May you be happy and prosperous

Day two.

Lu Twelve and his party got up early in the morning, and used the remaining part of their money to enjoy a breakfast service without hands-on, and then they set off in a mighty way—in order not to make Byron suspect, Fa Cai was in the At Lu Twelve's request, he reluctantly changed back to the appearance of a phantom beast. When they boarded the car together to get the basic props for the mission at the material storage station, Lu Twelve looked at the group members with a serious expression. Each member said: "The only goal today is Ha, just to come back alive."

"Relax," JAY sat down on the seat next to Sabak, "I can't do the task well, can't we do well by running away?"

Sabak glanced at JAY contemptuously, as if he was very dissatisfied with his attitude of preparing to run away before completing the task, then turned his head and said to Lu Twelve: "I didn't intend to end my life on a group of small bugs. "

Lu Twelve nodded, and sat back in his seat with Fa Cai in his arms.

After driving for about 10 minutes on the closed railway track, Lu Shier and his party arrived at the material station. Today's weather is fine and the wind is not strong. It seems to be a good day for missions. The entire Gamma A star's material center is bustling with activity. There are huge crowds of people under the release column. Looking around, there are Phantom Beast workers who come to receive or cancel the quests everywhere——On the way from Lu Twelve and the others to the material storage center, at least three of them originally received the quests. The team for the F-block mission is about to cancel the mission.

So when receiving the mission items, Lu Twelve and the others enjoyed the surprised gazes of the staff—they were probably surprised that after such a big incident happened in Area F yesterday, there are still people willing to perform the same mission. After all, the mission center has been busy since it opened the door this morning. The missions related to Area F have basically been cancelled, especially the missions near the entrance of the mine veins, which have basically been re-posted to the mission release column. , usually the same task of "cleaning" and "finding objects" was claimed as soon as it was posted, but today, only the task of F area was hung on the task bar alone, and no one cared about it. .

The staff were quite helpless about this, and almost wanted to request a new wave of resources from the Earth Military Department. As a result, the staff team who received the task of "cleaning the entrance to the mine vein" prepared to carry out the task as usual.

Watching the Phantom Beast workers of this team jump into the alkaline solution truck one after another, the staff responsible for counting the mission items for them looked up at them for a while, at this moment, he saw the last black-haired young man who got on the truck He suddenly stopped getting into the car, turned his head and asked, "Excuse me, how many teams are still working on the normal task in Area F today?"

The staff froze for a moment, as if they didn't expect the black-haired young man in front of him to ask such a question. In fact, generally, staff members are not obliged to provide this kind of information to Phantom Beast staff, but... After thinking for a while, this A staff member still took out the work recorder from his pocket, and after a little inquiry, he gently closed the recorder and said: "Today's normal tasks in Area F include the 'cleaning' task of your group. There are four missions—including two B-level object-hunting missions, both of which are to capture a gamma nematode. Because of the difficulty of the mission, the two teams seem to have negotiated to combine the missions. They have already set off half an hour ago Yes, besides that, there is an S-level exploration mission."

"...S rank?" Lu Twelve was taken aback when he heard that, "Are you talking about people like Ashura?"

"Sorry, we are not allowed to disclose this according to the regulations."

After Lu Twelve heard this, he stopped entanglement, nodded and said, "There is one last question."

The staff member nodded, and it was rare today to say patiently: "Please tell me."

Lu Twelve thought for a while and asked, "When you recorded the 'cleaning' tasks, how did you count the numbers?"

The staff replied: "Each task area has area scanning points. After you enter the task area, the task chip built in the ID card will automatically open the task function according to the signal of the scanning electricity. During the task area, as long as you follow the The phantom beasts that you have come into contact with within the standard range will be marked by the chip as raw data, and when the marked phantom beasts are confirmed to have lost their life activity characteristics, it will be considered a successful mission and will be recorded in the current cleaning data."

Lu Twelve: "That is to say, if I just inflicted heavy damage on the mission target and evacuated for some reason, and the phantom beast died during my evacuation, would this be considered my mission completed?"

"Yes," the staff member said with a smile, "Phantom Beast Staff Guild has always been a place that focuses on results. As long as the ultimate goal is achieved, we will provide corresponding rewards."

Lu Twelve said "Oh" and wanted to say something. At this moment, Byron, who was sitting in the driver's seat, frowned impatiently and urged him—he nodded to the staff and said After thanking him, he bent down and got into the car. When Byron, who was sitting in the driver's seat, fumbled to start the alkaline solution car, the staff standing under the car looked up at them and stared blankly for a while. Afterwards, say in a sincere tone, "Good luck."

The car started "rumbling", and the silver-haired young man in charge of driving stuck out his head and looked at the staff blankly, and said "Get out of the way" in a bad tone, when the car sprayed out a cloud of muddy The exhaust gas drove away slowly. At this time, a peaked cap protruded from the passenger seat and waved it in the direction of the staff member, as a thank you to the people in the car for his blessing.

……

Along the way, Lu Twelve took the time to share the information exchanged with Jason yesterday with his teammates, and combined the condition of "every sixteen gamma nematodes can die" with the ID card he picked up yesterday. The matter was combined, and I expressed my concerns——

"Yesterday, the five members of the mission team were obviously dead or seriously injured and all were sent to the ambulance station, but the number of mission clearances on their ID cards was still changing—according to what I just consulted with the staff, it seems that those changes It doesn’t seem to be a problem with the ID card itself, but it means that after the five members of the mission team died one after another, those gamma nematodes also died for some reason.”

Sabak frowned: "What do you mean?"

Lu Twelve took a deep breath, and seemed a little embarrassed to state his deduction results: "I think these gamma nematodes died because they bit the phantom beast staff, which can explain why the number of the last mission stopped. Don't move on the number of '80/150' - sixteen gamma nematodes can die, and five phantom beast staff died, adding up to exactly eighty gamma nematodes."

After Lu Twelve finished speaking, he slightly raised his jaw and looked at the people around him. Thankfully, no one continued to refute his thinking too much this time. Everyone in the car seemed to be temporarily convinced by his reasoning, and Fa Cai lazily said " "Meow" and stretched, the tail wrapped around the black-haired young man's wrist and slid up and down flexibly.

It seems that he is very satisfied that his master's IQ has suddenly improved overnight.

JAY and Sabak didn't speak, but Byron, who should be driving seriously at this moment, heard the words and said abruptly: "Hey, it means that those gamma nematodes are infusing the corrosive solution in their bodies into humans. After being in the body, you will die with it?"

Lu Twelve frowned: "It seems so?"

"What, isn't this the same principle as the bee's tail needle?" Byron said, "When the bee stings, it will also pull out the internal organs and die as the tail needle falls off. If those gamma rays hit the bee If it’s about the same principle—”

When Byron said this, he suddenly stopped talking, and it was Shabak who finished what he wanted to say: "Then we can eliminate the gamma nematodes required by the mission numbers without showing up, as long as we find suitable ones substitute."

For example, at this moment they may need to borrow a live pig from the food storage department of the material station, put the ID card on the pig and throw it into the hole, and then all they need to do is squat At the entrance gate, wait patiently for the gamma nematodes inside to die, and then enter the entrance, clean the acid solution at the entrance, and retrieve your ID card at the same time.

The problem seems to be solved perfectly.

At this moment, the people in the car seemed a little excited, and JAY suggested that they should turn around and go back to the material station to apply for a substitute for experimentation—because once the experiment is successful, the gamma nematode disaster will be well received. Solve it, this can be regarded as solving a big problem for the developers, and they will definitely not be unwilling to sacrifice any meat.

Because the entrance of area F is the closest to the center of the vein, it is said that according to the test results, the "gamma element" mineral in the center of the vein has the highest purity and the most dense reserves. Treasure house - For the mine center, whether it is the Army Department of the Middle Ancient Continent itself, or those developers who are counting on making a fortune on Gamma A star, they have long been impatient.

It's just that after JAY put forward the idea of ​​turning back, Lu Twelve thought about it and decided to continue to the mission area - after all, all their methods and methods are only based on their previous theory about the "bee tail needle" It can only be used. If the actual situation is not like this, wouldn't it be a joy in vain?

"There should be other clues to follow near the mining area," Lu Twelve thought for a while and said, "The scene was so chaotic yesterday, maybe the scene hasn't had time to clean it up yet, and we'll be near the mission area in a while, let's look for it carefully. See if there are any gamma nematode corpses left behind, and if you take a closer look at the specific conditions of those corpses, you can know what they are."

"I agree with Lu Twelve this time." Sabak said, "It's better to investigate clearly. Didn't two teams go to the entrance first today? If it doesn't work, let's use those little meat worms—"

When the only two humans in the car silently turned their heads to Sabak, he paused, as if realizing that he seemed to have said something he shouldn't have said, he obediently closed his mouth, and the next Before he could finish speaking, he swallowed his words back into his stomach.

Next, it took Lu Twelve and the others about an hour to reach mission F area - the period included the 10 minutes wasted by Byron driving the wrong way and turning back. When they arrived at mission F area, Gamma A star The wind seemed to be getting stronger again, and the surrounding area was dusty and dusty.

Lu Twelve touched the backpack on his back, and silently took out a matching eye mask from the toolbox and put it on.

At this time, JAY, who was not far away from him, had already escaped from the electronic map of the mining area that he downloaded yesterday. After opening it and looking at it, JAY and Sabak headed towards the center of the mission area—because there was a big insect disaster just yesterday Accident, today's F area is terribly quiet, with the rustling sound of the wind blowing gravel, besides, Lu Twelve can only hear his own heavier breathing and heartbeat.

It is obviously an aerobic area where he can breathe freely, but Lu Twelve felt that his breathing became more and more difficult every time he approached the central area of ​​the mission - he wanted to open his mouth to breathe, but he moved his lips and immediately swallowed a mouthful of food. Sandstone, he had no choice but to shut his mouth obediently, and walked forward in silence.

No one spoke along the way, but occasionally I could hear Shabak commanding simple commands such as "go this way" and "turn left" in front.

Lu Twelve followed behind them, with Fa Cai at his feet. In the wind, the soft fur of the Phantom Beast that had grown up like a young tiger was blown messily by the wind. Every time he walked a certain distance, Fa Cai seemed to be very ugly. Shaking its fur impatiently to shake off the sand and stones that fell on it——Lu Twelve lowered his head to watch its every move. For some reason, he suddenly felt as if he had missed something important.

"strangeness……"

Lu Twelve frowned, muttered to himself, and then ate another mouthful of sand, in exchange for Fa Cai who followed him with a contemptuous squint. Before he had time to remember, the electronic map It shows that the group of them has arrived at the mission center—and on the way here, they also saw the traces left by their predecessors—drinking empty mineral water bottles and the like, whirling and being blown up by the wind and smashed On Byron's head, the silver-haired youth cursed angrily.

Lu Twelve was gesturing to Yinmao to shut up and stop shouting, while looking around. Sure enough, when they turned over a mountain again, they immediately saw about eight or nine Phantom Beast workers gathered Together, those people huddled in the lee of a boulder, and they didn't know what they were discussing. Not far from them, there was a huge dark mine entrance—the mine entrance hadn't had time to be repaired. Well, I just dug it hastily. From a distance, it looks like a naturally formed cave.

The cave was quiet, and no living creatures were heard or seen coming in and out.

When the group of Phantom Beast staff heard the footsteps, they all looked back nervously. When they found that only a few Phantom Beast staff and Phantom Beasts came, they obviously showed a relieved expression——Wait for Lu Twelve When they approached, one of the group of male and female Eudemons workers, probably the captain, came up and shook hands with JAY, who was walking in the front and wearing a peaked cap: "Are you the staff of another rescue station? I thought no one else would come to this area to carry out missions today."

"We took the cleaning task," JAY said, "the one that killed a lot of people yesterday."

"..." The phantom beast worker was silent for a while, and then said, "Ours is all about finding objects, we just need to catch two or more gamma nematodes and put them in the box—"

As the man spoke, he pointed behind him. Lu Twelve stretched his head to look, and as expected, he saw two cages made of special metal materials behind him—probably because the research station has already developed a cage that is not afraid. The cage corroded by the gamma nematode solution, Lu Twelve stared blankly at the empty box for a while, thinking that it would be a good choice to make it into armor for each of them.

Just when he was wild and whimsical, suddenly, he vaguely saw a sneaky voice behind the two cages. Lu Twelve was taken aback for a moment, and then frowned: "Ah !Thief!"

The man behind the cage immediately straightened up, revealing his disheveled face instead of hiding: "You are the thief!"

Lu Twelve turned his head and looked at the leader of the Phantom Beast who was greeting JAY at the moment: "Why are you playing with this thief!"

The leader of the Phantom Beast staff raised his eyebrows inexplicably: "Who? You mean Saibona? He doesn't have Phantom Beasts, he just asked to follow us to find his brother—"

As a result, before he had time to finish speaking, the black-haired young man had already shown a mocking expression, bent over the shoulder of the Eudemons captain, and looked at the embarrassed Saibona behind him: "So your story Is it written as a novel and printed directly into a booklet to distribute a copy to everyone in the relief station?"

"I really wanted to help!" Saibner said.

Lu Twelve sneered, expressing his doubts about this answer, but he didn't bother to say any more, and directly brought Fa Cai and the others together with the group of Phantom Beast staff—take off the blindfold, and pat off the yellow sand on his body , drink saliva by the way, during the sorting period, Lu Twelve learned that the nine-member team formed by the merger of two Phantom Beast workers actually arrived at the mission location a long time ago, but when they approached here, they immediately They found that the surroundings were too quiet. According to experience, this made them restrained and dare not act rashly.

In the process of listening to their description, Lu Twelve guessed that they probably didn't know anything about gamma nematodes.

With a heartbeat, before the people on his side had time to express their opinions, as the nanny of the whole team, Lu Twelve sat down in front of the leader of the Eudemons staff, and said abruptly: "Exchange of information."

Eudemons staff leader: "..."

The black-haired young man wiped his face: "I also paid some price yesterday—Brother Cai, let go, don't bite me, thank you—I happen to have a guess about gamma nematodes here, it's absolutely reliable, should I change it?"

The captain of the phantom beast worker looked at the black-haired young man in front of him with embarrassment and pulled his hand out of his phantom beast's mouth. After thinking about it for a while, he nodded under the expectant eyes of the black-haired young man. Said: "Yes."

Lu Twelve heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately said: "According to the principle of information exchange, the person who first proposes the exchange of information will have the priority to obtain information, isn't that correct?"

Under the inexplicable stares of other people around, the captain of the Phantom Beast staff narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he didn't expect the person in front of him to know so many rules, he looked him up and down, but he didn't see that the person in front of him seemed to be so regular After hesitating for a moment, the kind of person who hangs around in the black market of information, he still nodded and said, "You ask questions first, provided that I know the answer."

"No need." Lu Twelve waved his hand, turned around and took out the telescope from his backpack, adjusted it, and pointed it at the flat ground near the cave below—the wind was quite strong at the moment, but fortunately, the visibility was not bad. From a distance, he saw dozens of small black dots scattered around the cave entrance. After a pause, the black-haired young man put away the binoculars with satisfaction, "I want you to help me get it The corpse of a gamma nematode."

As soon as Lu Twelve's words came out, the people around were all taken aback.

Only Lu Twelve and his small team showed some different expressions on their faces. JAY turned his head and silently glanced at Lu Twelve and gave him a thumbs up. Byron smacked his lips, sounding appreciative Sighing helplessly: "Treacherous, little short legs."

Although being praised by Byron was really not happy at all, Lu Twelve still turned his head and glanced at him with a smile on his face: "Thank you for the compliment."

Byron shrugged.

After hearing Lu Twelve's request, the leader of the Phantom Beast was slightly taken aback: "What do you want corpses for? Only living creatures can be scientifically researched—"

"It's just to confirm some things," Lu Twelve said. "After confirmation, I will tell you more information together. I believe that will help you complete the task smoothly and even get more follow-up rewards."

As soon as Lu Twelve's words came out, those Phantom Beast workers obviously showed a shaken expression - "successful completion of the task" and "more follow-up remuneration" sounded really good, if the black-haired young man in front of him didn't If there is no lie, it should not be difficult for them to obtain a dead gamma nematode corpse, after all, some of their people have raised flying-type phantom beasts——

Just when everyone was hesitating, Saibona suddenly stood up: "Understood, I'll go!"

Lu Twelve was taken aback, then frowned: "What are you going to do, treat yourself as a phantom beast?"

"I want to prove that I'm not here to hold you back," Saibna said loudly, "I'm also very grateful to Captain Liz for agreeing to bring me here to find my brother—"

"It's not an acceptance speech, please shut up." Lu Twelve's frowning brows did not let go, "This matter is no small matter, you don't want it as a child—hey!"

As soon as Lu Twelve finished speaking, Saibona's small figure flew out first, and slid down the huge rocky slope where they were hiding!

The people around were all taken aback, but Lu Twelfth reacted the fastest, patted Fa Cai's butt beside him and muttered "Go and see him", the young Eudemons uttered a soft "meow", and jumped out immediately Landed firmly on the back of Saibona, who was crawling and sliding at this moment, and then another female Phantom Beast worker was the second to react, and released her own flying Phantom Beast. The flying-type phantom beast that only looks like Yan is nimble and compact, dragging its long metal tail feathers, fluttering its wings and circling over Fa Cai and Saibona.

When Sabona landed firmly on the ground, Lu Twelve watched his back sneakily approaching the entrance of the cave, and the uneasiness that had been vaguely emerging in his heart became stronger again——

Soon, his premonition became reality.

When Sabina first approached gradually, the dark cave was still silent—however, when he stepped into a certain range, it was as if a certain mechanism had been activated suddenly, and in the dark cave In the cave, something immediately made a "buzzing" sound, and then, a scalp-numbing scene appeared, about dozens of metal insects the size of an adult's palm swarmed out of the cave, and rushed straight at the cave. At this moment, Saibona, who was frightened and stunned in place, rushed over!

"Come back soon!"

Lu Twelve was startled and roared violently. Fa Cai almost turned around and ran back without much hesitation. However, at this time, he didn't know what the kid was thinking. He picked up the nearest gamma nematode corpse and held it in his hand, then ran back desperately with a pair of short legs——

However, it was already too late.

The gamma nematode closest to him was less than ten meters away.

"Damn, what are you doing!"

Cursing angrily, Lu Twelve gasped. He couldn't believe why he should bear the responsibility of killing a kid for no reason. But at this moment, he only felt a gust of wind rubbing against his shoulders. However, the next moment, he saw Shabak leaping down from the high stone steps with extraordinary agility like a running wild beast. At the same time, he drew out the two big knives on his back— —

Under the natural light, the metal double knives that gradually came off from the rags shone with dazzling light.

At this moment, Lu Twelve vaguely saw that there was a whirlwind of yellow sand wrapped around the two knives in Shabak's hands. If he didn't look carefully, he would almost think that it was just the wind that existed on the surrounding Gamma A star—— At this moment, Sabak has rushed to the center of the gamma nematode at an extraordinary speed. When he raised the knife and dropped it, he heard a loud "bang" and "bang", and the green solution splashed on the ground and gave a "sizzling" command. The sound of human scalp tingling, the big knife surrounding the whirlwind, actually split the completely metalized gamma nematodes in two!

Lu Twelve's eyes widened.

At the same time, he heard the gasps of surprise from the other Eudemons staff around him. Amidst the shock, a female staff muttered in an unbelievable tone: "My God, it's actually a military staff."

At this time, Sabak did not continue to fight, he just waved the big knife in his hand, and knocked down a few more Gamma nematodes, and the splashed solution fell on his arm, making a terrible corrosion sound, He just frowned slightly, and then he stabbed a knife into the back of the knife, and his strong arm was like carrying a small chicken, holding Saibona who was limp on the ground and dared not move at the moment. , took another step, and ran towards the boulder cover like crazy——

"Ahhh, he'll lure those gamma nematodes over!"

"Run!"

"shit!"

A group of Eudemons workers hiding behind the boulder was in a mess, but at this moment, they saw a rather shocking scene——

When Sabak and Saibna ran over a certain distance, the gamma nematodes stopped and stopped chasing, buzzing and forming a ball again, turning around and flying in a swarm again. Back into the cave.

When Shabak panted and threw the little ghost in his hand to the feet of everyone like throwing garbage, he was still holding a gamma nematode corpse in his arms, but at this moment, the black-haired young man did not go He took over the corpse of the worm and came to study it. He just stared at the hole and muttered: "... I finally remembered what information I missed just now. It's the guardian. These gamma nematodes are not just doing the same thing. Attacking blindly, they are guarding the entrance."