Chapter 242 Hidden Mission
Along with the Youxi Easter Egg Fragment message, a new hidden mission also appeared on the phone.
Congratulations on finding the "Exile's Treasure": Emerald Mine.
Tip: Help the Exile to use the mine properly to get a hidden reward.
She clicked on the teammate's permissions and chose to share the prompt.
Soon, Lin Wu and Tang Yatong both received the hidden reward prompts that had been shared.
Lin Wu glanced at the person next to him, smiled and sent a message. Because it was a human team now, when sending a message, you can choose to send it to a designated teammate or directly to the team group.
A moment later, Tang Yatong also sent a message.
Both messages were sent to the team group, Lin Wu sent it first, and Tang Yatong followed, the formation was very neat.
Lin Wu: Thank you for the European Emperor's lead. [Kneeling]
Tang Yatong: Thank you for the Emperor's help. [Lighting up the smoke face]
Youxi: (づ￣3￣)づ~
Youxi: In addition, the Easter egg fragments have also been found. After checking, I have a bold guess. It is not convenient to say now. Let's talk about it later.
**
One day later, the travelers who stayed in the underground city accommodation area for one night found that there was a new trading commodity here: emerald rough stones. There
are not many of these rough stones. Each one is about the size of a pigeon egg, but the color is very rich and almost flawless. As long as it is cleaned and polished, you can get an emerald gem of very high quality.
In normal city stations, the price per carat of such emeralds is about 10,000 to 80,000, and such a pigeon egg-sized emerald is about 5 carats.
In the single cave, Tang Yatong, wrapped in a scarf as a mask, held the emerald in her hand and spoke slowly to the passengers in front of her in a low voice: "The quantity of raw stones of this quality is limited. We can only exchange five things: weapons, fuel, medicine, condiments, and cold-proof supplies."
Outside the wall of the desolate land, these things are the most scarce for the indigenous people.
For the passengers, after passing this rest stop, they are not far from the northern wall, and they will be able to leave through the station soon.
No matter which station they go to, as long as there are supplies there, they can exchange the gems for a large amount of currency. The supplies exchanged at this moment can be purchased back in a hundred times the amount in a blink of an eye.
Alternatively, some of the currency can be used to buy some gold jewelry for storage. As long as there is social order at the station, it can continue to be used as circulating currency.
This account is not a loss no matter how you calculate it.
The transaction was very smooth.
For travelers passing through here, it is a very cost-effective thing to exchange 20 or 30 liters of fuel or a few sets of cold-proof clothes, or a few bags of salt, a sharp dagger, or even a revolver for such an emerald rough stone.
Even if they walked for days and nights, crossed the last section of the Gobi Desert, and reached the tall black wall, and had plenty of time and a way to sneak into the wall, and accidentally saw this kind of raw stone being sold in the market in the city ruins, they would not turn back to cross the Gobi Desert and settle accounts with the natives in the underground city.
After all, the natives were not expensive, and they still got a 100% advantage. No one would give up the nearby train station for that little bit of supplies and go to the desert outside the wall again.
Moreover, most tourists would not risk going inside the wall. Traveling through the desert has already taken up a lot of their time and energy. After confirming the station, many tourists would choose to hide near the high wall for the remaining one or two days, or form a team with others temporarily, and use the damage-free function between teammates to strengthen their companions to help them safely spend the last few days.
As for whether the team will be dispersed after the time is up, and how to fight after entering the station, that is another matter.
Tang Yatong combined all aspects of the details, weighed several factors, and worked out an emerald rough stone trading plan for the aborigines here overnight.
It is indeed too stupid to be hungry and frozen while guarding the treasure mountain. Even if this prompt was not triggered, Tang Yatong would take action after knowing the emerald mine.
However, being brazen and reckless would attract tourists' attention, so the trading plan had to be very detailed, with not too many people in charge of the trading, and all trading methods had to be unified, and on-the-job training for trading had to be conducted.
Tang Yatong did not sleep for a night, and neither did Youxi. With her strength, the raw ore that originally required machines or many people to mine could be mined with just a scrape.
So, she became a ruthless mining robot, and she dug a large concave hole from the bottom to the top of a rock wall all night, mining hundreds of raw ores the size of a fist or half a head.
Then, she followed Tang Yatong's request to break up all the large pieces of raw ore, so that they could be turned into gemstones the size of pigeon eggs and chicken eggs according to the quantity ratio, so as to facilitate the trading of the aborigines.
Goudan accompanied her throughout the whole process. From the beginning, he would shout "Wow" and applaud hard every time Youxi dug out a large raw stone. Later, he almost numbly watched Youxi knock a raw stone as big as half of her head into small pieces that could be traded with her bare hands in a few strokes...
Apart from shouting "Sister Wow", "Sister is so handsome", "Sister 666", he felt that he was simply useless.
Tang Yatong led several people who had finished their on-the-job training, as well as Lin Wu, who was refreshed after a night's rest and ready to work as a porter, through the maze-like underground passages and came to the mine again. They were shocked to see that the ground of the mine, which was originally not big, was densely covered with emerald rough stones, which was really heartbreaking.
Youxi, who had not slept all night, smiled very contentedly: "It feels like playing some kind of mining game, so healing..."
Tang Yatong: ...
Lin Wu: ...
Crowd: ...
What made Youxi even more healed was that she also selected seven or eight emerald rough stones of unusually rich color, half the size of a head, for her team. At this moment, those rough stones were crowded in her space, waiting to be taken out and exchanged for various supplies one day.
**
Two days later, the aborigines who had undergone on-the-job training and internships got started one by one. Tang Yatong was very pleased and retired to the second line.
After she retired to the second line, the mobile phones of people received prompts at the same time.
Congratulations on successfully helping the exiles to make rational use of the mine.
Congratulations on getting the hidden reward.
The hidden rewards Tang Yatong and Lin Wu received this time were to activate the "easter egg" function. The
hidden reward Youxi received was the upgrade of the skill "space", from level 1 to level 2, and the space was also upgraded from the original 100 cubic meters to 200 cubic meters.
Although the second skill was not activated, for Youxi who relied on stockpiling to pass the levels, doubling the space was also a very good reward.
Because the raw stone trading increased the inventory of weapons and fuel, the indigenous team was better armed. Tang Yatong discussed leaving with Youxi and Lin Wu, so before leaving, she wanted to arrange the dungeon as much as possible.
For example, she told Gousheng, Goudan, Fat Cat and others that they must strictly distinguish which area is for travelers to stay and which area is for them to live.
The springs, emeralds, and several mines used as warehouses must be kept strictly confidential, and more traps must be set up. They cannot ignore the underground passages because they are like a maze. This is the foundation of their existence and must be well guarded.
Lin Wu took advantage of these few days to treat and bandage all the injured indigenous people here.
Most of the descendants of these exiles do not live beyond the age of 40 because of the harsh climate, scarce supplies, and a fighting lifestyle. A large number of them died of wound infection because they did not know how to treat it.
Fortunately, they obtained a lot of medicines in this transaction, so he returned to his old job and made use of his expertise to become Doctor Lin.
After finishing all the work, I rested in the dungeon for two days. During these two days, Youxi had time to analyze her guess about the other party's "Easter Egg Fragments". The
"Easter Egg Fragments" obtained before can only be viewed once, but after viewing, the picture is very clearly imprinted in her mind and becomes part of her memory. However, this part of the memory is blank in front and in the back, just like the word "fragment".
"My memory is incomplete. I have no idea where and under what circumstances I sorted out the initial items I brought with me. But if the ten items I brought with me were selected and sorted by myself, then it means that my original space and supplies are still there.
In other words, whether it is supplies or skills, or even the names and appearances used, it is very likely that they were chosen by us." You Xi has been analyzing this matter repeatedly in the past few days, and the conclusion he reached is a step deeper. "For the above choices, it can actually be said to be a setting. Do you think it is a bit familiar?"
"What you mean is--"
You Xi didn't keep the secret and gave the answer directly: "This mode is very similar to the game setting. Including some details of this mission world, such as each station has boundaries, which will trigger some hidden tasks, gain skills, and get rewards. In fact, it has exceeded the scientific theory I believe in."
"Indeed." Lin Wu nodded. He remembered his experience at the "Phantom Manor" station. That station had some supernatural elements that could not be explained by science at all. "If this mission world is a game world, then everything can be explained."
"But this is just a guess and cannot be confirmed." Tang Yatong narrowed her eyes, "So the important thing right now is that each of us must collect our own Easter egg fragments as soon as possible, figure out all the lost memories, and why the memories were lost. Also, what will be triggered after all the memories are recovered? Maybe the things related to our main mission are in these memories."
"Yeah." You Xi nodded, and she also agreed with this statement.
**
When there were still more than ten days left before the stay at the personal station, they packed up and officially set off. The aborigines reluctantly saw them off, and personally led them through the huge underground city, walked through several secret passages, and finally took them back to the ground from another exit of the underground city.
"The road we just walked is our secret passage and also a shortcut to the black wall. If you walk on the ground, it will take you two more days. And that road is full of small rock peaks, which is difficult to walk. If you are unlucky, you may be attacked by rattlesnakes and horned vipers."
The indigenous people Gousheng, Goudan and Fat Cat lined up in front of them and hugged them one by one. "We know that once outsiders reach the wall, they will never come back. Although this period of time is short, we are really happy to meet the boss, Sister Xiaoxi and Dr. Lin! I hope you can go smoothly on the road ahead and arrive at the black wall safely. We will never see each other again! "
Tang Yatong pressed on the other party's head: "Be careful, never underestimate outsiders. Many of them have skills that you can't imagine and extraordinary power. Protect yourself and always leave a way out for yourself!"
"Yes!"
Youxi took out the gifts she had prepared from the space one by one and handed them to the other party, indicating that they were parting gifts.
She took: Northwest cuisine, cooking, barbecue set, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine and family bucket set, and told them that they were special products and could be eaten as soon as they were opened. There were not many things and they were easy to spoil. It was best to eat them within one or two days.
Lin Wu prepared a box of instant noodles and a few bags of ham sausages. They are durable and delicious with their own seasoning packets. They are the favorite food of the indigenous people here.
Tang Yatong gave some tear gas and grenades. She collected a large number of weapons in the first war world. Now they have the weapons, and they just need some small and powerful weapons.
The other party accepted the gifts with red eyes. Goudan was the youngest and couldn't help crying first.
Youxi stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, stuffed a bag of things in his hand, indicating that it was a gift for him alone - a reward for him calling "sister 666" all night.
The jeep appeared in front of them in an instant, and people got in the car and drove away quickly, setting foot on the road of the vast Gobi again.
Goudan watched the car drive away and opened the last bag Youxi gave him. Inside was a box the size of his head, filled with candies and chocolates in various packaging and colors.
There were so many of them, just like the gemstones they saw in the mine that day, dotted like stars, and each one was a treasure.
**
An hour later, the jeep passed through the rocky area near the exit of the underground city and returned to the endless Gobi Desert.
Looking north from here, the black high wall at the horizon is already faintly visible.
The person driving the car was Lin Wu, and Tang Yatong was sitting in the passenger seat, alert to the surrounding situation and paying attention to the direction from time to time.
Youxi was sitting in the back seat, peeling an orange. After peeling one, she divided it into two and handed one to the two people in the front seat. The whole car was filled with the fragrance and sweetness of oranges.
Tang Yatong took the orange and suddenly remembered some distant memories. They used to do the same, working together and driving through the vast uninhabited area...
Lin Wu's words interrupted her thoughts: "The weather is not right. It's morning now, it shouldn't be so dark."
"Are those dark clouds in the left sky? It doesn't rain often in the Gobi Desert, so why are there such big dark clouds?" Youxi leaned over to the car window to check.
Tang Yatong frowned and said, "There is another situation in the Gobi Desert that can also produce such a large dark cloud layer."
Youxi responded, "Sandstorm?"
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