"Oh, I see. So this person just came here to die and collect the compensation, huh? Ugh! The people over there doing the identity verification aren't even keeping an eye on things. They let just anyone in! Isn't this just a waste of time? What if someone wants this S-rank mission right now? Once she takes it, it's linked to her identity information, and no one else can get it. It'll really cause them a lot of trouble!"
"Who says otherwise? I could kill this skinny little girl with one punch!"
Lin Yiran naturally heard these words, but she didn't pay attention to them. After watching the screen return to normal, she turned and left, treating it as a bunch of dogs barking.
"Ah Yang, look at this guy! He's shameless! Even if he's going to die, he shouldn't die in the Forest of Hope! He's just a level one noob and he dared to take on an S-rank mission. If it were me, I wouldn't dare cause trouble for others! Isn't this blatantly taking up public resources? Seriously, there are all kinds of birds in a big forest!"
However, her captain, Fu Xueyang, who was standing to the side in a white combat uniform, did not think so.
He stared thoughtfully at Lin Yiran's retreating figure.
He had his own considerations. As the captain of the Flamingo mercenary squad, his intuition and his years of experience in judging people told him that although the girl in front of him looked unremarkable, she was definitely someone special, and might even be a hidden high-level mental power martial artist.
Putting everything else aside, just the aura she exudes is different from others; she definitely has some hidden trump card!
Out of a desire to cherish talent, he ignored what his teammates were saying and stepped forward to stop Lin Yiran, who was about to leave.
Lin Yiran looked up and met the other person's gaze: "Hmm? Is there something you need?"
Fu Xueyang: Hmm? Her eyes are really beautiful. I was stunned for a moment, and then I remembered the purpose of my visit. So I extended my hand and said in a gentlemanly manner, "Um, I am Fu Xueyang, the captain of the Flamingo Mercenary Team. I see you are alone, right?"
Lin Yiran looked up at him but didn't say anything, not knowing what he meant.
"I don't know if you'd be willing to join our team," Fu Xueyang explained, feeling a bit presumptuous.
"Although our Flamingo Squad is a Level 5 mercenary team, we are considered one of the stronger ones among Level 5 teams. Moreover, most of our team members are young people, so we have more in common to talk about. Therefore, I would like to ask if you would like to do missions with us. I think the Thunderwood Fruit mission you just chose is very suitable for the team to do together."
"Having multiple people in the unpredictable Forest of Hope can be a great help. You should consider it; it's extremely dangerous for a newcomer to do quests alone in the Forest of Hope..."
Lin Yiran lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then smiled slightly: "Thank you for choosing me, but I don't need it." After saying this, she turned around and walked out of the service center.
Fu Xueyang wanted to chase after him again, but Zou Jingjing suddenly reached out and grabbed him from behind.
"Captain, what are you doing? That person is a newbie, how can you let her join our team? What if she's just a pretty face with no substance? Our teammates won't agree to you recruiting her."
Upon hearing this, Fu Xueyang became somewhat impatient and was about to retort, "Are you the captain or am I the captain?"
Immediately afterward, Zou Jingjing's friend ignored the service window and rushed over from the other side.
He immediately said, "What? You want to recruit her into your team? No way, no way! This girl has no spiritual power, she's just an ordinary person, no, even less than an ordinary person! She'd be courting death if she went into the Forest of Hope, Captain Fu, you can't be so foolish!"
"What?" Zou Jingjing reacted the most upon hearing this, and then exclaimed, "See, Ayang, I told you this person is no good, she doesn't even have any spiritual power? And she still dared to trespass into the Forest of Hope, isn't she just asking for death? Ugh, bad luck, no, no, I feel like the air around us has been polluted by her, let's hurry up and go on a mission, I don't want to stay in this place any longer."
Then she took Fu Xueyang's hand and was about to leave.
As Fu Xueyang was being led away, he seemed lost in thought, sighing inwardly, "So that's how it is? What a pity!"
Lena and Zou Jingjing are good friends, and she was the one issuing identification documents to the newlyweds in the central hall, so what she said must be true. Besides, this girl did indeed have mercenary identification documents made by her, so there's no way she's wrong.
That's a real shame, Fu Xueyang thought.
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Lin Yiran ignored what they were thinking and was instead drawn to a weapon shop on the street with the words "Trade-in" written in large characters. She remembered the few broken knives she'd picked up from the junkyard were so badly worn they were practically useless for cutting vegetables. She figured she might as well trade them in for new ones. It wasn't expensive; she got a few basic samurai swords and bayonets, paying the difference in price for a total of 10,000 star coins.
They then continued walking outside.
She went into the combat uniform store on the corner, browsed around, and then immediately ran away in fright.
It's too expensive, Mom! It's really too expensive!
The cheapest combat suit inside costs her 100,000 Star Coins! That's 100,000 Star Coins!
Although the combat suit had the function of keeping warm, Lin Yiran, who was poor and destitute, still couldn't bear to buy it.
So I decisively slipped out the back door and headed straight for the Forest of Hope.
All missions accepted by mercenaries have no time limit, so once you accept a mission, it belongs to you unless you die. In other words, you can stay in the Forest of Hope as long as you want. The Mercenary Guild also thoughtfully provides a map.
Some plants in the Forest of Hope grow in clusters. For example, the Thunderwood Fruit and the Pine Camphor Tree grow in clusters in the central area of the Forest of Hope. Along the way, Lin was bored and had nothing to do, so he picked up some vegetables and put them into his Star Brain. He also picked up a wild roe deer, looking forward to when the system would open up the meat service.
Passing by a strawberry field, Lin Yiran picked several hundred kilograms of strawberries to take back with her. She ate them as she walked, and soon she had devoured three strawberries that were as big as her head, until her teeth ached from eating them.
Fortunately, they saw the vineyard again. After eating two more bunches of sweet grapes, they finally reached the designated location on the map.
Before them stood a Thunderwood Fruit Tree, over three zhang tall. Its trunk wasn't very thick, but it would still take a person with outstretched arms to encircle it. However, it bore about a hundred Thunderwood Fruits.
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