Chapter 171: The King of Mercenaries
On the way back, the breeze was gentle.
The five brothers in the dormitory walked side by side, taking up half of the street, causing the cars behind them to honk their horns continuously.
These guys were a little drunk and were singing as they walked. Their voices were so unpleasant that they were hated by everyone.
Su Xia walked silently behind them, keeping an eye out for passing vehicles.
When walking along several roads near the girls' dormitory, Su Xia deliberately walked a little further away to show that she had nothing to do with these people.
The director, Yuwen Shuxue, was relatively sober.
After returning to the dormitory, he showed the messages in the game to a few people.
"See? The masked man is alive."
"What, my master is alive?"
Li Defu shook his head to make himself sober, then took the phone from Yu Wen Shuxue and looked at it carefully.
But when he saw the words "Resurrection" and "Mercenaries Destroyed", he laughed a few times while holding the phone, like a complete fool, and said cheerfully: "I told you! How could my master die? My master is invincible!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he fell headfirst onto his bed.
The others weren't much better.
It looks like all the core members of the Bikini Bottom team will have to miss the leveling and monster-killing activities this afternoon.
Fortunately, Bikini Bottom has grown to 500 people now, and there are other pillars in the team, so there is no need for these guys to be online all the time.
Su Xia went to the school hospital to buy some hangover medicine, hung it on the door handle of the dormitory, and then climbed onto her upper bunk.
Oddly enough, he drank the most at the dinner table just now, and he mixed red wine, white wine and beer together. He drank the amount for three people alone.
In the past, his roommates would have had to carry him back.
But today he didn't feel anything at all.
That’s not right either…
I went to the bathroom more often, and the urge to pee every few minutes was the only feeling I had.
"Could this little thing have the function of sobering up?"
Su Xia clapped the bracelet and was instantly shocked. A stimulating electric current paralyzed most of her arm.
But he had already gotten used to it during this time and found comfort in it.
He sat at the desk on the bed, turned on the computer, logged into the game forum, and looked at some posts about the resurrection of the masked monster.
Most of these posts use terms like "rumor", "reliable sources say", "it is said" and so on, and none of the players have confirmed it.
After all, although the entire Coral City was discussing the resurrection of the masked monster, no reliable photos or videos had been released.
And most players are not concerned about resurrection itself, but...
[Can the Coral Expedition mission continue? ]
This post has the highest popularity, far exceeding those with the "resurrection" tag.
This task concerns the vital interests of countless players.
Many people have already accepted the mission and left the leveling ground in the city, heading out into the wilderness full of dangers.
The first players have even arrived in the wilderness.
Some people shared their experiences of being killed instantly by high-level monsters in the wilderness.
"The small map in the wilderness is full of fog. You will die once you enter. There are no basic monster areas marked. How can you explore? Do you have to risk your life? Every time you die, you lose 5% of the Titanium Particles."
"Can the mission reward make up for the dropped Titanium Particles?"
"Aren't those mercenaries supposed to assist us? Why were they all killed by the masked weirdo? Was there a bug in the mission?"
“…”
Questions one after another weighed on Sijidao and the task itself.
Players can afford to die once or twice, but dying too many times becomes unacceptable.
In the large-scale insect swarm mission covering the entire map at Oasis Camp, almost every player died more than ten times in the subsequent cleanup phase, but their gains were far greater than the losses in death.
Until now, the level of Oasis Camp players is still 3.1 levels higher than the average level of other novice maps.
Under heavy pressure, Sijidao finally gave an explanation.
[There are no bugs in the mission. Everything is the result of the natural evolution of the plot. I have contacted other high-level NPCs to help us complete this mission.]
In the post, he reassured all players and reiterated that the rewards for the mission were extremely generous.
He even went to Wu Zhonggui to temporarily borrow a batch of psychic potions and equipment, and then took screenshots and posted them on the forum.
However, he miscalculated.
The popularity of this post had just risen when it encountered an organized attack from a group of special players.
"The Resistance Alliance was here!"
"For the Alliance!"
"Long live the Alliance!"
“…”
They are members of the resistance organization Players Alliance. They concentrated on the post and posted a large number of meaningless comments, which directly ruined the post of Sijidao.
Players who supported this mission immediately came out and started fighting with the members of the alliance.
The two sides once again started fighting in the forum, and the battle was fierce.
If the current trend continues...
One day, the two sides will have an unprecedented showdown at the junction of the city and the wilderness.
Su Xia is quite satisfied with the current situation.
He closed the forum, went to the bathroom again, then returned to bed and activated the bracelet.
…
In Coral City, the afternoon sun is not as bright as in the morning.
More and more gray clouds accumulated in the sky, making the whole city look sickly.
Even the employees in the office building were listless, dealing with their afternoon work in the midst of afternoon fatigue.
Su Xia also came to work.
"Another bunch of junk information."
After taking a few casual glances, he lost interest and directly handed the body over to the bracelet for safekeeping and returned to the oasis camp.
The weather in the camp is still sunny, the grass is green and the air is fresh.
Looking around, countless players are fighting and leveling up in the forest.
The highest-level player, Lin Shan, is already level 23, looking like a great master. The power given to him by the titanium particles allows him to kill low-level rats with his bare hands.
“Bang!”
He squeezed hard, and a level 3 ground rat died instantly.
Next to him, a well-behaved female player clapped her hands: "Wow, Brother Lin Shan is so awesome!"
"It's a small matter!"
Lin Shan looked calm and said it was nothing.
But Su Xia knew very well that this guy must be very happy.
New people arrived at the oasis camp every day, and the moles around the camp were killed in batches, as if they were endless.
The vacant houses in the camp were also used by the players.
High-level players began to set up stalls inside, selling equipment, materials and other items to low-level players.
There were also a few players who were extremely lucky and successfully became apprentices. Two of them became pharmacist apprentices, and two became chef apprentices.
The entire oasis camp is thriving and everything is developing in an orderly manner.
Su Xia waved: "Lin Shan , come here."
"Come on!"
Lin Shan immediately left behind a few novice female players and ran towards Su Xia.
In that low-level leveling area, many players looked towards Su Xia following the sound.
"Is it him? The NPC in the trailer?"
"Yes, it's him. He's even more handsome in person than in the promotional video."
Looking at Lin Shan's back as he ran towards Su Xia, these novices were a little envious. After all, Lin Shan had gotten all the opportunities in the early stages of the game, and his equipment was the best proof of that.
It is not so easy to approach an NPC of Commander Beifeng's level now.
Su Xia pointed to the three warehouses where he had stored the supplies that morning and instructed Lin Shan, "Bring a group of people to clear out the supplies in those warehouses. Be careful, there are many explosives in there. Come to me to claim your reward after you're done."
"yes!"
After receiving the task, Lin Shan immediately went to call on the external players of the Beifeng organization.
Su Xia found Cheng Pingan and asked, "How have the undead people who were recruited performed in the past few days?"
“Excellent.”
Cheng Pingan gave a high evaluation and said: "They are growing very fast. After a while, they will be no less than our regular members."
"Can they distinguish between various thermal weapons?"
"Yes, we have done special training in the past few days."
"That's good. Go and keep an eye on them."
Su Xia looked at the area of those warehouses. Players belonging to the North Wind Organization were gathering outside the warehouses.
Thanks to the skill of Normal Punch, they level up faster than other players in the Oasis Camp.
Two days later, facing An Lan, these one hundred players were the key to reducing their own casualties.
Cheng Ping'an ran over and was responsible for ensuring that they classified the materials correctly.
“Crack…”
When the warehouse door opened, Cheng Pingan was stunned.
The three warehouses were filled to the brim with guns, ammunition, food, fresh water, medical supplies, etc.
Where did the commander get the supplies?
Cheng Ping'an thought of the warehouse last time.
"The commander has clearly been in the camp these past few days. Could it be that he has an alternate space where he keeps supplies?"
He was puzzled and a lot of question marks were circling in his mind.
Su Xia didn't care about anything else. He found an empty warehouse, went in, locked the door, and took out the mission rewards and all the intermediate psychic potions he had looted from the mercenary organization.
Just as he was about to use the potion, the bracelet suddenly sent a reminder.
[It is detected that your body in Coral City is being called by Wu Zhonggui. Do you want to descend to Coral City? ]
Su Xia was puzzled. Wu Zhonggui didn't even consider him as his own now, so what could happen if he called him?
Give him more junk files to pass his time?
【yes】
Su Xi’s eyes flashed and he was instantly back in Coral City.
In the office, Wu Zhonggui was packing documents and seemed to be going out.
Sijidao was also packing up.
"Su Xia, come with me to the suburbs. We have a very important person to meet." Wu Zhonggui ordered, "That person can save this mission and prevent our department from becoming a laughing stock!"
"Who?"
"The king of mercenaries, Wang Teng."
Mercenary King?
A title that is both domineering and a little bit immature.
Su Xia asked, "Self-proclaimed king?"
"I used to be a self-proclaimed leader." Wu Zhonggui said, carrying a briefcase. "Later, he became stronger and stronger, and was recognized by many mercenary organizations in the southwest region. He became the mercenary king of this wilderness in the southwest... Bring your ID card, and we'll talk while we walk."
Still the same as last time.
The minister came out with his two deputies to express the importance they attached to the conversation.
Out of caution or arrogance, the mercenary king did not come to the city in person, but instead asked Wu Zhonggui to meet him in the suburbs.
On the way, Su Xia got a basic information from Wu Zhonggui.
The information records this guy's legendary life.
The most noticeable thing is his powerful psychic power of up to level 4.8.
"He has a high reputation in the mercenary organization." Wu Zhonggui said, "This time the masked man massacred an entire town with cruel methods, which made him dissatisfied, so he decided to do it himself."
“I see…”
Su Xia understood that he came here just for her.
The fact that it has been recognized by most mercenary organizations outside of the dozen or so cities in the southwest shows that its strength and means should not be underestimated.
This man named Wang Teng really has the qualities to be king.
The message he sent to Wu Zhonggui was very domineering:
"Hell is a good place. I have crawled out of it before... This time, I will send that masked man back with my own hands."
He said this as if he had really been to hell.
