Chapter 54
[Side quest has been triggered: "Zuojia Village" where many experts are gathered.]
[Task content: Find "Zuojia Village" and recruit, task keyword: Wang Xing, current completion progress is 0%.]
[Task Reward: 20 card draw opportunities.]
This side quest is related to recruitment, but there are requirements for the recruits this time. She doesn’t know about Zuojia Village, but the system gave her keywords, so it’s easy.
She knew Wang Xing, the space expert in the Flying Tigers. They were currently hunting in a dangerous forest. She would come back and ask him when the time came.
This task was also easy to complete, as if it was given to him for free by the system. Thinking of the 20 cards that would be drawn, Ye Qing was overjoyed.
All in all, the Flying Tigers have been gone for nearly a week, so tomorrow is the day they return.
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Inside the dangerous forest, Zhou Xiaohua and Zhu Ke finally opened their eyes. Seeing some movement, everyone immediately surrounded them.
"Captains, are you feeling unwell?"
Zhou Xiaohua and Zhu Ke shook hands, helped each other stand up, and said to everyone, "The upgrade went very smoothly. I'm sorry to have worried you all."
"Really? That's great! Congratulations to Captain Zhou and Captain Zhu!"
The psychics can sense each other, and they clearly feel that the aura around the two has undergone earth-shaking changes. These are all the effects of the upgrade.
Li Meng was the most anxious, and kept asking questions as he approached the two of them, "But Captain, I'm a little confused. You're already high-level, so what level will you be after the upgrade?"
Li Meng was not the only one who was confused. Everyone else looked at Zhou Xiaohua curiously after hearing what he said.
Zhou Xiaohua and Zhu Ke exchanged a glance and analyzed the situation carefully. "Before, we were all trapped in our own world, only knowing that superpowers were categorized into three levels: low, medium, and high. We didn't realize that there are always people beyond our means, and that there are even levels beyond the high levels, just like the Level 6 mutant beast we saw today."
"It was only when I was fighting it today that I suddenly realized that if mutant beasts can break through their original limits, why can't I? It was with that kind of expectation that I finally achieved the upgrade."
Zhu Ke also nodded in agreement: "Yes, I think that in order to improve one's personal level, fighting against higher-level monsters is essential."
"Captain Zhu is right. From now on, everyone in our team will have to participate in the battle. Hong and Xiaoxing will serve as support. Next time we hunt, start with low-level exotic beasts. We will assist you from the side."
As if some key words were triggered, everyone fell silent.
Zhou Xiaohua looked around and frowned: "By the way, where's Xiaoxing?"
Everyone looked at each other in silence. Even the lively Li Meng retreated behind the deputy captain Xiao Yihong.
The atmosphere suddenly turned cold. Zhou Xiaohua looked at Xiao Yihong and asked, "Yihong, tell me, where is Xiaoxing?"
Xiao Yihong choked a few times before finally spilling the beans: "He was most likely taken away by the man in the black hat."
"Then why don't you save him?"
Zhou Xiaohua stared at Xiao Yihong, his eyes filled with suspicion and criticism.
After hearing this, Xiao Yihong felt very aggrieved and her eyes couldn't help but turn red, but she still gritted her teeth to suppress the tears that were about to flow.
Did he feel that he had abandoned his teammates and was selfish?
The air froze instantly, and the air pressure dropped to its lowest point. Li Meng could no longer hold back and stepped forward to argue, "Captain, what you said is wrong. Sister Yihong is doing this for the sake of the entire team."
"You know how urgent the situation was. We were exhausted after the catastrophe, and you and Captain Zhu were about to break through. Everyone was so focused on protecting you that they had no energy to focus on anything else."
"When we found out, Wang Xing and the man in the black hat were gone. Where would we go to find them? Besides, that man's strength is definitely higher than yours. What can we do if we go there?"
Although Li Meng's words were aggressive, they woke Zhou Xiaohua up.
He looked at Xiao Yihong apologetically: "I'm sorry, Yihong, I was impatient just now."
Xiao Yihong raised her head, her attitude slightly colder. "It's okay. The captain is also eager to save people. Xiaomeng and I just discussed this. The black hat man only captured Xiaoxing, so he must have known from the beginning that he was a space-based person. Considering the food Xiaomeng lost, it seems that they only captured Xiaoxing for food. His life is not in danger for the time being."
Zhou Xiaohua nodded and wanted to say something when Xiao Yihong turned away. He choked and began to instruct everyone, "Xiaohu and I will stay for now. Everyone else should go back to the shelter. Captain Zhu, we're all relying on you to get back."
"Okay Captain Zhou, please be careful."
Xiao Yihong opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing.
After Wang Xing was knocked unconscious and taken away by the man in the black hat, he came to a place that looked like a rural courtyard.
The village here is full of rustling noises. The roofs and sides of the thatched houses are covered with broad, thick leaves. Each leaf is one meter long and half a meter wide. Judging from the sharp thorns that have been split off from the surface of the leaves, they once belonged to some mutant plant.
Among them, in the large thatched house in the middle of the village, more than a dozen key figures of the village gathered.
The man in the black hat took off his hat as soon as he entered the house, and carefully took off the black mask and put it into his pocket.
Without the obstruction of the hat, his features could be clearly seen. He had a high nose bridge, deep eyebrows, and especially his sword-like eyebrows that were raised high, which made him look very imposing.
This is a very handsome man, the only flaw is that there is a palm-sized blue-black spot on his fair face. Many people in the radiation world have this kind of spot, and they call it radiation spot.
As soon as the man came in, everyone looked straight at him and the stranger who was carried in behind him.
One of the highly respected old men with a cane trembled and said, "Xiaoyi, who is this young man?"
Xiaoyi's original name was Zuoyi. He stared at Wang Xing who was lying on the ground with an expectant look on his face. "Chief, he has a lot of food on him."
The old man tightened his grip on his cane, and the skin around his eyes instantly smoothed out as his pupils dilated. "You mean?"
Zuo Yi didn't say anything. The old man looked at the skinny short man beside him and said, "Thief, tell me!"
"Chief, this is what happened. We found a group of guys while hunting a few days ago. They were all wearing brand new clothes and living in tents we'd never seen before. They also had more food and supplies than we could eat! I sneaked in and stole a few triangles of food. Everyone took a small bite, and the taste was amazing..."
The thief licked his lips, as if he was savoring the aroma of the sandwich from the day before. He chewed that small bite for a long time before he was willing to swallow it.
The old man was still a little worried: "But wouldn't it be bad if we arrested him for nothing?"
Another younger member, the team's spy, Zuo Xiaochuan, pouted and grumbled, "We can't let him go. Our boss saved their lives, they have to repay him in kind!"
The others were afraid that the chief would let the lamb go, so they all spoke in support: "Yes, chief, good people should not suffer any loss. Don't you often say that doing good and accumulating virtue will be rewarded? This is our blessing."
The old patriarch sighed, put on a white rag hat, and slowly walked out with a cane.
If these children didn't do this, thousands of people in the tribe would have starved to death. He is old and can't take care of so many things.
Seeing the old man walking out with several waiters, everyone surrounded the unconscious Wang Xing on the ground and whispered to each other.
"Why hasn't he woken up yet? The boss is being too heavy-handed. It's been hours already."
"He should be fine, right? He wasn't beaten up by the boss!"
As soon as the man finished speaking, the thief slapped him on the head: "You're such a crow, stop talking nonsense."
"Ah, bah, bah, what a sin."
The man in the black hat, Zuo Yi, had been sitting on a wooden chair not far away, but his eyes were always on Wang Xing.
After an unknown amount of time, Wang Xing finally woke up from his coma. He blinked and found himself in darkness. He was startled and began to fumble around with his hands.
He must have been sitting on a piece of land, because he touched the soil, and then he touched a warm object, and could faintly feel the strong beating of blood vessels under his skin.
Wang Xing wanted to continue touching upwards when he heard a scream. The warm object bounced away, and then a flash of light appeared. He also saw the scene in front of him clearly.
There were more than a dozen young men lying in a mess in the small thatched hut. They were awakened by screams and were rubbing their eyes in confusion.
The light came from the object next to him. He was a young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old, relatively short in stature, holding a small, crude homemade candle in his hand.
The candle seemed to be made of some kind of plant colloid and animal feces, and emitted a strong stench.
It was late at night, and everyone had lost their patience after being woken up from a deep sleep. They all complained, "Zuo Xiaochuan, why are you yelling so late at night? Are you going to let us sleep or not?"
Xie Xiaoshuang held the candle high and approached Wang Xing, saying excitedly, "Don't sleep any more, he's awake!"
"Who's awake? Ah, what..."
So everyone lost their sleepiness instantly and surrounded Wang Xing.
They were all combat-type esper, and several of them were high-level. Wang Xing, a mid-level auxiliary-type esper, was alone in the enemy's lair for the first time and could not help but become wary: "Who are you and why am I here?"
"Be sensible, you've been caught by our boss... well." Before he could finish his words, the young man next door had his mouth covered by a skinny short man.
But Wang Xing was sensitive to the key word "caught". He was caught! When? What happened to the captain and the others? Was the mutant spider defeated?
"Hey, you almost died, and it was our boss who saved you. You have to learn to repay your gratitude, understand?"
The thief traced the shape of the sandwich with his hands as he spoke, which was very suggestive.
Wang Xing looked at the skinny short man in front of him in confusion, as if doubting his words. Why did he capture him after saving him? What was he trying to do?
"alright!"
A cold shout was heard, and the crowd immediately made way for him. A tall man stood up and walked over.
Wang Xing raised his head. It was a face he had never seen before, but he knew that this was the benefactor who saved his life at the critical moment because he recognized the iconic black hat.
"It's you? Thank you." Wang Xing said and stared at the man's face.
"Don't talk nonsense. If you really want to thank me, just hand over the food. We owe each other nothing." The man had a handsome face, but the words that came out of his mouth were as painful as a thorn in the flesh.
"What food?" Wang Xing gradually had an answer in his heart, and the gratitude in his heart was slowly dissipating.
The thief couldn't wait any longer and stepped forward to explain: "It's a triangle. It smells really good when you tear open the package. There's meat in the middle, and it tastes really good when you chew it."
Wang Xing said coldly: "No more."
"What? How come it's gone?"
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