Li Mengnan politely agreed and smiled. The current selection of dreamwalkers is still mainly death row prisoners and serious criminals. Although it cannot be said that all of them are, at least the vast majority are indeed the kind of strong and strong men.
The young man who picked him up at the station was so curious, so he must be a newcomer to this area.
The young man who called himself Xiao He was also a talkative man. Although he did not receive a response from Li Mengnan, he still said to himself: "But I am not the only one responsible for picking up the bus. According to another colleague of mine, his
I picked up a lot of friendly dreamwalkers like you, and there was also a little girl who looked pretty cute."
There is actually a new female dreamwalker?
Li Mengnan once heard Wei Mao mention that due to innate psychological and physical shortcomings, the chance of female volunteers passing the test safely is extremely low, often only one-tenth of that of male volunteers. However, they can successfully pass the test and awaken into dreams.
Women who are practitioners often have potential that far exceeds that of male volunteers.
Don't underestimate any female dreamwalker - this was Euonymus's special advice before he left.
In order to avoid attracting unnecessary attention, the gathering location this time was not located at the Beijing headquarters of the HX Research Institute in the city, but was arranged at a distribution base far away from the city.
From a geographical point of view, this place no longer belongs to the capital, but should be considered to be within the borders of Hebei Province.
This branch of the headquarters looks like a secret base. More than 90% of the main body is embedded in the belly of a hill. There is only a small white building disguised as a weather station hidden among the surrounding green mountains and green waters.
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Although he had the identity certificate of the HX Research Institute Dreamwalker, Li Mengnan was still restricted to the area of activity here. Unfortunately, he was not able to see the entire sub-base at a glance.
However, even in the Henan branch where he is located, he has not been able to fully explore the inside... At present, his authority is still too low.
The schedule arrangement at the HX Research Institute headquarters was more efficient than Li Mengnan expected. After lunch time that day, meeting notices and a route map to the meeting place appeared on the LCD prompt board in the personal lounge.
Li Mengnan had experienced the twists and turns of the underground passage here. He took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the route map on the notice board. Then he quickly found the conference room by comparing the route.
The design of underground buildings often follows the principle of saving space. This conference room is also slightly compact in area, but the use of a large number of hidden lights and mirror materials greatly reduces the sense of depression when you are inside.
Li Mengnan was one of the first people to arrive. Faced with a large number of empty seats in the room, he chose the most inconspicuous position in the corner, sat down quietly and began to observe the other dreamwalkers who entered the conference room one by one.
Except for the female dreamwalker who has not yet been seen, Li Mengnan saw all male dreamwalkers, mostly in the age group of 20 to 40, and most of them were burly.
Since they all came from felonious backgrounds, most of the unruly gangsterism in the bones of these dreamwalkers has not receded. In addition, they have experienced the test of life and death in the world of Gaia, and the murderous intent in their bodies is almost taking shape, even though it is only a dozen or so.
The man was sitting there carelessly, but he suddenly showed the aura of thousands of troops.
No wonder Xiao He, who was responsible for picking up passengers at the station, was so surprised when he saw him. A dreamwalker like him, who was almost indistinguishable from ordinary people, was really different compared to the domineering and leak-detecting dreamwalkers in front of him.
But he is not the only one who is so different.
For example, the two dreamwalkers walked in again at the gate.
These are two young people who look to be about the same age as Li Mengnan. Their appearances are very complementary. One has a fat head and big ears, and the other is skinny. Although each of them has an expressionless face, it can be seen from their uneasy eyes that they are in trouble.
They tried to stay calm, but it was obvious that the room full of ruthless characters put a lot of psychological pressure on the two of them.
There were still a lot of empty seats in the conference room, but more or less there would be a strong man with a fierce face next to him. The fat and thin people seemed to be very wary of these people. They stood at the door for a long time without daring to come forward until they saw the person sitting there.
Li Mengnan, who was in the corner, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he stepped forward in three steps at a time.
"Hey, man, do you mind if we sit here?"
Except for some weirdos who can be called "gifted", fat people generally have a "halo of affinity". The fat man who came up to talk to Li Mengnan also inherited this hidden attribute. He wore a pair of small round glasses with black rims and smiled.
Extremely pleasing.
"You can sit wherever you like, there's no one around anyway." Li Mengnan nodded.
The fat man thanked him and took his skinny brother to sit on the right side of Li Mengnan. He took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed one to Li Mengnan, and introduced himself: "My name is Guo Yimin, and the brother next to me is Huang Hao."
, they are all students, so unlike those people, they talk more intimately...Brother, what is your surname?"
"Li Mengnan, like you, is also a student." Li Mengnan lit the cigarette with the help of the torch handed over by the fat man and said with a faint smile.
"Macho? What a name!"
Not surprisingly, the fat man also mispronounced Li Mengnan's name, but Li Mengnan didn't bother to explain. He just smiled casually and asked: "How did you become volunteers?"
The fat man Guo Yimin knew that Li Mengnan was just asking a tactful question, but actually he was asking what crime they were imprisoned for. He couldn't help but sigh and said with a wry smile: "Brother, do you think I look like the kind of person who can commit crimes? I was
It was just self-defense, but it was a pity that the second-generation rich man had bad luck. He fell and knocked himself to death... As a result, the second-generation rich man's father felt as if his ancestral grave had been dug up, and he had to kill me.
Damn it, what do you think I, a powerless poor man, can do?"
Seeing Li Mengnan looking at Huang Hao next to him, Guo Yimin said on his behalf: "Brother Huang doesn't like to talk much, let me speak for him...
Speaking of which, his experience was quite sad. He went to the girls' dormitory to look for his girlfriend, but when he opened the door, he saw a well-known tall, rich and handsome guy in the department, having sex on her girlfriend's bed.
As soon as his head got hot, this guy picked up a fruit knife from the table and stabbed the rich and handsome man. When he heard the girl on the bed scream in fright, he realized that it was not her girlfriend at all, but the same girl as her girlfriend.
The tall, rich and handsome girlfriend in the dormitory, the two of them just borrowed his girlfriend’s bed.”
The tall and lanky boy named Huang Hao suddenly said with a cold tone: "I don't regret it, that boy should have died. After I was imprisoned, a friend of mine told me that in fact, my girlfriend was once raped by that boy in the name of singing in a KTV*
I did, but she didn’t dare to tell me.”
"Brother, why didn't you tell me about this? But having said that, flies don't bite seamless eggs. If you say that your girlfriend has no idea about that tall, rich and handsome man, I wouldn't believe it even to death, so***
*It still needs to be verified... Well, everything is in the past. When our brothers can come out of the legendary land alive this time, with our wealth, do we still care about a green tea bitch like her?"
Guo Yimin patted Huang Hao's shoulder with his thick fleshy palm, comforting him like a close friend for many years.
"Are you two from the same place?" Li Mengnan asked.
"No, we belong to two research institutes respectively." Guo Yimin threw away his cigarette butt and held up his glasses, and said with some surprise: "Didn't your research institute tell you that? This time, each province's research institute has only one mission.
The quota is mainly to prevent all members from being trapped in the legendary land, causing a gap in the newcomers of Dream Walker."
"Oh, that's it... I really don't know this, because I am the only new dreamwalker in our 21 Research Institute recently."
Only then did Guo Yimin suddenly show his face. He patted Li Mengnan's shoulder familiarly, sighed and comforted: "It seems that you are also cannon fodder thrown out by the research institute. We are brothers in distress. When we enter the legendary land, let's support each other more."
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cannon fodder?
Guo Yimin's words surprised Li Mengnan a little, but then he understood what was going on.
Although this is a rare high-yield mission, it is also accompanied by extremely high risks. No research institute is willing to throw potential dreamwalker recruits into this bottomless pit.
The only ones who came were the new Dream Walkers who were at the bottom of the ranking and were not welcomed in the institute.
This is a huge gamble for Guo Yimin, Huang Hao and others. If they win the bet, they will be able to soar into the sky and stand out among the dreamwalkers of the same class. Relying on the power of legendary objects, they will completely crush those high-potential companions who were once optimistic.
Underfoot.
If you lose the bet... it actually doesn't matter. For dreamwalkers who perform high-risk missions, they will die in future missions sooner or later if they don't have the strength.
At this moment, a beautiful pink figure suddenly appeared at the door, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the conference room.
This is a cute girl who is estimated to be fifteen or sixteen years old. Her face is painted with heavy makeup like an SD doll. She has a pair of crimson contact lenses under her long golden curly hair. She wears a pink Lolita skirt with white lace to show off her figure.
Extraordinarily petite and exquisite.
The girl's appearance added a touch of color to this conference room that was completely occupied by male creatures. No one would refuse such a beautiful and cute little girl to sit next to her. Almost everyone moved their seats in unison, signaling the girl to sit down.
to one's own side.
However, after observing for a while, the girl walked straight to the corner of the back row. She lifted up her skirt and sat on Li Mengnan's left hand side in a ladylike posture. She took out a small makeup box and started to touch up her makeup.
"Hi, beauty, my name is Guo Yimin, can I meet you?" The fat man stuck his head and struck up a conversation with the girl through Li Mengnan.
"Sorry, I'm not interested in men, especially fat men." The girl brushed her eyelashes carefully, not even bothering to look at Guo Yimin.
The fat man's hands were raised stiffly in the air, neither extending nor shrinking, which was extremely embarrassing.
The girl applied lip gloss, pursed her lips slightly, and raised the corners of her mouth with a slight arc of disdain: "But I can tell you the name. You can call me PADIO. Sooner or later, all of you will look up to this name."
“What a great speech from the middle school students.”
Li Mengnan couldn't help but grin. Even a shameless person like him couldn't stand listening.
Li Mengnan did not lower his voice intentionally. The girl unexpectedly turned her face to look at him, raised her eyebrows and sneered arrogantly: "Very good, you are the first person who dares to question me. I admire your courage and also
I can forgive you for contradicting me - young man, do you want to be my subordinate?"
"Girl, do you... know about Amway?" Li Mengnan thought for a moment and said seriously.
puff--!
The fat man who was eavesdropping burst out laughing on the spot. He was so impressed by Li Mengnan's masterful counterattack.
The girl was not angry at all, she just sneered disdainfully, put away her makeup box and ignored the others.
Not long after, all the dreamwalkers had arrived, the door was closed, and a man who looked like a researcher in his forties announced the start of the meeting from the front.
"I believe that your research institute has reiterated the significance of this mission to you many times. I will not repeat it here. I will only mention the more important points."
"This time it appeared in a legendary place in Romania. Based on the headquarters' analysis of the types of ghosts that appeared in the periphery, and combined with local legends in Romania, it is initially inferred that it should be related to Dracula, the legendary ancestor of vampires."
Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but feel a little commotion.
The vampire Dracula is simply too famous. This figure, said to be one of the ancestor vampires, appears in almost every film and television film involving vampires. The name Dracula has almost become synonymous with the creature vampire, and can even
It is said to be one of the most famous ghosts in the world.
No one thought that they would face this legendary monster cursed by God.
"Quiet!" The man who looked like a researcher on the stage knocked on the table and forcibly interrupted the discussion of everyone in the audience. "Legendary places and myths and legends are two different things. What you are facing in the legendary places cannot be the almost immortal one."
The monster... remember, he is just a ghost, a slightly more powerful ghost with the image and abilities of the legendary Dracula. With your strength, you can completely kill him."
"It's easy to say. If it were so easy to kill, why would there be a need to send out so many people?"
Someone in the audience muttered something in a low voice, but it did not arouse the agreement of others. After all, everyone here knew from the moment they signed the agreement with the HX Research Institute that their lives no longer belonged to them.
"Dracula should be from England, right? How come it is said to be in Romania?" A dreamwalker in the audience raised his doubts.
"It's terrible to be uneducated."
The pink Lolita girl next to Li Mengnan painted her nails slowly and taunted her venomously again.
"Vlad Zebis Dracula was born in 1431 in the city of Sikisura in present-day Romania. His father, Vlad Tagule, was accepted as a member of the 'Dragon Knights' organization at the time and was favored by the Greeks in Romania.
The Mongolian king appointed him as the governor-general of Transylvania.
According to Romanian analysis, 'Tagule' comes from the meaning of 'dragon', indicating the honor of being included in the dragon knight, while 'Dracula' means 'son of the dragon'.
Later, influenced by the terminology of the Saxons in southern Germany in Romania, the name "Dracula" took on the meaning of "devil".
The impression that Dracula is British is entirely due to the earliest vampire novel "Vampire Count Dracula". This is actually just like us Chinese people always think that "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the official history of the Three Kingdoms.
It is said that the rumors have been passed on for too long, and the lies have become true."
"Let me go, humanoid Baidu? It's faster than I can check my mobile phone..." The fat man Guo Yimin compared the information he searched on the Internet with his mobile phone and couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
The researcher man on the stage nodded in approval. After pressing the remote control, the projector projected clear images on the large curtain behind him.
"I believe you should know that the greatest wealth of each legendary place is the legendary objects in it, but you may not know that legendary objects are not like chaos crystals where you can directly feel the energy contained in them. Some legendary objects will even move towards the road.
As inconspicuous as an ordinary stone..."
"In that case, how do we identify which item in the legendary land is a legendary item?" Dreamwalker asked below.
"Perhaps this requires good eyesight and a little bit of luck." The researcher man spread his fingers and pressed on the big screen behind him, and said: "The pictures you see now are the results of our collaboration with historians and researchers from major universities.
Religious scientists, through the analysis of historical materials and legends, create simulated images of legendary objects... When you see something similar to these pictures, you can consider bringing it back."
"Then what if you find out after you bring it back that it's not a legendary item?"
"As I said, in addition to eyesight, this also requires a bit of luck." The researcher man said with a smile: "You can think of it as a gamble. Some people will make a lot of money, and some people will lose everything. Fortunately,
, this gamble is equally fair to everyone...even dreamwalkers from other countries."
"So is there any relatively accurate way to judge legendary objects?" Obviously there are still people who are unwilling to place their bets on the illusory probability of character.
"have!"
The researcher man pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and gave an affirmative answer. Immediately, everyone in the audience held their breath and raised their ears, for fear of missing a word.
"According to the experience gained by other dreamwalkers performing similar tasks in the past, there are often unique high-level ghosts in legendary places. The weapons and equipment they use, or certain objects in their residences, are most likely to be legendary items.
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This is probably the easiest thing to understand what this researcher man said - the unique high-level ghost is simply equivalent to the major bosses in the legendary land!
If you don't get some good equipment when fighting the BOSS, then this mission will be too boring...
After the researcher man said these words, the Dreamwalkers in the audience were excited and whispered to each other, as if they had already killed everyone in the legendary land.
On the other hand, the pink Lolita girl next to Li Mengnan once again sneered coldly with disdain and said: "Even if you can kill me, can you still get it?"