The Oasis Outer City covers a vast area, with the four central cities as the center, and is divided into 12 districts, each with a silver hall, where the mercenary issues tasks and the wasteland hunters receive them.

The room rented by Sim Xue and Tao Er is located in the 7th district, not far from the silver hall in the area, but it is not close, and it will take ten or twenty minutes to walk.

The Silver Hall is built in an extraordinary manner, a huge domed building, with a width of more than 50 meters and a height of 20 meters on the façade alone, divided into two floors, which is in stark contrast to the dirt road bungalows outside.

The entire exterior of the building is covered in silvery-white metal, and the front gate stands majestically, cast from bronze metal. There is a sign of a huge concentric circle on the door, a large circle set of small circles, a total of three, representing the three parts of the oasis outer city, the inner city and the center.

In the last days when resources are scarce, it is necessary to do such a façade project, which shows how much effort the Oasis leaders have wasted.

However, Si Moxue can also understand the reason why the oasis is so painstaking and laborious, and does not hesitate to spend a lot of effort to repair it.

Seeing such a glorious building in the bleak and dilapidated end times is at least a sign of hope, and at the same time a proclamation to the hybrids of the outer city about the technological level of evolved humanity and their leadership of the oasis.

Stepping into the Silver Hall, the floor and walls are painted white, and the hall is covered with holographic screens that scroll to show the status of today's mission.

Surrounded by dozens of silver machines placed against the wall - this is the autonomous quest machine, where the Wasteland Hunter picks up the quest.

In the middle of the hall is a large service desk, behind which several female mixed-race people stand to receive people who come to post tasks and request task completion. Behind them is a huge electronic screen that updates the Wasteland Hunter's points ranking in real time.

Everything in the silver hall is full of a sense of technology that is different from the outside world. Inside and outside the gate, it is like two worlds.

Although it was still early in the morning, the Silver Hall was already crowded with wasteland hunters who had come to take on the mission.

This is the second time Opus has come here to accept a mission, and now that he is out of the family and has lost his family's support, he needs to support himself by constantly accepting tasks and completing tasks to earn commissions.

He didn't come early today, and he was on the outskirts of the crowd, so as soon as Smoxue and Doll stepped into the silver hall, Opus saw them.

Two young girls who are no more than sixteen years old and in their youthful vitality are crammed into a group of big men with knotted muscles and unshaven beards, and it is difficult to think of not being conspicuous.

Although he left early, he had heard a little about what had happened in the Junior Garden Hunter Assessment Market two days ago. Lucas was attacked by the mysterious man in black in the maze, and he knew about Sim Moxue snatching Xavi's points medal near the end of the game.

But what does that have to do with him?

Opus took a deep look at Si Moxue in the crowd, took his clue items from the self-service task collection machine, and turned around to leave without hesitation.

"I felt like someone was just looking at me." Si Moxue suddenly touched the back of her neck and tiptoed around slightly.

"Nope." Doll followed and looked around, but no one was looking at them.

"Probably...... It's my delusion. Si Moxue smoothed the hair standing on her hand, and the feeling of being stared at disappeared again.

"Mo Xue, how do you use this machine?" When it was finally their turn to operate the machine, Doll immediately started fiddling with it, but she couldn't get the point.

It's a machine that resembles a vending machine, with an electronic screen looping through the tasks to be selected, and a narrow card slot at the bottom of the screen — Doll gestures to a slot that is just right to insert an ID card.

At the bottom of the machine is a pickup slot, from which the relevant quest clue item can be retrieved once the Wasteland Hunter has selected a quest.

Following the prompt posted aside, Doll inserted her ID card into the card slot, and the electronic screen flashed, revealing her identity information:

Name: Dore

Age: 16 years old

Hunter Level: Trainee Hunter

Mission Points: 0

There is no gender marked, because from the moment the end comes, there is no gender distinction among the surviving humans. Living in the last days, they are just "human beings", human beings strong or weak.

Underneath the identity information are three wobble dots that appear on the load of tasks available for picking.

It may be that it has been used for a long time, and the machine reacts very slowly, so Doll has to wait patiently.

After a few moments, the optional task column slowly outputs the word "none".

Thor: "??? ”

Is this bullying her for a low rank?

"It is estimated that we are late, and the tasks that meet the requirements of the level have been picked by others." Si Moxue also saw the word "none" and said, "Let's come over a little earlier tomorrow." As she spoke, she smoothed Shun Thor's hair soothingly.

"Okay......" Taoer responded depressedly, took out his identity card, and made way for Sim Moxue.

Si Moxue inserted her ID card into the card slot, and after a while, her message appeared on the electronic screen:

Name: Sim Xue

Age: 16 years old

Hunter Level: Beginner Hunter

Mission Points: 0

Unlike Dore, she has three tasks in the Tasks to Choose section. The quest is much the same, and the reward is not high, with a minimum of 50 Gray Coins and a maximum of 100 Gray Coins.

The complexity of the task is directly proportional to the level of the reward, Si Moxue hesitated for a moment and chose the task with the middle of the reward.

As she clicked the "OK" button, there was a "clang" and a small metal box fell out of the pickup opening below.

Si Moxue picked up the box, and together with Taoer, squeezed out the crowd in front of the self-service task machine, and walked until the corner of the silver hall where there were fewer people before opening the box.

Before opening the box, Si Moxue found a line of words printed on the eye-catching place on the shell of the box: "Please return this box when the application task is completed, otherwise it will be regarded as a failure of the task." ”

"It's really frugal." The corners of Dore's mouth twitched, and she silently complained. But as Si Moxue opened the box, her attention was quickly drawn to the contents of the box.

Inside the box was a tuft of gray-brown hair and a mutilated note.

Si Moxue reached out and touched the handful of hair, it felt rough and hard, it should have come from a big guy.

Then she picked up the note, and there were only two words on it - "Rat King". The notes were scribbled and crimson in color, as if they had been written in blood during an emergency.

Si Moxue remembered the name of the mission she had just chosen—to kill a mutated rat that lived near a human colony.

According to the mission description, the mutant rat has attacked no less than ten humans, and even killed three humans at its claws. In order to prevent more human deaths, the human colony reached out to the oasis for help, hence the mission.

"Kill a rat king?" Doll had apparently seen the mission information as well, and she couldn't help but get goosebumps when she thought of the mutant rat's hideous and dirty appearance, "It's disgusting." ”

"I can't help it if I'm nauseous, put my things away, and we'll go now." Si Moxue said indifferently.

Joke, when she was only ten years old, she could kill a mutant rat by herself, what a rat king, but a relatively large mouse.

I don't know why, after meeting Si Moxue again, Taoer always felt that something had changed in Si Moxue.

Although she was so faint before, Dore felt that the current Si Moxue seemed to be always suppressing something, fear? Confused? Or is it sadness?

Si Moxue didn't elaborate on what happened in the labyrinth, and it was inconvenient for Taoer to ask more, so she could only stand beside her when she felt Si Moxue's mood change and tell her - I am.

"Gone, what are you doing?" Si Moxue's urging voice came.

Tao Er pulled out her thoughts, and saw that Si Moxue had already packed her things, she hurriedly took out her small notebook and wrote down a few strokes, then pushed her glasses and shouted to Si Moxue who was walking in front: "Wait for me." ”

……

Si Moxue hid behind a piece of ruin, deliberately suppressing her breathing.

She had been wrong, the mutant rat was not only huge, but also had an improved intelligence, at least to the level of a three-year-old child.

Si Moxue and Dore did injure it at first, but under the frantic collision of the injured giant rat, Si Moxue and Dore fled separately.

Now, Si Moxue is hiding alone behind the ruins.

Not far in front of her was the gray-brown mutant giant rat.