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 panniers. 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 is considered 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 the twenty-something cultivator. What's more, two of the 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 chattering between the group of people along the way, Ning Yuan had almost learned the information he needed.

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 military 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, headed by Scars and Scars, is called the Scar Subsquad. It is a city-state mercenary team that specializes in monster hunting and the gray business, and 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. Most of the people outside the system are some low-level practitioners at the soldier level. . 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 these two to three hundred thousand practitioners, the lowest-level soldiers-level practitioners basically accounted for 60%, that is, from 120,000 to 180,000. Eighty percent of the remaining cultivators of 80 to 120,000 husband-level and above are in the city-state army, so there are really not many mid-to-high-level cultivators above the mid-level of idle cultivators. 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-state.

Generally speaking, in the city-state system of the Nieno continent, less than a thousand people are called villages, more than 1,000 people and less than 100,000 people are called towns, and more than 100,000 people can be called cities. 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 qualifications 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.

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 besides the highest city lord, and they will be stuck by the city rules if they go up.

And because of the city's bearing capacity, the upper limit of practitioners in each city is limited. 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 Koka City's first family. That is to say, there is only the last tier school-level cultivation base in Koka City for all remaining lieutenant-level practitioners to break through. No matter who breaks through, the remaining lieutenant-level practitioners can only be stuck at the lieutenant level. Can't make an inch.

In addition to the restrictions on the top level of cultivation, are there any restrictions on the number of practitioners of the second or the following cultivation bases?

In theory, yes. 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 an expansion of the population ceiling in disguise, and the method is to establish subsidiary city-states.

The establishment of affiliated city-states was the prototype of the original 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 the city's cultivation base and the quota.

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, you can establish directly under the main city. Sub-city.

As the owner of the distracted mind, the cultivator of the city master of the divided city 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 city master of the main city.

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.

So as long as all the practitioners become the lord of the city, isn't it enough? Anyway, the Nieno Continent is infinitely large and has infinite resources. It is not too good for everyone to be like a dragon.

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

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

In fact, the reason is very simple, it's just that Ning Yuan's realm line is not in his memory, and Ning Yuan didn't think in that direction.

But this also explained what happened to 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 the 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 an extremely difficult two months for the creatures of all races, except for the army. No practitioner will approach any large-scale monster gathering area at this time.

And the scars and them will appear here at this time, which can be said to be a typical example of "people dying for money and birds 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 were basically 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 senior practitioners above the military and lieutenant level, and idle practitioners at the bottom can only do scrap work.

The same is true this time.

However, just when the Scars were about 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 is not clear what the task rewards are, 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 scars and the thin scars 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 half an hour or an hour later in the evening, perhaps the two will not encounter each other.

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

It 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 know the restrictions of the player's choice of autonomous arrival, and even the mechanism of the player's resurrection is also clear.

Ning Yuan believes that only by knowing the player as he knows himself can he infer that he is a brilliant 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 there was also a glorious life in the Nieno Continent.

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

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

Early the next morning.

Ning Yuan, who was asleep in a daze, was pulled up from the wheel 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 irritation of the icy 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 for the state of being captured, that night's sleep should have been Ning Yuan's most peaceful sleep since he descended. At least with this group of people, 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 great if there was no cold water."

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

Although it has 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."

Hearing this, Ning Yuan looked up at the sky, and said cowardly: "It's only a quarter to the hour, isn't it? Isn't it too early?"

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

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

"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 and walked out.

Scar came 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 must be dawn if you can't wait for you to go up the mountain. So don't think about delaying time. Ha!"

After 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." Ning Yuan laughed wildly at Ning Yuan's scar with his hands resting on the ground and his face was painful. Then the huge and oppressive figure possessed his body and looked up at Ning Yuan with a cowardly expression on his head. It was obvious that Ning Yuan, who dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. Channel:

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

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

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

Standing up straight, looking down at Ning Yuan with a pitiful look, he said in a tone of truth-statement:

"If you have a household registration, you will be resurrected directly at the place where the household registration is bound. Unfortunately, you don't. In the wild, you can only choose to resurrect in situ or randomly resurrect within 100 meters. Either way, you can't run away."

Immediately, his eyes were sharp, and he said seriously:

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

Looking at Ning Yuan with a pale expression of fear, he gave a grin:

"Pray for good results in two days."

After speaking, he 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 opportunity, or wait to get the opportunity later, what can you do to me?"

Ning Yuan stared at the scar in fear and stubbornly, 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 began to pack the truck next to him that his face became whole, and he looked at Ning Yuan with a solemn tone that he had never had before. Road:

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

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

"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 opponent's eyes.

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

The other party had always known that Ning Yuan was pretending, although he didn't know how much he had 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 could do was procrastinate, but the other party was not afraid of Ning Yuan procrastinating, because they could afford to procrastinate and felt sick at best, but Ning Yuan could not afford to procrastinate. 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 limit is not lifted, then how many times the resurrection times 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 stay under the opponent's control, without freedom, unable to practice, and watched the gap between himself and other players grow, until it was irreparable.

Unless Ning Yuan is willing to choose to reincarnate in a single shot.

In this case, at that opportunity, Ning Yuan's willingness to carry the restrictions on his own will be meaningless?

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

In fact, Ning Yuan's worst plan was to make two shots.

If there are no last few words of Scar.

However, it doesn't 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, walked to Scar, and asked cowardly:

"Find the opportunity, 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'll lead the way."

Speaking of the initiative, go ahead.

"Wait." Scar called to Ning Yuan.

Ning Yuan looked back at Scar.

"You are too slow, let Zi Scar and Mo Scar take you up the mountain. Thin Scar is exploring the way ahead. Longshou Mountain is not easy to walk."

Scar said solemnly.

"it is good."

Ning Yuan nodded and walked forward behind them.

Scarlet nodded to Scar, and leaped forward silently.

After the scar saw the thin scar and went to find the way, he said to the people in charge of the truck in the team:

"Strength Scar, Zha Scar, Ha Scar, Valley Scar, Ginger Scar, Miao Scar, Mu Scar, Ge Scar, Arrow Scar, you can't take risks for the remaining times. Stay under the mountain and watch the truck and cargo. Sometimes, you can shoot arrows. If the distance is too far, use the letter from the agency. If we do not come back in the middle of the night and send back any information, you will directly drive back to the city tomorrow morning."

"Yes, boss."

Several people who were spotted responded in unison.

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

The names of all members of the city-state mercenary squad of the Scar Subsquad carry a "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 indeed difficult.

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

The Longshou Mountain Range is located at the southernmost end of the entire Fulong Mountain Range. It consists of eight peaks of different sizes, including 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 it was Ning Yuan alone, it would take four to five days to reach the destination without the danger of monsters. However, there are now two practitioners from the upper ranks of the soldier, 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 corner of the mountain wall connecting Broken Tooth Mountain and Hoxu Mountain.

That place is not the formal entrance of chance, but rather a place similar to the back door. As for where the front gate 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 this time.

Perhaps it was due to the imminent start of the beast tide, and the density of the monsters in Longshou Mountain was higher than Ning Yuan estimated 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 Yuan couldn't imagine how he would travel these two hundred miles if he was alone.

Fortunately, both the outer edge of the Dragon Blood Forest and the front 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 a husband-level for the time being.

Generally speaking, before a cultivator of the heavenly rank, he would fight a monster with the same strength as his own. In terms of fighting alone, the cultivator had the upper hand, because the cultivator could use various external forces to fight.

However, this is just a time to fight alone. 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 a few hundred or several thousand.

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

The Scar Team of Scars and Fine Scars is such a mercenary team that is active on the edge and outer edge of the Dragon 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.