Charting the Endless Sea
Chapter 309

Rainy Day Team

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The man stepped forward and asked softly, "Excuse me, do you take jobs from ordinary villagers?"

"Jobs from ordinary villagers? Local to Sea of Heroes?" Maupassant looked at the man and asked.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary people's jobs could never make their way to player factions, but there were occasional exceptions.

For example, when an entire village encountered some enormous disaster or crisis, they might pool the wealth of the whole village and seek out brokers who had influence among players. In the end, they could still get in touch with players.

Although players looked down on such meager commissions, out of kindness, they would often accept the hire and step in to solve the problem.

Yet after solving the problem, players would not refuse the payment. Though they did not care about that little bit of money, most players did not want to be treated as suckers. Ordinary people did not know this, however, and mistakenly believed money could truly hire players.

Therefore, brokers could always be found around player settlements. Some brokers even had other resource deals with players and could mingle inside player settlements.

This man was clearly one such broker.

Seeing that Maupassant was easy to talk to, the man immediately nodded. "Yes, it's a local job."

"Tell me about it." Maupassant gestured for the man to sit and spoke gently.

His thinking was actually simple. Since they were already here, if they truly could not defeat the Looting Emperor and the mutated Demon Spawn, they could simply take on a job. That way, the trip would not have been wasted.

After thanking him, the man sat down and explained, "This job was issued jointly by all the villagers of Yemu Village. For three consecutive days, people in the village have been disappearing without any apparent

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