Chapter 852: First Floor |
"The Elven Kingdom does not have any information about the dimensional tower. As everyone knows, we don’t even know about the smart base until we arrive on Earth," Virion shook his head.
If his father knew something about the dimensional tower, he should know about this crucial information as well.
However, the Elven Kingdom did not have any records about the smart base, let alone the dimensional tower.
"Maybe it’s another System command? Mission! Objective! Quest!" Lu An tried it a few times, but he did not receive any response from the System.
"The System is truly a pain in the ass.
Can’t it give us proper guidance or something?" Wei Xi was frustrated with the lack of guidance. The only hint
they had was that they must clear the rst oor in order to return.
"The System wants us to look the way out by ourselves. It’s not surprising considering the start of the Game," Zhang Mengyao had gotten used to how the System worked, so it was not a surprise.
"What do you think, Lu An? Your game knowledge is always useful in times like this.
Do you know something?"
"Hmmm," Lu An rubbed his chin for a while as he thought about it, "The most generic pattern is defeating the boss oor. Each oor has a Monster Boss to defeat, and if we defeat the boss, that means we clear the rst oor.
That’s the most generic one, but it’s possible that there’s a hidden mission for each faction. We need to complete the mission to clear the quest, maybe.
Or, we need to conquer all the territories on the rst oor like how we capture the whole city."
Virion, Alton, Ashley, and Moonsong did not know what Lu An talked about as they did not know what Game Lu An talked about.
Kang Xue and Zhang Mengyao knew so little about RPG games, and Wei Xi knew some basics.
"Ah, I think it’s most likely the rst one.
We need to nd the boss oor and defeat it. Or maybe we have to pass a test on each oor.
You know, something like there’s a guardian on each oor, and we need to pass the test to clear the rst oor," Wei Xi chimed in.
"That’s possible too; taking a test from the guardian oor is the second most generic after the boss oor type," Lu An nodded in agreement.
"Then we will take the rst route, nding the boss oor or the test area,"
Zhang Mengyao made the decision. Even though she did not know how to nd them, the basics they needed to do was to explore the rst oor.
"Then should we split up?" Lu An was quite eager because this dimensional tower was truly similar to the Game and mangas he read in the past. Splitting up was the fastest to explore, but Zhang Mengyao had a dierent idea about that.
"No! We will not split up, at least not until we establish the base and gure out the monsters on the rst oor. Let’s not take the risk because we have no information about the dimensional tower.
Just because we never failed in the expedition, we should never lower our guard," Zhang Mengyao rmly declined the idea of splitting up.
"Have your team returned, Legion Commander Moonsong?"
"Yes, I will call them," Moonsong called two people, one elf and one moonlight rabbit.
One was the former Elven Kingdom’s queen, and the other one was the Grand Elder of the Moonlight Tribe.
"My team has scouted the north and east area up to two thousand meters, but we can’t nd any living beings, and it’s still the same forestry area like this,"
Grand Elder Armsong reported.
"And my team scouted the south and west, and we found nothing but the same forest," Ava reported her team’s discovery.
"No village, monsters, and beasts…" Lu An thought about something outrageous in her head.
"Don’t tell me the System wants us to build our own base from zero instead of giving us an empty city like around the tower?" If they could not nd the village or city until night, they had to sleep in the wilderness with nothing. They did not expect to be able to return after entering the tower, so they did not bring any tents with them.
"It can be said we are in the safe zone," Wei Xi nodded his head.
"The ideal situation is to have half of our people to prepare the lodging when the night comes, and half of our people explore the forest further.
But none of us can construct lodging, not with the minimum tool we have."
"It’s not that we can’t nd the village or city, but we haven’t explored the rst oor.
Maybe there’s a city or village somewhere else; we just need to nd it,"
Zhang Mengyao was not pessimistic about their situation. She then glanced at Moonsong and Virion, "If you are in this situation, where will you build your village?" The beastmen and the elf had lived in the forest for a long time, so she could use their knowledge to nd the habitat of the rst oor.
Finding the strategist’s location might lead them to a village.
"The essential for us to live is food and water, so I will say we will nd a river and build a village around the river itself if possible.
Even if the terrain is not suitable to build a village, we want to build our house near the river. So nding a river may lead us to a village or even a city," Moonsong gave a convincing reply to Zhang Mengyao.
Food and water were the primary need for the living beings as they needed clean water to drink and needed water to produce food. Even if they did not have crops to harvest, they would still have sh in the river as food.
With that quick discussion, they quickly gured out what they needed to do for the rst step, nding a river and the habitat of the rst oor, which might be a huge help for them to explore the rst oor.
"The Tarriors are not familiar with the terrain, so we need the beastmen and the elf to explore the forest and nd the river.
Split your people into a small team of ten members, and investigate the forest deeper. The priority is to nd the river but also avoid the battle!" Zhang Mengyao emphasized the last part of her command to avoid the battle.
"While the Luminous Legion explores the forest, we will try to nd an alternative food."
They did not bring enough supplies because they thought they could return from the tower any time.
They only brought an emergency ration that was supposed to last for three days. They must nd alternative food, just in case, they could not nd the village or inhabitants of the dimensional tower.
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