Ning Yeyi glanced at the remaining battery and immediately opened the drawer to find a mobile hard drive or something to store it. Lu Ning took over and opened the folder and began to quickly check the file names inside, trying to select the key records first. .
It can be seen from the chaos of this person's desktop that the file storage is not numbered in an orderly manner other than basic classification. Lu Ning sorted it several times according to time, name and size but could not see which core file it was. She could only search with her eyes and found a file called [Project LR Update ver4.2]. There was nothing better than this. A higher version.
This is an outline document with a length of more than 40 pages. Ning Yeyi has found a usable mobile hard drive. Lu Ning began to copy the files in chronological order, and at the same time opened the file and read the contents.
[LR Project, Task Outline of the Sixth Group Ver4.2
Based on the previous edition, this outline has revised items 1, 3, 6, 11, 12, and 15. For details, please see the revision plan and footnotes of each item. The twenty-fourth item is added as a general emergency countermeasure clause corresponding to the previous dimensional earthquake phenomenon.
Project Goals: The main goal of the Sixth Research Group is to conduct basic research and determine related parameters on the Lantern Holder. The estimation report should be submitted to the General Research Center by email or in writing before 6pm every Thursday night.
Table of contents:
...]
Lu Ning read quickly. The first half of this document was similar to a standardized text. It should be the same for groups with the same research content, involving confidentiality agreements, responsibility distribution, task details, standardized operations, fund details, timetables, etc. Termination clauses and a series of other contents. However, starting from Article 11, there are provisions specifically targeting this group.
"The danger classification of the lamp holder is C*... Yes, please refer to the "General Hazard Classification Guidelines 51-9-20", Section 1, this thing must also exist on the computer."
"I suggest that we still bring this computer with us, just in case we can buy a battery from a merchant and restart it." Ning Yeyi pointed to the lower right corner, "Look, there is still 2% left."
"But we should understand this information. Don't you think this should be the cause of the whole incident?"
"Lu Ning...the cause is certainly important, but the current situation is the most important thing to consider."
Ning Yeyi gestured to the door, and Lu Ning noticed that a long shadow was projected in from the small window on the door. It was still very eye-catching in the dark light, and it looked like a wolf fang. Great.
"It's a monster." Lu Ning was slightly startled, "When..."
"It was there just now when you opened that file, and the weird thing is it's just standing there."
"Blocking the door? But the monster will attack us as much as possible, right? Even if you have the patience, you should lurk instead of standing in that place."
"So I'm going to give it a try." Ning Yeyi said, walking around the desk and walking to the place diagonally facing the door. The glass was frosted, so she couldn't see what the monster looked like outside through the glass. There was only an outline poking out of the door.
She raised her Gauss pistol and fired more than a dozen shots from top to bottom. A row of straight blue molten holes quickly appeared on the door. The monster's wail also sounded outside, but even so, it did not break through the door.
"The door is locked from the inside, but this shouldn't be a problem for the monster. There is something else to prevent it from coming in." Lu Ning picked up an empty pen holder from the desk, "I think we can take a look at this guy What does it look like!"
She threw the pen holder hard against the small window on the door, and the glass was smashed to pieces, revealing the true appearance of the monster outside. It was a brown cylindrical head. The cylinder was densely covered with open eyes. At the bottom were two mouths that looked like beetle mouthparts. Two transparent hoses spit out from the mouth and continued to flow out. Translucent liquid.
"This thing is really disgusting..." Ning Yeyi raised his hand and fired several shots at the monster's head, blowing out some of its eyes. Finally, the monster took a few steps back, and then it left the door.
"gone?"
"Don't let your guard down." Ning Yeyi walked slowly to the door, but didn't get too close. Instead, he picked up a meter stick and carefully reached for the doorknob.
Just when it was about forty or fifty centimeters away, a transparent hose suddenly came in through the broken glass window and accurately poked the meter ruler. With a crisp impact, Ning Yeyi let go and let the ruler fall to the ground. , then pointed his backhand in the direction of the monster and continued shooting.
Her shooting skills were so accurate that the hose was interrupted before it could even be retracted, and she only had time to go back halfway.
"That guy didn't leave, it definitely won't retreat." Ning Yeyi took out the magazine and looked at the number of bullets, then reloaded it, "Lu Ning, we can't take too long."
"I know." Lu Ning nodded, glanced at the ground, ran back to his desk, terminated the copying process, and then stuffed the computer and the mobile hard drive into the large backpack that Ning Yeyi had changed before.
"Do you know its weakness? You are the best at this, right?"
"Contrary to us." Lu Ning smiled and pointed to the ground, "They can't leave the light."
On the ground, the broken hose had turned into a dark mass.
Lu Ning could see clearly that the moment the hose was interrupted and fell into the darkness blocked by the door, it quickly changed into what it is now.
"I see. So how do we get it out of the light?"
"There are two kinds of light here." Lu Ning closed her eyes and took out the covering cloth again. In the darkness, there was only a fire beside her, which looked very bright. "One is the light emitted by the stars in the sky. The other is the fire that is preserved in this world."
"Um?"
"The flames of the Lantern Knight, remember? There are also us, our bodies are also burning with such fire, but we can't see it with normal vision, and our fire is not very strong, and it cannot shine very far."
Lu Ning took off the cloth strip, pulled out the obsidian dagger and cut off the entire desk table. Then he tested the height, which was just enough to block him.
"Hey, you don't mean to..."
"It's injured and won't leave. It must be very eager for the fire on us, so we might as well let it see it."
Lu Ning threw a dagger at the door handle, and with a dull metal sound, the door slowly opened. Lu Ning put the desk table upright next to her, and then slowly walked towards the door.
The monster appeared at the door again.
Its body is also completely a slender bamboo pole, with only four tentacles branching out at the bottom to support the movement of the body. The hole in its body made by Ning Yeyi's shot had not yet healed, but the monster still couldn't bear the temptation of Lu Ning gradually walking in, so it got in through the door.
Those eyes focused on Lu Ning in an instant. The two mouths released transparent hoses again, but one was one-third shorter. The monster was still very fast, but only the light from the door limited it. The direction of movement, and Lu Ning stopped just outside its attack range.
Compared to the Lantern Knight, this poor monster doesn't even have a long-range attack.
Lu Ning smiled, then raised her hand, and the monster immediately spat out its mouthpart, but Lu Ning retracted her hand in an instant, and the mouthpart disappeared in mid-air, and Lu Ning took a step back.
Ning Yeyi stood in the far corner and watched all this. She knew that it was not time to pass by at this time, and Lu Ning had to be the only "light source" within that range.
After being induced by Lu Ning three or four times in a row, the monster finally became impatient and began to enter the shadow outside the door. Its four tentacles burst out with powerful force, pushing it as a whole and pounced towards Lu Ning. passed. However, Lu Ning had anticipated such an action when it stepped into the shadow, and dodged it in advance, quickly returned to the desk board where it had been erected, and hid herself behind it.
The monster quickly circled around, but the moment Lu Ning hid, the light on her body became weaker due to the obstruction, so weak that it could no longer shine on the monster.
It has never wanted to get close to that weak light so much, but after all, it was just a hair away.
Lu Ning heard the sound of something hitting the table, like a splash of soil. When the impact was over, she backed away from the place and saw black dirt-like debris scattered in front of the table.
"The moment you hid in it, it started to disintegrate. Although it might be able to go around if it were faster." Ning Yeyi witnessed everything. She was far away and the monster did not attack her. as a target.
Lu Ning kicked away a piece of debris and said nothing.
[In the world of the lamp holder, light is a gift.
They cannot survive in the shadows. The flame is firmly controlled by the Legion of Light. If they are lucky enough to get a piece of flame remnants from a knight, it will be enough to keep them excited for a long time. Although the ever-burning lights will always shine on the earth in the sky, at night, when the lights are the dimmer, it is also the time when the monsters without light suffer the most.
At that time, they will begin to crave "fire".
You know about fire, right?
It symbolizes things that are bright, lively, active and warm. For them, possessing "fire" means the continuation of life, and they may even take this opportunity to join the Corps of Lights. Even the lowest knights no longer have to pursue "fire" as hard as before.
The Ever-Bright Lantern is the largest fire in the world, and the strong flame will devour the weak flames. Only the lantern holder and its lantern corps know how to use the fire of the Ever-Bright Lantern.
——Excerpted from "Melgan's Rubik's Cube: Scroll of Light"]
=====================
"strange."
Yan Rong pinned a monster that jumped out of the window to the wall with one shot. The monster that lost light quickly turned into black matter. This characteristic has also been discovered by everyone who went upstairs to "hunt".
"They must be bathed in light, so they attack from the outside instead of from the shadow." Xu Jianqi does not need to let the monsters leave the light. After all, they will die if they are hit in the vitals, and the sword in her hand Enough to cut the monsters into pieces before they get close.
"No, there are no flames on these monsters that attacked us. Remember the Knight of Light? His whole body was about to burn, but now these little monsters show no signs of burning at all."
"And poor."
Qin Yulou took a pair of pliers and pulled out the debris on the ground, but found nothing.
They have walked through two floors. There are quite a few monsters lurking in this building, but having to attack in the light weakens a lot of threats. Yan Rong's force values are quite high, so they can be eliminated. Same as chopping vegetables. But the result of being so easy to deal with is that all the monsters are almost useless. In the Heavy Rain World, you can still get a few copper coins by killing a fishman, but here, you have killed forty or fifty monsters, and only one big-headed monster lost two copper coins.
"I think we've wasted a bit of effort." Rong Han wiped the dust off the dagger on his clothes and said with a frown, "Although money is a very important thing, do we really need it that much right now?"
"Don't think you can deal with the big devil just after leaving the Novice Village." Yan Rong shrugged, "I'm not even confident enough to think that I can defeat this scene."
"No, I mean...this scene is still a survival scene after all, right? Our main mission is investigation and escape. There is no mention of hunting in the entire mission."
"We also have someone responsible for the investigation, right? And even if we want to escape, we must have a certain amount of force support." Yan Rong put the spear on his shoulder, his face became more serious, "Rong Han, I know what you are worried about, but a There are dedicated people in the team who are responsible for specific projects, and it is impossible for everyone to do everything. If you say that your strength lies in investigation and analysis, then I support you to start your own actions now, but to be fair, your current ability is really better than those who are doing it. Are you someone who has spent a lot of energy in this area? I don’t know about others, but Zhou Weiyuan specializes in magic, but his breadth of knowledge comes from studying in the library for three months."
"..." Rong Han's expression changed a little.
"Or is it another reason, you don't trust us? This is normal. Teammates who form a temporary team in a dangerous scene cannot be entrusted to everyone. Everyone understands. But before you really feel that someone has betrayed you, try your best. Trust others. A single tree cannot make a forest. Do you really plan to go through the upgrade scene alone?"
Having said that, Rong Han could only smile bitterly.
Yan Rong told everything so unabashedly, but he felt that he had been too cautious and suspicious before. Indeed, the cooperation with this team is still very pleasant now. Even though he did not participate in the treasure guarding operation because of his objections, he still received the basic allocation of weapons in the end, and his teammates are all easy to talk to... Being able to form such a team in the early stage Very lucky indeed.
"I'm sorry, because of some things before... I can't trust others."
"That's your own knot. At least it won't affect our cooperation now. You're right. We should launch some actions, but it's not an investigation - we can collect some suspicious evidence for them to analyze." Yan Rongbao He laughed and said, "After all, we can't just let them sit there and wait for us."
In the end, this joke dispelled the last bit of awkward atmosphere. Rong Han smiled and nodded: "Then leave it to me."
