Chapter 116
"Duan Ren," Tang Zeyu recalled carefully, and he seemed to know such a person.
"Are you running for the Exploration Team in the same class as me?"
"Hmph," Duan Ren glared at Tang Zeyu unkindly and said, "Since you remember, stop playing dumb. Do you need me to remind you again about what you did?"
Lu Shiyu was also curious and asked Tang Zeyu: "What did you do?"
He was able to make the other party hold a grudge for so many years and go crazy when they met. Did Tang Zeyu burn down his family's ancestral hall?
Tang Zeyu began to recall where he had offended Duan Ren, but he had only been with Duan Ren during the election, and they had never met again after that. If it weren't for some things that happened back then, he would probably have completely forgotten about this person.
Oh yes, maybe it was because of what happened back then that Duan Ren always held a grudge against him.
Tang Zeyu recalled the days of training.
At that time, because he was lawless at home, his family threw him into the training base of the exploration team, intending to use the training to polish this stubborn stone. However, his family's original plan was just to let him learn to restrain his edge. Unexpectedly, Tang Zeyu actually joined the exploration team and became the team captain.
Although Tang Zeyu performed brilliantly in the subsequent training and indeed completed the course with excellent results, and later became much calmer as his family expected, he was not like this when he first entered the base. At that time, he was so arrogant that people wanted to kick him when he walked on the street. Naturally, he suffered a lot for sticking out.
I remember that day he and others completed the training content arranged by the instructor as usual. The training content that day was a combat simulation.
Everyone is divided into several teams, each completing different tasks. The content of the tasks is determined by drawing lots, which is fair and just.
At that time, Tang Zeyu and Duan Ren happened to be assigned to the same group. Because of his family background, arrogant attitude, and excellent record of provoking the instructor on the first day, Tang Zeyu successfully became the celebrity of the session and was elected as the captain by his teammates. However, Duan Ren was just an mediocre team member with a bad temper. Although he did not quite obey Tang Zeyu, he still obeyed the arrangements of the majority.
As the team leader, Tang Zeyu stepped forward to draw lots. The lot he drew required him to go through the many handles of the deformed creatures and get something from the innermost part. The mission would be completed if he brought it back intact. The time limit was one hour and the location was an abandoned factory.
Tang Zeyu swung the map, spread it out on the ground, and pointed to a spot. "This is where what we're looking for is. It's at the very back of the factory. I plan to split the people into two groups. One group will be responsible for luring away the deformed creatures, and the other will be responsible for going inside to retrieve the items."
One of them raised his hand and asked, "Then how do we decide who will lead the aberrant creatures away?"
Although the distorted creatures released here were captured, it does not mean that there is no danger. There are quite a few distorted creatures in the factory that look like prehistoric dinosaurs. It is obviously a dangerous job to lure them away, and no one is willing to do it.
Tang Zeyu tutted, rolled up the map and knocked on the man's head: "How else can we decide? Rock-paper-scissors, loser goes."
"oh……"
After the game of rock-paper-scissors, Tang Zeyu looked at the unlucky scissors and thought he was unlucky. He took a few people and left first, and casually handed the map to someone.
Duan Ren took the map, watched Tang Zeyu running away, and began to familiarize himself with the terrain in a hurry.
Someone beside Duan Ren grumbled in dissatisfaction, "What a pretentious guy! He really thinks he's the boss."
Duan Ren agreed with a fake smile, feeling disgusted and wanting to vomit.
These people clearly voted in favor of Tang Zeyu being chosen as the captain. Why are they pretending to be dissatisfied now?
After Tang Zeyu and the others ran out of the factory with the deformed creatures, Duan Ren waved to the people behind him: "Hurry up, it's our turn."
Several people ran into the factory one after another. Duan Ren had good eyesight and saw something on the table in the distance at a glance. Duan Ren determined at a glance that it was what they were looking for.
With the joy of winning, Duan Ren and several other teammates ran towards the table.
They will be the team with the shortest time!
Just as they were immersed in the joy of impending victory, an attack hit them.
Duan Ren was quick to rush over, but his teammate next to him suffered.
“Ahhhhhh!”
The team member hugged his legs and wailed loudly, which instantly attracted the attention of several others and also attracted the deformed creature hiding in the dark.
Several deformed creatures clinging to the pillars slowly poked their heads out from the darkness. Because they were located at a high position and the lights in the factory were not on and it was too dim, the team members did not notice them.
Duan Ren couldn't help but widen his eyes as he looked at the deformed creature that appeared. This was his first time facing a deformed creature at close range, and his body instinctively got goosebumps.
The main body of the distorted creature looks like a UFO flying saucer, with a circle of eyes on its body, like the eyes of a frog, and the edges are covered with long and thin tentacles. If you don't look carefully, you might think they are vines of some plant. It is these long and thin tentacles that allow them to hang firmly on the pillar.
Duan Ren looked at the small green leaf on the deformed creature, and his brain stopped thinking instantly.
What was this? A plant? An animal? Something incomprehensible invaded his brain through his eyes, causing Duan Ren to pause briefly, but the distorted creature would not stop.
Several deformed creatures opened the big mouths in the middle of their bodies and sprayed highly corrosive liquid towards the team members below.
"What the hell is this!"
Someone shouted, and the originally orderly team collapsed in an instant. Seeing this situation, Duan Renyi was unable to deal with it for a while and just kept shouting to retreat.
Several people withdrew from the area where the deformed creatures were hiding and hid behind the bunker. They only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that the deformed creatures would not chase them.
"Damn it, there's an ambush!"
Duan Ren sighed. He originally thought that there were only a few large deformed creatures here, but he didn't expect that there were also deformed creatures hiding around the target, and the danger level was not low either.
The task was indeed not that easy to complete.
What’s even more troublesome is that those deformed creatures cannot be lured away because they don’t have legs!
The previous method didn't work, so they had to find another way. Duan Ren lowered his head and thought about the countermeasures, while the others were also chattering about it.
The solution finally discussed was to move over under the tarpaulin inside the factory.
This method was effective at first. When everyone thought they could successfully achieve their goal, the tarpaulin began to fail and was corroded with round holes. The corrosive liquid also fell on the people under the tarpaulin through the round holes.
"Speed up! It's too late!" Duan Ren shouted hurriedly.
Several people were already close to their goal, and turning back would be a waste of time, so they could only grit their teeth and hold on.
There were more and more holes on the tarpaulin, and it became increasingly difficult to use as a shelter, but fortunately Duan Ren successfully got the things on the table.
Duan Ren held the thing and ran out of the attack range of the deformed creature under the cover of others, then collapsed to the ground and gasped for breath. Even though everyone had some corroded wounds on their bodies, it was nothing compared to the joy of success.
"Did you get it?" asked a team member.
Duan Ren took out the thing in his arms and said, "I got it."
It was not until now that they finally saw what the thing looked like. It was a round, teardrop-shaped object with dark green spots on its surface. It looked like an egg.
"What is this?"
Duan Ren looked at the egg-like thing in his arms, shrugged and said, "I don't know, maybe it's just a prop."
As soon as they stood up, Tang Zeyu ran back with the others.
"How's it going? Did you get it?"
Duan Ren handed the item to Tang Zeyu with a bit of pride and said, "I got it. It's intact."
"But what about those aberrant creatures?"
Tang Zeyu smiled triumphantly: "I confused those idiots. They are probably still looking for us."
Duan Ren nodded and was about to say go back when he heard Tang Zeyu sigh.
"What's this?"
Duan Ren and the others were a little confused. Duan Ren said, "That's the goal of the mission. Isn't it to get this back?"
Tang Zeyu gave him a strange look. "What the hell? How can this be a mission target? It's clearly an egg."
Egg?
"The mission target is a cloth bag. Didn't you see it?"
Cloth bag?
Everyone looked towards the table. There was a cloth bag where the egg was originally placed, but that cloth bag had been used to cushion the egg, so it was ignored by everyone.
Duan Ren was dumbfounded. So, the thing they had just risked their lives to get back was just the eggs of these deformed creatures.
The team member who was affected by Duan Ren's earlier evasion of the attack was the first to lose control and pointed at Duan Ren and cursed: "It's because you took the wrong thing! We have to go back and get it again! What good are you? All you can do is give blind orders, and what's the result? You even took the wrong thing! All our hard work has been in vain!"
The sudden accusation caught Duan Ren off guard, and before he could think about it, the man was interrupted by Tang Zeyu.
"Okay, you're talking as if you know which one to take. If he takes the wrong one, then you can take the right one? The most important thing is not to find out who is wrong, but to take back what is right."
But just as they were discussing how to get the cloth bag through these deformed creatures, the deformed creatures that had been led away by Tang Zeyu suddenly came back.
Feeling the vibration under his feet, Tang Zeyu couldn't help but swear.
"Why are you back so soon?"
Realizing that it had been tricked, the deformed creature turned back and blocked the factory door.
Now they have not achieved the mission target and the exit is blocked. It seems like a dead end no matter how you look at it. Even Tang Zeyu feels that this mission is likely to fail.
"Forget it, it's just one mission. There will be opportunities in the future." Tang Zeyu quickly put it aside and said to the others, "Let's break through the deformed creatures guarding the gate and get out. We can forget about the mission."
Even though the other people were still concerned about the mission, the most important thing now was whether they could get out alive. They didn't care about so many things. It was more important to go out with Tang Zeyu.
But Duan Ren's face changed when he heard Tang Zeyu say that he wanted to go out.
"Are you giving up the mission?"
"What else?" Tang Zeyu asked back, "We're going out now. Have you got the mission objective? If not, then we can only give up."
give up?
No, Duan Ren had failed many missions before because of bad teammates. If he gave up on the mission, more points would be deducted. His score was already on the edge of danger. This mission was crucial, and it even determined whether he could make it to the next stage or be eliminated.
Duan Ren couldn't bear to think that all his efforts would be wasted because of a stupid teammate and a misjudgment. So he gritted his teeth, put on the tarpaulin that was full of holes, turned around and walked towards the deformed creature coiled on the pillar.
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