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Everyone present, especially the team leader who had just tried hard to remain calm, turned pale in an instant.
"Why...why? It shouldn't be like this, how could it be..." He should have played some role. He was the person in charge of the handover, how could he not arrive in time!
"I can't blame you. They left early." The night watchman was extremely annoyed. "They were all very excited. They were a group of young men. You know, I... I should have stopped them!"
But it was too late to say anything now.
Just when everyone was silent, Ye Miaomiao suddenly walked through the crowd and went straight to the elevator.
"Ye Miaomiao! What are you doing!" Li Yihan shouted, bringing everyone back to their senses.
Ye Miaomiao stood still in the elevator.
"Of course, I'm bringing them back." She remained composed, her eyes remarkably calm beneath her goggles, not a trace of fear visible. She explained, "It was their first time up there, and they couldn't find the way down. I'm going to bring them back."
"You're crazy!"
Disbelieving eyes fell on Ye Miaomiao, but she just pursed her lips and turned her head to let the night watchman enter the password to close the door.
Under the warm spring sun, the night watchman's face was pale, and he looked at her with a pair of earnest, pleading, and even moist eyes. He put his hands behind his back, but refused to take them out.
Everyone saw what happened just now. The team wasn't lying, and today wasn't April Fools' Day. From the distant skies, an unknown entity was lurking, threatening them. The team had barely escaped, and the lord said they shouldn't have volunteered to die!
"Ye Miaomiao, I'm telling you seriously, this isn't a game." Li Yihan said anxiously, word by word, "Come down! What are you doing here? Are you going to die?"
"They are going for the territory. I want to bring them down." Ye Miaomiao repeated stubbornly, in a more urgent tone.
"I know this isn't a game, so I have to go up there. That's our only hope of passing the level," she said word by word. "No matter what's up there, we'll have to face it sooner or later."
"You know very well that without entering space, we will never be able to pass the level."
The breeze blew gently by. It was such a warm scene, but Li Yihan suddenly felt very sad. She knew that what Ye Miaomiao said made sense, but she didn't want to agree. She couldn't bear to see her friend acting like a fool.
"I'm with you!" At this time, a low voice came from behind Li Yihan.
She turned her head, and Fang Yan, with his long legs, took two or three steps past her and walked straight towards the idiot in the elevator. His inflatable space suit made him look particularly tall and majestic, and his black hair flowed elegantly in the wind, like a hero who had been commissioned in a time of crisis before the battle.
Damn it... Li Yihan cursed inwardly, as if he was afraid of someone.
"I'm going too!" She and the team leader spoke at the same time, their voices loud.
Everyone looked at the four people with complicated expressions. But after a moment, someone else shouted, "I'm going too!" The voices of self-recommendation rang out in front of the elevator one after another, forming a symphony of facing death with indifference and sacrificing one's life for righteousness.
Ye Miaomiao rubbed her forehead. "What are you guys going to do..." She was extremely helpless. She pulled up her personal interface and read out a string of numbers accurately. "I have 5,625 health points. I can survive in space for a few minutes without wearing protective clothing."
What about you?
She looked at the rest of the people silently, everything was self-explanatory.
The others had expressions of shock. Even with the bonus, the average person's health bar was only 500 at most, while Ye Miaomiao's was ten times that of an average person. Thinking of this, it felt even more heartbreaking. The damage wasn't high, but the insult was extremely strong.
Ye Miaomiao was also helpless. This game seemed to be against her. Every achievement she received only increased her health. She had become a tortoise with a thick health bar at such a young age. She had to play a role, right?
"I'll go with you." Fang Yan still got on the elevator.
Ye Miaomiao did not refuse him. Fang Yan's strength was reliable, and it would be much safer to have an experienced old teammate to help.
The elevator doors slowly closed, and with a sharp whistle, the elevator quickly ascended into the air. Everyone looked up at the sky, which resembled something straight out of a Hayao Miyazaki comic. The pure azure blue had never been shrouded in such a shadow, and even the soft clouds gave off a strange and terrifying feeling of oppression.
"arrive."
The elevator stopped with a ding-dong sound and slowly opened.
The moment the door opened, Ye Miaomiao realized something was wrong.
The lights in the hall went out.
A layer of cold purple light drifted in from the ceiling window, but it was unable to penetrate any darkness, simply smearing a hint of mystery into every corner of the simple hall. Due to the angle of the window, it was unclear whether the purple light originated from the purple eye.
Beyond the purple light, the dark and deep corridor seemed to have no end in sight. It was unnaturally quiet, and only a faint and harsh friction sound could be heard, as if something was crawling on the ground.
Ye Miaomiao heard the information prompts coming from the light screen, and she quickly glanced at it - there were several prompts to trigger side quests.
But now is not the time to check the branch line carefully. The most urgent thing is to find Dong Zhirong and his group, and then go to the central control center to enter the password to start the elevator going down.
Earlier in the elevator, the two had already agreed that Fang Yan would find someone and Ye Miaomiao would enter the password, and they would meet at the elevator door within 30 minutes. Although the situation was strange at the moment, the two looked at each other and decided to proceed as planned.
The power supply in the hall had obviously been cut off, and the lights could not be turned on again. Ye Miaomiao walked to a corner of the hall in the dark, trying to find an emergency flashlight on the wall. There was only one left, and the cabinet door was randomly opened, as if someone had taken it away in a panic.
Ye Miaomiao threw her only flashlight to Fang Yan and took out the Arrow of Judgment. The flames on the arrowhead had turned into a round blue in the microgravity of space, and the lighting effect was greatly weakened.
Before Fang Yan could speak, Ye Miaomiao said, "I know this place better and can find another flashlight."
What she said was the truth. Ye Miaomiao personally participated in the design of the building. Not to mention a flashlight, she even knew where the ventilation ducts were.
Fang Yan had no reason to refuse, so he said in a very low voice, "If something goes wrong, retreat immediately. Although we can't communicate, this place is made entirely of metal. If you knock on the ground three times, long and three times short, I'll know immediately."
Ye Miaomiao, "..." You are making things difficult for the office worker.
She simulated in her mind how to make sounds of different lengths and reluctantly agreed.
After separating, Ye Miaomiao walked towards the end opposite the elevator with the arrow in hand. The building was made of soundproof materials, and the further he walked into the narrow corridor, the quieter he felt.
Ye Miaomiao relied on the dim firelight to identify the rooms around her. After walking through the security room, storage room, kitchen and dining area, as well as two temporary lounges, she finally reached the end of the corridor.
She remembered that there was an emergency light here, so she stuck to the wall, vigilantly checking whether there was anything in and out of the corridor, while groping for the raised switch on the smooth wall.
Suddenly, Ye Miaomiao's hand stopped.
On the cold wall, she felt a large patch of warm mucus.
At this moment, the rustling sounds around suddenly became louder, coming from all directions. The dark and narrow corridor became the best shelter, because at this moment, Ye Miaomiao could not see anything.
She didn't panic, but held the arrow high and approached the wall, quickly finding the emergency light and turning it on.
With a "click", a bright light came on, just hanging above Ye Miaomiao's head, dispelling the darkness around her, and the rustling sound stopped.
She tilted her head and saw a pool of gray-brown slime on the wall.
Ye Miaomiao: “…” It can’t be shit.
Stirring up the mess with one's own hands was more terrifying to her than alien creatures quietly entering her base.
Unfortunately, space research had only just begun, and no weapons suitable for the space environment had yet been developed. Ye Miaomiao drew the long sword he carried with him and continued forward.
As soon as she left the range of the light, the rustling sound started again.
A stench of fishy smell hit her face, and a huge black round insect suddenly fell from the ceiling and pounced on Ye Miaomiao. The latter instinctively stepped back, returning to the range of the light. In the moment that the ugly beetle hesitated, a knife had already slashed diagonally, cutting its body with a snap.
"Don't pee or poop anywhere! Do you have any manners, you alien bugs?"
Brown mucus splashed everywhere, and Ye Miaomiao was about to feel nauseous when she suddenly thought of something.
Brown mucus, fear of light, familiar appearance... Ye Miaomiao, who loves to read "The First Explanation of the Universe" in her free time, remembered a Zerg from a dwarf galaxy. The main reason why Ye Miaomiao could remember such a common appearance from the vast galaxy was because they had an extremely special value -
Smelly.
Some races that cannot live without the stench regard them as treasures and drive up their prices to almost the same as energy stones.
With the points in front of her, Ye Miaomiao quickly suppressed her nausea, and even squatted in front of the corpse eagerly, using advanced collection.
A glimmer of light flashed, and two materials appeared on the ground.
A piece of material called "Strange Meat" was indicated by the system as suitable for use in the Demonic Research Institute. Another small piece, with a name resembling that of an Energy Stone, had a golden hue, and the screen indicated a price of 10,000 points per Energy Stone.
Suddenly, Ye Miaomiao, who seemed to have touched shit, felt refreshed and no longer depressed.
What is this? This is the saying that when you reach the mountain, there will always be a way out. When you are at the end of the tunnel, there will always be a way out.
However, the high cost of these creatures is also related to their high combat effectiveness. As a combined entity, they may be weak individually, but under the command of the queen, they are powerful enough to cause a devastating disaster.
Ye Miaomiao didn't know why these creatures appeared in her territory, but when she slightly sent the Arrow of Judgment forward and saw dense, endless swarms of insects up and down the corridor, her first reaction was not "Damn! My territory has been invaded!" but "Great! My trypophobia has been cured!"
Money! All money!
Ye Miaomiao immediately changed her original plan. In fact, with so many bugs blocking her way, she couldn't enter the password smoothly and return to the ground.
The building blueprint unfolded in Ye Miaomiao's mind. Thinking of the insects' avoidance of light, she immediately came up with a plan.
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