Chapter 145 Super-Staffed Expedition Team

The guy's arrogant words almost made me faint, but I had to endure it. I am the president of the Frost Rose Alliance, and I represent the Frost Rose Alliance rather than an individual, especially now. The mission we are about to perform is for the Frost Rose Alliance and our alliance forces. If it is messed up because of my temper, then I am not worthy of being the president. The struggle of loyalty is inevitable, but it is not applicable at all times.

"Friends, let's discuss it. I'll pay to hire your entire team, but how about you only send one person?"

"I don't want to repeat it a third time. We are a team. Either all of us or none of us. There is no third option." The guy was as arrogant as ever.

"Can I ask why you have to go together? You know I don't want to affect your team's relationship, but this mission is very dangerous. It doesn't seem worthwhile to sacrifice for nothing, right?"

"That's our business. We lead the way and you pay. It's a fair deal."

The other party refused to let go, which made me and the Gunslinger very angry, but we are both people who understand the priorities, so we both suppressed our anger.

"Okay." I said, "Since you insist on insisting, I can't help it, but I have a condition that requires life in advance. If you don't agree, then this cooperation will only fail."

"You say, as long as it doesn't go too far, we can do it."

I pulled the gunman next to me and said: "There are only two of us going this time, so we can't take care of so many of you. Because we only need one guide, and you have to add so many people. Therefore, we will only protect one member. It’s okay for others to follow, but we are not responsible for any accidents. Also, the person designated by us must ensure that he will not rush to the front. We don’t want to reach the destination before we arrive. All the guides are dead.”

I originally thought that my reasonable request would be accepted, but who knew that the guy's mouth almost made me faint again. "Aren't you known as the strongest man in the world? Why are you so cowardly? Last time, our team had no one to protect us and we ended up getting that kind of soil. So what would you two do if we didn't help?"

"I...!" I wanted to teach this idiot a lesson, but unfortunately my restraint forced me to hold back my words. I have nothing to say when I encounter this kind of 250-year-old. I don’t know anything but I know how to be poor and arrogant. The biggest difference between "Zero" and other games is that it tailors tasks for everyone. The same task will definitely have different difficulty for two people with different abilities. The Gunslinger and I were not present last time. When they went there, they must have encountered missions designed for people of their level. But this time, with the addition of two bosses, the Gunslinger and I, the monsters will definitely be there too. There are bosses that dominate the battle, and relying on their words can only give people a slap in the face.

The Gunslinger saw that I was so angry that he said to himself: "No matter how brave or brave we are, you just have to agree or disagree. Designate a guide for us to ensure that he will not charge ahead, and we will protect his safety throughout the process. , others can do whatever you want."

"Bang!" The guy made a very disdainful sound, then turned around and pointed at a young man who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old and said: "Fat man, be their guide, so as not to hold us back."

The young man who was called Fatty walked out obediently and nodded. "I...I know."

I reached out and called the young man to me, and then asked, "What's your name?"

"Fat man."

"I mean your game name, not your nickname."

"Oh, my name is Handsome Pig."

"Eh..." I originally thought that the nickname Fatty was a bit insulting, so I asked him the name of his game, but after hearing it, I realized that his game name was worse than a nickname. "Why did you think of such a name?"

"Because... because in reality everyone calls me Fat Pig. I don't like that name. I want to be more handsome, so I named myself Handsome Pig."

I thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll just call him Handsome Pig from now on." Although it still doesn't feel good, it's not too discriminatory. "Um, do you remember how to get to the place where purple clay comes from?"

"Yeah." Handsome Pig nodded. "I have special skills that are used to find directions. The last time I encountered those purple clays, it was because I was leading the way. I will never go in the wrong direction." The handsome pig immediately became excited when he mentioned his specialties. Looking up, it is obvious that this guy has always been the kind of person who has little confidence, and I feel that he is a bit timid, but it seems that he is really good at leading the way. When this aspect is mentioned, he almost seems to be a different person.

"Very good. Since you know the road, you will be responsible for leading the way. When we get to the red planet, no matter what happens to your team members, you just need to hide behind them." I pointed. Gunslinger. The Gunslinger is a long-range striker, so his position is generally safe. "You don't have to think about anything other than keeping yourself safe, and you don't care about whoever gets in trouble."

"What if..."

"There are no ifs and no what-ifs. No matter what happens, just follow him. Unless we ask you to do something, you can do it. Otherwise, just follow him. Isn't this a complicated request?"

The handsome pig nodded. "Not complicated."

"Okay, when can you leave?" I asked, staring at the guy leading the team.

"You can do it at any time, as long as you make some necessary supplies. Of course, we still have to talk about the price."

"How much do you need in total?" I asked impatiently.

As soon as the guy heard my question, he immediately turned around and got together with a few of them to discuss it. Obviously, these were the only real leaders in the team. After a few people argued for a while, the guy turned around again. "We want this number." The guy held out two fingers.

"How much do you have?" This kid only had one, two hundred and five, and he was playing tricks on me. He was looking for death. He didn't tell me the figures directly because he wanted me to quote a high price. Maybe he felt that I was in charge of a guild that dealt with big money, so whenever I asked, it would be an astronomical figure. Little did he know that only a big guild like ours would care about it. Small guilds basically have one thing to say, and fund management is chaotic. How much you want to spend depends on your mood. However, big guilds like ours have to set up projects for all expenditures just like big companies. It doesn't mean that they can be messed up by just using them. use.

Seeing that I was not fooled, the guy had no choice but to say tentatively: "This? This is twenty...twenty thousand crystal coins."

"Twenty thousand?" I probably pretended to be surprised and raised my voice an octave. "Your brain isn't burned out, is it?"

When I asked this question, the guy immediately became timid. After all, it was a bit big for him to ask for such a large amount. Of course, 20,000 is not a problem for our Frost Rose Alliance, but I don’t want to waste money, right? Besides, this guy has been so arrogant since he first came up, and I will never give him any money.

Listening to my tone, 20,000 was obviously not enough, so the guy turned back to discuss with his companions, and finally reported another number. "Eighteen thousand, this is the bottom line. No matter how cheap it is, we won't do it."

"Six thousand, whether you like it or not. We'll just waste more time by 'touching' it ourselves. It's not like we can't complete the task without you." I said nonchalantly.

"Six thousand? This is too little! How about adding more? We have so many people going on a mission together!"

"You need more of you because you have more people. I said I wanted a guide at the beginning, but why do you insist that so many people come and have nothing to do with me? I didn't say that you have too many people to affect my mission, so I'm giving you face."

The guy looked gloomy after what I said, and in the end he could only plead again: "Six thousand is too little. Let's talk about it and give it at least ten thousand. No less!"

"Ten thousand?" I deliberately raised my voice an octave higher, raising the guy's heart. Just when he thought his plan was about to fail, I suddenly said: "Ten thousand is not impossible. But..." I paused again. "You have too many people, which will definitely affect the completion of the mission. If you want 10,000, you can streamline the staff for me. It's best to send only one person."

"No, we are a team, one person is too few." The guy still insisted on the team, and I didn't know what he meant.

"Well, even if there can't be only one person, then the whole team can't go together. Either the whole team, six thousand commissions; or the number of people can be reduced, ten thousand commissions. You choose."

In fact, there was no choice in this. The guy and his accomplices discussed it for a long time and finally agreed to my request and started to reduce the number of people. However, the guy still wanted to play tricks on me and only reduced the number of two people. Based on their number. There is basically no difference between saying that there are two less people and not less. After some threats and warnings from me, the team was streamlined again, but he still only lost two people. I was so angry that I almost didn't kill him directly. In the end, we squeezed in little by little, just like squeezing out toothpaste. It took us nearly half an hour to control the number of people to less than ten people. Although it was still a lot, compared to the team of more than 30 people just now, it was still a bit of an expedition team. Looks like. I almost collapsed when I saw more than 30 people coming at once. The Gunslinger and I took more than 30 people out, so it was not us who were looking for a guide but them.

The final team was determined to be twelve people, of which two were the Gunslinger and I, nine were from the guide team, including the handsome pig, and the last one was the Black Widow, who was ranked third in the world's combat power list. . In fact, we didn't plan to invite her originally, but considering the disharmony of this team and the danger of the red planet, we finally included her for safety reasons.

After the team was assembled, we replenished the mission items, and then followed the team to an astrolabe. The so-called astrolabe should actually be called a cross-planet teleportation array, but the problem is that these things are one-way. The red planet has an astrolabe sent to the earth, and the earth also has an astrolabe sent to the red planet, but the two are completely independent and not connected at all.

After everyone boarded the astrolabe, the guy who led the team took out a magic crystal and pressed it on the center of the astrolabe. Our heads suddenly felt dizzy, and then we felt that the direction of gravity had changed, and the whole person seemed to be in a state of confusion. It was upside down, and it seemed like we were falling.

"Ah..." "Hey, hey..." "Damn...!"...

There was a loud sound of landing nearby. The guides' landing postures were all kinds of shapes. They fell and grinned in an ugly manner. However, they moved very quickly and got up as soon as they landed. They opened the portable recording crystal and began to take pictures of the situation in the back area. Unfortunately, the scene in front of them was completely different from what they expected.

These people have long known that there will be a gravity shift after the planet is teleported. They deliberately did not tell us because they wanted to see us make a fool of ourselves. It’s just that this kind of trivial matter is called a problem to them, but it is not a problem at all to us. Just after they were ready to take pictures of our miserable landing, there was a muffled sound, and the gunman bent his legs and landed firmly on the ground in a standard squatting position. The jaws of the people holding memory crystals on the opposite side almost dropped. They all looked at the gunman in a daze and completely forgot about their previous plan. They haven't recovered yet, and immediately after the Gunslinger, another black figure floats to the ground silently. If the Gunslinger hadn't landed and attracted everyone's attention before, no one would even notice the black figure. The sound of landing shows the lightness of its movements. The nearby guides who were lying on their backs didn't think there was anything wrong with their movements at first. But now when they compared them with others, they realized that their movements were like big bears, while others' movements were like elegant black cats. generally.

After Black Widow landed, those people were woken up in turn. But just when they wanted to record my landing posture, they unexpectedly discovered that I did not appear on the ground, and there were suddenly more heads on their heads. made a sound. "Hey, why didn't you notify me in advance if there was a change in the direction of gravity here?"

Hearing this voice, the guides suddenly raised their heads and looked above their heads, and it was only then that they discovered that I had been floating above their heads, and that I was not alone. The handsome pig was being raped by me at this time. Hanging in the air by hand.

Although he did not warn of the danger in advance, the guy leading the team still argued stubbornly: "Anyway, you are all masters, and I can't fall to you."

"This is not a reason." I said very sternly: "You are guides. Your only task is to lead us and inform you of the safety information you know in advance. Our strength is not a reason for you to be lazy."

"Hey, hey, hey, we are just in an employment relationship, don't think of us as your subordinates." After the guy who led the team signed the agreement, he became arrogant again. The pitiful look he had when negotiating the commission had long ago been thrown to Java Island. went.

"I'm just stating your responsibilities. Whether you abide by it or not is your business. But I want to remind you that our agreement is guaranteed by the system. Once the system determines that your behavior is not consistent with the status of a guide, then you will not only be a I can’t even get it, and I have to pay double the amount of compensation.”

"Hmph, I know, you don't have to scare me." The guy refused to admit defeat, but his behavior showed his fear. "Okay, now we have to move faster. This is the surface of the red planet. The red gravel under our feet is actually iron sand. The red gravel we see on the earth is The ripples are actually sandstorms. You should all know about the sandstorms on Earth, but the sandstorms here are made of iron sand, so I don’t think I need to explain its power much, right?"

The basis of sandstorms is typhoons, and the wind itself is not very lethal. What's really deadly are the objects blown up by the wind. They are the killers in the wind, and what flies in the earth's sandstorms is just sand. When those things move at high speed, they will grind everything in the way like sandpaper. Grind everything. However, the mass of the sand itself is relatively small, so its power is limited, but the sandstorm here is another matter. Not only can the wind speed of sandstorms here reach more than three times that on Earth, but the iron sand mixed in the wind will also become an even more terrifying polishing material. Sandstorms that can only peel paint off building exterior walls here can easily remove them. Grind the entire steel bar into a toothpick, then roll it off and blow it high into the sky to become one of them. The power is definitely not something that normal people can withstand. Of course, Black Widow and I are not afraid. Both of our armors were high-end and fully covered, so the sandstorm had no effect on us at all. But the rest of our team can't, so we still need to find a place to hide before the sandstorm arrives.

Although extremely arrogant and irresponsible, the opponent is a team that has been here before, and is still very well prepared. Under the command of the leader, the people in the team took out two pieces of space equipment, and then took out some large parts from them, and soon a sand boat was put together. Although the structure is relatively poor, this thing is at least much faster than human running.

The guy raised his eyebrows at me proudly: "Come up."

I walked to the boat and took a look, and then suddenly I swiped my sword with lightning speed, and then quickly sheathed my sword. After I completed this action, I saw for a while that the mast on the boat suddenly began to tilt towards the front of the hull, and then collapsed. Go down.

"What are you doing?" the guy yelled angrily.

The Gunslinger answered on my behalf: "He's helping you speed up."

"Speed ​​up?"

While the guy was wondering, I had already rolled two huge objects out of the Fenglong space and quickly fixed them to both sides of the hull. In fact, these two things together are bigger than the boat, but I don't have a small one, so I have to make do with the same thing.

"Which direction are we going?" I turned around and asked after completing the installation of the two things. The guy glared at me angrily and refused to say anything. Finally, the handsome pig pointed me in the direction. After confirming the direction, I shouted to the people around me again: "Find a place to hold on, I'm going to start. I don't care if I'm thrown down."

Everyone heard my words and quickly found a place to fix themselves, especially Black Widow and Gunslinger who were the fastest. In the end, the idiot leading the team was left standing behind me pretending to be a hero. I glanced at him sideways, and then I took out the control crystal and pressed it gently. I heard a slight starting sound that gradually became louder, and the sand on both sides of us obviously began to flow. As the sound gradually increased, the entire sand boat slowly started to flow. The ground floated. After the sand boat was completely separated from the sand surface, I exerted my strength and felt a huge force instantly launch the entire boat and us together. The terrifying acceleration instantly pushed the guy standing behind me. He was thrown down, and the others were still crushed even though their bodies had been fixed.

This continuous acceleration lasted for several minutes before stopping. When the acceleration disappeared, everyone found that they could not open their eyes at all. This sand boat is actually a small wooden boat equipped with a skateboard. Not to mention high-end goods such as windshields, it does not even have a cabin, and there is no place to block the wind. At the current speed, the wind pressure is enough to pin people down. The stern fender cannot move.

I pulled Handsome Pig to me, then took out a helmet with goggles and pressed it on his head. "You are responsible for watching the road. Let me know when we are almost there."

I originally thought I would run far away, but as soon as I finished speaking, I saw Handsome Pig pointing ahead and shouting: "We're here, it's that mountain over there."

"So close?"

"It's not close, it's because you're too fast!" Shuai Zhu said, "Last time we took a sand boat and ran for two full hours before we saw that mountain."

"Haha, of course. Your broken boat is driven by wind power, and mine is a rocket launcher, so of course there is no comparison. By the way, do we want to enter the mountain or stop on the side of the mountain?"

"I want to go into the mountains, but the roads in the mountains are difficult and the sand boat cannot be driven in."

"Then I'll stop outside."

Soon I parked the sand boat in the outskirts of the mountainous area. After recovering the two missiles, the sand boat was also thrown away by us. The speed just now was too violent for this kind of wooden hull. It was a miracle that it didn't fall apart halfway.

After arranging the team, we started to move towards the mountains. The strange thing was that no one mentioned the leader who was thrown off the boat. This surprised me. I originally thought they would argue with me and ask me to go back. That guy is back. It seems like that guy is not very good in the team either!

Although the mountain we entered is very large, it is different from the green mountains covered with vegetation on the earth. This is a completely barren mountain. Seventy percent of the red planet's crust is iron oxide, and the remaining materials are basically ingredients that plants cannot use. In addition, the surface temperature is close to 100 degrees during the day and more than 30 degrees below zero at night. Even a cactus will never survive the severe cold.

While that annoying guy was away, I started chatting with the handsome pig next to me. "What's going on with your captain? It feels like..." I pointed to my head: "Is there something wrong?"

The handsome pig sighed helplessly when he heard what I said. "Oh... don't mention it!"