May you be happy and prosperous

No matter how well it is driven, it is enough to make the car move a little bit—at this moment, the Phantom Beast staff team composed of Lu Twelve and his party has low requirements for "drivers".

So under Byron's proud eyes, the people under the car were silent for three seconds, and got into the car one after another.

The car unscrewed an enchanting S-line on the flat ground crookedly, and drove all the way to the task item storage area. The task item storage area is specially used to store the tools needed by Phantom Beast craftsmen to carry out tasks. , together with those basic tools, have been stored and registered in the reserve area. The workers only need to come here tomorrow morning, and they can directly take the tools away and go to the mission area.

When Lu Twelve and the others arrived at the task item wiping storage area, they were not surprised to find that the place was full of people. Lu Twelve sent JAY to find the staff to come over to register the big crane. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and there were many people around. The Phantom Beast staff just came back from a mission to store their equipment and prepare to go back to the aid station to rest. Seeing Lu Twelve and the others driving this impressive crane, they seemed very interested, and they all came up to ask them what mission they were taking. Lu Twelve Show them the mission panel generously, many people said that this is a very interesting mission.

So Lu Twelve got a brand new concept. It turned out that in the eyes of these Phantom Beast staff, "danger = fun".

After dismissing the last person who came up to inquire, Lu Twelve leaned on the tire of the big crane and looked down at the ID card in his hand. The ID card had already been connected to the network in the reserve area. At this time, the black-haired young man was sliding quickly. Finger tried to find some useful information in the Gamma A star mission forum. He just wanted to see if anyone had discussed about Gamma nematodes. It will be very troublesome to start looking for it during the battle.

Lu Twelve tossed and turned, but the final result ended in disappointment.

"Gamma nematode" is probably a newly discovered special species, except that the Phantom Beast staff team who successfully captured this kind of worm at the beginning once posted a related post, briefly introducing the corrosiveness of the solution and the appearance of this kind of worm Also, the only post about this little bug in the entire forum was only from an anonymous user who claimed that their group was tasked with eradicating gamma nematodes, so they came to ask about this bug material.

Lu Twelve looked at the date of posting, and it turned out to be yesterday.

"Strange, someone also received this task yesterday? Then they should have completed the task today. Why was the same task released again on the same day?" Lu Twelve muttered and exited the forum interface.

"If there are a large number of bugs, the bugs must not be cleared in one mission." Shabak said, "Or those people failed the mission—"

As soon as Shabak finished speaking, Lu Twelfth heard a commotion in the corridor outside the reserve area. Someone was talking loudly, and there seemed to be the sound of the wheels rolling when the medical stretcher was pushed past. , It seems that there are female nurses yelling to the people in the corridor to "get out of the way" and "get out of the way".

Lu Twelve put away his ID card and looked out, just in time to see JAY running towards them in a hurry, his face was as pale as a ghost, and when he came in front of the black-haired young man, he suddenly stopped the car and got on Out of breath, he said, "Outside, a new batch of wounded has arrived outside, you...would you like to come and see?"

New to the wounded?

There will always be people who are injured when going out to do missions, what is there to take a look at?

Lu Twelve glanced over JAY's shoulder inexplicably, and just happened to be a few aid station staff running past him with a stretcher. The entire stretcher was covered with a transparent sterile oxygen supply chamber. There was nothing covering the person, so when Lu Twelve stretched his head to look, he had a panoramic view of the injured worker on the stretcher——

To be precise, if JAY hadn't first reminded him that this was a wounded person, he wouldn't have recognized the creature in the anaerobic chamber as his own kind——

Judging by his figure and height, he should be a man, but there is no hair on his head, his clothes are also ragged, hanging on his skin in tatters, and his shoes have long since disappeared. From the parts that are still intact, it can be seen that he once had Caucasian blood, but at this moment, there are large areas of black, completely dehydrated and shriveled scars everywhere on his skin. When he pushed past Lu Twelve, Lu Twelve could just hear his weak, weak moans of pain.

Lu Twelve frowned, but at this moment, someone bumped into someone in front of the stretcher, and the staff behind him also staggered, and a blood-stained ID card fell out of his pocket, rolling away. Landing at Lu Twelve's feet—the black-haired young man paused, bent down to pick up the ID card, but unexpectedly found that the ID card screen was still shining with light——

Same task description.

Same task completion condition.

This person is...

Lu Twelve was stunned, but immediately discovered an even more strange thing - when he picked up the ID card, the number on the "mission completion progress: gamma nematode" was originally "150 /58", but after a few seconds, the number suddenly jumped and became "150/59"!

Lu Twelve was stunned for a moment, at first he thought it was something wrong with his eyes.

However, after the initial beating, the number jumped at an increasing speed——

60、61、62、63、65、67、70……

In the beginning, there was a digital change every second.

Then it turned into jumping a few numbers in a second!

Eventually when that number stayed on "150/80", the whole number finally stopped.

At this time, the rash staff member also seemed to realize that he had lost something important, and hurriedly turned his head to look around, and after a while, he saw that he was holding a blood-stained ID card and was standing there in a daze. He let out a sigh of relief with his long beard, and hurried forward to ask for the ID card. When the latter handed him the ID card with a blank face, he quickly thanked him and said, "Thank you very much, because this is The only ID card that has been kept, we need to take out the chip to see if there are other related task processes—”

"This ID card is a bit strange." Lu Twelve pointed to the screen and frowned, "The number of missions completed has been changing, and it just stopped suddenly."

"..." The staff member looked down at the ID card in his hand, and seemed to find that the cleaning technique of the gamma nematode was different from what he had seen before, and frowned in confusion, "Really, why? It will be like this... Ah! Oops! Could it be that the gas from the corrosive solution entered the ID card and messed up the data?"

Lu Twelve was taken aback for a moment, then mumbled and pointed to the ID card, "However, the statistics of the task of clearing the mine tunnels have not changed..."

"Ah, it seems to be oh? Damn it, I have to give it to the teacher to see what's going on!"

The staff member stuffed the ID card into his pocket. At the same time, he turned his head and hurriedly thanked Lu Twelve again, and then ran away in the direction of the temporary research institute.

Lu Twelve stared at his back for a while. At this moment, he suddenly heard a long "beep" sound similar to a heartbeat tester. He frowned and turned around, only to realize that the injured man The phantom beast worker's stretcher trolley stopped when it was pushed around the corner, and there was another commotion at the end of the corridor. Someone yelled "heartbeat stopped", "put him to the repair cabin quickly", "his teammates how's it going"……

"..."

died?

While Lu Twelve was in a daze, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder from behind, he turned his head, looked at JAY frowning, and said with a rare serious face: "I went to the staff before and asked him to come and give us I went to register, but when I walked halfway, I saw a car that was the same as the alkaline solution car we were assigned driving in. I was wondering why someone was doing the same task today, but it was a few ambulances who jumped out of the car. The medical staff at the station, and then...then three or four such staff were carried out from the rear compartment."

"..." Lu Twelve moved his lips, but he couldn't say a word for a long time. After a while, he heard his very dry voice remember, "Mission failed?"

"Yes." JAY frowned tightly, "I heard that the one that was most corroded by the solution disappeared on the spot, and the good ones were instantly dehydrated, leaving only a layer of black skin tightly attached to the bones On the ground, the bones also became very fragile, and they broke apart at the slightest touch—when the staff members lifted him out of the car, they bumped a little because they didn't stand still, and as a result, the black mass on the stretcher fell directly from it. Interrupted into two halves..."

Lu Twelve: "...you don't need to describe it in such a detailed and graphic way."

The black-haired young man looked shocked. At this time, Sabak, who was following them, also came out slowly, stretched his head and asked, "What's going on?"

Lu Twelve turned his head and stared at Sabak for a while, until he saw the latter inexplicably, and then he muttered: "Is it true that anyone who gets together with us will be infected with the plague of crow's mouth?"

Sabak was inexplicable: "What are you talking about?——What are those people on the stretchers doing?"

Lu Twelve took out his ID card from his pocket, entered yesterday's post asking about gamma nematodes, shook it in front of Sabak, and said, "Those people are the last batch of workers who were unlucky to receive the task of eliminating gamma nematodes yesterday." , just as you speculated just now, their mission failed, and...became what you saw."

Sabak showed a stunned expression.

Seeing his surprised appearance, for some reason, Lu Twelve felt that his heavy heart was a little better. He watched Shabak turn his head and exchanged glances with Fa Cai who was walking out slowly behind him, and thought for a while. Finally, asked: "Did you know this kind before? It is highly metallized, small in size, and can spray corrosive solutions?"

Sabak thought for a while, and then said without hesitation: "No. Because the internal structure of small creatures is more delicate and complex, it is difficult to be highly metalized. It is understandable that there is one such creature, and many of them If so, unless there is something on this planet that we have never touched that can create miracles, otherwise, I think this is simply impossible."

Fa Cai also shook his head, saying that he had never heard of such a kind.

"Things that have never been touched before?" Lu Twelve thought for a while, "Are you talking about those new ore elements that are clearly called gamma elements?"

"It's not that, the only function of that thing is to burn it." Shabak waved his hands and said impatiently, "What's 'Gamma Yuan', what do you call redstone fuel? It's really creative. "

Lu Twelve blinked: "...What is redstone fuel?"

Sabak gave a mocking look: "'Gamma element,' if you want to call it that."

Lu Twelve: "..."

At this moment, Fa Cai seemed to finally be unable to listen to this strange conversation. He stepped forward and pushed Lu Twelve out of the material storage station. No matter how hard they were, they both walked out of the material station, stood outside the door, and took a breath of fresh air. The black-haired young man turned his head and asked the man behind him with flickering eyes: "Brother Cai, Sabak also mentioned before, saying 'Gamma Yuan ’ is a fuel, as you said before.”

Fa Cai's eyes flickered, as if to say: That's true, I didn't lie to you.

"Well, it is clearly a newly discovered ore by human beings. Why does it seem to be something you are already familiar with?" Lu Twelve slightly frowned, "Could it be that Eudemons are actually a group of races with a more advanced culture than humans? ? For example...Waterun star 500 years ago?"

Lu Twelve Yuluo, for some reason, suddenly thought of those phantom beast workers on the stretcher who were made inhuman by the corrosive solution. The phantom beast that could not be restored... For a moment, his mood was a little complicated. When Fa Cai reached out and handed the written ID card to him, he directly cleared the content on it without looking at it, and paused. Turning his head aside, he said calmly, "Forget it, I don't want to know the answer now."

The blond man following him was silent for a while.

After a moment, he reached out and stroked the dark-haired young man's head as if reassuringly.

"I'm fine, Brother Cai." The black-haired young man stretched out his hand, lightly shielded the hand on his head from the man behind him, and said calmly without turning his head, "It's just that I saw those people just now without any mental preparation. The tragic situation...is a little frightening."

……

That night, after a careful discussion, everyone in the team voted to decide whether to go to the mission location in F area tomorrow to see the specific situation, and then confirm whether to cancel the mission.

After making this decision, Lu Twelve explained to the other members of the team that he picked up the strange ID card during the day today. To his surprise, the rest of the team, including Fa Cai, seemed to be a little Disapproval.

JAY: "Your nerves are too tense, maybe the ID card has been corroded and there is a problem?"

Sabak: "The ID card is broken."

Byron: "You're out of your mind."

Lu Twelve: "... Get lost."

Difficult to make a decision, but during the dinner, sitting in the lobby, Lu Twelve overheard the news from the Phantom Beast staff who had just returned to the rescue station. The last living person also swallowed his last breath in the evening, and there were four players in a team, but in the end, there was not a single survivor left, and the team was completely wiped out.

This news is shocking news not only for Lu Twelve and his party, but also for other Eudemons staff.

After all, except for those teams that disappeared mysteriously and seemed to have no idea of ​​their whereabouts before, since Gamma A star opened the mission area, the fact that the team was completely wiped out during the mission has not happened before today—— after getting this news, Lu Twelve The people at the table were a little silent. Because Lu Twelve was still somewhat concerned about the strange change of the ID card in the morning, he kept frowning and didn't speak. But Byron cursed, and then broke out a series of words that Lu Twelve couldn't understand. foreign language.

In Byron's broken thoughts, Shabak also seemed to have a heavy face because of some worry. After all, before that, he didn't seem to think that there would be any accidents beyond his control on Star Gamma A, but he didn't expect that at that time As soon as they arrived here, a difficult situation appeared.

Some Phantom Beast staff around who knew that Lu Twelve had received the same task also came together to gossip, asking Lu Twelve if they were planning to cancel the task, and said that it was very likely that after they canceled the task, the official would adjust the task according to the actual situation Level——It was already an A-level task, and if it was adjusted, it would be an S-level task.

S-level, that is the level that Lu Twelve's team is not even qualified to check the details of the mission.

"However, at this point, the official may still not want you to cancel the mission. After all, there is too little information on gamma nematodes. Someone must do it, right?" said Phantom Beast worker A who came up to talk. , "Maybe the pay will be increased because you don't cancel the mission."

"How much can I increase the salary?" Lu Twelve said blankly, "Is it enough to transport my corpse back to Earth and then buy a cemetery in the Middle Ancient Continent?"

"Maybe it's not enough," JAY said with sincerity while wringing his fingers, "City G's cemetery is quite expensive."

Lu Twelve: "..."

Eudemons worker A laughed for a while, put down his empty wine glass, stood up and looked ready to leave, then said after a pause: "If it doesn't work, you can just cancel the mission, after all, safety is the first priority—or you can go to Ask if anyone who is doing missions nearby has seen the situation. Area F is still in the active period of missions. When the accident happened today, there might be some Phantom Beast staff from other groups who happened to pass by nearby... Are you Isn’t it the first time to do a temporary team on an alien planet? It looks very inexperienced—ah, don’t mind me saying this, just remind you that there is no way out behind closed doors, and you must learn to exchange information with others. Woolen cloth."

Lu Twelve nodded: "Okay, thank you."

Eudemons worker A nodded: "Let the captain do this kind of thing."

Lu Twelve nodded again: "Our team has no captain, only the nanny, and it's me."

Phantom Beast Staff A: "..."

The Phantom Beast worker left with an embarrassing face.

Lu Twelve thought about it and found that what the Phantom Beast craftsman said had some reference value. Indeed, when he came to this place where Phantom Beast craftsmen gathered, he was surrounded by people of the same profession as himself. Get some useful information from others.

After making up his mind, as the "nanny" of the team, Lu Twelve began to try to send JAY and the others back to their respective rooms - after all, the rest of the people present except him and JAY will be on mission tomorrow As a combat unit, Lu Shier wanted to let them go back first and have a good rest, and let him, who might not be of much help tomorrow, do the rest.

It can also be regarded as a team spirit.

After listening to Lu Twelve's explanation, I deeply felt that tomorrow might be a difficult and tough battle. Sabak and Byron stood up and went back to the room without much hesitation. JAY struggled with Lu Twelve three times and wanted to stay but was rejected. Finally, he was helplessly driven back to the room—so only Lu Twelve and the blond man sitting motionless at the table were left present. Eyebrows, a pair of golden pupils stared at the corner of the rest area of ​​the aid station for a moment, majesticly... distracted.

When Lu Twelve walked up to him and called out "Brother Cai", he suddenly came back to his senses, his tightly frowning brows slightly stretched out, and he smoothed the black hair standing in front of him. The young man hugged him by the waist, and put him on his lap like a pet——

If it weren't for the dim light in the rest area at the moment, people around might be able to easily see the face of the young black-haired young man who instantly heated up.

"Brother Cai, let go, there are so many people here!" As soon as Lu Twelve's butt touched Fa Cai's thigh, it immediately bounced up as if it was being burned. He turned his head to face the dissatisfied gaze of the blond man, and he also frowned, "You Go back to the room to wash and change clothes first, I will ask if there is anyone near Area F today, and see if there is any information that can be noticed—"

Before Lu Twelve finished speaking, Fa Cai had already stood up.Walking towards the side where the crowd is the densest - at this time, it seems that there is a man with an extraordinary imposing manner not far away, walking towards him, the Eudemons who were drinking and chatting in the rest area The staff stopped talking and joking one after another, and the entire rest area fell into a moment of awkward silence because of this.

Lu Twelve grabbed Fa Cai and lowered his voice a little frantically: "You are so fierce! How could anyone tell you!"

Fa Cai frowned: What is so fierce?I look like this.

"Anyway, go back first, and I'll ask you to work hard to complete the task tomorrow, and have a good rest tonight," Lu Twelve pushed his reluctant phantom beast to the rest area, "I'll be there in a while." return."

Fa Cai was pushed two steps away. He lowered his head and looked at the dark-haired young man's pupils shining with firm light. He was taken aback for a moment, then showed a helpless expression, and raised his hands in a gesture of compromise. Then he grabbed Lu Twelve's wrist and tapped lightly on the surface of the watch in his hand.

Lu Twelve looked down and saw that it was 10:30 at night.

At the same time, Fa Cai stretched out a finger and waved it in front of him, meaning: I give you an hour, if you don't come back, I will arrest you.

Lu Twelve rolled his eyes, feeling deeply whether he had raised a phantom beast or raised a father who is still engaged in access control, thinking that if everything goes well, an hour should be enough, nodding repeatedly, pushing and asking Sending Fa Cai back to the room—seeing Fa Cai slam the door shut with a bang in dissatisfaction, the black-haired young man heaved a sigh of relief and turned around, returning to the rest area.

In fact, Lu Twelfth made this decision, apart from the reason he said earlier about letting other people take a good rest to preserve their strength, he was actually somewhat selfish—although before that, he had already earned more than 30 gold coins as Start-up funding for the entire mission squad, but he always felt like...

Money is something that cannot be compared with missions.

If there is no him, Jay or Sabak are so smart, they will probably find other ways to earn [-] gold coins, but without these teammates, he can't do any tasks by himself - Lu Twelve knows himself very well What kind of ability is it? I also know that once tomorrow's mission starts, he will most likely become the only person in the team who is lagging behind because of his lack of combat effectiveness and lack of experience. Thinking of this, his self-esteem is about to twitch...

Before becoming the one holding back, he wanted to make some contributions to this temporary small team.

Although I am not very good at talking with others, but this kind of thing, it will be good to try it a few times.

Lu Twelve stood alone outside the rest area, listening to the noise of the Phantom Beast workers inside, he took a deep breath, stepped up and walked into the rest area, at the same time, in his heart Keep reminding yourself to be nice, to be nice, to be polite, to be polite...

After looking around for a while, he finally set his target on a group of female Phantom Beast staff who seemed to be quite talkative. However, when he came to the table, before he could open his mouth to speak, the female Phantom Beast sitting outside The slender fingers painted with red nail polish in the depths of the staff raised his chin, and sprayed his face with a strong smell of alcohol: "Little brother, how much is it for a night to play with sister? "

As soon as she finished speaking, the girls at the table behind her burst into laughter.

Lu Twelve: "..."

Sure enough, dealing with people is much more troublesome than bathing a dog.

If the dog gets upset, at most it will turn its head and bite you.

But the big sister in front of her... looks like she can eat people! >口< "..." Lu Twelve resisted the urge to push away the female phantom beast worker who was hanging on him, and the corners of his lips twitched, forcing himself to smile, "You Okay, I would like to ask, have you heard of any mission team doing missions near Area F today?"

"Area F?" The female Phantom Beast worker was stunned for a moment, her muddy pupils became clearer, "Is that the mission area where people died today?"

Lu Twelve nodded.

At the same time, he felt the hand on his chin move away.

"That, I'm not very clear, Li Jia, have you heard that someone went to Area F today and came back alive?"

She turned her head, staggered back on the seat, and leaned against another female worker behind her like a ball of mud. The latter seemed slightly more awake than her, and she held her chin and thought for a while Then, he casually pointed to the depths of the rest area, hooked his red lips, and said with a smile to the black-haired young man standing nervously in front of their desk at the moment: "I know you, you received the call today. One of the members of the gamma nematode team, right? There's always a cool blond guy behind him..."

"..."

Lu Twelve suddenly felt that it was not right for him to rashly give Fa Cai the death penalty of "how dare people talk to you when they see you"... He actually naively ignored the fact that there are still "female Phantom Beast craftsmen" in this world. The existence of a fighting race.

But at this moment, the female worker put her drunk companion on the sofa, and then lazily said: "Jason's group is in the F area today. Also bitten by a gamma nematode—”

Lu Twelve nodded and thanked him earnestly.

"However, if I were you, I might not provoke Jason. That guy has a bad temper, and another team member was injured today. He might not cooperate with you to answer your questions."

"Then they left today, is there anyone else in this aid station in Area F?"

"No." The female worker shook her head, and looked at Lu Twelve with a sympathetic expression, "Why don't you go to the forum and ask if there are any clues in other rescue stations that such a big thing happened. , Maybe the forum has already exploded?"

Lu Twelve shook his head. In fact, he had checked the communication area a long time ago. Most of the speeches were speculations on this matter, and basically there was no very nutritious discussion.

After thinking about it, he still walked in the direction pointed by the female staff.

The further you walked into the rest area, the more cloudy the air became. When Lu Twelve asked for directions and groped all the way to the table where the group of Phantom Beast staff he wanted to find was located, the surrounding area was filled with smoke and smoky atmosphere. It was as if he had stepped into a fairyland by accident...

When Lu Twelve stood firm in front of the table, his foot slipped down. He lowered his head to look, only to realize that what he stepped on under his foot was an old King of Clubs. He raised his foot, took a step back and regained his footing. , the black-haired young man's eyeballs rolled in their sockets, and his gaze quickly swept over the seven or eight empty wine bottles on the table--Lu Twelve had never drunk this kind of wine, but he knew that in 500 years Today, any bottle of wine on Earth is expensive...

The corners of his eyes twitched, and then Lu Twelve raised his eyes, and looked at one of the group of Eudemons workers who were lying on the sofa drunk and dreaming. At this moment, that person was sitting in the middle of the sofa, Half squinting and smoking a cigarette—he looked about forty, maybe younger, but he was dry and thin, his hair was greasy, and his shriveled face looked sallow in the dim light.

Gives an unpleasant feeling.

And this person seemed to be the leader of this group of Eudemons staff, Jason.

Before Lu Twelve had time to speak, he had already turned his head, looked up and down the black-haired young man in front of him, and then said: "I know you, you made a lot of gold coins in the Phantom Beast Staff Hall this morning The black-haired kid from here is just looking for an opportunity, um, to discuss with you how to make money, you just sent it to your door."

Lu Twelve's heart skipped a beat, and he secretly thought that something was wrong.