Since the system became my girlfriend

Chapter 147 Kicking People

Since acquiring Scout Hubert as a corpse guard, Su Rui's leveling up has become incredibly easy. The first thing he does every day when he logs in is to run a run of "Hidden Mansion." Besides farming experience and equipment, his biggest goal is to summon Hubert.

Then the rest is simple: use a random teleportation scroll to exit the dungeon, and then return to the west of the city to level up.

Hubert's summoned hounds were incredibly powerful. Although each one wasn't strong individually, a single attack could take down seven of them. Together, they could kill monsters faster than two mages combined. Su Rui and Feng Lixi could just chat and enjoy the scenery while their experience points skyrocketed.

In order to maximize Hubert's efficiency, Su Rui even temporarily applied to Feng Lixi to change his work and rest schedule. He canceled his lunch break and would fill up his ten hours of online time after getting Hubert before logging off to eat.

Because the corpse guards would disappear after logging off, and Hubert would have to wait until the dungeon updated the next day to revive him, Su Rui would take Feng Lixi to do quests to level up after dinner, and also to boost the mercenary group's reputation.

Ten hours of frantic monster-grinding every day caused Su Rui and Feng Lixi's experience points to skyrocket. In just one week, the two of them broke through level 15 and reached level 16!

Moreover, thanks to their persistent efforts in completing tasks, and with Hu Bowei and others also helping them complete the Mercenary Guild's tasks, Su Rui's mercenary group finally accumulated a full 100 reputation points!

After lunch that day, Su Rui went online and headed straight for the Mercenary Guild with Feng Lixi.

"Old sir! I want to upgrade my mercenary group!" Su Rui approached the old man again.

"Upgrading the mercenary group..." The old man with his head down still spoke in that unhurried tone, but when he looked up and saw that it was Su Rui, his expression immediately changed!

"Haha, it's you, kid. What's up? Your reputation score is full?" the old man asked with a smile.

"Hmm! After completing so many missions, we've finally maxed it out!" Su Rui nodded. It's actually quite difficult to increase the reputation value of this mercenary group. Each time you complete a mission, the reputation value only increases by one point. However, if you exceed the time limit for a limited-time mission or fail to complete other missions, the reputation value will be deducted much more slowly. Each time the reputation value is deducted, it starts at least at ten points, and for serious breaches of contract, it can even deduct twenty or thirty points.

Therefore, accumulating 100 reputation points is quite difficult.

"Hmm! Hmm! Not bad! Not bad!" The old man nodded in satisfaction after checking the reputation score of the Xirui Mercenary Group.

"Sir, can the mercenary group be upgraded now?" Su Rui asked with a smile.

"Of course! Give me ten gold coins, and I'll help you upgrade right away!" the old man said with a smile.

"What!?" Su Rui was dumbfounded. If it were before, ten gold coins would have been a lot, but he could have come up with the money. However, a few days ago, he had given all his money to the fortune teller in order to buy the elemental spirit on his shoulder.

Moreover, Simig is a glutton, consuming sixty or seventy silver coins every day just for food. Even though Su Rui can easily clear dungeons and get high-level quests, he still can't save any money with such huge expenses!

"Boss Su, are you free? Can you help me with a task?" Hu Bowei sent a message at that moment.

"What mission?" Su Rui asked casually.

“A bounty mission!” Hu Bowei said.

"Is the pay high?" Su Rui immediately asked. Bounty missions are generally divided into two types: one that gives a lot of experience points and the other that gives a lot of money.

"It's alright, it's just an experience reward," Hu Bowei said.

"Oh, I see... Do you have money?" Su Rui was a little disappointed; he was genuinely short of money right now.

“A little, what’s wrong?” Hu Bowei asked.

"Upgrading the mercenary group requires ten gold coins, can you lend me some?" Su Rui said bluntly.

“No problem, how many do you need?” Hu Bowei said readily.

"Seven short," Su Rui said.

"Damn! Dude, are you kidding me? Where's your money?" Hu Bowei rolled his eyes. Su Rui's earning ability was much better than his. He had four gold coins in his pocket. How could Su Rui be poorer than him?

"There's nothing I can do, this elemental spirit eats too much..." Su Rui was also helpless. If it weren't for Simig eating sixty or seventy silver coins every day, he wouldn't be so poor now.

"Alright! I only have four gold coins on me, I'll give them all to you, but that's not enough..." Hu Bowei said.

"Let those two guys in the group contribute some too. Upgrading to a level two mercenary group will also benefit them," Su Rui said after thinking for a moment.

"Hey! That's reliable!" Hu Bowei immediately agreed. He didn't think much of the musty-smelling fairy and felt that Su Rui didn't need to take care of them for no reason. As for the bald little loli, there was no need to mention her. Because of what happened last time, Hu Bowei was quite annoyed with her.

"Just give me three gold coins, and they can each contribute two," Su Rui said after thinking for a moment. Everyone would benefit from the upgrade of the mercenary group, so there was nothing wrong with pooling their resources.

Su Rui then shared his thoughts in the mercenary group's channel.

“Two gold coins each, no problem!” the musty fairy immediately said.

"Commander, I'm a little short on cash lately..." But the bald little girl seemed reluctant.

"You're really something, always taking advantage of others, but what's wrong with you? You can't even pay a little money? Don't you get any benefits after upgrading to a level two mercenary group?" Hu Bowei complained in the mercenary group channel.

"That's not what I meant, I really don't have any money!" the bald little girl said.

"Where's your money? Don't tell me you're level 14 and don't even have a single gold coin in your pocket!" Hu Bowei didn't believe this nonsense at all.

"You're a leather armor class, you have no idea how expensive it is to repair equipment for heavy armor classes..." The bald little girl started complaining about being poor, saying that repairing equipment was expensive, medicine was expensive, and in short, the expenses were too high and she couldn't make ends meet. She had no money!

"How could you be like this!" Hu Bowei was very dissatisfied, and even the little fairy with the musty smell had some complaints.

"Fine! If you don't have the money, then forget it!" Su Rui privately messaged Hu Bowei to stop him from saying anything more extreme.

"That's it? You're not even going to kick him?" Hu Bo asked in a private message, dissatisfied.

"This guy is a bit annoying, but we can't just kick him out because he won't pay... I'm not some gangster..." Before Su Rui could finish speaking, he received a system notification!

"Ding! The bald little girl has been kicked out of the mercenary group by Vice-Captain Feng Lixi!"

"Hmph! You're just not assertive enough, your sister-in-law is much more domineering!" Hu Bowei immediately retorted.