Chapter 54: Commission
Chapter 54: Chapter 54: Commission
However, he knew that there was likely no immediate solution.
No, wait. Ye Yun quickly recalled the two brothers they had met not long ago, Xisuo and Simon.
The two of them hadn’t been willing to join, but could he perhaps get their help in finding people?
After all, their previous work was actually quite similar to that of Bounty Hunters.
They took on jobs from different towns and organizations, exchanging their services for payment to buy medicine.
’Since they’re willing to take jobs, can’t I commission them as well?’
The only problem was, he didn’t know where they were now. Ye Yun knew that the communication bracelets had a limited range.
Someone in the private chat room had tested it before. The device’s direct line-of-sight communication range was about 20 kilometers.
Beyond that distance, the communication bracelet couldn’t receive messages.
However, the sent messages wouldn’t disappear. Once two bracelets were back within 20 kilometers of each other, the message would be sent again.
Ye Yun immediately sent a request to Simon’s bracelet.
After finishing the work at hand, he went to his dorm to sleep.
Ye Yun had expected it would take a few days to get a reply, but as soon as he woke up, he discovered several unread messages on his communication bracelet.
He was delighted to see the sender was Simon. He hadn’t expected the two brothers to still be near the shelter instead of having left the area.
He hurriedly opened the message.
Simon:
[Hello, Mr. Ye. We have received your commission.]
[Actually, many people in the wasteland would be willing to join a shelter. After all, life inside a shelter is much better than outside.]
[It’s not hard to find powerful individuals either, but to be honest, it’s hard to read people in the wasteland. You never know if someone is a friend or a foe.]
[We’re loners ourselves and don’t know many people. Finding someone trustworthy will probably be difficult.]
Seeing this reply, Ye Yun wasn’t worried. Instead, a look of delight appeared on his face.
He wasn’t concerned about Simon’s misgivings at all. With the member system, he could monitor the loyalty of everyone in the shelter in real-time. If anyone showed any signs of trouble, he could strike first.
Ye Yun immediately sent a reply.
Ye Yun:
[It doesn’t matter if you’re not sure about their character. As long as they’re strong enough, that’s what counts. I have other means to see if someone has ill intentions, so you don’t need to worry about that.]
「Meanwhile, in an abandoned house.」
Simon looked up from the contents of his bracelet.
"Bro, what do you think this Ye Yun really means?"
"Shouldn’t unwavering loyalty be the main prerequisite for finding new members for a shelter?"
"If we just grab some stranger... what if we find a..."
Xisuo carefully turned two white sweet potato tubers roasting over the fire.
These white sweet potatoes were common in the wasteland. Because they were extremely drought-resistant, they could be cultivated in many places, and some even grew wild.
Xisuo shook his head gently.
"You’re asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?"
"Ye Yun probably has his own reasons. The shelter needs more strength to ensure its safety."
"As for the loyalty issue, since Ye Yun is bold enough to say that, he must be confident he can handle it."
"Their shelter survived from before the Great Cataclysm, after all. Who knows, a place like that might have high-tech stuff we can’t even comprehend."
"Our job is just to help him find suitable candidates. The rest isn’t our concern."
"Just agree to it. We need to go into the city anyway. We can see if there are any loners who want to join a shelter."
Simon nodded and immediately sent a message to Ye Yun.
「Back with Ye Yun」
Having received the brothers’ reply, Ye Yun nodded in satisfaction.
’Excellent. Looks like I made the right decision back then. One vial of anti-radiation medicine only costs about twenty-some White-grade components.’
’Two vials cost about 50 White-grade components in total, and in exchange, I got two relatively friendly NPCs. This trade was an absolute bargain.’
Seeing that No. 1 had been fully repaired and that Bena, after half a day’s rest, was full of vim and vigor again, Ye Yun assigned them another expedition.
[Assessment Type: Expedition]
[Assessing mission risk...]
[This is a 12-hour randomized exploration mission.]
[Assessment: Probability of obtaining White items: 46%. Green items: 50.85%. Blue items: 3.1%. Purple items: 0.005%. Risk Level: 0.09%]
Looking at the risk level, Ye Yun frowned slightly.
’What’s going on?’
If he remembered correctly, the risk level for an expedition just a day ago was 0.001%.
But now, only one day later, the risk had jumped from 0.001% to 0.09%???
’Isn’t that increase way too fast?’
In just one day, the risk had increased nearly ninety-fold?
A strange sense of familiarity washed over him. He quickly glanced at the time, and a flicker of understanding lit up in his mind.
The end of the second ten-day period was drawing closer.
If Ye Yun had been completely in the dark about the first danger, unable to guess what would happen, this time was different.
With the experience from the first time, plus the events of the last few days, he already had some theories about the second potential danger.
The first time was an attack by mutated cockroaches. The second would very likely be an attack by large mutated creatures.
His reasoning was that in the past two days alone, the exploration team had already encountered mutated creatures twice: once a mutated lizard, and the other time the mutated gray wolf from yesterday.
Furthermore, many people in both the public and private chat rooms had been mentioning large mutated creatures.
Ye Yun was very wary of this second danger.
So far, the shelter had clashed with large mutated creatures a total of two times.
He had clearly felt how powerful they were.
The first time, No. 1 and No. 2 hadn’t been upgraded yet, nor had they been equipped with better gear. Without Simon and Xisuo’s help, even if Bena and the others had spotted the creature in advance, they would have had no choice but to flee in disarray.
The second time, although the team had grown from three to four members, and No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 had all been upgraded and re-equipped, their combat power was far greater than before.
But if that mutated gray wolf hadn’t already been through a fight and sustained serious injuries, No. 1 wouldn’t have just ended up "severely damaged."
In Ye Yun’s view, given the circumstances of that battle, if the mutated gray wolf had been uninjured, the best possible outcome would have been all three bionic humans ending up wounded.
If their luck had been bad, he estimated they would have lost one or two of the bionic humans.
’If the second danger is on the same scale as the first, we’re in big trouble.’
With the shelter’s current combat strength, going all-out to deal with one large mutated creature shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
But if there were two of them, then even if the shelter managed to handle it, they would likely suffer a crippling blow.