217. Loose teams

Because the assembly machine is too important, Ding Hao will certainly not tell Catherine his true purpose completely, even if he has fought side by side with her for a while. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info just said that he and Huang Qian had taken a task to go to the Ice Soul Mountain Range to hunt some hardy creatures and elemental creatures, and collect some things from these creatures.

This kind of monster killing and collecting items accounts for more than 75% of the total number of tasks in the adventurer's hall, and there are all kinds of strange tasks, basically you can say anything, no one will doubt it.

"So that's ......" Catherine was convinced of this, and even sent out an invitation: "Since our destination is the Ice Soul Mountain Range, why don't you come together?" ”

Going together? Catherine's words made Ding Hao and Huang Qian look at each other, you inexplicably pull two people from the outside into your team, no matter how you look at it, right?

Seeing Catherine's unsuspecting appearance, Ding Hao didn't plan to be polite to her, and directly began to talk: "It's no problem to go together, Catherine, but I want to know what the team you are joining now is going to the Ice Soul Mountain Range for?" ”

Perhaps because she had fought side by side, Catherine trusted Ding Hao very much, and directly told everything she knew.

The team of adventurers she was currently in was a combination of two large teams and a group of scattered adventurers, with a number of nearly two hundred, and the reason why such a large team wanted to enter the Ice Soul Mountain Range was mainly for a newly discovered ruin.

"Ruins?" Listening to Catherine say this, Ding Hao suddenly thought of what Kalai said about the Ice Apostle and the Lich when he was in Nassar.

"Well, two days ago, an adventure team found a ruin on the Ice Soul Mountains, but when they went deep into the ruins, they were driven out by the monsters in the ruins, and this team suffered heavy casualties and was unable to explore the ruins alone, so they had to sell this news to the adventurer's hall, and then it was bought by the Blue Thorn adventure team at a high price." Catherine said: "It is said that this ruin is very dangerous, so it is best to bring more people, so the Blue Thorn Adventure Team united with the Scarlet Rose Adventure Team, the two teams add up to one hundred and fifty people, plus fifty scattered adventurers, and now the entire team has a total of more than two hundred people." ”

It looks like he's going to do something big.

"Are you sure they'll take them again?" Ding Hao asked.

"Of course, the more people there are in the activity of exploring the ruins, the better, because a team of one or two hundred people is nothing in front of a large ancient ruin." Catherine said. "But if you don't get paid, it's up to you to find treasures in the ruins."

This pattern is very common in large adventures, where large teams are responsible for organizing the event, and small teams or casual adventurers fill in the gaps, and then each takes what they need during the adventure, and when they are done, they go their own way, as for what they get......

It depends on their respective strength and fate, and there are those who make a lot of money, and there are those who get nothing and even die in the ruins.

"In that case, let's go together." So far, Ding Hao agreed to Catherine's suggestion.

In fact, the looseness of this team was beyond Ding Hao's imagination, and in the face of the two strangers pulled by Catherine, only a few people took a look, and no one even came to ask. This kind of performance can't help but remind Ding Hao of when he played games online at home before the crossing, and the group activities in the game are also like this, who cares if you are a human or a dog, in short, just come to participate in the event.

Of course, no matter what this kind of team wants to do, the success rate will never be higher than 30%, so Ding Hao is very worried about the future of this team.

"Catherine, let's form a squad when the time comes, so that we can take care of each other." Huang Qian also noticed this problem, so she proposed to Catherine.

"Okay, but I have a new friend, can you take her with you?" Catherine said.

"Absolutely." Huang Qian said.

Because this team has a lot of people, according to the regulations, they can only camp outside the city, so their management of scattered adventurers is also very lenient, if you have money, you go to the city to stay in a hotel, if you don't have money, you can set up a tent outside, and set off tomorrow after lunch at noon.

Of course, if you can sleep in a bed, you don't want to sleep on the ground, Ding Hao and Huang Qian naturally chose to rest in the city, changed into a thick powered exoskeleton the next day, and only gathered outside the city after lunch.

"Hey! This way! Ding Hao saw Catherine in heavy armor jumping and waving to him, and when Ding Hao and Huang Qian came to Catherine, they found that Catherine was followed by a small figure.

It was a little girl, petite, sweet and cute, so cute that people couldn't help but want to hug it in their arms and rub it hard, and the most striking thing was the cat ears on the little girl's head that shook from time to time.

This is a little girl of the orc cat clan, judging by her dress, she should be a shaman.

"Let me introduce you, this is Lily, a recovery shaman who is adept at using the power of flowing water to heal any wound." Catherine grabbed Lily's shoulders and made her stand in front of her, "Come and say hello, Lily." ”

"You...... Hello ......," Lily whispered, then swished back behind Catherine. This little guy has the same personality as a kitten, and is full of wariness of all creatures that approach him.

"Lily is a little scared, I hope you don't mind." Looking at Lily's small hand clutching her armor, Catherine smiled helplessly.

After the assembly was completed, the whole team began to set off, the Ice Soul Mountain Range was at least five or six hundred kilometers away from the Holy Light Fortress, and the road was basically a wild place, and it would take at least several months to walk on both feet, but all the people who could go to the Ice Soul Mountain Range were not rookies, at least there were still mounts, so everyone summoned their respective mounts and walked towards the north in a loose formation.

Lily's mount is a gray wolf, and the mount is actually something between a creature and a magical creation, usually made from living creatures through a series of means, which can be summoned when used, and when not used, lying quietly in a backpack in the form of a badge. The price of the mount is not cheap, the most common one costs at least 20 gold coins, and the more high-end ones even cost 1,000 gold coins, but even if the price is so expensive, it is still a horse in the hands of high-level adventurers, after all, the convenience brought by this thing is far more convenient than some gold coins.

And Catherine's mount is a Holy Light military horse, which is an elemental creature made of Holy Light, which is much stronger than ordinary military horses in terms of strength, endurance and speed, and is always obedient and does not know what fear is. However, unlike Lily's gray wolf, Catherine's Holy Light Horse is summoned through skills, and summoning the Holy Light Horse is a necessary skill for every paladin, which can be regarded as a class benefit for paladins.

On the other side, Ding Hao and Huang Qian sat on the same hoverbike, with Huang Qian driving it, while Ding Hao used this time to make a tracker. As a very important component, the assembly machine is equipped with a signal transmitter, and the code of this engineering mecha has been known when Ding Hao inspected the wreckage, and the signal frequency can be calculated according to the code. Although the dynamic exoskeleton itself can track the signal, the effective tracking range in the face of this low-frequency signal is only 5 kilometers, which is very inefficient, so Ding Hao wants to make a tracker with an accurate search radius of at least 10 kilometers and a fuzzy positioning of 50 kilometers, only in this way can the assembly machine be efficiently found.

Of course, this is not an easy task, and even with the help of the artificial intelligence Tianxuan and the scientist's skills, progress is still very slow.

"I guess two weeks should be about the same time." Ding Hao said: "After all, this is not the earth, and I can't find electronic components at all, so I can only disassemble other equipment to see if there are any alternatives." ”

The most important detection component on this tracker was removed from Ding Hao's hoverbike, which is an important component used by the computer on the hoverbike to calculate the terrain.

"Just dismantle it, and when you find the assembly machine, you won't have to worry about it." Huang Qian also knew that resources were tight now and had to make a choice. "But don't break the parts, we don't know if the assembly machine we found will work, and if something goes wrong with the assembly machine, we will have to put the parts back together."

"Hmm." Ding Hao said. "I'll be careful."

To the north of the Holy Light Fortress is an endless grassland, and the wolves are the biggest threat to this grassland, and a wolf pack of dozens or hundreds of wolves can easily tear apart any outsider who intrudes into their territory, but in the face of a large team of more than two hundred adventurers, it is better for these wolves to hide with their tails between their legs.

The whole team suffered a total of six wolf attacks, the most dangerous one was encountered a giant wolf pack with more than 400 steppe wolves, and led by a wolf, if it wasn't for Ding Hao and Huang Qian sniping the head wolf and causing the wolves to fall into chaos, this loose team is estimated to be killed by wild beasts before they can cross the grassland.

After passing through the grassland, the next thing is the swampy area where the fish-people are overflowing, these strange-looking little guys have lived and multiplied here for countless generations, but fortunately, the team is large enough to run over directly, but there are still three unlucky eggs sleeping in this swamp in the form of fish-man feces.

"May you make the water and grass of this swamp more abundant." This is Lily's prayer to the three unlucky ones, and Ding Hao is speechless about it.

After passing through the swamp, there is a forest area, and the Ice Soul Mountain Range is already close at hand. (To be continued.) )