Chapter 197
Chapter 197
Ying Chenlin felt very strange that there was no points displayed, and his attention shifted from the task points to the task details.
[Slared Snow Mountain]
[Mission details: The snowy mountain area in the Slared contaminated area is covered with snow all year round. In recent years, pollutants have increased dramatically, and the regional pollution value has fluctuated greatly. The reason is unknown. ]
[Bonus points: ? ]
[Task Difficulty:? ]
Each item in the Star Alliance mission system is clearly marked. For example, the details of the rat plague mission above indicate the location where the rat plague occurred, but this mission that does not display points only describes the overview of the Slared Snow Mountain in detail. It is a special mission that is not described clearly at all.
"There is a very strange task." Ying Chenlin shared the task in the channel.
Zhao Lejie was puzzled: "This task is not clearly stated, and the points are not listed. Could it be some kind of hidden task?"
You Su said calmly: "The task list is public. If we see this task, others will see it too."
"I've seen this kind of thing when I was playing games. Usually, tasks written like this are exploration tasks." Chi Liz saw the task sent by Ying Chenlin. "Exploration tasks are difficult to complete, and the clues are unclear, so it's hard to find a breakthrough."
Not to mention this task, there is no time or place given, it is a confusing task at first glance.
The most important thing for Shuguang now is to earn points. This kind of exploratory task is not a high priority at this time. Ying Chenlin marked this task and sent it to the other two teams that went out to carry out the task for safety reasons.
Qi Sicheng and Wen Yi responded quickly, neither suggesting giving priority to unknown tasks.
After switching to the Snow Mountain Rat Plague mission, the information coordinates corresponding to the mission are also displayed in the small
On the team's shared radar, the four mechas wasted no time and quickly headed towards the location of the rat plague mission. The 10-point mission was considered a low-point mission, and as they moved toward the target location, they did not see any other teams moving forward.
During the move, Ying Chenlin was still observing the situation on the Slared Snow Mountain.
He looked up and saw the gray sky. Ever since they entered the Slared contaminated area, he had paid special attention to the difference between this contaminated area and other contaminated areas. He found that all the necessary facilities were there, but there were few contaminated area equipment that could function normally.
The communication system and radar scanning system can only rely on the systems installed on the mecha itself, and the all-round positioning system for pollutants has failed... but the pollution value detection system can still be used. Then how does the Star Alliance detect and identify these pollutants and provide task guidance to the participating teams?
This is an abandoned contaminated area. The Administration plays almost no role. All that remains are some abandoned foundation facilities. It is probably these foundations that are still barely functioning that support the operation of the entire Star Alliance system. Ying Chenlin looked through a large number of missions and found that most of them were clearing/processing missions. It was very likely that the Star Alliance judged the completion of the missions based on limited information.
So many clearing missions...
Soon, Ying Chenlin's team arrived at the coordinates provided by the rat plague. As soon as they arrived at the location, the radar showed a large amount of pollutants lurking. The main reactions of these pollutants came from a special type of snow rat pollutant from Slared, which was highly resistant to extreme cold environments and caused a disaster.
The cause of the rat plague is that there is a large amount of energy-rich snow grass growing on the Slared Snow Mountain. This snow grass can grow in extremely cold environments and plays a certain role in maintaining the topography of the Slared Snow Mountain. These are the main food for snow mice.
When we arrived at the place, we saw a large number of snow mice responding from the radar.
The mecha is rich in energy. When Ying Chenlin and his companions arrived, a large number of snow rats came over. These snow rats were only Class B pollutants, but there were too many of them, so they could only lure a bunch of them and then kill them.
You Su quickly switched to an energy cannon suitable for attack, and turned around to find Ying Chenlin still standing there without moving.
After 10 minutes of killing, more than 20 snow mice were killed, and the radar response of the surrounding snow mice was at least three times more.
Not only Ying Chenlin's side, the other two teams also encountered the same problem. Pollutants with low scores may not be easy to clean up.
Zhao Lejie frowned and said, "Isn't the Star Alliance mission system a bit too stingy? In other missions, killing one pollutant gives 1 point, but this mission with multiple pollutants only gives 10 points."
"Our mission here requires us to clean up plant-based pollutants."
Ji Qingfeng said: "The roots are too deep, it's hard to pull them out."
While they were talking, new changes occurred in the points ranking on the Star Alliance mission system.
In the ranking list of only 70 teams, results of 12 teams appeared and the points ranking was refreshed.
"Oh my god, are these people so fast?" Ji Qingfeng's voice came through the team channel with a buzzing noise: "We have just arrived at the first mission location!"
As soon as the rankings were refreshed, the pressure on everyone in Shuguang suddenly increased.
Although the task coverage rate is high, each task is easy to do and the points are high.
Qi Sicheng and Wen Yi both prioritized the tasks they encountered along the way, but their completion efficiency was far lower than that of other strong teams.
Zhao Lejie finally cleared all the snow mice in the area before the news that the KID team's points had increased appeared on the system, but their ranking was still outside the top 50.
"It doesn't look like it's working." Colin scrolled through the task details and found that those whose points went up quickly were those who completed high-score tasks with a score of 50 or more. "The strong team's method of occupying territory is useful. They take the initiative to get high points and widen the gap. Changing positions later will also bring advantages."
No wonder no team came to compete with them for these low-score tasks. It turned out that these strong teams already knew that the task was thankless and all squeezed into the high-score tasks. Although their efficiency is high when they are divided into three teams, separation also means a decrease in combat effectiveness and a longer time to complete the mission.
Qi Sicheng was also thinking. Reason told them that they had no advantage in competing with strong teams for high-score missions, but they had no other choice. "We are still in the snowy mountains with high mission coverage. We can give up low-score missions and try 20-30-score missions."
"We are not sure about the high score situation." Wen Yi said coldly: "The cost of trial and error is too high. If we make a mistake, the gap will be infinitely widened."
Huo Yan: "The snow mountain environment is complex. Even with Team Qi's space speed increaser, we still have to consider the time cost of traveling, the cost of killing, and efficiency issues."
After hearing this, the others fell into deep thought, and the difficulty of lagging behind in information became apparent.
They originally wanted to gain an advantage by accumulating low points, but low points are difficult to handle and the operation is cumbersome and time-consuming.
They now want to change their route and do higher-level points tasks, but they are not sure whether they can grab the high-point tasks, or whether the time efficiency will reach the ideal standard.
While everyone was carrying out their mission, the commanders in the channel had already begun further analysis.
Is there any way to allow them to gain an advantage while reducing the cost of trial and error?
At this moment, Chi Liz saw Ying Chenlin cleaning up the snow mouse corpses in the distance, and discovered that the other party had been relatively silent in the channel since the beginning. He had worked with Ying Chenlin in a virtual battlefield and knew that this man had strong combat capabilities and was also good at on-the-spot performance... When they had fought in the science cemetery cave before, he thought that while he was pulling and testing each other with the opponent, Ying Chenlin had already calculated the next step and used him to understand the situation of half of the maze.
He was observing the other party, but saw that Ying Chenlin had already cleaned up the snow rat's body.
Ying Chenlin said: "Then let's improve efficiency."
"I made a mistake before, thinking that the details of all tasks were different." Ying Chenlin continued, "Just now I took the time to look through all the low-score tasks in the Snow Mountain area, and found that there were many tasks to eliminate low-level pollutants such as rat plagues."
Ying Chenlin looked in the direction of Qi Sicheng and said, "There is an old method. Should we try it?"
"How to try?" Qi Sicheng asked.
"Let's first divide the teams into smaller groups. Captain Qi, you and Captain Wen will form another team."
Ying Chenlin said: "We will be divided into five teams."
When the five teams' opinions were put forward, the others were suddenly stunned.
Ji Qingfeng simply did some addition and subtraction. Qi Sicheng and Wen Yi were divided into another team? ?
"Wait, four people will form another team. Shen Lin, are you going to form a team of two?"
Two people in a team? ?
Zhao Lejie: "With too few people, the efficiency is low. We only have three guns and five teams. Who are you going to rely on for output?"
Ying Chenlin looked at Zhao Lejie when he heard that.
Zhao Lejie noticed the silence in the channel, "Why aren't you talking?"
The next second, Ying Chenlin said, "Depend on you."
Zhao Lejie was flattered: "This...? Even if I have outstanding abilities, I can't support a team by myself, right?"
Ying Chenlin said: "No, only you can do this."
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The Star Alliance system can see the displacement of the internal radar. Also paying attention to the radar information is not only the Dawn Galaxy, but also the logistics teams of other strong teams on the field. This was not their first mission, and radar information could not be transmitted to the scene. However, as long as a strong team arrived at the abandoned base station, these starships hovering outside the Slared contaminated area would be able to transmit radar intelligence to the Slared contaminated area through the abandoned base station.
The strong teams within the snow mountain area are also observing the distribution coordinates. Most of the strong teams are also adopting the method of splitting into teams. The strong teams have strong weapon reserves, and the method of fighting by splitting into two teams can maximize the efficiency of the strong teams.
Among the four areas, the number of teams distributed in the other three areas is the largest, and the snow mountain area has the least number of teams among the four areas.
But this does not mean that there is no one in the snow mountain area. On the contrary, two-thirds of the teams gathered in the snow mountain are strong teams ranked at the top of this ranking. The strong teams led by SLY, the fourth in the Star Alliance, are all gathered in the snow mountain area.
“Most of the strong teams split into two teams and advanced very quickly.”
"There are actually three teams running in the snowy mountains."
Many strong teams' attention stayed on the KID team coordinates for a moment, but soon shifted away. They were ranked not high and were so scattered.
All small galaxies are like this. They think they can catch up by completing some low-point tasks, but they don’t think about the fact that if Star Alliance missions and low-point tasks are so easy to complete, why would so many people be rushing to do high-point tasks?
"Coach, the Ukrainian team asked us to keep an eye on KID, but now it seems that their performance is average."
In the SHIELD spaceship, while they were paying attention to their own team, they were also paying attention to KID's performance. Ever since the end of the Dawn Galaxy Tournament, Wu Qingshuang has paid close attention to Dawn. This time when they came to participate in the mission, Wu Qingshuang also instructed them to pay attention to KID's movements before entering the venue.
The SHIELD coach said, "Leave it alone for now, and we'll talk about it when the situation arises."
At the same time, outside the Slarede defense line, the logistics team who were always observing the path of the Dawn people noticed the movement of their own team on the radar coordinates. The radar information that the mecha divisions in the venue could not see was clearly seen by them from the periphery, but it was limited to the radar information.
There are few teams and many strong teams, which means that if Shuguang wants to grab high-scoring tasks, the difficulty of snatching them will become higher.
That would have been fine, but the key point was that they saw from the radar that Shuguang was divided into three teams. Their combat power was originally weaker than that of the other teams, and if they went separately, they would basically lose the chance to grab high-scoring tasks.
"Splitting into three teams should improve efficiency." Jiang Simiao said, looking at the distribution on the radar. "I just compared and analyzed the map positions. They have been doing low-score tasks. This should be for this purpose."
"From the radar map, there aren't many teams with low scores, but their efficiency in completing tasks has not gone up."
"Can you see our current ranking?" As soon as Brother Zhang finished speaking, the staff next to him quickly pulled up their ranking. There were 70 teams in total, and KID was currently ranked 59th, which was close to the last place.
"How many other teams are there in the First Star Region?"
"SHIELD is the highest, currently ranked 18th!"
"Our results are the lowest in the First Star Region."
They looked at the highest ranked team, which was EM. In the past hour, they completed a 150-point kill mission, which immediately opened up a clear gap with the other teams. Looking further down, they saw that they were all the top ten teams in the Star Alliance.
The Black Crow leader said, "Something's not right...if we continue like this we'll be completely pulled apart."
The Star Alliance mission has only just begun, and other strong teams are so efficient in completing their missions. Dawn has divided into three teams to carry out the mission simultaneously, and the team leaders' command abilities are all good. However, they are still only ranked 59th... Is this the gap between the Dawn Galaxy and the strong teams? The difference is too obvious.
The atmosphere in the spaceship was a bit depressing. Dawn had given its all this time, but they didn't expect to be given a blow by so many strong teams right at the start.
Whether it is the Slarede defense line or the snatch of high-score missions, the gap between Dawn and other galaxies is too big.
Brother Zhang turned around and saw Shen Xingtang still reading the transferred information. Sometimes they really felt that KID's mentality was really good, and he also relaxed: "Now is not the time to be discouraged. There is no need to see how many other strong teams are ranked. We mainly look at the other teams in the First Star Region."
"We can't take big steps at once. We can't compete with EM, but we can compete with other teams in the First Star Region."
The others thought that this was the only way, and at this time, a staff member of Jifeng suddenly said, "That's not right, Brother Zhang! The coordinates have changed."
At this moment, the radar coordinates on the system changed, and the flashing blue dot reminded everyone to come back to their senses.
The coordinates where Ying Chenlin was originally located overlapped with Wen Yi's. The team changed from 3 to 2, and the separated teams reunited.
This slightly surprised Jiang Simiao and others who were observing their actions.
"This change? Did they use the sink's weapon?"
"...Yes, but shouldn't they be doing the task separately to improve efficiency? Why are they gathering together all of a sudden?"
Shen Xingtang, who was flipping through the documents, looked over and walked a few steps to the side of the radar system. He said seriously, "Their formation has changed."
"What's the duration of Sink's displacement weapon?"
"The target is on your teammates for 5 minutes." Shen Xingtang said.
Before he could finish his words, the radar displacement speed of the 12 Dawn mechas became faster and faster. All the mechas seemed to be suddenly disrupted. Qi Sicheng and Huo Yan walked into one team, and Lu Xi and Hu Luobu walked into another team, moving in two directions respectively.
On the other side, after the teams led by Ying Chenlin and Wen Yi gathered, Ji Qingfeng and Ke Lin came together, and Lin Yao and Chi Liz were together. They changed from the original 3 teams to 5 teams, and 4 of them had only 2 people.
The four teams of two people are heading in completely different directions. Their target location is very clear, which is the low-score task in the task system.
This change completely stunned everyone on the spacecraft. If the original grouping of 4 people was for improving efficiency, now it is divided into groups of 2 people, it is no longer an efficiency issue. This situation will not improve efficiency at all. The team being so scattered will greatly increase the difficulty of gathering.
Everyone on the spaceship was not sure what strategy Ying Chenlin was going to adopt, and 5 minutes passed in the blink of an eye. By the time they reacted, the coordinates in the venue had changed again.
Ying Chenlin's coordinates changed, and he arrived at where Huo Yan was.
The radar coordinates changed too much. The Shuguang people who didn't know the situation in the field could only rely on the coordinates to analyze the current status of their own mecha division. Ying Chenlin's displacement weapon changed every 5 minutes. With his continuous displacement, the coordinates of everyone in the field were completely disrupted.
Brother Zhang was stunned: "What's going on!?"
More and more people gathered in front of the radar system, and everyone was watching the strange changes in coordinates.
It changes every 5 minutes, back and forth, constantly switching targets. When Ying Chenlin's position stabilizes, the Shuguang people discover that the coordinates in the field have become extremely strange. Ying Chenlin uses displacement to reshuffle the coordinates of all the mecha divisions.
The team changed again. Now only Qi Sicheng, Huo Yan and Ji Qingfeng were left. All other mechas arrived at a certain coordinate point.
The Slared Snow Mountain is originally a vast area. The location that KID's team first arrived at is a location with a high mission coverage rate. Now KID's main team is still in the center of the mission with a high coverage rate, but the team led by Qi Sicheng is wandering outside the main team.
Except for Qi Sicheng, Huo Yan and Ji Qingfeng, all other mechas gathered together.
"From 3 teams to 5 teams, and then to 2 teams???" Brother Zhang's brain couldn't keep up with the change in displacement. He knew that the sink displacement weapon was very powerful. "What are they doing?"
Shen Xingtang asked: "Is there anything unusual around?"
The Black Crow leader said: "No, there are no strong teams nearby, so there is no need for such a large-scale displacement and shuffling."
At this moment, the score of the KID team suddenly rose to 57th place.
In less than two minutes, it rose from 57th to 55th.
Brother Zhang asked: "What happened!?"
"In the past four minutes..." the staff member called up the information, "our team has completed three 10-point tasks in one go."
Just as he finished speaking, on the shared team page, team numbered 125KID completed another 10-point task.
This efficiency in completing the task was completely different from before. How could so many tasks be completed at the same time in just a few minutes? Everyone in the spaceship was shocked. Before they could figure out what was going on, they saw Ying Chenlin moving again and reuniting with Qi Sicheng.
"Wait, Brother Zhang! Captain Qi and his team are about to meet up with Team Gaia."
The staff member finished speaking: "...Not only did they meet, the four of them split up and went in two groups. Captain Huo took Ying Chenlin to the direction of the Gaia team."
There are many strong teams in the snow mountains, not to mention the areas with high coverage, where strong teams are scattered around.
The KID team will not collide with other teams when doing low-score tasks, but once they face high-score tasks, they will easily clash with teams that are stronger than them.
The snow-capped mountains are covered in white. Task No. 235 is a 35-point task, which is to wipe out a group of Class A mutant snow wolves.
They have carefully selected this position so that they will not encounter teams stronger than them, while at the same time it will be conducive to the accumulation of points.
The mecha division of the Gaia team quickly arrived at the corresponding coordinates of the snow wolves, and used the pollutant pheromones prepared in advance to quickly attract a large number of snow wolves, all of which gathered within their expected range.
"The Snow Wolf has strong melee attack capabilities and siege capabilities. Keep your distance and let the guns and cannons attack."
Just as they were quickly gathering the Snow Wolves together and preparing to kill them with guns and artillery, they suddenly noticed the signals of two mechas appearing at the edge of the radar. The field of vision on the snowy mountain was limited, but the approach of the two red and white mechas was particularly obvious.
"Why is there a mecha here?" Captain Gaia asked in surprise, "What mecha?"
The mecha master said: "Tank and medical, we have only detected the signals of two mechas at the moment."
Two mechas dared to approach, could they be passing by to explore the way?
Captain Gaia planned to aim his own guns and mechas at the mechas on high ground, ready to fire at any time as soon as the enemy approached. But before he could give orders to his own guns, the two mechas, which were alone and without support, suddenly rushed towards them.
The speed of this charge became very fast. The leading red and white tank immediately opened its shield to resist, and the shells fired by Gaia's guns were bounced back. Captain Gaia immediately realized that something was wrong with the tank's weapon and frowned, "That tank is not an ordinary shield. The shells will not have much effect on him. Let them get closer."
Seeing this, the mecha master of the Gaia team allowed the two mechas to approach, intending to lure the enemy deep into their territory and then launch a close combat siege.
Suddenly, the red and white tank mecha rushed forward, changed direction and jumped into the snow next to it, alarming the surrounding snow wolves. There were so many places to run around, and it would have been fine if these two mechas had actively entered their attack range, but now they were jumping directly into the pile of information that they had used to ambush the Snow Wolf?
Gaia's mecha masters frowned. They had never seen such a reckless and aggressive test.
Entering the snow wolf pile, it is full of pheromones. What are these two mechas that have no attack capabilities thinking?
I thought he was here to provoke me, but I didn't expect him to be so stupid?
"Are you panicking?" Captain Gaia frowned slightly. "How did this person get into the defense? Which star system is this team from? Find out and kill them first--"
Before he could finish his words, Captain Gaia suddenly noticed that the medical mecha hiding behind the tank took out a weapon. He subconsciously took out the control cannon and locked onto the medical mecha, his eyes falling on his weapon, "No, lock onto that medical mecha first!"
But the medical mecha's weapon switching speed was faster than his. When he locked onto the medical mecha, the medical mecha's weapons had already been stationed on the ground. At this time, a red circle quickly spread out.
The next second, a red circle surrounded the pack of snow wolves attracted by pheromones. The two mechas, carrying all the snow wolves attracted by them, disappeared in front of the Gaia mecha divisions in the blink of an eye, leaving only the vast snow field.
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