Lu Ning and Mao You will never be separated, just like the Shan Lianmei trio. In order to balance their strength, Lewanska and Fu Junnian had to lead a separate team, so the people assigned to Lu Ning were two men and one woman. However, considering that the two seemed to have insufficient fighting ability, the people assigned to Lu Ning were all young adults.
Bald Gorius, a somewhat silly man, is more obedient, but has a bit of a bad temper. The curly-haired young man Qiao, like Lu Ning, is someone who doesn't want to say more names. His nose is a bit crooked and his speech is rather high-pitched. Finally, there was Ping Na, a sturdy woman about forty years old. She smiled very kindly, but the two axes in her hands were not very kind.
While Lu Ning was considering Lewanska, the other party was also considering Lu Ning. The three people assigned were by no means difficult to lead, but it still required Lu Ning to find a way to combine them into a team.
He was not in a hurry to truly lead the team, and coincidentally, Lu Ning was not in a hurry either.
Her first action with people was to return to the supply point to pick up meals.
There is a kitchen in each of the five corners of the conference room, so five people will not waste much time together. Lu Ning noticed early on that there was no backpack in the batch of weapons and equipment. Of course Shan Lianmei and Shi Ming could not let go of a convenient carrying device, so the only explanation was that it was not provided.
Weapons and other things can be worn on the body, but food is more difficult. Although clothes can be made into simple packages, it will become an obstacle compared to real packages when encountering any danger.
The food picked up this time were burgers, rice balls, cold noodles, corn soup and wraps.
The corn soup is not canned, but the kind that comes steaming in a big bowl. Lu Ning looked at these five foods and confirmed his guess - there are no particularly portable foods, such as hard-boiled corn soup. We will not provide food such as bread, compressed dry food, energy bars, etc. that are packaged and can be taken away in your pocket, and that can last for a long time and are not easy to fall apart. She had asked Maoyou to pick up an extra meal before, and she became suspicious when she found it was a box of bento.
Access to food is restricted here. Although we don’t know exactly where the trouble will start, we must always consider countermeasures.
Lu Ning still kept the clothes she had changed into. She turned her pants over and knotted the trouser legs. Then she pressed the burritos and hamburgers hard, pressing them into a ball as much as possible without damaging the oil paper outside, and then threw them in into this temporary "pocket".
"Food for about fifteen people and five bottles of water."
She completely ignored the factor of waste and thought about the approximate amount she would need to prepare. The frequency of a batch of monsters in two hours is neither too high nor too low, but it is enough to make people unable to sleep. Unless there is some safe way to avoid monsters, this must be a short-term battle. The amount of food and water for one day is enough for the time being.
Of course, there are various contingencies to consider.
"Captain Lu really thought everything through." Aunt Pingna said with a smile.
"Currently we know too few possible variables, so we should be prepared." Lu Ning responded and slowly walked to the four-star mission machine.
"That thing is dangerous!" Gorius shouted suddenly. Lu Ning ignored him and raised her hand to scan the machine. As expected, the words "Locked" appeared on it.
"This mission has been assigned." Lu Ning glanced at the three of them, "Which of you was the first to get here?"
Joe raised his hand.
"I'm the oldest among us, but Lewanska and the others were already here at that time. Could it be that they had already received the mission?"
"Otherwise it wouldn't have stopped us from coming to see the machine."
"But what's the point of this? Once everyone acts in a group like this, won't it be seen through quickly?" Maoyou asked doubtfully.
"The significance is that if the group holding this task completes the task, it will be ahead of the other groups. Even if it is made public by then, the gap in strength will have already formed." Lu Ning glanced at Gorius, "And as he continues to After being taught the dangers of high-star missions, there won’t be many people who dare to scan this machine, right?”
"You count as one." Mao You continued to chat.
"Because I have seen several missions, I can probably guess the distribution pattern. The mission itself should be without punishment."
"No punishment? Doesn't that mean you can do whatever you want..."
"Yes." Lu Ning crossed her arms, "Because the real punishment is the cooling time."
"Ah!" Maoyou clapped his hands, already understanding.
You can take on missions if you want, but failing a four-star mission will not only result in a loss of stars, but the subsequent cooldown time will also drag down everyone. Monsters can only get stronger and stronger, and the longer time passes, the faster people will die.
This feeling is familiar.
The seemingly loose conditions are actually a noose that is gradually tightened. By the time he realizes it, his throat has been tightly wrapped around him.
In the time it took Lu Ning to think about it, several people had already prepared the food she requested. She asked Aunt Pingna to take the simple bag and lead everyone out of the supply point.
There is no one outside anymore.
Lu Ning glanced around and looked at the two primary and secondary rooms on the other side of the supply point hall.
It is named this way because the two rooms are one large and one small, and are connected by a passage in the middle. The door of the larger room is towards Lu Ning. Since all the other buildings in the courtyard have been visited, it might as well be here. Watch it again.
Sure enough, immediately after entering the door, you can see a one-star mission machine on the other side of the room towards the door.
"What a good start." Maoyou laughed.
"It's useless. It must have been taken by someone. Gorius will go and verify it." Lu Ning was not so optimistic.
The bald man immediately swiped his instrument and confirmed that this one was also locked.
"It's almost impossible to leave anything like this in a very obvious place. People passing by will try it as long as they haven't received the mission. Let's search these two houses and leave."
The main room has very ordinary household furnishings, which is roughly equivalent to two living rooms. The decoration was much more careful than the supply point, but I couldn't find any writing.
"Forget it." After searching for a few minutes, Lu Ning gave up decisively. "Who among the three of you has received a mission before? Tell them first to avoid trouble later."
All three people shook their heads.
"Then let's go find the weapons room now."
"Do you know where it is?" Mao You's eyes widened.
"It won't take long for Shan Lianmei and the two to leave. After all, we are the ones who got here relatively quickly. The elevator has a five-minute cooling time, and including the search time, it has already exceeded the time found in other gardens. The possibility of a weapons depot, so the weapons depot they found is on this floor. Aunt Pingna, I think you know how long Shan Lianmei has been away? "
"Oh, about ten minutes?" Ping Na turned to look at the other two, and Qiao nodded.
"Ten minutes, after calculating the round trip and search time, the distance they can move is basically determined. Draw a circle based on this limit, and most of them fall within the courtyard. These can be excluded, and the rest is within the corridor. A small room.”
"What if it's a hidden room? Like a secret room or something..." Maoyou asked.
"Judging from the weapons and equipment they obtained, they require a lot of storage space, so if that's the case, we will definitely be able to find something abnormal. After all, it doesn't take them much time from setting off, finding the weapons depot to returning, right?"
Leaving the main room, you can see a short passage in the back corner. In front of the passage is a slightly smaller circular garden, where flowers surround the central elevator shaft, looking colorful. In front of the elevator is a one-star mission machine, just like what Alpha said. Of course, this mission has already been taken away.
The size of this garden was slightly smaller than the two that Lu Ning passed by before. She looked around and knew what was going on: there was a room behind a circle of walls in the garden, and you could see the arc from here. There is a door on the left and right of the wall, which is slightly angled if it leads to the corridor.
Then, she noticed the marks on the ground.
There were fallen leaves everywhere in the Autumn Garden where this plant was decorated, and there was a not too obvious drag mark on the ground. The width was about the same as the trailer pulled by Shan Ningmei in Lu Ning's impression. She immediately followed the mark around it. After arriving at the back of the elevator, there was a door on the garden wall. Lu Ning stepped forward and opened it, and immediately smelled a metallic smell.
"Found it?" Qiao walked over in surprise, then turned to look at it, "It's so close."
"It's very close, but there are so many rooms here, so it's not easy to find it first."
The lights in the armory were slightly dim. Lu Ning walked inside and found that it was an arc-shaped room with only one entrance: this door. There were boxes piled up in the room, some of which had been opened, and the weapons inside were shining coldly—— But they are still cold weapons.
"There are really a lot of things..." Maoyou walked in, the expression on his face became much more relaxed, "Should we add some more?"
"You can do it if you need it." Lu Ning glanced at the instrument on her wrist and said, "Three minutes."
Several people hurriedly opened the box to see what was inside.
Lu Ning walked out of the weapons room. There were no thermal weapons, which made her feel very unsafe. She had no idea what the monster was like, and the so-called weather unlock...
Which side to start with?
If she were alone, she would definitely brush up all the mission machines she saw now, giving priority to understanding the information provided there, and then making a difficulty assessment. But now this team is still slowing her down.
There was definitely more than one person who knew that he would skip the current purchase stage, and Cheng Wuling must also be in this scene. However, Lu Ning could not guess the other party's strategy.
She reached out and opened the door on the side of the elevator, only to find that it was a small triangular space with two doors on the left and right. After the door behind her was closed, the other two could be opened.
“Interesting design.”
Muttering something, she opened the door on the right.
As expected, the weapons depot did not occupy the entire arc of the outer circle. It was a room of about the same size that looked like a lounge, with sofas, desks, coffee machines, and even potted plants. In the corner, placed like a vending machine, is another machine.
Lu Ning walked over directly, glanced at the purple label above, and reached out to swipe the task.
[Task Level 3: In the first crisis, kill three servant monsters. 】
Lu Ning glanced at the countdown, and there was still a little more than an hour left. In this way, she could judge that the cooling time of the three-star mission should be about this length of time, otherwise she would not have directly released the mission about the first crisis.
She left the lounge without looking back and returned to the previous garden. Just as it happened, a few seconds later the four people also picked out the weapons they wanted to add and walked out of the weapons arsenal one by one.
"Lu, don't you really want to pick a weapon?" Mao You asked.
"Weapons that are not handy will only increase their weight. Now that we have found the weapons depot, we should search the corridor." Lu Ning reached out and opened the door again, "You have to move quickly. What we are looking for is a mission machine with a relatively concealed location. .”
Several people responded quickly. Lu Ning pointed to the door of the corridor, walked in and pressed the door switch. The door here closed directly, shocking a few people.
"Lu! What's going on?"
Mao You hurriedly opened the door again and heard Lu Ning's small voice coming from across the door: "Only one door should be open at the same time. Come here one after another."
After creating this small opportunity, no one had time to open the door to the lounge. Lu Ning was not prepared to say it. The so-called team agreement meant nothing to her.
This corridor was the same as the ones he had seen before, with five pentagonal rooms. If Lu Ning hadn't been confident in his sense of direction, he might have thought that he had come around again.
"Search every room. With the distribution density of mission points, there must be machines here." She ordered.
As expected, there is a one-star machine in the middle of the two closest pentagonal rooms, and a little further away, in the room with access to the twisted corridor in the middle, there is a two-star machine.
Lu Ning directly asked the person who found it first to try flashing the phone. The two-star one had already been taken away, but the one-star one was still there. Qiao was lucky enough to get this mission.
"What content?"
"Go to Summer Garden, collect at least 150 ml of water from any water body, and let anyone drink it."
Joe read the mission into his instrument.
Hearing this mission, everyone had a strange expression on their face.
Filling the water was easy. Lu Ning asked them to bring the water they got from the supply point. All they had to do was empty the bottle and fill it. But this makes anyone drink...
"Then there shouldn't be any problem with the water, right?" Maoyou said doubtfully.
"Not sure."
Lu Ning still couldn't estimate how malicious Dr. Rawls was in designing this garden. Not only did he provide drinking water, but he also issued such a mission. It was impossible not to make people suspicious. She couldn't convince herself with the reason that "you don't need to poison the water to kill us." Maybe someone would like the scene of dying by poisoning?
"There is no time limit for this task. Let's fill the water first and then think about how to deal with it."
