Lu Ning was now standing on a stone bridge in the center of the distribution center. The river flowed beneath her feet, and small boats occasionally sailed back along the water under the bridge. She adjusted her mentality quickly. At least Ye Tisi's previous optimistic character made her no longer worry about whether she was qualified for promotion, but began to seriously consider how to prepare.
Never underestimate any upgrade. This is the rule she set for herself after meeting Yan Danqing. So far, most of what Lu Ning has accumulated is some common knowledge. Except for the investigation skills, the rest cannot be called specialization. , but there are no obvious weaknesses. This level may be enough at the second level, but it may not be enough at the third level.
Upgrading is still a survival type, which means that the pressure comes from the scene rather than the tourists. But if she chooses the first task, it means that there are some additional elements of confrontation in it, and she needs to party with the dolls. The people grab the rhythm of the scene.
Abilities, information, weapons, people.
This is almost the most important power component in every scene, and there is no so-called priority. Lu Ning is better at collecting information, and as long as she can use her abilities, she can use them as weapons. People are the most troublesome, and she still cannot control people's hearts stably.
Maybe need some teammates...
Lu Ning got off the bridge and started walking against the direction of the river. When she was distracted, she bumped into someone.
"Sorry, I'm not familiar with the roads here..."
The other party apologized first, but as soon as Lu Ning looked up, she saw that this was a burly young man wearing shorts. From the looks of it, he seemed to be a somewhat straightforward person. At this moment, another voice sounded, slightly surprised: "Lu, Lu Ning!"
A petite person emerged from behind the young man, with a look of surprise on his face. He kept opening his mouth but didn't know what to say. Of course, Lu Ning had seen her like this many times.
"Xuan Zitong, have you advanced?" Lu Ning waved her hand at her.
"Do you know each other? Oh, you are the sister that Xiaotong always talked about, right?" The young man suddenly realized, "Thanks to you for taking care of her that time."
Xuan Zhitong still didn't speak very eloquently, but she looked very happy. The young man's name is Fan Hao, and he is the captain of Xuan Zhitong's team. The two of them came out together to understand the situation of the second-level distribution center. In fact, they just completed the upgrade last night.
"Congratulations, did everything go well?" Lu Ning was also very happy.
"Sister Yun, help me, everything is fine." Xuan Zhitong said.
Yun Zhiyao? Lu Ning still remembers her, or it's hard to forget her with such a maverick character.
"She is quite enthusiastic."
"Sister Yun helped us a lot, otherwise we would have suffered heavy losses this time." Fan Hao felt a little grateful for the rest of his life. "The test of promotion is really extraordinary. It seems that the pressure of survival in the second level is even greater."
"Has your entire team been promoted?"
"Mostly, successful." Xuan Zhitong gestured with "mostly" with both hands and said with an exaggerated expression, "Although the bottom line is, it's very good."
If the promotion is successful, even if the bottom line is passed, it is still a huge sum of money for these people. Lu Ning didn't want to ask how much they had lost. Being able to reach the second level alive was already a victory for such a team.
"Lu Ning, are you okay?"
"I'm pretty good." Lu Ning nodded. She was ready to advance. Generally speaking, she could be considered pretty good.
"We live here."
Xuan Zhitong took out her mobile phone, sent her his address, and then touched Fan Hao. Fan Hao nodded immediately: "If you like it, you are welcome to come to our place as a guest at any time. Xiaotong originally planned to come to you right after he advanced, but he just didn't dare."
"I'm not a ferocious beast." Lu Ning laughed. "It's just that you may have to work harder. The second level is not particularly easy. You can't be the only ones to improve."
"Of course, everyone has enough points this time. I'm going to let everyone go through basic training, otherwise I won't be able to lead the team in the future. By the way, that... the first meeting may not be good, but I still Want to know..."
"What?"
"Do you know Xiang Yi from the puppet party?"
Xuan Zhitong's expression changed the moment she heard the name, and Lu Ning could even see the anger in her eyes.
"He's right here."
Lu Ning nodded.
Fan Hao suddenly became serious: "He is here? Are you sure?"
"I was promoted together with him. At that time, I didn't know that he was the person you have been looking for. But when I found out later, I didn't have the chance to enter the same scene with him again. It just so happened that it was originally supposed to be your quest for revenge. , since I came here in person, I don’t need to do anything at all.”
"Of course, thank you, I will, with my own hands." Xuan Zhitong clenched her fists. She had undoubtedly experienced a lot after that scene, and now that she was angry, Lu Ning felt a faint sense of danger.
"We will plan this matter, Xiaotong." Fan Hao controlled Xuan Zitong's anger, and then said to Lu Ning, "Can we make an appointment to discuss this matter in detail? Or..."
"I will write a piece of information to Xuan Zhitong, but I don't know much about it. Xiang Yi almost always avoids fighting during his promotion. I don't know much about him. As for meeting, I don't have much time recently. .”
If she was preparing to advance, she would definitely not have that much time to discuss Xiang Yi's problem. Xuan Zhitong would not pretend to solve the matter with other people's hands.
"Okay." Fan Hao was happy. Judging from his performance in just ten minutes of meeting, this captain is still very competent.
"Then you continue to get familiar with this place. It's still very important. I have to go back now." Lu Ning said.
After saying goodbye to the two of them, Lu Ning quickly returned to the yard. At this time, a barbecue grill had been set up, and the whole yard was filled with the aroma of charcoal barbecue. Ning Yeyi was holding a porcelain plate and using tongs to turn the meat skewers on the fire.
"Eating barbecue for lunch?"
"It's already afternoon, I plan to have it for dinner." Ning Yeyi grinned.
Among the four people now, she and Lu Ning are the most relaxed. Fujii is continuing to work hard because of the loss in the last game, and Shu Xingruo always works from morning to night every day. When she thought of this, Lu Ning suddenly realized that she no longer knew how far Ning Yeyi had grown.
"Yeyi, I want to ask you something."
"Say, if you want to eat, come and get it yourself." Ning Yeyi pointed to the plate next to her with a clip that had already been tested.
"When do you plan to upgrade?"
"From what you said, it sounds like the organization asked you to upgrade? Is it very difficult?" Ning Yeyi immediately knew what Lu Ning was encountering.
"It's an upgrade, but I'm not sure if I can do it alone... If you think the risk is too high, forget it, my request is a bit rude."
Lu Ning walked to the grill and sat down, picked up a meat skewer and ate it.
"You definitely can't do it alone. Even if you are alone now, you have to find teammates when you enter the scene. Think about the blood disaster scene, is it possible for one person to complete it?" Ning Yeyi put down the clip and picked up a meat skewer. He took it all into his mouth in one bite from the bottom.
This is what Lu Ning is most worried about.
Upgrading can accommodate so many tourists, and it can also embarrass so many tourists. One person's power will not make a qualitative leap. It is impossible for her to control the entire situation from the moment she comes up. She may even be too tired of the task to take care of the dolls. Those guys at the party.
But she still wanted to try to get as much as possible.
"OK."
Ning Yeyi threw the sign into the trash can accurately and replied lightly.
"What did you say?"
"I said yes, Lu Ning. Now Shu Xingruo doesn't have the strength to upgrade, and Fujii won't upgrade until he has enough points to reassure himself. Is there anyone you know who is more suitable than me?"
"This is not a matter of suitability. You should know how to upgrade..."
Ning Yeyi took out a palm-sized notebook from his pocket and threw it to Lu Ning. Lu Ning was stunned and opened the notebook. What was written on it were various analyzes of the second-level promotion test, as well as some scene examples.
"To put it bluntly, I prepared earlier than you. Even if you are not qualified, I am confident enough to advance to the third level, the chaotic scene... I have wanted to see it for a long time." Ning Yeyi's face was filled with emotion. It was self-confidence, and even Lu Ning didn't notice when she developed such momentum.
"Haha, am I a mediocre person?"
"I'm not a friend who is afraid of trouble, but when I have any difficulties, I will raise them directly with you."
"It's not what I asked for." Lu Ning finally felt relieved.
"By the way, when?" Ning Yeyi thought of something and asked immediately.
"For the upgrade scenario that takes place thirteen days later, the registration time should be nine days later. That is the most certain time."
"There's still time, why don't you go back and take a look?" Ning Yeyi suggested.
"Go back and take a look?"
"First-level distribution center, have you forgotten that we can still go back? But after upgrading this time, we can never go back. People who are in the third level can only go back to the second level."
"oh……"
"Don't tell me that you don't have anyone in the first level to remember. Even if you are not so gregarious, you won't have no friends at all."
Although it's not that miserable, Lu Ning only has one person who can be regarded as a friend in the first level.
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Returning to the mixed-style distribution center that had become unfamiliar to me, I suddenly felt that it was a bit small. If the second-level distribution center is already a small town, then the first-level one is only as big as a village.
There were many people gathered at the door of the information center. Among them were a few who were obviously more confident. They were the so-called second-level tourists who came to "make extra money." Lu Ning also later learned that points cannot be transferred casually. In order to be able to To charge successfully, you must first sign a temporary tour guide contract with the information center. No wonder the charges are so high.
She didn't need to, she just looked at the group of newcomers with a little emotion.
The people squatting at the door changed again. There is always a shortage of such people in the first level, and the disappearance of any one would not be particularly strange, and no one would even care. When Lu Ning passed by, many people spontaneously She avoided it, as if she could tell her identity as a second-level tourist... Is this considered an experience of squatting?
This was also the last time she saw these people. The time she chose to come back was at night, and she could see some vehicles returning in the distance. I'm afraid it was the end of another scene, or the arrival of new people?
She walked into the cemetery, which was generally the same as before, except for a few more stone tablets, which were erected by someone with spare money.
"It's been a long journey." She walked past stone monuments and came to the two target monuments. "And if you leave this time, you will never come back. To be honest, it makes me feel like I haven't grown up yet. , but look, I saved people, Sister Yin Lian, Sister Ling Yan."
This world will grind people's hearts harder and harder, and their surfaces will become more and more hypocritical. But everyone is cherishing the second life and using the method that best suits their own wishes to make this life not wasted.
"Actually, you... you should like this place very much. At least it is different from what you expected before. This is a cruel arena, but it is not a desperate hunting ground." Lu Ning sat down in front of the stone monument, "I probably know that this place was a cruel place before. After that, I cherish the hard-won 'peaceful' competition more and more. I am quite lucky to have come to such an era, where I don't need to be a hero, I just need to enjoy the shadow of a hero."
The cold wind blew by, and Lu Ning raised her head and looked at the ever-gloomy sky in the cemetery.
"I couldn't save some people... I had a stubborn friend. Although I immediately avenged her, I still felt that if I worked harder, I might be able to change something. I originally wanted to give her something before I came here. I will set up a monument here, but if she knew that she was knocked back to the first level, she would probably chatter with me for a long time..."
Lu Ning stayed in the cemetery for more than an hour, casually talking about what she wanted to say, and then left all those thoughts here.
After that, she took a taxi to the library.
There were only some night shifts in the library at this time, but Lu Ning just came to ask about Yang Shuyu's situation. The waiter on duty quickly helped her find out Yang Shuyu's situation - she had asked for leave.
There is only one situation for the staff at the distribution center to ask for leave.
"when?"
"I took a week's leave yesterday. I hope she can come back soon." The waiter replied.
Lu Ning wouldn't wait that long. She could only leave a message to Yang Shuyu and then turned around and left.
Looking at it this way, it seems that I really don’t know anyone.
Oh, there's one more.
She sent a message, and soon the other party responded. Outside a cheap full-storey apartment, she saw a very changed Pang Shaotong.
The failure to upgrade did not particularly affect his mood, and he was still as happy as an old friend to see Lu Ning. Lu Ning was a little surprised that the environment he was living in now should not be a place for people of his level to live in anyway.
"Save money and train." Pang Shaotong said concisely, "I don't want to lose again. I must succeed in upgrading next time, so I try not to spend extra money. By the way, Shen Xinyue, do you remember? We later in the scene I’ve seen it here, and she said she was only 50 points short that time, and maybe she could have passed if she tried harder to participate.”
"Does she regret it?"
"No, she is not someone who regrets. She knows very well that for those 50 points, she may risk her life. Without her life, she will have nothing."
"It's really her style."
"So what happened when you came back this time?" Pang Shaotong asked.
"I'm going to level up again, so I'm coming back for one last look. If you don't level up from now on, you'll never see me again."
Pang Shaotong was silent for a moment and nodded.
"Good luck and proceed with caution."
"I will."
"Also, don't try to come back again. I don't know if this place gives you the illusion of hometown, because you may have some important memories left here... But as a failure, I want to say something, here It’s not home, and nostalgia will only make you weak.”
Lu Ning narrowed her eyes and looked at Pang Shaotong, but did not ask him what he had experienced.
