Chapter 36: A World of Colors (7)
Only 10 percent of the Argo's crew are players, and only half of those 10 percent are combat-ready.
These less than a hundred battle group players have to face an overwhelming army of merfolk that are pouring in like a tidal wave.
It stands to reason that in such a dire situation, they should not have the resources to care about the merfolk who invaded the ship's cabin. But the truth is that almost all of the battle group players are scattered to the various parts of the ship, and while evacuating the life group players and NPCs, they go out of their way to sweep the merfolk.
This was made possible by four warriors who rose to the occasion in the face of crisis, each of whom single-handedly blocked the entrance to a ship's cabin.
Guarding the first entrance on the right is the Germanic boy who reminds everyone of "Lorelai", who is not only a good hand with a bow, but also wields a Damascus scimitar in one hand.
In front of the second entrance and exit on the right was a tall and thin white young man, but he was wearing equipment in the shape of Qin and Han infantry armor, and he was shouting exaggeratedly while waving a long-handled broadsword in the style of the Green Dragon Glaive Knife. His performance looks pompous, but in fact it is very good, rather than the feeling of sweeping thousands of troops on the battlefield.
In charge of the second entrance on the left is a young man dressed as a ronin, probably Japanese, and he also uses a Japanese sword. He was smiling all the time during the battle, and he was very intimidating.
And in the end, it was Li Mengxi who firmly sealed the first entrance and exit on the left. To be honest, this kind of scene of being one against the enemy has been a daily occurrence in his life for the past year. Therefore, among the four, he seems to be very comfortable and easy, and can even be said to be a little boring.
The other three were all fighting fiercely, with the light effect of many wounds on their bodies, and they had a bloody sense of blood. But Li Mengxi was unscathed, and with his acrobatic movements, it made people wonder if he was fighting or performing alone. But in fact, it is a superb skill that has been honed after countless situations of being alone and risky.
"Hey, the red one!"
At this moment, the Germanic ranger boy shouted to Li Mengxi from the other end of the corridor from a long distance. At the same time, he did not let up and continued to swing his sword, slashing all the fishmen who wanted to take advantage of the weakness into light chips.
"There's a letter from the banquet hall!
"Is there really no one less than NPCs!" While asking loudly, Li Mengxi first jumped backwards lightly to dodge the claws of the three-headed fishman in front of him, and then immediately stepped forward and killed them with a "sideways" move.
"You can't be wrong! That bearded captain pointed out at the crew watch!
There are two reasons for this, the first is that Li Mengxi can't bear to let the NPCs go unchecked, even if they are just a program of the system, it is useless to say this. The second reason is quite reasonable, but now is not the time to explain.
"I'll explain it to the banquet hall, it's important to retreat!"
"I'll wait to hear when the time comes!"
The words were closed, and the two of them shouted "retreat" to the "comrades-in-arms" in the same corridor at the same time!
"OK!" Hearing this, the young man with the big knife vigorously used a move to "swing" and repelled the fish-man in front of him, and immediately ran towards the nearest intersection on the left.
"Cut! That's it. After the ronin boy whispered a word very unwillingly, he also retreated from the enemy with a "sideways" move, and then ran to the right to the intersection.
The four of them divided into two routes, and after the Ranger Boy and the Broadsword Boy converged, they retreated through the main corridor on the right side to the right gate of the banquet hall. There were already two improvised teams that had set up improvised fortifications using the furniture in the banquet hall and were waiting to be answered.
Li Mengxi retreated from the left side to the left gate of the banquet hall with the ronin boy, where two teams were also waiting for them.
"Good work!"
Seeing Li Mengxi and the ronin boy coming to the front, the player who led the team said so condolence.
In this regard, Li Mengxi and the others just nodded and rushed into the banquet hall non-stop, and at the same time, the ranger boy and the big sword youth also ran in from the opposite side. After the four of them stopped and looked at each other, they all let out a sigh of relief.
Immediately afterwards, Hinata Nain ran out of the crowd and rushed to Li Mengxi's side.
"Are you alright? Although she has always believed that nothing will happen to the other party, she still can't help but get nervous when she really sees the other party, after all, everything can be just in case. At the same time, other supporters also rushed forward to restore the other three.
"How can anything happen to me?" Li Mengxi smiled at Hinata, then took a few steps forward and looked around at the heavily armed battle group players.
"Everyone, let's rotate the manpower as planned, and ask everyone in the life group to help us, so that we don't have to worry about defense!"
The idea of sticking to the banquet hall was exactly what Li Mengxi came up with, and if he didn't give up the possibility of taking the initiative, this was the most ideal place. As for why everyone listened to him, it was actually very simple, because under the chaos at that time, Li Mengxi was the first to give instructions, and he naturally listened at that time. And since they have obeyed, it is better to listen to the end if there is no major problem, and most of the people here understand what the end of the command chaos will be.
"Sticking around won't solve the problem. God knows how many merfolk there will be and how long they will attack. We have to find a way to get out of here, or win. The ranger boy broke away from the supporters, approached Li Mengxi and said, "Does this have anything to do with you protecting all the NPCs?"
"Absolutely!"
Since he wants to explain, the object of Li Mengxi's speech is no longer just the teenager but everyone present. Although he doesn't like to be a leader very much, and he is not good at it, he can only learn Richard's kung fu now, and he has to do it.
"First of all, I would like to ask you, who has ever encountered the trap of death in this game so far?"
Hearing this, all the players carefully recalled it and then shook their heads. Some of them have encountered dangerous situations, but all of them have brought their own lives. If you talk about the setting of the game itself, it's just to take people's lives, but it's really never been.
"It seems that no one has ever encountered it, and neither have I! That is to say, there must be a solution to all the events we have encountered! And the key to this method is most likely the NPC! In the case just now, we didn't have a time to choose, so we had to save the NPC as much as possible!"
"That ......," interjected the young man with the broadsword, "I didn't mean to find fault. But what if we are now in the first trap that kills someone?"
"You're saying you're going to kill people! This is a game, and we're in the system, and if the system has to let us die, we'll definitely finish it together. Hinata replied very unhappily. Although the big knife youth said that he didn't deliberately target Li Mengxi, if the result was like this, there was no need for Hinata Nain to give the other party a good face.
It's just that her words immediately plunged the entire banquet hall into a cold atmosphere.
How can players in the system rebel against the system, and if they will die eventually, what are they trying to do now?
If everyone falls into this kind of thinking, they will really be powerless, so Li Mengxi immediately spoke: "So, I am willing to believe! Now we can only believe in the fairness of this game, this is the only hope!"
"That's a good point!" a loud voice of appreciation rang out, and a figure walked out of the crowd.
At this moment, all the players were stunned by the figure, because it was the bearded captain of the ship, the NPC.
The captain was on crutches in his left hand and his scimitar mustache in his right hand, and slowly joined the ranks of Li Mengxi and the others.
"Ahem, this brave young man is right, we can't give up hope of survival! Actually, I heard a rumor about a mermaid when I was younger. I don't know if it's true or not, but I hope it will be helpful to you now. ”
Listening to the captain's words, all the players smiled with satisfaction. This is obviously the trigger plot!
"Rumor has it that merfolk believe in their queen very much!" the captain continued. "So once they are besieged by the merfolk, as long as they can kill their current queen if they can't break through, the merfolk will flee!"
"Where is the mermaid queen?" asked a player in a loud voice.
"Well...... "The mermaid queen is very cunning, and usually only hides in the deep sea, even if all her people are dead, she will not appear. ”
"Then you're not talking nonsense!"
"Old man, be careful that I cut you to death!"
Hearing this, the captain was so frightened that he took a few steps back and hurriedly finished speaking: "Even so, legend has it that there is a way to lure it up from under the sea!
"Singing?"
"What do you mean?"
"The mermaid race determines the queen by her beautiful singing, so whenever the current queen hears a song that is more beautiful than her, she will be furious and show up to kill the singer!
Hearing this, most players understand that this should be the precursor to escorting the singing NPC to the deck to trigger the boss to carry out the raid. But the problem is that no one has come forward long after the captain's words have fallen.
As a result, players are once again confused. Since there are no NPCs to come forward, is it possible that the player should solve the singing problem by himself? The question is, who dares to assert that their singing voice will definitely meet the conditions in this situation?
Just when the audience was silent and everyone looked at each other, an exceptionally loud footstep came into everyone's ears.
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