Chapter 50
Gaining this realization, Shen Shuyu’s expression rarely turned serious.
He looked around this dilapidated house; there was nothing different…
Wait!
Shen Shuyu suddenly shifted his gaze back to the place where he felt something was wrong. On the window to the right, there seemed to be traces left by some mollusk slithering past—sticky, disgusting-looking trails.
He approached stealthily, only to discover that a thin mist had gathered outside at some point. This mist was as thin as when they were about to exit the Misty Forest.
Not only that, but there was also an indescribable smell in the air, super, super unpleasant.
Shen Shuyu felt like vomiting from the smell and immediately raised his hand to cover his nose and mouth.
He called everyone one by one again, but still, no one woke up.
What to do?
Shen Shuyu opened Lin Xuyi’s bag and rummaged through it, but there were no drugs that could help people wake up.
Just when he was confused, the System in his brain suddenly reacted.
[Mas… ter, drug, Safe… House…, Southwest… three kilo…]
The System seemed to be stuck; its speech was intermittent and not coherent at all.
Shen Shuyu called it a few more times, but the System was gone again.
It seemed that the System’s sentence had broken through some restriction to reach his mind. Shen Shuyu thought for a moment. The System probably meant: They have all been drugged with a sleeping agent (迷药 – miyao). The antidote is in the Safe House, which is three kilometers to the southwest.
In this way, he had to go out alone. If he left and other teams came, eliminating these people would be effortless.
Shen Shuyu felt his head aching. Why wasn’t I the one drugged? Then I wouldn’t have to worry about these things!
Although he thought this in his heart, his body moved honestly. He took the tablet from Chi Yanxun and checked the interface.
Except for them, other squads were still some distance away. The Blue Team, which was originally closest to them, seemed to have stopped at this moment.
Three kilometers meant a six-kilometer round trip. With his current stamina, it would take at least an hour, or forty-something minutes at the fastest. And there was no guarantee he wouldn’t encounter unexpected situations after going out.
Shen Shuyu looked at them again and bit his lower lip. Even if he couldn’t, he had to go.
If they stayed put for too long, other squads would definitely sense something was wrong. Being besieged then would be bad.
Shen Shuyu took the tablet. Before leaving, he struggled to move everyone onto the floor to lie in a row, so at least they would be more comfortable.
After doing all this, he took the tablet and ran towards the place the System mentioned.
Actually, the Safe House wasn’t hard to find. Shen Shuyu had a clear path and found the Safe House very smoothly. But he still looked left and right vigilantly, only walking in after confirming there were no people or Zerg.
Sure enough, the antidote was placed on the table in the Safe House. He walked over to take a look and finally understood what was going on.
“Alpha Mist Antidote, return to normal within ten minutes after use.” He read the words on the note. It seemed the mist outside the house was this stuff. No wonder he wasn’t affected; it was because his attribute (Omega) was different.
Shen Shuyu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry for a moment.
He put away the antidote and packed the other supplies on the table into his bag. Fortunately, he came prepared, carrying an empty bag over. After they woke up, they wouldn’t need to come over specially.
Thinking of this, Shen Shuyu couldn’t help sighing. For this team, he, this cannon fodder, simply sacrificed too much!
He deftly looted the Safe House clean, calling the System incessantly while walking back.
Still no response.
It seemed they had to leave this area.
Shen Shuyu drank a tube of nutrient solution. While waiting for his stamina to recover, he didn’t forget to turn on the tablet to check on other squads.
“Why does this Blue Team always come out to scout?” Shen Shuyu stared at the Blue Team’s number count and couldn’t help frowning. Is this student’s stamina really that good?
However, he became vigilant. The person who came out was very likely coming for them, because on the map, their location shouldn’t be far from his own team.
Shen Shuyu put away the tablet and sped up his return pace, daring not to stop for a moment.
Seeing the dilapidated house from afar, the mist outside had dispersed. It seemed to be periodic, and they were just unlucky to encounter it.
Shen Shuyu’s expression relaxed a bit. Just as he was about to make a final sprint, his left foot stepped on something soft. His balance was broken, and he flopped down onto the flat ground.
Shen Shuyu fell heavily to the ground, letting out a muffled groan, his head dizzy from the fall.
He sat up, shook his head, and looked at where he had just stepped. There were only wild grass about as high as his calf and flat ground, nothing different. But the soft sensation just now wasn’t an illusion.
Shen Shuyu thought of something unknown and got goosebumps all over. He couldn’t care less about checking for injuries; carrying his backpack, he limped toward the abandoned house.
However, after walking a few steps, he quickly dropped down again. He just saw a person wearing a blue team uniform sneaking out from behind the abandoned house.
A person from Planet Puce!
Shen Shuyu stared straight at him. His other hand reached behind him, pulling out a handgun from his bag. This handgun was very intelligent; it shot sharp bullets at Zerg, but turned into paint when hitting people. They had a total of three chances; getting hit once was equivalent to losing a life.
Shen Shuyu cocked the gun. He pursed his lips tightly, his gaze locked on the person from Planet Puce, the muzzle aimed at him.
The scout from Planet Puce didn’t notice Shen Shuyu. He was tiptoeing and lying at the window looking inside. Originally, he just wanted to see who the team inside this house was, but he ended up seeing a row of… students from Planet Amor sleeping very peacefully.
Good grief, are they just sleeping openly like this?!
Do they have no respect for people from Planet Puce!
Thinking of how their team had been frantically rushing and chased by Zerg for the past two days, the Puce student felt extremely disgruntled.
However, this was also a good opportunity. His gun had six bullets. If he could directly eliminate two people, the threat to them would be greatly reduced. At worst, eliminating one person would throw them into disarray.
The Puce student smiled silently. The harvest from coming out this time was plentiful. This year’s first place could only be enjoyed exclusively by their Planet Puce!
He carefully pushed open a small crack in the window, despising the sleeping people in his heart. Letting their guard down in battle—he could only say they deserved to be eliminated.
He cocked his gun and was about to stick the muzzle in, but three faster gunshots rang in his ear!
The Puce student reacted quickly, but he couldn’t dodge in time. Two shots hit him, and one hit the wall. He didn’t have time to look because several more gunshots rang out!
He also fired blindly toward the source of the sound, but hit nothing. At the same time, the heavenly voice sounded.
“Planet Puce No. 04 Zhao Yuan eliminated by Planet Amor No. 06 Shen Shuyu. Staff members please proceed to remove the eliminated from the battlefield.”
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