by seven or eight wooden loadcars. While gnawing on the dry food that Scar was thrown over, while watching the group of Scars drinking and eating meat around the campfire, they listened to their talk.

Although Ning Yuan’s current status can be regarded as a captive of this group, it may be because Ning Yuan’s performance is very honest, his personality is weak, and he is an ordinary person who has not yet cultivated, so they did not detain Ning Yuan, nor did they send someone to look at Ning Yuan. On the contrary, he threw the short gun back to him.

　　 Also, in Ning Yuan's eyes, it can only be regarded as a short gun that is better than nothing, and in terms of the strength of this group, it is not even a broken iron. Even if they returned the short spear to Ning Yuan, they were not afraid of Ning Yuan playing tricks. Don't say that Ning Yuan is just a player who hasn't practiced before. Even if Ning Yuan is a soldier-level practitioner, they don't worry about Ning Yuan's ability to escape under the nose of a soldier-level practitioner. What's more, the two chieftains are still well-known husband-level masters in their city-states.

　　 Through the explanation of the cold-faced scout young man named Xi Scar during the day and the chats and babblings between the group of people along the way, Ning Yuan has almost learned the information he needs.

　　 This group of 24 people, headed by the husband-level scars and fine scars, is a city-state mercenary of a medium-sized city-state called Koka City, about nine hundred miles northwest of the Dragon Blood Forest.

The so-called city-state mercenaries are idle practitioners who have not joined the city-state army system. Most of them are used as private soldiers or guards of the city-state nobles and chambers of commerce in exchange for training resources. Work under the light.

　　 This city-state mercenary squad called Scars, headed by Scars, is a city-state mercenary squad that specializes in monster hunting and gray business, and it is considered a small celebrity in Koka City. After all, even if it is a medium-sized city-state with a population of one million, more than 80% of the senior practitioners are basically concentrated in the city-state military system as backbones at all levels, and most of those outside the system are some soldiers-level low-level practitioners. . Even a second-level husband-level practitioner can be regarded as a small master.

Oh, right. The upper limit of the population of a mid-level city-state is one million, generally one million. Among them, the proportion of practitioners is between 20% and 30%, which is about 200,000 to 300,000 people.

　　 Among the two to three hundred thousand practitioners, the lowest level of soldiers accounted for 60%, that is, 120,000 to 180,000 practitioners. Eighty percent of the remaining practitioners of 80 to 120,000 husband-level and above are in the city-state army, so there are really not many intermediate and high-level practitioners above the middle-class level. Moreover, the practitioners of each city-state have an upper limit according to the rules except for the city-owner who is the owner of the city.

　　 Generally speaking, in the city-state system of the Nieno continent, a village with a population of 1,000 or less is called a village, a town with a population of 1,000 or more and a town with a population of more than 100,000. Among the cities, half a million are small city-states, one million are medium-sized city-states, five million are large-scale city-states, and ten million are giant city-states. The population limit of tens of millions is also the final limit of a single city-state.

　　According to the rules, the upper limit of village-level practitioners is the soldier level, which means that as long as they become practitioners, anyone theoretically has the qualification to become the head of a village. In the same way, the upper limit of town-level practitioners is husband-level. In theory, every practitioner who reaches husband-level also has the qualifications to become the head of a town. Then the upper limit of the cultivation base of small city states is lieutenant level, the upper limit of cultivation base of medium-sized city states is school level, the upper limit of cultivation base of large city-states is general level, and the upper limit of cultivation base of giant city-states is handsome level.

　　 In other words, even if it is a giant city-state, with a population and resources of tens of millions, the practitioners who occupy 30% of the population can cultivate to the prestigious level in addition to the highest city lord, and they will be stuck by the city rules if they go up.

　　 And because of the city’s affordability, there is a limit on the number of practitioners in each city. For example, as a medium-sized city-state in Koka City, the lord Ziegel is an earth-level school-level practitioner who is about to break through the general level. According to the rules, in addition to the city lord being protected by the rules of the city knot, there can only be three prefectural school-level practitioners at the same time in Koka City. Once there are three, other practitioners will be restricted by the city rules and cannot be broken. And now, in addition to the city lord who is about to break through in Koka City, the three rank school-level places have been occupied by the city lord's first warlord Asa and the major elder of the Main family of the first family of Koka City. That is to say, there is only the last place in Koka City that can be used for the cultivation of the lieutenant level. No matter who breaks through, the remaining lieutenants can only get stuck Can't make an inch.

　　 Then, in addition to the restrictions on the top level cultivation base, are there any quota restrictions for the secondary cultivation bases or the following cultivation bases?

　　 In theory, there is. But because each city-state occupies different resources, the quota will also fluctuate to a large extent. However, in general, according to the rules, the upper limit of the theoretical practitioners in a city, regardless of size, is only 30% of the total population. If you exceed it, you can only choose to split and upgrade the city.

　　It is easy to understand that upgrading a city is to expand the upper limit of the population.

　　 diversion is actually a disguised expansion of the population limit, the method is to establish a subsidiary city state.

　　 The establishment of affiliated city-states was the prototype of the initial city-state alliance on the Nieno continent, and it was also a method discovered by the practitioners of the Nieno continent to break through the upper limit of city cultivation level and quota restrictions.

As the main city, the city-state city lord can consume resources and sacrifice to the city. The crystallization of the rules, that is, the city knot heart makes it separate the sub-junction heart that is inferior to the main knot heart. Through this kind of division heart, the direct control of the main city can be established. Sub-city.

　　 As the owner of the distracted mind, that is, the cultivator of the city lord of the branch will be protected by the rules of distracted mind and will no longer be restricted by the quota of the main city rules, and enjoy the same unlimited breakthrough power as the main city city lord.

　　 To put it simply, as long as the practitioner becomes the city lord, he can ignore the restrictions of the upper limit of cultivation level and the upper limit of quota.

　　 Then, as long as all the practitioners become the city lord, isn’t it enough? Anyway, the Nieno Continent is infinitely large and has infinite resources, so everyone is like a dragon.

Ok. Very real. But also very silly and naive.

　　 In addition to understanding the basic situation of Koka City and this group of mercenary practitioners, Ning Yuan also knew the reason why he could not enter the forest during this time.

　　 The reason is actually very simple, but Ning Yuan's realm line is not in his memory, and Ning Yuan didn't think in that direction.

　　 But this also explains the abnormal distribution of monsters that Ning Yuan saw in the last few days.

　　The tide of beasts is coming. To be precise, the spring tide is coming in two large-scale animal tides every year.

During the two months from the end of Yinyue and Maoyue to the end of Chenyue every year, monsters in various places will riot due to the arrival of the breeding season and shortage of food. The monsters will spontaneously or passively go out of the gathering place and attack the city-state where the "humans" are located. With the tribe.

Since the overall strength and number of monsters have always been above the "human" side, each large-scale beast wave in the spring and autumn seasons of Shangyin and Lower Yin is extremely difficult for the creatures of all races for two months, except for the army. No practitioner will approach any large-scale monster gathering area at this time.

　　 and the scars will appear here at this time, which can be said to be a typical example of "people die for money and birds die for food".

　　 From the gossip of Scar's men, Ning Yuan probably understood the ins and outs of the matter:

　　Originally, for a city-state mercenary squad such as the Scar Subsquad, the two months from Maoyue to Chenyue basically belonged to the two months when they were dedicated to internal affairs and not foreign affairs, which is commonly referred to as the mercenary off-season.

　　The work of fighting against animal tides has always been dominated by high-level practitioners above the army and lieutenant level. The idle practitioners at the bottom can only do scrap work.

　　 The same is true this time.

　　 But just when the Scars were going to idle for two months, the nobles of Koka City sent out high-priced tasks in the City-State Mercenary Guild.

　　 Ning Yuan didn't hear the details of the mission. It seemed that they needed the tiger bones and tiger whip of the jungle tiger. The mission was not difficult, but the demand was huge.

　　 It’s not clear what the task reward is, but it seems that the team will pay a high price for one or two more husband-level cultivators.

　　 Being able to pay one or two more husband-level cultivators is naturally enough to make one of the scar and the thin scar go further.

　　 So they came to the edge of the Dragon Blood Forest three days ago.

　　 According to Ning Yuan's understanding, as of today, they have hunted enough jungle tigers. If Ning Yuan comes out at half an hour or an hour in the evening, maybe the two will not encounter each other.

　　 Thinking of this, Ning Yuan could only sigh silently and say "God's Will."

　　 can indeed be said to be God’s will.

　　Who knew that the original encounter would become a hijack because of Ning Yuan’s player status and the fact that he did not have a household registration.

　　 And because of this hijacking, Ning Yuan discovered a fact that had to be shocking. It is also a detail that is not in the memory of the boundary line.

　　 That is, the aborigines of the Nieno continent seem to know the player's existence very well, just as they know themselves.

　　 The aboriginal people not only know the rules of the player's arrival in the city, but also the restrictions of the player's choice to descend on their own, and even the mechanism of the player's resurrection is equally clear.

　　 Ning Yuan believes that only by knowing the player as if he knows himself can he infer that he is a bright student based on his own player's identity and the fact that he does not have a household registration, and he has information about a certain chance.

　　 This can be seen from the fact that the opponent directly asks the chance after confirming that he is a player.

　　 Ning Yuan had an amazing guess after the other party said that the Nieno Continent also existed brilliantly.

　　 This speculation was confirmed by some information I heard unintentionally, perhaps closer to a certain truth.

　　 The aborigines of the Nieno Continent are not so much aboriginals, but more like players who entered the Nieno Continent earlier than the stars.

　　 Early the next morning.

　　 Ning Yuan, who was drowsily asleep, was pulled up from the side of the truck, and then a basin of cold water fell from the sky.

　　 Ning Yuan, who was soaked all over, woke up immediately under the stimulation of the ice cold, and immediately saw the cold-faced young Scarlet staring at him expressionlessly. A thin black man with a water basin stood nearby. Ning Yuan remembered that the other party seemed to be called Zi Scar.

　　 It should have been the cold water poured by the other party just now.

　　 If it weren't in a captured state, the sleep last night should have been Ning Yuan's most peaceful sleep since he arrived. At least this group was there, and Ning Yuan didn't need to worry about the safety of sleeping. Although I can sleep peacefully in the forest, my sleep is very light because of concerns about safety.

　　 "But it would be nice if I didn't have this basin of cold water."

　　 Ning Yuan said silently in his heart, and then shuddered.

　　Although I have entered Uyue, it is still quite cold in the morning.

　　 Just when Ning Yuan's heart was broken, a hoarse voice sounded:

"ready to go."

　　 Ning Yuan raised his head and looked at the sky when he heard the words, and said cowardly: "It's only a quarter to the hour, right? Isn't it too early?"

　　 then cautiously explained: "It's so dark, I'm afraid I can't find the way."

　　 Scarlet stared at Ning Yuan with cold eyes, until Ning Yuan had just wiped dry forehead with cold sweat, and said in a serious tone:

　　 "If you don't want to die in the animal tide, or stay in the dungeon of our team for two months, you'd better take us to find the opportunity you said within two days."

　　 After speaking, he turned around and walked out.

　　 Zi Scar walked over and patted Ning Yuan's shoulder. The heavy force made Ning Yuan's shoulder crooked, jokingly:

　　 "Longshou Mountain is not easy to walk. It will definitely dawn if you can't wait for you to go up the mountain. So don't think about delaying time. Ha!"

　　 After finishing speaking, he took the water basin and followed the scar to leave.

　　 Just as Ning Yuan was rubbing his numb shoulders and bowing his head in sorrow, a big fan-like hand rested heavily on Ning Yuan’s other shoulder, causing Ning Yuan to stagger in an instant, turn around in embarrassment and fall to the ground.

"Hahaha." Looking at Ning Yuan with his hands resting on the ground with a painful face, Ning Yuan laughed wildly, and then the hugely oppressive figure took possession of him and looked up at Ning Yuan with a cowardly expression. Channel:

　　 "Boy, you can't bear even a slap on me, so don't think about the ones that are missing. To tell you the truth, early or two days or late or three days, the animal tide will definitely start."

　　 then raised two thick fingers and shook it, and then said:

　　 "Two days, you only have two days. If you don't see the opportunity you said in two days, I will kill you once."

　　 stood up straight, looked down at Ning Yuan with a pitiful look, and said in a statement of facts:

　　 "If you have a household registration, you will be resurrected directly at the place where the household registration is bound. Unfortunately, you don't. If you are wild, you can only choose to resurrect in situ or randomly resurrect within 100 meters. No matter which kind, you can't run away."

　　 then sharpened his eyes and said seriously:

　　 "Then I will bring you back to Coca City, who has only one chance of resurrection. In two months, we have some methods to concoct you. It will definitely make you unforgettable for a lifetime."

　　 looked at Ning Yuan who was pale and terrified and laughed:

　　 "Pray for good results in two days."

　　 finished speaking, then turned around and planned to leave.

　　 "What if I choose to reincarnate?"

　　 Ning Yuan gritted his teeth from behind.

　　Scar turned around and looked at Ning Yuan's stubborn eyes that seemed to be free, although he was afraid, and chuckled inexplicably.

　　 "If I choose to reincarnate, give up the chance, or wait to get the chance later, what can you do to me?"

　　 Ning Yuan stared at the scar in fear and stubbornness, and asked every word.

Scar did not answer directly. He kept looking at Ning Yuan with an inexplicable smile for a long time. It wasn't until his younger brother started to pack the truck next to him that his face became whole, and he looked at Ning Yuan in a cold and solemn tone that he had never seen before. Road:

　　 "If you choose this path. Then there is no need for me to do anything. In the future, you will regret this decision forever."

　　 After finishing speaking, he turned and walked towards the waiting people, paused halfway, and said in an inexplicable tone:

　　 "I will give you a piece of advice."

　　 Ning Yuan looked up at the huge back of Scar.

　　 "If you don't want to regret it, then it's best to pray that you won't use the rebirth function for the rest of your life."

　　 After talking about Ning Yuan, he wandered to the front of the line to greet everyone and prepare to hurry.

　　 Ning Yuan looked at Scar's back, with inexplicable thoughts flashing in his eyes.

　　 Ning Yuan has been pretending. Pretending with facts that have not yet been cultivated, pretending with a submissive and cowardly look, pretending with an unbearable attitude, everything is to allow the other party to recognize Ning Yuan's weakness, relax the lowest vigilance against Ning Yuan, and strengthen Ning Yuan's personality in the eyes of the other party.

　　 In order to achieve his goal, when the other party confirmed Ning Yuan's destination, Ning Yuan did not deceive anything. Under the constraints of the system's oath, Ning Yuan frankly confessed the key information that he had two resurrection times left.

　　 The other party has always known that Ning Yuan is pretending, although he doesn't know how much he has seen through. But as the other party said, Ning Yuan was too weak, and it didn't make sense to the other party whether it was pretending or not. Even if you use the resurrection, you can't escape.

　　 The best Ning Yuan can do is procrastinate, but the other party is not afraid of Ning Yuan procrastinating, because they can afford to procrastinate and feel sick at best, but Ning Yuan can’t. Just like Scar said. The opponent can take Ning Yuan back to the city state as a captive, and be imprisoned in a dungeon, where he can torture him within the limits until he collapses. You can kill him once as a punishment. After two months, they will bring Ning Yuan here again, forcing Ning Yuan to surrender his chance.

　　 On the contrary, Ning Yuan couldn't afford it. If the beast wave information given by the other party is accurate, Ning Yuan must find a way to enter the place within two days. Otherwise, no matter how many times Ning Yuan has resurrected, as long as the city resurrection restriction is not lifted, then how many resurrects are in the beast wave The impact is not enough.

　　 And as the other party said, as long as Ning Yuan can't escape, Ning Yuan can only be under the control of the other party, without freedom, unable to practice, and watching the gap between himself and other players grow, until it is irreparable.

　　 Unless Ning Yuan is willing to choose to reincarnate and shoot and break.

　　 In that case, at that opportunity, Ning Yuan's willingness to bear the burden of restrictions to come on his own will not make any sense?

　　 Of course, at least it is better than making wedding dresses for others.

　　 In fact, the worst plan Ning Yuan made was to shoot and break up.

　　 If there are no last few words of Scar.

　　 However, no matter how many words are true or even all false in the last few words of Scar.

　　 After listening to Ning Yuan, he was destined not to gamble anymore.

　　 After everyone set off on the road, Ning Yuan took the dry food, looked around for a while, walked up to Scar, and asked cowardly:

　　 "Find a chance, will you really let me go?"

　　 Scar's eyes lit up, and he pulled out an ugly smile and said:

　　 "The oath of the system is absolute. Even if I don't want it, I can't hurt you."

　　 Ning Yuan nodded, looked at Scar's eyes and said:

　　 "Okay. I will lead the way."

　　 said and took the initiative to walk forward.

　　 "Wait." Scar called to Ning Yuan.

　　 Ning Yuan looked back at the scar.

　　 "You are too slow, let Zi Scar and Mo Scar carry you up the mountain. Thin Scar is looking for the road ahead. Longshou Mountain is not easy to walk."

　　 Scar said solemnly.

"it is good."

　　 Ning Yuan nodded, and walked forward behind them.

　　 Scar nodded towards the knife scar, and leaped forward silently.

　　 After seeing the scars and finding the way, I said to the people in the team who were in charge of the trucks:

"Strength scar, Zha scar, Ha scar, Gu scar, **** scar, Miao scar, Mu scar, Ge scar, arrow scar, you can't take risks for the rest of the time. Stay under the mountain and watch the truck and goods. Sometimes you can shoot arrows. If the distance is too far, use the agency’s letter. If our people don’t come back in the middle of the evening and send back no information, you will drive back to the city in the early morning."

　　 "Yes, boss."

　　 Several people who were spotted responded in unison.

　　 Scar nodded, then looked at the people around him, then at Ning Yuan in front of him, and said solemnly, "Others, fighting formation, keep up."

　　 All members of the Scar Sub-squad City-State Mercenary Squad carry the word "Scar" in their names.

　　 Of course, none of them are real names, all are pseudonyms like code names. This seems to be a feature of Scarlet Team and a signature in the city-state mercenary world.

　　 Dao Scar and the man named Zi Scar didn't lie to Ning Yuan. The road to Longshou Mountain was really difficult.

　　 It should be said that any road leading to the gathering place of monsters and beasts in this period of time is not easy to follow.

　　The Longshou Mountain Range is located at the southernmost end of the Fulong Mountain Range. It consists of eight peaks of different sizes, namely Longzui Mountain, Longya Mountain, Broken Tooth Mountain, East and West Longjiao Mountain, Front and Back Longxu Mountain, and Dragon Head Mountain. It occupies a huge area.

　　 If Ning Yuan were alone, it would take four to five days to reach the destination without the danger of monsters. However, now there are two cultivators from the upper ranks of soldiers carrying them, and it is estimated that they will be there tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

　　 The entrance that Ning Yuan was looking for was located at the eastern foot of Broken Tooth Mountain, in a crevice at the angle between Broken Tooth Mountain and Hosu Mountain.

　　 That location is not the official entrance of chance, but rather a back door. As for where the main entrance of the opportunity was, Ning Yuan didn't know. At the beginning, he also entered this place of opportunity by accident.

　　 After passing Qianxu Mountain and stepping on the trail of Longya Mountain, Ning Yuan began to feel a little grateful for the involuntary hijacking.

　　 It may be the relationship that the beast tide is about to start. The density of the beasts in Longshou Mountain is higher than Ning Yuan's estimation after combining various information.

　　 The two hundred miles from Qianxu Mountain to Longya Mountain alone has experienced at least 20 battles. This was the case when everyone avoided most monsters.

　　 Ning is far from imagining how he would travel these two hundred miles if he was alone.

　　 Fortunately, both the outer edge of the Dragon Blood Forest and the frontier of the Dragon Head Mountain Range are dominated by low-level beast-level monsters (that is, monsters that are equivalent to soldiers-level practitioners). Everyone hasn't encountered a middle-level fierce beast-level monster equivalent to the strength of the husband-level.

　　 Generally speaking, before a cultivator of the heavenly rank, if he fights alone against a monster with the same strength as himself, the cultivator has the upper hand, because the cultivator can use various external forces to fight.

　　 However, this is only a time for solo. The actual situation is that most monsters below the Desolate Beast level live in groups. A nest can be as small as three to five, and as large as hundreds or thousands, it is possible.

　　 That’s why I said earlier that even if it is the periphery of the Dragon's Blood Forest, it requires a team of more than 20 people with husband-level strength to move slightly. .

　　The Scars Team of Scars and Fine Scars is such a mercenary team that is active on the edge and outer edge of the Dragon's Blood Forest.

　　 It is precisely because they belong to a full-time hunting team that they can avoid most of the monsters so far with rich experience.