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After hearing Tao Sai's words, He Zhaonian was stunned for several seconds before coming back to his senses, still in disbelief.
"Boss, are you... kidding me?"
"Do I look like I'm kidding?" Tao Sai asked back.
"Uh..." He Zhaonian looked at her emotionless face. Of course, what she said was not a joke.
"If, as you speculate, rescuing a survivor earns 500 points, this is undoubtedly more efficient than killing bugs. Because you may have also discovered a setting in the game, that is, players will feel tired when killing a large number of bugs. No matter how light the task, even if you gently pull the ring to throw a blasting bomb into the bug swarm, your physical strength will be quickly depleted. This feeling of fatigue is only linked to the number of bugs killed and cannot be avoided. Players with low physical strength attributes will have to stop and rest to replenish energy after killing hundreds of bugs in a short period of time." Tao Sai expressed his thoughts calmly.
"Rescuing survivors isn't that difficult; you just need to move them to a safe place. You've probably done the survivor-rescuing side quest in the game 'Insect Tide.' Also, you can kill insects while rescuing survivors, so I think rescuing survivors is the most efficient way to gain points in the early stages."
He Zhaonian listened carefully to her every word, analyzing it carefully before saying, "This is indeed highly efficient, but Boss, have you considered one thing? The survivors are scattered around. During the first ten days of the season, we might need to travel constantly, and it's unlikely we'll end up in a place where survivors are waiting for us to rescue them. So, we'll often miss out, wasting a lot of time on the road."
"I have the skill of space teleportation." Tao Sai said bluntly without any hesitation.
There was a gleam in He Zhaonian's eyes.
In fact, before Tao Sai opened her mouth, he guessed that she might want to use the teleportation skill to instantly teleport from one point to another point hundreds of kilometers away, freely travel through space to rescue survivors scattered across the vast land. Her maneuverability is even more amazing than that of a hypersonic fighter, it's like divine help!
"I don't understand the effects and mechanisms of the teleportation skill. Can I use it without restraint?" He Zhaonian suppressed his excitement and asked his doubts.
"The teleportation skill is like other skills. It consumes physical energy when activated, and the consumption is greater. But it is definitely less than staying in one place and killing hundreds of insects. Much less." Tao Sai said truthfully.
She did a simple calculation in her mind. If she could successfully transfer 100 survivors at a time, she would get 50,000 points, which is equivalent to instantly slaying tens of thousands of bugs.
"That's great!" He Zhaonian excitedly clenched his fists hanging at his sides. The boss's words completely dispelled his concerns, and he made up his mind to follow the boss and do something big!
He Zhaonian suddenly remembered something, "Oh, by the way, Boss, if your energy consumption is high, I can help you replenish it. You can use all my gold coins to buy nutrient solution and recovery potion."
"To be honest, my family runs a supermarket. When the natural disaster first started, I risked being beaten by my parents to move all the goods onto the ship. Boss, just take whatever you want to eat, all you can eat!" He Zhaonian said generously, pointing in the direction of the cabin.
The moment the words came out of his mouth, He Zhaonian regretted it, and his expression changed from carefree and generous to stiff.
As the saying goes, wealth should not be flaunted. Although they were in an alliance and immune to each other's attacks, in the apocalypse, the importance of supplies was self-evident. One could only judge a person by their appearance, not their true heart. She might have suddenly decided to rob him of the large amount of supplies stored in his cabin upon hearing about them. After all, there were so many of them, all of them capable fighters. He would be completely helpless if they resorted to forceful robbing. Even if the entire crew resisted, their weapons would do no harm.
He was so emotional that he completely forgot that they had only met for less than ten minutes. It was really inappropriate to tell everyone right away.
Within a second or two of speaking, He Zhaonian's brain was working rapidly, staring closely at the expression and reaction on Tao Sai's face.
He had made up his mind that if the other side showed a greedy expression on his face, he would fight to the death and blow up all the supplies in the cabin.
If we can deter, we will do so. If we cannot, we will never let the robbers get away with it.
The space in his [warehouse] was still filled with supplies, and even if the supplies on the ship were blown up, the other members wouldn't starve to death, and this was something they couldn't steal.
But it turned out that he was completely overthinking it.
Tao Sai's expression didn't change at all. He calmly and easily unscrewed the Yuanqi Forest candy in his hand, tilted his head back and took a big sip.
"Very good. I'll let you know if you want something," Tao Sai said. "As for the game items needed to rank up this season, the nutrient solution and recovery potions to replenish energy, and the necessary weapon replenishment, we can each contribute half of the gold coins, double the gold."
He Zhaonian was stunned for a moment, and after a while he managed to squeeze out a few words, "...Boss, you are too polite."
Tao Sai corrected him: "I'm not being polite. Gold coins are an important strategic resource for players. You also need gold coins to develop shelter ships. We are allies, and I don't want my alliance members to fall too far behind."
"Boss..." He Zhaonian lowered his voice.
Although the other person's expression seemed difficult to talk to and not very friendly, every word she said was serious and sincere, without any courtesy or hypocrisy.
A player who is the public enemy of all players and may be the current ceiling of combat power, created the first alliance and only agreed to his application to join. How could such a big-time player covet his supplies?
His previous worries now seemed ridiculous, simply a case of judging others by one's own petty standards.
"Also, I really don't like the name 'Big Brother'. You'd better change it." Tao Sai calmly and proactively exchanged names. "My name is Tao Sai."
"I'll change it, I'll change it right away!" He Zhaonian said excitedly, and then changed his name, "He Zhaonian, just call me Xiao He."
"Okay, Xiao He." Tao Sai nodded and accepted it well.
In fact, they were of similar age, so calling him Xiao He was a little awkward. But she did not object to this name, because as the leader of the alliance, she needed allies in her eyes and also some prestige.
"Sister Sai, I will definitely get along well with you in the future!" He Zhaonian bent his arms and clenched his fists, full of energy.
Tao Sai nodded noncommittally and got back to the point: "Okay, now let's discuss the first rescue location."
At present, the insect swarm shows a trend of blooming in multiple points, with the points connected into lines and then into pieces. Although the survivors waiting for rescue are scattered everywhere, it is not easy to accurately find the location of the survivors.
The people who can accurately know the location of the survivors are the hotline operators of the Yangtze River Base Emergency Command Center. They receive thousands of calls for help from survivors every day.
Of course, Tao Sai couldn't set up a similar hotline.
The only way they currently get information is the Internet.
Because a large number of signal base stations were destroyed, the network signal was poor and information exploded.
Tao Sai slid his thumb up and down the screen of his mobile phone, his eyes quickly scanning the useless information.
The signal was sometimes good and sometimes bad, pictures and videos could not be loaded, pure text content would sometimes get stuck, and sometimes the web page would crash directly. Every time the web page crashed, Tao Sai would go crazy.
He Zhaonian clicked on the official Weibo of the J Province Earthquake Bureau. He seemed to see a new Weibo post, but the homepage took a long time to load.
He anxiously held up his phone, stood on the platform, and even jumped twice. The stagnant page on the phone finally started to jump.
"Got it! Sister Sai, I saw the latest news. Twenty minutes ago, an 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck Guangping City. The insect swarm is expected to attack there soon." He Zhaonian said.
Tao Sai also saw the news about the Guangping earthquake almost at the same time.
The rift valley at the epicenter of the earthquake was only 10 kilometers away from the city center of this county-level city, and the violent seismic waves almost completely destroyed the small city.
However, before the survivors of the earthquake could even catch their breath, they would soon face an even more terrifying swarm of insects.
"Okay, we'll choose Guangping City." Tao Sai nodded in confirmation.
Guangping City is located in J Province, which is further inland, 300 kilometers away from here and 800 kilometers away from Donghai City.
Rescuing Guangping City means moving one step further away from the "Deep Sea Fish".
However, because he possesses the [Space Fold] skill, Tao Sai can bridge the distance within 500 kilometers. If he cannot bridge the distance, he will use the skill twice.
In addition to Cheng Cong, Tao Sai also left transparent eyes on Zhang Jian and several others who were responsible for guarding the refugee ship, and she would cut back the view from time to time.
Proxy vision has no distance limit, consumes very little energy, and seems to last a long time. Tao Sai had installed a glimpse on the Deep Sea Fish. If Zhou Ning and his team encountered an unexpected situation that they couldn't resolve, she would be the first to see it and rush back to provide reinforcements.
Before the rescue operation began, Tao Sai and He Zhaonian had a quick discussion.
They chose He Zhaonian's "Weiguang" as the command center for this operation.
The "Wee Light" is also equipped with a [Command and Control System·Primary], so that even if all of them are scattered, they can use headsets to communicate in real time on the same channel and cooperate tacitly.
The command and control system was given to He Zhaonian's cousin, He Zhaochuan, who was also the first mate of the "Wee Light." He Zhaochuan would report the direction of the insect swarm in real time on the channel.
As for the specific executors of the operation, the main force is naturally Tao Sai and her twenty crew members.
The characters on He Zhaonian's ship are almost all his own family, his aunts and uncles. They have limited combat capabilities and experience, and they might be confused before the bugs arrive. The only ones with some combat capability are his father and uncle. It would be better for the other aunts to stay on the ship to provide logistical support.
Therefore, Tao Sai is the main force, and He Zhaonian is responsible for assisting.
In terms of weapons, the "Glimmer" is equipped with a primary electro-optical cannon.
He Zhaonian also gave the ten [Lightning Rapid-Fire Guns] he had purchased earlier to Tao Sai's crew members.
Lightning weapons are props specifically designed for insects in the game. They provide extra damage and only require charging to refill the magazine.
He Zhaonian had already considered the charging problem. He stockpiled five diesel generators on the ship, providing enough electricity.
After everything was ready, Tao Sai activated the [Space Jump] skill.
A twisted vortex appeared out of nowhere right in front of the "Glimmer", and the other end of the wormhole was Guangping City, 300 kilometers away.
As a small city in the central region, Guangping City has a total population of less than 500,000.
The city is naturally divided into two parts, north and south, by the Li River, a tributary of the Yunzhi River, which in turn is a tributary of the Yangtze River.
The epicenter fault zone of the earthquake is located in the north of Quang Binh City. The strong earthquake collapsed two cross-river bridges connecting the South District and the North District. Therefore, the South District is relatively safe, while the North District with poor transportation and dense population is in danger. The situation is extremely urgent.
The emergency command center at the Yangtze River Base received the call and immediately dispatched ships to Guangping City to evacuate the residents of the northern district.
The "Glimmer" sailed out of the wormhole, and the hull created layers of waves.
Tao Sai observed through the telescope that a large number of North District citizens were crowded on the riverside at this time, but the local ships were small in tonnage and their number was also limited.
Many canoes, smaller than wupeng boats, carrying a dozen or so people at a time, were teetering in the center of the river. Several speedboats repeatedly crisscrossed the river to transfer people, while some people even jumped into the water to try to cross the Li River. But these efforts were a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of thousands of North District residents crammed onto the shore.
"The insect swarm is coming!" He Zhaochuan spoke into the headset in front of the command and control system screen.
At the same time, system subtitles appeared in front of Tao Sai.
【Team mode is enabled.】
【Alliance special effect [Additional gain] has taken effect.】
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