Thorne is not understand that the broken leg licker in the end what is the intention, but also too late to think more, to the front of the enhanced licker full output, other teammates are approaching the other two licker fire.
Just as the crowd was preparing for a big fight, the enhanced licker in front of Thorne suddenly wailed and fell straight to the ground, twitching.
And the two lickers that were crawling on the wall have landed on the ground.
"What's happening?" The group members looked at each other.
"The impostor must have been wiped out!" Thorne immediately realized this.
Only if the impostor is killed will the monsters they control suddenly all die, something he has seen several times and is quite sure of.
"The impostor was killed?" Hideaway was taken aback and pointed at the broken leg licker, "Then how is it okay?" "Not sure, maybe it's not the monster of the two impostors.
"Thorne stared at the licker without lowering his gun, he couldn't guess the monster's intentions and mustn't let his guard down.
The others were also gunning for it.
"Chief, should I fire?" "No need!" A voice came.
The crowd looked at the sound and it was actually Derek, the broken-legged licker immediately turned and ran to him, following in his wake.
"That's your licker?" Thorne asked, frowning.
"That's right, mine!" "Did you have two impostors ambush us?" Thorne pursued.
"Of course not!" Derek shook his head, "I heard your call for help and by the time I came you were already fighting.
""Then why didn't you--" "Why didn't I help?" Derek guessed what he was going to ask and said directly, "It's simple, even though I found the location of the two wolves, they had two enhanced lickers with them, so where are these little wretches of mine going to be a match for them?" "So?" "So, in order to kill them, I had to let them continue to attack you, let go of all the monsters and send them out, so that it would be easy to kill them.
"Thorne walked over and suddenly punched Derek in the face.
"Chief?" Everyone else froze.
"Chief, Derek is here to help!" "Yeah, chief!" "Son of a bitch! He's doing it for himself! He's the one who nailed me for those words and got them to re-attack! Am I right?" Thorne asked angrily, "If it wasn't for him, we would have passed through here safely!" Derek touched his cheek, a tooth was a little loose, and he spat out a small mouthful of blood full of concern.
"Yes, I'm the one who nailed it, otherwise you would indeed have gotten through, but what about later? You may still be ambushed by them? Even if you are not afraid, they will still go to sneak up on other teams!" Derek explained unhurriedly, "It's better to never have to worry about it again!" "Hmph, you impostors are so kind? And care about other squads?" Thorne didn't believe it.
"I certainly wouldn't do that for any other squad, but for you guys, yes.
"Derek laughed a little shamelessly, "To tell you the truth, those two wolves are not low level, let them kill, it will be bad! One day, your team will suffer too, come on, I'm enjoying my time with the Grey Kings!" After a pause, Derek added: "Besides, I like to work with smart people, and you're a smart person.
""We are all fighting for ourselves, but I don't want you to use my teammates as cannon fodder!" Thorne said sternly.
"Don't get mad, I didn't use them as cannon fodder, think back, neither of my two lickers hurt you, and I even helped you.
""And what do you mean by having that licker hold me back? Didn't you want my teammates to be besieged?" "You have to do the whole thing," Derek looked like I could do nothing about it, with both hands spread out, "to make them determined to attack you, I have to make you look like you are already in crisis, otherwise how will they throw their weight around?" Thorne "hum", pointed at him and said: "This time, I believe you, but next time, I hope you can tell me in advance before doing so!" "I can't guarantee that if it's urgent!" Derek shrugged, "And I believe that with your strength, you can deal with this level of crisis, I observed you for half a day, your strength is very small, even in the speed, reaction ability, you are more powerful than the Gray King, so I dare to let go, after all, this small crisis, can not help you.
"This is cleverly said, and defend themselves, and invariably send Thorne a high hat, and more importantly, these words seem to be very reasonable, so that people can not be refuted for a while.
As expected, Thorne could not continue to blame him, so he had to change the subject first.
"And what did you do before, we called you for half a day there at the basketball court and you never responded.
""Come on, you guys are on a mission there, I always have to patrol around a bit and clean up any monsters that might threaten you or something, right? Besides, I'm in the shadows, I can't respond to you guys all the time, and my walkie-talkie is usually off.
"Said pull out the walkie-talkie a shake, really is off state, "Moreover, lone wolves usually do not carry walkie-talkies, if I was circling those two impostors, suddenly the walkie-talkie rang, you guys are calling for help, will not I die a very ugly death?" A statement that actually left Thorne with no room to refute at all, knowing full well that he might be stonewalling, yet every word dripped out, even making people feel that he was very dedicated.
"I'll give you the benefit of the doubt this time, Mr. Lone Wolf.
"I'm sorry," Thorne said with words in his mouth.
Derek's face twitched slightly, but then he smiled and his expression returned to normal.
But this slight change did not escape Thorne's eyes.
Lone wolf is different from ordinary impostors, they find two monsters, they can make monsters to reproduce, as a way to enhance the strength, and, through that battle in the restaurant by Votoski, Thorne found that the number of monsters of lone wolf seems to be not limited by the level, as long as the monsters are reproduced, as many as possible, otherwise those spiders can not be so many as to flood half a street.
Derek has always claimed to be a common impostor, but just now, under Thorne's step-by-step questioning, he still inadvertently slipped up.
This means that Derek's true strength is definitely not such as he shows, and can only control three lickers only.
No wonder Hideaway also said that she once found that Derek always had a licker hidden in the back waiting for an opportunity to move.
This impostor is not a simple one.
"You killed two ranked impostors, you should have gotten their supplies, right?" Thorne decided to punish him a little, lest he become more aggressive next time, "Whatever you took, split it in half!" Derek opened his mouth wide and rolled his eyes.
"No, I just earn a little extra money, a small income, you big families, not to mention the mission rewards, just this truckload of arms back will earn a lot of money, and still think about my food? Besides, it was me who killed the impostor, and you did not contribute!" He immediately began to find excuses to excuse himself.
"Bullshit, who said we contributed?" Thorne pointed at the licker corpses, "We killed most of the monsters, and you didn't participate in the battle, just checking for leaks!" "I'll give you half of the 10,000 points I got from them, so that's 5,000, but," Derek pointed to the corpse of the licker that swooped down and was blown up, and then to the broken leg licker, and bargained You killed one of my lickers and blew up another, so I can only give you 2,000 points!" "4000!" "2500!" "3500!" "3000!" "Deal!" Derek rowed 3,000 points to Thorne, which was considered to calm down the argument.
Time delayed a lot, Thorne no longer delay, then returned to the car, the Hummer again slowly forward.
Derek, meanwhile, stood at a distance and watched them leave until the Humvee disappeared around the corner of the street, and then he cocked his tongue and rubbed his chin.
The night breeze blew by, and with his hands in his pockets, he whistled easily as he led the broken-legged licker toward a dark alley where at least six lickers climbed murderously against the wall, waiting for his instructions.
Derek's face showed a pleasant smile: "Children, the mission here is over, the following time, we should go to other places to hunt and beat the teeth!" In the alley, resounded the horrible hissing of the licker herd ... Thorne's car returned to the headquarters five minutes later.
In fact, the place where the battle just broke out is not far from the headquarters, and just three blocks away, in the headquarters can hear the sound of gunfire when they just fought, in the usual way, even if you run on foot to support, but also in ten minutes to get there.
But now this extraordinary period, unless special circumstances, no team members will go to support them, other groups have missions, standby, and the impostor situation is very complicated, no one can guarantee that after sending reinforcements, will not be ambushed by the enemy, not to mention that there will be an enemy see the base is empty to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack.
So, as Ha Xing said, out there it's all on their own.
Adam told him that normally, the base's support for outbound personnel would only be within fire range of the headquarters' defense point.
And with the assistance of impostors generally, they do not encounter any serious threats.
Only this time Thorne directly encountered two higher ranked impostors sneak attack, fortunately they just got the big killers, so they can at least compete with each other, otherwise, it is definitely a heavy loss.
Thorne himself is easy to survive if he acts alone, either running or fighting.
But bring these teammates, that's not necessarily the case.
Without Derek's help in killing the two wolves at the end, which ended the crisis instantly, the team would have definitely suffered casualties.
Thorne made up his mind to go back and apply for more powerful weapons, at least to be able to deal with threats like the one he just had.
At a minimum - able to fight off a siege of ten lickers at once! Pete had notified the personnel, and the Humvee pulled up outside the base, and immediately two good teammates came running to help carry supplies.
Thorne led the team back to the base, the people on the road saw them covered in blood, just after a great battle state, but the fighting spirit is high, completely different from the spirit of the previous C group.
The previous C group experienced the mission back, are east and west, disheveled, men holding a cigarette, pandemonium, women blowing bubbles, as if no one else.
And now, with Thorne leading the way, the C-team was in high spirits, heading toward the lounge in a defensive stance with their guns.
Followed by people carrying supplies, seeing the big killers and ammunition they brought back, passers-by let out a gasp.
"Wow, what kind of weapon is this?" "Looks like an RPG?" "Not an RPG, this one appears to have fire control radar on it, maybe it's a missile launcher!" "Oops, is there a heavy machine gun?" "That's right, a 12.7mm heavy machine gun, wow, this time C group is really great, the weapons they brought back to the rating, will definitely rate their group high!" Thorne waved his hand and told the group to go back to the lounge and give the weapons to Stu to take back.
He followed the crew carrying the weapons to the mission control room, which was filled with three crew members, all of whom crossed their fingers when they saw Thorne.
"Team Leader Thorne, you've really impressed us!" The one who spoke was a mission scorer named Chien Hashimoto, who is the leader here.
"I'm supposed to come and brief you on the mission, right?" "That's right, please sit down!" Hashimoto Chien said politely, "You two score the supplies immediately!" "Yes, Team Leader!" The men immediately took action.
Thorne sat down and asked, "How do I report? Do I fill out a form or write a report?" When Thorne used to work, every time before the project team started the design and after the design was completed, they had to fill out the report form, which was very much to his head and troublesome, but that was his responsibility as the design team leader, and had to do.
So now the questions are asked with a bit of helplessness and boredom.
"No, it's not that complicated, it's actually quite simple," Hashimoto Chien smiled politely, knocking the record book in his hand, "You just need to dictate and answer some of my questions, you talk, I record, OK?"" OK!" Thorne nodded and smiled, it was much easier now.
"Very well, so how many enemies did you encounter during the mission? What were the casualties? The general battle after the performance of the C group members? C group impostors with the situation? ..." Thorne answered one by one, some places did not say the truth, but a little variation, such as Derek that group came to set the two wolves, he skipped, just said Derek timely support to avoid the squad suffered greater losses just.
Derek is not a simple impostor, but since the other side did not betray them, there is no need to make unnecessary trouble out of it.
"Well, Team Leader Thorne, this mission debriefing record has been completed, this time you not only saved the lead group, exterminated a local gang, obtained important arms, and even managed to break out from a siege by two impostors, even before showing this report to Captain Grey King, I can tell that it was a glorious victory! Your group has provided an important contribution to the development and growth of our Gray King team, thank you very much!" Chien Hashimoto stood up, bowed respectfully, and then shook his hand vigorously.
At this time, a team member came over to report to him: "Report to the team leader, the C group brought back the following rating of supplies: a missile launcher, with radar fire control system, can automatically track the target, with the ability to launch regardless, only the front end is slightly damaged, does not affect the launch, rating: 9! One heavy machine gun, the magazine and support frame is severely damaged, needs repair, rating: 6! "Very good, send all the equipment to the armory!" "Yes!" "Congratulations, Team Leader Thorne!" After checking the scores, Hashimoto Chien shook his hand, "Due to your excellent performance, Group C is now ranked from the bottom to the second place among the four groups! You are only five points away from the first place Group B!" First place in Group B, that's Brooke's group, right?
"I've always wondered, does this ranking do us any good?" Thorne asked.
"Of course there is," Hashimoto Chien explained patiently, "First of all, according to the ranking, the higher the ranking, the less points you will surrender to the Grey King for each mission, I'll take the first place group B. They are currently in first place, so the points they surrender will be reduced by 20%! " According to Ha Xing's introduction, the team members will surrender 30% of their points to the Grey King for each mission, and if they rank first, then they will only surrender 10% of their points to the Grey King both! This way they can keep more points, which of course more stimulate the motivation and fighting spirit of the group members.
"And how much will the second place be reduced?" Thorne was only concerned about his own group right now.
"The second place surrender points are reduced by 15%.
"Hashimoto Chisun said, "The third place is reduced by 5%, and the bottom is paid in full, not a penny less!" Thorne nodded and asked again, "Is that all?" "Of course not, there are more benefits!" Hashimoto Chien smiled, "In addition to reducing the number of points paid, but also get food, bath, entertainment and other aspects of the privilege, such as food, you in addition to the required meals, but also can provide you with a variety of additional snacks, fruit and even ice cream and so on, but also do not have to pay extra points to buy, and then for example, entertainment, will give you the team lounge equipped with DVD Players, you can put on their own movies to watch, and even provide game consoles! And under normal circumstances, these things are limited to purchase or team leader level or above to enjoy.
""It seems to be very necessary to keep the first place.
"Thorne also realizes the importance of this ranking.
"So is there anything else you need to ask?" "No more for now!" "Okay, then you can go back to rest now.
""So when's the next mission coming?"" Thorne asked uneasily, he didn't want to receive a new mission just after lying down.
"We have a mission monitor, so we are not restricted by the system's mission release mechanism, and will not be like those weak chicken squads that take one mission and it won't take long for the second one to come.
Generally our team will only receive a relatively large mission every 12 hours, which will ensure that you have ample rest and adjustment time to maintain sufficient energy!" "Off topic -" Hashimoto Chien added, "Based on the supplies you brought back and the mission description, the difficulty of your mission has surpassed the vast majority of the previous Grey King squad's missions! " "Thank you for your answer, I'll go back first then!" Thorne got up and said goodbye, "If there are any problems with the mission, I will come to you directly.
""You're welcome, Team Leader Thorne, I'll be waiting for you anytime!"" Chien Hashimoto bowed to say goodbye.