Chapter 621: Trust Established
Chapter 621: Trust Established
In response to Li Nian's question, a man in plain clothes riding a tall horse came out from the head of the convoy standing in the distance, bowed and spoke loudly.
"We are indeed going from Gu Town to Liu Town. May I ask who the young lady is?"
Li Nian took a leisurely step forward and said, "Jinfu Escort Agency and Liuzhen Branch are here to pick up all of you brothers on the orders of our boss."
Li Nian bowed, then flipped his hand and took out a golden knife-shaped token.
Seeing the token, the commoner seemed relieved.
"So you're brothers from Liuzhen," the commoner said loudly, "but you've run too far."
"It just so happened that we just delivered an escort nearby," Li Nian said loudly again, "The road to Liu Town has been difficult to travel lately, and we happened to hear that brothers from the same escort company were delivering an order, so the boss sent us here to pick them up."
"That's great, thank you so much!"
The common man also bowed and reined in his horse to make way.
Li Nian turned around and showed a smug look to Fei Dao and Lin Yu.
"Well, I said it's OK!"
The three of them walked towards the direction of the convoy. Lin Yu lowered his voice and asked, "How did you figure out which escort company these people were from and where the token came from?"
"I can't tell," Li Nian said matter-of-factly, "I just stole the man's own token...it says 'Jinfu Escort' on it."
She spoke calmly, and Lin Yu nodded in admiration.
"Then you are quite impressive."
But Fei Dao seemed even more nervous. As they approached the convoy escorted by the Jinfu Escort Agency, Fei Dao didn't dare to say a word and looked extremely tense.
The three of them walked into the caravan, and the commoner also gave three horses to them.
It was obvious that this was not the first time for Li Nian and Fei Dao to ride a horse, and they climbed onto the horse's back easily.
Although this was Lin Yu's first experience, due to his strong physical fitness and coordination, Lin Yu did not reveal any flaws or clues.
After the three of them had mounted their horses, the commoner spoke again, "Even if you were just passing through, you've been a great help... Thank you so much, Chief Cai!"
Li Nian was about to answer when Lin Yu suddenly interrupted him very loudly.
"What the hell? What nonsense are you talking about?"
Lin Yu instantly took out the bone blade and protected himself: "Are you a demon in disguise?!"
Seeing Lin Yu's reaction, Li Nian quickly followed suit - although he didn't know why Lin Yu did this, in Li Nian's opinion...
"Zhu Ming must have her reasons for doing this, so I followed her!"
Li Nian then took out a knife and said cautiously: "Indeed, what's wrong with you?"
As for Fei Dao, although this guy is always suspicious, but when faced with this situation, he can clearly distinguish the priorities.
Seeing that both of his teammates showed hostility, he quickly took out his weapon, a folding stool, and protected it in front of him, pretending to be united against the enemy.
And the reason why Lin Yu did this was of course because...
Strike first!
Although Li Nian didn't notice it just now, based on his observation of micro-expressions, Lin Yu clearly felt that the leader of the escort team did not completely believe Li Nian's words.
Admittedly, Li Nian touched his token and returned it... But it was precisely because even Li Nian could get the "token" so easily. In other words, the credibility of this "token" was actually just that.
So, when that sentence just now sounded a bit like a conversation starter, a bit like deliberately bringing up the topic, Lin Yu immediately judged that...
The other party is testing you.
As for which part was testing, Lin Yu had no idea - he knew too little about the Prison Mountain Realm.
But as long as he knew that the other party was testing him, Lin Yu had a plan to deal with it.
All you have to do is turn the tables!
Sure enough, seeing Lin Yu's reaction, the other party felt relieved.
"My three brothers and sisters, I apologize for offending you just now. I am Yue Zhenqiao, the escort leader of the Jinfu Escort Agency, Guzhen Branch," the commoner said with a bow. "I am not a demon transformed."
"How to prove it?"
Lin Yu said coldly.
"Of course, it's because I know that the escort leader of Liu Town is not surnamed Cai, but Zhang Langzhi," Yue Zhenqiao said with a smile, "I was just testing you just now to be wary of the three of you being demons."
Seeing Yue Zhenqiao's sincere gaze this time, Lin Yu bowed again and said, "Excuse me, Chief Yue...it's just that things have been turbulent lately, so I can't help but be a little more vigilant."
"Yes, the Fire Hell is already full of chaos, and now there are reports of several powerful demons from the Sand Hell appearing in Jiudie Mountain near Liu Town," Yue Zhenqiao sighed. "Add to that the increasing rampant bandits, and we really have to be on guard and careful."
"So, your help is truly timely!"
As Yue Zhenqiao spoke, Lin Yu nodded and said, "Of course."
After this conversation, the three of them naturally joined half of the core circle of the escort team and continued on their journey with the convoy.
The target was naturally "Liuzhen" which was set at the beginning.
Fei Dao couldn't help but feel optimistic about Li Nian and Lin Yu showing their communication skills in turn, especially the part where Lin Yu finally saw through Yue Zhenqiao's test.
"It seems that the money is well spent!"
If we continue like this, considering that the "clearance condition" is simply to reach "Liu Town"...
Fei Dao felt that this "pass" was unexpectedly easy to achieve.
However, Fei Dao's rare optimism only lasted for a short while before Li Nian quickly reminded him of the cruelty of the [copy].
"Sure enough, my guess was right," Li Nian, who was mixed in with the team, quietly said to Lin Yu and Fei Dao, "This [copy] is indeed a confrontation copy!"
"We initially showed up at this junction so we could sneak into the escort team and use the escort team's identity to enter Liu Town."
"After all, if anyone in the wild could enter the town, all the human gathering places would have been destroyed long ago!"
"As for the remaining three players in our instance, I suspect they've already joined the Escort Robbery team."
Li Nian analyzed, and Lin Yu also understood what Li Nian meant.
"I see... What you mean is that although the passing condition is 'reaching Liu Town', before we get there, the threats we will encounter, besides the various chaos of this world itself, are also... other players who hijack the escort?"
Li Nian nodded.
"That's right. Since there are three people in the opposing camp, I'm afraid their strength and rank are similar to ours..."
"But don't worry, we already have a unique advantage now - we have established a very mature relationship of trust with the dart team."
"I don't believe those three players have reached the point of mutual trust with the bandit NPCs who hijacked the escort!"
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