Chapter 239: True, Buried in a Foreign Land
It was four o'clock in the morning and the temperature in the jungle was very low.
During the several hours of searching, Su Xia and Sun Lang did not find any living people, but they found a dead body.
The corpse also belonged to the Zero Point Tavern, and was a fourth-level psychic creature who had drunk with Sun Lang yesterday.
"It's Li Long. This guy has such bad luck that he died in this damn place."
This is an area where psychedelic soul grass and moving traps are intertwined.
It was obvious that this tavern member inhaled the poison gas and fell into hallucinations and was unable to break free. He walked around like a sleepwalker, accidentally stepped on a trap, and finally drowned in the swamp.
It's ridiculous that a level 4 creature was drowned.
The body was discovered by nanobots.
Sun Lang thought of the joy he had drinking with the guys yesterday morning and couldn't help but sigh twice, then touched the corpse with tears in his eyes.
"Two knives, both are psychic weapons, he likes to show off most... And this pendant, it looks like a pendant, but it's actually a compressed psychic bomb... This is the key to his underground warehouse, there must be a lot of good stuff..."
This guy lives alone and has no family. All the property and treasures he obtained over the years as a killer are locked in a hidden warehouse.
The wealth of a fourth-level killer must be considerable. All in all, it is estimated to be more than eight figures.
The person died but the money was not spent.
One of the great sorrows of life.
Therefore, while we are alive, we must enjoy ourselves while we can.
Sun Lang was grateful to Su Xia for saving his life, so he gave all these things to Su Xia.
Su Xia put away the key, not intending to keep it for herself, but just said: "Let's go look for it together later."
If you are going to take someone's money, you certainly can't just leave their body here.
Su Xia simply dug a hole, put the body in, and covered it with soil and leaves. He also threw a few sweet palm tree pits into the hole, hoping that saplings would grow next year.
After the burial, the two took a short break and built a bonfire in the open space.
The flames flickered and the fire crackled, with sparks popping out from time to time, revealing a few pieces of dried meat roasted on top.
Su Xia and Sun Lang simply filled their stomachs with some dried meat and fruit.
"Commander, after this search and rescue is over, can I go to the oasis camp to take a look?" Su Lang cut off a piece of dried meat and asked sincerely.
"Okay." Su Xia agreed.
"What about the wreckage of the alien spacecraft?"
"You can go, but you have to give something."
"What?"
"Ask the person in charge of the Oasis Camp. He will tell you what you are missing and perhaps give you some tasks."
"Commander, aren't you the person in charge of the Oasis Camp?" Sun Lang was surprised. "With your reputation, you can't even be the person in charge of the rebel base. Is there someone more powerful there?"
"No, it's just a different division of labor."
"Oh, I see. You are the man behind the scenes."
“…”
After several hours of communication, Su Xia felt that this guy was pretty good and there was nothing wrong with the task description given by the system.
Different from many tavern killers who only do things for money, Sun Lang has a bottom line and likes excitement and adventure. Although he has been in the neutral camp for a long time, he generally tends to be human.
This kind of person can develop over the long term.
If you have the chance, you can keep him at the Oasis Camp.
Since he likes adventure...
What kind of adventure can compare to the adventure between the stars?
Su Xia had some ideas in mind, but she didn't mention them clearly. She just said, "There should be something you like in that wreckage."
Sun Lang's eyes lit up and he asked, "What is it?"
“A simulation system will allow you to learn a lot of new things.”
"Just a simulation?" Sun Lang's interest waned a little. He shook his head and said, "Alas, simulation is fake after all. It can't give the real feeling of the real world."
Su Xia smiled and said, "You'll know when the time comes."
With Sun Lang's personality, he will definitely like the [Field Expedition Training], [Field Simulation Combat] and other systems in the simulation system.
Once you immerse yourself in it, you may not be able to get out of it for ten days or half a month.
After filling their stomachs, the two put out the campfire, used water from the swamp to extinguish all sparks to ensure that they would not cause a fire, and then continued their search.
During this period, those nanorobots have explored very far.
Not long after they left, Su Xia received feedback.
[A comatose man was found]
【Normal vital signs】
[Located in the "Killer Tree" area, inferred to have inhaled too much sleeping gas]
[The back of the hand is red and swollen, and some of the skin is ulcerated. It is inferred that it is contaminated with liquid secreted by the "killer tree". It is not fatal for the time being.]
【……】
Another guy acting alone.
When Su Xia arrived, he saw the guy lying in a pile of dead branches and leaves, with a few leaves fallen on his body. He didn't know how long he had been unconscious.
Above it, the branches of the man-eating tree are slowly secreting corrosive liquid.
The turbid liquid slowly gathered and dripped out every once in a while, some of it just dripping onto his hands.
【Name: Cao Ban】
[Race: Human]
[Camp: Neutral Camp, Zero Point Tavern]
[Psychic Level: 4.3]
[Titanium particle level: Level 29]
【……】
[Psionic Talent: Bloodthirsty Killing]
[Character description: A cold-blooded killer who mostly does things for money and has a weak sense of good and evil]
[As long as you have enough money, you can kill humans for the machines, or kill machines for humans. No distinction is made between good and bad, male or female, old or young. There are few friends in the tavern.]
Danger level: High
There appeared those people who only did things for money.
When he first joined the Midnight Tavern, Yi Yi told Su Xia that the members of the tavern could be roughly divided into two types.
One that clearly distinguishes between good and evil, only kills evil people, and will not kill others no matter how much money they are offered.
Another type of killer is the exact opposite.
These two types dislike each other in the tavern and occasionally there will be minor frictions.
But due to the rules of the tavern, no one dared to fight in the tavern. The tavern had been relatively peaceful for a long time, until Su Xia brazenly took action last time...
Of course, there are also a small number of members who walk on the edge of good and evil. Their behavior seems chaotic, but they abide by the order and have their own code of conduct.
Some people think that Masked Stranger is that kind of member.
In his mind, his own order was above the order of the tavern, so he took action.
"Cao Ban, it's this guy." Sun Lang recognized the man and kicked him. "This guy is disgusting. For money, he can even kill babies and pregnant women. He has massacred several innocent villages in the past."
"Is that so?"
After hearing this and combining it with the system's character description, Su Xia gave up the idea of saving people.
He threw a sobering potion to Sun Lang and said, "Inject one into yourself. It will keep you sober for half an hour in the poisonous fog area of the man-eating tree."
"receive!"
Sun Lang gave him an injection in the neck without hesitation or worrying about the problem with the medicine.
Then he squatted down and began to search for the treasures on Cao Ban's body.
This person carried a lot of good stuff with him, including five or six fourth-level psychic weapons, some general potions, a skill book, more than ten compressed psychic bombs, several precious mechanical energy batteries, an entire expensive mechanical arm, etc.
It's simply a human-shaped treasure chest monster.
"Hey, there's another bank card, and the password is actually written on the back of the card. Send it!"
Sun Lang was delighted, stroking the bank card, and said to Su Xia: "Commander, this is a high-level black card from the bank that invested in the tavern. You can only get it if your assets exceed eight figures. Let's split it 20-80 later?"
"Fifty-fifty, I'm not very interested in money."
"Commander is so generous!"
Sun Lang gave a thumbs up, praised generously, and then carefully put the card away.
Just like that, before they even found Long Cheng's team, they had already obtained most of the property of the two level four creatures.
After the search, the two men left Cao Ban here, leaving him to slowly die and rot, and continued to look for the Longcheng team.
After only half an hour of walking, I met another tavern member.
This time it was a dead body.
"Huang Jian, he's dead too."
Sun Lang recognized the identity of the corpse and there was a sigh in his voice.
This man died a horrible death.
The corrosive liquid secreted by the man-eating tree dripped onto his face, corroding his eyeballs into two horrifying bloody holes and leaving his entire face festering.
If an ordinary person saw this face, he would probably have nightmares for days.
"He is different from us. He has a family. His wife is seriously ill and needs a lot of money for treatment, so he has to run around for money." Sun Lang sighed again and took out a photo from the man's clothes.
The photo shows a family of three, and you can see what this person looked like before he died.
"What's wrong?"
Su Xia was puzzled, in this world even cancer can be cured.
What other disease would require a level 4 creature to run around for money?
Sun Lang replied: "It seems to be a disease related to genetic defects. Few people live beyond the age of 20. It is more terrible than cancer. For cancer, you just need to eliminate the diseased cells, but this disease... cannot be cured at all. You can only spend countless money to keep your life..."
He put away the photo and observed a few seconds of silence in front of the body.
Then, he said to Su Xia, "Commander, even so, Huang Jian is very principled and has always only killed evildoers. Can I hand over the valuables he carries to his family?"
"Well, do as you wish."
Killer is just an identity code.
Behind this code name are all kinds of people.
Some are chefs, some are teachers, and some are enthusiastic and kind neighbor uncles.
They live around many people, but those people have not noticed that those friends who bargain with vendors for a few cents in the vegetable market and those classmates who post pictures of cats and dogs on WeChat Moments all day long, all have another identity behind the scenes.
Last time when she was eating in the cafeteria, Su Xia chatted with people from the Sanda Club and learned that -
In their off-campus team, there was a mercenary who had returned from Africa and had once assassinated a local warlord.
It’s just not as cool as I imagined.
The so-called assassination is to carry a rocket launcher and fire it, then drop the rocket and run away. It is not as fancy as shown in the movies.
"Rest in peace, my friend. I will take good care of your wife and daughter."
Sun Lang collected the valuables from Huang Jian and began to dig a hole for Huang Jian, intending to bury him.
The level 4 killers of the Zero Point Tavern were all defeated this time.
If they were traveling together, after one of them showed symptoms, the others would be able to realize something was wrong and perhaps things would not be so tragic.
But the secret nature of this mission eliminated the possibility of their cooperation.
"The Dragon City team has nearly a hundred people, all of whom are knowledgeable. As long as they don't get separated, there is a high chance that all of them will survive." Su Xia thought as he helped dig the pit, "Maybe they are trapped somewhere."
At the same time, Su Xia thought of another thing.
That old fellow Shi Sishi is probably going to lead a team to rescue people as well.
"If they hadn't been fully prepared, would they have been caught here as well?"
Once things get out of control, it will turn into a story of Calabash Brothers saving his grandfather.
It will be troublesome then.
After burying Huang Jian's body, the two did not rest but continued to move forward, seizing the time to look for Long Cheng and the rest of the members of the tavern.
Time passed slowly, and a hint of crimson dawn appeared on the horizon, but the forest was still dark.
The dense trees blocked out the sun, with leaves and branches layered upon layer, dozens of meters high. You couldn't see anything when you looked up.
Even if you climb to the highest point and stand on the top of the tree canopy——
All you can see is an endless sea of forest.
At seven o'clock in the morning, another body was found, still from the Zero Point Tavern.
This is a third-order psychic creature with average strength, but according to Sun Lang, its tracking and hiding abilities are extremely strong. Perhaps because of this, this person accepted this mission and ended up losing his life here.
"Good thing he died! He was one of the most shameless scum in the tavern. It was a good thing for him to die here."
Sun Lang looked disdainful and spat at the corpse.
Through chatting, Su Xia learned that this man had no bottom line in killing missions, was extremely psychologically twisted, and had violently assaulted and dismembered innocent girls in their teens or even younger many times.
And when he did these things, he basically did it in front of the girl's family.
If it weren't for his strong ability to hide, he would have been cut into pieces by the upright members of the tavern.
Even Sun Lang had chased him several times, but he escaped every time.
"Commander, if you join the tavern and get to know it better, you will find that many of the members in the tavern are complete rubbish."
"Um……"
Times have changed, Su Xia has a deep understanding of this.
The garbage on the other side of the earth needs to be hidden and not exposed to the sun. Only some declassified documents can reveal the tip of the iceberg.
But the garbage on this planet can do whatever it wants.
As time passed, there was finally some faint light in the forest.
A few hours passed in a flash.
Nearing three in the afternoon, the two finally discovered some different traces.
"Is this... a dragon scale mark?"
On a stone under a big tree, there is a symbol similar to an inverted triangle engraved.
This symbol is one of the communication symbols of Dragon City. There is an "X" engraved in the symbol, which means that the member who engraved this symbol is in danger and cannot escape.
"Here, here... and here, there are traces of fire."
"Many people have stopped here to rest. There are also scratches on the tree trunks. The flammable fallen leaves nearby have been cleared away. There are indentations on the grass. It must be them."
The two of them carefully searched the surroundings and found nothing they had missed.
In addition to normal signs of rest such as simple food packaging bags, empty cans, and paper towels, there are more than ten syringes and the outer packaging of many medical supplies.
It seems that when the Longcheng team arrived here, many people in the team had already been infected.
"There's an 'arrow' symbol here, pointing to the deep left front. They're probably heading in that direction." Sun Lang observed carefully, "Commander, should we take a break?"
"Rest here for a while and eat something."
The long search was very exhausting, and one also had to watch out for strange alien plants in this jungle.
Su Xia was fine wearing the mecha, but he had to consider Sun Lang's situation.
The two rested on the spot and built a fire.
I roasted some dried meat on the fire and cooked a simple pot of vegetable soup to last me through the afternoon and dinner.
at the same time……
In another direction, Shi Sishi and others were still exploring the outskirts of the jungle.
"Be careful, wear protective gear, and try to rescue the person within 48 hours."
