Chapter 294: Landing, the First Team Member

The next day, early morning.

When Su Ming came out of the villa again, he no longer went to the talent market in the professional center early in the morning as he did before.

Today, Su Ming yawned as he walked towards the Longxin District Station.

The Longxin District Station was bustling with people coming and going. Everyone seemed to be in a hurry, pulling their suitcases and rushing in and out, forming a rather crowded crowd.

Su Ming came here without bringing anything with him, which made him seem a little out of place.

But Su Ming still entered the station without buying a ticket and went straight to a special passage.

Many people around, like Su Ming, were heading towards this special passage.

These people have some obvious characteristics.

For example, some people travel in groups.

For example, some people are heavily armed.

For example, some people have extraordinary aura.

These people are all professionals.

Their goal was the same as Su Ming's, which was to get to that special professional channel. They didn't need to buy tickets, but just scanned with the terminal to confirm their professional credentials, and then they could enter the channel and ride for free.

This is one of the privileges of professionals in Tianfeng City.

Because the professionals in Tianfeng City often need to leave the base city to perform tasks, either to the direction of the Chaos Cave or to some nearby wonderland. As one of the privileges of professionals, they can all use the special professional channel for free, ride for free, and go to the border areas of Tianfeng City.

Those professionals who came in groups, fully armed, or with extraordinary momentum, and whose destination was this professional passage, obviously wanted to leave Tianfeng City and go out to carry out missions at this moment.

And today, Su Ming is the same as them.

Yes, Su Ming was also preparing to leave Tianfeng City and head to the wonderland outside the base city.

However, his purpose was not to complete a certain task, but to fulfill the agreement he made with others yesterday.

When Su Ming passed the professional passage and came to the platform dedicated to professionals, a rather conspicuous woman had already arrived in one of the corners here.

She carried a long sword on her back, had a fanny pack on her waist, wore a combat uniform and a long robe, which somehow concealed her not-so-presentable face and her broken right hand, but could not hide her voluptuous and enchanting body curves, which made the professionals around her unable to help but glance over.

Su Ming approached as if no one was around, which attracted a lot of people's attention.

However, when they saw Su Ming's young and even childish appearance, the onlookers withdrew their gazes and no longer paid too much attention to him.

It was under such circumstances that Su Ming came in front of the conspicuous woman.

"I'm sorry I'm late."

Su Ming was still yawning, which made his apology seem insincere.

Fortunately, the woman didn't care.

"You are not late. There are still a few minutes before the agreed meeting time. I just arrived early." The woman glanced at Su Ming and reminded him, "However, you'd better remember to stay alert when you go on missions next time, so as not to be careless and have accidents."

It seemed that the woman was somewhat concerned about Su Ming's constant yawning.

"Sorry, sorry." Su Ming wiped the tears from his eyes and spread his hands, saying, "I've been studying an ancient sword technique recently, and I also spent a lot of contribution points to buy a set of alchemy potions to assist in training. I've been staying up late in the training ground these past few days."

In the past few days, Su Ming has indeed been studying the ancient sword technique and using a set of alchemical potions that can improve training efficiency and quickly increase strength.

These two items cost Su Ming more than 100,000 contribution points, which was ridiculously expensive.

However, Su Ming can now say with certainty that these contribution points are definitely worth spending.

Especially that set of alchemical potions, which Su Ming has been using these days, and the effect is simply amazing.

There were twelve bottles of alchemical potions in total, which were not for internal use but for external application.

Su Ming would use a bottle every day when practicing swordsmanship in the training grounds, coating his entire body with the alchemical potion.

He discovered that after using this alchemical potion, his physical strength improved at a speed visible to the naked eye while he was practicing swordsmanship.

In particular, Su Ming also has the Blue Demon War-Stopping Ring. Since Su Ming wore it, this artifact-level alchemical item has been helping Su Ming suppress the Demon Emperor Sword in his right hand, and even absorb the power of the Demon Emperor Sword, allowing Su Ming's strength to grow rapidly.

After using those alchemical potions, Su Ming's absorption speed of the Demon Emperor Sword's power actually increased a lot, which really surprised him.

Therefore, these days, Su Ming has been spending almost every day in the underground training ground of the villa, immersed in the feeling of rapidly improving strength.

Combined with his research on the ancient sword technique, Su Ming could already vaguely feel that he might soon reach the limit of a four-star hunter.

That's right.

In just about two months, Su Ming was almost reaching the limit of a four-star hunter.

You know, about two months ago, he broke through the three-star human shackles in the underground of the ruins of Longyao City, awakened his demonization ability, and was officially promoted to a four-star hunter.

Now, he has almost reached the limit of a four-star hunter. If this speed were to be made known to others, it would probably scare countless professionals to death.

This is not just the potential and improvement that can be brought about by the continuous transformation of the nightmare bloodline.

Without the power of the Demon Emperor Sword and the assistance of the Blue Demon War Stopping Ring, even Su Ming, who possessed the blood of the Nightmare Seed, would not be able to reach the four-star limit so quickly.

The alchemical potions that improved training efficiency sped up the process, allowing Su Ming to move towards the four-star limit at a faster pace.

"At this rate, I'm afraid it won't be long before I can be promoted to a five-star hunter, right?"

Su Ming was pleasantly surprised by this, and he could not help but immerse himself in it for the past few days. He spent every day in the underground training ground of the villa, studying the ancient sword techniques while training himself, rapidly improving his strength.

Chi Qian didn't know all this, but he could understand Su Ming's approach.

"I understand. The obvious improvement in strength is indeed something that professionals like us cannot stop."

Chi Qianshen nodded in agreement.

But today, Chi Qian did not come to nag Su Ming.

"Let me confirm it again." Chi Qian looked at Su Ming with burning eyes and asked word by word: "Do you really have a way to rescue my companions from the poisonous insect cave?"

This is what Su Ming promised her yesterday.

Therefore, Su Ming did not make any more assurances and answered the question instead.

"Let me confirm it again." Su Ming smiled and said, "As long as I rescue your companions from the poisonous insect cave, you will join my team, right?"

This was what Chi Qian did after Su Ming made a promise to him yesterday.

There is nothing to hesitate about, Chi Qian confirmed in an indifferent tone.

"As long as you can really rescue my companions from the poisonous insect den, then, as we agreed yesterday, I will unconditionally join your team and sign a lifelong contract with you, serving you and being at your service for the rest of my life."

Chi Qian's most fundamental purpose in wanting the Dragon Demon Saliva is to rescue his companions.

If Su Ming could do this, then she would join his team and sign a lifetime contract as she had decided before.

"It's settled then."

Su Ming took out a contract from his backpack.

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"Come, sign the contract."

Hearing this, Chi Qian took the contract from Su Ming's hand.

There is no need to identify it carefully. Just by relying on the feel of it and the vague sense of magic that he can feel, Chi Qian can be sure that the quality of this contract is not low.

The quality of the contract determines its binding force after use.

The higher the quality of the contract, the higher its grade and level, the stronger its binding force will be. Once someone violates it, the stronger the curse will be.

On the contrary, the lower the quality of the contract, the lower the grade and level, the weaker its binding force will be. At that time, even if someone violates the contract, they can afford the price.

Su Ming once signed a contract with Xu Qianqian that no one could reveal anything about him. The quality of the contract at that time was probably of high grade, and the curse power it carried could cause any lower-level professional to suffer physical failure, or even die on the spot. The binding force was quite good, and only high-level professionals could withstand the curse caused by violating the contract and not be killed.

The four major coastal bases once signed a contract with each other to share what they have, to help each other, and not to murder each other. The contract was at least of the best grade. Once the contract was violated, the curse that would be generated instantly would probably affect the entire base city and cause the loss of lives. Therefore, the binding force was extremely strong, which prevented the four major base cities from harming each other for so many years. At most, they would just trip each other up.

The contract that the major families in Tianfeng City signed in exchange for the great sacrifice of the royal family, agreeing to serve them as their master and not to seize power for the rest of their lives, is said to be of the legendary divine quality.

Once the curse of the contract is in place, the family that violates it will suffer for generations. The best result would be the loss of the entire family's bloodline, and they would become ordinary people for the rest of their lives, no longer able to possess extraordinary powers. It is even possible that the entire family would be cursed.

To sum up, the higher the quality of the contract, the stronger the curse that will be produced when the contract is violated, the more terrifying the binding force will be, and the more difficult it will be to violate the contract.

Like the contract that Su Ming signed at the Professional Center when he established the team, its quality was just the lowest of the lowest, and the curse it produced might not even be able to kill a one-star professional.

There is no other way. There are millions of professionals in Tianfeng City, and tens of thousands of teams have been established. Even if the Professional Center has the support of the Tianfeng City government and is wealthy, it cannot provide a large number of high-quality contracts to so many team leaders for signing.

Although those contract-like agreements were of low quality and had poor effects, if someone violated the terms, the agreement would burn on the spot. In this way, even if the person who violated the agreement could not be punished by curse, the Professional Center would be able to know who violated the agreement at the first opportunity and send someone to deal with the matter.

In view of this, for the Professional Center, to form a team, it is enough to sign a minimum level contract.

As for the quality of the contract that Su Ming took out at this moment, according to Chi Qian's estimation, even if it was not top-quality, it must be the best contract among the fine products.

If a contract of this level is violated, even by a high-level professional, one will have to pay the price.

Not to mention a five-star professional like Chi Qian, even a seven-star professional, who is the highest level, would be severely punished if he violated the contract of this level.

"You think highly of me."

Chi Qian couldn't help but glance at Su Ming.

According to the market situation in the industry, even for high-level professionals, many of the contracts they sign are only close to the top-quality level, and most of them are still ordinary high-quality level.

Premium-grade extraordinary items are not common things in the first place. They are rare treasures that can be put on display at the third-floor auction of Wanbao Auction House. Not every team can come up with something of this quality.

As a result, many teams are unable to prepare contracts that can fully restrain senior professionals.

While a high-quality contract is undoubtedly binding on lower-level professionals, it is somewhat powerless against higher-level professionals.

Each major team can only try their best to prepare contracts that are extremely close to the top level for the senior professionals to sign. Even if a contract of that quality cannot cause excessive harm to the senior professionals, it will still have some effect and function, and can be regarded as having a certain binding force.

Only when six-star or even seven-star professionals want to sign a contract, people are willing to spend a lot of money to get a high-quality contract.

Of course, if a force has the means to recruit professionals of that level, it will not be impossible for them to obtain high-quality contracts.

A high-quality contract could already inflict a significant curse on a six-star professional, and only a seven-star professional could withstand it.

Therefore, generally speaking, high-quality contracts are high-end products prepared for professionals of that level.

Now, Su Ming took out a contract that was close to the best level and asked her, a five-star professional, to sign it. Although it was a strong binding force, it was a bit wasteful.

Unless Su Ming thinks that Chi Qian has the potential to be promoted to seven stars, that would be another matter.

But at that level, Chi Qian herself didn't think she could be promoted, so how could Su Ming have such confidence in her? In response, Su Ming said this without caring.

"It's okay. I have plenty of this stuff."

This is the truth.

From the package, Su Ming took out many contracts of various qualities.

There are lower-grade, higher-grade, and quite a few fine-grade ones, and there are even two top-grade contracts.

No matter what, Chi Qian is a former female legend and a future six-star professional. If she has some opportunities, she will have the chance to be promoted to seven stars in the future.

For Su Ming, it is not a loss to use a contract that is close to the best grade for such a potential stock.

Chi Qian didn’t know whether what Su Ming said was true or not, nor did she care.

She took a look at the contents of the contract, confirmed that they were correct, and signed her name.

Seeing this, Su Ming suddenly smiled.

The first member of my team has been found.

(End of this chapter)