The Death List Novel - Chapter 360

Chapter 360 Elven Caravan
The caravan was not an army, and it was impossible to travel without a single woman. Moreover, since the Broken Star Sky had chosen this merchant caravan as the target of the apostles’ possession, it meant that there were at least three women in the caravan.

“Stark, it looks like they’ve been kidnapped by bandits. Perhaps the other party is a group of human traffickers and thieves.” Philip rubbed his hands, looking a little excited, which surprised Qin Lun.

In fact, since Qin Lun had not joined a mature apostle team, he was not very familiar with the most common task flow of the apostle team. In the eyes of the youth, Stark and the others neglected to investigate the behavior of the campsite, but Stark and the others were more accustomed to facing the mission itself.

The reason is simple. This is because their attitudes towards the mission world are very different.

The apostles of the fortress guild, especially the Second Grade apostles, had experienced no less than twenty or thirty mission worlds. To them, there were simply too many storylines in the mission world. Focusing on the most obvious and crucial starry sky prompt would help them trigger the main storyline as soon as possible.

The disappearance of the three female apostles was clearly the best reminder they could get from the shattered starry sky. As long as they could find that group of thieves, they might be able to directly face the key clues of the main plot. In contrast, the rest of the camp’s doubts weren’t that important.

Did the other apostles in the fortress discover any other clues about the campsite? There may or may not be, or based on the current team differences, they will only tell Stark and Philip to increase the chances of their respective stakeholders competing for team leadership, rather than sharing information.

Perhaps they had discovered some suspicions, but they did not feel that they were more important than the disappearance of the three female apostles, so they did not speak immediately to avoid interfering with the judgment of the two leaders.

However, Qin Lun was different. He didn’t have that much selfishness towards the fortress team. From the looks of it, he hoped that the fortress would obtain tremendous benefits in this mission world, so that he could obtain a good evaluation safely, so that he could obtain the approval of the Sky Floating Team.

Of course, this was not the biggest difference between Qin Lun and the fortress team in their view of the campsite incident. Their biggest difference was their attitude towards the mission world. The apostles of the fortress team regarded the mission as a life-related matter, trembling with fear, while Qin Lun regarded the mission as an adventure.

The fortress guild’s execution of foreign missions had already formed a set of customary procedures, which was also the purpose of most small guilds of apostles. One is to ignore the branch plot at the end of the branch, follow the hints of the Broken Star Sky and go straight to the main line. After completing the main line, consider the branch plot.

Second, the entire team only obeyed one voice. Other than the Guild Leader, the others did not pretend to be smart. The apostle team is not many people, you give one opinion, I give another opinion, how to do the task.

The purpose of this small group of apostles has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that they could unite as one. In most cases, they could complete the main storyline of the mission world according to the starry sky prompt.

The drawbacks are that the storyline of the mission world is not excavated enough, the efficiency of obtaining mission rewards is not high, and the low-level members of the team are easily dependent on the high-level members, which will wear away their autonomous thinking over time. Once they encountered high-freedom missions such as team advancement and large-scale team battles, these small teams would die.

In fact, this was also the main purpose of the guidance given to the apostles by the Broken Universe. It required the apostles to improve the completion of the main plot in order to develop the mission world and plunder its origin. If the apostles ignore its guidance and want to dig deeper into better and more historical stories, that’s fine. You have to explore on your own, just like Qin Lun did.

However, not everyone had Qin Lun’s intelligence. If they treated the quest world like an adventure trip, how low would their quest completion rate be? Sending an apostle into the quest world would also require a lot of resources and could not be wasted at will.

After the apostles reached a certain bottleneck in their strength, the starry sky would naturally choose the smartest and most powerful of them to carry out the high-difficulty mission through a Gu Raising Style battle. In other words, the Broken Universe wanted to have a smart tool like Qin Lun, but it didn’t need all the apostles to follow his example, because ordinary people couldn’t learn it.

“The guild channel can’t reach them. Could it be that the starry sky has sent the guild to two locations more than ten kilometers away?” Stark was silent for a moment before he suddenly said with an ugly expression.

The regular apostle guild channel communicates over a ten-meter distance, which is one of the apostles’ conveniences in the mission world. Most of the time, the apostles can play a role far beyond the storyline characters, this secret way of information exchange is also an important reason.

‘”Not necessarily. I can feel that the magical elements in this mission world are very active. I’m afraid it will affect the communication between the guilds. As long as it’s over three kilometers, I’m afraid we won’t be able to contact them!” Philip closed his eyes, and after a moment of silence, said with a frown.

“En, Longer, go check the surroundings of the camp. Since the attackers have taken away a large amount of goods and women from the caravan, they will definitely leave some traces of leaving.” Stark waved his hand at one of the apostles in the team. This Loner was a member of the guild that Philip had mistaken for Qin Lun. He was an elven thief.

Qin Lun couldn’t help but frown as he watched the elven thief disappear into the bushes around the camp. Stark and Philip’s adventure experience, such as the effect of magic elements on team communications, gave him a lot of benefits.

However, the two of them were too well-behaved, and they lacked imagination and deductive reasoning, which made him a little disappointed. At the very least, from his observation of the campsite, he had basically figured out all the clues hidden in the campsite.

Although as long as they could find the attackers of the camp, the fortress team would definitely be able to deepen their understanding of the main mission and better execute the main storyline. However, this is not the main point, and at this stage, it will affect the efficiency of the guidance task.

The reason was very simple. Since the guild channel could not be contacted now, it would take two to three days for the fortress guild to find and deal with the attackers. Adding on the time it took to return, it would take three to five days. Although the Jondar Elves’ Demon Cup Royal Court could still be found in the next few days, it would definitely not be the simplest method.

With the usual urinary nature of the shattered starry sky, they might miss out on some historical storylines, and their mission choices would be much narrower. It is consistent with the starry sky principle that ordinary apostles perform large-scale missions and elite apostles perform high-yield missions.

Not to mention that the fortress guild didn’t feel anything, even if they knew, they would only lament their bad luck and wouldn’t even notice that this was intentionally arranged by the Broken Star System. Moreover, giving multiple guides would help ordinary apostles to deepen their understanding of the storyline mission and help them complete the main storyline.

According to Qin Lun’s original intentions, he would be happy to just watch from the sidelines at this moment and see what would happen to these people. However, if the fortress team performed better in this mission world, it might affect Tian Fu’s evaluation of him, so he hesitated a little now.

“Qin Lun, you can say anything you want!” Stark keenly noticed Qin Lun’s hesitant expression. His eyes lit up and he encouraged him.

Although Stark and Philip were both Second Grade, Stark had always led a black iron team independently and paid more attention to the performance of the other team members.

Moreover, Qin Lun was a rookie who had been stuffed into the fortress guild. In Stark’s eyes, any beginner apostle who could enter the field of vision of a large guild should be outstanding, so there was nothing he wanted to hear.

‘”Commander Stark, I have rarely followed the team. I basically carry out missions alone. There are some things I don’t understand that I would like to ask for advice on!” Qin Lun smiled friendly at the crowd and tried his best to use a guiding tone. “How difficult will the Silver Team’s corporal-level mission be?”

‘”I thought it was some kind of problem” A few mocking voices came from the crowd.

“A Scholar-level mission has nothing to do with a guild or not. The basic difficulty is about the same!” Stark and Philip were slightly stunned. Philip immediately explained with a smile, but Stark frowned thoughtfully, as if he could hear Qin Lun’s hidden meaning.

Their guidance mission, the Demon Cup Royal Court, was a corporal-level mission!

“So that’s how it is, then the guidance mission of the Demon Cup Royal Court can be easily completed even by the next person!” Qin Lun didn’t seem to have heard the mocking whispers at all. He smiled and muttered to himself.

As soon as he finished his sentence, the soft discussion around him immediately disappeared. They were not idiots, and they followed the rules. At this time, they knew that the rookie apostle was pointing at something else.

“Qin Lun, if you want to say something, just say it!” Philip raised his eyebrows and said in a low voice, somewhat displeased.

“My lords, haven’t you noticed that the characters we possess are both elves and humans, and the apostles who possess elven bloodlines have revealed their bloodline appearances?” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up as he chuckled and said, “Most importantly, most of the elves are dressed beautifully, while the humans …”

“Are you saying that this is an elven caravan that employs human guards?” Stark’s heart skipped a beat as he rubbed his chin and fell into thought.

“That’s not necessarily the case. It’s also possible that the leader of the caravan is a human, but he was taken away by a thief!” Philip curled his lips and interrupted.

‘”No, no, it’s the Delta Plains near Elbard. The Thieves don’t have any dangers to defend. They won’t be staying for long. Taking women for trafficking is understandable. Kidnapping hostages for ransom is too troublesome, and it’s easy for the authorities to encircle them!” Stark shook his head and refuted Philip’s idea.

“I also think that the leader of the caravan will be the elves, not the humans!” Qin Lun smiled apologetically and nodded to Philip. “This would explain why entering Jondar Forest and finding the Demon Cup Palace would only be a corporal-level mission. After all, it would be difficult for a human caravan to seek trade with the Jondar Elves, and it would be very difficult for them to obtain a mission issued by the Elves Palace based on this status.”

Stark and Philip could not help but nod their heads. If they were to contact this point, the identity of this caravan would no longer be disputed.

“Qin Lun, continue!” Stark kindly nodded and smiled at Qin Lun.