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Why are Lu Twelve and his team all right when everyone is "in trouble"?

This question is really too level.

Because at this moment, obviously, no one can answer this question.

Not to mention Lu Twelve present, even Sabak showed a blank expression, and JAY, who is known as a know-it-all, simply looked like "I don't understand what you are talking about, what happened here?"...Looking at The captain of the strange Phantom Beast in front of him showed a suspicious expression, Lu Twelve felt his forehead twitch twice, and then he heard himself say in a terribly hypocritical voice: "No, in fact, I also I felt dizzy for a while, but because I had been tricked by the aquatic phantom before, I was completely tricked that time, and it is very likely that it was a blessing in disguise, so I developed an antibody, and since then I have resisted the hypnosis of the aquatic phantom force."

Lu Twelve finished the above paragraph in one breath, and then he closed his mouth in despair.

Not to mention that the leader of the Phantom Beast staff in front of him at this time showed an expression that came after being fooled by someone with a "stupid nonsense lie". Even Lu Twelve himself felt that it was possible to tell such a lie. He is also a very talented and peerless idiot—but in fact, to a certain extent, he is telling the truth. After all, it should be, and no one can prove that the hypnosis of aquatic Eudemons is really true. There is no such thing as antibodies.

Besides, he couldn't think of any other reasonable explanation.

……

So on the way back, Lu Twelve kept thinking about this problem. His mind was in a mess. He racked his brains and couldn't figure out the difference between this time and the time at the Eudemons Recycle Bin. After thinking about it, he didn't seem to be affected. He wasn't the only one... Could it be because they were far away when the sea soul flute sounded?

No, then they also watched the performance of the sea soul flute from a long distance later, didn't they have no reaction at all?

Lu Twelve felt that his brain was about to turn into a muddle, thinking about the matter of the sea soul flute, and in the end he even forgot to discuss with his teammates about the "Queen Bee", and waited for him to finish the mission settlement in a daze. , when he got the heavy bag of gold coins shared by the whole team, he still had a rather unreal sense of fantasy.

First, he checked the ID card to make sure that all the rewards and contributions of the current task had been credited to the account. Lu Twelve divided the gold coins on the spot. During this time, he noticed that someone seemed to be sneaking at them all the time, so he divided the gold coins. The action became more vigilant. When handing over the gold coins to his teammates, he did not forget to tell them: "Be careful when you go out later, don't let anyone steal or snatch it."

Sabak took the gold coin, weighed it, and handed it to JAY. JAY looked puzzled: "What do you mean? I don't want it."

"Count the rent you pay for living in your wormhole." Sabak said blankly, "I don't like to owe favors to others."

When JAY heard this, he stretched out his hand to take the gold coin from Shabak, nodded at the same time and said: "I accept it, and next time you pay the rent, please don't use the 'worm' with your landlord." Hole' is such an unbelievable word, do you know how much it costs to buy a house as big as ours in the center of City G?"

Sabak shook his head, and said confidently, "I don't know, what's none of my business?"

JAY: "..."

Lu Twelve ignored the two elementary school students who interacted well, and carefully put away his reward. It felt good to have a lot of money in his pocket, and his mood improved a lot—for the time being, " Putting the problems of "Sea Soul Flute" and "Queen Bee" to the back of my mind, I was thinking about when to find time to report the relevant information on Gamma Nematode. In the hall, stepping out of the door of the hall, Lu Twelve realized that just now he felt as if many people were secretly peeking at them, this was not his illusion.

Because when they stepped out of the task settlement hall, the group of people who had been peeking at them before had swarmed up—including some newspaper reporters with microphones in their hands... Reporters!

"..."

Forgive him for his unrestrained love for being a petty citizen all his life.

Seeing a group of enthusiastic faces, Lu Twelve, who had never seen a big scene, was immediately frightened and stopped suddenly. He was a little dizzy when he saw the big faces in front of him, and he couldn't figure it out at all. What's the situation - Fa Cai who was following at his feet at this moment was because he suddenly uttered a warning call of "meow" towards the crowd swarming towards them, if it wasn't for the black-haired young man with quick eyesight and hands before the crowd rushed over He bent down and picked it up. Three seconds later, it might have been trampled into a cat patty.

Reporter A: "Hello, this is the Medieval China Evening News. Are you the Phantom Beast staff who just returned from the mission in Area F today?"

JAY pressed the peaked cap on his head, twisted his head without saying anything, Sabak and Byron took three steps back in succession) So Lu Twelve, who was walking at the end of the line, was so ruthlessly betrayed by his teammate Yes—he was holding Fa Cai, facing a lot of reporters and cameras, and he hadn't recovered for a long time. When a flash of flashes flashed across his face, he nodded in a daze, and answered the reporter's question with difficulty. The first question: "Yes."

What Lu Twelve didn't expect was that his very honest "yes" immediately caused a sigh from JAY beside him. At the same time, those reporters rushed forward even more excitedly, looking like they wanted to swallow them in one mouthful. like——

Reporter A: "Hello, what do you think about the tragedy that happened yesterday in the same area and on the same mission, which is completely different from today's?"

Lu Twelve: "Uh..."

Reporter B: "Do you have anything to say to the families of the victims?"

Lu Twelve: "Huh..."

Reporter C: "I've never heard of your team before. Is this the first time you have temporarily formed a team? I heard that there are two military personnel in your team. Is this true? They are all real military personnel People? May I ask when you perform tasks, will you conflict with them in certain concepts?"

Lu Twelve: "Ah..."

Just when Lu Twelve was moaning and hawing and couldn't answer a single question, suddenly a prominent journalist appeared from the group of reporters. As a professional woman, she used her slender body to directly push away countless tall and strong men standing in front of her, put the microphone in her hand directly under Lu Twelve's mouth, and asked loudly: "Excuse me, now that people are talking about those How did you eliminate those gamma nematodes when the gamma nematodes were helpless?"

"..."

This question was simple and rude, and went straight to the point, which aroused applause from the surrounding crowd.

Lu Twelve blinked and felt that he had finally found a question he could answer, so he took a step back and grabbed back the paw that Fa Cai stretched out his short legs to slap the microphone. He said calmly: "Oh, actually we didn't eliminate those gamma nematodes. In fact, we only had some contact with those gamma nematodes at the beginning. Only eight worms were directly eliminated, and the rest were other people. It was completed by a team of people who passed by by chance and were about to carry out an S-level mission. We are not very clear about the specific process. We also have some important information about gamma nematodes. I will report it to the relevant intelligence department in a while , before that, sorry, I have no other information to comment..."

Lu Twelve's words fell, and the surrounding reporters were in an uproar.

Within 5 minutes, the crowd that had surrounded them dispersed completely.

The noise like buzzing flies around suddenly disappeared, Lu Twelve was really not used to it, stretched his muscles and bones and threw Fa Cai on the ground again, Lu Twelve curled his lips and said: "...do you want to run so fast , we have eliminated eight of them anyway, I think this is the point."

"The team that wiped out yesterday also wiped out [-] gamma nematodes. Of course, not many, it's only ten times as many as ours." JAY patted Lu Twelve on the shoulder, "If it wasn't because dead people can't talk , that group of reporters may have already gone to dig the grave."

Lu Twelve: "..."

After the reporters left, Lu Twelve and his team sorted out the various materials on the gamma nematode and handed them over to the relevant intelligence department as they said before. "after" information, because he is not sure whether his speculation is correct, as if at this moment he is sure that those gamma nematodes will indeed lose their lives because of attacking others, so he dares to report this information Same thing, he doesn't want to talk about things that are not sure yet.

And he always felt that if the talk about the "Queen Bee" spread, it might bring him some troubles—the first thing he thought of was the mysterious WL team, if there was anything on this planet worth their flying If it is not possible to come and walk, then it is very likely that it is the "Queen Bee" who is influencing the depths of the mine.

Currently, the premise is that the "Queen Bee" really exists.

Lu Twelve and his team, who brought the research results on gamma nematodes, were warmly welcomed by the research center—everyone was treated to delicious food in the high-level office, and there was even a central air conditioner. After the second handed over the written report and made a verbal description, the other party did not hesitate to take out a large bag of gold coins, which was four or five times richer than the task reward itself, and pushed it over from the other end of the desk: "Here are five A hundred gold coins."

As a "team nanny and spokesperson", the black-haired young man sitting on the side of the desk at this moment stared at Yan slightly: "...five hundred...gold!"

Lu Twelve felt a little dizzy. For five hundred gold coins, everyone in the team can get at least more than 100 gold coins for each point. More than 100 gold coins are equivalent to 1 yuan... This is still dependent on the fact that he was penniless just now. For Lu Twelfth and his party, who sold egg-filled pancakes to earn the cost of extruding equipment, it was a huge sum that fell from the sky.

One hundred gold coins are enough to buy a bright glass door for Lu Twelve's Eudemons Beauty Shop, which is about to open in the busiest and busiest street in G City.

Maybe it can also be equipped with a 24-hour flashing LED light advertising sign.

Lu Twelve tremblingly looked at the bag of money in front of him. He didn't think that sharing information might bring them an extra reward. He just didn't expect that there would be so much... At this moment, he After a moment of silence, he still seemed a little reserved and said: "Actually, sharing information is what each of us Phantom Beast staff should do—"

Lu Twelve didn't finish his sentence, because he always felt that all his teammates rolled their eyes behind him who couldn't see at this moment.

The person in charge smiled: "In the previous invitation advertisement, we have already mentioned that as long as it is helpful to the development of the entire mine star, you will get rich rewards——if what you said is true , these five hundred gold coins belong to you; if your information is wrong, we reserve the right to withdraw the extra reward."

"That's so embarrassing." Lu Twelve said while reaching out to grab the big bag of gold coins, "I'm so sorry."

The person in charge of the research center sitting behind the desk smiled unchanged, and still said politely: "Tonight, we will mobilize the live animals in the material center to be harassed by the pest competition, thank you for your cooperation and for sharing information tolerantly." , your dedication has made the entire Gamma A mining schedule a big step forward."

Lu Twelve held the money bag and shook his head silently.

At this moment, sitting on the sofa behind him, JAY's voice drifted over unhurriedly: "Since you are so grateful, why not increase your reward? Five hundred gold coins is really nothing. Everyone in the team On average, it’s only a hundred gold coins.”

Hearing this, Lu Twelve suddenly turned his head and stared at his teammates silently—a few seconds later, he thought of the series of arrogant actions this guy had made to the task entruster when he completed the task of collecting the fruit of the egg tree. Lu Twelve realized that his dear teammate suffered from the disease of kicking his nose and face again.

Subconsciously, he clutched the big bag of gold coins on his chest, as if he was afraid that the other party would become angry and snatch the money back. However, at this moment, Lu Twelve heard the person in charge silent for a moment behind him, and seemed to make up his mind: "Wait It is confirmed that all the gamma nematodes on Star Ma A have been eliminated, and I will fight with the higher authorities to give you another five hundred gold coins as a reward."

Lu Twelve: "..."

JAY showed a satisfied expression. Lu Twelve looked at his teammates, as if he was looking at a god who just fell from the sky and was dedicated to helping the poor and the poor out of the sea of ​​poverty.

A few minutes later, standing outside the intelligence center, JAY took the big bag of extra income, stuffed it in his hands, and then said: "These are the projects that the military officials and private ore developers cooperate with. There is nothing more than money. , a thousand gold coins is nothing to them at all, it is very likely that the last thing dug out can be sold for a thousand gold coins for just one gram of extract, if you don’t cheat them, you are too young .”

Lu Twelve: "Yes, yes, yes! It is necessary! It's too tender!"

250 gold coins, basically each person can get [-] gold coins. Now let alone the front door of the Eudemons beauty shop, there is even a cash register one step inside.

……

That night, Lu Twelve and the others, who had completed the first mission and received a large amount of rewards, went back to their rooms to wash up, and then made an appointment to gather in the rest area of ​​the aid station—the Byrons didn't know where to go Fat Cai changed back into a human form and joined them. Four people sat around a small table, enjoying themselves.

Suddenly becoming a local tyrant, JAY also took the initiative to treat guests in a good mood. He asked the bar for a few drinks and five bottles of wine. Lu Twelve looked at it and found that the wine that JAY brought was forced by Jason yesterday. The culprit that caused Brother Cai to go crazy and entangled him all night: Orion whiskey.

"Drink, this kind of wine is very famous." JAY said with a smile, "That is to say, it is closer to Orion, so the price is much cheaper than on the earth. Normally, if you want to drink this kind of wine, three gold coins are not worth it." It must be taken down, only two gold and fifty silver are needed here, which is very cost-effective."

Lu Twelve grabbed a bottle of chilled wine and sniffed it, then turned his head to look at Fa Cai. At this moment, the man was sitting quietly in the shadows, holding a plate of marshmallows brought back by JAY and seemed to be eating absent-mindedly. —— During the period, there were female Eudemons staff who came up to strike up a conversation, but they were all forced back by his unfriendly face when he was expressionless.

Seeing Lu Twelve holding the wine bottle, he didn't react at all, and he didn't seem to mind too much.

...It turns out that this product is not sensitive to alcohol.Seeing that Fa Cai didn't respond, Lu Shier took a sip of the wine in peace. When the cold and hot stimulation spread from his taste buds, a hand suddenly stretched out from his side and took the wine in his hand. Grabbing it, it seemed that he didn't hesitate to take a sip from the mouth of the bottle just now, and directly took a big gulp from the place where he drank.

Lu Twelve: "..."

Lu Twelve turned his head and looked at the man serving wine with marshmallows. After taking a big gulp of whiskey, he didn't respond, but narrowed his golden pupils slightly, and wiped the wine from his lips expressionlessly. Drinking wine also looks a little bright in the shadows...

Lu Twelve felt that he heard the female Phantom Beast workers at the next table explode.

When the blond man silently swallowed the next sip of wine, he became a little more refined, but after he took two sips, half of the bottle of wine was gone... Lu Twelve couldn't stand it any longer: "Brother Cai, don't you kid?" Good drink."

As soon as he finished speaking, Fa Cai casually stuffed the wine back into his hand.

Lu Twelve wanted to say something, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a familiar voice on the TV behind them. He turned his head, and saw his big silly face appearing on the TV screen without any warning. In the middle, the eyes are empty, and the face looks tense or not, as if suffering from epilepsy, he twitches slightly and says to the audience friends in front of the TV——

【Oh, actually we didn’t eliminate those gamma nematodes. In fact, we only had some contact with those gamma nematodes at the beginning, and only eight worms were directly eliminated...】

Lu Twelve: "..."

Lu Twelve heard a man's deep sneer from the shadow beside him.

I don't know if it's because of the alcohol, but at this moment the black-haired young man felt his whole face was on fire. It was replaced by a low cry of pain, and then he turned his head to look at Sabak and JAY and said: "You guys, why didn't you remind me today that I look like an idiot when I talk like this. What did you say, 'there are only eight worms that can be directly eliminated'—"

Lu Twelve paused, and said in despair, "Did you notice the stupid face I had when I said the number 'eight'?"

No one pooh-poohed him.

Because at this moment JAY has already laughed to the ground.

Sabak was also holding the wine bottle, looking like he was about to smile.

Fa Cai sat up a little, stretched out his hand and patted Lu Twelve's shoulder.

And at this time, the black-haired young man in the TV confessed to the audience friends in front of the TV with a slumped face that it was the WL team who helped them complete the task——

"I feel that although I didn't have any expression at the time, my heart was indeed very calm, but it made me look more like I was carefully hugging the thigh of the military staff team." Lu Twelve looked at it for a while and said with death Expression evaluation, "Tell me quickly, this is my illusion."

"What, aren't you hugging your thighs?" JAY couldn't stop laughing, his whole body was shaking like crazy, "How can anyone openly give credit to someone from another group when they are being interviewed? That’s right—at most, it’s just avoiding talking about it, and honestly talking about how the eight insects we wiped out were eliminated, and you can also praise the deeds of Uncle Shabak’s bravery in saving a child from the gamma nematode venom—”

Sabak: "No."

Lu Twelve turned his head: "You are so good, why don't you fucking accept the interview!"

JAY raised his hand and pressed his peaked cap: "Because a nobleman like me will not accept interviews from tabloids casually."

Lu Twelve: "Get lost."

Fortunately, the news broadcast jumped to other screens at this time, which still revolved around the gamma nematode incident, but now the live broadcast is broadcast on the TV screen - Lu Twelve noticed that the next door said, at this moment What is broadcast on the TV is the rhythm of the global simultaneous live broadcast.

Lu Twelve thought for a while about what the company called "Global Simultaneous Live Streaming", and then thought for a few seconds about the scene featuring him as the protagonist, and immediately began to think desperately, if he would get those hundreds of gold coins as a reward, he would go to the entire content first. never mind?

And in the video at this moment, the official staff of the Gamma A Star Army drove about fifty animals that were used to provide meat to places where Gamma nematodes were infested. Within the range, there was a buzzing sound from the TV, and then, accompanied by the exclamation of a Phantom Beast worker in the rest area, in the video, gamma nematodes flew out of the hole——

The bugs quickly landed on the cows and pigs, and soon, the entrance to the mine lode in Area F became a new meat slaughterhouse.

And as those animals fell down in batches, the gamma nematodes that had been injected with the venom did not leave in a hurry, but just buzzed and hovered in the sky for a while. About 10 minutes later, an amazing scene appeared. Among the circling gamma nematodes, a black shadow fell down—this seemed to be a beginning, and then more and more black shadows fell like raindrops.

Gamma worms that had just been injected with caustic solutions in cattle and pigs died suddenly.

At this moment, outside the TV, the entire rest area fell silent. After a while, someone muttered, "Isn't this how bees work?"

This seemed to remind everyone present.

There was a buzzing explosion in the rest area, and people chatted about it.

"It is indeed correct to finish the cave cleaning task today." Looking away from the TV, Lu Twelve shook his head, "As expected, this entrance was full of gamma nematodes in less than one afternoon."

Sabak, who was drinking quietly, frowned and looked at the black-haired young man: "What do you mean?"

Lu Twelve moved his lips, and was about to answer him that of course the "Queen Bee" sent a new "Worker Bee" to guard him. After thinking about it, he slapped his forehead and remembered that today's things happened too much and too messy. He didn't have time to talk about the inference about the "Queen Bee" with his teammates at all. Now he put down the bottle in his hand and paused for a while. Then Lu Twelve reported the information about gamma nematodes and The suspicion that there might be a "queen bee" among them informed the teammates.

During the entire narration, Lu Twelve and his table were extremely quiet.

Both Sabak and JAY frowned and listened seriously, only Fa Cai looked lazily, holding a wine bottle with one hand, his tall body pressed against Lu Twelve's body, and the other hand slapping the ground every time. Pinching the earlobe of the black-haired young man—tired of playing, the people around him couldn't see clearly due to the dim light in the rest area, so he leaned forward and bit his mouth.

The black-haired young man seemed to have gotten used to the habitual intimacy of a "feline" man, but he didn't push him away. On the contrary, Shabak looked a bit overwhelmed, and frequently moved his eyes away in the middle, as if he didn't know what to do. Uncomfortable where to put my dog's eyes so as not to go blind.

Seeing Sabak's embarrassment, Lu Twelfth finally realized that it seemed a bit indecent for two big men to lean so close together.

So he stretched out his hand, pushed the tall blond man who was leaning on him away calmly, and handed him a plate of snacks for him to play with—at the same time, Lu Twelve also completed himself Regarding the description of the "Queen Bee", he calmed down and looked at JAY and Sabak who were in deep thought at the moment, as if they were silently waiting for their opinions.

Sabak thought for a while and said: "I said before that because of the internal refinement of insect-type phantom beasts, it is difficult to have high-density metallization-I have never seen such a situation, but judging from the current situation , I seem to have overestimated my own knowledge, after all, I have been asleep for too long, but I have ignored that the world is changing."

Lu Twelve paused for a moment, as if he wanted to ask what the so-called "sleep" meant. At the same time, he heard a soft "click" and realized that it was Fa Cai who put the snack in his hand on the table , sat up a little - Lu Twelve glanced, the snacks on the plate hadn't been touched much.

Sabak continued: "If, as you said, there is indeed a creature with a high IQ in the center of the vein of Gamma A star—then I think I can deduce that these Gamma nematodes may not be Gamma nematodes. The objects that were born and raised on Star Ma, perhaps, the reason why they have such unimaginable high metallization is just because they are new species directly created by this creature."

"..." Lu Twelve seemed shocked by his statement, "How is it possible?"

"Humans will also think of transforming Eudemons these days," Sabak showed a mocking expression, "It shouldn't be too difficult to create a batch of completely metal insects that don't exist in theory—if so If so, I am afraid that the person I am looking for is on this planet, maybe he is the so-called 'Queen Bee', his name is 'Ye Raksha', as I said, he is very smart, smart The extent is beyond imagination, if he is already in the awakened state at this moment, then I guess, the mysterious disappearance of the phantom beast staff and the attack of gamma nematodes are just the beginning, and this planet is about to usher in a bigger storm."

"Awakened state?" Lu Twelve was shocked, and felt that he had grasped the key words, "You mean, there is another awakened phantom beast on this planet, and it is the 'Queen Bee'?"

"If it is, then you have to be careful," Sabak raised his eyelids, and glanced at the blond man sitting silently on the sofa at this time, "Ye Luosha is not like me, he has feelings for human beings." Outright hostile, ungrateful, murderous, paranoid, and insane."