A Tough Character

According to Stiller's explanation, in the Gold Rush Street, these middlemen and commission posting locations often exchange information.

Although they engaged in illegal activities and issued non-compliant commissions, long-term conventions have formed a set of rules for Gold Rush Street.

Over time, these commissions even developed a standardized numbering system!

The numbers following the title indicate the order of publication, which is reordered every month. If there are unfinished assignments from the previous month, their original numbers will be retained.

If a task is not completed within six months, the task will be cancelled as long as the client does not renew the fee to the intermediary.

The preceding letter... indicates the type of delegate.

A represents tasks involving protection, guarding, or escorting; in simpler terms, it means working as a bodyguard or security guard.

B represents infiltration, investigation, and theft tasks, which involve Hacker or thievery.

C stands for assassination, attack, and sabotage, which often require a certain level of direct combat capability to accomplish.

In addition, there are Class D delegates, which are usually composite types or types that are difficult to define.

Therefore, Lin Yu still needed to find out what these "tricky" tasks entailed.

Having two points of reference makes it easier to see the quality of your commission.

Shark Shock listened to Lin Yu's request, thought for a moment, and then spoke.

"C-35's mission is to destroy two Outpost established by the Divine Power Group outside the city walls. Although they are located in the Great Wilderness, they are only two kilometers away from the city walls as the crow flies, so the Divine Power Group will be able to arrive relatively quickly. Therefore, no one dares to accept the commission."

Lin Yu nodded slightly. "It is indeed a tricky task to carry out a mission in the Great Wilderness and to go against the Divine Power Group, but... it's not that big of a deal."

He commented casually as Shark Shock introduced Qile's next task.

"The task assigned by A-06 is to protect the butler of the Third Son of the Saint Orchid Family from assassination when the Family Council convenes a week later."

"This one's interesting," Lin Yu commented, still feigning expertise, "But I'm not good at protecting people, so next."

In fact, he had no idea what the mission was all about.

The Saint Orchid Family seems to be one of the Five Great Noble Families...

How come even the steward of the Third Son in this family has to be assassinated?

What exactly is Family Council?

However, Lin Yu's air of knowing everything didn't give him away at all.

Shark Shock continued his introduction.

"That's C-77... The mission requires infiltrating the Inner City and assassinating a senior executive from one of the Three Great Corporations, a rank of A-2. It might require infiltrating the Headquarters of those three companies."

Upon hearing the suddenly vague mission description about Shark Shock, Lin Yu immediately understood.

The C-77 commission, which was chosen as his "Clearance Conditions," was indeed not as simple as it seemed!

Fortunately, he asked a few more questions, and by comparing them with the previous two, he was able to discover this.

After all...

Having listened to the current introduction of Shark Shock, Lin Yu could now turn around and leave to complete his own missions, whether it was C-35 or A-06.

But the C-77 won't work.

"There might be something wrong with this C-77..."

With this in mind, Lin Yu took the initiative to probe the waters.

He frowned and spoke as if displeased.

"Why is this mission so vague?"

Shark Shock rubbed his nose. "This... this is how it was when the middleman sent it to me."

"It seems that the employer of this task is a bit eccentric."

"However, the pay for the C-77 is... very high!"

"C-35 offers a reward of 6000 points, A-06 offers 11500 points plus commission..."

"And the C-77 guarantees at least 50,000 points!"

Shark Shock quickly explained.

Lin Yu was quite surprised.

"Fifty thousand points?"

There are two types of currency in the City That Never Sleeps. One is the "City-State Coin," issued by the Noble in the name of the City That City That Never Sleeps's Council, which is practically just for show. The unit of currency is yuan.

Another type is the Asset Points used by the three giant companies for quick transfer payments and verification of funds. Essentially, it is a quantification of the "assets" of the City That Never Sleeps's elites and Noble. Asset Points can be luxury goods, real estate properties, technology, or even patents.

Later, due to its convenience and anonymity, "Asset Points" gradually became a hard currency like "gold," and all prominent figures would hold this "currency."

50,000 Asset Points, when converted to purchasing power based on the actual situation in the City That Never Sleeps, can be directly regarded as five million.

For the same C-series mission, the reward for the C-77 is almost ten times that of the C-35!

In other words, disregarding the possibility that the client of the C-77 mission was exceptionally wealthy, the actual difficulty of this mission was probably about five times that of the C-35 mission.

To destroy two of the Divine Power Group's Outpost and escape unscathed would mean taking on two full-strength squads stationed at Outpost, destroying their defensive equipment—and all of this must be accomplished within 15 minutes.

If we were even a minute later, we would have been cornered here by the experts from the Divine Power Group.

Lin Yu calculated that, converted to Player skill levels, this was probably an operation that only a "Tier 3" player could accomplish.

"Because I killed a 'Tier 3' in the last [Instance], has the Game already classified me as a 'Tier 3' player?"

"This is such a headache. Last time, it took a lot of effort to complete that layout."

Lin Yu sighed silently in his heart.

Fortunately, this time in the City That Never Sleeps, I have plenty of time and resources to make my plans.

The "Personal Trial Instance" has been opened, and the C-77 quest cannot be ignored.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Yu spoke.

"I understand. So, what do I need to do to accept Commission C-77?"

Shark Shock looked at Lin Yu, seemingly unsurprised by Lin Yu's choice.

"The middleman who placed Commission C-77 with me is 'Black Snake.' You can go find him to learn more and undergo an assessment. Just say you were referred by Shark Shock."

This is the normal procedure— Lin Yu finds the commission information through these restaurants and bars, and then goes to the middleman to give his name.

The middleman is responsible for assessing these applicants and then introducing qualified mercenaries to employers.

In this way, the employer pays the middleman a fee, and the middleman then pays the fees to the restaurants and bars.

However, this time the process was somewhat unusual.

Shark Shock paused for a moment, then said, "Or, if you're more confident, Black Snake gave me a business card back then; you can just call that number."

"Although Black Snake said he would only give it to someone tough, I don't think you are a simple character. You should fit his definition of a 'tough character'."