[Congratulations, player, you have completed the current stage of the mission!]
[Since you completed the task in less than half the required time, it is considered a "perfect completion," and an additional reward is being calculated!]
"The phase of the mission has been completed."
Su Lin looked at the information in front of him and raised an eyebrow slightly.
The objective of Phase 1 is for survivors to join any military faction and obtain a position within that military force within one month.
As Sulin's follower, everything Lyanna gained was attributed to Sulin, and it was considered that the mission had been completed. This was also the result of Xiao Linlin and Jia Zhengyi's continuous efforts over the past two days.
It's not surprising that all four members of the team could see the message notification; it was the result of everyone's joint efforts.
The "extra rewards" part surprised Xiao Linlin: "There are actually rewards for completing the phase tasks faster! I thought the phase tasks only affected the escape location."
"No matter what, extra benefits are always welcome. It's free anyway, so why not take it?"
Jia Zhengyi stroked his hair, looking smug: "I guess I've done a good job this time."
Su Lin remained silent, waiting for new information notifications to appear.
Just as Xiao Linlin and Jia Zhengyi were discussing the extra reward, a new notification arrived late.
[Congratulations, player! You have obtained the reward for this stage of the mission: Stage 10 rewards you with the ultimate escape reward!]
[Congratulations, player! You have received an extra reward for this stage of the mission: the difficulty of Stage 2 has been reduced by 20%.]
[Now, we will announce the details of Phase 2.]
[Current Phase Task 2]: Please lead your army members to kill at least 1,000 units of your faction within one month. If the current task expires, the progress of the phase task will be reset and all rewards will be cleared.
The room fell silent as soon as the message was displayed.
Everyone was stunned, staring blankly at the prompt without saying a word.
Xiao Linlin rubbed her eyes repeatedly, almost doubting that she was seeing things. After confirming several times, she exclaimed in disbelief, "What kind of crazy request is this?!"
Phase 1: Let us join a faction as soon as possible, implying that we must fight for it to achieve victory in the war.
As a result of the second phase of the mission, their attitude completely changed! They're telling us to "kill our own people"?
No, where's the logic? Where's the reasoning? Where's the cause?
There's nothing there, you're just asked to kill. This is a mission with absolutely no pattern!
Most importantly, this is still Mission 2 after the difficulty has been reduced by 20%!
After Xiao Linlin's shock, the four people in the room fell into a long silence.
Until Jia Zhengyi couldn't hold back any longer and muttered, "Where exactly did the difficulty of this thing get reduced?"
Unlike Jia Zhengyi's speechlessness, Su Lin remained calm, looked at Xiao Linlin, and asked calmly, "Shall we go and make up the numbers now?"
Killing 1,000 of his own people was nothing to Su Lin.
If he were to enter the escape game alone, he would be ready to take action the moment he received the mission.
He doesn't care how demanding the task is; as long as his goal is clear, he'll do any task, no matter how difficult.
"No, no, no, wait a bit, let me think about it."
Xiao Linlin raised her hand, squatted down, and kept rubbing her head: "This shouldn't be. Aren't war-type dungeons supposed to make us join one of the factions? Could it be... that we're supposed to stir up trouble?"
"I think I misunderstood the mechanism. It didn't seem to fix us in one camp from the beginning... It was just forcing us to get involved in the war itself."
"Could it be that, in the eyes of the game mechanics, the survivors themselves are an additional [war faction]? A third party outside of the two warring sides?"
The room was filled with Xiao Linlin's muttering thoughts. Jia Zhengyi reminded her from the side, "Linlin, I just thought about it. Actually, there's no need to think about it anymore. Just do whatever the system tells you to do."
"To put it bluntly, with the boss and the all-around sister's abilities, killing 1,000 people isn't actually that difficult."
“I know it’s not difficult, but the core of the problem isn’t with Task 2.”
Xiao Linlin shook her head: "Task 1 is not difficult, Task 2 is not difficult... but based on the underlying logic of the mechanism, sooner or later, one of the tasks will be difficult for us. I need to deduce what the mechanism is trying to do, so that at least we can roughly guess the content of the following tasks and prepare in advance."
Do you have any ideas?
A little, but not much.
Xiao Linlin stood up and reviewed the notification message again: "The 20% difficulty reduction is probably due to the difference between [military units] and [non-military units]."
"If I'm not mistaken, the original objective of Mission 2 was to kill 1,000 or more of our own military units, but the reduced mission difficulty removed the requirement for military units."
"This means that we can just kill non-military units."
Xiao Linlin paused, and Jia Zhengyi was shocked: "You mean...killing civilians and claiming credit! To appease the system!"
Your analogy is incorrect.
Xiao Linlin corrected, "This is something the system tells us to do, not something we're doing to take credit. Besides... you don't think we're all good people who can't bear to lay a hand on ordinary people, do you?"
"Forehead..."
Jia Zhengyi scratched his head, speechless.
The four of them had just wiped out a town not long ago, so his surprise at this moment did seem a bit fake.
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