[Instructions for weather unlocking: This action will affect everyone in the entire area.
After pressing the button, the weather controller in the area will be unlocked, the environment in the area will become more severe, the cooling time of all limited-time items in the area will be doubled, and the difficulty of tasks involving the area will increase by one level. Ten minutes after unlocking External access to the area will be blocked and will be deemed to be completely lifted after ten minutes.
Lifting the lockdown will delay the onset of the crisis for the Four Seasons Gardens as a whole by thirty minutes. When a crisis comes, monsters will not be released directly into the area.
After any crisis is over, all weather conditions are locked again.
If all four weather locks in any garden are lifted before the end of a crisis, the weather lock in the garden's weather area will be permanently unlocked, and a certain number of stars will be awarded to four additional unlockers, and the arrival of the crisis will be permanently delayed by two hours. 】
"A double-edged sword-like thing." After reading the description, Lu Ning quickly understood what it was.
To put it simply, increase the difficulty in exchange for more preparation time.
"But this will cost us!" Maoyou didn't care about anything else. He focused all his attention on "the area's external access will be blocked."
"If you think about it at the best, the blockade also means that people from outside can't come in." Lu Ning said.
This is an ideal situation. After all, the button is located here, and it covers the entire courtyard. If you run in and press the button to escape pursuit, the enemy will have already chased you.
Moreover, the ten-minute lock but thirty-minute extension rule perfectly avoids the possibility of relying on this to avoid attacks from monsters.
"So should we press it?" Maoyou asked softly.
"No press."
"But your mission is not..."
"I want to unlock the entire domain, and I don't necessarily have to press four buttons myself. To say the least, it doesn't matter if the task fails. On the contrary, this button is very important to Lewanska."
Mao You's eyes widened: "You want to negotiate terms with him?"
"I've been negotiating terms with him."
After thinking about it for a moment, Lu Ning understood that Lewanska's team management method ultimately comes down to the strength of the core and the strength of all aspects. Lewanska would not be unclear about the attitude he had shown. Unless he always showed his leadership skills, Lu Ning would definitely not follow his team all the time. At the same time, he had nothing to offer except a suit of clothes and weapons. Lu Ning provided it, but compared to the weather lock button, Lu Ning still seemed to be at a disadvantage.
Therefore, Lewanska must take on this task, whether to continue to strengthen herself or to prove her strength to Lu Ning.
"Let's go to the courtyard next door, look for the mission machine again, and then return to the supply point in the Autumn Garden a little early."
Except for the elevator room, the only exit to the courtyard was a glass door. It was easy for a few people to go back along the path Helena had opened before. However, Lu Ning noticed that some plants near the six-pointed star had begun to cover the opened path again. path.
"Growing up so fast..."
Helena and others went to the glass door with an obvious purpose. The five of them left the courtyard without much effort and entered a corridor that was the same as the bifurcated corridor in the Autumn Garden. The only difference was that the corridor There is no pentagonal wall blocking the end, but a direct opening leading to the corridor outside.
"The center is symmetrical. The other entrance to the courtyard is on the other side of the corridor." Lu Ning pointed. At this time, Gorius pointed to the narrow path that no one had explored before and asked: "Lu, where is it?" what is the place?"
"It probably leads to another room."
"But it should be connected to the courtyard, right? Remember the courtyard is quite big."
No...not close enough.
Gorius's sense of space is very poor, or his sense of distance is not very good. Lu Ning had studied cartography before. After a little estimation of the size, he knew that there was still a distance of nearly 20 meters between the end of the courtyard and the path. There might be curves inside the path, but that kind of narrow terrain made Lu Ning not rely too much on it. Totally unwilling to go in.
With the authority of the captain, Lu Ning led the people to the corridor.
There was an obvious one-star mission machine in the corridor, which had undoubtedly been swiped. Aunt Pingna tried it, but Lu Ning walked over without even looking.
Turning around the corridor, you can see the glass door on the other side. At the same time, two people happened to be walking over in the opposite corridor.
These were two similar-looking men, still wearing the original white clothes, holding the knives and forks taken from the supply point in their hands. As soon as they saw the five men carrying weapons on Lu Ning's side, they immediately turned around and ran away.
"Hello!"
Maoyou shouted, and the two of them ran faster, turned into the corridor and disappeared without a trace.
"They must have been attacked." Lu Ning was not surprised that people had such a reaction. After all, there were more than 150 people, and some of them, including Lewanska, who organized the team, were also shady. The people who were attacked naturally turned around and ran away when they saw them like this.
"No need to chase." She said this, walked to the glass door and opened the door to the courtyard on the other side.
That "brook" is actually very obvious.
There is a winding waterway at the entrance of a large courtyard. Judging from the scale alone, the width of five or six meters is really just a "brook". But there are only two plank bridges on this creek that can only be passed by a single person, and the depth of the creek cannot be seen at the bottom, which is a bit strange.
Lu Ning walked to the creek and squatted down to touch the water.
It is flowing water, and it still maintains a very low temperature in such a sultry environment. It does not exceed ten degrees to the body, and it feels really biting.
"This water is so cold!"
Lu Ning turned around and found that Mao You imitated her and touched the water with her hand, and was immediately shrunk by the ice.
"If you fall in a place like this, something will happen, right? For example, cramps or something!"
"Don't you know how to swim?" Lu Ning broke off a piece of wood from the bush beside him and threw it into the water. The wood floated in the water and flowed away with the current.
"The buoyancy is normal and the water is living water," she said.
"You guys are here too?"
Just as he was talking, a voice came from behind. Everyone turned around and found that it was Helena and four people walking out of the courtyard.
"Yes, thank you for opening the way." Lu Ning nodded towards her.
"It's a small matter. Let's search the yard first." Helena gestured behind her with her thumb, which meant that the task inside had been taken. Lu Ning didn't care and asked if there was anything else he found.
"Xiao Huo found a button under the bed."
"under the bed?"
"Because of what you said, we searched here carefully. The inside of this courtyard is very much like a house, and the style inside is also different from the outside. For example, the bed is not the solid bed commonly used in suites outside. The kind where you can put things underneath.”
"What's that button?"
"I think it is what we are looking for, the release switch of the weather lock." Helena smiled, "I saw the explanation - there is no need to deny it, after all, we have also collected a lot of tasks."
"Do you also have a task to unlock the lock?"
"Relevant, but in view of the danger suggested by that description, we decided to postpone this matter temporarily. After all, we have not yet determined the intensity of the crisis. No one knows which one is worse than unlocking the weather."
Now Lu Ning was basically sure that Helena's mission was not limited to the first crisis, otherwise her vigilance would not be so low.
"I'm going to go across the bridge and have a look."
"I just saw you test the water, did you find anything?"
There is no hard answer to this question.
"The water here is very cold, and it is living water. There are so many plants around and there are no leaves on the water, which shows that there is filtering somewhere. It's just that the water is bottomless, and the distance of five or six meters is no longer something that can be crossed by ordinary jumping. So these two wooden bridges are very important.”
"Understood, but no matter how cold it is, since the water is flowing, it won't be too cold. Have you ever thought about getting into the water and taking a look?"
"Going into the water?" Lu Ning shuddered just thinking about it. She also knew her water properties. There was nothing wrong with swimming in normal water. It was strange that she didn't get cramps at this low temperature.
"It's not like we go down unprepared. Did you go to the six-pointed star room we talked about before? The weapons collection point there provides a variety of special environment clothing, including diving suits."
This is true, but Lu Ning was called away by Mao You before he could browse much. He just left an impression in his mind, but he really didn't remember how many there were.
"If there is time later, we have to cross the river now."
Lu Ning walked onto the wooden bridge. The bridge that only allows one person to pass is very stable, and it is not a single-plank bridge. It just has no guardrails on both sides, which tests your mental quality a little.
No one here is so bad that they fall into the water.
After crossing the bridge, there was a small house with blue walls hidden in the jungle on the other side. The two teams worked together to cut the bushes along the way. Lu Ning noticed that among the two men beside Helena, the young man was holding an axe. Some of the cowering men used a long, narrow katana.
As for the girl at the end, she didn't do anything at all and just waited for the person in front to open the way.
"You have to help."
Gorius said angrily. There were a lot of cane bushes along the way. He was sweating all over from cutting them at a distance of about twenty meters. When he saw the girl didn't take action, he immediately spoke out.
"Sorry, Mayuri is not in good health and is not suitable for strenuous activities." Helena came out in time to save her, but Lu Ning noticed that she winked at the girl named Mayuri, but she didn't understand what it meant.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that." Gorius scratched his bald head and smiled.
After overcoming obstacles, everyone finally arrived in front of this blue building. Looking at the blue door painted the same color as the building, Helena turned around and asked: "Lu, what do you think this place looks like?"
"… swimming pool."
"Do you know the swimming pool?"
"I've seen it in the album." Lu Ning's face darkened at the right moment, "When we couldn't even find some clean drinking water, the people here used so much precious water to play with."
"This is the difference, I've known it since I was a child." Helena sighed, "Let's see what kind of building this is."
The door was opened, and surprisingly, Lu Ning basically guessed it right - this was an indoor swimming pool.
Two oval-shaped swimming pools occupy most of the area in the house, and various items commonly used in swimming pools are placed around them. Not to mention deck chairs, water balloons, and swimming rings, there are even freezers and vending machines. Yes, this is also a supply point.
"It seems like the supply point doesn't intend to cause us any trouble."
"The one in the middle is not a vending machine." Lu Ning pointed to a row of three black machines between the two oval swimming pools. The two on the left and right are undoubtedly vending machines, but the one in the middle is a Samsung mission machine.
"They look really alike." Mao You twitched the corner of his mouth, "You'd miss it if you weren't paying attention."
"This time... let's give it to Aunt Pingna. Helena, do you want this task?"
"We already have three stars. I'm afraid we won't be able to bear any more." Helena smiled and made a "please" gesture. Ping Na was overjoyed when she saw this, and hurried over to try to take over the task. As the machine made a soft sound, her expression became even more joyful.
"Got it! This mission has not been taken away by anyone!"
"Okay, we have to replenish some water here...the supply points seem to be different." Lu Ning walked towards the freezer and took a look at the supply points. There are only two supply points in this room, and they only provide hot dogs and iced drinks. Although it may be to fit the environment here, Lu Ning always feels that there is some representative meaning in it, just like the difference in the weapons arsenal.
She made a drink and drank it, then looked at the time. It was almost time to go back and join the big team. It is estimated that someone has already completed several tasks at this time. What is not yet clear is how long the cooling time of each machine is.
"Are you leaving? We have to continue searching for water. There probably won't be any more water in Summer Garden, right? Since it hasn't been completed, it means there will be water in other gardens... It's a troublesome task." Helena sighed. .
"Sorry, we also have our own actions."
"It's a pleasure to work with you, Lu. If you have time, you might as well make a friend." Helena smiled and extended her hand to Lu Ning.
Lu Ning hesitated for a moment, then shook her hand and quickly let go.
"Yes, if you have time."
The two teams split up after leaving through the glass door.
Lu Ning and others returned to the Autumn Garden along the original route. As soon as they came out of the elevator, they heard the sound of fighting coming from the parents' room not far away. Several people looked at each other and hurried over there quickly.
Before running far, Lu Ning saw a man lying on the ground, moaning with a bloody head. Not far away, Fu Junnian and the remaining three people were fighting with four people in gray cotton coats. Fu Junnian's curses could be heard here.
"Is this what you are capable of, brats? You only know how to attack from behind! If you fight from the front, you are like a rabbit? In the past, a trash like you who could only stick to the wall could be crushed to death with one hand!"
"Lu Ning, this..."
"Help." Lu Ning interrupted Mao You directly.
"We don't know the situation yet..."
"You must help your teammates if they are in trouble." Lu Ning glanced at him.
Gorius immediately roared excitedly, picked up the guy and pounced on it.
