Chapter 21: Another wolf

This is the second time Luo Duan has entered city y. +++Cartino novel website EbookFREE.me and for the first time, Yining’s assistant drove to pick him up personally, and Lu sent him to the y city headquarters. Through the car window, he can see the life silhouette of the people in the city, but it is limited to this.
As the capital of this land, City Y is many times more prosperous than the base. But compared with the "world" in which he lives, he still shows a bit backward and poor. People will use precision electrical appliances found in the erosion zone, and they will also use homemade rough crafts. There may be an oil lamp next to the ultra-thin computer, and the boundaries of the times are blurred here.
Seeing the public car coming, the people will spontaneously give way to make room. At first Luo decided that this was a preferential treatment for the "players", but now thinking about it, the car passed by, never stopped, and there was some deep meaning inside.
The only thing he can really set foot on is the courtyard of the Heart Headquarters.
Luo Duan laughed a few times, and watched his assistant leave anxiously, waiting in Yining's reception room.
Just like Zhu Yanchen's Yu Shujun, in terms of setting, Yining is also his direct superior. Ordinary players are no more. As the captain of the world's second-ranked team-"Groundwater", Luo Duan can apply to meet with Yining. Compared with Shu Jun, who treats his boss as the air, Luo Duan is softer, and it was quite pleasant to get along with Yining before.
The behavior of the past is now an excellent cover.
The door of the reception room opened.
"Bitter rain." Yining played the npc perfectly, calling his game id as usual. "There is no task for now. Come to see me specially, do you have any other needs?"
"Personal needs, I want to apply for indoor practice." Luo Duan smiled slightly.
Yi Ning frowned. "Indoor practice" is a nominal resident task. As the name suggests, the location is indoors and the content is quite simple-players need to fight against mutant beasts of all levels and cannot bring support. In the process of indoor practice, players still have the possibility of (die si) retreat.
For the coalition government, the "indoor exercise" is a controllable simulated battlefield, and researchers can rely on it to collect information on the battle of the people. The usual indoor practice can be done at the border stronghold. But since Luo Duan specifically proposed...
"The border strongholds, I have called them all over." Luo Duan continued, "I have read the information. The high-level practice range is under the headquarters. I want to apply for it."
Yi Ning did not immediately agree: "I hope you can think about it again. Your ability is more biased (group qun body assistance, not suitable for this training. As the leader of the team, command ability is more important than single combat." "
To put it harder, Luo Duan (强qiang) returns to (强qiang), (身shen) physical condition is put there-he has almost reached the end of the life span of a human (chengcheng), can he use his seven-point ability to pay back Hard to say.
Even if Luo Duan is on the verge of scrapping, using this important combat power as a consumable for the battle is a bit of a waste.
Luo Duan seemed to have anticipated his answer long ago, and refused to give up: "Now my team is on vacation, I just have a little time. Sir, I am about to retire, maybe this is my last time here. I just want to More...experience."
After that, the smile on Luo Duan's face became bigger. His looks match the water system supernatural powers, the outline of his eyebrows is soft, and his temperament is gentle, which makes people feel uncomfortable.
Right now, Luo Jue's answer is reasonable and well-founded. If he pushes (off tuo) again, it will only appear unnatural. Yining had to follow the regulations: "I will arrange a room for you here. During the period, there will be someone to accompany you, and the task can be interrupted at any time. If you are seriously injured, we will take the initiative to interrupt the task. Are there any other questions?"
"What about ordinary injuries?"
"Heal until you can fight again."
"I see, thank you." Luo Duan stretched out his hand quite politely, covered with black (colored) gloves. "My application form has been filled out, please pass it."
Yi Ning stretched out his hand and shook hands with the other party-strange, did Luo cut his gloves before?
"See you tomorrow." Luo Duan quickly withdrew his hand, smiling (dry gan). "……I am looking forward."
"If you mind losing to Blackbird, I have to say that their captain has not applied for this project." Before Luo Duan went out, Yining couldn't help adding up.
Luo Duan stopped at the door for a few seconds without looking back.
"...That's because he doesn't like indoors and prefers to charge in the open. I don't have that (strong qiang) offensive power. This kind of training is just right."
Shu Jun was charging in the wild, but he was not so happy.
A few hours ago, Uncle Pan showed his business acumen again-Zhu Yanchen said when he asked for information, and unfortunately vented (exposed) that they wanted to buy a mud sled. As a result, the two of them had just packed their luggage and the hotel door had not yet appeared. Uncle Pan had already found the mud sled merchant and guide.
"This is the contact method, there are other things if you are not satisfied. This little brother, the introduction fee only needs to be a cost, it is good and cheap, and it is never cheating. Look, it just ends with the money, the money, the money and the money. ."
Zhu Yanchen was about to dig out his wallet, Shu Jun suspected that the generals had never heard the phrase "shop around".
He called haha, put down his luggage, and dragged Zhu Yanchen to the market to go around. Facts have proved that Uncle Pan did not lie-including the introduction fee, his price is still much lower than the market.
In the end, they carried two packs of newly purchased supplies on their backs and returned to the hotel.
"Have you come back?" Uncle Pan greeted cheerfully, "You two have faces, and outsiders can't be polite."
Shu Jun: "..." Are they wearing masks, can you tell?
"We often go to the erosion zone outside, and the bones are deformed. You two have a straight back. You are buying a mud sled and looking for a guide. You are a newcomer." Uncle Pan seemed to see through his question. "I'm the contact person...Oh, this brother is happy. You two will come again next time!"
Zhu Yanchen paid the money neatly, and then looked at Shu Junyan specifically.
"What do you see." Shu Jun scowled, "Uncle Pan is a sincere person, I have nothing to say...but I'm not afraid that you will be cheated. It's not wrong to save some money."
He felt flustered when he thought that he had saved half of his life in the so-called "real world", and now everything has become waste paper.
Zhu Yanchen kept watching.
"Save a little more money. When we come back here, we can let go of extravagance and celebrate something." Shu Jun is unrelenting.
Zhu Yanchen was stunned, and then his eyes became milder-Shu Jun's tone was quite determined, as infectious as ever. For a moment, he even had the illusion of "I can come back alive".
But they don't need to expend energy in this area. Marshal Zhu thought for a moment, cancelled the hiding of the e-wallet, and showed Shu Jun the string of numbers.
... Shu Jun's eyes drifted a little, and he didn't talk to him for half an hour. After they packed up their luggage again, he muttered sadly: "You transferred so much money out, are you afraid that people think you have a premeditated death?"
Zhu Yanchen's tone is serious: "There will be nothing wrong, I usually bring so many."
Shu Jun: "..."
Hours later, the two men were already galloping in the mud in the erosion zone. The sky is the familiar lead gray (color), and there are only a few gravel and dead wood on the gray-black ground, mixed with the marks of mutant animal paws and mud sleds. I don't know if it was affected by the incident some time ago, only their team was in sight, and there was a little bleak smell in the air.
The land in the heavily eroded area is a bit eroded and swamped, and there are soft, muddy puddles everywhere, and it is difficult to walk and vehicles. Faced with this kind of road conditions, the rich will engage in mud boats, and the poor will use mutant beasts to pull mud sleds. Over time, many people (gan gan) rowed full-time mud boats to drive mud sleds and acted as "guides in erosion areas" at high prices.
The guide was also a bald, brawny man, similar in shape to Uncle Pan. He also had two tumors on his head, but they were brown. Shu Jun glanced at the shape, wondering that Uncle Pan was not so sincere—their fat water didn't flow to outsiders' fields.
"I heard my brother say that you two want to go east?" The guide put a gas mask on his face, but he could hear the smile inside. "I can take you two for two days at most, and I won't go any deeper."
"Two days are enough." Zhu Yanchen said.
"The south side is also very good. Someone dug up the jewelry store a while ago. Why bother with the east side? Actually, if you go to the south side with your luggage, you can make a small boat. If you go to the mud sled, you will have to add a cargo bar, which tires me. My dog, alas." The guide obviously wanted to continue chatting.
The "dog" he spoke of was running on a mud sled. The group of dogs was dark, its cracked head dripping with saliva, and its six legs digging through the mud, running like a foot on the mud. There are black and red (flesh rou) hanging in front of their heads, like a donkey led by carrots.
"Speaking of the east side. It’s really not me. I dared to send it three days before, but now it’s two days at most. I don’t know if my brother told you. Recently, something happened over there. The evil door is the real evil door. People found a strange monster corpse..."
Now they knew where Uncle Pan's constant intelligence came from. Marshal Zhu slowly lay down, pulled the quilt, and cast a "handed over to you" look at Shu Jun.
"What's your name?" Shu Jun took over the burden and interrupted the endless guide. "Mr. Pan...?"
"Actually, my brother and I belong to the old Chen family. Which name is Pan? I blame these two tumors on our heads." The guide chuckled, "But for business, just be careful. You follow the crowd and call me Uncle Bear will do it."
Shu Jun: "...Uncle Xiong."
The next two days were dull, except for the (bodyshen) physical examination of Shu Jun who was immobile, Zhu Yanchen seemed to fall in love with (sleeping Shui) sleep. Whenever he has time, he will take a nap. Shu Jun could understand his mood-there was nothing to see in the heavy erosion zone, let alone the erosion marsh, the mutant beasts they encountered were only two or three kittens and puppies. There was an outsider nearby, and they couldn't let go.
If you say that Zhu Yanchen has finished working here (sleeping Shui), (sleeping Shui) finished work. He can only take advantage of Uncle Xiong (sleeping in Shui) to go out and hunt a few mutant beasts to eat. After eating, you have to bring some (meat rou) back to feed Zhou, so as to save it from crying when Uncle Bear is awake.
I originally thought that forbearance for two days would be good, but I didn't expect that the problem happened the next night.
On the next night, they met a river.
The water in the river is not clear, but it is particularly conspicuous in the desert. When Uncle Xiong saw the river, he said: "The place is here, you have to walk the mud sled yourself."
As he said that he removed the cargo stall hanging behind the mud sled, and helped them install the mud sled head on the spot: "Aren't you buying a dog? I'm exhausting myself by scratching myself. Anyway, I personally go back quickly. I can sell you a few."
As a result, he hadn't finished speaking yet, Zhu Yanchen had already drew his spear and beat the mutant beast in front of him in two.
"Hey, you guys, don't buy if you don't buy it, what is this (gan gan)?!...I (fuck cao)!!!" Uncle Xiong cursed for a while, his voice changed—countless gray and black (color) Straw drilled out of the mutant beast's body and crawled towards the three of them.
Send corpse beast.
Shu Jun tutted, tore off the cloth covering the big sword, and raised the sword to keep up. I don't know how much more convenient the sword is than his claws-unlike the purification gun, the blade swept the straw-like limbs of the corpse beast, and those limbs were sucked away like rice flour. Shu Jun slashed beautifully, and the body of the corpse beast was raw and wounded by a third.
Zhou: "Hiccup."
Uncle Xiong's eyes changed behind the mask.
"High-tech, high-tech." Shu Jun quickly explained, "My boss is rich, this time he came out to experiment with weapons. Right, boss?"
Zhu Yanchen, who was firing, almost hit the wrong side. Fortunately, Uncle Xiong is so panicked right now that he doesn't have the mind to pursue some things: "Or I will take you back. There are corpse beasts here, and there must be eclipse marshes nearby. No matter what you two (gan gan) come. Yes, fate matters."
"It's okay." Shu Jun wrote a happy fan for Zhou. "You go first, we can handle it."
Uncle Xiong was not polite, pulled up the reins, and quickly fled the scene.
Shu Jun is not too nervous, this is not the first time they have encountered a corpse beast. It can only attack Zhu Yanchen, and Marshal Zhu is not a good target. As long as you guard him, Zhu Yanchen will be fine even if the Swamp is found by himself.
"A Yan, follow me closely." Without Uncle Xiong watching, Shu Jun relaxed a lot. This is just a regular encounter, he originally thought so.
However, at the moment when the corpse beast was eaten by the big sword, he heard a vague laugh.
To be precise, it was not a sound in the physical sense, but rather the emotion he had sensed from the swamp. There was cold behind Shu Jun, and cold sweat broke out immediately.
A swamp is like a bee colony or an ant colony. It is a biological aggregate that follows instinct, with simple emotions and thinking at best.
Even if he got lucky like Zhou did, got rare information, and made himself a brain, Zhou's emotions were still quite simple. But the laughter that came this time was different-it was not a pure laugh of a child, it was more like an adult's chuckle after being amused.
Shu Jun tensed all nerves in an instant, facing the place where the "laughter" came, and protecting Zhu Yanchen behind him: "Ayan, we have to go."
It's a pity that the words are too late.
A vague shadow appeared in the haze in the erosion area. It is about (touching Mo) two meters high, and its outline looks like some kind of insect at first glance. There are four limbs, which are long and thin arthropod structures. They bend several times and hold them lightly on the mud.
At the gathering place of the four limbs, there is a drop-shaped (body shen) body hanging. It stood less than a hundred meters away from them, moving slowly, acting like a dancing ghost spider.
Shu Jun was quite sure that the laughter came from him.
[So it's not the leader. 】It’s thoughts are passed down, there is no exact language, but the meaning is quite clear. [Also, how could the leader come to such a place? 】
[Where is your swarm? ] It started to laugh again, and raised another question. [Why do you grow up to be that strange? 】
[Why don’t you answer? 】
It got closer again. Cold sweat emerged from Shu Jun's forehead—the opponent's rhythm was too fast, and he didn't know how to respond. He had successfully passed the ditch with the swamp before, and what he sent out was still an unconscious swear word.
[We already have a leader, we just need a leader. 】It said, 【Since he doesn’t answer, he is the aggressor. 】