In the woods, Li Lai cast Light Body Technique on himself and quickly shuttled back and forth between the trees, looking for traces of the fifth team.
Finally, he stopped somewhere in the woods.
There were the most traces here.
Obviously, the fifth team rested here last night. There were rocks on three sides of this place, and there were sparse trees in front of them. It was a good place to rest.
In addition to footprints on the ground, there were some food residue. It could be seen that the fifth team had stayed here for a long time.
But … why were they all gone?
Li Lai floated in the air and once again used the communication device to contact the captain of the fifth team. However, the message was still unanswered.
He did not give up and continued to contact the others.
As the leader, he had everyone's contact number.
However, there was no response.
If he used voice chat, he would be notified that the other party was not in the service area …
His heart was shrouded in a layer of haze.
Especially when he found that there were laser gun bullet marks on the surrounding tree trunks, his mood became even more solemn.
It was obvious that the fifth team had encountered a crisis and now he did not know where they were.
Li Lai gritted his teeth and followed the bullet marks all the way. However, when he was about to plunge into the forest and go deep, his body suddenly stopped.
"Hiss —"
It was a very subtle hissing sound that ordinary people could hardly hear, but Li Lai, who was constantly using the wind element to observe all kinds of movements, still noticed it.
He froze in place. Through the wind element, he heard more subtle sounds —
Accompanying the strange hissing sound was the creaking sound of scales scraping against the trees. It was very soft, but it made Li Lai's hair stand on end.
He forced himself to calm down.
In the wild, only a calm mind could allow him to survive all kinds of crises. Once he fell into panic, he was not far from death.
Finally, Li Lai found the source of the sound.
Just in front of him on a big tree, a yellowish-brown giant snake that almost blended in with the surrounding environment was hanging on the tree trunk.
It was waiting there, waiting for him in the only way.
Its head was hidden among the dense leaves, its slender tongue was gently sticking out, and its huge eyes were staring at him coldly.
If he had just flown over like that, it would have definitely pounced at him in an instant and swallowed him in one bite.
Li Lai had no doubt about this.
With the size of this giant snake's mouth, it could completely swallow an adult man in one bite.
"Thump, thump, thump …"
His heart was beating like a drum, but he didn't choose to turn around and run.
This might anger the giant snake or attract its attention.
He faced it and retreated very slowly. His mind was extremely tense, and the wind elements surrounded him, ready to form a wind shield to protect him at any time.
Fortunately, the giant snake did not attack him.
It stuck out its tongue and stared in his direction without blinking, but it didn't chase after him.
Li Lai did not know how he had safely escaped to the shore. Only when he finally hid in a crack in a rock did he swallow his saliva and gasp for breath.
No one was unafraid of death.
Of course, the exception was the group of warriors with mental issues.
Li Lai strangely relaxed when he thought of the group of braves who were always smiling and never serious at all. His mind, which had crashed, started to think again.
Recalling the encounter just now, he could clearly feel that the giant snake was a three-star beast.
A new Three Star Beast had appeared in the Asmo Mountain Range!
This discovery shook him to the core.
Previously, there was only one Three Star Rock Beast in the Asmo Mountain Range, and it was also a target of his vigilance. However, they were very lucky and did not encounter this Rock Beast along the way.
Now, however, there was an even more powerful one.
After Li Lai found a safe place, he immediately sent the news back to the command center at the border of the Imperial City and reported that the fifth squad was missing.
When he sent the image of the giant snake back to the command center, he also carefully observed it and found that the giant snake's abdomen did not bulge.
According to the snake's characteristics, if it had swallowed the entire fifth squad, its abdomen would definitely not be so flat now.
Even if they had encountered the giant snake, the fifth squad had the wind elementalists. The giant snake's explosive power was strong, but in terms of agility and speed, it should not be comparable to the warriors.
Therefore, the warriors should not have all been eaten by the giant snake. There should be some who escaped, but …
Why couldn't the communication device contact them?
The command center quickly sent back a message —
General Joyce wanted him to return to Orchid City immediately. The Marshal would lead the elementalist engineering team and production team to arrive in a few days. He had already applied to the Marshal that he could follow them back to the Imperial City.
As for the fifth squad … Not a word was mentioned.
Li Lai understood what General Joyce meant — give up on the fifth squad and return as soon as possible.
His eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
The fifth squad had a total of 32 people, how could he give up just like that?
With trembling hands, he sent a communication request to General Joyce, and the other party also picked up his voice call.
"General Joyce …"
Just as Li Lai opened his mouth, General Joyce's voice faintly sounded.
"Li Lai, this mission, you have done very well." He whispered, "A total of 192 people escorted the target to Orchid City, a total of 128 people survived."
"This is already a very good survival rate. I have seen your performance along the way. When you return, I will personally award you."
In the past escort missions, the death rate was definitely more than half, but this time, Li Lai's completion rate was enough to be said to be excellent.
However, Li Lai was not happy.
He knew that this was not because of how good he was, this was entirely because of the brave warriors' sacrifice …
"General Joyce, those 23 soldiers and 9 brave warriors … Are we not going to save them?"
Li Lai lowered his voice. He suddenly thought of something and hurriedly said, "I left the flight monitor, General Joyce, what happened to them? Why did they disappear? "
General Joyce paused and whispered, "They were attacked by interstellar beasts in the middle of the night and fled into the jungle. At some point, the flight monitor lost contact."
"There is no light at night, according to the monitor image, we can't distinguish the last place they disappeared. Maybe they have already died."
"But I didn't find any bodies here …" Li Lai said anxiously.
"Even if there are no bodies, what do you think the chances of them surviving in the Morris Mountains are?"
General Joyce's calm and almost indifferent voice sounded.
Li Lai couldn't help but be stunned.
He raised his eyes and looked at the lush primitive forest in the distance through the gap in the stone.
It was not impossible, but …
It was very, very small.
"So, return to Orchid City."
General Joyce said, "Sacrifice is inevitable. The Empire still needs you. You are about to be promoted to two-star, and you are a very good Elementalist. There are many people waiting for you to save in the future. "
Li Lai hung up the call in a daze.
He quietly stayed in the gap in the stone, and there was a sparkling liquid falling from the corner of his eyes. He raised his hand to cover his eyes.
If …
He did not leave them on the other side yesterday. If he insisted on letting them cross the river, would the result be different?
"Buzz —"
His communication device vibrated, and someone called.
Li Lai quickly wiped his eyes, looked at the caller ID on the communication device, and chose to answer the call.
"Xiaocheng." He lowered his voice to hide the strangeness in his voice.
"Brother, I heard from Wen Jishan that you have arrived at Orchid City? Did everything go well? "Li Zheyu's voice sounded from the other side.
Li Lai responded with an "Ah".
"Marshal went to Orchid City, you come back with him. We brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, let's go eat and drink milk tea."
"You have been in the army all this time, so you probably haven't drunk milk tea. It was developed by His Majesty, and there are several stores in the Imperial City."
Li Lai listened to his hearty words and smiled, "Okay, but I may have something to do here, so I will go back after a while."
Although he tried to hide it, his voice was still a little choked, and he did not know if the person on the other side heard it.
"What is it?"
"Military secrets."
Li Zheyu on the other side was silent for a moment, and asked, "Did His Majesty ask you to catch the traitor?"
Li Lai was stunned, traitor?
He had some doubts in his heart, but at this time he could only follow his brother's words and said, "This is your own guess."
"Ah, okay." Li Zheyu said, "Then be careful, pay attention to your safety, I only have one brother, don't hang up."
"I know, you protect His Majesty well, don't make any mistakes."
Li Zheyu nodded on the other side.
"Okay, then I will hang up first, I have something to do."
"Okay."
Looking at the original image on the communication device, Li Lai sniffled, and his expression became firm.
Xiao Cheng, I am sorry.
He crawled out of the crack in the rock and continued to look for clues in the surroundings.
If they were alive, he wanted to see them, and if they were dead, he wanted to see their bodies. If he left them in the wild and went back like this, he was afraid that he would feel guilty for the rest of his life.
The players did not know that Lieutenant Colonel Li Lai was in trouble. They drove the hover car, carefully avoiding all kinds of wild monsters, and stopped at a low-lying place.
This time they went out to kill monsters, and they also did a live broadcast.
There were already people on the forums who recorded the route and made it into a guide. These were the valuable assets of the second beta players.
As famous people in the gaming circle, the professional players did not mind making the guide public, and there were even some who were particularly active and would go down to correct some mistakes.
After stopping the car, the players used branches and leaves as cover. This car was not theirs, so they could not put it in their backpacks.
The system gave them a transportation tool bag, and there were two places where transportation tools could be stored, but it was limited to the bindings. This hover car was loaned to them by the army, and they would have to return it later.
Not to mention, this car was so tattered that they did not want it.
After burying the car, they moved carefully in the forest.
Finally, they could kill monsters!
The players were very excited. Fighting in games was more exciting.
The Imperial City players had experience in following the escort team, and they had also encouraged the NPCs to help them kill monsters, so when they were in the wild, Xu Yuheng handed the command to Gentle Yan.
Not all the Imperial City players came out. Only the professional players in the team came out, and there were about 40 of them.
As for the other normal players, many were still offline. They probably had not gone offline for too long and were tied up with their daily lives, or they did not want to play the game at the moment.
However, the professional players were different. This was a job, and they had to do it even if they did not want to.
More than a hundred people were divided into ten small teams by Gentle Yan.
The game did a good job with the voice system. The team could be divided into small teams, and they could even temporarily block the voice in the team channel, so that they would not interfere with each other, and they could stay as a whole.
After splitting up, the players were like clay oxen in the sea, and they were not very eye-catching in the vast wilderness.
Soon, a small team had their eyes on a one-star beast.
The ten of them were still able to fight a one-star beast, but how to not attract a large group of helpers after killing the monster was a problem that needed to be solved.
The ten players carefully observed and discussed in the team channel. They did not know that above their heads, someone was also observing them.
In the dark room of the Imperial City's bedroom, Xu Sili controlled the flying monitor and observed the players through the screen.
He was very concerned about the players' first time in the wilderness.
He could almost guess that in the future, this wilderness would belong to the players, and these interstellar beasts would be the players' experience points and materials.
Xu Sili had nothing to do, so he watched the players' "live broadcast" to see if this group of people could be called the "fourth disaster."
Outside the protective barrier, the interstellar beasts moved in groups of three or two, and they were not far from each other. Now, they had to think of a way to lure the interstellar beasts away one by one and defeat them one by one.
The first small team began to move.
A hundred meters away from them, there was a group of interstellar beasts that looked like rhinoceroses.
According to the information obtained from Li Lai, these one-star beasts called rhinoceroses were herbivores. Their movements were slower, but their charging ability was superb.
The huge horns on their heads were enough to knock down a hundred-year-old tree. Anyway, with the players' low HP, they would definitely die with just a scratch.
Between the short bushes, a rhinoceroses leisurely walked around, tearing at the leaves on the bushes.
Its eyes were red. Although it was a herbivore, it did not mean that it had a gentle temper.
At this time, a small stone flew from the bushes not far away and hit its head.
For the rhinoceroses, this attack did not cause much damage, but it was enough to enrage it.
It lowered its head, and white turbid air came out of its nostrils. Then, it roared angrily and charged toward the striped beast that was not far from the rhinoceroses.
This unexpected attack sent the striped beast flying.
Lying in the grass in the opposite direction, the players in charge of luring the beasts saw this scene. Many question marks appeared on their heads.
Damn it, was this rhinoceroses blind?
The stone was clearly thrown from the front, so why did it run to attack the striped beast behind it?
Moreover, this was not the end.
After the striped beast was sent flying, it did not die. It struggled on the ground for two hours before shaking its head and standing up.
Then, it looked at the rhinoceroses, and its eyes turned red.
"Roar, roar, roar —"
It raised its head and howled, calling for its friends. Then, it gathered a large group of striped beasts and all rushed toward the rhinoceroses, looking like they were going to tear the rhinoceroses apart.
Seeing this scene, the irritable rhinoceroses were not stupid. It turned around and ran. Following this rumbling sound of footsteps, another set of footsteps sounded —
It turned out that the rhinoceroses saw that someone was bullying them and also organized to participate in the battle.
One by one, the ferocious interstellar beasts collided with each other, flying all over the sky, and bleeding from the collisions.
The player who was lying in the bushes was still holding a stone in his hand. He looked at this scene from afar and opened his mouth wide in shock, dumbfounded.
Xu Sili, who was observing with the monitor, also felt a little surprised when he saw what was happening.
The interstellar beasts …
They were more ferocious than he had imagined.
This was on the plains, so the danger level was much lower than in the forest. But this way of fighting in groups, who could withstand it?
However …
Now there were players!
"Eight Gods, 666, I asked you to lure the beasts. How did it become a large-scale fight scene?"
"Eight Gods is awesome! As expected of you! "
"Hahahaha, I'm going to die of laughter. A murder case caused by a stone! 6666”
The player called Eight Gods was lying in the grass, listening to the ridicule of his teammates in the channel. He could not help but roll his eyes.
He was a dark-type warrior and was good at hiding. The fight between the two groups of interstellar beasts would not affect him.
"Captain, what do we do now?" he asked in a low voice in the channel.
With this, the players of the other teams could not move easily. This was because other types of interstellar beasts were also involved. The scope of this nonsensical "fight" was gradually expanding.
"Let's stir up trouble." At this time, Qingyan's voice sounded in the team channel.
This was the authority of the team leader. Even the players who had temporarily blocked the team channel could hear it.
"Even if we die, we can revive on the spot," Qingyan said.
"There are two main factors that affect the amount of EXP gained in Team Mode — damage output ranking and fatal damage dealt to monsters."
"For example, the last hit will double the experience gained."
Qingyan licked her lips. "The current chaotic mode is advantageous to us. We can find the opportunity to deal the final blow. When the chaotic battle is over, the corpses of these interstellar beasts will also be a huge amount of wealth."
If they were to rely on them to kill the interstellar beasts one by one, how long would it take to empty the HP bars of these one and two-star beasts? Moreover, these beasts liked to move in groups.
This kind of chaotic battle was a good opportunity to gain experience and kill!
Qingyan had always been a crazy person. This kind of exciting scene would only make her excited.
"Eight Gods, go and create more bloodshed."
"There are other dark-type martial artists. You can learn from Eight Gods. Remember, the more chaotic it is, the greater our chances!"
Everyone thought about it and felt that this was a good idea.
After all, they could revive on the spot if they died. They just had to wait for half an hour. As long as they caused enough damage before they died, they would be able to share the experience.
Take a gamble and trade bicycles for motorcycles!
F * ck them!
Everyone was not lacking in gambling, especially when the benefits were large enough and the losses were within the acceptable range.
All the players were excited, including Eight Gods who had "Divine Stroke".
After Qingyan gave the order, he turned into a shadow again and moved closer to Orchid City. He moved closer to the interstellar beasts that were watching them but were not preparing to participate.
Although they were excited, they did not lose their minds.
If they attracted powerful interstellar beasts from afar and caused them to crash into Orchid City's protective array, they would have to apologize with their lives.
The Cloud Players who were watching the livestream had never seen such a big scene other than in movies.
In other online games, large-scale scenes like this could be disconnected at any minute, not to mention various delays and frame drops. However, when they watched the livestream, they could clearly feel that it was smooth as usual.
"This game is too awesome! When will the gaming helmet come out? I want to play it! "
"The open beta will be at least next year. Isn't there still a second beta?"
"F * ck, let's just release the game! I want to play it. If they kill all the monsters, how are we going to fight in the future? "
"If I may ask, isn't the game mechanics of Starry Age very unfriendly? Why do you all want to play it so much? "
"Big brother, aren't you watching the livestream? Aren't you excited to see this scene? Don't listen to the brainwashing of those marketing accounts. You have to have your own judgment. "
"Yeah, it's only the first beta. What are you talking about? It's not the open beta. Even if there are bugs, the open beta can be updated and improved! This is an epoch-making holographic online game! "
It wasn't clear whether they were paid posters or people who asked sincerely, but as soon as they said that, they were scolded by the Cloud Players and didn't dare to say anything else.
There were indeed many brainwashing articles about Star Age on the Internet, but Star Age's base in the gaming circle was stable. Because of this wave of defamation, more people knew about this game.
It could be considered a blessing in disguise as a wave of advertising was done.
Looking at the game again, the player who was luring the monsters successfully angered two galactic beasts.
Looking at the four galactic beasts attacking each other, even the ground was shaking. Not only was the player not afraid, but he continued to cause trouble further away.
[Player [Light Face] dealt a critical hit to [Rhinoceros Horned Beast LV10]. Experience doubled.]
[Player [Day] assisted in killing [Striped Beast LV11] …]
[…]
Notifications kept refreshing in the team channel, and soon, the screen was flooded with messages.
Players kept leveling up, but there were also players who couldn't dodge in time and were crushed or flattened by galactic beasts.
Araiko hid in the tree and shivered as she broadcasted.
She was a water type player, and the only skills she had learned were Healing Stream and Water Mist. Other than support, she didn't have any offensive abilities, so naturally, she didn't think about stealing monsters from below.
However, her level was considered very high among the players, at level 12.
Because she was in the Water Healing Division, Li Lai and the other NPCs took care of her during the escort. Also, using Healing Stream gave her experience, so she gained quite a lot.
Looking at the chaotic battle below, her timid nature didn't want to go down and join in the fun at all.
"Araiko, don't be a coward. Daddy will give you a rocket launcher, go down and charge! Don't be a coward! "
"Hahaha, I like to see Araiko like this."
"Caitou, don't listen to them. Just hide in the tree and watch the show."
"By the way, Araiko, pull the camera closer to the right. Wow, there are two handsome players there!"
Araiko blinked. Seeing this request, she looked at the battlefield on the right with some curiosity.
That was where the battle had started, and where the battle was the most intense. Because the smell of blood was the heaviest, the galactic beasts were all ferocious.
Of course, the rhinoceroses were very ferocious to begin with.
In this chaotic battlefield, there were two elegant figures shuttling back and forth, harvesting a dying striped beast in a few moves. The light of leveling up continuously rose from their bodies.
Xu Sili had long since recovered from the battle and noticed the two figures.
He couldn't not notice them, because one of them was his second brother, Xu Yuheng.
He was dressed in green, and the glasses on the bridge of his nose made him look gentle and cultured. However, the ruthlessness in his eyes and the calmness and lack of mercy when facing the interstellar beast made people not dare to look at him clearly.
Green wind elements gathered around him.
He moved horizontally in the air, the longsword in his hand stabbing out continuously. He either dealt the final blow or attacked the weak points of the galactic beasts, causing critical damage one after another.
Beside him, there was a young man in linen yellow clothes.
His body was also enhanced with Light Body Technique, and he cooperated with Xu Yuheng tacitly. As he moved, he played with the Green Vine Technique and the dagger in his hand.
This was definitely a high-level player!
And not a high-level player in the traditional sense.
Like traditional mobile game players, they had game awareness and were ahead of other ordinary players. However, in a holographic game, game awareness alone was not enough.
It could only help you clear the level faster and find the correct strategy faster. However, participating in a battle often tested your motor nerves and combat awareness.
For example, although Xu Yuheng and Bai Feng were only LV5 — of course, they were now more than that — they could fight battles that other LV10 Imperial City players might not be able to achieve.
"Ahhh, Yu Shen is so handsome!"
"F * ck, I didn't expect Yu Shen to be so fierce in a fight despite looking so gentle."
"Who's the person fighting with him? That fight is so good, it's like watching a martial arts movie. "
"Wind God! Yu Siqing's vice-captain is also very awesome! "
Xu Sili could not see the bullet screen, but he felt that if this scene was recorded and uploaded to the forum, his second brother would probably attract a lot of fans.
This was also quite good.
After all, his second brother had established a mercenary group. If he made a name for himself, he could attract more experts in the future. As for whether his second brother was in the mood to manage the mercenary group well …
Let's talk about that later.
As Xu Sili thought about this, his gaze was quickly attracted by something else.
Not far from his second brother, a shadow quietly approached. Then, under his gaze, the shadow transformed into a hand, raised a laser gun, and secretly fired a shot.
Xu Yuheng stabbed a striped beast's head with his sword, ending its life. However, after the interstellar beast crashed to the ground, he received an experience notification —
[Assisted kill of [Striped Beast LV10], experience gained …]
'Assisted kill?'
He frowned and did not have time to think about it, so he continued to fight.
However, when the third assist kill notification popped up, Xu Yuheng finally became vigilant. He realized —
"Ding dong —"
At this moment, his communication device rang with a message notification.
Xu Yuheng blinked. Who would use the communication device to contact him at this time? Could it be Xiao Wu?
While controlling the wind elements and dodging the interstellar beast's attacks like a leaf, he glanced at the communication device.
[Anonymous]: (333,158), someone is kill-stealing.
Looking at this message, Xu Yuheng's heart skipped a beat. He was distracted and was almost hit by the rhinoceros horn beast.
He hurriedly used Flight to fly into the air.
Anonymous …
Other than Xiao Li, who else would give him this kind of message? It even included coordinates.
So …
Xiao Li was in Lan Yue City? Was he watching him from nearby? Or did Xiao Wu send the message to him?
Xu Yuheng's heart surged with questions one after another, but he knew that now was not the time to think about these things.
Someone was kill-stealing, and they even stole three of his kills!
How could he tolerate this?
He did not have a very good temper. He was very dissatisfied with the fact that he had worked so hard to get down to a sliver of health, but in the end, his kill was stolen.
So as soon as he turned around, he charged toward the coordinates sent by the anonymous person.
Because he was vigilant, his sharp eyes saw the shadow hiding in the grass. A hand holding a gun popped out from the shadow, and the muzzle was pointed in Bai Feng's direction.
Obviously, when the kill-stealer saw that he was not moving, he turned his attention to Bai Feng.
Xu Yuheng pursed his lips, and a trace of anger surged in his black eyes.
He raised his long sword and quickly flew toward the shadow.
The shadow also noticed him. The shadow quickly gave up on Bai Feng's kill and fired a shot in Xu Yuheng's direction.
Xu Yuheng dodged to the side and easily dodged the laser bullet. Although he was unscathed, his speed was inevitably reduced.
This was obviously the shadow's purpose.
When Xu Yuheng dodged, the shadow had already quickly put away the laser gun and wriggled deeper into the forest at full speed. He was about to escape.
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