Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The Tedramira River branched out into the sea. The fleet of Stardragon and Hesla ships formed a tight blockade and the riverbed of the estuary was also planted with many mines.
Both countries knew the whereabouts of Germinal Evacuation Troop. Stardragon and Hesla regarded this battle as high importance as it was an excellent opportunity to eliminate the Germinal Organization.
The inescapable net had been laid. In the eyes of the two countries, Germinal was a trapped beast; even if it knows there was a hunter trap waiting, it would have no choice but to approach it.
The battlefield was divided into two areas and each country was responsible for each of the two areas. Hesla was mainly responsible for the sea blockade, while Stardragon’s forces were in charge of land interception. This method of co-operation split the responsibility and prevented command conflicts.
Considering the individual combat effectiveness of the Germinal executives, Department 13 also sent secret agents to act as the emergency team and as the assault troop. They would take on special tactical tasks and were waiting at a small dock near the estuary to be dispatched by the army commander.
Zhang Wei’s team was among them.
A row of boats meant for assault had docked neatly, and green military tents were hidden in the grove behind the dock.
Despite the two months, the team did not change much. Zhang Wei was serious as before, Li Yalin was still as sexy as ever, Lin Yao still looked mistreated, and Lambert was as silent as a stone like always.
The only change was the addition of a young new face.
“侯跃,你加入小队一个月,磨炼得差不多,这次任务事关重大,不要出差错.”
“Hou Yue, you have joined for a month now and have been through enough training. This mission is really important, so do not make any mistake.”
Zhang Wei enjoined the newcomer Hou Yue in the team’s tent.
侯跃是个消瘦的青年,腰间插着双枪,一头飘逸洒脱的个性长发,长得有些小帅,闻言点了点头,傲气一笑:”队长你想多了,这一个月来,哪次任务我没有圆满完成?”
Hou Yue was a thin young man. He had two guns around his waist. With a flowy long hair, he was quite handsome. He nodded his head and smiled arrogantly, “Leader, you worry too much! During this past month, which task had I not completed successfully?”
Zhang Wei nodded in agreement. Hou Yue was an agent trained in Department 13 and had filled the vacancy of Han Xiao by joining the team. He had been performing well and did not cause Zhang Wei any worry.
Li Yalin hugged her hands to her chest and sat one side with her legs folded. She was frowning and appeared to be in a bad mood.
The truth was; after Han Xiao had skipped town, the agents who had lost their deposits all came to get their money back and since then, her mood was never good.
侯跃凑了过来,坐在李雅琳身边,笑嘻嘻道:”李大美女,你在想什么呢?”
Hou Yue came over and sat next to Li Yalin. He teased, “Beauty Li, what are you thinking about?”
李雅琳瞪了他一眼,”你是好奇宝宝吗,关你什么事?”
Li Yalin glared at him and retorted, “Are you a curious baby? How is this any of your concern?”
侯跃不依不饶想要套近乎,在入队那天第一眼见到李雅琳,他就被惊艳到了,和美女做队友,赏心悦目,有事没事都找李雅琳搭讪,然而被韩萧坑了一手的李雅琳患上了”新人厌恶症”,一看到侯跃就想到韩萧,自然没有好脸色.
Hou Yue wanted to get close to Li Yalin badly. When he first joined and laid eyes on Li Yalin, he was stunned by her beauty. It pleased him to no end that he was teammates with someone this beautiful. Hence, he frequently tried to strike up conversations with Li Yalin. However, after being fooled by Han Xiao, she developed a strong dislike towards newcomers. Thus, whenever she saw Hou Yue she would think of Han Xiao and naturally, she did not have a good impression of Hou Yue.
李雅琳被他吵得心烦,忽然露出一个危险的笑容,”你很喜欢说话?”
Li Yalin was so annoyed by Hou Yue that she suddenly smiled menacingly, “You love talking right?”
While speaking, she clenched her fists and cracked her knuckles. You could almost see the anger fumes rising from within and forming in her fists.
Hou Yue recoiled immediately. He knew that once Li Yalin showed this expression, she meant to beat people up. When he first joined the team, he had experienced it first hand and spent three days in the medical department.
一边看戏的林鹞摇了摇头,故作老成说道:”小猴,你还是太怂,论胆子我只服萧哥.”
Lin Biao, who was watching from the side, shook his head and feigned maturity, “Little monkey, you are still too terrified. In terms of courage, I only admire Brother Xiao.”
“萧哥到底是谁?”
“Who exactly is Brother Xiao?”
Hou Yue was puzzled. Since joining the team, he had learned that this team’s full strength was six, but there was always one person missing. It was reasonable to cross out those players who were missing but, in this team, the sixth spot was always kept.
而且时不时就能听到张伟四人念叨”萧哥”,侯跃对这个第六人非常好奇.
Also, he could always hear the team speak of “Brother Xiao” from time to time. This made Hou Yue extremely curious about this sixth person.
李雅琳立马炸毛了,怒道:”别在我面前提他的名字!”
Li Yalin exploded immediately and fumed, “Do not mention his name in front of me!”
“咱们任务在身,你可不能揍我!”林鹞一脸镇定,双腿发抖.
“Do not forget we still have a mission to complete, you can’t punch me!” Lin Biao looked composed, but his legs were trembling.
Hou Yue felt that Li Yalin’s reaction was slightly exaggerated. Based on his experience, this was exactly the reaction of a resentful woman who had been abandoned by her man… Hm, maybe a relationship of heavy debt could result in the same reaction as well.
张伟摇了摇头,叹了口气,解释道:”韩萧本来是我们的队员,但因为一些特殊的原因离队了.”
Zhang Wei shook his head and let out a breath and explained, “Han Xiao was originally our teammate, however, he left because of some special reasons.”
“特殊原因?”侯跃发挥想象力,试探问道:”他是被派去执行秘密任务了?”
“Special reasons?” Hou Yue used his imagination and probed, “Was he sent to carry out a special mission?”
Zhang Wei shook his head.
“他是被上头调走到其他部队了?”
“Was he transferred to another team by the superior?”
Zhang Wei shook his head.
“那他去哪了?”侯跃纳闷了.
“Then where did he go?” Hou Yue was bewildered.
“谁知道,八成是死了吧.”李雅琳没好气道.
“He could be dead for all we know.” Li Yalin huffed.
Hou Yue was skeptical.
“骗谁呢,要是真死了,怎么会留着他的位置,你们嘴上说着讨厌,我怎么觉得你们很想念他呢…”
“Who are you kidding? Why keep his spot if he really was dead? You all speak as if you all hate him, but why do I feel like you all actually miss him a lot?”
Silence.
After a long time, Li Yalin stood and smiled slightly.
“选一种死法吧.”
“Choose a way to die.”
Hou Yue scampered off.
Lambert shook his head and kept his sheathed sword.
Stardragon’s infantry army was lying in ambush in the valley near the estuary. The goal is to intercept Germinal’s infantry troops that had come to converge. Luminous Moon, Flash Rice and Jiang Yuluo served as backline support.
The three had joined Stardagon Army during Bettesting but had since changed their professions. Flash Rice and Jiang Yuluo were in the martial arts line while Bright Moon’s character had exploded and awakened his ability using the mall’s DNA.
As recruits, they were also appointed to act as backline support in this battle. What pleased them was that they managed to spark a Camp-destroyer series quest – [The Battle of Tedramira River].
However, they soon became frustrated. This series had more than a dozen targets. They could only complete the few backline support targets in the series which were the simplest and had least rewards. Other tasks such as killing ten Germinal soldiers, assassinating a Germinal executive or destroying transport vehicles were completely beyond their capabilities.
“这好像不是我们的等级应该触发的任务.”明月长终如是说道.
“This does not seem like our level of mission.” Bright Moon grumbled.
Both Flash Rice and Jiang Yuluo agreed. They were drawn into a difficult mission that was totally beyond their current level. Looking at their novice level, it was simply none of their business.
The three of them had no idea that Germinal and the Six Nations had a head-on conflict that happened three months after the beta game. At that time, the players had a basic understanding of the world structure, and they also possessed some combat strength. The conflict between Germinal and the Six Nations started happening on a very small scale, and bit by bit, it enabled players to be involved and had a chance to exhibit.
However, Han Xiao had completely disrupted the whole process. He had brought forward the conflict between the Six Nations and Germinal, leaving the current players totally uncappable of participating. Hm, to be exact, the players had been cheated of their original main quest.
This benefited Han Xiao as it decreased the variables bought by the players.
Whoosh-
Two heavy-duty transport helicopters bearing a Fabian logo landed slowly in a valley; the wind was so strong that the grass at the landing site swayed in all directions like a wave.
“老黑,到站了.”驾驶员安东诺夫有气无力道.
“Old Black, we’ve arrived.” Pilot Antonio lazily called.
“我长了眼睛,还有,别再叫我老黑!”
“I’ve eyes to see. Also, do not call me Old Black!”
韩萧语带不满,”要叫就叫黑幽灵,你瞎叫影响我的运气.”
Han Xiao retorted, “Call Black Phantom if you must, foolishly calling me Old Black will affect my luck.”
安东诺夫摘下降噪耳机,向韩萧喷了口烟,”得了吧,你根本没那种东西.”
Antonio removed his noise reduction earpiece and puffed out a cloud of smoke, “Forget it, you don’t have much luck anyway.”
“滚蛋.”韩萧没好气道.
“Get lost.” Han Xiao said irritably.
In the past two months, Han Xiao had maintained a good working relationship with Fabian, and Antonio’s was warming up to him day by day. If this was an indescribable game, it would be obvious now…
Looking at ball of human flesh on the driver’s seat, Han Xiao hurriedly cleared this horrible thought off his mind.
狂刀怒剑缩在直升机角落,瑟瑟发抖看着两个危险度都是”极度致命”的大佬谈笑风生,他本以为韩萧会开车前往地点,谁知道韩萧只是打了个电话,就有两架直升机来接他们,韩萧在他心里的形象顿时更加高大上.
Fury Blade hid in a corner on the helicopter, shivering while he watched the two ‘extremely deadly’ godfathers talked and laughed merrily. Fury Blade had thought that Han Xiao would drive to their destination but with just a phone call, two helicopters came to pick them up. At this moment, Fury Blade thought even higher of Han Xiao.
Employees from Fabian carried down the supplies from the helicopters, and most items were weapons that Han Xiao had deposited with Fabian. He though he could use these weapons for this mission. There was also a dissembled truck that Fabian’s maintenance team was working on to reassemble the truck. Meanwhile, Han Xiao and Antonio were chatting at one side.
安东诺夫一直以为韩萧只是对悬赏感兴趣,疑惑问道:”我听说星龙海夏准备在泰达米拉阻击萌芽的撤军,你和萌芽有仇么?”
Antonio had always thought Han Xiao was only interested in the bounty, and asked curiously, “I heard Stardragon and Hesla are planning to intersect the retreating Germinal Troops in the Tedramidra River, but what bad blood do you have with Germinal?”
“你怎么知道我帮哪边?”韩萧呵呵一笑.
“How do you know which side I’ll be helping?” Han Xiao chuckled.
安东诺夫一手拿着雪茄,一手插在裤袋里,皱眉沉吟道:”你难道想帮萌芽?”
Antonio held a cigar in one hand, the other tucked in his jeans pocket and frowned, “Are you thinking of helping Germinal instead?”
Although Germinal was big in the underground world, other forces always kept at a respectful distance from them. Ultimately, the underground world preferred to coexist peacefully. Afterall, only a stable situation would lead to profits. Germinal Organization was seen as a group of bandits who used hatred as motivation.
Han Xiao refused to comment and walked to one side. He took out his phone and dialed another number, and the voice of Blood Pact Society’s personnel could be heard.
“黑幽灵先生,请问您有什么需求.”
“Mr. Black Phantom, may I help you?”
Ever since Han Xiao made it to top ten of the killer list, Blood Pact Society valued him greatly and gave him special treatment; there was someone on standby 24-hours to answer his calls and provide special services. Mm, decent and proper services.
Part of the status comes from his capabilities, and the other part was from his good relationship with Bennett, which was valued by the Dark Net Organization.
“我需要萌芽撤离军队与星龙海夏的最新动向.”
“I need the latest movement of both the retreating Germinal Troops as well as Stardragon and Hesla’s troops.
“好的,正在申请调阅,很快会发到您的电脑上.”
“Sure, I’m accessing the documents now, will send it to your computer shortly.”
“嗯,我还需要一架直升机随时在泰达米拉河出海口附近待命.”
“Ok, I also need a helicopter on call at the small dock near the estuary of Tedramira River.”
“如您所愿.”
“As you wish.”
Fury Blade who was listening at one side heard everything clearly. From his tone, he could really feel how powerful and strong Han Xiao was.
After hanging up, Han Xiao noticed Fury Blade who was idling at one side. He thought for a bit and decided to give him a mission that he just came up with.
“你触发任务[嗨起来]!任务要求:跳一段热舞活跃气氛.”
“Your first mission [Get high]! Requirement: Dance sexily to brighten the mood.”
Fury Blade’s face was full of tears.
Ah, the familiar taste of evil pranks!