Since the system became my girlfriend

"Are you alright?" Su Rui asked as he stepped forward.

"Great! Mercenary, you've arrived just in time! If you had come any later, we would all be finished!" A guard from the caravan with the name Aibei on his head stepped forward and said to Su Rui. He seemed to be the leader of these people.

"I'm here to rescue you all at Mr. Ricardo's request. If there's nothing else, hurry up and pack your things and leave with us. More gnolls will be arriving soon." Su Rui noticed that the mission hadn't updated after killing the gnolls around him, so he knew the objective was to escort the convoy to Xuanwu City.

"Yes, sir! Let's set off now!" Abe nodded and immediately told his men to hitch the cart to the animals, then they prepared to set off again.

The caravan, which had originally formed a circular formation, once again stretched into a long line and headed towards Xuanwu City. This caravan did not use horses to pull the carts, but instead used earth-walking beasts, which had a greater load capacity but were much slower. These large creatures, which resembled rhinoceroses, could easily tow a one- or two-ton truck, but they moved very slowly and did not require much fodder, making them a cheap pack animal.

These earth-walking beasts are generally used to transport relatively inexpensive goods that are not urgent. Truly valuable items are usually transported by fast and agile pack animals, as these slow earth-walking beasts are too easy to be robbed.

"It looks like this journey won't be peaceful!" Su Rui thought to himself. The caravan was too slow, making it an easy target for robbery. Besides, the rewards for the mission he had taken earlier were generous, and those few gnolls just now didn't even come close to the reward of 5,000 experience points!

“It’s more fun when things are in turmoil! Otherwise, what’s the point of this game?” Feng Lixi retorted from the side.

“That’s true!” Su Rui shrugged. He was a professional gamer, and although playing with female players was a big hobby, he was indeed quite pragmatic in the game because of his profession.

As a professional gamer, gaming is Su Rui's livelihood. He has to rely on making money in games to support his family. So compared with ordinary players, Su Rui doesn't really care about the fun of the game. He cares more about what he gets and how much money he can exchange for it!

So when Feng Lixi said that, Su Rui just smiled. The two had different positions, so their focus on the game was also different.

The convoy had only gone about a hundred meters when Su Rui saw a signal arrow fly out from behind the hills ahead.

"Screech..." The whistling arrow shot into the sky, accompanied by a piercing whistle.

Immediately following behind the hills, a group of people suddenly appeared. To Su Rui's surprise, these people were masked with red scarves, but they were clearly human!

"Bandits?" Su Rui frowned. Logically speaking, human bandits would not target the caravan of earth-walking beasts, because the goods transported by these cheap pack animals were not very profitable, and only jackals would be interested in them.

"Kill!" What surprised Su Rui even more was that if they were human bandits, they would at least shout a few words like "This mountain is mine, this tree is mine" and "If the caravan is willing to pay money to save their lives, they will only rob them of their money and not kill them.

But these masked men, without saying a word, immediately grabbed knives and charged forward, clearly intending to kill and rob.

"Form ranks! Protect the convoy!" Aibe roared, then took the bow and arrow from his back and began to lead the resistance. At the same time, he shouted to Su Rui, "Mercenary, please help us!"

"Alright!" Su Rui called to Feng Lixi beside him, and then began to cast the spell!

-403!

With a single Shadow Arrow, Su Rui instantly killed a Red Scarf Warrior who had been reduced to half health by the caravan guards.

-412!

-408!

Su Rui fired his Shadow Arrows one after another, and with the help of his corpse guards, his monster-killing efficiency was astonishing. Feng Lixi, who was standing to the side, did not make a move; she simply watched quietly.

Su Rui didn't care about Feng Lixi's lack of effort. Anyway, he was planning to bring the girls along, so he naturally didn't crave anything from them.

The bandits on the opposite hill charged down wave after wave, with seven or eight of them in each wave. Fortunately, their primary targets were the caravan's guards, which allowed Su Rui to deal with them calmly. If all of them had come at him at once, he would have had no choice but to run away.

A few minutes passed, and Su Rui had helped the caravan defeat three waves of bandits. Although killing these bandits would give him experience, and defeating a few more waves would be like leveling up, Su Rui still had a bad feeling.

A few minutes later, the fifth wave of bandits was wiped out. At that moment, a figure rushed down the hillside. It was a middle-aged man carrying two short axes.

Mosley (humanoid creature, elite)

Rating: 12

Health: 100%

Su Rui could only learn this information through the names above the bandits' heads.

"Kill!" Mosley roared, then rushed to a guard of the caravan, and with a swift stroke of his axe, killed the guard on the spot.

"Pfft pfft pfft pfft..." Mosley had clearly entered the story mode. He took down the caravan guards one by one with his axe. In the blink of an eye, all the caravan guards except for Abbey were dead!

Because it's story mode, Mosley's attacks aren't calculated based on damage or health; he instantly kills all the convoy guards with a single strike.

"Who are you people?!" Abe roared, abandoning his bow and arrow and drawing his longsword as he charged toward Mosley.

"Hmph! You don't deserve to know!" Mosley sneered at the charging Abe, then used his left axe to deflect Abe's longsword, and swung his right axe downwards, leaving a bloody gash in Abe's chest!

"Whoosh!" Aibe's blood flowed down, and he was sent flying several meters away before crashing heavily to the ground!

"Mercenaries! You all die too!" After hacking down Aibe, Mosley swung his axe and charged towards Su Rui and Feng Lixi.

"Oh!"

-45!

Before Mosley could reach Su Rui, he was intercepted by the corpse guards.

After killing all the caravan guards, Mosley exited the story mode, so now he's just a regular elite monster. After being attacked by the corpse guards, his aggro system was activated, so he swung his axe and started fighting the corpse guards. And without the story mode buff, Mosley can no longer kill enemies one hit at a time.

While Mosley was fighting the Corpse Guard, Su Rui started casting Shadow Bolt, and Feng Lixi also took action. She raised her hand, and a ball of green light appeared above the Corpse Guard's head, and the Corpse Guard's lost health recovered.