The strongest healer

Chapter 289 Illiteracy
30 minutes passed quickly.

1800 teams decided on their teammates, and the rest were randomly assigned by the system.

"The time limit for this competition is 10 hours. See you in 10 hours. I look forward to your ranking." The chief instructor raised his hands and waved them down like an orchestra conductor. The world of majestic trees descended into the sight of all the contestants.

"Forest." Wang Xiaoman held her breath, leaned back, and kept a distance of less than one meter from Song Shi.

This time the competition venue is set in the primeval forest.

The trees were lush and covered the sky, and the four people were surrounded by them, looking as small as four ants standing at the feet of an elephant.

The smell of rotting leaves mixed with the stench of animal corpses, and the gas particles went straight into my nose.

The equipment of the four people changed the moment they entered this world. Black combat uniforms, tactical helmets, long military boots, shells, guns, positioning devices and other conventional weapons that are usually equipped when leaving the base were all worn in appropriate positions on their bodies.

Each person carries a heavy combat readiness bag behind him, which usually contains some nutrient solution, anthelmintics, test tubes and tools for collecting necessary samples, sufficient ammunition, field survival tools, and thermal blankets for resting at night.

The last time Song Shi was on a mission to kill the Iron-Armored Ice Scythe with a hunting group, the location was also in the forest. Visually, there is no difference between the two places.

"Put on your helmet." Song Shi clicked on the glass mask in front of the helmet to remind the other three.

The four of them fastened their helmets tightly to prevent the toxic gases in the air from entering their bodies.

The helmet is equipped with a filtering device that can filter out any poisonous gas except the black gas and stench of strange beasts.

Song Shi spread out his mental power to detect living creatures nearby, and walked in front to lead the way.

Wang Xiaoman followed behind her.

Wen Duolin and Tang You were standing on both sides, alert.

The three of them sandwiched the healer Wang Xiaoman in the middle.

Wang Xiaoman said with emotion, "The healer is such a burden. I hope that one day we can develop a helmet that can block the black energy of alien beasts. This way, we don't need to spend energy protecting the healer, and the team's combat effectiveness will definitely increase dramatically."

Wen Duolin's hand had been tightly gripping the hilt of the sword. Hearing this, he said, "One of the experimental projects my family invested in is to cover the helmet with the mark of the spiritual system. This method can prevent the black energy of the alien beast from damaging the human brain."

"Have you produced any research results? When will this helmet be available?" Wang Xiaoman looked at her expectantly.

Wendolin swung his dagger and cut off a thick vine that blocked his way. "It's too early. I've tried many ways to brand it, but none of them worked. It's been two years, and there's been no progress. I guess this experiment is about to be abandoned."

"...Okay." Wang Xiaoman said regretfully.

Song Shi listened to their conversation while trying two things at once.

The four of them walked forward vigilantly for half an hour, and a 6×8 meter map panel appeared in front of them.

The entire panel is transparent, filled with green and red dots and interspersed with a few simplified black lines.

"What is this?" Wendolin looked it up and down. "A map? Which of the green and red dots represents a person and which represents a beast? Our position is not marked. The forest is so big. How can we follow the map if the position is not clearly marked?"

Wang Xiaoman looked embarrassed and stretched her neck to look around to see if there were any mountains. She felt that the black lines marked the location of the mountains.

Song Shi glanced at the messy dots. With Tang You, the strongest brain around, Song Shi decisively gave up wasting brain cells and his attention was attracted by a line of small black words below the map.

[Number of existing teams: 2056] If I remember correctly, before the game started, 1800 teams were successfully formed on the virtual big screen, and then 320 teams were randomly matched. In total, there were 2120 teams in this game.

In the past half hour, more than 60 teams were eliminated.

Tang You was the only one in the entire team who kept staring at the map and memorizing key information. After 30 seconds, the panel disappeared and Tang You closed his eyes to reinforce his memory.

Wang Xiaoman and Wen Duolin waited for her quietly, while Song Shi walked further away to explore the way.

Song Shi did not leave too far, making sure that the other three were within her mental sensing range so that she could vaguely hear what they said.

Tang You said quickly, "The green dots represent the real-time positions of all teams. There are about 2000 dots, evenly distributed. The red dots are alien beasts, and they are clustered along the lines. Judging from the intersection and bifurcation of the lines, the lines represent rivers, and the alien beasts tend to be distributed along water sources."

Wen Duolin listened in a daze: "You counted 30 points in 2000 seconds. Your brain is better than the super brain system."

"It's not counted one by one," Tang You explained helplessly, "It's a statistical method, something learned in middle school."

Wen Duolin, who devoted himself to surpassing Lu Xing and practiced sword fighting day and night during middle school, scratched his shaggy hair with the hilt of his sword: "...Okay, I'm illiterate."

Wang Xiaoman patted her shoulder and said in a positive tone: "Don't feel inferior. As far as I know, most violent types are like you."

Song Shi, who was returning from exploring the road, heard this and jokingly said, "...I seem to have been injured by mistake."

Wang Xiaoman reacted.

She scolded her idol! ?
Wang Xiaoman's face turned red with anxiety. She twisted her fingers and came close to Song Shi to explain: "It's not like that. There are always exceptions. You are different from other violent types... You are the exception..."

As she spoke, her cheeks turned red.

Song Shi inevitably got goose bumps on his arms, but he maintained a calm expression as if he was used to such scenes.

Wen Duolin glanced at the useless Wang Xiaoman, raised his sword to his shoulder, and urged Tang You, "Let's go where we should go quickly. I really don't want to hear such corny words anymore."

Wang Xiaoman: “…”

"Did you find out anything nearby just now?" Tang You looked at Song Shi.

"There are no living things, but... I heard the sound of running water."

"Then let's go to the river, find the exotic beasts first to get the guaranteed points, and locate our position at the same time."

Tang You has been tacitly accepted as the commander of this team, and no one has any objection to her words.

Song Shi led the way in front and stopped at the place where he had vaguely heard the sound of flowing water. He pricked up his ears and listened for a while, and figured out that the source of the sound was right in front of him.

The four of them walked forward.

"How should we locate our position?" Wang Xiaoman asked Tang You curiously, "I didn't see our position marked on the map just now."

"I memorized the direction of the river, the intersection points, and the several small streams on the map. These streams were carefully arranged by the instructors. Each fork has unique characteristics. As we walk along the river, we will always encounter intersections, and I can locate our approximate position." Tang You said.

Recognize which green dot represents your team. After that, the map will appear every half an hour. You can find the alien beast or other teams according to the markings on the map.