" Deep Blue Squad?"
Zhou Xuan was a little confused. The team didn't have a name before; was it given a name later?
Filled with doubt, he looked at the two people who had just spoken.
" Second Tier, not a soldier, even inspectors aren't this weak... Are they reserve academy students?"
Zhou Xuan looked at the two men thoughtfully, only to hear them continue talking.
"Oh, I wish I could go hunting too!"
"I'd like to too, but going out without reaching Fourth Tier is still too dangerous!"
"No, if you could join the Taowu Squad or something, your safety should be quite high, right?"
"Their squad is strong, but their target is also strong. If you go with them, it might be even more dangerous!"
"That's true..."
" The Taowu Squad, whose squad is this? Taotie, one of the Four Fiends?"
Just as Zhou Xuan was feeling a bit confused, a whispered voice sounded beside him again.
"Look, the Deep Blue Squad is coming in!"
Everyone turned their gaze from the corpses of the Calamity Beast to the city walls.
Zhou Xuan subconsciously followed their gaze.
Several figures appeared on the city wall after the corpses of the Calamity Beast were hoisted in, and then jumped down.
There were six people in total. The leader was a woman with short, neat hair, and next to her was a figure with two braids tied in front of her.
Zhou Xuan looked at the two women; he recognized them.
Lin Zhaoran and Yu Yanhui are two of the more well-known people at the base.
An individual's strength is alright, but when two people are together, their strength increases dramatically!
No wonder they're called the Deep Blue Squad!
Zhou Xuan nodded in agreement, then shifted his gaze to her side.
Beside them were several other members of varying heights, among whom...
Suddenly, Zhou Xuan's eyes widened, and his gaze went straight to one of the figures.
The figure carried a long spear on his back and had a somewhat round face...
Lü Wenrui followed the rest of the team into the base. Before he had even left the crowd, he heard someone calling his name from the side.
He looked over with some confusion, but his gaze stopped abruptly when he saw who was speaking, and then he grinned.
"Captain, someone's calling me from the side, I'm going now!" Lü Wenrui turned around and called out.
"Okay, let me know when it's ready!" Lin Zhaoran glanced at him and replied.
"Clear!"
Lü Wenrui smiled and agreed, then turned and walked towards Zhou Xuan.
"I hadn't seen you in so long, I thought you'd been killed in action, but it turns out you're still alive!"
Zhou Xuan, who was about to ask something, choked back a moment and said irritably:
"Even if you sacrifice yourself, I will not!"
"Hehe..." Lü Wenrui chuckled and asked, "You're back, so Brother Heng is back too?"
"Yes, of course!" Zhou Xuan nodded.
"Why did you disappear for so long this time? I was worried you were up to something!" Lü Wenrui asked curiously.
"Hey, don't say anymore, I've just been running around for three months." Zhou Xuan said simply, then looked at Lü Wenrui strangely and said:
"But you, I remember you weren't in the exploration team? How come you're in now?"
"The attacks from the Calamity Beast have been decreasing over the past two months, and even when they do attack, we can handle them with firearms and missiles. This has resulted in us not being able to obtain Origin Crystal, so there's nothing we can do."
Lü Wenrui shrugged and said:
"I guess I'll have to join the exploration team!"
"Is... is this how it is?" Zhou Xuan frowned.
"No, but that's how it is in many places!" Lü Wenrui said.
"Doesn't the base need guarding anymore?"
"Yes!"
"So, we'll all join?"
"Oh, I misspoke, it's more like I'm inclined to join!"
"Inclination to join?" Zhou Xuan asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Yes, I do want to join, but whether I can join depends on the situation. Usually, it's when the original exploration team has members who are injured or killed, and they need to be replaced," Lü Wenrui nodded.
"I see," Zhou Xuan nodded, then looked at Lü Wenrui with a puzzled expression, "So, what are you doing now?"
"It's temporary. Someone in their team was injured, so I joined them for a bit. If we go out to explore again, we should be almost done!" Lü Wenrui said.
"Does anyone even want someone with your abilities?" Zhou Xuan narrowed his eyes, a hint of doubt in his voice.
Lü Wenrui said in a fit of rage:
"Hey, you, don't go too far! Even if I'm not capable, I can't say I'm weak, besides..."
After a pause, Lü Wenrui suddenly grinned and said:
"I also researched methods to improve my abilities to some extent before I went abroad!"
"Hmm? What method?" Zhou Xuan asked, somewhat puzzled.
"I've figured it out. Although my ability triggers randomly, the trigger probability is higher when dealing with things involving probability," Lü Wenrui said softly.
"Then, when I'm not going out, I just need to do some low-probability things, like buying scratch-off lottery tickets, so I can accumulate luck. Then when I go out, my abilities will mainly be geared towards the good before I even leave."
"If it weren't for me, I'm telling you, we might not have been able to hunt down those two Fourth Tier Calamity Beast this time!"
"Is that so?!"
Zhou Xuan looked at Lü Wenrui with slight surprise.
I never expected the other party to have such abilities.
In this way, the application value of Lü Wenrui's abilities is indeed greatly enhanced, although there are still many uncertainties.
"By the way, I just heard someone mention the Taowu Squad. Whose team is that?"
"Oh, this one? It's Wang Hu's!" said Lü Wenrui.
"I knew it!" Zhou Xuan nodded. "The other teams also have their own names?"
"Okay, come on, I'll take you somewhere to see!"
As he spoke, Lü Wenrui waved and walked towards a certain place.
"What are you looking at?" Zhou Xuan followed.
You'll see when you read it!
As Lü Wenrui spoke, he changed the subject:
"By the way, you still haven't told me what you guys were doing? What do you mean by 'running around outside all the time'?"
"It's about going out to explore the entire Erosion Zone, to see where the Calamity Beast are mainly distributed, and what they're doing," Zhou Xuan said.
"How is it? Is it dangerous?" Lü Wenrui asked.
"Um..."
Zhou Xuan pondered for a moment, feeling that the question seemed somewhat difficult to answer.
It's not that it wasn't dangerous, running around in a world full of Calamity Beast for three months; but it's also not that it was dangerous, since what he mainly did seemed to be just, as he just said, running around outside for three months.
"Okay, I understand. With Brother Heng around, what danger could there be!" Lü Wenrui looked at Zhou Xuan's expression and seemed to understand something.
"Hey, what you're saying is dangerous, going out is still pretty dangerous!"
Zhou Xuan lowered his voice, his face showing a mixture of lingering fear and smugness.
"You have no idea how far we've traveled these days! We've covered seven or eight thousand kilometers just horizontally!"
"We've seen the entire Erosion Zone. We've seen everything from snow-covered wastelands to hills made of Black Stone. We've seen the Calamity Beast, and we've even seen the boundaries of the Erosion Zone countless times!"
"Huh? The boundary of the Erosion Zone? The Erosion Zone has a boundary?" Lü Wenrui's eyes widened slightly.
Zhou Xuan grinned and said:
"Of course, I'm telling you..."