Chapter Twenty-Eight: Return to the Shelter
"Quicksand! That's Cook's famous skill! Ashera asked, incredulous.
Cook's class is a rare class desert guard, capable of wielding the power of sand. Among them, quicksand is the most basic of desert guards, and it is also an exclusive professional skill that distinguishes it from other professions. Not only does it reduce damage taken, but it also boosts attacks and slows enemies.
"Two more traits!?" Athera swallowed, she was a little out of breath.
In the command center, Dora heard the conversation between the two, stood up from her seat with a bang, and quickly ran to the central control center next door.
"Carolyn Caroline, come with me!" Caroline, who was signing an electronic transaction agreement from the command podium in the central control center, was forcibly pulled from her position by an impatient Dora.
"How...... What's wrong? ”
"Little Edith, come over too." Seeing Edith who turned her head to look at her, Dora beckoned her to come along.
On the way, Dora explained to the two of them what had happened.
"This Cook has gone too far!" Edith was angry, and Caroline was scared and asked Dora, "Why did you agree?" Didn't you tell you to take a good look at him? What if something really goes wrong? ”
"Let's not talk about that, let's see what new skills Ethan has acquired?" Dora was a little weak-hearted and quickly changed the subject, trying to fool the matter over.
Caroline clicked on the system panel when she heard this, and after only one glance, her mouth opened wide in disbelief.
"How? What skills have been acquired? ”
"Quicksand, jugglers, insects......" Caroline looked at Dora dumbfounded, and then carefully confirmed that she was not mistaken.
"Quicksand? Is it Cook's quicksand? That's a level 50 skill! Edith said.
"Two more features!"
When the three of them arrived at the command center, Caroline sat on the command platform, looking at the excited faces of the exploration team on the screen, and she couldn't tell that she had just experienced a painful defeat.
On the streets of Juricno, although everyone has lost the chemical experimental factory, there are still other places to explore in the whole street of Juricno. For example, some hardware stores, electronics stores, pharmacies, etc. Although more than two centuries have passed, most of it has been taken. However, there are still some safes, cassettes and other boxes that people find or difficult to open, so they are proudly preserved to this day. In particular, in some residential buildings, it is possible to find hidden valuables such as gold, silver, and jewelry from a dark floor in the attic.
"This time it can be said that it is worth the trip, you didn't suffer in vain." Ashera said half-jokingly to Ethan.
"Heh," Ethan sneered and said, "I have written down this revenge today, and I will redouble my revenge in the future." ”
"Well, I believe you have the strength." After seeing Ethana's exaggerated characteristics, Ashera knew in her heart that if Ethan was given enough time, he would grow into something so powerful that no one could match him.
"Hey boys, cheer up, there's work to be done! Everyone, work hard, I'll invite you to drink when I go back tonight! Ashera said heroically.
"Good!" In the channel, as soon as everyone heard this, they immediately recovered their spirits and shouted excitedly.
"And supper!" A group of Brock said with a hippie smile.
"Stinky boy, you can eat as much as you want, count it on my account."
At 3:45 p.m., everyone left the streets of Juricno, carrying large bags and small bags, and even the Ant Class was full of packages and staggered as they walked.
Since the backpack of the system warrior can only be stored in system-related items, such as items and gold coins that appear after killing monsters. The rest of the items could not be stored in the system's backpack, so the members of the hard combat team had to take these looted items to the shelter.
At 6:30 p.m., as the sun was setting over the edge of the mountain, the group returned to the shelter without incident.
"Great harvest! Great harvest! "Assella's exploration team shouted as they returned to the vault from the teleporter.
"The 1st and 5th Combat Teams have returned to the Vault, and the items they have acquired have been stored in the storage room."
Ethan heard the words and felt the system backpack on his wrist, and the gold, medicine, and equipment obtained from the monster today were indeed gone.
It was time for the end of work, and there were many people coming and going in the lobby of the shelter.
"Sister Arthur! You're back. ”
"Thank you for your hard work!"
Seeing the figure of the exploration team coming back, the people who came and went put down what they were doing, gathered around, and greeted with a smile.
"Chris!" A familiar face appeared in the crowd.
Jerry had just finished working in the breeding area, and he happened to see Christina and the others coming back, and hurriedly walked up to Christina and the others to talk eagerly.
"Esango." Jeff greeted him, and he had been waiting here for a long time.
"It's a good feeling." Ethan smiled and said to Jeff, "I feel at home." ”
When Jeff heard Ethan's words, he seemed to be touched somewhere in his heart, and the corners of his eyes moistened slightly.
"Well, welcome home." Dora, who was listening to the conversation between the two on the side, said with a smile.
Removing the burden from his shoulders, the mobile personnel who had been waiting here for a long time stepped forward to take inventory.
"It's not a small harvest this time?" Kevin and Carl, who received the news, also came up and flipped through the package from time to time to look at it.
"Well, I'll show you the gold bars." Somewhat smug, Athera opened a package, revealing gold bars that glowed with a dull golden glow.
"Wow, you have to have more than 100,000 points for such a one, right?" Kevin weighed the small gold bar marked 500g in his hand and said.
"When the market is good, it should be able to sell 200,000." Athera handed the package of gold bars to the staff in charge of counting. There are about 10 gold bars in that small pack, which is enough to buy a multi-purpose off-road vehicle.
Compared to Athera's bumper harvest, Kevin and Carl's team had very little harvest. Counting the energy consumed by the teleporter and the supplies, energy, etc., that a team needs to go out, it is even impossible to make ends meet.
The main reason is that Athera's mission location is better than theirs, Kevin and Carl's team, one is out on patrol mission, responsible for cleaning up the surrounding monsters and reducing the density of monsters. One is a mission to investigate a place that is suspected to be a small insect nest, and finally go to the destination only to find that there is no insect nest at all, just a wandering swarm of flying locusts.
"Guys, go back and take a good shower, see you at the bar at eight o'clock tonight!" Athera lifted her mask and shouted to the crowd in groups 1 and 5.
"Good!" Cheers and whistles rang out in the lobby, and the passing employees also cast happy eyes, and they were also happy for the exploration team's harvest today.