Chapter 210
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Old Fulin put away the contract as he watched Charles leave. Dudian helped him to go upstairs to the study room. He put the contract into the drawer and looked at Dudian: "We have collected enough money to rent the passage outside the giant wall. How are you doing? When are you going to go outside the giant wall?"
Dudian thought for a moment: "In a few days."
"Well, you get ready. Today I will go to the Holy Church and choose the nearest passage to our family." Old Fulin nodded and deeply looked at him: "You have to think about it clearly. Once you rent the passage, the 100,000 gold coins will be gone."
Dudian faintly smiled: "What? Are you reluctant to part with it?"
"Of course not." Old Fulin smiled and looked into his eyes: "I don't know if it's right or wrong to bet all the money on you. I hope I'm not wrong about you."
"Even if I'm wrong, you have no choice." Dudian said.
Old Fulin sighed and didn't say anything.
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Now that he had enough money to rent the passage outside the giant wall, Dean began to prepare his own equipment. His bow and arrows were enough for an intermediate knight. Hunter's protective armor was sold in the 'Temple of Elements'. It was ten gold coins for a primary hunter and a hundred gold coins for an intermediate hunter. It was a basic standard armor. It was black like gel and had a slight radiation resistance effect.
"I have a bow and a foldable bag to store materials. I need to buy a set of senior hunter's armor which is worth one thousand gold coins. The rest is the equipment to hunt monsters. I can carry twenty kilograms of gunpowder. Well, it's a bit weak to rely on gunpowder alone. The explosion will be too loud and will attract other monsters. I have to rely on the bow and arrows. Well, I have to make two bundles of fine iron arrows."
Dean rode to a blacksmith's shop in Yard town. He wrote down the number of arrows and materials he needed on an order form and paid the deposit.
Noon.
Old Fulin's carriage came back.
Dudian smelled his scent and rushed to the hall. He was about to ask when he noticed Old Fulin's ugly face: "What happened? Did the price increase?"
Old Fulin looked at him with a complex expression. He slowly shook his head and went back to the hall: "Let's go upstairs and talk."
Dudian immediately helped him to go upstairs to the study room.
Old Fulin looked back at Dudian and sighed: "The rental price hasn't changed. I've asked and found out that the Holy Church has opened a total of eighteen passages to the outside of the giant wall! The other six consortiums and the military have one or two. Some of them have rented three passages. Now only the last three passages haven't been rented. "
Dean was surprised. He didn't expect that there were so few passages to the outside of the giant wall.: "Aren't there three? Are they not willing to rent them out?"
Old Fulin smiled: "It's not that they don't want to rent them, but no one wants to rent them! The three passages are abandoned. One leads to a place where there is a lake. According to the Holy Church, the lake is full of ferocious monsters. Some of them are amphibious monsters. They usually lie in a small open space outside the passage to bask in the sun. They are likely to be attacked by monsters as soon as they go out. So no one wants to rent them. "
Dudian suddenly understood. Indeed, the hunters had no way to deal with the underwater monsters. Even if they tried to poison the lake it would be difficult. The first reason was that the lake was too large and it was difficult to find such a strong poison. The second reason was that the monsters had mutated characteristics. Poisoning slowly would lead to the monsters mutating again. Moreover, there were some powerful poisonous monsters that ate poison as food. They weren't afraid of poison at all. In the old days, ordinary animals such as toads and lizards weren't afraid of poison.
"The second passage is a wasteland. There is a high mountain outside the passage. Behind the passage is a plain. There are few monsters living there. Moreover, most of the monsters living on the plain are poisonous. It is extremely troublesome to hunt them down. Therefore, no consortiums are willing to rent them. After all, it costs 100,000 gold coins a year to rent such a passage." Old Fulin sighed: "As for the third passage, no one has chosen it. According to the Holy Church, this passage has already been sealed."
"Sealed? Why? "Dudian was puzzled.
Old Fulin smiled: "This passage is the same as the others. There are ruins outside. However, it is said that the monsters inside are extremely terrifying existences. They are comparable to other consortiums in area zero. Only a whole team of senior hunters can go inside to hunt. Otherwise, a single senior hunter would be in danger of dying!"
"More than ten years ago, this passage was rented by Huasheng consortium. They sent three senior hunters and two intermediate hunters to go inside to hunt. However, they didn't expect that they would come back in just a few days. But only one senior hunter came back. It is said that he risked his life to escape. His body was seriously injured. Later on, he became an intermediate hunter in Huasheng consortium. After a few years, he transferred to the hunter school to teach. He no longer went outside the giant wall."
"This incident alarmed the various consortiums. From then on, no other consortiums rented the passageway. Not long after that person returned, the Huasheng consortium canceled their lease of the passageway. After all these years, the Huasheng consortium's economy has fallen behind a lot. From being one of the top three consortiums, it's now at the bottom of the list. Sigh!"
Old Fulin couldn't help but sigh as he talked about the past.
Dean's face slightly changed. There were three senior hunters and two intermediate hunters in the team, but only one of them managed to escape? The monsters on the other side of the tunnel were a little too terrifying.
"Do we have to rent the passage outside the giant wall? We can use the money to make a living. We can slowly accumulate it." Old Fulin looked at Dudian.
Dudian didn't seem to hear Old Fulin's words. After a moment, he gritted his teeth and said: "We will rent the third passage."
Old Fulin's eyes widened: "You, what did you say?"
"We will rent the third passage!" Dudian clenched his fists. His eyes were firm as he repeated.
Old Fulin suspected that he didn't hear wrong. He couldn't help but shout: "Didn't you hear what I said? Do you think that I am deceiving you?"
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