For this Rank SS mission, Xu Xiayan had truly paid a hefty price.
She had hired quite a few teams, and none of them were below B-class—except for Azure Mercury, where Su Ming and Chi Qian were members. All the other teams were at least B-class, and were among the more renowned B-class teams.
In her own words, if the teams she hired were too weak, they would only be sending themselves to their deaths.
Therefore, the teams Xu Xiayan hired all had to possess at least several High-level Professionals. Even if another team had High-level Professionals, she would not consider it if there were too few of them.
Using this standard, Xu Xiayan had hired a total of eleven teams, including Azure Mercury.
Su Ming could imagine the price Xu Xiayan had paid to hire all these teams.
After all, those teams were at least B-class, which meant they already qualified to enter the Hidden Wonderland and did not need Summer Chasing Smoke to lead them in.
For them, accepting Xu Xiayan's employment brought them no benefit. Instead, they had to make sacrifices.
What kind of sacrifices?
Naturally, it meant sacrificing the time they could spend searching for treasures in the Hidden Wonderland.
As long as they followed Xu Xiayan to undertake the Rank SS mission, they would have no chance to search for treasures or gather heavenly materials and earthly treasures during the mission.
That was naturally a loss.
Only for a team like Azure Mercury, which did not qualify to enter the Hidden Wonderland, would accepting Summer Chasing Smoke's employment not count as a loss.
Of course, accepting Summer Chasing Smoke's employment was not without benefits for those teams.
No matter what, the Hidden Wonderland was a place with a minimum danger rating of A. Venturing alone