Forces of Temptation

What they are fighting against is the NPC in the dungeon.

This is a short copy.

12 hours of game time, but 2 hours of preparation time...

full moon...fear...

Why is the snow mountain level named "Full Moon Fear"?

When a lot of information was running in Nanzhou's mind, Lu Bifang ran down the stairs.

He was holding three sets of fleece thermal clothes and pants, three sets of assault pants, three pairs of cold-proof gloves and three cold-proof hats in his pockets, and three pairs of double-layer hiking boots with laces tied together on his shoulders. There was also a portable oxygen cylinder between them, and the whole body was hung up like a Christmas tree. In addition to running in a hurry, standing in front of the three of them, it was inevitable that he would be a little out of breath.

After quickly unloading the supplies and distributing them to the three, he handed the oxygen cylinder to Nan Zhou alone: ​​"You look bad. Sister Liang is afraid that you will rebel, so I will suck it for you first, and we will find a few more oxygen cylinders for storage. Time is up to you first."

Nan Zhou held the oxygen cylinder in his arms.

His train of thought was interrupted by the person in front of him.

But Nan Zhou wasn't very angry, he just looked at him straight.

Seeing his bewildered expression, Lu Bifang immediately came to his senses, took out the oxygen mask from the plastic bag, put it on the top of the bottle, and put it on Nan Zhou's face quickly and neatly.

He pointed to the button for exhaling, and said frankly: "Follow the breathing rhythm, come down at once."

Nan Zhou obediently squeezed the button, and asked vaguely, "...why?"

He didn't quite understand.

As people in the same camp, of course, you can give your teammates appropriate help on the premise of taking good care of your own team.

This is justified.

But the clothes Lu Bifang wore when he came in were not thick, just a thin sweater.

When Nan Zhou went to get the oxygen tank, his fingertips brushed against his skin.

Judging from his body temperature, he should also be cold.

Why didn't they equip themselves first?

Lu Bifang: "...Huh?"

"The masses first" was something he understood as common sense, so he couldn't quite understand Nan Zhou's train of thought. He was a little dazed for a while, and blinked his eyes together with Nan Zhou and looked at each other from a distance.

It was Jiang Fang who broke the short stalemate: "What is your plan?"

Lu Bifang took a serious look at Jiang Fang, but still couldn't remember where he saw him.

"Just... search for the equipment in the building first, and we will finish it within half an hour." He replied, "Then we will set off to the top of the mountain."

"Have you finished finding the equipment and starting?"

"Yeah." Lu Bifang replied: "The dungeon said that the mission will officially start in two hours, but there is no rule that we have to start after two hours."

This is definitely what He Yinchuan said.

Nan Zhou could even imagine the expression on the captain's face when he folded his arms and gave this order.

Nan Zhou confirmed with him again: "Leave in half an hour?"

"Well, almost."

Lu Bifang paused, and then added: "Sister Liang and I will escort you out first. The captain, deputy team, and Xiao Lin will observe the environment again and follow up at any time according to the situation."

"Although the dungeon didn't say what will happen if we really fall behind the group of NPCs, it's better not to fall behind alone. So you all work hard, first find some knee pads, headlights, snow goggles, etc. Necessities, just bring them, I will teach you how to wear them. You don’t need to bring too many things, we pack lightly.”

Nan Zhou still accepted this arrangement.

Although it meant he had to give up and adjust some of his plans.

He nodded and said, "Then wait for me a moment."

Lu Bifang: "...Huh?"

While putting on his jacket, Nan Zhou casually pointed to the alpine tents in the distance that had no lanterns or bonfires: "I'll go there for a while. I'll be back in a while."

His tone was as relaxed as if I was going back to my mother's house, or I was going to the bathroom.

So much so that Lu Bifang ruminated for a while before he understood what he was going to do.

Lu Bifang's eyes widened in disbelief: "...Wait, where are you going?"

Nan Zhou didn't panic at all, and wrapped himself up warmly.

"I'm going to see our opponents," he said.

Against the backdrop of the conspicuous orange fleece jacket, his face looks even more white and charming, and he looks much younger.

Compared to Lu Bifang's surprise, Li Yinhang suddenly remembered that when the boss introduced himself, he said that he was 23 years old.

...a little younger than my 24-year-old self.

Before, Li Yinhang didn't dare to think of him as a younger brother at all.

It wasn't until he changed into this furry attire, and the sense of sharpness was weakened by [-]% due to physical weakness, that Li Yinhang barely had a sense of being an older sister.

After reacting, Lu Bifang immediately objected: "No, no, no. It's too dangerous!"

Nanzhou seriously reasoned with him: "The game doesn't say that we can't start early, the small building is not very big, and the preparation time left for us is too generous. This is unreasonable."

Lu Bifang thought about it and thought it made sense.

But he still couldn't agree: "It's us who want to go. How can I ask you to take risks?"

"No."

Nan Zhou put on the gloves: "This has something to do with the completeness of the copy. We can't give it to you."

But he looked at his gloves and changed his attitude slightly: "But I can also take you along."

Lu Bifang: "..."

Too direct, right? !

But the other party expressed his appeal so clearly, and it was easier for him not to engage in those vain detours.

He scratched his hair: "Then you wait first. I'll ask the captain for instructions."

Watching his figure rushing upstairs, Nan Zhou continued to put on his gloves.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Fang grabbed his wrist.

Nan Zhou froze for a moment, trying to break free.

However, even if Jiang Fang didn't use much strength, he could easily immobilize the current Nanzhou boat.

Jiang Fang lowered his head slightly and asked Nan Zhou, "Can you really go now?"

"I'm against it too."

Seeing that Jiang Fang also expressed his opinion, Li Yinhang immediately followed up: "Mr. Nan, if you don't have altitude sickness, I will definitely not say a word. But it will be very dangerous for you to go there now."

"No one knows what's going on there, and the ones who can compete with us will not be human. Even if you really want to investigate your opponent, you can't go there."

"If you're worried, why not go with Brother Fang—"

Nan Zhou raised his eyes, stared at Jiang Fang, and said softly, "...it hurts."

Li Yinhang was agitated by his rare weakness.

As soon as she had a tendency to soften her heart, Jiang Fang smiled lowly and said, "I have a good shot. Teacher Nan, don't be coquettish."

Seeing that Huyou couldn't let go, Nan Zhou pursed his lips: "I just feel a little uncomfortable. It's not that I can't move."

Li Yinhang: "..."

……how to say.

The boss is really flexible.

Nanzhou found that Jiang Fang really didn't intend to let go of him, blinked his slightly damp eyelashes, and said in that same indifferent tone, "...and, you asked me if I could go. Then I'll ask you too , can you go?"

Li Yinhang was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned to look at Jiang Fang.

Probably having exposed his imperfections to Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang confessed his weakness to Li Yinhang without much mind: "...I'm afraid of heights."

But he quickly said: "Climbing a mountain is not enough. It's not rock climbing."

Nan Zhou: "Yes."

Nanzhou: "As for."

Seeing the two people staring at each other so stubbornly, Li Yinhang felt a little headache.

Now she finally understands that in this copy, due to various reasons, the original advantages of Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang have been sealed.

She didn't have time to think about whether they were specially targeted by the system because they took too much advantage of the system in Squirrel Town.

The trouble with the current problem is that Nanzhou's speculation is indeed reasonable.

The nature of this dungeon is mainly based on "racing".

The opponent is an NPC set up in the dungeon, presumably a professional mountaineering team.

If they don't carefully investigate why they want to climb faster than whom they are competing with, and if they don't know the details of each other, it will be difficult to win.

However, the current situation is that Jiang Fang is worried about Nan Zhou, and Nan Zhou is also worried about Jiang Fang.

If no one is willing to give in, and want to go to the other party's camp to investigate, the three of them can only be forced to separate.

Either Li Yinhang went alone to investigate with the "Bronze" person, or Nanzhou stayed in this two-hour shelter to rest, and Jiang Fang went with Li Yinhang.

For the former, Li Yinhang felt guilty and couldn't guarantee that she could really ask something useful with her own ability.

The latter is tantamount to leaving Nan Zhou alone in a strange place with zero fighting power.

Even if "Bronze" has shown his identity very sincerely, out of prudence, Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang cannot immediately trust them in an all-round way and unconditionally.

After all, the teammates they encountered in the last dungeon were quite difficult to describe.

They had to be as vigilant as they should be.

The three looked at each other for a while.

Nan Zhou took the lead in expressing his opinion: "I can really go with you. Even if I can't use force now, my mind is still clear, and I can talk to those NPCs who are camping."

Li Yinhang, who had the knowledge that "the boss is a person younger than himself", dared to joke with him: "Rather than taking you, it's better to take Brother Fang. Brother Fang should be more lively."

Li Yinhang was really worried that Nan Zhou would make the NPC so angry that he would advance the game time as soon as he opened his mouth.

Hearing this, Nan Zhou put on a cold face, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes: "I'm also very lively."

Jiang Fang couldn't hold back for a while, and laughed out loud.

Nan Zhou grabbed his cuff and shook it solemnly: "Let's go together."

Jiang Fang leaned back, with a helpless smile on the corner of his mouth.

Nan Zhou confirmed, "Take me there?"

Jiang Fang propped up the brim of the soft winter hat with both hands, put it on for him close to his ears, and gently closed his ears.

Nan Zhou blinked: "You still don't trust me?"

"Of course I don't worry." Jiang Fang slightly bent his fingertips and pinched his cold ear tips.

"However, teammates come in handy at times like this."

At this moment, Lu Bifang's hurried footsteps sounded upstairs again.

He brought back some supplies, as well as Captain He Yinchuan's reply:

"The captain asked me to go with you."

After putting on all the cold-proof gear they collected, the four of them stepped out of the small concrete building together.

Thanks to them for doing a good job of protection.

Inside and outside the small building, the temperature difference is at least 45 degrees.

After walking more than ten meters, Nanzhou raised his eyes and looked back.

Among the snow-capped mountains at an altitude of 4500 meters, this small artificial building stands out from the vast snow-capped mountains that are naturally carved.

Two hours later, this dungeon was specially reserved for them to rest in a safe area, and it might be forcibly erased from the map.

Although most of his face was covered by the snow goggle, Nan Zhou still had part of his skin exposed.

The strong moonlight and the icy snow wind fell on Nan Zhou's body, like white phosphorus, splashing and burning on his skin, making Nan Zhou's complexion paler, revealing a fragility that could break at the touch of a finger.

The finely crushed snow graupel hit his face, which hurt a little.

Nan Zhou hated his extremely sensitive state, so he curled up behind Jiang Fang's shoulder as much as possible.

Jiang Fang also took the initiative to protect in front of him, and handed his hands in thick warm gloves to his.

At the same time, Jiang Fang also quietly took a deep breath, using the fresh, humid snow wind to force himself to forget the slight dizziness caused by being in the mountains.

The orange-red headlights can only illuminate a fan-shaped area in front of them.

The place other than the headlights was a bleak white.

Pure white is sometimes more frightening than pure black.

Even knowing that it is still within a safe time, Lu Bifang has no idea about the outcome of their trip.

He pointed out in a low voice: "There is no campfire."

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he drank a lot of wind, his teeth were gritted with cold, and he had to shut up immediately.

However, even if there is no campfire, they will not lose their bearings and find out where their opponents camped.

Under the giant moon, the sky and the earth were all white.

The distance between the opponent's camp and the small concrete building is not far.

In about 15 minutes, they arrived at the concentration point of the opposing camp.

Although Nan Zhou suffered a severe loss of physical strength, his judgment did not decline as a result.

There are not many tents.

There are three double tents for up to six people.

They pitched their camp in a rough place, without any kind of fire for warmth or to drive away mountain beasts.

There were several holes visible to the naked eye on the tent, and the nails of one tent were loose. Half of the tent was being blown loudly by the sudden gust of snow wind just now, like a damaged battle flag.

It's more like an abandoned camp.

Li Yinhang was courageous, and was about to go up to take a look, when a middle-aged man in a bright yellow mountaineering suit quietly got out from another tent and walked to the tent that was half collapsed by the wind In front of him, holding a huge mountaineering hammer in one hand, he put the flying tent cloth back to its original position, and fixed the tent nails with his hands.

As soon as they had a face-to-face meeting, Li Yinhang's heart skipped a beat.

The man had a dove-shaped face and was extremely thin.

...It doesn't look like a living person, it looks like a walking corpse.

...This is the NPC who wants to compete with them?

Subconsciously, she wanted to leave on the spot.

But after taking a step back, she remembered that Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang were not in their best condition right now.

As a teammate, she had to stand up.

Li Yinhang swallowed his saliva, walked closer, mustered up his courage, and raised his voice: "...Brother, hello."

The eldest brother concentrated on nailing the tent, as if turning a blind eye to the four big living people in front of him.

The young Lu Bifang couldn't help beating gongs and drums in his heart, feeling very uneasy.

He took a few steps forward, and asked in front of Li Yinhang: "Comrade, hello..."

The comrade also turned a deaf ear to his greeting.

Nan Zhou withdrew his gaze from looking at the camp.

He said to the middle-aged man about ten meters away, "Excuse me. We want to go up the mountain—"

The middle-aged man suddenly raised his face and stared straight at Nan Zhou.

Seeing his age-ring-like dark circles and his haggard, almost blue-black lips at close range, Li Yinhang almost screamed out.

The man stared at the four people in front of him, his vocal cords trembled, and the mountain wind almost formed a buzzing echo.

"Don't... go up the mountain."

"If you go up the mountain, you will be punished by the gods."

Nan Zhou grabbed Jiang Fang's shoulders, tiptoed slightly, and asked in a low voice: "What god?"

The man raised his hand, as if to point out something, but immediately realized something, and retracted his fingertips into his sleeve in horror.

Holding a hammer that can easily smash a human head, he stared at the moonlight reflected by the snow on the ground, tilted his head, and muttered lowly and nervously.

"If you go up the mountain, you will be punished by the moon god..."

"No one is allowed to go up the mountain. No one is allowed to go up the mountain..."

"Go up the mountain and die."

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