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Age of Collapse - Chapter 4

Published at 23rd of December 2018 04:50:11 PM


Chapter 4

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4 – Team Battle

Arnold had just spoken, when suddenly, everyone entered a stupor. A mysterious, mechanical voice was transmitted into their minds without warning. This voice was not transmitted through their ears, but had rather directly sounded in their consciousness.

<Biological signal detected in the force field. Examining strength…>

<Strength examination complete. Detected two Evolvers. Opening team battle mode. Number of teams: two. This party’s mission goal: defend the survivor base. Mission difficulty: B-rank. Reward: one B-rank reward point to be evenly divided among the survivors.>

<Detected this party to be the weaker one. Providing the following intelligence. The enemy party’s team numbers five people, all Evolvers. The enemy party’s mission goal: destroy the survivor base. The enemy is estimated to reach the site in forty eight hours.>

Shortly after, as if it never existed to begin with, the mysterious voice sounding in their minds disappeared. The five newbies, who had experienced their first mission assignment, looked distracted. The inexperienced newbies were in shock and had yet to recover their senses.

There was nothing strange about their reactions, as anyone who received a mission for the first time had the same response. However, despite being a veteran Evolver who had went through two missions, Arnold was still shocked speechless. His face was drained of blood at a visible rate, before becoming deathly white. He grabbed Luo You and yelled: “What’s going on?! The difficulty of the missions are calculated based on the average strength of the team. With five newbies on our squad, and me having only taken on two C-rank missions, how come we’ve received a B-rank mission?! What kind of monster are you, after all?!”

With an ascending degree of difficulty, the Cube’s missions were mainly divided into four classes, that is, C, B, A, and S. Every class was further divided into three ranks. Take the C-class as an example, it was divided into three ranks, that is, C-rank, CC-rank, and CCC-rank. The difference in difficulty between two consecutive ranks was several fold, while the difference in difficulty between two consecutive classes was several dozen fold.

In other words, the difficulty of a B-rank mission was at least a dozen times greater than that of a C-rank mission.

For newbies, C-rank missions were already deadly, not to mention B-rank missions! It was no wonder that Arnold would get so agitated.

At this moment, Lin Geng came back to his senses and asked worriedly: “Arnold, what’s the matter?”

As if having a rusty nail drilled into his head, Arnold clasped his head and said in pain: “It’s over, I’ve unexpectedly attracted a plague and got a B-rank mission. We’re all gonna die here.”

“Shut up.” Luo You was impatient. For him, B-rank missions were also no joking matter. Even though he had previously completed a B-rank mission, but at that time, he had barely escaped with his life. Besides, the current mission had a crucial point to it which made it even deadlier! He said in a low voice: “Rather than caring about the difficulty of the mission, it would be better to think about the team battle. I’ve never participated in such a mode.”

It was still unknown whether it was hopeless. Arnold calmed down quickly, sat down on the ground, lit up a cigarette, and said in an aged voice: “I heard that when two teams receive missions with the same target, the Cube would put them on opposite sides, so that they kill each another. Take this mission for instance, our goal is to protect the survivor base, while the other party’s goal is to destroy the survivor base. Both sides are completely antithetical.”

Luo You pondered over Arnold’s words and said with squinted eyes: “In other words, there is no possibility of peaceful coexistence.”

“That’s right. The goals of our missions are in conflict, the basis for one party to complete their mission lies in the failure of the other party.”

Lin Geng asked again: “Can we choose not to participate in this mission? If we hide in the city, then we’ll just fail the mission, and at worst, we’ll come here once more.”

Arnold said with a miserable smile: “How could it be that simple. Failed missions result in the deduction of the double amount of reward points. If one doesn’t have enough points, then their evolved skills and/or redeemed articles will be revoked. If it still isn’t enough, then one will be obliterated! You bunch of newbies basically don’t have the capital to give up on the mission! And there’s still one more point to it. If I remember correctly, there are extra rewards for killing the other party’s members in team battles. The lunatics in the wilderness would never give up on an opportunity to become stronger. For them, you newbies are nothing more than moving reward points. There is no way they would spare any of you!”

Lin Geng suddenly felt his mouth become dry: “That is to say…”

“In team battles, anyone who isn’t of your team is a mortal enemy!”

More than three hundred kilometers away from Luo You and the others, a squad formed of five members was inside the Cube’s force field. A dark-skinned big fellow opened his eyes wide and said: “A BB-rank mission? To evaluate the assault on a survivor base as BB-rank, this is a first for me.”

“Captain had saved the rewards from seven missions, preserving a bunch of C-class rewards to form an A-rank reward point, before redeeming the A-rank Werewolf bloodline. No wonder the difficulty of the team mission had risen.” Next to the man, a woman chuckled with her hand covering her mouth. She had a smoking hot figure, her golden wavy hair was emitting dazzling radiances under the sunlight, her slender thighs were wrapped in black skinny leather pants, and her curvaceous upper body was only dressed in a tank top. The woman’s voluptuous chest was shaking wildly along with her laughter. She said: “To attack a gathering ground isn’t much. But this is a team battle. I’m afraid the reason why this mission is set at the BB-rank is because there are people rather difficult to deal with on the other side. Blackie, are you afraid?”

The dark-skinned big fellow chuckled and said: “Little minx, you’re asking for trouble again. Were the eight times last night not enough? Do you want me pound your tight little ass again?”

The woman raised her top ambiguously, faintly revealing the fair, tender skin of her chest, before saying teasingly: “Come here~.”

His veins bulging, the black-skinned big fellow was about to give it to her, when a tall man in the forefront of the squad suddenly turned around. His eyes radiated an ineffably cold radiance and fur was faintly visible on his face. He said in a low voice: “Irene, Gao Yuan, your matters have to be postponed until the mission is completed. I don’t think this mission is going to be that easy.”

The woman called Irene and the dark-skinned big fellow called Gao Yuan looked simultaneously at the tall man, before Irene teased: “Captain Yang, you’ve already redeemed an A-rank bloodline. Are you still afraid of a BB-rank mission?”

Yang Feng pointed at the fur on his face and said gloomily: “Unlike genetic evolution of the body, it takes time for a bloodline to adapt, I still can’t freely control it. Besides, you’ve heard what the Cube had mentioned, this is a team battle. In order to participate in a team battle, the other side has to at least have two Evolvers.”

“But since we haven’t received the weaker party prompt, proves that the average strength of the other party is below our’s, same as last time! Last time, we managed to seize quite a few good things.” Gao Yuan pointed to the two armored vehicles parked not far away. Suddenly, he seemed to have recalled something funny, as he clutched his stomach in laughter: “That bunch of retards seemed to be military enthusiasts before the Apocalypse. They actually exchanged a CCC-rank reward point for two M2 Bradleys. I’m going to die from laughter. A bunch of trash who pretended to be experts while hiding in their vehicles. They hadn’t even opened fire, before being dragged out and ripped apart by us. Hahaha. In that team battle, we managed to obtain a lot of extra rewards.”

Irene also giggled: “Yeah, I really miss that team battle! I even caught myself a delicate little stud! I drugged him, did him more than a dozen times, and then dissected him bit by bit, digging out all of his internal organs! His screams were so wonderful! Will I also run into such a boy in this team battle? Ah, it’s so exciting, I’m having an orgasm just from thinking about it!” After Irene had finished speaking, an abnormal flush surged on her face.

As the captain, Yang Feng appeared to know about the virtues of his subordinates for a long time. Therefore, it was not surprising that he also revealed a strange smile, that his voice was tinged with a boundless bloodlust as he said in a low voice: “Since the other party ran into us, then let’s give those rookies a lesson, let’s show them how cruel the world is! Trash should be hiding behind the wall like some domestic animals! Outside the wall is the world of the strong!”





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