Chapter 2485: Chapter 2475: Fooled

Long Yan awkwardly glanced at Chu Meng beside him. Although Chu Lu looked outgoing, he was actually a fervent gossip enthusiast. After his shout in the morning, the other three now looked at Chu Meng and Long Yan with ambiguous gazes.

“Well…”

Long Yan felt inexplicably dry-mouthed, wanting to explain but didn’t know where to start. Although Long Yan was dense, the girl was leaning on his shoulder; how could he defend himself?

“Actually, Brother Yan and I are innocent…”

Chu Meng said this with a flushed little face, but there was no convincing power in those words.

Long Yan thought to himself that it was over; before Chu Meng uttered the words, they still kept a half-believing attitude. Now that Chu Meng said it, even if Long Yan jumped into the Yellow River, he couldn’t wash it away.

The gazes from the three became increasingly ambiguous, even Tian Luo Yi, who normally maintained a cold expression, had eyes filled with tenderness, making Long Yan’s scalp tingle.

At any time, these two simple and fun hobbies, watching a commotion and gossip, would not be forgotten.

“Tell me about our mission this time; stop fooling around.”

Long Yan said, and he wasn’t wrong. From the moment Chu Lu brought him into the Mercenary Group, he didn’t know what mission they would undertake. It turned out to be a Heavenly Level team task.

You must know that in this small town, it’s unusual to have Heavenly Level tasks. Generally, released Heavenly Level tasks are objects of contention for many. It seemed Chu Lu had gone to great lengths to secure this task.

“Oh, you’re talking about that.”

Chu Lu leisurely took out a yellowed piece of paper from his pocket, causing Long Yan’s heart to jump with a sudden sense of foreboding.

Sure enough, Long Yan covered his face and sighed.

It truly was fate’s arrangement; after going round and round, he was back here, and it hadn’t even been several days. He was back at this place, only to see written clearly on the paper:

Exterminate the temple.

Long Yan even with his little toe could think that the temple mentioned here was the sinister Evil Temple he had previously entered. Unexpectedly, just after being promoted to Earth-level Mercenary, he had to go back again.

“What’s wrong with this task?”

Chu Lu saw Long Yan sigh and asked.

“Where did you get this task from?”

Long Yan took a deep look at Chu Lu. According to that Tenglong before, this task should be quite renowned in the small town. He didn’t believe Chu Lu hadn’t heard of the temple’s name.

“It was bought from a Heavenly Level Mercenary. According to that Heavenly Level Mercenary, the task is very simple, and even a single-person mission, just a Human Level task. I think since it’s a Human Level task, the Demon Beast inside should be easy to deal with.”

Listening to Chu Lu talk, Long Yan’s face looked increasingly sullen, estimating that only this blockhead Chu Lu would believe the Heavenly Level Mercenary’s nonsense. If it was such a simple task, why wouldn’t the Heavenly Level Mercenary undertake it himself? You know these tasks offer significant resume value, especially when the reward is rich.

After all, written clearly below was the reward of 150 taels of gold. Knowing what the value of 100 taels of gold is in this small town? Just three taels of gold could open the largest Pub in the entire small town without difficulty.

“What’s the name of the person who sold you the task?”

“Zhou Tian, he’s a rather famous Heavenly Level Mercenary around here.”

Although Chu Lu was slow, he realized that he seemed to have accepted a difficult task. However, now Long Yan’s outstanding strength had evidently become the backbone of this team.

Upon hearing this, Long Yan roughly understood. Zhou Tian was likely the Heavenly Level Mercenary who brought Li Mu into the temple. He probably had some method to escape the Space, so he fled directly, leaving Li Mu and others in the temple. Task failure would deduct some money.

The cost was likely a number Zhou Tian couldn’t afford, so he found a fool like Chu Lu to transfer the task to.

Long Yan thought about it, then told the other four about the dangerous and weird occurrences he encountered inside the temple, although he didn’t describe them too in-depth, the four could sense the tension from Long Yan’s few words.

To know that Long Yan was regarded as a genuine Strong One by them, but he almost died inside the temple. In the end, he was forced to escape by the bald monk, now five-man team entering there wasn’t inviting death?

Upon hearing Long Yan finish, Chu Lu’s face turned green. He initially thought he hit a jackpot, but if he had thought carefully, he’d realize no pie falls from the sky, all blamed on his carelessness.

Others also looked dejected squatting on the ground. They started calculating how much money they had to help Chu Lu gather the cancellation fee.

Even though the calamity was caused by Chu Lu, their feelings didn’t allow them to turn their backs on him.

As for completing the task, it was just joking. Even without personal experience, they could sense the terrifying strength from Long Yan’s words; what could four little mercenaries do there?

But plans are always inferior to changes. When the four had emptied their pockets, they found they couldn’t even gather 2 taels of gold. According to the rules, if they abandoned the task, the mercenary must pay ten percent of the task reward as compensation, but not to mention 15 taels of gold, even adding Long Yan’s share couldn’t make up even a fraction of it.

“What shall we do?”

Chu Lu squatted dejectedly on the ground, nearly curling up entirely; a single penny could stall a hero, not to mention 10 taels of gold. Beside him, Zhu Ying hugged Chu Lu’s arm with heartache, quietly comforting him.

“No, it hasn’t come to that yet.”

Though Long Yan planned to return to the temple, he initially intended to prepare thoroughly before going back inside. But since they were already here, there was no sense in turning back.

“Brother Yan… you mean we should undertake this task, but the success rate?”

Chu Lu looked at Long Yan’s face blankly, asking in disbelief. Initially, it was Long Yan who said the temple was very dangerous, but now he says to undertake the task, Chu Lu was completely confused.

“No, not us, just me alone.”

Long Yan smiled at them, then without minding their shocked expressions, he spoke slowly.

“That’s right, I’m going to undertake this task alone. You can return to the town now. I’ll return, but if I don’t return, I’ll choose to perish with the temple. You would need to handle the task yourself then.”

Once Long Yan said this, everyone’s complexion changed.

“That’s impossible!”