Chapter 246 - 99: Bizarre Cellmate (Part 2)
After Compass was locked up, every two hours, like a wound-up alarm clock, he would proclaim his innocence instead of telling the time.
Seeing Fa Xiaoyun storm off furiously, Yue Jinghua knew that she had largely achieved her objective and couldn’t help but feel delighted.
She casually picked up an unclaimed Mercenary Badge, and her eyebrows raised slightly when she saw the shiny two stars on it.
"Kind big sister, please return my lifeline to me," a face rounder than the full moon on the fifteenth squeaked through the wooden bars, his eyes the size of mung beans.
"You’re a mercenary? What did you do to be locked up in the Heavenly Prison," Yue Jinghua didn’t rush to throw the badge back. She also had a similar two-star badge.
The sight of Compass’s badge reminded her of her experiences in Mercenary Town and also brought back memories of the deceased Zack.
"Debt," Compass frowned painfully, his mung bean eyes glanced at the leftover white steamed buns in Yue Jinghua’s cell, "Our Mercenary Team couldn’t cover the debts, and as the team leader, I was locked up to account for it. My brothers and sisters said they would pool together money to bail me out, but it’s been several days, I’ve lost quite a bit of weight, and still no sign of them."
Tossing a few steamed buns over, Compass immediately tore into a big smile.
Mercenaries function in various forms; a single mercenary is known as a free mercenary, simply registered with the Mercenary Guild. A higher level is the Mercenary Team, which consists of at least three members and no more than ten.
As a mercenary, Yue Jinghua has also encountered some destitute mercenaries. Some were sued by clients for failing to complete assigned tasks or losing the items, getting locked up, which is not unusual in the Mercenary World.