Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

So, Jiang Ran temporarily put aside his goal of finding Viviana and instead set out for the mission union branch in Yanji City.

As soon as he entered the quest guild, Jiang Ran saw that the reward hunters had gathered in the hall where the commissions were issued. Everyone was standing on tiptoe wanting to see with their own eyes the commission issued by the Feiqi family.

Jiang Ran glanced around, cleverly moved from the shadow of a passerby to the shadow of a moth, and then flew over easily to take a closer look.

After reading the contents of the commission, although Jiang Ran was a professional, he couldn't help but laugh out loud in the shadow of the moth.

9.89 - The Commission of the Feiqi Family

Jiang Ran really didn't expect that his previous "meddling" for the sake of experience points would actually lead to such an unexpected reward.

Judging from the bounty amount of the commission, Jiang Ran judged that the Feiqi family attached great importance to the matter of the Southern Mine. However, one thing that surprised him was that the description of the monsters entrenched in the Southern Mine in the commission was more than one level lower in both strength and number than the monsters Jiang Ran actually defeated.

It’s okay that the flint black cannon worms and magnetic storm stone worms are not mentioned, and the number of granite monoliths is also small, but why is it that even the most crucial fifth-level "Fluorite Fairy Queen Laerte" is not mentioned?

Jiang Ran thought about it and felt that there were two possibilities:

Either the Feiqi family's investigative intelligence was wrong, or they deliberately lowered the difficulty for some purpose.

If it is the former, it is not impossible. After all, the "Fluorite Fairy Queen Laerte" hid so deeply and did not show up to fight until the last moment; and if it is the latter, Jiang Ran needs to pay attention.

In order to help himself make a judgment, Jiang Ran stayed in the task union for a while. He wanted to hear what the reward hunters here thought about this commission.

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In the quest guild hall, the reward hunters were discussing the matter, with many different opinions.

On this night that should have been filled with wine and sex, the fact that it attracted such a large number of reward hunters to come and watch was enough to show the influence of the commission from the Feiqi family.

After listening carefully for a while, Jiang Ran ignored those opinions that had no reference value and only retained the relatively objective views.

Regarding the commission, the consensus among most paid hunters is that two fourth-level monsters, whether it is a lava monolith or a diamond monolith, will require at least five fourth-level combat professionals to safely deal with them.

Adding these two fourth-level monsters together means that 10 fourth-level combat professionals are needed. If such a requirement is placed in a small town outside Yanji City, it would be an absolutely impossible commission to complete.

However, the monsters specified in this commission are not just two fourth-level stone statues, but also an unknown number of third-level granite stone statues and a large number of four-legged stone insects.

If these are added, then there must be at least 25 to 30 fourth-level combat professionals who can complete this commission. In addition, the front-line, middle-line, and back-line combat professionals must be properly matched and fully prepared.

With such exaggerated personnel requirements, it is unrealistic even for Yanji City to gather 25 fourth-level combat professionals at once. If an alternative plan is used, at least 10 fourth-level combat professionals plus 30 third-level combat professionals are needed, or more second-level combat professionals are used to make up for the shortage of high-level professionals.

As for the first-level combat professionals, they will not be brought into battle in this level of battle, because in front of powerful monsters, bringing first-level combat professionals to the battlefield is like bringing women and children to the battle, and there is a high probability that they will just be sent to die.

Listening to such discussions, Jiang Ran, the "god" who single-handedly defeated all the monsters in the southern mine, did not think they were exaggerating at all, nor did he think that these reward hunters were too weak. Instead, he had a deeper understanding of the combat capabilities and risk awareness of ordinary people in the Prison Star World.

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Unlike Jiang Ran who is always risking his life, most people in the Prison Star World, even combat professionals, just want to live the safest life possible.

Just ask yourself, who would want to go out during the day to work in a task union, and then lose their life and not even be able to return home?

Therefore, for the reward hunters, after accepting the commission, they do not go to fight monsters, but to hunt and subdue monsters.

The most basic definition of a hunting expedition is that the attacking humans are far superior to the monsters in strength. Otherwise, it is not humans hunting monsters, but monster hunters.

Based on this definition, the reward hunters' victory rate against monsters must reach at least 80% to 90% to be considered safe. Everyone knows that pursuing no damage is not realistic, but at least no one should be killed.

Even if an unexpected situation occurs and we are defeated by the monsters, we must ensure that everyone can retreat back to the town safely.

So, taking the combination mentioned above as an example, if the task union really formed 25 fourth-level combat professionals to fight against the monsters in the southern mine of the Feiqi family, even if "only" one combat professional died in the end, which is "only" 4% of the battle loss, it would still be a heavy casualty.

With this data as a reference, the question of why most people dare not challenge the White Trial with a mortality rate of "only" 20 to 30 percent is easily answered.

Challenging the advanced trial is an exclusive project for the brave among all the people of Prison Star.

In a country behind the front lines like the Kingdom of West, subjugating monsters that are one or two levels lower than themselves is the daily routine of most combat professionals.

They don't care whether they get experience points after defeating monsters, because what they need are the materials on the monsters that can be sold for money, or the rewards after completing the commission.

Compared to "becoming stronger", "living well" is their real desire.

However, this "cruel" reality only applies to ordinary people in the Prison Star World. The nobles in the big families have a different way of life. They can pursue "strength" more safely than ordinary people.

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For the nobles, the "Advancement Trial" is indeed dangerous, but this danger can be solved with the power of "money" and "knowledge".

As long as you have enough money, you can challenge the trial wearing the most suitable equipment for your current level;

As long as you have enough knowledge, you can conduct sufficient drills before challenging the trial to minimize unknown risk factors;

Therefore, for the children of the nobility, the advancement trials, at least the white advancement trials, are almost non-dangerous, so the strength of the nobles will far exceed that of ordinary people - after all, in most cases, even the weakest third-level maximum-level warrior is stronger than the second-level maximum-level combat professional.

When Jiang Ran parted ways with Viviana in Shadou Canyon, Viviana once reminded Jiang Ran, "Don't challenge the fifth-level difficulty trial under any circumstances" - what she said actually reflected the nobles' ignorance of the sufferings of the world.

If it were a person from the Prison Star with a little common sense, he would definitely remind Jiang Ran not to challenge trials other than the white one.

Only a noble like Viviana would think that the White Trial is safe and without problems.

Getting back to the point, after listening to a lot of conversations among the reward hunters, Jiang Ran could basically conclude that the intelligence personnel of the Feiqi family did not do their job well, resulting in the description in the commission being inconsistent with the facts.

Even so, the difficulty of this commission is not something that can be completed by the reward hunters in Yanji City alone. At least we need to unite with other surrounding towns to gather talents before we can set out to the southern mines to fight monsters.

An assembly of this scale would take at least three to five days, which gave Jiang Ran plenty of time to do some "things" first.

However, even if a fearless team took on the commission during this period, it would not have much impact on Jiang Ran.

After all, the magic cores of the strongest monsters are now in Jiang Ran's backpack.

9.90 - Night visit to the manor

(Okay, it’s almost time to move on to the next “item”.)

Jiang Ran, lurking in the shadow of a moth, silently left the Yanji City Mission Union Branch, and then flew to the core location of this big city: the Feiqi family's manor.

During the flight, a hungry owl descended from the sky and swallowed the small moth controlled by Jiang Ran into its stomach. This forced Jiang Ran to "reluctantly" change his "mount" from the small moth to an owl, and then flew into the Feiqi family's manor in a swagger.

Jiang Ran came here tonight with only one purpose, which was to secretly observe Viviana's situation and then decide what to do next.

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In the dark night, the pale moonlight shone into the martial arts training ground in the Feiqi family manor.

The moonlight filtered through the branches of the trees growing beside the martial arts training ground, casting countless fierce shadows on the sand. The eerie "cuckoo" calls of owls could be heard from the nearby woods from time to time, adding a chill to this early autumn night.

At this moment when most people were resting, there was still a girl in the training ground who was repeatedly waving the scarlet silver sword. This girl was Viviana Scarlet.

Viviana's swordsmanship is light yet sharp, and her every move is full of the elegant style of swordsmanship of a famous family. These are all the characteristics of the Feiqi family's Feiqi swordsmanship.

However, based on the Feiqiliu swordsmanship, Viviana has developed her own personal characteristics, which is the sharp murderous intent hidden in the elegance and splendor.

At first glance, Viviana was just dancing with a sword gracefully, but in fact, between her light dance steps, all of them were preparatory postures that could be immediately transformed into assassination moves.

The title of "Silver Young Bee Queen" must be closely related to her swordsmanship of the Scarlet Qi Style that is integrated with her personal style.

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At this moment, Jiang Ran was hiding in the shadow of the owl, watching Viviana's night sword practice in broad daylight.

Every time Jiang Ran saw a combat professional like Viviana who had received orthodox training, he would sigh that there was indeed a gap between his unconventional style and the orthodox one.

Whether it's the Feiqi style swordsmanship or other styles of swordsmanship, knife skills, or physical skills, these are not considered "skills", but they are "combat systems" that help improve personal strength and can indeed play a certain role in actual combat.

For example, if Jiang Ran were to fight an enemy who had practiced orthodox martial arts with equal attributes and without either of them using any skills, he would definitely not be able to defeat the opponent.

Fortunately, the existence of many influencing factors such as combat professional skills, equipment skills and inherent abilities gives Jiang Ran room to play in this Prison Star world.

However, if given the chance, Jiang Ran would also like to find a master to learn from. This way, at least his shadow clones would be more efficient in combat.

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Back to the topic, Jiang Ran came to visit the Feiqi family manor overnight, of course not specifically to watch Viviana practice sword.

He quickly found the right position and assessed Viviana's current condition.

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Viviana Scarlet, female, 16 years old

Identity: "Silver Queen Bee", the only son of God of the Scarlet Qi family

Production occupation: None

Manufacturing Occupation: Painter - Lv3

Combat Class: (Level 97) Demon Sword Lord - Lv

Abnormal state: (Level 3) Emotional reversal

Abnormal status remaining time: 4 days, 2 hours, 54 minutes and 21 seconds

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After the identification, Jiang Ran found two new pieces of information from Viviana.

One is that Viviana has advanced from level three to level four. The name of her level four combat profession is more domineering than the name of Jiang Ran's own level five combat profession.

But on the other hand, this is not a bad thing, because as far as Jiang Ran knows, not all combat professions can advance to the same level. When the advancement route reaches the last stage, combat professionals will be bounced back and unable to enter when entering the advancement trial.

Therefore, the "weaker" the name of a combat profession looks, the longer this combat profession route will last, which is actually a good thing.

Then came the second piece of information, which was within Jiang Ran's expectations.

Viviana was indeed in an abnormal state, which should be the fundamental reason why she killed Jiang Ran on September 9th.

Jiang Ran had previously seen this abnormal state of "emotional reversal" in Emilia. From this, it seemed likely that his previous speculation was correct:

——The masterminds who secretly instigated the girls to assassinate Jiang Ran all belong to the same force.

Earth Ghost, Sky Ghost, Snake Shadow Society, Stone Ghost Face, another traverser, the Evil God camp...

These originally scattered enemies, scattered forces, and scattered information have gradually been integrated together by Jiang Ran through reasoning and analysis following the recent events.

He gradually began to understand the identity of the "enemy" who had been trying to kill him since the first second he entered the Prison Star World.

The other party was so targeted and so despicable. Even though Jiang Ran did not have the ability to launch a head-on confrontation now, he would remember this grudge.

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After confirming the situation, Jiang Ran's next step was to quietly add purification potion into Viviana's food, and wait until her abnormal condition was resolved before making a formal visit.

So Jiang Ran continued to hide in the shadow of the owl, watching Viviana practice sword while waiting for her to return to her residence to rest.

Unexpectedly, after finishing practice, Viviana did not go back to her residence directly, but went to the bathhouse first.

As we all know, it is normal to take a shower after sweating after exercise, so Jiang Ran naturally let Owl follow Viviana to the bathhouse.

However, it would be abnormal if an owl flew into the bathhouse, so Jiang Ran waited outside the bathhouse, waiting for Viviana to come out of the bath.

(Stupid Loli: This is really unexpected. I thought you would find another fly or mosquito to follow you into the bathhouse.)

(Jiang Ran: Viviana won't run away, there's no need to watch her so closely.)

(Stupid Loli: Hehehe, are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? I understand the thoughts of adolescent boys very well~)

(Jiang Ran: Really? So you're already quite old, silly Loli?)

(Stupid Loli: Who is so-and-so and isn’t young?! I’m only sixteen!!!)

Of course, Jiang Ran would not believe the nonsense that the stupid loli was only sixteen years old. The reason why he provoked the stupid loli like this was mainly to try to find out some information about her.

Unfortunately, although the stupid loli reacted strongly, the information she leaked was of little value.

Is the stupid loli a friend or an enemy? What is her identity? Jiang Ran still needs to work hard to find clues.

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Half an hour later, Viviana came out of the bathhouse.

She already exuded an otherworldly aura, and now with a thin layer of mist surrounding her, she looked even more like an angel fallen to earth.

Jiang Ran drove the owl to follow Viviana all the way to the outside of her mansion, and then found Viviana's room according to the lights.

When the owl landed on the windowsill of Viviana's room, the timing could be described as bad, or perfect.

Because, Viviana had already taken off her armor and changed into pajamas - and this pajamas was a bit "bad" in every sense - it was a silk robe as thin as a cicada's wing, which made Viviana's curvy body delicately between being covered and not covered.

At this moment, Jiang Ran remembered a poem by Yang Wanli from the Song Dynasty in the Earth world, titled "Small Pond".

Jiang Ran had never understood the meaning of the line "The little lotus has just shown its pointed tip" in the poem.