Chapter 10: The 48 Hours of Lies
As soon as these words came out, the world channel, which was as lively as a vegetable market, fell silent for a moment. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info During the training camp, players have learned that "The Law of Predation" is a task upgrade game, and the player's level and equipment improvement is mainly achieved by completing tasks, and the task reward will also include game currency - it will eventually be converted into corresponding cash, as part of the player's reward for participating in the closed beta, so the completion of the game task will be directly linked to the final income. With such a setting, it is no wonder that players are so sensitive and concerned about the word "mission".
"As you can see, this doesn't seem to be the right place to do closed beta. In fact, the real core area of the internal test is still 200 kilometers away in the south. The narrator's explanation provoked an exclamation among the players, "You need to find a way to reach the core area on your own within 48 hours, that is, before 7 am the day after tomorrow, and find the corresponding NPC to complete the login task...... The corresponding mission details have been sent to each of you through the system watch face, please pay attention to check! ”
Accompanied by his words, there was a soft sound of "beep-" in the headset, and then the system dial showed that there was a system content release, and it was really a landing mission as the narrator said, but it was added to the game plot:
"Infiltrate the town - in a remote desert town found the valuable rare mineral 'red soil', as the agent of the Black Sheep Company, you will hide your identity and secretly investigate the situation in the town, but in order to prevent being discovered, the guide of the Black Sheep Company can only take you to the outskirts of the town, you must rely on yourself to find a way to reach the town within 48 hours, and find the former correspondent of the Black Sheep Company lurking in it to complete the handover."
Trekking 200 kilometers in the desert above 40 degrees Celsius in 48 hours? Are you kidding! The players began to stir up, but fortunately, the narrator changed his mind in time, and stretched out his hand to signal the crowd to look at the scattered low buildings in the distance: "Don't worry, everyone, we can't do anything that is against humanity by having you cross the desert with your bare hands - you are now located in one of the seven border supply stations around the periphery of the game's core area, each containing 30 supply points, each of which provides different equipment support: there is and not only food, water, navigation, weapons, and vehicles... … However, it should be noted that only one of these supply points will provide 5 buggies, each with a limit of 10 people...... In other words, only 50 of you present can hitchhike into the core area...... As for those who didn't get on the bus, I can only wish you the best of luck......"
Before the words could be spoken, some of the players were already rushing towards the nearest supply point, and the narrator stopped them: "No, I suggest you listen to the rules of the mission before leaving...... The straight-line distance between each supply point is 2 km, and the distance between the supply station and the supply station is more than 50 km...... In order to narrow down the search area, this quest allows players of 5 or less to team up to complete the quest, and you can also post clues and information in any channel to guide the progress of others...... Of course, it is up to you to decide whether the information is accurate or not, and I wish you that there will be the next owner of 3 million! ”
The narrator put down the horn and waved his hand to signal the game timer to begin. The rest of the staff took away the backpacks and personal belongings that the players had replaced, but the impatient crowd didn't care about the little things, and everyone put on their new gear as fast as they could, and scattered towards the supply point that was visible to the naked eye. Lu Pingchuan grabbed Wen Jie, who turned around and ran, formed a team with the system dial, and advised:
"From here, I'll go left and right, and I'll report to my teammates every time I pass a mission point...... In addition, all players you meet along the way should remember to scan their ID code and share it in the team channel, and write down all the game nicknames you can remember! ”
"What's the use of that?" Wen Jie was puzzled.
"The World Channel includes all over 400 players, and only one of seven on our side, but I guess the distribution of supplies is not the same for each supply station...... Remember the people you scanned, the information they released can be regarded as valid information regardless of whether it is true or not, otherwise once the information of the seven supply stations is confused, we will really be blinded! ”
"It's really worthy of Brother Lu, I want to be so thoughtful!" Wen Jie turned on the camera on the dial of the system, and took pictures while running: "Brother Lu, I'm going!" ”
"You go to the right, don't run the other way around!" Lu Pingchuan agreed, turned on the camera on his wrist, and chased another group of people towards the first supply point on the left.
Five hours later, Lu Pingchuan, who had been exhausted as a dog, lay down in the shadow behind the warehouse of the No. 8 supply point, his chest like a blower, and he gasped like a blower. In the past five hours, he and Wen Jie have only run to five supply points, and the results they have received are a pot of gasoline, a satellite navigation system, a fire fold, two bottles of drinking water and two sets of changing underwear. The distance of two kilometers seems to be just a finger-wide gap on the navigation map, but when it is really measured by the flesh under the scorching sun, it almost kills Lu Pingchuan and Li Wenjie.
It won't go on like this. Lu Pingchuan looked at the increasingly hot sun above his head, felt the hot sand and gravel under him like a sauna stone, and began to have to think about ways to expand the search area in addition to physical strength. From the satellite map provided by the system dial, it can be seen that the 30 supply points are distributed in a fan-shaped irregular manner, the range is not large but definitely not small, even if you choose the nearest distance to cross the entire supply belt at least more than ten hours, but this does not guarantee that the supply points on the straight route will definitely appear off-road vehicles.
Supply Point 8 provided drinking water, and more and more players gathered in the shadows behind the warehouse, unscrewing the cool water to wash off the sand all over their heads, unwilling to leave again. In order to conserve his physical strength, Lu Pingchuan also thought about resting here until the sun went down before acting, but the limit of the off-road vehicle is only 50 people, and no one can guarantee that within the limited time, he will not become the unlucky person who has to trek through the 200-kilometer desert.
In the past five hours, the World Channel's message bar has hardly stopped, automatically blocking spam messages such as "A beautiful woman was found at Supply Point 13", and effective indicative messages can be regarded as gold panning in the sand. As Lu Pingchuan estimated, the world channel covers all more than 400 players, Rao was prepared before, but now there are only a dozen effective information release sources scanned, and the help for information screening is pitiful.
However, as time went on, the amount of boring content began to decrease, but the number of obviously misleading messages began to increase, ranging from the most frequent false reports about the location of off-road vehicles to fake GM tones and false prompts, and it seems that players are starting to get into the role and compete for a place in the "game".