This isn't a souls-like game at all.

"..."

Ye Yiyi's expression was slightly frozen.

"Do you know what this represents?" He pointed to the tombstone beside him.

"I know. It's a tombstone."

"you know……"

“But my dad isn’t in there.”

The child said seriously, "Only dead people live in tombstones, right? But my dad is not in it, so he is still alive."

"It's... impeccable logic."

"So, please take this to him."

The child felt in his pocket, took out a wooden sign hanging with a thin rope, and handed it to Ye Yiyi.

He reached out to take it, flipped it back and forth, and found a firebird carved on it with childish strokes.

Ye Yiyi recognized the pattern; it was the emblem of the Knight of the Fire Crown.

But no light screen popped up on the wooden sign, which meant that it was just an ordinary item.

"This is the reward for helping deliver the stuff... This is all I have."

The child said this with a hint of frustration, and handed over two more Firefly Flower silver coins.

Two silver coins was a huge sum of money for a child.

That's a good reward for giving something to a dead man...

Ye Yiyi was silent for a moment, and suddenly understood.

This kid probably knows everything, but he just won't accept it.

The hint of despair in his heart as he prayed betrayed him.

"If it's just a gift, it won't cost that much money." Ye Yiyi said, taking a silver coin from the child.

"The deposit plus the balance, payable in one lump sum. So, what are your father's characteristics? How do I find him?"

Seeing Ye Yiyi accept the money, the child immediately became excited.

"My father is a very powerful Knight of the Fire Crown. He wields a very large sword, which is his most precious possession. As long as you see that sword, you'll have found him!"

"A very big sword, I see."

Ye Yiyi nodded slightly, and just as he was about to stand up, he saw the child sticking out his little finger towards him.

"My father taught me that as a knight, you must fulfill your promises to others. You must find my father and give this to him!"

"Okay! I promise you, we'll meet here next time."

He also stretched out his little finger and made a pinky promise with the child.

He took Virgil away from the cemetery, and the child said he had something to say to his father, so he stayed there.

As he was leaving along the street, he saw a middle-aged Knight with a Fire Crown, not wearing a helmet, with an anxious look on his face, running towards the cemetery in a hurry.

Ye Yiyi looked at this scene and seemed to understand something. Then he left the city, and with the tax collector's expression of "as expected", he crossed the Aner River along the bridge and headed towards the Lupe Rainforest in the west.

It was not until noon that he rode Virgil to the outskirts of Lupe Rain Forest.

He looked up and saw smoke rising from behind the hills in the distance.

"These mercenaries are quite fast."

Then he looked at the rainforest beside him and frowned slightly.

In the tall and dense forest, the weeds alone are more than half a person's height.

“This road isn’t very friendly to Virgil, but since there’s an outpost here, it means there must be a cultivated path.

"No, why don't you go ask those mercenaries?"

He rode forward and soon arrived at the hill where the mercenaries were lighting a fire and cooking.

Seeing someone appear on horseback, the noisy mercenaries immediately stopped their noise and looked at him with unfriendly expressions.

"My friend, are you here to share a piece of the pie as well?"

A burly man came forward, weighing a hammer in his hand, and looked at him with raised eyebrows.

Ye Yiyi looked around silently, and suddenly thought of something.

"These mercenaries seem quite friendly."

Chapter 173 [Hymn of the Firefinch]

"My friend, are you here to share a piece of the pie as well?"

Facing the question from the hammer-and-spear burly man with raised eyebrows, Ye Yiyi gave a calm answer.

"What if it is?"

Upon hearing this, the mercenaries' faces showed even more ferocious smiles.

The burly mercenary hung his hammer and spear at his waist, a ferocious but sincere smile on his face.

"Of course you're welcome. Stone-Gold Earth Dragon is not someone you can easily deal with. One more person means a better chance of victory. Welcome, welcome."

Seeing this, Ye Yiyi realized that it was just as expected.

Although these mercenaries look big and strong with ferocious faces, none of them seem to be good people.

But his telepathic ability told him that except for a few individuals, no one among these mercenaries was hostile to him.

In other words, they just don't look like good guys.

"But there's one more person to share the money with..."

Suddenly, that minority of individuals suddenly opened their mouths and spoke.

Judging from the voice, the person speaking should be quite young.

"Well said! But life is more important than money!"

"You're just starting out as a freelance mercenary, right? If you want a share of the money so badly, why don't you join a mercenary group?"

"Silly! Guess why so many of us came out together?"

"Don't cry when you see Dilong later! You're just an idiot with only money on your mind!"

As soon as these words were spoken, scolding, contempt, and even insults rang out. The entire camp seemed to have turned into a vegetable market, and the noise made Ye Yiyi's ears itchy.

The young mercenary who was scolded aroused the public anger for some reason, and he did not dare to argue with the mercenaries. He shrank his head in shame.

"Still too young."

The Hammer and Spear mercenary shook his head helplessly, waved his hand to stop the noise, and pulled the young man up to persuade him again earnestly.

Although Ye Yiyi was a little far away, the mercenaries' voices were loud enough so she could hear them clearly.

Hammer Spear Mercenaries simply mean:

"Do you really think being a mercenary is like being an explorer? Let me tell you, our business is not like a mercenary group. We always take the easiest and safest job!

"Look at you, you probably haven't delivered many letters yet, have you?"

"If you really want to make money, why don't you become a mercenary?"

The young mercenary replied weakly, "Mercenaries have to fight, and people are likely to die."

"That's it!"

Only after the young man was convinced by his own training did the Hammer Spear mercenary come over with Ye Yiyi looking at him with a special regard and invite him to have dinner together.

"I'm not actually here for the Stone Gold Earth Dragon."

Ye Yiyi shook his head and rejected the invitation of the Hammer Spear Mercenary. "I plan to go to the Fire Crown Knight's outpost to investigate. I came here to ask for directions."

"Outpost?"

The Hammer Spear mercenary was stunned when he heard this and turned to look at his fellow mercenary who was frowning slightly.

"That place collapsed three years ago. It's not safe."

"I heard that place is cursed. Not only did all the Fire Crown Knights stationed there die, but they were also transformed into Skeleton Knights!"

"Don't be so sensational! If there really is a skeleton monster, why aren't there any monks from the monastery cleaning it up?"

"You think there aren't any? They're all dead!"

"what?!"

Listening to the mercenaries talking one after another, Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows slightly.

It seems that the curse of this place is rampant!

"My friend, don't be in such a hurry to leave. I see you've just arrived at Fort Lupe. Why don't you sit down and chat with me and gather some information? Besides, it's hard to go out on an empty stomach."

At the Hammer and Spear mercenaries' persistent invitation, Ye Yiyi was not in a hurry to leave, so he stayed for a while and prepared to chat with these experienced mercenaries.

To this end, he pretended to rummage through Virgil's bag and took out several pieces of silver swordfish.

Anyway, there are still four or five fish like this in his four-dimensional anus. They are large in size and have a lot of meat, so he can't eat them all. It's better to take them out and try to get close to them.

Among these mercenaries, there are also some who have traveled far and seen the world.

As soon as I saw the meat, I immediately recognized it as silver swordfish.

So they started talking about the time when they went fishing with other mercenaries, but three of them were killed by a single swordfish.

Ye Yiyi nodded when he heard this, saying that the swordfish was indeed very strong and it took him a lot of effort to knock it unconscious.

As soon as these words were spoken, the mercenaries looked at Ye Yiyi with something strange in their eyes.

But when they saw the giant two-handed sword as tall as a person on Ye Yiyi's back and the silver holy sword badge on his waist, everyone was no longer surprised.

Those who dare to use such large weapons as mercenaries are rarely weak.

They had also seen the assisting hunters from the Church of the Hunting God before, and they were all powerful people with real abilities.

Relying on the camouflage bonus of fish meat and degraded inscriptions, Ye Yiyi quickly became familiar with this group of mercenaries and successfully spread the name Gus.

"Brother Gus, you went to explore the outpost. Could it be that you accepted a mission from the Church of the Hunting God?" Brother Hammerspear asked curiously.

"Not really, I just accepted a commission to deliver something." Ye Yiyi shook his head.

"Commission?"

An older mercenary fell into deep thought and then asked:

"Could it be Fana's request?"

"Fana?"

Ye Yiyi then remembered that she had forgotten to ask the child's name.

Come to think of it, the two of them hadn't even introduced themselves to each other, and they had only met once, yet Ye Yiyi took on the other party's commission.

And the child really believed him.

The mercenary continued, "Do you remember that little girl who often came to the tavern? She was always taken back by the Fire Crown Knight Caister with a sullen face."

The mercenaries suddenly realized, "It turned out to be her."

When Ye Yiyi heard them talking about the little girl, she had a definite idea in her heart.

"Hey……"

Brother Hammerspear sighed.

"That child, Fana, is also a pitiful person. We all know his father, a very upright knight. Unfortunately, he died at the outpost three years ago...

"If Caister hadn't adopted her, she would have died somewhere by now, right?"

"Is that so?" Ye Yiyi thought thoughtfully.

"Anyway, the outpost is a very evil place, and several monks from the monastery have died.

"Brother Gus, you're going to explore alone, so be careful. If you run into... Hey! You're assisting the hunters, why do you need me to remind you? I'm being nosy."

After the meal, Ye Yiyi said goodbye to the mercenaries and headed towards the outpost in the direction they pointed.