About an hour later, when Yang Rui came out of the County Commandant's Mansion, there were five additional mission scrolls in his backpack. They were the five mission scrolls about the humanoid NPC strongholds that Yang Rui had always wanted! Apart from that, there was also a sealed scroll in a square box!
Yang Rui had no idea what kind of mission the scroll in the square box contained. Liu County Lieutenant had repeatedly told him that he could only open the square box and complete the mission within after completing all the tasks that he had entrusted him with.
While Yang Rui was satisfied, he also deeply understood that the tasks that Liu County Lieutenant had entrusted him with were not ordinary! At that time, after careful consideration, County Lieutenant Liu finally said something and told Yang Rui a lot of things. Of course, he also fulfilled his promise and provided Yang Rui with a way to suppress the bandits. He gave him all five bandit suppression missions!
For this, the price that Yang Rui had to pay was to gather 5,000 gold for Liu County Lieutenant within half a year!
Based on the current income level of Mountain Town, the daily production of sweet potatoes could bring in tens of gold. Naturally, it was not difficult to pay this sum of money! Moreover, the price of food would continue to rise. According to the contract between Mountain Town and A pint of incense, this income would continue to increase! This did not even include the income from the high-grade wine brewing!
However, if he had to spend 5,000 gold just to accept these five missions, it would seem that the price was a little too high!
The reason why Yang Rui had readily agreed to this condition was because Yang Rui was determined to obtain these five humanoid NPC strongholds. This was very important to increasing Yang Rui's military strength. On the other hand, Liu County Lieutenant had given an additional promise that Yang Rui could not refuse!
Of course, this promise that Liu County Lieutenant had given was on the basis that Yang Rui could complete all the tasks that he had entrusted him with. The success rate was only 50%, so it was still too early to talk about this promise!
After Yang Rui left the County Commandant's Mansion and arrived at A pint of incense, the first thing he did was to open the five mission scrolls one by one and check the specific locations of the humanoid NPC strongholds in detail!
"Wenshui Wenyang Bandit Elimination Mission Scroll! Surrounding Map: … "
"Ao Lai Mountain Bandit Elimination Mission Scroll! Surrounding Map: … "
"Ma Village Mountain Bandits Elimination Mission Scroll! Surrounding Map: … "
"Gaoqiao Town Bandit Elimination Mission Scroll! Surrounding Map: … "
"Jiangji Town Bandit Elimination Mission Scroll! Surrounding Map: … "
The five mission scrolls were related to five humanoid NPC strongholds. Among them, the Ao Lai Mountain Bandit Camp had already been blocked by Yang Rui at the checkpoint and had become his personal property! The other stronghold of the Wenshui Wenyang Bandit Elimination Mission was something that Yang Rui had memorized when he accepted the mission previously. However, he was not sure of its specific location.
Now that the mission scroll had provided a detailed map, Yang Rui realized that the stronghold of the Wenshui Bandits was located upstream of the Wenshui. It was not too far away from his Mountain Town! It was even closer than the distance between Mountain Town and Juping County! However, the county town was located almost to the south and west of Mountain Town while the Wenyang Bandit Elimination Mission Scroll was located to the south and west of Mountain Town.
The other three strongholds were located to the southeast of Juping County and were quite a distance away from Yang Rui's current territory. However, it was not impossible to reach them!
For the next three days in the game, Yang Rui followed the coordinates given on the mission scroll map and headed to Ma Zhuang Forest Strongman Camp, Gaoqiao Town Bandit Camp, and Jiang Ji's Wutun Bandit Camp to check out the three strongholds.
To be honest, if it were not for the coordinates given on the mission scroll, Yang Rui would not have been able to find these three strongholds! Their locations were really well hidden!
The Mazhuang Mountain Bandit Camp was located in the middle of a few valleys. There was only one way to enter and exit the camp. Normally, very few people would pass through this place. Moreover, the location of the camp was quite a distance away from the main road and was separated by a small lake.
The Gaoqiao Town Bandit Camp was a small town market where the bandits gathered. The strongholds were scattered around the small town market and the residential area. There were a total of three strongholds that were more concentrated and more than ten meeting points. It was impossible to find them without the map!
As for the Jiangji Town Bandit Camp, it was a small town. Normally, they would engage in labor and construction like normal NPCs. However, on the night of the first and fifteenth day of every year, they would hide their identities and go out to rob! If it were not for the description on the mission scroll, it would be very difficult for ordinary people to find out what was going on!
It was worth mentioning that these three humanoid NPC strongholds were very vigilant. The number of patrols was not small. Yang Rui was almost caught in two of them. It was only by luck that he was able to avoid the sight of the patrolling minions. However, because of this, Yang Rui was unable to go deeper and understand the strength of the NPCs in these three strongholds!
After checking out the three humanoid NPC strongholds, Yang Rui was slightly relieved. These three strongholds were either very well hidden or hard to detect. They should not be discovered by other players or game organizations for a short period of time.
As there was nothing special happening in the territory for a short period of time, and the "Territory Versus Competition" event in the Activity Column had temporarily become grayed out after the system update, Yang Rui was almost a free man. After spending three days checking out the strongholds, Yang Rui stayed in the county town for another two days. He paid a visit to A pint of incense and spent dozens of gold to buy nearly a hundred building upgrade blueprints that he urgently needed. Only then did he leisurely rush back to Mountain Town!
On the way back to the territory, Yang Rui naturally did not forget to check out the Wenshui Wenyang Bandit Camp. Just as Yang Rui expected, the location of the bandit camp was very well hidden. It was located in a deep bay at the bend of the Wenshui River. The bay was surrounded by swamps and shallow grass. It was very difficult for people to reach this place!
After spending another half a day, Yang Rui finally rushed back to Mountain Town. This was because the Wenshui Bandit Camp did not have many roads. Otherwise, it would have taken him another whole day!
This trip took him six to seven days. After Yang Rui returned to Mountain Town, he only slightly participated in the administrative matters. After that, he started to focus on cultivating the basic Inner Strength skills and increasing the military strength of the territory!
After the storyline had progressed, it was already the early spring of Guanghe Year 6 (183), which was the year before the Yellow Turban Uprising! Following that, the large-scale storyline would explode one after another. Yang Rui deeply felt that his own strength and the territory's strength were insufficient. He urgently needed to increase his strength!
The total number of soldiers in Mountain Town's territory was only around 400. It was very difficult for them to deal with large-scale missions, events or storylines. Especially with the large-scale storyline of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Juping County would be at the center of the storm. Currently, the strength of Mountain Town was already very difficult for them to protect themselves, not to mention do anything!
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