While the Quest Was Underway
The fact that the terrifying enemy Holy Ten, arrived quickly and fell just as fast fully demonstrates Zero's power.
An organization that had been around for over a century was reduced to ashes in half an hour; this level of power instilled a certain fear in Old Wang.
Old Wang finally understood that the best reward was actually the VIP1 to 15 gift packs, and the V10 gift pack... I guess so!
After reading all the information about the Holy Ten, Zero found his newly awakened ability, called Thought, quite chaotic.
"Humans are so strange!"
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"Search like a carpet bomb, teams 1 to 5 on the left, teams 6 to 10 on the right!" Sister Hua directed the group on a Planet with a jungle environment.
They are participating in the second round of the Knockout Tournament in today's Team Competition, after easily crushing their opponent in the first round.
The format of this Team Competition has indeed changed again. It's now a 500-player Team Competition, no longer a large-scale battle royale.
Instead, it has become a strategy game mode where there are resources on the map that teams can use to build bases, fortifications, and mass produce troops.
If resources are plentiful, Superweapon can even be built, which greatly tests teamwork and development capabilities.
Future, they clearly didn't want a peaceful relationship with the other side. Taking advantage of the superior vision provided by Old Wang, they Ambush on the other side's base camp.
Their plan was a great success, eliminating 497 of them at once.
But the remaining three could not be found no matter what they did; their base had been destroyed by the Future, and without the base, they could not be resurrected.
In the Future, we only need to deal with those three to advance, but they've hidden themselves too well.
This is the third comprehensive search in the Future, but Old Wang feels that they still have a slim chance of finding it this time.
However, Sister Hua's intention wasn't necessarily to find them. The competition time was limited; she just didn't want these three to develop peacefully. What if something unexpected happened while they were developing?
"These three really know how to have fun!"
"Who would have thought they'd be hiding underground in their Future camp?"
"But what's the use? They're out of time, so they'll still lose when the time is up."
"It wasn't entirely useless; at least they provided the teams behind with a way to evade the Thousand King' long-range reconnaissance!"
"You can have the whole squad burrow underground? How many of these Mecha do you have?"
"How did they evade the radar? The Thousand King's senses are like he has X-ray vision, how did they manage to avoid it?"
Wow! The guy upstairs from the Star River is a big shot!
While everyone was exchanging information on the world channel, the match ended, and Future Guild successfully advanced.
However, their victory in this match was truly frustrating, as the three of them managed to drag the game out until the time was up.
Although they won, it felt like they didn't win at all; they were just frustrated!
After leaving the battlefield, Old Wang went to do the Gate-Opening Quest again, while Lin Qimeng and the others went to complete the Hidden Quest given by Fairy Jingzhe.
The "Fairy Jingzhe" quest was Hidden Quest she received after everyone successfully cleared the Black Shark Pirate Nest.
However, the task was more difficult than she had imagined; the first hurdle stumped her for a very long time.
After finding nine teammates for the second challenge, she immediately contacted Lin Qimeng and others.
But an unexpected event occurred in the past few days, and the group was unable to go.
"This mission requires us to go to the abandoned Centaurus Sphere Planet and find an ornament that our employer left behind. Why so many people?" Miracle Sword said, looking at the mission description.
"Maybe the search area is too broad. Besides, no matter the reason, we still have to go, don't we?" Old Ma said.
"That's true, but I feel this task is not easy; we need to be extremely focused!"
"Okay! Okay!"
As they talked, they arrived at a Planet near the spherical Planet, then summoned their rented spaceship and flew there.
According to publicly available information from the Alliance, this Planet was abandoned because it possesses a unique Planet that would destroy space Teleportation Device.
The NPCs painstakingly built a Teleportation Array, but it will be corroded and destroyed in less than three months. The key issue is that all the spaceships of the Human Alliance at this stage have Spatial Device on them.
This energy won't just destroy the Teleportation Array; it certainly won't spare the spaceships either.
The Alliance has been researching this energy, but unfortunately, no one has yet made any progress.
Moreover, although this Planet is habitable, the environment is still somewhat harsh.
Meanwhile, the entire Planet has been explored and found to contain no special minerals, and even the content of Normal minerals is not up to standard.
To put it bluntly, the Alliance felt it was too useless, so it was abandoned.
At the same time, in order to prevent this place from becoming a base and haven for interstellar criminals, the Alliance will conduct regular inspections here.
Furthermore, this place isn't open to just anyone; certain special procedures are required.
However, these restrictions are basically non-existent for Player, as they mainly come for missions and wouldn't come without proper procedures.
"We're almost there. According to the information, we have five hours to stay, so we must make the most of it."
"If the time runs out and the spaceship breaks down, we'll have no choice but to die and go back to pay them back!" Fairy Jingzhe said to everyone after they landed.
She's not afraid of losing money; she's afraid of causing losses to others. If she loses money herself, so be it.
If this mission fails, people will generally not let her help bear the losses in the Future, but she would feel guilty if that happened.
This girl's personality is characterized by always considering others, which is also why she remains unknown despite being a highly skilled player.
If Lin Qimeng hadn't met her during an Instance Dungeon run, she might still be in her team, with her vampire best friends.
"Good!"
Future understood what she was worried about, and in order not to exacerbate her concerns, they chose to agree immediately.
The name "Planet" seemed very strange to everyone before they arrived on this Planet.
But when they arrived, they found that the name was absolutely accurate.
Everything on this Planet is spherical: mountains, plants, patterns on the ground, even abandoned buildings have been twisted into spheres by an unknown force.
After landing the spaceship, Lin Qimeng and the others entered the former base of their employer to begin their search.
As the group searched, Fairy Jingzhe explained the background story of the mission to them.
The employer of this mission was, I heard, a former member of an exploration team on this Planet.
It was on that Planet that she met her husband, and it was on that Planet that her husband confessed his love to her.
Her husband gave her a handmade bracelet as a Token of their love. Later, when problems arose on the Planet, she and her husband evacuated Planet together.
But they were in such a hurry to leave that she dropped the necklace on the Planet.
However, they didn't pay much attention to it at the time, since they were both fine.
Now, many years have passed, and her husband left her forever for some special reasons some time ago. Her only wish now is to find the Token of their love from back then.
"The person who gave me this task might be his granddaughter; I've never even met the old lady!" Fairy Jingzhe.
"The story is quite touching, but... never mind, let's find it first!" Sister Hua hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped herself.
"Found it!"
Before the Fairy Jingzhe could say anything more, Yu Xiaoyu shouted loudly while holding a bracelet made of 12 glowing stones.
Everyone saw that the quest item had indeed increased from 0 to 1. Was that all?
"That simple?" Miracle Sword was somewhat incredulous.
Fairy Jingzhe looked up with her big eyes as if she wanted to say something, the ground beneath their feet suddenly began to shake, and the building began to collapse.
"I knew this mission would require ten people, and it really is no simple task!" said Sword of Miracles, looking at the massive yellow stone sphere that blotted out the sky above the group who had summoned the Mecha.
As soon as Old Ma finished speaking, a pair of eyes suddenly opened on the stone ball, and then it fell to the ground with a loud thud.
Then a crack appeared on the stone sphere, which immediately transformed into a gaping maw capable of swallowing mountains, lunging at the crowd.
"What is that thing?!" the crowd exclaimed after dodging his bite.
"It seems like... the Little Huang expression has come to life?" Sister Hua.
"Can facial expressions become sentient? And this is way too big!" Old Ma.
"Why can't the expression be... Oh no, run!" Sister Hua had only finished half of her sentence when that mountain-like emoji lunged at everyone again.
"This thing is invincible, split up and run!" Lin Qimeng said after attacking the emoji with her Fire Dragon and noticing the "immunity" message appearing on it.
But as soon as everyone dispersed, this thing didn't hesitate at all, chasing after them like Yu Xiaoyu. Everyone immediately realized that this thing was actually part of the mission.