Chapter 145: The Supernumerary Expedition
The guy's arrogant words almost made me faint, but I had to swallow it. I am the president of the Frost Rose. I'm standing for the Frost Rose and not the individual, especially now. We're about to go on a mission for the Frost Rose Alliance and our Alliance's forces, and if I mess it up because of my temper alone, then I don't deserve to be the leader. The battle of wills cannot be without, but it is not applicable at all times.
"Friend, let's discuss. I'll pay to hire your whole team, but how about you send only one person? ”
"I don't want to repeat it a third time, we're a team, it's all or nothing, there's no third option." That guy is still arrogant.
"May I ask you why you have to go together? You know I don't want to affect your team's feelings, but this mission is very dangerous, and it doesn't cost to sacrifice for nothing, right? ”
"That's our business, we lead the way, you pay, this deal is fair."
The other party has been refusing to let go, which has made me and the gun god both angry, but we are both people who understand priorities, so we both endured it and didn't get angry.
"Okay." I said: "Since you have to insist, then I can't help it, if I have a condition that needs to be stated in advance, if you don't agree, then this cooperation can only fail." ”
"You say, as long as it's not too much, we can do it."
I pulled the spear god to my side and said, "It's just the two of us this time, so we can't take care of so many of you." Because we only need one guide, and so many people come in by yourself, we will only protect one member, and the others will be fine, but we are not responsible for accidents. Also, this person we have made sure not to rush to the front, and we don't want to be dead before we reach our destination. ”
I thought my reasonable request would be accepted, but who knew that guy almost made me faint again. "Aren't you known as the strongest man in the world? How can you be so timid? Didn't we get there last time when our team didn't have anyone to protect us, and we got that kind of dirt in the end? What if you two don't help? "I'm ......!" I wanted to teach this idiot a lesson, but unfortunately my self-cultivation forced me to hold back the words. It's really nothing to say when you encounter this kind of two hundred and five, and you don't know anything to know that you're being poor and arrogant. The biggest difference between Zero and other games is that it tailors each person's mission. For the same task, two people with different strengths must have different difficulty in doing it. Last time, I wasn't there with the Gun God.,When they went, they must have encountered a mission designed for personnel of their level.,And this time with the addition of me and the Gun God's two big Bs.,There will definitely be a B-in of the monster side.,Relying on their words, they can just stuff people's teeth.。
The spear god saw that I was angry and said to himself: "Whether we are cowardly or not, you just have to say yes or disagree." Assign us a guide and make sure he doesn't charge ahead, we'll keep him safe all the time, and the rest of us can do whatever you want. ”
"Shh The fellow let out a very disdainful sound, then turned to the young man who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, and said, "Fatty, you give them a guide, so as not to hold us back." ”
The young man who was called a fat man walked out resignedly, and then nodded "I...... I see."
I reached out and summoned the young man to my side and asked, "What's your name?" ”
"Fatty."
"I mean your game name, not a nickname."
"Oh, my name is very handsome pig"
"Eh......" originally thought that the nickname Fat Man was a little insulting in it, so I asked him for the name of the game, but when I heard it, I realized that his game name was not as good as the nickname.
"How did you come up with such a name?"
"Cause...... Because in reality, everyone calls me a fat pig, I don't like that title, I want to be handsome, so I took a name called a very handsome pig. ”
I thought for a while and said, "Then I'll call it Shuai Pig in the future." "Although it still doesn't feel very good, it's not too discriminatory after all." That, the origin of purple clay, you remember how to go
Is it? ”
"Hmm." Handsome Pig nodded. "I have special skills that I use to find my way, and the last time I ran into those purple clays was because I was leading the way. I can't get it wrong. ”
As soon as it comes to his own strengths, the handsome pig immediately became excited.,Obviously, this guy has always belonged to the kind of person who doesn't have much confidence.,And it feels like he's still a little cowardly.,But it seems that he's really.
is good at leading the way, and when he mentions this aspect of things, he almost seems to have changed as a person.
"Good. Since you know the way, you are responsible for leading the way. When you get to the Red Planet, no matter what happens to your teammates, you just have to hide behind him. ”
I pointed to the god of guns. The Gun God is a long-range strike crew. So the location where he stays is generally safe. "You don't have to think about anything other than keep yourself safe, no matter who happens to you
When it comes to trouble, you don't care. ”
"If that's ......"
"No, yes. And also in case. No matter what happens, you just have to follow him, unless we ask you to do something, you can do it, otherwise just follow him. This one
The requirements are not complicated, right? ”
Handsome Pig nodded. "It's not complicated."
"Okay, when can you go?" I asked, staring at the guy leading the group
"Anytime. All it takes is to make some necessary supplies, and of course, we will have to talk about the price. ”
"How much do you need in total?" I asked, a little impatiently.
As soon as the guy heard my question, he immediately turned around and got together with a few of them, and it was clear that these were the only ones in the team who were the real leaders. Several people argued for a while
Then the guy turned around again. "We want this number." The guy held out two fingers.
"How much do you have?" This kid is only one or two hundred and five, and he still plays with me, which is simply looking for death. He didn't directly say the number because he intended to let me quote a high price, maybe he felt that I was in charge of one
The guilds are in charge of a lot of money, as long as they open their mouths, it is absolutely a heavenly number, but they don't know that it is such a big guild that will take care of it. The small guilds are basically a hall of words, and the management of funds is chaotic.
How much you want to spend depends on your mood, but a big bank like us has to set up a project for any expenditure like a large company, but it is not that it can be used indiscriminately. Seeing that I was not fooled, the guy had to say tentatively: "This? This is two...... 20,000 crystal coins. ”
"Twenty thousand?" I guess I pretended to be surprised and raised my voice an octave. "You didn't burn out your head, did you?"
When I asked him this, the guy immediately began to be timid, after all, opening his mouth to ask for such a large amount is indeed a bit too big for him. Of course, 20,000 is not a problem for our Frost Rose Alliance, but I don't want to spend money in vain, do I? Besides, this guy was so arrogant as soon as he came up, and I would never cheapen him if I gave it to anyone.
Listening to my tone, 20,000 was obviously not good, the guy turned back and discussed it with his companion, and finally reported another number. "Eighteen thousand, this is the bottom limit. No matter how cheap it is, we won't do it. ”
"Six thousand, love to do it or not. If we touch it ourselves, it will take a little more time, and it will not be impossible to complete the task without you. I said with a nonchalant look.
"Six thousand? That's too little! Why don't you add more? There are so many of us on a mission!"
"There are many of you because you want more, I said I wanted a guide, you have to come so many people to care about my? I didn't say that you have a lot of influence on my mission, even if it gives you face. ”
The guy was gloomy by what I said, and finally he could only plead again: "Six thousand is too little, let's discuss, at least ten thousand, no less!" "Ten thousand?" I deliberately raised my voice an octave to lift the guy's heart together. Just when he thought his plan was going to fail, I suddenly said, "It's not impossible to ask for 10,000." But......" I paused again. "There are too many of you, and it will definitely affect the completion of the mission. If you want 10,000, you can streamline the staff for me. It's better to send just one person. ”
"No, we're a team, and there's too little one person." The guy was still biting the team, and I don't know what he meant.
"Well, even if you can't have just one person, you can't go with the whole team. Either the whole team, six thousand commissions; Or streamline the number of people, 10,000 commissions. The choice is yours. ”
Actually, there is nothing to choose from this, that guy and his accomplices discussed for a long time and finally agreed to my request to start reducing the number of people, but that guy also planned to play tricks with me, and only two people were streamlined, in terms of their numbers, two less is basically no different from less, and after I threatened and warned, the team was streamlined again, but he still only reduced two people, and I was so angry that I almost didn't kill him directly.
In the end, we squeezed there little by little like squeezing toothpaste, and it took nearly half an hour to control the personnel to less than ten people, although there were still a lot, but compared to the team of more than 30 people just now, it was a bit of an expedition. I almost didn't break down when I saw more than 30 people coming in one breath before, and I took more than 30 people out with the gun god, so it wasn't that we were looking for a guide, but they were looking for a guide.
The final team was determined to be twelve people, of which I and the Spear God counted two, nine people were from the guide team, including the handsome pig, and the last one was Black Widow, who ranked third in the world combat power rankings. Actually, we didn't plan to invite her here, but considering the team's lack of cooperation and the danger of the Red Planet, we ended up counting her for safety reasons.
Once the team was assembled, we replenished the quest items and followed the team to the vicinity of a astrolabe. The so-called astrolabe should actually be called an interplanetary teleportation array, but the problem is that this thing is one-way. The Red Planet has a planetary disk that transmits to the Earth, and there is also a astrolabe to the Red Planet on the Earth, but the two are completely independent and not connected at all.
After everyone boarded the astrolabe, the guy who led the team took out a magic crystal and pressed it to the center of the astrolabe, and we felt that our heads were suddenly dizzy, and then we felt that the direction of gravity changed, and the whole person seemed to be upside down, and it seemed that we were falling. "Ah............h ……”……
The sound of landing nearby was loud, and the landing posture of the guides could be described as varied, and there were all kinds of shapes, and how ugly and ugly they were to fall one by one, but they moved very quickly, and as soon as they landed, they got up again, opened the recording crystal they carried with them, and began to shoot the situation in the back area, but unfortunately the scene in front of them was completely different from what they expected.
These people have long known that there will be gravity shifts after the planet teleportes, and they deliberately didn't tell us just to see us make a fool of ourselves, but this kind of trivial thing is called a problem for them, but it is not a problem for us at all. Just as they were ready to film our miserable landing, they heard a muffled pop, and the gun body bent its legs and landed firmly on the ground in a standard squat. The jaws of the group of people holding engrams on the other side almost dropped, and they all looked at the body of the gun in a daze, completely forgetting their previous plans. They hadn't recovered yet, followed by the spear god, and a black shadow fell silently, if it weren't for the fact that the spear god landed before and attracted everyone's attention, no one would even notice the sound of the black shadow landing, which shows the lightness of its movements. The nearby guides who fell on their backs and forks didn't think there was anything wrong with their movements, but now they found that their movements were like a big bear, and their movements were like elegant black cats.
When Black Widow landed, the people were awakened by the reaction, but just as they wanted to record my landing position, they were surprised to find that I was not on the ground, and there was a sudden sound above their heads. "Hey, there's a change in the direction of gravity here, why don't you notify me in advance?"
Hearing this, the guides suddenly looked up at the top of their heads, and it was only then that they realized that I had been hovering above their heads, and that I was not alone, and that the handsome pig was hanging in the air in one of my hands.
Although he didn't warn of the danger in advance, the guy who led the team still quibbled with a dead duck's mouth: "Anyway, you are all masters, and I can't fall you." ”
"That's not a reason." I said very sternly: "You are guides, your only task is to show us the way, and inform you in advance of the information you know about safety, our strength is not a reason for you to be lazy." ”
"Hey, hey, we're just an employment relationship, don't treat us like your subordinates." After signing the agreement, the guy who led the team became arrogant again, and when he talked about the mercenary money before, he wanted to throw this poor man to Java Island a long time ago. "I'm just stating your responsibility, it's your business to comply or not. However, I would like to remind you that our agreement is guaranteed by the system, and if the system determines that your behavior is not in line with the status of the guide, not only will you not get any money, but you will also have to pay twice the amount of compensation. ”
"Hmph, I know, you don't have to scare me." The guy didn't admit defeat in words, but his behavior already showed his fear. "Okay, now we have to move a little faster. This is the surface of the Red Planet, and the red sand beneath our feet is actually iron sand. The kind of ripples we see on the Red Planet on Earth are actually dust storms. You should all know about the sandstorms on the earth, and the sandstorms here are made of iron sand, and I don't think I need to explain their power, right? ”
The basis of a sandstorm is a typhoon, and the wind itself is not very lethal. The real lethal things are the objects that are blown up by the wind, they are the killers of the wind, and the sandstorms on the earth fly nothing but mud and sand, and when they move, they grind everything that gets in their way like sandpaper. However, the mass of the sand and gravel itself is relatively small, so the power is limited, but here the sandstorm is a different matter. The sandstorm here can not only reach more than three times the wind speed on the earth, but also the iron sand mixed in the wind will also become a more terrible grinding material, the sandstorm on the earth can only delayer the paint of the building exterior wall here, but here it can easily grind the entire steel bar into a toothpick, and then roll it up into the air to become a part of them, that power is definitely not normal people can withstand. Of course, Black Widow and I are not afraid. Both of us had high-end armor, and it was fully covered, and the sandstorm didn't bother us at all. The rest of our team can't, though, so we still need to find a place to hide before the sandstorm arrives.
Although extremely arrogant and irresponsible, the other party is a team that has been here before, and the preparation is still very sufficient. Under the command of the leader, the people in the team took out two pieces of space equipment, and then took out some large parts from them, and soon a sand boat was put together. Although the structure is relatively bad, this thing is at least much faster than a human run.
The guy smirked at me and raised an eyebrow: "Come on." ”
I walked over to the boat and looked at it, and then suddenly a lightning bolt swept over, and then quickly drew my sword, and after a few moments I had done this, I saw that the ship's mast suddenly began to tilt towards the front of the hull, and then fell down with a bang. "What are you doing?" The guy screamed angrily.
The spear god replied on my behalf, "He's helping you speed up." ”
"Speed up?"
While the guy was confused, I had already flipped two huge objects out of the phoenix space and quickly fixed them to the sides of the hull. In fact, these two things are bigger than a ship, but I don't have a trumpet on me, so I'll have to leave it the same.
"Which direction are we going?" I turned around and asked after I had finished installing those two things. The guy glared at me angrily and didn't say anything, and finally the handsome pig pointed me in the direction. After confirming the direction, I shouted to the people around me again: "Find a place to grasp it, I'm going to start." I don't care if I am thrown down. ”
Everyone hurriedly found a place to fix themselves when they heard my words, especially the black widow and the spear god moved the fastest, and finally the idiot who led the team stood behind me and pretended to be a hero, I squinted at him, and then took out the control crystal and pressed it gently, only to hear a slight starting sound began to gradually become larger, and the sand on both sides of us obviously began to flow, and as the sound gradually increased, the entire sand boat slowly floated from the ground. After the sand boat was completely out of the sand, I slammed it hard, and felt a huge force instantly send the whole ship out with us, and the terrifying acceleration instantly threw the guy standing behind me down, and even if the body had been fixed, he was still pressed enough.
This continuous acceleration continued for several minutes before stopping, and when the acceleration disappeared, everyone realized that they couldn't open their eyes at all. This sand boat is actually a small wooden boat equipped with skateboards, not to mention high-end cargo such as windshields, he doesn't even have a cabin, there is no place to block the wind, and at this speed, the wind pressure is enough to press people on the stern baffle and not move.
I pulled the pig down to my side, then pulled out a helmet with goggles and pressed it to his head. "You're in charge of keeping an eye on the road, and you'll let me know when it's almost there."
I thought I was going to run a long way, but who knew that as soon as I said that it was late, I saw the handsome pig pointing ahead and shouting: "It's here, it's the mountain over there." ”
"So close?"
"It's not close, it's that you're too fast!" Shuai Pig said: "Last time we ran for two hours in a sand boat before we saw the mountain. ”
"Haha, of course. Your broken ship is powered by the wind, and I'm a rocket thruster, so of course it's no compare. By the way, are we going into the mountain or are we going to stop at the side of the mountain? ”
"I want to go into the mountains, but the road in the mountains is not easy to walk, and the sand boat can't go in."
"Then I'll stop outside."
Soon I was pulling up to the outskirts of the mountains. After recovering the two thrusters, the sand boat was also thrown away, and the speed just now was a little too violent for this kind of wooden hull, and it was a miracle that it didn't fall apart halfway.
After the formation of the group we began to move towards the mountains, and strangely no one mentioned the leader who had been thrown off the boat, which surprised me, and I thought they would argue with me and ask me to go back and get the guy back. It seems that that guy is not very popular in the team!
Although the mountain we entered was large, it was a completely barren mountain, unlike the green hills covered in vegetation on earth. Seventy percent of the bottom crust of the Red Planet is iron oxide, and the remaining material is basically a component that cannot be used by plants, coupled with the surface temperature of nearly 100 degrees during the day and the severe cold of more than minus 30 degrees at night, even cacti will never survive.
While that annoying guy wasn't there, I started chatting with the handsome pig next to me. "What's the matter with your captain? Feel...... I pointed to my head, "Is there a problem?" ”
As soon as the handsome pig heard me say this, he sighed helplessly. "Alas...... Don't mention it! ”