My portable gaming girlfriend

"Urgent task?"

Shen Qing's eyes lit up when she heard the news, although things that interest her are usually not good, but urgent tasks are different.

This can be regarded as a sudden time-limited mission. Many urgent missions are only opened once every six months. They can get very precious equipment materials and the rewards are extremely generous.

"I've decided, let's take this task."

Shen Qing, who considers herself the captain, decided for us without any hesitation?

"Hey... let's not say that you haven't consulted us yet, but if you want to take on an emergency mission, you must at least have the equipment of the 'superior mission' level. Aren't our equipment going to die?"

Although I, Ye Yin, and Shen Qing are also equipped with higher-level missions, they are all from the previous version, so we have to discount them here.

As for Sakura, let alone, she was still wearing a flashy skirt with the same defensive power as a novice outfit...

"Isn't the Mountain Beast mission we were going to accept the mission of the superior?"

Shen Qing asked back. Of course I thought that we might not be able to fight, but you insist on accepting that mission...!

I made a silent complaint in my heart.

"Actually, death is normal, just replay it a few times."

Shen Qing didn't care, revealing a kind of calmness that she got used to after failing too many times in the challenge - of course, I will be beaten by her if I say this sentence, let's use another way to persuade.

"Die and die all the time, isn't it a waste of time and money for consumables?"

"Heh, your time is worthless. As for the money for some consumables, do you have to worry about it? Forget it, take 10,000 gold dollars."

A line of words popped up in front of my eyes——

[Would you accept the 10,000 gold dollars from 'The Eternal Waving Moon in the Scarlet Sky'? 】

Damn... you give me money all of a sudden, you really look down on me!

I focused my eyes on the word 'yes', and after a beep, the number of gold coins displayed on the interface of my vision increased by 10,000 in an instant.

"Kui...the sound is heard five hundred miles away...that is to say, the attack method may be related to the sound."

Shen Qing didn't seem to care about the 10,000 gold at all, and had already turned her head to study the characteristics of the monster. As for me who took the money, I saw that Ye Yin and Ying didn't object, so I could only give up persuasion.

There are not a lot of bosses in urgent missions, and it can be said that the distribution of bosses is similar to that of ordinary monsters. But this is an urgent task after all, and there will never be fewer players.

We took the airship to ‘Tongshan’, the emerald green mountains that should have been surrounded by clouds and dotted with villages, but now they are a mess of destruction. The cultivated land under the mountain was destroyed, and only the wreckage of the wooden house remained. There seemed to be bursts of strange sounds echoing on the ground.

These steel monsters are raging in the land and forests. Not only us but also many players came to challenge the 'emergency mission'. Even the monsters that are as numerous as an army seem small in front of this human army.

There is no need for a stalker, we waited for a while, found a Kui surrounded by only a team of players, and landed near it.

Looking closely, the body of this monster is in the shape of a cow. Metal tubes and sheets are connected by transmission wheels to form limbs, and a steel belly is inserted into them to support its heavy body. A two-meter-high steel hat with a wide top and a narrow bottom adds a bit of humor.

"What is this, 'bucket hat'? Is it a bad idea of ​​the production team?"

Just after Shen Qing finished speaking, the monster's hat was lifted up as if it had been taken off by an invisible hand. Looking carefully, it turned out that there were two mechanical arms connected to the edge of the hat.

The narrow end of the cap sent by the mechanical arm is aligned with its mouth, and a metal film can be seen on the side of the wide mouth.

"This...is a trumpet?"

Shen Qing is still thinking, but I feel bad——

"Leave!"

Kui raised his front foot and stomped on the ground. At the same time as he landed, I heard the sound of huge waves coming from the flood, the beeping of the air defense siren, and the whistling sound of falling from a high altitude. Dozens of sounds mixed in the air and attacked us. Come.

Sonic attack...? !

Through the 'hat', no, it should be said that although the sound waves accelerated by the horn are invisible, the land it passes through is turned like a rake moving at the speed of sound, spreading out a ravine.

I ran and swooped to the side with all my strength, and finally avoided the direct impact of the sound wave.

But I found that I lost my hearing and couldn't hear anything. Sound is an important source for judging the enemy's position. Now it disappeared, and I was at a loss.

It wasn't the first time he encountered a sound wave attack. The Sonic Dragon used to attack through sharp sound waves, but it was the first time he encountered this kind of hearing loss.

I raised my head, and saw that on the dusty battlefield, Ye Yin was in a similar situation as me, struggling to hold on, while Shen Qing and Ying fell on the ground lifeless.

I swap them in squad bands.

【Ye Yin: Senior, I can't hear anything...】

[Me: Me too, it seems difficult to handle, Shen Qing, Ying, how are you two doing? 】

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the bodies of the two of them disappear, which seemed to be as I expected.

[Ye Yin: Senior! 】

Hearing Ye Yin's tone of voice, I felt bad for a moment. Looking back, it was...!

An iron hoof fell on my head!

We returned to the 'Alien Beast Countermeasure Camp' in a state of embarrassment to discuss the next move.

"Without equipment to defend against sonic attacks, this urgent mission would be impossible."

"Do you still need to say that?"

Shen Qing replied to me with contempt, and this guy pretended not to remember who had proposed to challenge this 'urgent mission' desperately.

I can't argue with her, since she is the target of the mission, she must be able to defeat it. Even if this article also has equipment designed to improve defense against sonic attacks, this expansion must have it too. We just need to find it.

"Why don't you ask other players?"

Sakura has always been very direct in her thinking, and her proposals are always like this.

"However, we need to find a good player to ask, right? The new expansion has just been released, and everyone's progress is about the same..."

"No, those game studios must be progressing much faster than ordinary players. The people around the so-called 'Miss' before, aren't they?"

Shen Qing subtly showed a moment of disdain when she said Missy.

"How can members of this kind of studio have time to give us advice..."

"Hey~ Does anyone know how to deal with that monster called Kui?"

While we were discussing, Sakura already started asking? And he still walked out of this room and asked in a clear and loud voice that could be heard more than ten meters away?

"Hey, are you also interested in urgent missions?"

Suddenly... Someone really responded to us?

I saw the person who came, it was a female player of the dragon blood race - slightly brown skin, white hair tied into a tall ponytail, carrying a long-handled weapon of equal height, it looked like a heroic and reliable player big sister!

Her decorations are also very characteristic. She wore a black eye patch over her left eye, and there was a small vertical scar on the skin under the eye patch, which seemed to have a violent beauty.

Generally, female players will adjust their skin to the softest texture in the game, and such female players with scars on their eyes are very rare.

The in-game appearance is tweakable anyway, but it's her weapons that I pay more attention to. This equipment and the red and black armor set she is wearing are all from the strongest boss Bahuanglong in the previous version.

Unlike my bow, the long knife on her back has undergone [tempering], and even the name of such a weapon will change.

The long knife attack moves are similar to the knife, but the attack range will be much longer than the knife. Most of the long knives have a total length of about 150cm, and the handle occupies two-thirds of the length. The entire blade looks like it is made of some kind of dark black metal with faint red blood-like patterns flowing. The lower part of the knife body is connected to the round rod of the handle, and the joint is surrounded by some golden carvings in the shape of dragon scales.

This kind of weapon is easily reminiscent of a red-faced ancient man who is loyal and loyal...

Speaking of tempering, this is also a rather pitiful setting in the game. It turns out that by defeating a monster and obtaining its 'Dragon's Blood Essence' or 'Core', one can forge a weapon that incorporates its attributes. But... there is another weapon on top of this, which can only be obtained by defeating dozens or hundreds of enemies, obtaining piles of 'Dragon's Blood' or 'core' and constantly upgrading the original weapon. top gear.

The tempered long sword [Crown God] held by this female player is just an upgrade from the ordinary [Bahuang Long Sword · Straight].

Bahuanglong is the boss of Penglai Island. Any player who wants to kill it has to go through a series of lengthy plot tasks.

After completing the task, the instance of "Ancient Land" will be opened to the player, and the player can enter the instance to challenge the Eight Wild Dragons at any time without going through the plot.

Since she was able to refine this knife, this big sister probably challenged the Eight Desolation Dragon no less than a hundred times. Not only is it stronger... Such perseverance is beyond compare.

Maybe the urgent task that just wiped out our group is just a piece of cake for her, and it's no problem to fight alone.

Even Shen Qing was a little surprised after recognizing the other party's equipment, and responded to her with an attitude of treating the other party as an equal existence.

"Do you have any suggestions?"

"—I just want to remind you that it seems a bit difficult to do emergency missions with your equipment."

The big sister doesn't have any pretensions either.

"What else do we need?"

"I just heard some news, and I'm going to meet that monster. Since its attack method is related to the sonic attack... I suggest that wearing the turtle helmet will have an effect. By the way, this is it—"

She took out a beak-shaped helmet from the warehouse to show us. If I understand correctly, she called that the turtle helmet? It appears to be a bird's headgear covering the eyes.

No, players with tempered weapons on their backs are less likely to make mistakes. The appearance of the helmet is probably a bad idea of ​​the production team.

"Okay, thank you for your suggestion... By the way, do you have a team?"

I wanted to extend an invitation to her, but——

"Although no, it's just because I like to do tasks alone."

She turned us down. But it is true that there is no malice at all, maybe it is just a real lone ranger?

"One-on-one with such a powerful monster?"

"Well, it's always been me."

Sakura just felt strange, but my heart was full of shock. In this age of efficiency, who would challenge tasks one by one? Even if you have the ability to single out, it is still faster to form a team...

I can't imagine why she would do this, there is only one possibility - this person is too idle!