Chapter 163.Chapter 163 – Only Civilian Players Like to Form Groups
Chapter 163 – Only Civilian Players Like to Form Groups
“After entering Smokeless City, you may not leave the city limits without authorization, or you will immediately be seen as actively withdrawing.
Make good use of the wristwatch in your hand and pay more attention to the information posted and changed on it!
The performance points you earned during the assessment will be converted into corresponding merit points after the assessment is over.
Even if you don’t pass the assessment, you can still exchange them for a large sum of money”
“So… Try your best to perform!”
At the entrance of the shuttle bay, the middle-aged white bear man who was responsible for explaining the rules of the examination handed Lu Yuan a black, wristwatch with an LCD dial.
Then he patted his shoulder as a final encouragement.
Lu Yuan nodded, put away the wristwatch, and watched the silver-gray shuttle lift off in front of him, then quickly go away.
He was the last one to get off the shuttle among the five examiners within this shuttle who had finally decided to participate in the examination.
The shuttle “dropped” the five of them at different locations within Smokeless City.
It seemed that it didn’t want them to stay together and act collectively right from the start.
The place where Lu Yuan was now was an old alley with an ancient style, and there was no one in front of or behind him, only a black cat squatting next to a garbage can not far away, quietly looking at him.
Lu Yuan moved forward.
The black cat didn’t seem to be afraid of him at all, but instead took the initiative to walk towards him.
Then two meters away from him, it lazily laid down and looked at him with slanted eyes full of provocation.
Lu Yuan blinked in slight surprise.
Without waiting for him to react, a small wooden door next to the alley opened with a “creak” from the inside.
“Mimi–“
A long-haired woman in a white dress walked out and tenderly picked up the black cat.
As she walked away, she even politely smiled at Lu Yuan, but the moment she turned her head, her eyes looked unusually cold.
“Tsk.”
Lu Yuan smacked his lips, a few inexplicable feelings welling up in his heart.
With his sharp perception beyond normal people, he realized that both the black cat and the woman were showing an almost “numb” emotion.
The fluctuations of their emotions were much more calm or indifferent than ordinary people.
Give a person a kind of “see through the red dust” “no interest in life” feeling.
“It looks like the so-called ‘longevity’ of the new era… It’s not all a good thing.”
Lu Yuan sighed and walked slowly out of the old alley.
The area that the shuttle had put down for him seemed to be a nostalgic old neighborhood of Smokeless City.
Everywhere was on the old-school architectural style.
It was very different from what he had seen when he looked down from the shuttle, which resembled sailboats, bird’s nests, and discs with neon and streaming light strips along the edges, full of futuristic and technological pictures.
Lu Yuan walked down the street for a while.
There weren’t many pedestrians on the road, and everyone looked lazy, giving Lu Yuan a feeling similar to the black cat and the woman he had seen in the alley before.
Lu Yuan stopped at an open-air cafe that played classical blues music.
He casually ordered something and then sat down on a chair to fiddle with the electronic wristwatch that was special for the examination.
It operated similarly to a cell phone, except that when the screen was touched, an enlarged virtual light screen would float above the screen.
It belonged to be a product of the new world’s high technology.
Lu Yuan clicked on the screen, and the first thing that surfaced was a map of the third Smokeless City.
A point of light existed on the map, representing where he was currently located.
The upper left corner displayed the real-time time and a string of numbers – [14:23:55:22]
The numbers kept decreasing, clearly a countdown of time for this examination.
The upper right corner was labeled – Number of people assessed: 179.
The total number of participants in this New Blood Examination was 179.
There were dozens of areas of different colors in the map, both large and small.
These zones were mainly divided into – black, red, blue and green.
The number was also decreasing in order.
While there were only three black blocks and eight red, the blue and green blocks together numbered over fifty.
Lu Yuan tried clicking on an oval-shaped black block, and immediately a message popped up in front of his eyes-
[Mission Level: S]
[Mission Details: Unlocked]
[????]
Lu Yuan’s complexion moved slightly before clicking on the red-blue and green blocks in turn.
Getting the information feedback, these three colored blocks represented – Level A, Level B and Level C mission points respectively.
Depending on the shade of the color, each level was also divided into – A-, A, A+;B-, B, B+ and C-, C, C+
Three different tiers.
The A and B tiers are all unlocked.
Only the C-level quest points, were all open.
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[Mission Level: C-]
[Mission Objective: Rescue trapped hostages]
[Mission Reward: 100 points (basic)]
[Mission Details–
Topographic map of the mission site: click to expand
Distribution of guards: click to expand
Guard Information – Ordinary Guard: D-level robot, main means of attack (7.62MM caliber automatic rifle, Type 59 bow grenade…)
Leader: Blood Wolf, comprehensive strength rating D+, punching power 795kg, speed specializing in military fighting techniques, proficient in killing techniques.
Note: Death row inmate, can be killed]
Lu Yuan’s eyes paused for a moment on the words “death row inmates, can be shot” at the end of the information, and suddenly gained a deeper understanding of the assessment format of this simulated mission.
“It’s using real villains as test questions, so the death waiver signed before the test makes sense.”
As the coffee was served, Lu Yuan politely said thank you at the waiter with a fake smile on his face.
In front of the coffee shop, the TV across from him was broadcasting the morning news of the Smokeless City, all boring stuff like fires, car accidents, lost cats and dogs, and so on.
Lu Yuan casually scanned it twice and had little interest in paying attention to it.
He picked up the warm coffee and took a sip, but it was so bad that he almost didn’t spit it out on the spot.
Originally wanted to call back the waiter for a theory, but after thinking about the state of life of these people, he felt as if it was a matter of course, so he let it go.
“New blood list.”
Lu Yuan found a new option on his wristwatch and tapped in to look at it.
It was empty inside.
It was assumed that someone would have to complete the quest before it would appear on this leaderboard.
“Quests, leaderboards. It has the feeling of playing some real online game.”
Lu Yuan’s fingers gently tapped the desktop, his eyes brightening slightly.
“Seems a bit interesting.”
At this time, an alert suddenly popped up on the wristwatch – [You have the latest group message, please check in time.]
“Yo.”
Lu Yuan couldn’t help but smile, “Surprisingly, there’s still player interaction.” He immediately clicked in and immediately realized that he was in a multi-player chat group.
Born Overlord (Ye Wuqiang): “1”
The message alert was sent by this “Born Overlord (Ye Wuqiang)”.
Lu Yuan read the signatures of almost everyone on the “Certificate of Life and Death” and instantly connected it to a certain long-haired young man wearing a black exoskeleton in his memory.
One Shot to the Head (Xu Chengzuo): “Dumbass?”
Born Bully (Ye Wuqiang): “????”
Well, this Xu Chengzura would be the punk style girl who sat directly across from him in the shuttle and didn’t tie her shoes.
I didn’t realize that the name is quite nice, and the picture style of the person is very different.
Blue electric finger (He Jun): “Laughing to death.”
Immovable as a mountain (Xiang Sheng Hao): “(Smile) Hello everyone.”
The blue-haired teenager who transformed the new martial arts and the pure martial arts youth.
Lu Yuan thought about it and sent an emoticon up with interest as well.
Lu Yuan (路远) : “(Handsome)!”
Born Overlord (Ye Wuqiang):”@One Shot to the Head (Xu Chengzuo), what do you mean?”
One Shot Blowout (Xu Chengzuo):”(Smile) Literally.”
Born to dominate (Ye Wuqiang): “@One shot to the head (Xu Chengzuo) where are you? Come taste my five tons of punching power.”
One Shot Headbutt (Xu Chengzuo): “Your ancestral tomb. (Smile)”
Born to Dominate (Ye Wuqiang): “I’m XXXX (furious)!”
Immovable as a Mountain (Xiang Sheng Hao): “Stop it, we’re all partners, let’s think about how to do the mission first (frown)”
Blue Electric Finger (He Jun): “Oyster is right. Now everyone gather towards my coordinates and we’ll discuss about the assessment. (Locating)”
Born Overlord (Ye Wuqiang):”???? On what grounds should we gather towards your coordinates?”
Blue Electric Finger (He Jun): “Look at the nicknames. I’m the strongest, I think I’m qualified to lead you guys.”
One Shot Headshot (Xu Chengzuo):”(Middle Finger)”
Born Overlord (Ye Wuqiang):”(middle finger)(middle finger)(middle finger)”
Lu Yuan stared at the chat group for a while, and the more he looked, the more bored he felt.
It was as if he had entered a group of elementary school students.
“Is it hard to believe that I really have to bring such a group of teammates to finish this examination?”
Lu Yuan shook his head, “Forget it, the big deal is that I don’t want the teamwork points.”
Thinking about it, he simply exited the group chat.
Just as he exited, he saw a message that someone had taken the initiative to add him as a friend.
Clicking on it, it was “A shot to the head (Xu Chengzuo)”.
Lu Yuan hesitated and clicked accept.
Afterwards, he studied the chat channels and realized that apart from the group chat, there was also an entire chat channel.
There were already people in the channel shouting for people to form a group.
Presumably, they were new blood examination students who, like him, were dissatisfied with the quality of their initial teammates and were ready to form a separate team to do the quest.
“The degree of freedom is very high, it looks like team combat is important in this examination
It’s estimated that attacking difficult tasks with teamwork is the result that the Yellow Bear Examiners want to see the most.”
Just like the middle-aged white bear who introduced the examination rules on the way before they came emphasized, it was not recommended that they fight alone.
“But…”
Lu Yuan stood up from his chair and gently pushed down the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose.
Casually clicking on the nearest C+ ranked quest point to his current location, he sauntered off.
“I can choose not to accept this proposal ah.”
“Civilian players are the ones who like to group up.
Ranking masters .”
“Always used to soloing nightmare copies.”
“Alright! Then it’s a compromise! In half an hour, everyone gather at this Dream Seeker Bar on the map!”
On a certain busy street, the long-haired youth wearing a black exoskeleton on his body somewhat grumpily typed out this line quickly on his wristwatch.
Finally.
The few people in the chat group were fine with it.
After all, the time they spent just arguing and spraying each other was already not short.
Half an hour later.
In the eastern part of Smokeless City, a bar filled with futuristic and sci-fi styles.
The four people who had just previously parted ways on the shuttle regrouped.
The long-haired young man wearing an exoskeleton, with one person taking up almost two people’s places, glanced at the time on his wristwatch and spoke in a deep voice, “It’s ready, let’s start.”
“Someone hasn’t come yet.”
The punk girl said with a yawn as she chewed her gum.
“Right.”
The dark-skinned, stocky tanned youth Xiang Shenghao also nodded, “The one called Lu Yuan in the group chat didn’t come.”
“Is it hard to have all of us continue waiting for him again?”
The blue-haired teenager at the side impatiently urged, “Grind it out, if we don’t start I’ll find someone else to team up with.”
“Right, not waiting.”
The long-haired youth recalled a little, then agreed, “I have an impression of that Lu Yuan, there are no traces of technological transformation on his body.
Neither did he carry any powerful equipment, it’s 80% that he’s taking the pure martial route.
But look at his size.”
The long-haired youth glanced at Xiang Shenghao and said, “I guess the strength of pure martial arts is just average.
This kind of cobbled together level of combat power, one more of him is not much and one less is not less.
And since he’s not coming, he might be looking for someone else to team up with.
Go back to the group chat and kick him out, let’s discuss ours first.”
Saying that, the long-haired youth looked around, slightly straightened his color, and spoke, “Before engaging in teamwork, it is necessary to understand each other.
That’s why I suggest that all of us don’t hide, and first report our respective strengths and advantages, so that we have a number for each other.
I’ll be good first.
I, Ye Wuqiang, with the exoskeleton strengthening route, can reach the highest fist strength”
“Dingdong!”
Before the long-haired youth finished speaking, the wristwatches on the hands of the four people on the table all let out a pleasant beep.
The remaining three subconsciously looked down to check.
It wasn’t long before someone exclaimed in surprise, “Yikes, someone has already achieved the C-rank quest first pass achievement!”
(End of chapter)