Chapter 14: Behind me
In the midst of the stalemate, the roar of the beach bikes approaching suddenly came from outside the supply point. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoXia Yan came with Wen Jie and stopped the wheels outside the warehouse. Wen Jie saw Lu Pingchuan from afar, so he spread his legs and ran over, shouting as he ran: "Brother Lu, Brother Lu, I admire you so much!" How did you find such a beautiful and capable teammate as Sister Xia? Before, Sanxian Nan Lao said that you have a woman, and I didn't believe it, but before I left, Instructor Elise, you met Sister Xia...... Any tricks? Hurry up and teach my brother! My mother is still waiting for me to bring her a daughter-in-law back......"
"Don't make a fuss, let's get down to business!" Lu Pingchuan couldn't cry or laugh, glanced at Xia Yan who had a distraught expression behind him, and exhaled the monkey paw that Wen Jie had beckoned to come up, and said to the other three teams, "Now that everyone is here, you can start arranging seats." ”
"Hehe, there are three three-person teams here, you can talk about how to rank!" Now that the number of his team is the same as Lu Pingchuan's, the four-person team will be properly taken into consideration, and Thunderbolt has no choice but to purge another group of three to share the same enemy with him, "Brothers, do you want a teammate who will share your location information with you, or a madman who will set fire to the car at every turn?" ”
"You don't need to eliminate three people, according to my way, only one person needs to be brushed out." Lu Pingchuan raised his hand and motioned to everyone for the beach motorcycle under Xia Yan's crotch, "This thing can't cross the desert, but it shouldn't be a problem to find a rope to tie to the back of the off-road vehicle and drag it all the way to the core area...... In this way, there can be two people on the motorcycle, plus ten people on the car, and I can take twelve people on this trip, and only one person needs to be eliminated. ”
As soon as these words came out, the restless mood that had originally permeated the other two three-person teams immediately weakened. After all, the suggestion of leaving only one person sounds much better than eliminating a whole team. And Lu Pingchuan didn't even leave them with these remaining uneasiness, and the next second he directly gave his own candidate: "Captain Thunderbolt, you said before: 'Brothers are like siblings, but when necessary, we should know how to break the wrist of a strong man'." Now is the time for the captain to show his personal style, you won't mind if I take your two brothers on the road first, right? ”
Ten minutes later, an off-road vehicle dragged a desert motorcycle out of the No. 17 supply point. It wasn't until the resentful curse of the thunderbolt fire behind him gradually disappeared that Lu Pingchuan really relaxed, and threw the fire fold that he was still subconsciously holding in his hand out of the carriage - in this scorching desert, his hands were full of cold sweat at this moment, and he was alone in the face of ten competitors who could make a move at any time just now, and it was a big deal to say that he was not nervous.
Thankfully, the final onboarding process went smoothly. The thirteen people present all passed Lu Pingchuan's proposal, except for the thunderbolt. At 7:05, the penultimate off-road vehicle in the landing batch is now moving up and down in the desert leading to the core area.
"Brother Lu, give." Wen Jie beside him handed over a bright red apple, "I took it at the 3rd point, I threw a lot of it along the way to reduce the load, I knew that you would let Sister Xia pick me up, and I carried all the food!" ”
Xia Yan, who was sitting in the front row, turned around when she heard the sound, and there was a bigger and redder apple in her hand. Lu Pingchuan smiled helplessly, leaned back in the chair and took a bite of the apple, the overflowing juice and sweet taste instantly filled the entire mouth, the sweet and sour taste covered up the dry sand taste in the mouth, and slightly diluted the fatigue and anxiety of the day.
"Brother Lu, you haven't taught me yet!" Wen Jie leaned over again with a shy face, and begged in a low voice, "You haven't told me how you met Sister Xia and how you pulled her into the team?" ”
"Huh, want to know?" Lu Pingchuan pretended to mysteriously motioned to Wen Jie to lean his ear over, "I really want to know, I'll use your reward gold coins to invite my brother to a good meal later, plus a new set of tops, and I'll consider telling you again." ”
"It's all brothers, why are you so stingy......" As soon as he heard that there was no lunch for nothing, Wen Jie's spirit suddenly withered, but then he thought of something, and then asked, "But brother, you are also bold!" How did you come up with such a deadly method of dipping your clothes in gasoline? What if it does catch fire? ”
"Poof." Lu Pingchuan was happy, and glanced at Xia Yan, who turned his head when he heard the words, and no one said anything - the fuse tied with clothes was soaked in water, not gasoline, not to mention that after the spare gasoline was snatched away, Lu Pingchuan didn't have enough fuel to soak the fuse, and the gasoline that Xia Yan took out of the motorcycle fuel tank alone was just poured at the entrance of the warehouse, used to create a smell to scare the thunderbolts and smoke bombs.
Because of this, Lu Pingchuan had the courage to hold the fire fold and the "fuse" at the same time, blocking the front of the car and facing the ten people. If it was real gasoline sprinkled under his feet, even if he borrowed ten more guts at that time, I am afraid he would not be able to pretend to be so calm.
Fortunately, everything went well, the scorching atmosphere of the desert during the day was gradually fading with the sunset, and the beautiful starlight and evening breeze were blowing in front of you, making people experience for the first time that it was different from the gentle and quiet appearance of the day.
"Batch at 7:05, 17th, last car!" Wen Jie saw that he couldn't ask the left and right why, so he casually shouted on the world channel when he had nothing to do. Lu Pingchuan saw it, but he didn't stop it, and there were less than 20 people left, competing for the last ten beta places in this batch...... Thunderbolt still has a big chance of winning.
After all, they are already in the car, heading to a destination where elites, crooks, robbers, and lucky ones are about to converge. After the nervousness, Lu Pingchuan fell into a short state of emptiness in the dazed and exhausted face - Wen Jie's nagging and the roar of the car were far away from him, and only a famous sentence of Louis XIV echoed in his mind:
"Behind me, the flood is monstrous!"
By the time we arrived at the inner core, it was early in the morning. It's the core of the game, but it's actually a desert town about the size of a training camp, except that it's more old and desolate, and it looks like a common landscape in American westerns at the end of the last century. Lu Pingchuan and his entourage arrived at the contact point on the outskirts of the town in an off-road vehicle, and found the NPC of the joint without much difficulty. Ten people split up and head to the designated resting place to receive rewards and supplies for the first mission.
The desert in the middle of the night cooled down quickly, and as soon as he received the reward gold coins, Lu Pingchuan changed himself into a new shirt. Then he went to the "inn" of the rest station of the town with Wen Jie to ask for a room, changed into clean clothes and fell on the soft bed, and the fatigue and soreness all over his body crawled out one after another like maggots on the tarsal bones at this moment. Wen Jie let out a burst of snoring within three seconds of lying down, and Lu Pingchuan lay on the single bed opposite him, turned over, and took his identity card into a daze.
The gold and supplies rewarded by the quest are stored in their character ID cards as virtual items. In the next two months or so, the card will be their identification and bank account here. The first mission was rewarded with 100 virtual coins and a full set of basic equipment, which they could exchange for supplies or services at any facility or supply point in the town, and only 25 gold for a night's stay.
The plates on the low table had long been swept away by him and Wen Jie, and the filled stomach pouch conveyed an illusory and simple sense of happiness to the brain. Lu Pingchuan held his identity card and the system dial, flipped through and checked, he still had an elusive sense of unsteadiness - as if he was in a concrete dream, and in the next second, the world would collapse and shatter, and he would fall into the unknown darkness.