Chapter 257: Trying to be a drag but ended up being an assist
While they were playing and resting, Hua Qiao, who was standing at the outermost edge, suddenly called for attention.
The few people who were originally in a relaxed state suddenly jumped up, jumped onto the mecha, drew their weapons, stood back to back to form a defensive circle, and looked in the direction of the noise with full readiness.
The dense jungle seemed to be pushed open by something, and the green vegetation slid to both sides like Moses parting the sea. With the rustling sound of approaching, a silver-armored climbing beast suddenly emerged. It looked similar to a pangolin, but its size was much larger than the pangolin Rongzhen had imagined. One was as big as an adult wild boar, and its destructive power was comparable to that of a wild boar.
Chen Xingyuan's eyes lit up when he saw it emerge. He gave the order, "Hua Jiao remains on guard. Hai Chao, follow my attack. Remember to show mercy. Hit it, don't kill it. Injure it, and let it lead us back to the nest!"
He had already read the information on the clue. The next task was to find a white stone mountain and successfully plant the team flag, which would unlock the subsequent actions.
Albinos often build their nests and live in Baishi Mountain. They are social animals. When one of them is bullied outside and cannot fight back, it will crawl back to its nest to ask for help.
In addition, since this climbing animal dared to leave the group and wander here alone, it means that the Baishi Mountain where they live is nearby.
There is no route map in the clue. Instead of groping for the way forward by locating it on the optical computer, it is better to follow this climbing beast and take a shortcut to a relatively safe path.
When Chen Xingyuan saw the creeper pop up, he immediately made up his mind and arranged his teammates to perform their duties and cooperate with him to beat the creeper that had sneaked out to play, making it run away in panic and turn around and run home quickly.
Seeing this, Rong Zhen and the others immediately followed, launching a few attacks from behind from time to time.
Half an hour later, the climbing beast brought them to the foot of a white stone mountain standing in the jungle.
As far as the eye can see, Baishi Mountain is not very high. The highest point is only one peak higher than the big tree next to the mountain. That is where the climbing beasts hatch their eggs, and it is also the destination of the Starry Sky Team.
The three mechas began to climb up the mountain without stopping. The climbing beast that led the way had already disappeared through their unique mountain passage.
Rong Zhen and his group could not follow it to take the shortcut, because if they were not careful they would be killed inside the mountain by the reinforcements brought by the other side.
Just in case, it would be better for them to climb outside the mountain with the advantage of the mecha.
The mecha has its own hook. Although it is huge, its movements are agile enough under human operation, and it successfully climbed to the top of the mountain before the sun sets.
During this time, some climbing beasts that came out to explore discovered them, and would harass and attack them from time to time, trying to prevent them from invading their nest.
But sorry, their mission required it to be like this, and all the mole beasts that came one after another were picked up and thrown onto the mountain, then instinctively curled up into a ball and rolled down.
Until the top of the mountain was in sight, three tall mechas surrounded the small mountain peak in the middle. The climbing beasts, out of concern, did not dare to move forward to interfere, and only scattered around and watched their actions from afar.
"Go down and plant the flags and take pictures. Be careful not to damage the nests and eggs of the creepers." Chen Xingyuan said and jumped off the mecha first.
The top of Baishi Mountain was hollowed out by a climbing beast. Natural light sparsely sprinkled down from the top of the cave, falling on a large round nest made of dry branches and grass leaves at the bottom of the cave. The nest was filled with lime-colored eggs, each the size of an ostrich egg.
These are the eggs that are being hatched by the herd of climbing beasts, and they are also the protective amulets for Rong Zhen and the others to rest here tonight.
As long as the herd of climbing animals takes care of these eggs and Rong Zhen and others do not do anything to harm them, they can spend the night in peace and can even get the protection of the herd of climbing animals. Otherwise, it may be a fight to the death.
That's why Chen Xingyuan gave that special reminder.
The other three people agreed after hearing this, but only Rongzhen was ready to take action after hearing this.
According to the procedure, they planted the flag of the Starry Sky Team at the highest point of the cave, and then the five team members took a group photo in front of the flag and uploaded it to the competition judging panel. After the supervisor reviewed it and confirmed it was correct, a roar suddenly sounded on the public page of the light computer, announcing it to the whole audience.
[The Starry Sky Brilliant Team has completed the first stage of the mission. All team members will receive a bonus of 10 points, and the team's points will be increased by 50!]
[The Starry Sky Brilliant Team has completed the first stage of the mission. All team members will receive a bonus of 10 points, and the team's points will be increased by 50!]
[The Starry Sky Brilliant Team has completed the first stage of the mission. All team members will receive a bonus of 10 points, and the team's points will be increased by 50!]
After three loud and bold announcements, Rong Zhen's team became famous among major universities and teams. Although the team was already well-known before the competition because its leader was Chen Xingyuan, who came from a commanding family, no one expected that Chen Xingyuan could achieve such results so quickly without carefully selecting his teammates.
What does this mean? It means that he is really capable, and randomly selecting teammates is not as simple as it seems.
Kong Haichao proudly shook his flowing blue hair and said smugly, "Before I came here, my aunt tried to stop me from joining the Starry Sky Brilliant Team, saying it was just a temporary hobby group for Chen Xingyuan and he didn't want me to get involved. But, hey, I think I had better taste!"
Chen Xingyuan finished handling the team's affairs on the computer screen. Upon hearing this, he raised his hand and said, "Our team was able to take the lead this time, thanks to the active cooperation of all teammates, and we were lucky. We didn't encounter much trouble at the beginning."
"I heard that the captain has a bad mouth. This feels like a flag-raising remark." Lin Sen and Rong Zhen stood side by side and whispered a gossip to her.
Hua Qiao, who was standing at the back, also heard it and looked in surprise at Chen Xingyuan who was still summarizing the mission in front of him.
Rongzhen, who had just finished a little action, said: "...Haha, these are all rumors."
But she seemed to want to verify it for him soon.
That's really naughty, boy.
Just as Chen Xingyuan finished his summary, a small stone rolled out from somewhere and unfortunately hit a reptile egg.
Then the eggshell, which looked very hard, suddenly shattered, and the fishy egg liquid flowed all over the floor.
It turned out to be a dead egg that had been hatched badly. No wonder it could be easily broken by a small stone.
But the climbing beasts didn't think so. When they smelled the egg liquid outside, they started to go crazy, thinking that the two-legged beasts occupying their nests were unethical and deliberately killed their hatching cubs!
What's there to hesitate about now? Charge—fight—
The climbing beasts no longer had any scruples, and gathered towards the top of the mountain in anger and rage, and the battle was about to break out.
The few people who were originally stunned by the sudden scene before them reacted quickly, got into the mecha and began to guard the entrance of the cave to fight against the attacking creepers.
Rong Zhen, as usual, stayed in Hua Qiao's mecha cabin when he heard Captain Chen Xingyuan say over the team chat, "Although this incident was unexpected, it also coincides with our upcoming operation. I've just received the initial mission for the second phase, which is to capture one hundred Creeper Beasts, preferably alive."
As he said this, he had already controlled his lightweight mecha and subdued four or five adult reptiles that rushed towards him with great ease.
If there are 100 of them, and they are divided among three mechas, there will be about 30 of them on each mecha, which is not a lot.
Rong Zhenmo felt that her hindering behavior had helped them twice.
The combined fortunes of the male and female protagonists are truly terrifying!
"Got it, Captain, watch me, I'm going to exert my strength!" Kong Haichao responded actively at the first moment, turning into a fighting maniac, pulling out a special long stick and sweeping it across. Several of the climbing beasts besieging him were knocked unconscious by his brute force.
Lin Sen, who was huddled together with him, shook his head as he watched, "You're wasting too much energy. We need to be more clever, not brute force."
Kong Haichao knew it, but he didn't listen. He was asked to warm up first and feel comfortable first.
Hua Qiao is still developing secretly, so naturally she can't use her brother's special skills. However, she is also prepared. She quickly takes out the ionization gun on the mecha, turns down the voltage, and shoots a ball of white electric light at the heads of the rushing climbing beasts, knocking out one of them with one shot.
The cute creatures that were electrocuted fell over with their scales exploded, and in a short while, a large group of them were knocked down.
When Rongzhen came back to her senses and saw it, she gave her a thumbs up in admiration.
No matter whether the cat is black or white, a cat that can catch mice is a good cat. Although the heroine's fighting power is not high at present, she knows how to do her job. Look how well she does it. No wonder she didn't arouse any suspicion from other members of the team before she practiced her skills.
Only three hundred of them, captured quickly.
Of course, when they felt the number was almost enough and they stopped, there were not many living reptiles left at the scene. Except for those lying on the ground, the rest were all scared away.
Rongzhen and Linsen helped count them and found that there were more than three hundred.
Chen Xingyuan immediately recorded the results and submitted the task, obtaining the corresponding points and the next roadmap.
Next, they need to rush to a lake deep in the jungle and find the task cards hidden under the lake in advance by the event organizers.
There were three other teams that reached this point at about the same time as them. It seemed that the other college teams were greatly stimulated by the announcement of their previous first kill, and they all sped up in an attempt to catch up with them.
Lin Sen couldn't help but suggest, "Captain, we have the advantage of being closest. Why don't we skip the night and rush ahead at full speed?"
Kong Haichao agreed very much and was so excited that he wanted to get another excellent result and let all the teams chasing them fail.
Rong Zhen disagreed. "From what I understand, the lake is quite vast. Finding a card there is like looking for a needle in a haystack. So, it doesn't matter whether we arrive early or late. Compared to other teams, we have ample time to recover and rest, so we can enter tomorrow's competition with full energy."
When several teams face off, there will inevitably be a fierce battle, and the side in better condition will definitely have a greater chance of winning.
As for whether Rongzhen has any selfish motives in this, hehe, only she knows.
Hua Qiao glanced at the tired look on Rong Zhen's face, then after careful consideration, decided to support her. "We've been running all day, only taking a short break at noon. Now that our initial goal has been achieved, there's no need to waste energy racing against time. That will only lower our performance. Even if we find the mission card ahead of time, we won't be able to resist the snatching of other teams. Wouldn't that be like giving someone else a wedding dress in vain?"
While they were searching hard in the lake, other teams arrived and waited by the lake. In a three-to-one situation, the chances of keeping the fruits of their labor were slim.
Finally, Chen Xingyuan made a decision: "It's nine o'clock in the evening now. We will rest for eight hours and set off on time at five o'clock tomorrow morning."
It was an hour's journey and we arrived at the lake at exactly six o'clock, which was a good time to go down to the lake and look for our target.
"Great!" teammates cheered.
Rong Zhen immediately jumped out of the mecha and was able to move freely outside. Who would want to be squeezed in a cramped mecha cabin and unable to move?
Hua Qiao followed closely behind and accidentally dropped a small metal box. After it fell to the ground, several capsule-shaped pink pills rolled out of it.
One of them happened to roll right under the feet of Chen Xingyuan who had just gotten off the mecha, causing him to pause, bend down to pick up the pill and the metal box, and walk over.
After Hua Qiao discovered this, she froze and stood there frantically thinking of a remedy.
Unexpectedly, Chen Xingyuan walked right past her and walked towards Rong Zhen, who was standing with her back to him. He stretched out his finger and tapped Rong Zhen's shoulder and said, "You dropped your things, Yun Zhen Zhen."
"What?" Rongzhen turned around with a puzzled look.
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