Yu Xingqiao manipulated the camera and approached curiously.
In the off-road vehicle, there were two men and two women.
There seemed to be a hole in the car window glass behind them smashed by a rock, and the strong wind mixed with pouring rain kept rushing into the car, and the four of them looked very embarrassed.
"Damn weather!"
A woman sitting in the back complained.
She was wearing a thin long gown, her whole body was already soaked in water, she was wet, her long chestnut hair was dripping with water, and her whole body was trembling slightly in the storm.
Yu Xingqiao rubbed his chin, feeling the power of game modeling again, but...
His cubs are still the prettiest!
"Boom-boom-boom-"
There were stones and dead branches that were blown by the wind and knocked on the car doors and windows. The howling wind outside blew away the woman's cursing.
"Speak less and save your energy."
The man sitting next to her was also wet, but his mental state was obviously better than that of the woman.
The man has a strong body, he looks like a Lianjiazi, and the equipment in the car seems to be quite professional.
So what are these NPCs here for
Yu Xingqiao tilted his head, and unlike other games, none of these NPCs had names on their heads.
He thought it was because the monsters hadn't been named, so he didn't mark them. Only now did he realize that the game doesn't have a name-marking function at all.
This is also too unfriendly to face blindness.
Yu Xingqiao complained, and continued to watch the development of this plot.
Just as the woman was about to say something, the off-road vehicle suddenly stopped.
"Laura, why did you stop?" The woman frowned and looked at the driver's seat.
The driver was a woman with short hair.
She didn't answer, just stared straight ahead.
The other three noticed something was wrong, followed her gaze, and then fell into a daze.
I saw a few stones scattered about tens of meters away from them in the storm. This was an unremarkable scene, but next to these stones, there was...
With an umbrella
The umbrella was about two meters high, and the diameter of the umbrella surface was at least three or four meters, covering several stones.
Even though there was a severe storm blowing, the umbrella stood firmly on the ground without any tilt.
Even the rainwater that flowed down the umbrella formed strings of bead curtains, which fell vertically to the ground, and then scattered towards the surroundings.
And the weirdest thing is, under the umbrella, there is actually a... a cradle
The cradle was still shaking slightly, and they could even see a corner of the white veil covering the cradle being blown up by the wind.
However, the range is very small, as if being lifted by a slight breeze in spring, the whole atmosphere is comfortable and comfortable.
Look at the storm on their side...
The mentality is inexplicably a little broken.
The woman brushed her long wet hair uncomfortably, and whispered: "Then... is that a cradle?"
Her voice trembled a little, and she didn't know whether it was from cold or fear.
"How could there be such an umbrella in this field? And... and that cradle..."
The man sitting in the co-pilot's seat stammered, "We can't be... have some mysterious incident happened?"
As for what kind of mysterious event, just look at his frightened expression.
"Don't talk nonsense."
A short-haired woman named Laura was the calmest of them all.
She pursed her lips and said, "In this world, there are many mysterious existences that we don't know about, and there are many races born with wisdom in the wild."
"You mean an intelligent race?"
Laura shook her head, "I don't know, but to have such a magical ability... we must not offend."
All three people in the car showed signs of approval.
Listening to their conversation, Yu Xingqiao couldn't help but click on the woman named Laura, and paid 10 gold coins to detect her information.
name: laura
Gender: Female
Identity: Research Institute Sample Collector
Strength: Intermediate martial arts
Status: Tired, Hungry
"What do you mean by the sample collector of the research institute?" Yu Xingqiao asked the system.
[It is a high-risk occupation to collect biogeological and other samples in the wild and sell them to research institutes to earn high remuneration.]
Wow, there is such a job
He clicked on the others, and found that they were all similar, only the one in the passenger seat was the guide.
"Then why are they here?"
[passing by]
Yu Xingqiao: "..."
The four people in the game did not leave immediately.
"Laura, let's get out of here first? Maybe there are monsters guarding around..."
The woman didn't go on, a trace of fear appeared in her eyes.
Laura clenched the steering wheel, her face turned pale, and said: "The car can't be driven anymore."
She slammed on the accelerator, but she could only hear the sound of the wheels rolling in place, but the car didn't move at all.
In addition to the sound of the rain, there was no creaking sound.
The two men were on guard and quickly took out their self-defense laser guns.
Looking at this scene, Yu Xingqiao also felt a little nervous. He couldn't help but manipulate the camera, pulled it out of the car, and incorporated the panoramic view into the frame.
It was raining heavily, and it was night again, so the vision was blurred.
Yu Xingqiao hugged the pillow tighter.
"System, what happened to their car? Why can't it run?"
[Look at the back of the car]
Yu Xingqiao swallowed, driven by curiosity, he still adjusted the camera and looked at the rear of the off-road vehicle.
In the misty heavy rain, a pair of eyes with faint green light suddenly appeared on the game screen, startling Yu Xingqiao.
But with the previous experience of being scared by a big octopus, he quickly calmed down this time.
What kind of monster is this again
The two men in the car, wearing raincoats, holding a flashlight in one hand and a laser gun in the other, jumped out of the car.
They looked at each other and moved cautiously to the back of the off-road vehicle.
Under the illumination of the flashlight, the monster holding their car finally revealed its whole picture.
The elongated dark green body lay prone on the ground, and the scales covering the whole body reflected slightly in the light of the flashlight.
Its mouth was open, and its long tongue, as thick as an adult's arm, stretched out, pulling a pole behind the off-road vehicle.
The blood on the faces of the two men disappeared in an instant.
"It's the long-tongue monitor lizard!"
At the beginning, the man who asked the female companion to keep quiet and save his energy shouted loudly, raised his laser gun and shot a shot at the lizard's tongue.
He missed, however, and the lizard quickly withdrew its tongue.
"Drive!" Another man ran back into the car.
However, it still couldn't move—the monitor lizard stretched out its long tongue again and pulled the off-road vehicle.
To their desperation, there was a sound of running——
There was another monitor lizard!
The man who was still outside shot and then ran for his life, but the second monitor lizard didn't chase him. After running a few steps, it turned to look at the off-road vehicle.
Its long tongue flung out, easily smashing the windshield of the off-road vehicle, and amidst the woman's screams, wrapped Laura around and dragged her out of the car.
Laura was calm. She had already held a dagger in her hand, and rolled on the ground the moment she landed. In the torrential rain, she swung the knife intuitively!
Her dagger hit the lizard's long tongue.
The monitor lizard retracted its long tongue in pain.
It's just that her dagger is not sharp enough to cut off the monitor lizard's tongue.
"Boom—boom—"
Behind her, there was the sound of a car engine starting.
Laura looked back sharply, watching her companions in disbelief as they drove away in her SUV.
In the torrential rain, the monitor lizard that had been holding the off-road vehicle loosened its tongue and rushed towards her at a fast speed.
A trace of despair rose in Laura's eyes.
In such a wilderness, there was a violent storm, and she was extremely exhausted physically and mentally. How could she survive in the face of two long-tongued monitor lizards
Her absence lasted only a second.
Before the running giant lizard got close, she ran wildly.
The direction of escape is the umbrella and the cradle!
It's just that her speed was not as fast as that of the monitor lizard. Just after running a few meters away, her ankle was caught by the monitor lizard's long tongue. She fell to the ground with a plop and was dragged back by the monitor lizard.
Long-tongued monitor lizards will not kill their prey immediately, but will drag the living animals back into the cave and eat them up bit by bit, which is very cruel.
"Help! Please help me!"
Laura stuck the dagger into the ground, and after being dragged for a few meters, it finally got stuck on a stone.
She shouted in the direction of the umbrella.
[Ding~trigger side quests [See you on the road]]
[Mission Content: Please assist Zai Zai to save [Laura] from the long-tongue monitor lizard]
[Mission rewards: gold coins x100, number of lucky draws x1, main task progress +0.1%]
Yu Xingqiao has been nervously watching the progress of the plot. When the task box popped up, he realized that he was playing a game, not watching a horror movie.
Huh~
He quietly breathed a sigh of relief, the plot was so realistic and scary.
Suddenly, seeing the reward of +0.1% of the progress of the main task, he couldn't help blinking, and then remembered the content of the main task - to train Zai Zai to become a socialist successor with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, art and labor!
Well, this side quest probably counts as "moral education"
But Zai Zai is sleeping!
Yu Xingqiao took a look at Jun Lu's state, and found that Lan He Ti's values were still very low, and he was still exhausted.
His eyes fell on the miserable female NPC again.
It's quite pitiful, and it's really not good to let it go.
Hey, then he is the only one to make a move.
Yu Xingqiao moved his fingers, and then released Lan from the pet box—he only found out that Xiao Junlu could send Lan into the pet box after reading Zaizai's log.
Zai Zai is so smart!
Lan appeared beside the cradle with a dazed expression.
"Stay here and protect the cub."
A line of small golden characters suddenly appeared in front of it, and Lan couldn't help but startled. It should be illiterate, but when it saw this line of words, it immediately understood what it meant—
Let it stay in place and protect its master.
Lan suddenly became alert, and it also heard movement from the rain curtain.
After Lan settled down, Yu Xingqiao turned his attention to Laura.
Two monitor lizards, one on the left and the other on the right, wrapped her legs with their tongues and were dragging her to their lair.
Laura clenched her teeth and clutched the dagger desperately, her entire lower body hanging in the air.
The palm of her hand was cut by the blade, and the blood was washed away by the rain as soon as it gushed out. The will to survive made her forget the pain for a while.
In her blurred vision, she seemed to see a silver-white figure appearing under the umbrella.
She wanted to ask for help, but as soon as she made a sound, her energy would definitely be vented.
what to do? Do you really want to die here
At this moment, the pulling force on her feet suddenly loosened, and she fell to the ground. Mud and water splashed on her face, but she didn't care to wipe it off, and only looked back.
For some reason, the two monitor lizards rolled on the ground in pain, as if someone was attacking them.
Laura was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly looked in the direction of the umbrella.
The cradle under the umbrella was still shaking gently, and beside the cradle, squatted a silver-white figure.
In the rain, she couldn't see what kind of creature it was, but she knew that it must be the guardian of the cradle who helped her!
Laura looked at the two monitor lizards again.
She gritted her teeth, pulled out the dagger stuck in the ground, and rushed towards one of them.
Yu Xingqiao was poking at the giant lizard when he suddenly saw the female NPC rushing over, the dagger in her hand glowing blue in the night.
She raised the knife in her hand and directly cut open a monitor lizard!
so brutal...
Yu Xingqiao sighed, but his hands didn't stop until Laura killed the second monitor lizard.
However, after the two monitor lizards died, there was no reminder to complete the task of [Seeing the Uneven Road].
Yu Xingqiao was a little puzzled, is it really the reason why Zai Zai didn't participate? But Zai Zai is sleeping, waking him up will affect his health!
Yu Xingqiao couldn't bear to look at the female NPC who fell to the ground exhausted after killing the giant lizard, so he stopped her and dragged her under the umbrella to shelter from the rain.
Seeing that she was drenched, Yu Xingqiao opened the mall and bought her a blanket to cover her.
Lan dutifully crouched beside the cradle.
It tilted its head to look at the woman floating over, and then at the blanket that appeared out of thin air, thoughtfully.
After finishing all this, Yu Xingqiao nodded in satisfaction, and was just about to go to see Zai Zai, when suddenly the phone beeped and a text message appeared.
[Qiaoqiao, why didn't you go online yesterday? Let's play black together, four wait one, come on!]
[okay]
Yu Xingqiao replied habitually, and when he skillfully opened another mobile game, he couldn't help but froze.
Well, just play other games, Zai Zai shouldn't mind, right