Volume 5: If you are poor, you should be alone Chapter 139 On-the-job Training
There were a total of nine team leaders with more than 20 members, and only Isaac and another female leader remained and were hired by the Snow Wolf Tribe.
Isaac Robbins, 25 years old, was kicked out of the house to fend for himself after he became an adult, but at least he had received family education from a middle-class aristocratic family, so his moral standards were relatively high. There were many newcomers in the team, and he and his team members had no bad records in the Adventurer's Association. He himself was not a drinker, and had never fought with anyone in the Snow Wolf tribe's store... They had quarreled a few times, but as long as they didn't smash anything, it was nothing in the eyes of the Snow Wolf people.
The other female leader was named Hannah, who was about thirty years old and a female warrior. Hannah's team had twice as many members as Isaac's team. Because there were more women, the overall atmosphere was relatively harmonious, and there was no obvious bad record; although there was suspicion that she had tried to seduce the two cubs, Nanfeng and Xiaoyu, several times... but since she failed, it didn't matter.
Even so, Xiao Yun didn't think much of the quality of these two adventurer teams... However, the overall morale of the adventurers was so bad that there were many team leaders who took the lead in making trouble, many team members who made trouble from time to time, and even many who were notorious and wanted by many countries. All they had to do was to pick the tallest ones among the short ones and make do with it.
Such people cannot be used immediately after being recruited. Xiao Yun really doesn't dare to expect these lawless and unruly adventurers to abide by the rules and regulations and do a good job in employee security. After signing the contract with the two team leaders, he asked them to go back and reorganize the staff, gather on the beach east of the port before dawn the next day, and take the time to do on-the-job training before departure.
It was probably the first time in their lives that Isaac and Hannah, the two team leaders, heard that adventurers had to undergo "on-the-job training" when working for others. They were stunned for a long time...
"I believe that both of your team members are experienced adventurers with extraordinary martial arts skills. But after all, you and your team members are not familiar with our Snow Wolf tribe's style of doing things. So it is very necessary for both sides to have a good run-in before getting on board. What do you think?" Xiao Yun smiled.
"Uh..." Isaac thought about it and nodded in agreement as if there was nothing wrong with it.
Seeing that Chief Primo, who was standing next to her, didn't say anything, Captain Hannah nodded.
The next day, at daybreak, more than sixty adventurers, yawning and complaining, were driven to the east beach by their leader. As soon as they arrived, they were shocked by a dozen snow wolves who had arrived early and were standing in a row waiting for them.
Xiao Yun walked out of the queue, came forward with a smile and nodded to the two group leaders: "I'm so sorry, I didn't make the assembly time clear... It's already daybreak now!"
Captain Hannah turned her head in confusion and looked towards the dawn in the east. Isaac looked embarrassed... He had heard Xiao Yun mention the term "before dawn", but he didn't pay much attention to it.
"What's going on? Are you dissatisfied with us for being late? Isn't it morning now?" shouted an irritable adventurer.
Xiao Yun ignored the guy and continued to face the two team leaders: "Before we start the training, I think we need to understand the combat effectiveness of the two teams. Is there any problem with this?"
"Of course, Mr. Ayun." Isaac straightened his back quickly.
"That's good." Xiao Yun nodded and turned to look at his tribesmen. "Chief Caogen, thank you for your hard work. Chief Li, you come as well. Moore, Yangguang, and Lizi, the three of you come out."
The Grassroots Chief and the Li Chief came out with three cubs who were just over twenty years old. Xiao Yun introduced them with a smile: "This is the oldest Grassroots Chief in our tribe, and this is Li Chief, who was also a warrior in the past. These three are the cubs in the tribe, the oldest is twenty-four, and the youngest is just twenty. Let these five of them test the fighting power of the two teams. Is there any problem?"
"..." Hannah and Isaac stared blankly at the grassroots leader who was as strong as a bear. What the hell is this called the oldest? !
"Then let's get started." Xiao Yun took this as the two's agreement and took three steps back with a smile.
Before Isaac and Hannah could react, the five werewolves who had deliberately only worn hip-hugging shorts had already pulled down their pants and transformed into five giant white-haired wolves on the spot...
Isaac & Hannah: “???”
The yawning and unhappy adventurers: "???"
The five white-haired giant wolves quickly split into four groups. The largest one bypassed the two stunned leaders and charged towards the scattered and disorderly adventurers. The three smaller ones surrounded them from both sides, and the last one, a skinny one, circled around their backs...
"Don't just stand there, be careful!" Isaac turned back and reminded him. He couldn't bear to watch as his team members were knocked all over the place by the big wolf that rushed towards them...
"Here they come already?!" Melken hastily pushed the smaller Alex away and was hit on the shoulder by the wolf's head that dived down with its head lowered. The orc weighing more than 200 pounds was knocked away.
"Hey, hey, are you serious?" A man in a robe in the crowd saw his companion being slapped away by the "little wolf" who rushed in from the flank. He quickly took out his staff and an instant wall of fire appeared in front of him.
The seemingly domineering wall of fire was broken down by the slightly smaller white-haired giant wolf in the next instant... While baring its teeth and shouting "hot" in a childish voice, it raised its claws and pressed the guy in the robe to the ground.
"Li Zi, Ayun said to hit the one wearing heavy armor gently!" Another childish voice sounded from the side.
"I know, I didn't use any force. Look, he's still fine." The scalded pear raised its claws, and the dusty spellcaster immediately jumped up and ran out.
"Awoo!" The little wolf Moore rushed into the crowd from the other flank and bit a knight in heavy armor who was dressed like a tin can, picked him up and threw him away...
"Don't panic, don't be confused! Let's counterattack together!" Finally, an adventurer reacted and used a ramming move with a shield in hand to knock away one of the two cooperating wolves; his companion followed up in time and swung his spear to force back the other wolf that was surrounding him.
These two men took the lead in the counterattack and successfully controlled the situation. The adventurers who were overwhelmed by the rush immediately moved closer to them and formed positions according to their professions, and finally stopped the harassment from the three little wolves attacking from the flank.
When Captain Hannah, who was watching nervously in the outer circle, saw this scene, her back straightened immediately.
"Captain Hannah, is that the knight brother of your regiment?" Isaac asked with some envy.
"Yes, Shield Knight Edward and Spear Wayne." Hannah was delighted. It was not easy to get a nickname among adventurers. This pair of knight brothers were the treasures of her team.
The melee continued. The flanks held on, but the other side was in retreat. Wherever the grassroots chief rushed to, a group of people fell. The dwarf Arnold was knocked away several times and stepped on by his own people countless times. He shouted angrily: "Send some more people over here. Those who are not warriors, don't come up again!"
Melken rubbed his shoulders and got up, lined up with a group of soldiers, picked up his weapons and went forward to block the grassroots chief; but he didn't expect that the other side took two steps back, squatted and jumped, easily jumped over the two-meter-high wall of soldiers, and knocked away the crowd that had just gathered behind...
"Hurry up! We can't do anything without restraining this big guy!" A traveler moved around for a long time but couldn't find any chance to escape, and he couldn't help but get anxious.
"You try to restrict them?!" the warrior who was knocked away twice by the grassroots chief said angrily.
A spellcaster found an opportunity to raise his staff and cast a spell, corroding a small piece of the sand under the Grassroot Chief's feet. The Grassroot Chief, who was flexibly moving around and knocking people over, paused and shouted in surprise, "It worked! Someone come and cover me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the slender Li tribe leader's huge wolf head appeared behind the spellcaster, lowered his head and bit the man's collar, then ran away...
The adventurers who were about to rush over to cover the caster: "..."
"This is too much!" The adventurers were so angry, "This is just cheating!"
Outside the crowd, Xiao Yun spread his hands towards the two team leaders and said, "It's not our fault that we didn't protect the spellcaster well."
Isaac & Hannah: "..."
The scoundrel Li tribe leader carried the spellcaster several hundred meters away, and efficiently dug a sand pit to bury him, leaving only the upper body outside. Then he came back leisurely, and attacked the adventurers wearing robes and holding bows with a clear goal...
Seeing that they could not break through the position formed mainly by the knights , the three little wolves turned around and drove away the people they had dispersed, not allowing these people to strengthen the defense line of that position...
Several walkers took advantage of the chaos to sneak up behind the Grassroots Chief and simultaneously backstab him on his thick-skinned butt. As a result, the Grassroots Chief just cried out in pain, kicked the walkers away with his hind legs.
"The Snow Wolf Tribe's defense against puncture is useless!" The travelers were so angry that they threw their daggers on the sand.
"Warriors, hurry up!" The ranger who was chased by Chief Li shouted anxiously. The Snow Wolf Tribe was not afraid of magic and was resistant to punctures. Only warrior knights with blunt and heavy weapons could effectively restrain them.
"Come on and show me!" The warrior who had finally stopped Chief Li was angrily asked after Chief Li jumped up and stepped on his face with his claws.
The only knight brother who formed a battle formation saw that the front and rear were broken, and had no choice but to draw out his men to besiege Chief Li who moved freely in the crowd. Then, he was knocked into the battle formation by the three little wolves who had been eyeing him covetously for a long time and attacked him...
About half an hour later.
After digging out the three spellcasters and several rangers who were buried in the sand pit with their noses and faces not being noses or faces, and sweeping out the members who were covered in dirt and some of them had bruises on their faces, the two leaders, Isaac and Hannah, bent their backs quietly...
"Not bad. You used the ranger's movement to lead Chief Li to the corroded ground, and then used the warrior knight to block the way for him to climb out. This caused one non-combat casualty for us. The two teams are still quite cooperative." Xiao Yun smiled.
"Hehe, hehe..." Captain Hannah laughed dryly. If it weren't for the knight brothers who sacrificed their positions to achieve some results, she would have lost all her face by now.
Isaac didn't want to talk at all, and even wanted to disappear right there; most of his team members were newcomers, and they played a chaotic role throughout the whole process...
"I'm not a soldier, and I don't know much about combat, but from the experience of this run-in, it's clear that an organized and disciplined team is more combat-effective than a ragtag group of soldiers. What do you two captains think?" After the two nodded, Xiao Yun smiled even more. "Although we are only in a short-term employment relationship, I heard that Valentine is a mess, with underground forces rampant. If outsiders like us go there to recruit workers, I'm worried that someone will cause trouble for us. So in order to avoid any trouble, I think we need to emphasize everyone's organization and discipline. Do you agree with this?"
"Mr. Ayun, what do you mean...?" Isaac asked uncertainly.
"I hope that the two team members can correct their current lax mental outlook and not continue to be so disorganized and undisciplined." Xiao Yun smiled kindly, "After all... we plan to recruit a lot of workers, and we can't be distracted by protecting people other than the workers!"
"..." Both captains' faces turned black... They also spent the winter in Valentine. Although Valentine was a mess, it was not the dangerous place as you said!
However, their own team members were indeed beaten up by five non-warrior snow werewolves, and the two team leaders could not stand up...
"Please rest assured, we in the Snow Wolf Clan have no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of other teams. We just hope that the two members of your team can at least have the discipline of our Snow Wolf Clan. I think this will not be a bad thing for your teams." Xiao Yun added.
The two team leaders looked at each other and nodded helplessly. The contract has been signed, so whatever the employer says is the final word...
Xiao Yun started working on Earth from the bottom and worked his way up. In modern society, workers with at least primary or junior high school education are bound to have narrow vision and low knowledge, act according to their own closed logic when dealing with others, and have small-peasant mentality. Don't even think about the quality of workers in this world where 99.99% of the workers are illiterate - if a bunch of burly foreigners recruit them to go out to sea, it would be strange if they would pay any attention to you!
Even if you raise the remuneration beyond the local salary level, those who are willing to come might be hooligans or street thugs, or even scammers who are planning to cause trouble from the beginning... These are the bloody lessons I witnessed when I was running errands at the grassroots level of a construction company right after graduating from school!
Therefore, he needed to recruit a team of adventurers to cooperate with the recruitment work. What he wanted was not military force, but that most of these people were human and were familiar with Valentine, so it would be easier to gain the trust of the locals and minimize trouble. Of course, these adventurers who were used to wandering had to be thoroughly trained before they could be used.
After a show of force to seduce these undisciplined guys, Xiao Yun then unceremoniously started on-the-job training for them. The best way to temper them is to have them participate in heavy physical collective work (forcing the dependents to move bricks at a construction site with a gun will definitely change them in three months), but these people are adventurers after all, and Xiao Yun can't let them farm and build roads, so he simply imitates the military training model... The intensity is not high, probably about ten times the intensity of the military training for middle school students.
On the sunny beach, more than 60 adventurers ran back and forth on the beach for ten kilometers and then were asked to line up to do push-ups, sit-ups, squats...
"Is this running-in? Is this how you Snow Wolf tribe runs in with others?" Isaac, whose knees were swollen and sore after running ten kilometers and doing more than a hundred squats, couldn't help it. He sat down, gasping for breath and shouted to Xiao Yun.
Xiao Yun glanced at him and said, "Captain Hannah, your partner Isaac has stopped training early. You two will do fifty more squats."
Hannah, who was also sweating profusely, immediately cast her murderous gaze on Isaac.
“Why should someone else be implicated when they make a mistake?!” On the other side, the adventurer who was trained by the grassroots chief was really angry.
"This is to cultivate everyone's team spirit. We in the Snow Wolf Tribe all do this. If someone makes a mistake, everyone will be criticized." The Grassroots Chief said kindly, "Okay, your group will practice another twenty."
"?!" The adventurer was shocked and pointed at the traveler next to him angrily, "He and I are not in the same team, what team spirit do we need?"
"But you are a team now. A temporary team is also a team~ add twenty more."
The furious adventurer tried to run, but the grassroots chief turned into a wolf in a second and pounced on the guy before he could speed up. He then landed on the guy who wanted to rebel. The wolf head faced the stunned adventurers and said with a smile: "You guys continue. I'll give him some extra training later."
This man's friends stared at their companion who was being held down and could not struggle, and silently turned their eyes away...
The three spellcasters in Hannah's team did not have to endure the pain of this "devil's version of team training". While the others were sweating profusely, they just sat by and watched. At the beginning, they were still in the mood to tease others, but after a while, the sun above their heads could not bear it anymore.
"What are we doing sitting here? Why don't we talk to the Snow Werewolf and go back first?" one of the spellcasters suggested.
"...I think it's better not to." The oldest spellcaster glanced at Xiao Yun's position, "I always feel that the guy seems to be waiting for us to speak... and he definitely has no good intentions."
Sixty percent of Hannah's team were women, and the three spellcasters who had been pressed down by Li Zi's claws and buried in the sand pit dug by Chief Li were all women. Hearing what the oldest and most perceptive person said, the other two held back their hair...
After a week of extremely exhausting physical strength and tempering willpower, the devilish group training had a very strong effect - all the thorny adventurers were wiped out by the Snow Wolf Tribe, and they dared not stand at attention, and they did not have to turn right when asked to turn left. They even knew to use the word "please" when talking to others...
During this period, there were adventurers who tried to resist or escape. As a result, they were either subdued by the love (body) and intention (weight) of the Snow Wolf Man, or captured by the Elf Warriors who bribed the Snow Wolf Tribe. If they caught an adventurer who escaped, they would be given a week's worth of free meals. The Elf Warriors who were guarding the port and had nothing to do would come to the beach to wander around... Even if an adventurer was born with an incredible speed, could he still compete with the Forest Elves in speed?!
On the day when the ship of the Adventurer's Association's Transportation Department arrived at the port, Xiao Yun gathered all the adventurers who had blacked out a color number (including the three spellcasters who did not participate) and said with his signature friendly smile: "Thank you for your hard work this week. I'm glad that there are no deserters among us..."
The adventurers, who were standing in a relatively neat line and were about the size of kindergarten kids on Earth, said: “Haha.”
It's not the group of snow werewolves behind you and the bunch of idle forest elves in the distance. Why don't you look for deserters, you bastard!
"...Everyone's spirits are much better than before. I am very pleased. I believe that in the future cooperation, both sides can cooperate happily, learn from each other, and make progress together..." After a bunch of polite words, Xiao Yun changed the subject, "Our study and training has come to an end for the time being. Please pack your personal luggage and belongings after you go back, and gather at the dock to board the ship before dawn tomorrow..." After a pause, Xiao Yun's eyes narrowed into crescents, "Please don't be late."
Even though the sun was shining brightly and the temperature was close to 30 degrees, all the adventurers shivered in unison... After a week of contact, everyone had seen how annoying and unpunctual Ayun of the Snow Wolf tribe was. This guy really never joked about this!
So the next day, before the darkness of dawn, even the most rebellious thief, Alex, obediently appeared at the dock with his bag on his back...
Isaac's team planned to take this opportunity to bring the spoils of the previous hunt back to Valentine for sale. The same was true for Hannah's side. Everyone was carrying large and small bags. The two sides gathered together and counted the heads. The two team leaders breathed a sigh of relief at the same time - no one escaped, and they didn't have to face Xiao Yun's smiling face .
At this moment, a fire lit up in the darkness, and several forest elves who had been lurking somewhere appeared with torches in their hands.
"Everyone is here, why doesn't anyone run away?" Hailin counted the adventurers twice, feeling very regretful.
Kai yawned and said, "I told you not to come and see me. If I wanted to run away, I would have sneaked away in the middle of the night and would have been caught by the person on duty."
"Really? I wanted to earn two more meal coupons." Hailin shook her head, turned around and walked back in disappointment.
"You are too greedy. You have caught it several times." Kai and the other two elf warriors followed with disgust.
Isaac & Hannah: "..."
Adventurers: “…”
The two team leaders said nothing, but were thinking about a question they had thought about countless times in the past eight days: Was there something wrong with me that I signed the contract without thinking twice? !
Isaac was particularly heartbroken by this, as he had been a loyal fan of those two travelogues and had a very favorable impression of Ayun from the Snow Wolf Clan - he was too young and did not know how to judge people!
"Everyone is here?" A large group of people appeared in the darkness. The Snow Wolves, who could see without torches, appeared in groups. The cub in the lead was still smiling. "That's great. Let's put the luggage here. The three spellcasters will help watch it. The others can move the goods first."
It cost several hundred gold coins to rent the fleet of the association's transportation department, and it also cost several hundred gold coins to hire this group of adventurers. Xiao Yun felt very painful about the money, so he decided not to make a wasted trip and asked the tribe's work team to transport a batch of goods down and bring them to Valentine to sell.
Taking this opportunity, let Thrall take the ship back to his hometown to take a look - Thrall's hometown is in the Bolton territory next to Valentine. He has been diligently growing mushrooms in the tribe for five years. In the last two years, after Xiao Yun convinced him, he brought out a few apprentices. Xiao Yun can't just not arrange any benefits for him.
The adventurers silently piled their luggage together, and naturally lined up to follow the Snow Wolf Tribe in moving the goods, without any voices of doubt or dissatisfaction.
Xiao Yun touched his chin with satisfaction. It was not bad. All the effort was not in vain. These guys could be considered barely usable.
The money we spend on hiring people cannot be wasted!
