Chapter 33: The Second Item: Picking Up the Item - Old Sophora Tree
Chen Li also had delivery information on the back of his left hand.
Li Dangxin and Hongmao, who were standing by, had never expected that Chen Li would suddenly be assigned to deliver the package at this time.
Generally speaking, couriers who have just completed a task can have one to two weeks of rest.
During this period, the system will not issue delivery tasks.
How long have they just come out of the dungeon?
They could only watch Chen Li and Song Buyu disappear from their sight.
At the same time, Qian Shi, who was tracking the copy supervisor, noticed something was wrong and hurried to find Ye Minglang.
"Boss, the company system was suddenly hacked just now. I tracked the source of the signal and it was that person again!"
"Invasion system?" Ye Minglang was studying the content related to the formation, and asked without raising his head: "What did he do?"
"Nothing much, I just modified the dispatcher's assignment information and assigned Shen Li to go there."
Ye Minglang paused for a moment, "What?"
Seeing the boss's expression, Qian Shi quickly reported honestly: "And this order is a bit strange."
[Loading the delivery information for you]
[Item name: unknown]
[Item type: unknown]
[Sender: Unknown]
[Recipient: Unknown]
【Side effects: unknown】
[Delivery type: multi-person competitive delivery]
[Number of failures: 0]
[You need to pick up the parcel yourself for this delivery task]
[Loading map for you]
[Planning your route]
[Please pick up the item within the specified time, otherwise you will be punished. I wish you a happy pickup! ]
In the station hall, people received pickup information one after another.
When loading the map, everyone's left hand was bleeding and there were constant wailing sounds.
Some people also complained that it was too crowded. With more than a dozen people standing in the small station, it was indeed crowded.
In the past, each station would only be assigned four to six people, but I didn’t expect the number to double this time.
After all the information was loaded, some people expressed dissatisfaction.
"What kind of information is this? It's not useful at all!"
"And what does it mean by 'multi-person competitive delivery'? Does it mean we have to compete with each other?"
Song Buyu looked at the only information and realized something was wrong.
The mission this time required them to pick up the parcels within the specified time, but there were so many people loaded into the station at once, at a rough glance there were more than a dozen.
Those who fail to pick up the item will be punished, and there is only one "item" from beginning to end, which means that among more than a dozen people, there is only one winner in the end.
The column for failures is zero.
This means that no one has ever attempted this mission before, and this group of people is doing it for the first time.
It's like sending a guinea pig to its death.
From now on, there will be no cooperation between them, only competition, and even... killing each other is not impossible.
Those who realized this had already opened the door of the post station as soon as possible, ready to pick up the parcels as quickly as possible.
But the people standing in front of the door were stunned again.
"how so……"
Song Buyu was pushed out of the door by the crowd.
I saw that both sides of the street were lined with post stations with different numbers.
There are more than a dozen couriers standing at the door of each post station.
Everyone looked at each other with the same shocked faces.
They were wrong.
This time, the task is not about more than a dozen people competing for one order.
It's hundreds of couriers competing with each other!
The best pickup route has been planned for you on the map.
The pickup location is far away from here, and this delivery mission is more like an absurd marathon of a hundred people.
There can only be one winner!
The mission started suddenly and everyone rushed out without caring about anything.
[Current number of survivors: 800]
The number of survivors will be refreshed every minute.
In less than a minute, the number of people had been reduced to 796, and four people had died!
After drinking half of Chen Li's tonic soup, he still felt weak all over.
He lay on the table at the inn and didn't look up for a long time.
Song Buyu couldn't help but pull him to wake him up.
Although they were in a competitive relationship, he remembered what he had said in the dormitory before, that he would protect Shen Li in the dungeon.
And the number of survivors is decreasing so quickly this time, there must be many dangers along the way.
Only cooperation in the early stages can increase the survival rate.
After resting for a while, Shen Li finally recovered a lot.
He glanced blankly at the pickup information on the electronic screen, then lay down again with an expressionless face.
Song Buyu savored his reaction carefully.
He was not in a hurry because the person who was ahead in the pickup mission might not necessarily have an advantage.
This group of people will definitely encounter many dangers, and the mortality rate will soar. He has always been cautious and does not want to lose his life halfway. Starting slowly can avoid many dangers.
But Chen Li was not in a hurry, he really was not in a hurry.
He really doesn't care at all.
Where does he get the confidence from?
"Hey, there are two more people here."
Outside the post station, two strangers knocked on the glass door and pushed the door open as if they were familiar with each other.
"There are only four of us left. What? Form a team?"
Yu Qianqian extended her hand towards Song Buyu in a friendly manner.
The girl was dressed in hip-hop clothes, with her hair dyed in various colors and tied into two ponytails, a pair of headphones hanging around her neck, and her nails trimmed neatly.
The big guy following behind him also extended his hand in a friendly manner.
The two sides shook hands, formed a temporary team, and briefly exchanged information.
"In fact, we had already set out and walked for a while, but turned back halfway."
Yu Qianqian described in detail what had just happened.
It’s not that they are timid, but that place is too weird.
Going further along this road, there is a big locust tree.
It looks like it has lived for hundreds of years, and its branches are so thick that even four people may not be able to hug it.
There are three forks in the road behind the locust tree, but no matter which way they go, they seem to end up back in front of the locust tree.
"What about the map? Isn't the route planned in advance on the map?" Song Buyu asked.
"What's strange is this route!" Yu Qianqian asked the big guy to put his left hand flat on the table.
"This big locust tree is also marked on the map. It looks like a tree. Do you see this place?"
Yu Qianqian enlarged the icon of the locust tree. "There is a tree hole at the location of the tree trunk. Let's go into the tree hole according to the route marked on the map!"
This was really strange; their destination was at the other end of the map, with roads everywhere, but the navigation led them to the tree hole.
"This tree hole is not located at the root of the tree. To enter this tree hole, you need to climb the tree."
Yu Qianqian simply found a piece of paper and drew a diagram on it. "The tree hole is on the tree trunk, about five meters above the ground."
She watched the people in front of her crawl in, and then their positioning lights disappeared from the map.
"Some people also said that there was a problem with the navigation. Some people planned to find their own way and did not follow the navigation route. Some people entered the tree hole, but not all people who entered the tree hole disappeared. The positioning lights of some people were still there. They were still alive, but they were all gathered in this place, as if they were trapped."
"So it is certain that there is definitely something wrong with this tree hole."
Yu Qianqian expressed her doubts: "We just can't make up our minds. We don't know whether we should follow the navigation and enter the tree hole."
Judging from the map imprinted on the forearm, there are many light spots like ants, densely packed at the location of the big locust tree.
There were also many spots of light circling back and forth on those three roads.
"Based on past experience, the route planned by the system for us must be the easiest route."
Song Buyu felt that no matter what, this path through the tree hole might really have some merits. Perhaps it led directly to the underground and could help them avoid the danger on the ground.
Chen Li had a candy in his mouth. They were discussing the route just now and he had heard the general idea.
After discussing it, the four people finally decided to set off.
At this time, the number of survivors on the station screen showed 612.
About a hundred people were killed in half an hour.
Although the atmosphere along the way was relatively relaxed, everyone was actually under a lot of pressure.
The further we went, the closer we got to the big locust tree and the three forks in the road, and we began to see bloodstains on the ground left by the people ahead.
The signal in this place is not very good, and everyone's positioning on the map is sometimes good and sometimes bad.
Once we entered the woods, our positioning was completely cut off and we had no way of determining the location of other people.
Yu Qianqian observed the ground and found a lot of bloodstains on the three forks in the road.
Maybe something happened before they set out.
The huge crowd of people entered the woods and no one could be seen anymore.
"If something happened just now and someone died, where are their bodies? Why is there only blood on the ground but no bodies?"
A cold wind blew and Yu Qianqian shrank her neck.
"Could it be eaten by something?...Should we take the big tree hole route?"
As soon as he entered the woods, Chen Li smelled a strong smell of blood.
He vaguely felt that there was something wrong with this forest, but there were cliffs on both sides and only one path, so they had to enter the forest.
The big locust tree in front of me is very tall. There is a thin layer of mist covering the forest. People standing under the tree cannot see the top of the tree at a glance.
Because someone had climbed up before and left a rope on the tree trunk, the process of climbing the tree was smooth.
The hole in the locust tree was pitch black. When standing outside, one could vaguely hear someone whispering inside.
But I couldn't hear what was being said.
"Do you want to come in?" Song Buyu stood outside the tree hole, somewhat hesitant.
"Go in." Yu Qianqian made up her mind and was the first to go in.
Chen Li was a go-with-the-flow type of person, he was pushed around all the way and never made up his mind.
After entering the tree hole, I felt my shoulders sink and sat down for some unknown reason.
It was pitch black all around, and everyone sat together. Suddenly, a blue-green bonfire lit up in the center.
A young man about the same age as Shen Li sat next to the campfire and sighed:
"That's great, there are new people joining our game."
The boy took out a piece of strangely shaped wood from behind him, threw it into the campfire, turned around and looked at the newcomers.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Song Buyu seemed to see a human face on the piece of wood just now.
"Then let's get started."
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