They said he seemed very late-matured, and apparently we met many times as kids.
Obviously, Rosen still remembered this person’s face, but Rosen had changed too much compared to his childhood, so the other party didn’t recognize him.
As for Rosen, he immediately recognized that this person was his father’s friend in the Guard Team, named Wang Cheng.
Previously, when his father asked whether the Guard Team provided work, it was through this connection with Wang Cheng.
At that time, Wang Cheng’s reply was also very polite, letting Rosen make his own decision.
"Who is this?" Team 2’s Captain Wang Cheng asked the Enchanting Demon.
"A friend of mine, Xiaozhang." The Enchanting Demon replied.
"Is he the lord from the Lord World that was conquered, waiting for the second Awakening Stone to be issued?"
"Alright, you can join under my command, work hard and strive for promotion, become an important figure in our Guard Team, not worse than being a lord. Our town is like a vast territory."
"So since you’re joining, you have to regard it as your previous territory and ensure it won’t be conquered again, understood?"
"Makes sense!" Rosen nodded.
Rosen’s reaction made Wang Cheng very pleased, he said, "In the future, if you join under my command and anyone bullies you, just come to me. Even if the leader doesn’t care, I will take care of it to the end."
Hearing Wang Cheng say this, it truly sounded reassuring, seemingly trustworthy.
But the Enchanting Demon said, "Captain, you said the same last time, but didn’t Zhang Fei still beat you up on the ground, and our people were terribly bullied by Zhang Fei’s people!"
"Ah, what?!" Wang Cheng was instantly flustered, the Enchanting Demon actually exposed his wound?
"Don’t bring up the pot that you can’t lift, Zhang Fei and I are colleagues, I don’t bicker with him, not because I’m afraid of him, you have to understand that." Wang Cheng argued, blushing.
"Got it, got it." The Enchanting Demon sighed.
This atmosphere seems okay, not very serious.
At the same time, Rosen was also certain that Wang Cheng was probably trustworthy, a relatively timid personality.
Soon, the Enchanting Demon took Rosen to the living apartment, conveniently arranging him in the room next to the Enchanting Demon.
The Enchanting Demon whispered lightly, "How about I come to your room to find you tonight?"
Ambiguous words, but Rosen brushed it off, saying, "After all, you were the school beauty senior, can’t you be a bit reserved?"
Seeing her joke didn’t work, the Enchanting Demon went back to her job blandly.
Rosen returned to his room to check the work regulations.
The work of the Town Guard is very simple.
It’s done on a rotation basis, one theme per week.
And there are three kinds of themes in total.
One is office duty, which is taking on clerical tasks, with the lowest rewards.
Another is going on adventures, bringing back as many supplies as possible, for as many rewards.
The third kind is executing guard tasks as required, which are general tasks with balanced rewards.
Working in the Guard Team might not be as profitable as being a lord, but becoming a small millionaire is not a problem.
And many lord territories, before being destroyed, had saved quite a few Lord Coins, so they wouldn’t struggle too much after no longer being a lord.
Like Rosen, who had tens of billions of Lord Coins in hand, totaling trillions in RMB, enough to become a small leader dominating a side in the business world. In theory, not joining the Guard Team would be fine, he could go into business.
But the problem is once you stop the days of fighting and killing, this life might be over, and you’ll never return to the time as a lord, thereby being eliminated by the world.
Therefore, most choose to join the Town Guard when the Lord World is destroyed, to prevent themselves from missing out on enough growth opportunities.
After roughly going through the rules, Rosen also knew that he joined Team 2, and this week’s task was clerical. Team 2 Captain Wang Cheng would assign them tasks, and he just needed to wait.
Sure enough, soon Wang Cheng summoned him and gave him a task at the case office.
He was to go there and perform office duty, handling cases that happened in the town.
As soon as he reported, a group of older staff surrounded him.
"The captain said we should take care of new members, how about we let the newbie wear a dress, just as a gesture." Someone joked.
"This is the real world, not a group chat. Is it polite to say such things?" Rosen said speechlessly.
"Don’t mind, just joking to lighten the mood."
"So this case office needs a relaxed atmosphere?" Rosen asked.
Glancing around, Rosen saw that the case office had fewer than five people, all older than him, at uncle-level.
"There haven’t been any cases recently, us few just play cards and chess privately, of course, it’s boring."
No cases appearing doesn’t mean the town is safe, after all, the case office mostly resolves residents’ interest disputes. As for foreign power assassination cases, they can’t manage those; such matters involve breaking the upper ranks’ bones, and how could temporary workers like them manage it?
But just as Rosen had barely stepped in and hadn’t gotten familiar with the five people, someone outside shouted, "Something bad happened!"
Inside, they went out to have a look and found that one of their own was seriously injured, evidently hacked by someone.
Upon detailed inquiry, they found that a local bully forcibly collected protection fees at a village, causing public outrage, and eventually, the villagers lodged complaints here, requesting a delegation to mediate.
Unexpectedly, that bully was unreasonable, didn’t even give a chance to negotiate, and started attacking the people sent from the case office.
That bully was no ordinary person, a seasoned lord whose interest lay in oppressing the suffering commoners, which is why he unusually gave the local residents trouble, forcibly extorting protection fees.
Similar cases happened before, where seasoned lords, seeking fun, even killed townspeople, but eventually, criminals ended up punished by law.
"This time the Evil Lord is an S-class hero lord, no one among us is a match for him!"
"What, an S-class lord?! Geniuses like that shouldn’t they be claimed by major forces, how could they be causing such chaos in a village?"
Everyone found it hard to understand.
"He’s a seasoned lord from five years ago, rumored to have come out of a psychiatric hospital, often doing strange things, and this time he targeted a village that’s said to be quite peculiar."
"Why, what’s peculiar about it?"
"It’s said the village is haunted at night, and girls often disappear for no reason!"
Upon hearing this, Rosen immediately felt a sense of a well-traveled storyline.
If not mistaken, the situation of haunting coupled with girls going missing at night is surely related to human trafficking cases.
"Do we have human trafficking cases in the town?" Rosen asked.
"No, but cases of disappearance and assassination happen frequently."
"Disappearance, isn’t that human trafficking? Change the name and the nature changes?" Rosen realized and said.
"That depends on how you handle it." Someone said, "You’re new, might not know how to handle this, just let us few older folks handle it, you stay here."
Upon hearing this, Rosen immediately refused, "That bully is an S-class hero, you guys are useless there."
"If we’re of no use, could you handle it? In our Guard Team, who’s an A-class hero, aren’t they all below B-class?"