Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 493: Bunker Terror (7)

"Zhizhizhi~!"

About half an hour later.

Since the last melee, the area around the cell block has been eerily quiet, but just now, there were suddenly a lot of rodent calls around. According to the detection module of the contractor's equipment, the densely packed small light spots can clearly show that there are a lot of mutant rats gathered around. These guys appeared in groups of three or five and soon appeared in various locations in the bunker.

The appearance of these rats is not without purpose. In addition to their poisonous bites, their reaction to the surrounding movements is also an early warning device for the enemies in the dungeon. If the player is too close to these mutant rats, they will become agitated, make noises, and actively attack the player, and follow the player for a certain distance. Most enemies in the dungeon are particularly sensitive to the sounds of these mutant rats, especially the mutant hounds.

However, these rats are not a completely negative factor for players. When mutant enemies other than mutant rats appear nearby, although these rats will not make any sound, they will instinctively stay away from other mutant units, and in the process of moving away, their eyes will always be fixed on the direction where the mutants appear. As long as the distance is controlled well, skilled players can also judge whether there are other enemies around by the position of these rats.

The sudden increase in the number of these mutant rats indicates that the progress in the copy has reached the next stage, which also proves that someone has found the third generator of unknown location and obtained the key to cell No. 11 from it.

After gaining a general understanding of the situation and confirming that the task progress on the system panel had been advanced, the five members of the Quack Society perked up again and were ready to snatch the key from the person who got the key after he entered the cell area.

Han Zu, who was hiding in the cabinet of the guard lounge, was different. He was not prepared to participate in any direct battles with players, at least not at his current level, so he used his perspective ability to observe the mutant rats nearby. In addition to reacting to players and enemies, these mutant rats also had their own behavioral logic. They would occasionally leave their original positions to patrol, or move along the corners of the passage, or pass through the holes that can be seen everywhere under the wall. They would look for some food scraps, or the remains left after the mutant enemies died to eat. When the food they found was eaten up, if they were not attracted by other enemies or players, they would stay where they were to rest for a while, and then continue to move.

Han Zu was observing a group of mutant rats, which were in the passage outside the cell area, eating the corpse of an enemy soldier, or at least the remaining part. A few minutes later, the mutant rats had consumed their food and were ready to rest in place, but at this moment, they all looked in a certain direction, then quickly fled from their original place and drilled into the cell area through the hole in the wall. Through analysis, it should be other mutant enemies outside the cell area, not players.

Generally speaking, this situation is not a big deal, but Han Zu was immediately attracted by the location of the hole where the rats got in, because when he looked up, he found that the location where the rats got in was exactly cell 11. Through eavesdropping on the conversation of the five members of the Quack Society, Han Zu roughly understood that these people were squatting inside the cell area because they were related to cell 11. They probably couldn't open that cell, so they were squatting to find the key. Since they had never opened cell 11, they probably didn't know that there was a rat hole inside the cell.

A bold idea immediately appeared in Han Zu's mind. Since the things inside cell No. 11 were so important, if he took the things inside through the rat hole without opening the door, and then hid in another safe place, then he might be able to pass this new copy that was not in the original plan without participating in a frontal battle.

Han Zu used the contractor's equipment to search again. After confirming that there was no one else around except the five people from the Quack Society and the mutant rats, Han Zu quietly left the cabinet where he was hiding and carefully placed the vent door flat on the ground next to it, preparing to crawl out of the vent.

The position where the five members of the Quackery Society were squatting could clearly monitor the gate of the cell area, but due to the angle, none of the five people could see the location of the vent. In addition, they didn't know that the vent had been opened by Han Zu a long time ago, and Zhao Mingkai had left a frog trap at the door of the guard lounge, so they didn't pay much attention to this location. This gave Han Zu an opportunity.

Han Zu's biological stance can block the perception of others within a certain range. Those summoned frogs with little intelligence are naturally not a problem. Unless Han Zu crushes them, or passes by them, the frogs will not react at all, not to mention that there is a door between them. So Han Zu left the cell area through the ventilation vent in the guard lounge without anyone knowing and arrived at the passage outside the cell area. To be on the safe side, he also used the rusty screwdriver to screw the gate of the ventilation vent back on.

Han Zu moved cautiously along the passage, carefully avoiding the activities of the mutant rats. Although these mutant rats were large and carried the virus, their vision and hearing were very poor. As long as Han Zu kept a certain distance, it would be difficult for them to detect him. Soon, Han Zu followed the passage outside the cell area and came to the wall with a rat hole outside cell No. 11. He lay on the ground and looked inside through the rat hole. It was empty. There was a friendly soldier lying on the ground. He had mutated, but not seriously. He was still alive, but his consciousness was completely unconscious. Judging from the style of his uniform, he looked like a German officer.

The rats that had crawled in through the rat hole before were now in a corner of the cell. There were some residues there, such as moldy bread crumbs and some cheese that had been there for who knows how long. They ate them with relish and had no interest in the officer lying on the ground. They turned their backs to the rat hole and thought they did not notice Han Zu.

Han Zu removed the bayonet from the rifle on his back, held the bayonet in his hand, and reached his arm into the rat hole. After that, he began to use the help of his perspective ability to destroy the uniform of the German officer lying on the ground. After a few minutes, he successfully cut one side of the uniform. Han Zu retracted the bayonet and pulled the entire officer's uniform out of the rat hole.

"Huh?"

After a quick search, he actually found a key. And it was not an ordinary consumable item used to open the cabinet, but an important prop. On the Infinite City system panel, there were five bright big words, which surprised Han Zu when he learned the function of the key. It said "Tower Area Key".

Not only that, when Han Zu put the key into his pocket and prepared to leave immediately, a special prompt appeared on the system panel of the Infinite City.

"The mission has been triggered. The current mission target is to go to the tower area and open the gate to the tower area."

This is the task prompt that triggered the task, but the name of the task is not displayed. It seems that this is not a main task, and there is no reward description for completing the task. Based on experience, Han Zu feels that he should have triggered some hidden task.

Although Adenauer's account was of a very low level, it shouldn't be involved in any hidden tasks. However, according to the rules of the Infinite City, hidden tasks can be triggered by players, which means that the player who triggered the hidden task already has the minimum requirements to complete the task. In short, as long as the task can be triggered, there is a chance to complete it, it's just a matter of probability. So Han Zu decided to go over and take a look. After all, his original plan was to go to the tower area and get to the bunker on the ground from there. After all, even if there was really no way to complete this hidden task without using his own abilities, Han Zu could choose not to do the task and hide there. The ground bunker above the tower area has only one way, which is the ladder shaft leading to the top. It is not only suitable for hiding, but also a position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After confirming the target, Han Zu got up from the ground and prepared to go to the tower area. However, at this moment, he noticed some rats in the distance, who seemed to be chasing something. They should be other players who deliberately led them away.

Han Zu's current location is on the left side of the passage. There are no obstacles nearby, so he cannot hide. It is impossible for him to meet other players without a fight. According to his disguise, this low-level account should not be able to beat other players of a higher level than himself. However, Han Zu looked down at the torn officer uniform on the ground, his mind turned, and he immediately thought of a solution.

He quickly picked up the torn officer uniform from the ground, put it on immediately, smeared a handful of dirt on his face, stuffed the rifle on his back into cell No. 11 through the rat hole, stuffed the tower area key into his mouth, and then immediately lay sideways in the middle of the passage, controlling his body, like a real dead person, remaining motionless. Disguised as an NPC corpse in the copy, NPC corpses like this are everywhere in the bunker, plus his face as Adenauer is almost exactly the same as the surrounding German soldiers, so unless someone uses some precise advanced detection skills, they will definitely mistake Han Zu for the corpse of an NPC German soldier.

According to the contractor's equipment, the number of rats around was decreasing rapidly, and the equipment did not detect any energy fluctuations, which meant that the rats were not killed, but were deliberately led away. Soon, two figures appeared at a corner of the passage and quietly moved towards Han Zu's position.

Through his perception, Han Zu was able to confirm that the two figures approaching him were not real people, but baits or clones. They had no heartbeats. Sure enough, after the two figures passed by his "corpse", they walked with their backs to him for two or three seconds and then disappeared abruptly.

“Tap tap…”

Immediately afterwards, Han Zu heard light footsteps approaching Han Zu from the other side of the passage. These were the real players.

There were quite a few of them, about six or seven in number. Two of them walked up to Han Zu, squatted down, and began to search his body. Han Zu had already stuffed the most important key to the tower area into his mouth in advance, so he was not worried at all that the Ruger pistol on his body would be taken away.

The player who only found a pistol and some pistol bullets on him threw these things on the ground casually. It seemed that these things were completely useless to them.

"Nothing, just a pistol and some bullets, which are completely useless. But this screwdriver... I seem to have used it?"

"Well, a screwdriver can open some places, but this screwdriver is rusty, I'm not sure if it can be used."

"Then let's go. We have the lock picking skills. It doesn't matter whether we have a screwdriver or not."

"We still have to be careful... The mission has been updated, and it reminds us to go to the cell area and find the location that this key can open."

"Be careful around you, there might be someone squatting at the door, waiting for someone to deliver the key."

Han Zu's disguise was quite successful. Those players really mistook him for an NPC corpse. After searching for a while and finding nothing useful, they quickly left Han Zu's position and headed towards the cell area. When they disappeared from Han Zu's sight, Han Zu immediately got up, pulled the rifle out of the rat hole, put away all the things on the ground, checked the pistol, and immediately left the cell area and headed towards the tower area.

After taking a detour and killing some mutant rats and mutant enemies, Han Zu finally arrived at the tower area. The rifle in his hand had completely run out of bullets and became a firewood stick, so Han Zu threw it into the pile of dirt next to it. There were still two magazines of pistol bullets left, which was enough for the time being. Taking out the tower area key obtained from cell No. 11, Han Zu unlocked the tower area gate and pulled it outward to open the tower area gate.

The area behind the gate was very small, only two or three square meters in size. In the center was a ladder shaft that was only big enough for one person to climb. There were some ammunition boxes piled up in other places, but they were basically empty. Han Zu climbed up along the ladder shaft, and the sound of artillery fire on the battlefield gradually rang out again. Soon, Han Zu climbed to the top of the ladder shaft, pushed open the trap door above, and entered the bunker on the ground. From time to time, there were some slight knocking sounds and dust raised at the observation and shooting ports above. It was the enemy bunker on the opposite side of the battlefield, shooting towards here. So Han Zu lowered his head and crawled forward to prevent himself from being hit by possible stray bullets.

"Progress update, current mission objective, waiting for support."

There was no description for the mission. Han Zu shrugged his shoulders. He didn't have to deal with the players anyway, so he closed the trapdoor and pressed it with a nearby ammunition box to prevent anyone from entering. He looked at the firing port above, took the steel helmet from the NPC corpse next to him, and picked up a German standard rifle from the ground. Fortunately, the five bullets in it were full. So he buckled the steel helmet on the buttstock and slowly raised the helmet to the observation port.

"Ping!"

After just two shakes, a bullet came and blew the helmet off.

"Wow! That's pretty accurate!"

Sitting with his back against the bunker wall below the observation port, Han Zu checked whether the rifle could be used normally. After confirming that there was no malfunction in the gun, Han Zu pulled the bolt and used the contractor's equipment to search for enemies within the rifle's range. After locking onto an enemy, he stood up suddenly, raised his hand and fired a shot, then quickly hid back to his original position.

"Kill confirmed."

Touching his pocket, he found an extra bullet. Han Zu nodded and began searching for the next target.