Chapter 84

I hope the new city being planned by the Safe Haven is large, as it accommodates three million players. A city of this size can apply to become a prefecture-level city. Therefore, the planning map of the new city of Safe Haven is not small, being ten times the current area of Safe Haven, and this is just the first phase of planning.

With such a large-scale city construction, the already tense relationship between players and monsters has become even more strained. After all, human expansion means encroaching on the territories of animals and plants. Unless one side is exterminated, this adversarial relationship is hard to eliminate. Humans are also part of nature, and standing at the top of the food chain is the most instinctive desire of every species.

"Are you saying this news isn't true? Are there really terrorists in the game?" The Cleaner transformed his mech into a pickup truck, and the four of them sat in the vehicle, heading towards a wasteland. Upon hearing the Cleaner's words, Kantu looked surprised.

Half an hour earlier, the Cleaner had helped the Gambler complete a rescue mission within three hours, with the team size not exceeding ten people. The merchant Arthur gave the team leader a commercial technology—water purification—as a reward for completing the mission.

The Gambler initially did not know that this reward was hidden in the task assigned by the higher-ups. Therefore, after the Cleaner joined the Gambler's team following negotiations with Kantu, the Gambler felt a bit embarrassed. After completing the mission, the Gambler told the Cleaner a piece of news.

While building the city, one must not only be wary of monsters but also of other players. In other words, there are terrorists among the players. These terrorists might sabotage unity due to hostility towards humans or psychological imbalance, and they might even collaborate with intelligent monsters to disrupt the human city-building plans.

In short, when humans decide to expand and rebuild cities, returning to the pinnacle of the pyramid, the game "Fate" becomes more complex and interesting. After all, this is no longer a game of continuously fighting monsters and leveling up. You can become a terrorist to sabotage, or you can defend your home and outsmart the saboteurs.

In any case, the joy of battling the sky, the earth, and other people is boundless. Such a setting undoubtedly makes the game "Fate" more realistic. After all, in reality, there are good people and bad guys. In the game, monsters are the evil side, and players cannot all be just righteous. The presence of traitors or anti-human terrorists will make the game even more exciting.

However, this setting has not been officially announced; it is a hidden setting that will gradually be revealed as players expand and build cities. In the end, whether the eastern wind will prevail over the western wind, and the players will successfully build the city, creating a safe and secure research base for further expansion, or whether the western wind will prevail over the eastern wind, and anti-human players and monsters will join forces to destroy the entire city, forcing the city's players to flee to other unbroken cities to survive, will be a significant issue in the coming period.

"Nothing is impossible. Just look at the current Safe Haven, which already harbors mutants injected with animal genes. More enemies will make the game more interesting. At worst, we'll just have to flee," said Peach Eyes indifferently.

However, while he spoke indifferently, he couldn't really be indifferent. If the Safe Haven were really attacked by anti-human players and monsters working together, the investments of the past few days would be in vain.

"We don't need to think too much. We just need to ensure there are no traitors among us and that we can cooperate sincerely. As for finding traitors among others, we can just kill them," Lei Gong said.

"Right, we just need to ensure there are no traitors among us. Why worry about others? Here, this is today's task. We need to clear a BOSS from this wasteland, but this BOSS is very good at hiding, making it difficult to find," Peach Eyes said, bringing up the task information.

The Safe Haven's planning is grand, and the first phase includes a thirty-mile radius outside the base. This is just the first phase, and the total planning is unknown to the Cleaner and his team. After all, the planning map Peach Eyes has is only a part of the future Hope City.

Naturally, the monsters outside the Safe Haven do not agree with the city's expansion. After the system warned about the monsters and the Safe Haven announced the city-building task, the areas around the base, which were previously safe for high-level players, have become dangerous again.

For example, the horse monkey the Cleaner recently killed was an intelligent monster that had not been seen before. Such intelligent monsters now hide among ordinary monsters, acting as commanders, waiting for the Safe Haven to make a mistake so they can strike and destroy it from the start. The presence of potential anti-human players and intelligent monsters has made the atmosphere even more tense.

"Can we see the distribution of monsters in this area?" Looking at the wasteland before them, the Cleaner asked. This was likely a factory from the past, filled with mutated and mechanical monsters. Finding the BOSS here without a clear direction would be a headache.

"The Safe Haven's satellite is encrypted, making it difficult to use," Peach Eyes said, somewhat helplessly.

After the city-building task was announced, the Safe Haven's satellite was suddenly encrypted to a higher level. Clearly, the higher-ups at the Safe Haven knew there were traitors among the players. While players could use the satellite to observe monsters, traitors could also use it to see everything in the Safe Haven. This would make the Safe Haven very dangerous. Therefore, the satellite's usage permissions were encrypted to a higher level to prevent outsiders from using it.

"If we had our own satellite, we wouldn't have to be so secretive," Lei Gong said, somewhat wistfully.

"It's not impossible. Once the players build the city and human technology advances to a certain level, if we have the money to buy a commercial satellite, it's not out of the question. In reality, many large companies own their own satellites," Kantu said.

"That's not something an ordinary person can afford. A satellite costs tens of millions to manufacture and launch. According to the current points exchange rate, we'd need billions of points, and who knows how many more we'd need by then. Let's stop talking nonsense and get to work as planned."

The Cleaner transformed the pickup truck back into a wolf mech and did not get out of the mech but drove it directly into the wasteland. There were some high-level monsters and possibly other players who might PK them, so they had to be prepared and not let their guard down.

The Cleaner led the way, with Kantu following to help, and Lei Gong constantly climbing to high points to install cameras. Yes, cameras. Knowing that the satellite was unusable and that there were traitors among the players and intelligent monsters, they came up with this plan.

They rushed into the wasteland to find the BOSS. With such a small team, they couldn't just steamroll through. In the past, clearing a path and not worrying about respawning monsters was fine, but now it was different. The wasteland contained intelligent monsters. As they delved deeper, these intelligent monsters might gather more monsters to ambush them or other players might follow them with ill intentions. They had to be cautious. The game was no longer that simple, and they didn't know where the BOSS was, so they had to monitor the area constantly.

Therefore, they installed wireless cameras in hidden high points as they went. Peach Eyes gathered the footage from these cameras on a computer and installed recognition software to check periodically, ensuring the team wouldn't be surrounded and to see if the BOSS might be wandering around.

"How's it looking?" The Cleaner and his team stood outside a room in a building. They were in a factory with many rooms, likely a production area. They were on the second floor, and the monsters on the first floor and in the corridor had already been cleared.

Now, they had to search room by room. The task was to kill the BOSS in this wasteland, but whether the BOSS was a pig demon, a werewolf, or a zombie king was not specified. They had to search for it, so they used the cameras and searched each room themselves, not missing a single one.

"No BOSS, just a few small monsters. But there's a metal monster, so be careful," Lei Gong said, carefully controlling a mechanical bee to observe the room. After confirming there were no powerful monsters, he recalled the bee and shared the monster distribution in the room with the team.

"Fatso, keep watch. Lei Gong, take the metal monster. Kantu, control the first monster, and I'll handle the other two," the Cleaner said, marking the monster distribution on the map.

Kantu put away his gun and took out a dagger, standing on the other side of the door. The Cleaner raised three fingers and lowered one each time, and when all three were down, he kicked the door open, and the three of them rushed in.

There were two zombies, a mutated house cat, and a mechanical monster that looked like a bench in the room. The Cleaner charged at the two zombies, Kantu kicked the mutated cat into the air, and Lei Gong used a wrench to quickly unscrew a bolt on the mechanical monster.

Swish! The Cleaner's dagger flew out, piercing a zombie's head. He then leaped and wrapped his legs around the neck of the other zombie, twisting his body in mid-air.

Snap! The zombie's neck was broken by the Cleaner's legs, and he landed in a crouch to absorb the impact. Kantu, who had kicked the cat into the air, jumped and stabbed it through the heart with his dagger as it fell. Lei Gong, wielding various tools, had already dismantled the mechanical monster into pieces.

"Clear." The battle had made some noise, and after it ended, the Cleaner looked towards the door. Peach Eyes, who was on watch, said, "Safe," and the three in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

"Next room." The Cleaner walked to the zombie with the dagger in its head, pulled it out, and wiped it on the zombie's tattered clothes. They collected the items dropped by the monsters, putting what they could carry into their backpacks and leaving the rest behind, then moved on to the next room.

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