When the members of Team 321 suddenly received a notification on their smart wristbands that their team had accepted the Geng Grade mission to find the rare plant Blood Kirin in the Exotic Beast Forest, they were all dumbfounded.
Li Fu immediately made a holographic video call to Ye Shijie, yelling, "Captain! Are you crazy?! Anyone who takes that crappy mission is an idiot! I'm declaring in advance that I absolutely will not participate! — If you want to go, go by yourself! Don't drag our whole team down with you!"
Ping Qiong also joined the call, fuming, and said repeatedly, "Captain! I'm with Li Fu! Absolutely not going! Have you considered our team at all?! Such high difficulty, such low reward, are our lives so worthless?!"
Song Mingqian was the third to join. He flipped his long bangs and said in a deep and resolute voice, "You all call me 'Money-for-Life'! That's because as long as I can make money, I'm willing to risk my life! But a mission that risks my life and doesn't make money, I absolutely won't go! — Captain, if you really insist on going your own way, I can apply for a transfer!"
Ye Shijie was also dumbfounded at this moment.
After being scolded by his three teammates, he said with a cold face, "I said long ago that anyone who takes this kind of lousy mission is an idiot! — Do you think I'm that kind of idiot?!"
Li Fu almost blurted out the words "You are"!
Fortunately, he reined himself in under Ye Shijie's glare and muttered, "...Well, who knows? People make mistakes, horses stumble... You never know..."
"Li Fu, say that again!" If it weren't for the three-dimensional holographic video call, Ye Shijie could really kick this bear-like Li Fu to the North Side Exotic Beast Forest!
Just when they were about to fight, Xia Chujian joined the video call.
Actually, Xia Chujian knew as soon as Li Fu made the video call to Ye Shijie.
Because Li Fu was using the team channel and not privacy mode, everyone in the team could see when someone was making a call.
She didn't want to get involved at first, planning to send a group message to everyone to explain after they had calmed down.
But she didn't expect everyone to react so strongly, even scolding the captain...
She felt sorry for everyone and couldn't let Captain Ye Shijie take the blame.
Therefore, she joined the call before Ye Shijie was about to fight Li Fu: "Everyone, stop arguing, don't blame the captain, I accepted it."
She didn't dare to look at everyone's eyes, lowered her head and said quickly, "I'll go alone, you don't have to go. I'm serious. If I complete it, I'll split the reward with everyone. If I fail, the association won't have any penalties, you don't have to bear any risks."
After speaking, she decisively logged off.
For three years, her teammates had always taken good care of her.
She didn't want to drag everyone into this thankless task.
Moreover, according to the rules of the Dark Night Hunter Association, even if a mission is accepted in the name of the team, it doesn't actually require the entire team to carry it out.
It is allowed for one person to go, but accepting the mission must be done as a team. However, how to act after accepting it is decided by the team itself.
But she really wanted to go to the Exotic Beast Forest to find Kong Sang.
Accepting this Blood Kirin mission was just to find Kong Sang better.
Because accepting missions issued by the association allows you to receive equipment matching the mission for free, without having to pay for it yourself.
In places like the Exotic Beast Forest, without equipment, even high-level Gene Evolvers would be courting death.
Xia Chujian still had to save her aunt's life, so she couldn't send her own life first.
So she borrowed the team's name.
Xia Chujian looked down at the mission description on her smart wristband.
There was a picture of the Blood Kirin on it.
The Blood Kirin is a rare plant, and its only growing place is on the edge of the far North Side of the Exotic Beast Forest, which requires a constant temperature low enough, but not so low that no life can grow.
Its appearance is similar to a succulent plant, with a cyan-green color and a peculiar shape, like the legendary Kirin beast.
When its fleshy stem is cut open, the juice that flows out is red, like blood.
Therefore, it is named "Blood Kirin".
Every year from November to March of the following year is its maturity period.
And Kong Sang, an even rarer plant, was not mentioned at all in the Dark Night Hunter Association's mission.
Xia Chujian had only seen pictures of it in Academician Tantai's paper that Shen Junyi had downloaded for her in the afternoon.
It was a herbaceous plant that looked so weak that it seemed a gust of wind could blow it away. The plant was slender, and the leaves were like orchid leaves, but half as short as orchid leaves.
The petals were misty, with a hint of pale pink in the moon white, looking very unreal, like a few lines sketched at random in a black and white ink painting, but with a vibrant vitality.
The color of the leaves was a hazy, misty green.
This plant grew alongside the cyan Blood Kirin, like a drop of light blue in a dark blue sea.
It really wasn't easy to find.
Moreover, Xia Chujian didn't even know if the remaining nine Kong Sang were still alive.
After all, it looked so delicate; maybe it had already been ravaged by wild beasts.
The Exotic Beast Forest was called the Exotic Beast Forest because it also produced all kinds of strange animals.
But for her, this was hope, this was a dream.
She had to go to the Exotic Beast Forest, even if she came back empty-handed.
If she didn't try, she wouldn't die in peace.
Because Shen Junyi had officially informed her that her aunt's illness could not be cured by any conventional medical methods.
Kong Sang was the last hope, and the last resort.
Her aunt was Xia Chujian's only relative. She had depended on her aunt since she was a child, and her aunt had raised her.
For her, curing her aunt's illness was her biggest goal, her only goal.
...
After reading the mission briefing, Xia Chujian followed the robot to collect the equipment for this mission.
When she saw the equipment list for this mission, Xia Chujian clicked her tongue.
Although this mission was only Geng Grade, the Dark Night Hunter Association seemed to know what was up.
Because the equipment list matching the mission was very high-end.
First of all, this mission allowed her to claim a small amphibious combat aircraft, with a very advanced solid-state optical radar, which was three models more advanced than the small combat aircraft equipped by their team.
As the name implied, this amphibious combat aircraft could be used as an off-road vehicle when it wasn't flying, speeding across the wilderness, or as a small ship, sailing in the water, and it used controllable nuclear fusion technology for power.
Then, when choosing defensive and offensive weapons, Xia Chujian didn't choose any psionic weapons, but instead chose all the hot weapons that ordinary people could operate, as well as the latest model of full-body bulletproof vests.
She had her own Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle, and a Contender 700 Semi-Automatic Micro Submachine Gun, which were issued to her by the team, but were very low level.
And the Fully Automatic Xing Teling Smart Machine Gun was bound to the small combat aircraft, not issued to her.
So she picked out a new batch of equipment.
Fully Automatic Xing Teling 1200 Smart Machine Gun, five-millimeter caliber, effective range of 80 meters, and a maximum rate of fire of 1200 rounds per second, she wanted it!
Destroyer 800 Fully Automatic Submachine Gun, one level higher than her own Contender 700 Semi-Automatic Submachine Gun, she wanted three of them.
Xia Zhi 085 Assault Rifle, with a terrifying caliber of 10.11 mm, an effective range of 150 meters, a foldable stock, and a retractable barrel, was definitely the first choice for close-quarters combat, she had to stock up on at least three...
Doomsday 200 Shoulder-Mounted Smart Grenade Launcher, rocket launchers, and flamethrower three-piece set, all collected.
Mechanical exoskeletons made of rare metals, Ruby Grade 800 Shotgun, three sets each.
The Qu Zhong 110 Handgun, known as the "hand cannon", where people die when the gun fires, as if the song ends and the people disperse, she had to have it!
Seeing that the equipment list also had the latest Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle, she immediately picked three more as spare equipment.
After all, the Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle in her hand had been used for almost a month, and it was going to depreciate...
In addition, Xia Chujian thought that she was going to the forest, so she picked three Red Cloud Tactical Daggers. Once the energy core was activated, the forked blades on both sides revealed a bloodthirsty red light. The structure was extremely simple, and the lethality was extremely cruel.
In addition, there were also twenty thousand rounds of light machine gun bullets, one hundred thousand rounds of semi-automatic micro submachine gun bullets, five thousand rounds of 125 sniper rifle bullets suitable for the Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle, as well as ten thousand rounds of rifle bullets, five hundred rockets, five hundred grenades, sufficient flame gel, and one hundred micro missiles.
Enough to equip a small armory, enough for a city's garrison to use for a quarter.
In the cold winter, only this sufficient amount of ammunition can truly send warmth and warm people's hearts...
Xia Chujian couldn't help but show a satisfied smile.
...
The combat aircraft that Xia Chujian had just received was three models more advanced than the combat aircraft of their team, and it was also twice as large.
But despite being twice as large, even with careful storage, most of the space in the aircraft was still used to store these ammunition reserves.
If the hovercraft's capacity hadn't already reached its limit, Xia Chujian could have taken twice as many guns and ammunition.
To have a gun in hand is to have peace of mind.
This was a last resort.
In this era where normal humans can become Gene Evolvers, and humanoids can transform into Exotic Beast types at any time, ordinary people like Xia Chujian, whose genes cannot evolve, can only rely on thermal weapons to increase their sense of security.
The reason she chose so much ammunition and equipment was that she planned to keep some for herself after the mission was completed...
In addition, she also selected a lot of personal items.
For example, three sets of the highest-level, latest-model full-body bulletproof vests, plus a cold-proof coat with a self-heating system and a cold-proof coat made of Exotic Beast fur.
A helmet that can automatically connect to the Star Network, various perspective thermal imaging glasses, as well as masks, gloves, and long military boots inlaid with Exotic Beast fur that have self-heating devices.
The association's mission gave the approximate coordinates of the Blood Kirin, which may not be accurate, as they were based on the coordinates of where the Blood Kirin had been found in previous years.
It was located in the southern edge of the North Side of the Exotic Beast Forest, which is very, very cold.
It is said that the highest temperature of the year is minus thirty degrees Celsius, as for the lowest temperature, there is no telling.
The chapter number was wrong yesterday, it has been corrected. o(╥﹏╥)o.
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