Chapter 0857 The Gap between Ideal and Reality



Although Fang Zheng agreed to Hu Tao's request, strictly speaking, this was a very difficult thing to do. Like everyone else, forming a mercenary group requires a star mark certificate. Fang Zheng's own certificate certainly could not be used, because he originally formed this mercenary group to collect intelligence privately. If he used his own star mark certification, wouldn't it be like confessing himself?

But Kurumi and Kurumi are both illegal residents, and they don’t have star mark certificates - this might have been a problem in the past, but now with Kurumi here, it’s not a problem at all.

Kuang San's solution was also very simple and crude. She directly activated the angel "Pojun Songstress", and then walked directly into the Mercenary Association and told the other party "We don't have any identification, but we want to form a mercenary group. You guys see what we should do."

The second angel possessed by Kuang San, "Po Jun Ge Ji", once infused her voice with spiritual power, ordinary people without spiritual power would have no way to refuse her request. As a result, the entire mercenary association was thrown into chaos by her, and finally they really thought of a way. It happened that there was a group of one man and two women in the mercenary association who were determined to have failed their mission and died, and the mercenary group they formed had not yet been closed. If Kuang San didn't mind, she could directly replace them.

As for the name of the mercenary group... just change it slightly.

Neither Kurumi nor Hu Tao had any objection to this. If there was anything wrong here, it was that everyone had to use the mercenary badges of dead people. Kurumi was emotionally stable about this, and Hu Tao went without saying - she was a dead person to begin with.

"If you were here, I wouldn't have been in so much trouble..."

Seeing how Kuang San easily solved the identity problem, Fang Zheng was speechless. If he had had Kuang San's ability, he wouldn't have gone through so much trouble and even went all the way to the temple... Alas, it's no use regretting now.

"Well, the next step is to accept the mission... Kurumi, I leave it to you."

"Okay, leave it to me!"

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Hu Tao patted her chest excitedly, and then ran to the bulletin board of the Mercenary Association. Fang Zheng stood quietly in the distance, just watching Hu Tao jumping and jumping on the bulletin board, and remained silent.

"Is this really okay? Let Miss Kurumi be the leader?"

At this moment, Kuang San also walked up to Fang Zheng and asked curiously, while Fang Zheng shrugged.

"What can I do? You don't want to do it, and I don't have time. Since Hu Tao is willing, let her do it. But I will go with you on this mission. At least I want to see if Hu Tao can adapt..."

Having said that, Fang Zheng looked at Hu Tao with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"…After all, this is reality, not a game. I believe it won't be long before she understands that games and reality are completely different."

Just as Fang Zheng said, not long after, Hu Tao came back dejected - she had taken a fancy to a mission to explore the ruins, but when Hu Tao excitedly got the commission and came to the association counter, she was told that they were only the lowest level bronze mercenaries, and this was a silver commission, and it also required the number of mercenaries to be no less than ten people, so Hu Tao's commission was ruthlessly rejected by the other party.

But when Walnut returned to the bulletin board, she found that most of the commissions posted there had been taken, leaving only some of the lowest-level commissions, such as eliminating cockroaches in the sewers or expelling goblins... In Walnut's opinion, these commissions were not "challenging" at all.

"So, what commission did you take?"

Seeing Hu Tao's listless appearance, Fang Zheng just smiled and asked. Hu Tao looked depressed and handed over the letter of authorization.

"This is all that's left..."

"This is……"

Fang Zheng took it and flipped through it, then found that this was a cleanup mission. The gist was that there were some poisonous lizards roaming around in the swamps in the wild, attacking many caravans and merchants, so the mission was issued in the hope that mercenaries could go and eliminate these poisonous lizards... Well, this was indeed a very unchallenging and boring job, no wonder Hu Tao looked so depressed.

"This is the daily life of a mercenary. Do you think it's the same as in the game?"

Fang Zheng smiled and returned the letter of authorization to Hu Tao.

"Then let us go."

After all, Hu Tao was still a high school student. Not long after leaving the city, her mood had recovered. She walked in front while humming a song, looking quite leisurely.

"Ms. Kurumi? You seem to be in a good mood?"

At this moment, Kuang San also looked at Kurumi with a smile and asked, and Kurumi nodded.

"Of course, I've figured it out. Isn't this just like completing daily tasks in the game? I can accept it. And the scenery outside is so beautiful. We can fight monsters while enjoying the scenery. It's like an outing. Isn't it fun?"

Um……

Hearing this, Fang Zheng silently glanced at Hu Tao's back without saying anything.

As expected of a spoiled city lady, perhaps she doesn’t even know what the so-called “wild swamp” is… I wonder if she will still be able to smile when she arrives at the mission location?

In fact, just as Fang Zheng guessed, when Hu Tao arrived at the wild swamp that was her destination, there was no smile on her face at all.

All they saw before them was a muddy and dirty swamp, with only a few lonely dead trees around it. The stench of decay was overwhelming, making them feel as if they were in a garbage dump. In the muddy swamp, they could see some animal carcasses that had not yet completely decayed...

Right here, some poisonous lizards, whose bodies are even larger than those of crocodiles, are rolling around in the mud leisurely, looking relaxed and comfortable.

"Okay, my mission is complete, and the rest is up to you."

Fang Zheng said he would not intervene, so he did not intervene. He just cast a few level three defensive spells on Hu Tao and Kuang San, and then decisively stepped aside to watch the show.

“Woo…”

Walnut held the shovel and looked at the swamp in front of her with embarrassment, then looked at the brand new leather armor on her body... Finally, she gritted her teeth and stepped into the swamp.

Then the next moment, she sank with a "plop".

"Hey? What is this? Wait, this is the Bottomless Swamp?"

Kurumi was shocked to see her body being submerged in an instant.

"Sister Kuang San, save me!"

While shouting at Kuang San, Hu Tao waved her hands desperately. However, she did not notice that the poisonous lizards had been attracted by Hu Tao and turned their heads to look over here. Then, the swamp behind Hu Tao suddenly expanded, and then a poisonous lizard suddenly emerged from it and bit Hu Tao's head. The next moment, it dragged Hu Tao into the depths of the bottomless swamp and disappeared.

“…”

Huifei Suze Kurumi's mercenary journey had just begun, and it ended.


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