Returning from the abyss

Chapter 362 Group
Lu Ning and Maoyou will not be separated, just like the trio of Shan Lianmei.In order to balance their strength, Levanska and Fu Junnian had to lead a separate team, so the ones assigned to Lu Ning were two men and one woman. Considering that the two seemed to be lacking in fighting power, the ones assigned were all young and middle-aged.

Bald Gorius, a bit of a fool, is more obedient, but has a bit of a bad temper.The curly-haired young man Qiao, like Lu Ning, was reluctant to mention his name. His nose was a little crooked and his speech was thinner.Finally, Pinna, a stocky woman of about forty, smiled kindly, but not so kindly with the two axes in her hand.

While Lu Ning was thinking about Levanska, the other party was also thinking about Lu Ning.The three people assigned are by no means difficult to lead, but Lu Ning still needs to find a way to combine them into a team.

He was not in a hurry to actually lead the team, and it just so happened that Lu Ning was not in a hurry either.

The first action she took with her was to return to the supply point to pick up the food.

There is a kitchen in each of the five corners of the meeting room, so five people won't waste much time together.Lu Ning noticed very early that there was no backpack in the batch of weapons and equipment.Of course, Shan Lianmei and Shi Ming couldn't let go of a convenient carrying device, so the only explanation is that they didn't provide it.

Weapons and the like can be draped on the body, but food is more difficult. Although clothes can be made into simple packages, compared with real packages, what dangers they encounter will become hindrances.

The food received this time were burgers, rice balls, cold noodles, corn soup and burritos.

Corn soup is not canned, but the steaming one in a large bowl. Lu Ning looked at these five kinds of food, and confirmed her guess—there is no food that is particularly convenient to carry, such as hard Bread, compressed dry food, energy bars and other foods that can be taken away after being packed in your pocket, and have a long-term shelf life and are not easy to fall apart will not be provided.She asked Maoyou to pick up one more meal before, but she was suspicious when she found out that it was a box of bento.

The acquisition of food is limited here. Although I don't know where the trouble will start, I always have to think about countermeasures.

Lu Ning still kept the clothes she had changed. She turned her trousers over and knotted her trouser legs, then pressed the burritos and burgers hard, and pressed them into a ball as much as possible without damaging the oil paper on the outside, and then threw them into the In this temporary "pocket".

"Food for about 15 people, and five bottles of water."

She didn't consider the waste factor at all, and thought about the approximate amount that needed to be prepared.The frequency of a batch of monsters in two hours is neither high nor low, but it is enough to make people unable to sleep.Unless there is some safe way to avoid the monsters, this must be a short-term battle.The daily amount of food and water is enough for the time being.

Of course, there are various contingencies to consider.

"Captain Lu really thought everything through." Aunt Ping Na said with a smile.

"At present, we know too few possible variables, so we should be prepared." Lu Ning replied, and walked slowly to the four-star mission machine.

"That thing is dangerous!" Golius yelled suddenly, Lu Ning ignored him, raised his hand and scanned the machine, and the words [locked] appeared on it as expected.

"This task has already been taken." Lu Ning glanced at the three people, "Which of you came here first?"

Joe raised his hand.

"I was the earliest among us, but Levanska and the others were already here at that time. Could it be that they have already received the mission?"

"Otherwise that wouldn't have prevented us from looking at the machine."

"But what's the point of this? Once everyone's group actions like this will be seen through quickly?" Mao You wondered.

"The significance is that if the group holding this task completes the task, it will be ahead of the other groups. Even if it is made public at that time, the gap in strength will already be formed." Lu Ning glanced at Golius, "And as he continues to After instilling the danger of the high-star mission, there are not many people who dare to scan this machine, right?"

"You count as one." Maoyou continued to talk.

"Because I've seen several missions, I can probably guess the form of distribution. The mission itself should not be punished."

"No punishment? Doesn't that mean you can..."

"Yes." Lu Ning crossed her arms, "Because the real punishment is the cooling time."

"Ah!" Maoyou clapped his hands and understood.

You can take the mission if you want, but if you fail the four-star mission, not only will you lose the number of stars, but the cooling time will also drag everyone down.The monsters can only become stronger and stronger, the longer the time drags on, the faster people die.

This feeling is familiar.

The seemingly loose conditions were actually a gradually tightening noose, and by the time he realized it, his throat was tightly entangled.

While Lu Ning was thinking about it, several people had already prepared the food she requested.She asked Aunt Pinna to hold the simple bag and led the crowd away from the supply point.

There was no one outside.

Lu Ning glanced around and looked at the two mother-in-law rooms on the other side of the supply point hall.

It is named so because the two rooms are one large and one small, and there is a passage connecting them. The door of the larger room faces Lu Ning. Since I have already visited the other buildings in the courtyard, why not go here? Read it too.

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the door, he could see a one-star mission machine on the other side of the room towards the door.

"It's a good start." Maoyou laughed.

"It's useless, someone must have taken it, Golius went to check the verification." Lu Ning was not so optimistic.

The bald man immediately swiped his instrument, confirming that this one was also locked.

"It's basically impossible to leave this kind of place in an obvious place. People who pass by will try it as long as they haven't received the mission. Let's search these two houses and leave."

The mother-in-law room is a very common home-style arrangement, which is roughly equivalent to the level of two living rooms.The decoration was more careful than the supply point, but I couldn't find any textual things.

"Forget it." After searching for a few minutes, Lu Ning resolutely gave up here, "Who among you three has received the mission before? Say it first to avoid trouble later."

All three shook their heads.

"Then let's go to the weapons room now."

"Do you know where it is?" Maoyou's eyes widened.

"It won't take long for Shan Lianmei and the others to leave. After all, we are already here relatively quickly. The elevator has a 5-minute cooling time, and the search time is already longer than that found in other gardens." The possibility of the arsenal, so the arsenal they found is on this floor. Aunt Pinna, I think you guys know how long Shan Liangmei has been away?"

"Oh, about 10 minutes?" Pinna turned to look at the other two, and Joe nodded.

"Ten minutes, calculated from the round-trip and search time, the distance they can move is basically determined. Draw a circle based on this, most of them fall in the courtyard, these can be ruled out, and the rest is in the corridor small room."

"What if it's a hidden room? For example, a secret room or something..." Maoyou asked.

"Just judging from the weapons and equipment they obtained, the storage space they need is not small, so if that's the case, we will definitely find something abnormal. After all, it doesn't take long for them to go back after they set off, find the arsenal, and return?"

Leaving the mother-in-law room, you can see a short passage in the corner behind it. In front of the passage is a slightly smaller circular garden. At this time, there are circles of flowers around the elevator shaft in the center, which looks colorful.In front of the elevator is a one-star mission machine, just like Alpha said, of course, this mission has already been taken away.

The size of this garden was slightly smaller than the two that Lu Ning passed by before. She looked around and knew what was going on: there was a room behind the wall of the garden. There is a door on the left and right of the wall, and the angle is slightly crooked if you want to lead to the corridor.

Immediately afterwards, she noticed traces on the ground.

In the Autumn Garden, there are fallen leaves wherever this kind of plant is decorated, and there is a not too obvious dragging mark on the ground. The width is about the same as the trailer pulled by Lu Ning's eyebrows in Lu Ning's impression. She immediately walked around the mark At the back of the elevator, there was another door on the garden wall. Lu Ning stepped forward to open it, and immediately smelled a metallic smell.

"Found it?" Joe came over in surprise, then turned his head to look, "It's so close."

"It's very close, but there are so many rooms here, it's not easy to find this place first."

The light in the armory was slightly dim, and Lu Ning walked inside, and found that it was a circular room with only this door as the entrance. There were boxes piled up in the room, some of which had been opened, and the weapons inside were shining coldly—— But they are still cold weapons.

"There are quite a lot of things..." Maoyou walked in, with a relaxed expression on his face, "Should we add some more?"

"You can do it if you need it." Lu Ning glanced at the instrument on her wrist, "3 minutes."

Several people hurried to open the box to see what was inside.

Lu Ning walked out of the weapon room. Without thermal weapons, she felt very low security. She had no idea what the monster was like, and the so-called weather unlock...

Which side to start with?

If she is alone, she must scan all the mission machines she sees now, give priority to understanding the information provided there, and then evaluate the difficulty.But now the team is still slowing her down.

Knowing that there is definitely more than one person who skipped the current purchase stage, Cheng Wuling must also be in this scene, but Lu Ning can't guess the other party's strategy.

She reached out to open the door on the side of the elevator, but found that it was a small triangular space with two doors on the left and right, and the other two could only be opened after the door behind her was closed.

"Interesting design."

With a grunt, she opened the door on the right.

Sure enough, the armory does not occupy the entire arc of the outer circle. This is a room of about the same size, which looks like a lounge, with sofas, desks, coffee machines, and even potted plants.And in the corner, placed like a vending machine, is another machine.

Lu Ning walked over directly, glanced at the purple label above, and reached out to swipe the task.

[Mission Level [-]: In the first crisis, kill three servant monsters. 】

Lu Ning glanced at the countdown, and there was still a little more than an hour, so she could judge that the cooling time of the three-star mission should be about this time, otherwise she would not have directly released the mission about the first crisis.

She left the lounge without looking back, and returned to the previous garden.Just in time, a few seconds later, those four people also picked out the weapons they wanted to replenish, and walked out of the arsenal one by one.

"Lu, don't you really want to pick a weapon?" Maoyou asked.

"Weapons that are not convenient can only increase the weight. Now that we have found the arsenal, we should search the corridor." Lu Ning reached out and opened the door again, "Move quickly, we are looking for a mission machine with a relatively hidden location .”

Several people responded quickly.Lu Ning pointed to the door of the corridor, walked in and pressed the switch of the door, the door on this side was closed directly, and several people were startled.

"Lu! What's going on?"

Maoyou hurriedly opened the door again, and heard Lu Ning's soft voice coming through the door: "This door should only be opened at a time, so you come here one by one."

After creating this small opportunity, no one is free to open the door of the lounge, and Lu Ning is not going to say it, the so-called team agreement means nothing to her.

This corridor is the same as the one I saw before, with five pentagonal rooms. If it wasn't for Lu Ning's confidence in her sense of direction, she might have thought she had come back again.

"Search every room. Based on the distribution density of mission points, there must be machines here." She ordered.

As expected, there was a one-star machine in the middle of the two closest pentagonal rooms, and a two-star machine in the room a little farther away, with access to the twisting corridor in the middle.

Lu Ning directly asked the person who found it first to flash the phone to try. The two-star one had already been taken away, but the one-star one was still there, and Qiao was lucky enough to get this task.

"What content?"

"Go to the Garden of Summer, collect at least 150ml of water from any body of water, and make anyone drink it."

Joe read the task to his instrument.

Hearing this task, everyone's face was a little weird.

It's easy to fill the water, Lu Ning asked them to bring the water they got from the supply point, just empty the bottle and fill it.But this makes anyone drink...

"There shouldn't be a problem with the water, right?" Maoyou said suspiciously.

"I don't know."

Lu Ning still can't estimate how malicious Dr. Rawls is in designing this garden. He not only provided drinking water, but also issued such a task. It is impossible not to make people guess.She also couldn't convince herself with the reason that "you don't need to poison the water to kill us". Maybe some people like the scene of poisoning and dying?

"There is no time limit for this task. Let's fill up the water first, and then think about how to deal with it."

(End of this chapter)