Chapter 89: Reunion
The three of them looked in that direction and saw a dark area inside.
But Ryan, who had dark vision, could already see two tall black figures flashing by at the end of the alley. Each of them seemed to have a half-person-high, squirming bag on his back.
"That's Quinn's patrol area, Captain, shall we go take a look?" Matteo obviously found something wrong.
"There are two people, each carrying a big bag." Ryan said in a deep voice, and he had already associated something bad with them.
Willen and Matteo couldn't help but look at Ryan in surprise, as if to say, you can see this clearly?
"Let's go! Follow them." Willen thought for a moment and decided to catch up and see.
Led by 'Cookie', the three of them quickly caught up.
It seemed that they had discovered the dog and three people chasing after them. The two black shadows in front were obviously a little panicked. In a hurry, the two suddenly threw away the sacks they were carrying, and then fled at a faster speed.
Just as Ryan was about to catch up, suddenly, an orange signal firework flashed in the air, and the location was above the northwest corner of Ryan and his group.
"It's our signal for help."
"We have to go there immediately." Willen took a look and said to Ryan with a solemn expression.
"Boss, it's the children!" Matteo had already opened the two large bags thrown on the ground.
Each of them contained a gagged and bound child. When the two children saw the night watchman in black leather armor, they all struggled.
"Matteo, you stay and take care of the children."
"Ryan and I will go over there immediately, and you should be careful!" Willen immediately arranged the division of labor.
"Okay, boss! You go, I'll be careful." Matteo said as he untied the children.
Ryan turned his head and looked at the two traffickers who had disappeared from his sight, knowing that now was not the right time to chase them.
After all, rescuing colleagues was more important.
However, when Willen and Ryan arrived at the northwest corner of the town, they found that the crisis had been resolved.
The night watchmen in this area also encountered human traffickers, but this time the opponent seemed to be a little stronger. They actually broke through the encirclement of three night watchmen and left calmly.
In addition, one night watchman was stabbed in the right arm when he tried to stop the opponent.
Although the opponent had already escaped, Ryan always felt that something was wrong. The group of people who trafficked children recently was a little too rampant and too frequent!
This incident naturally made Hamilton, the sheriff of Shelter Gold Town, very angry, and he immediately strengthened the night manpower deployment of Shelter Gold Town.
However,
since that day, for three consecutive nights, Ryan's night patrol area was safe and sound.
It seems that the arrogance of human traffickers has been effectively curbed.
At the same time, Ryan gradually became familiar with the work content of the night watchman.
The night watchmen in Shelter Gold Town are mainly responsible for the town's night security, firefighting, handling wild animal attacks and warnings of major dangers, while during the day, this work is the responsibility of the security guards.
Since it is much safer during the day than at night, the combat effectiveness of the night watchmen is generally higher than that of the security guards.
Of course, the same is true for remuneration.
The monthly remuneration of ordinary night watchmen reached 8 imperial silver coins, while elites like Ryan reached 1 imperial gold coin.
At the same time, there will be 1-2 days of rest every week according to the captain's arrangement.
Not sleeping for a night is actually not tiring for Ryan, who practices breathing techniques.
As long as he goes back to sleep for a while, he will be energetic when he wakes up again.
The rest of the day is just right for doing other things, such as practicing breathing techniques in his room, going to John's farm to improve riding skills, or coming to the training ground to practice swordsmanship and archery, etc.
In addition, Ryan learned one thing from Captain Willen indirectly.
The Empire has strict restrictions on civilians learning breathing techniques and extraordinary swordsmanship, which can be seen from the need to exchange a large number of merit points.
But for the nobles, it is very "tolerant".
The nobles can teach breathing techniques and extraordinary swordsmanship to their followers!
It is not difficult to understand why so many civilians are trying their best to become servants or guards of the nobles.
This system has a long history and has been widely recognized by nobles at all levels.
On the other hand, it is extremely difficult for commoners to make it on their own.
Ryan briefly sorted out the things that commoners need to overcome to enter the supernatural.
First, you have to join the official organization of the empire, accumulate enough merit points day by day, and learn breathing techniques and supernatural combat skills.
Then, continue to accumulate merit points to exchange for "advanced potions". If you are lucky enough to successfully enter the supernatural, after being canonized by the empire, you can become the lowest level of nobles - non-hereditary knights.
The only pity these days is that Hamilton, as the sheriff of Shimmering Gold Town, is extremely busy at work.
Ryan had originally planned to ask him for swordsmanship and get some "experience points" by the way, but he didn't find the right time.
After three days, Ryan's fastest-progressing profession, the dog trainer who still spent a "big price", actually reached level 2 (223/300).
Part of this is because Ryan patrolled all night with "Cookie" and was identified as "walking the dog" by the system.
Ryan had calculated before that if he walked the dog for about fifteen minutes, the professional level experience of the dog trainer would increase by one point.
Therefore, if he walked the dog all night, the experience would increase rapidly.
The only thing that made Ryan a little unhappy was that as the night watchman of Shimmering Gold Town, there were relatively few masters.
In the training ground of the administrative office, if Ryan used the giant bear swordsmanship, there was basically no enemy that could stand up to him.
Therefore, when Ryan competed with other night watchmen, he used half-handed swords and imperial military swordsmanship, and then took time to practice archery.
After a few days, the harvest was not bad.
The professional level of the night watchman reached lv3 (247/500), and the imperial military swordsmanship and basic archery skills were improved even more, reaching lv2 (245/300) and lv2 (121/300).
Unknowingly, three days passed.
At dawn today, Ryan finished a night patrol. Not long after returning home, he received a notice from the guards that Lord Hamilton asked him to go over.
Ryan thought about it, took the two-handed sword wrapped in sheepskin, wore the black leather armor of the night watchman, and came to the town administration office.
In the office, Hamilton handed a sheepskin file to Ryan.
"We have to go there in person for this mission."
Ryan took the file and flipped through it skillfully. First, there was the mission description. Several miners were missing in the Elim Mine. The three bounty hunters who went to investigate have not been heard from since.
Until yesterday, the number of missing miners exceeded ten. Now all the miners in the Elim Mine are in a panic. No miner dares to go down to work anymore. The mine is forced to close.
"Huh! Elim Mine? It seems that I heard about the accident before."
"I didn't expect it has not been solved yet."
"The current situation is obviously more serious!"
Ryan immediately remembered that he had heard about the Elim Mine in Hamilton before.
Ryan continued to flip through the case files. At the end of the file, there was only one sentence about the mission requirements: Investigate what happened in the Elim Mine?
"Is this an investigation mission?" Ryan looked at Hamilton in surprise.
Normally, if it was just an investigation mission, the official forces of the Empire would not intervene. Most of them would offer rewards and let bounty hunters complete it.
But this time it was different. Hamilton, the sheriff of Shimmering Gold Town, was sent out directly. Ryan vaguely felt the importance of the Elim Gold Mine.
Hamilton's next words confirmed Ryan's guess.
"Although the output of the Elim Mine has been declining year by year, its importance is still very important to Mayster County. The superiors asked me to find out what happened in the Elim Mine as soon as possible?"
"In addition, although this is just an investigation mission, it is very likely that a mysterious incident occurred in the mine." Hamilton's face was solemn.
"Mysterious incident?" Ryan chewed on these four words.
"That's right! Three bounty hunters have disappeared. This situation can be considered a mysterious incident. In other words, there may be monsters or some supernatural things in the mine."
"Sir, if it is a monster, why don't you offer a reward to monster hunters? Of course, I'm just curious, not afraid." Ryan asked.
After all, Hamilton told him that if he wanted to buy violent bear meat, he could find a monster hunter in the county city to buy it.
"Because one of the bounty hunters, Nedved, is also an experienced monster hunter. His disappearance has caused no monster hunter in the county city to dare to accept this task."
After listening to Hamilton's story, Ryan nodded.
The disappearance of three bounty hunters, one of whom is an experienced monster hunter, still gave him a bad feeling.
"Sir Hamilton, what do you think happened in the mine?" Ryan couldn't help asking. After all, Hamilton was knowledgeable and should have some judgment on what might happen.
Hamilton pondered for a moment and said, "I initially speculated whether there were dog-headed men in the Elim Mine, but dog-headed men are not very strong in combat and usually come in large numbers. But so far, there has been no news that anyone has seen any traces of dog-headed men."
"In addition, the three experienced bounty hunters are missing, which means that there is a high probability that there are no dog-headed men in the mine."
"So, I guess there should be some kind of monster that is good at lurking and attacking in the mine."
"For example, stinging scorpions are very good at lurking and attacking. At the same time, stinging scorpions also like the deep and humid environment of mines. If they hit miners or bounty hunters during the attack, they will directly complete the fatal blow silently." "They
didn't even have time to scream."
"Of course, there may be other monster groups that are good at ambushing, such as cavemen, etc. It's hard to say now."
Hearing Hamilton's well-reasoned analysis, Ryan nodded and put down a lot of his worries.
With his experienced boss leading the team, there shouldn't be much of a safety problem.
"Ryan, aren't you planning to earn more merit points to exchange for advanced potions?"
"This may be a good opportunity. Generally speaking, for tasks like this kind of mysterious event, the merit points are three to five times that of ordinary tasks, or even higher."
"In addition, if the monster is easier to deal with, we can directly deal with the monster. In that case, we can get more merit points." Hamilton said to Ryan with a smile.
Ryan raised his eyebrows and laughed.
In fact, if Hamilton didn't call him, if he knew that the reward for this task was so generous, he would have asked to join.
Ryan knew very well that he didn't need to wait for another half a year to accumulate as Hamilton said before becoming a knight.
If everything goes well, in about one or two months, he will be able to meet the other promotion conditions in the knight's job transfer, except for the 'advanced potion'.
So Ryan is currently in urgent need of merit points to exchange for the 'advanced potion'.
Although the task in front of him is somewhat dangerous, with Hamilton, the official knight, leading the team personally, the danger should be relatively controllable.
Ryan thought that if he was careful, there shouldn't be any big problems.
"That would be the best. By the way, sir, when are we leaving?"
"We'll leave when everyone is here. The county town has also sent people over this time. When they arrive, we'll leave together."
"In addition, I asked Willen and the others to prepare some antidotes, ropes, fishing nets and other things."
"Ryan, if you have anything to prepare, you still have time to prepare it now."
"Okay, sir." Hearing that there were people coming from the county town, Ryan nodded.
In fact, Ryan had brought most of the things he needed with him.
However, Ryan considered that he would go to search in the mine, so it might be a good choice to bring Cookie with him.
Because dogs' sense of smell and hearing are much more sensitive than humans.
So Ryan went back home again and brought Cookie with him.
When he returned to the door of the town administration hall again, he found a group of people at the door. Hamilton also walked out of it and walked towards the group of people.
"Lord Hamilton, long time no see!" A middle-aged man with a mustache and dressed in a decent hunting suit bowed slightly to Hamilton.
Ryan could vaguely feel that the other party was quite powerful. Although he was not a formal knight, he was obviously a knight's squire.
"Hello, Steward Schmidt." Hamilton nodded with a smile.
"Lord Hamilton, Lord Viscount Hamady originally wanted to come in person, but the Viscount was busy, so he entrusted me to come and check the situation of the Elim Gold Mine."
"Earl Habsburg and Viscount Hamady are both very concerned about what happened in the gold mine." The middle-aged man named Schmidt said with a smile.
"This time, in addition to inviting the knowledgeable bard, Lord Endri, to accompany us."
"I have specially recruited three experienced bounty hunters in the county town."
The butler named Schmidt extended his hand and introduced an old man with a goatee who was wearing a gray hood, holding a wooden stick and wearing a gray robe.
The old man took off the hood on his head and bowed slightly to Hamilton and said, "Lord Hamilton, it's an honor to meet you."
"Hello, Lord Endry." Hamilton also smiled and nodded in response.
When Ryan heard that the other party was introduced as a knowledgeable bard, he couldn't help but look at him with interest.
"I wonder if the other party recognizes the unknown words in my "Beast Taming Diary."
"Unfortunately, my identity, timing, etc. are not suitable now."
At this time, Schmidt pointed to the three people wearing gray leather armor and said, "These three are experienced bounty hunters."
"Lord Hamilton, Farrugia, Serin, and Asimu are at your service." The three strong bounty hunters stepped forward and bowed slightly to Hamilton.
"Welcome!" Hamilton nodded slightly.
Although he was the leader this time, he knew that the Night's Watch was better at cooperative combat, and experienced bounty hunters were better at exploration and searching.
At this time, Hamilton saw that Ryan had also arrived and nodded slightly.
"Since everyone is here, shall we set off now?"
"Of course, we'll set off early and complete the exploration mission early." Schmidt smiled and nodded in agreement.
So, the twelve elite Night's Watch, including the five people from Schmidt's side, rode on horses and quickly headed towards the Elim Gold Mine located southwest of the town of Shining Gold.
(End of this chapter)
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