Chapter 82: A Chance Encounter
No matter what kind of secrets are hidden in the castle, it is obvious that there is no substantive conclusion without going in and looking into it.
Qi Lin put away the map he had bought from the hunter, and then took out another one from his bosom—the detailed structure map of the Li Family Castle with the gray card.
There is only one obvious indication on the map, which is that there is a downward arrow drawn on the edge of one of the towers in the far north of the castle.
"Down? Does it mean there's something underneath this tower? ”
Qi Lin raised his Gauss sniper rifle and looked back and forth through the high-powered optical scope at the tower, a circular turret at the northernmost point of the castle, at the turn of two high walls.
During the war years, there is a certain reason for the design of this corner tower in a circle: first, it can maximize the support area of the defender on the corner tower, and the city walls on both sides can be taken care of, and because the circle has no protruding corner, it is also equivalent to reducing the pressure of being attacked from both sides in disguise; Second, the exposed wall of the circular corner tower is an arch, and the arch bridge, safety helmet, etc. all use the arch design, because the arch can evenly distribute the force, and when resisting shells, this circular corner tower is not easy to be blown down.
In addition to this north corner tower, there were three identical corner towers, and Qi Lin couldn't tell what was so special about this corner tower by observing it from a distance.
If it is really the same as his guess, there is another mystery under the corner tower, then you can only know after entering the corner tower.
In that chaotic era of war, it is very common to build a basement in the castle, whether it is used to hide soldiers or grain, and even more underground space is no less than the area on the ground of the castle......
Just as Qi Lin was about to pack up his equipment and go downstairs, the corner of his eye suddenly swept something, which made him immediately stop the movement in his hand, set up the sniper rifle again, and aimed the scope at the place where he had found the abnormality just now.
It was a slender female player, wearing a tight-fitting leather combat suit, carrying a large bulging backpack behind her back, only to see the female player throw a rope with a hook claw onto the outer wall of the castle, and after pulling the rope to make sure the hook claw was firmly fixed, she began to climb up the city wall.
The outer walls of the castle were very high, about fifteen meters high, nearly five stories high, but it took the female player less than five seconds to climb up, and she was obviously also a master.
"At least a first-level evolutionary, strength 9 or above, agility 12 or more." Qi Lin observed the female player's actions through the scope, and at the same time estimated the strength of the other party in his heart - if the other party also came clearly for the things in this castle, then a battle with this female player was inevitable, and if the other party was just a simple probe, then Qi Lin could wait until the other party left before entering the castle.
Anyway, the gray card is in Qi Lin's hands, and the other party can't rely on the strength of one person to break the door lock that needs to use the level of the gray card, so Qi Lin is not worried about being given a head start by her.
After climbing the outer wall, the female player first untied the huge backpack behind her, took out the parts of different sizes wrapped in canvas, and then began to set up a sophisticated instrument.
"Infrared thermal imager!"
In the old days, many special forces would be equipped with this kind of facility when performing tasks such as night raids and infiltration, and under the field of vision of the infrared thermal imager, unless the enemy has a way to turn himself into a cold-blooded animal, all ambushes and secret sentinels will have nothing to hide.
The power of the infrared thermal imager that the female player is assembling is much greater than the power of the individual soldier type used in the military, according to Qi Lin's conservative estimate, the effective distance of this infrared thermal imager can at least include the entire main building of the inner fort.
"Is it a mission?" Qi Lin muttered a little puzzled, if it was just an ordinary detection mission, it was obviously impossible to use such a big guy - most of the current hunters still use a pair of naked eyes to detect unknown areas, and no one can afford to use such a sky-high large infrared thermal imager.
Moreover, even if you have the money to buy such high-tech equipment, in the eyes of those hunters, it is definitely not as cost-effective as buying weapons or mutated biological serums.
Most hunter players only believe in strength, and if the strength increases, the area that can be detected will naturally expand, and the strength is insufficient, even if they rely on this expensive equipment to find something good, they will not be able to take it.
Qi Lin adjusted the magnification of the scope to the maximum, intending to see if he could find some other clues in the details, but the female player's inadvertent turn made Qi Lin see a familiar face-
"Song Xiaodie?!"
How did she end up here? Although this little Nizi's game cabin was brought to her by herself, this guy's growth speed is too terrifying, right? When Xiao Lei's goods were still making traps to hunt the lowest-level carrion corpses, Song Xiaodie had already appeared in the area of the Li Family Castle marked as "red"?!
Qi Lin wiped his eyes in disbelief, if it was really Song Xiaodie, he was a little curious about this girl's experience in the past few days.
Song Xiaodie entered the wasteland world empty-handed, and her father obviously didn't leave her a penny of inheritance, otherwise this girl wouldn't even wear clothes that were cut from Qi Lin's old clothes, but the strength of this infrared thermal imager and evolutionary person obviously shouldn't appear on Song Xiaodie's body during this time period.
"Could it be that I was mistaken?"
Qi Lin thought with some uncertainty, after all, the appearance in the game can still be fine-tuned slightly, if the two people look similar, after fine-tuning, it is possible to recognize the wrong person.
Although Qi Lin, Xiao Lei, and Song Xiaodie now live under the same roof, the game "Wasteland" is still in a state of playing its own way, after all, due to the randomness of the spawn point, unless a meeting place is agreed in advance, the chance of meeting in the game is still quite small.
Qi Lin didn't want to interfere with their own plans, because what he was going to do was too dangerous for both Xiao Lei and Song Xiaodie, and if he forcibly involved them, the only result would be to use up the three resurrection chances of the two of them early.
Qi Lin waited for about twenty minutes, and the female player who was "suspected" of Song Xiaodie did not turn around again, but kept staring intently at the screen of the infrared thermal imager, while quickly recording something in the notebook with a pen, completely unaware that a Gauss sniper rifle powerful enough to blast her into pieces had locked on her for nearly half an hour.