Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 113 Meeting with Crane
Harran City, in a small building south of the tower.

Crane climbed to the roof and fell into the balcony through the gap in the roof awning.

He originally wanted to open the door directly to find the props requested, but when he saw a few woven baskets placed on the balcony, he remembered what the quartermaster said.

——In Harlan, collecting resources is the basis for survival.

So he thought about it, opened several baskets one by one, and took away all the seemingly useful items inside.

Although Crane doesn't know yet what use these metal parts or thin ropes can be used for.

Crane put the looted items into his backpack, and then he opened the door to the room.

"Ow-!!"

An infected person suddenly jumped out!
"Bang-!"

Crane reacted quickly and hit the opponent's head hard with the modified iron pipe!
The infected person wailed, his whole body fell to the side, and hit the wall again.

Crane didn't hesitate and added another iron pipe to send the infected person away completely.

"Huh..." Crane exhaled a thick breath. Although ordinary infected people are slow in movement, they are easy to deal with.

But after knowing that there is currently no antidote for the Harlan virus, Crane can't help but feel a little nervous when facing them.

After all, if you get bitten, all bets are off.

"It is said that some infected people are very powerful and very dangerous. Why didn't GRE tell me such an important thing? Could it be that they didn't know about it? It doesn't feel right..."

While thinking about it, Crane looked at the infected bodies on the ground and clicked his tongue:

"This Carrick also said that there will be no zombies in his house, so what is this? Fortunately, I reacted quickly."

Then, Crane walked into the three-story building cautiously.

The small building was very messy, with various furniture and packages scattered all over the floor, and there were faint traces of blood in some corners.

Crane looked at the mess in this place and couldn't help but frowned.

"It's so messy, it's a bit troublesome to find a pair of glasses and a book."

"Forget it, let's just collect resources by the way."

Crane immediately started rummaging around in the small building.

After spending twenty minutes, opening almost all the openable containers and packages in the small building, and searching for many things, Crane finally found Carrick in a small package in the corner. Need spare glasses.

After taking the gardening book from the pile of books scattered on the first floor, Crane returned to the roof of the third floor, hung up the grapple rope, and landed smoothly on the ground.

He wanted to move on to the next mission, but when he turned around, he saw an infected "minion" wearing a full-body chemical protective suit and carrying a gas cylinder, rushing toward him!

"I go!"

Crane dodged to avoid the minion's attack, and then hit a stick with his backhand!
With a muffled "bang" sound, the minion fell to the ground and stopped moving.

Crane wanted to go up to check, but as soon as he got closer, he noticed that the red gas bottle carried behind the Minion was making a hissing sound of leaking air!
"What a ghost..."

Before Kelan could finish his words, he immediately turned around and ran backwards!

"boom--!"

Behind him, the gas bottle carried by the Minion exploded suddenly, and the air flow carried the metal fragments and passed him past him. But fortunately, Crane reacted quickly enough and was lucky enough, so he was not affected in the end.

But after Crane stopped running, he turned his head and looked at the place where the minions exploded. His expression was extremely ugly.

It’s broken, make a noise!

The roars of the plague demons have reached Crane's ears, and he even saw a plague demon flying towards him in the distance!

"It's too late to run away, now we can only..."

Crane gritted his teeth, grabbed the grappling hook rope that he had not yet had time to put away, and climbed up again along the outer wall of the small building.

Then he jumped onto the balcony, hid back in Carrick's small building, and closed the third-floor door that was the only one leading to the outside world.

Crane leaned tightly against the door, watching the figures of the plague demons climbing up from the window to the roof. The unpleasant roars echoed in his ears, and cold sweat was already breaking out on his forehead!

At least four plague demons!

"Don't be impulsive. Be patient and wait patiently for them to leave. Amir said that if you can't find the target, the plague demons will not stay in one place for too long."

Crane tried to slow down his breathing, sat behind the door and waited quietly.

The plague demons wandered back and forth on the roof and balcony, and one even tried to push against the door that Crane had closed, which frightened Crane so much that his back was soaked with sweat.

But they didn't find Crane in the end, so they left one after another.

Through the windows and peepholes, Crane counted the departing demons.

"Two, three, four... they should be gone by now."

Crane waited for a while, and after hearing that there was indeed no movement outside, he opened the door.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he pushed the door open, he saw a plague demon jumping down from the gap in the awning on the roof.

Suddenly bumping into each other's faces, one person and one plague demon were even stunned.

But the plague demon immediately let out a roar and jumped towards Kelan!At such a close distance, Kelan couldn't dodge and was thrown to the ground by the plague demon!
"Uhhhhhh-!! Get away!!"

Of course, it was impossible for Crane to just surrender. He pressed his hands hard against the plague demon's neck to prevent it from biting him.With his vitals restrained, the plague demon kept roaring and clawing at Kelan's arms.

Fortunately, Crane was wearing a denim jacket and the clothes were thick, so he was not scratched by the epidemic.

Looking at the ferocious face of the plague demon at close range, although Kelan was inevitably a little panicked, he quickly calmed down and broke its neck with a force of both hands!

The plague demon's neck made a crisp sound, and then stopped moving.

Crane pushed away the plague demon's body and moved to the wall, leaning against it, breathing heavily.

"Damn...this is...so exciting!"

After regaining his breath, Crane checked himself and found no traces of bites or scratches, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked at the corpse of the plague demon on the ground with lingering fear, and decided not to rush to complete the next commission, but to go back to the tower to rest for a while.

"If a few more plague demons come, I won't be able to handle them!"

……

Crane returned to the tower and handed the commissioned glasses and gardening books to the client, Carrick.

Carrick was very excited: "You did it, that's great! This is my thanks, you must accept it."

Crane declined a little, then stopped insisting and accepted the money from Carrick, even though it was only a little.

Crane was disappointed.

Of course he was not disappointed that the reward was too little, but after he saw that the commission asked to find a book, he thought it would be a hint left by the person he was looking for.

But after reading the gardening book several times, Crane finally determined that it was an ordinary book.The client, Carrick, was also confused by his suggestion.

After returning in vain, Crane couldn't help but sigh, looking at the small pile of dirty banknotes in his hand, he couldn't help but laugh or cry.

However, he thought about it and came to the trading point on the second floor, intending to see what was there.

As soon as he entered the room, Crane's eyes were attracted by a bow hanging on the wall.

It was a longbow that was yellow-brown in color overall, with obvious hand-made traces. It could be seen that it was made of various common materials in Haran, but the whole bow looked very harmonious. It looked like a good bow at first glance. .

Crane subconsciously asked: "Is this...?"

The person in charge of the trading point also noticed his gaze, smiled and said, "Brother, calm down, I've seen that look from you a dozen times today."

Only then did Crane come back to his senses and asked a little embarrassedly: "What's going on with this bow?"

The trader smiled and said: "This is a new weapon sample sent from the Light Guard. It was made by Master Alexei himself. Her name is the Ranger Revolver Bow."

"How about it, isn't it beautiful?"

The trader laughed loudly: "Unfortunately, this bow is not for sale, it is put here for display. If you want it, you have to make enough contributions!"

Crane couldn't help feeling regretful after hearing this.

He originally thought that if this bow was a commodity, he would buy it even if he sold it.

Crane is very smart. He has long realized that in Harlan's environment, firearms have too many side effects, and bows and crossbows have become excellent long-range weapons.

If you can get one, it will definitely greatly improve your combat effectiveness.

And even though he is not talented, he can also use a bow and arrow.

He had wanted to ask Jade where she got her bow and arrows, but now that he saw the Ranger revolver, Jade's short wooden bow suddenly lost its appeal.

In addition, Crane also noticed an unfamiliar term the trader just mentioned.

"What is the 'Light Keeper'? Another survivor group?"

Unexpectedly, the trader smiled mysteriously: "I can't tell you this, newcomer. Your authority is not enough."

Crane: "..."

Appetizing, right?

The trader finally told him: "If you continue to help residents complete their commissions, your authority will gradually increase, and everyone who needs to know will know."

"Okay." Crane said concisely, and then used the little change he just earned to buy an emergency food and simple first aid kit from the trader, then packed his bags and set off again.

……

Two days later.

At the entrance to the second floor of the tower, Bracken, Amir, Jed and others, together with all the residents of the tower, surrounded Crane.

Bracken put a small red flower folded from paper on Crane's chest, then smiled and shook his hand:

"Congratulations, Crane! You won the honorary title of 'Most Popular Parkour of the Month'!"

"The children folded this little red flower specially for you, and thank you for helping them find the crayon!"

“Everyone, a round of applause for our best newcomer, Kyle Crane—!”

"Hahhhhh-"

Warm applause broke out, and everyone looked at Crane with a smile.

As the protagonist, Crane reluctantly twitched his lips and showed a tired smile, which was a response to everyone's enthusiasm.

This is not because he has any objections to others, but because...

Two days!Two whole days!

In the past two days, he visited all the residents in the tower and completed most of the military supplies tasks.

But!He still hasn't found any clues! !

Not to mention finding the mysterious clue holder, there is not even a suspect!
Although he knew that this was inappropriate, he still couldn't help but feel the urge in his heart to find out the dead senior agent Li You and ask him to whom he gave the clues.

The commendation meeting ended quickly and everyone dispersed.Amir patted Crane on the shoulder one last time, told him to come find him in the afternoon, and then went upstairs.

After Crane returned to his room, he took out the radio as usual and reported the situation to GRE.

"This is Crane."

"Copy that, Crane. How's it going?"

"I have fully integrated into the tower, and today they awarded me...well, a red flower as a reward."

"So have you found the person with the clue?"

"No. I have talked to everyone in the tower and completed all the residents' tasks. I have gone up and down the mountain, but I still haven't found anything. Is the person who holds the clue really in the tower? ?”

The GRE correspondent also pondered for a moment before replying: "In this case, we really must consider the possibility that the person left the tower."

"Klan, you have been recognized by the tower residents, right? Very good, then you can try to find out if any tower members have left recently."

"In addition, for the 'Light Guard' mentioned in your report before, we checked the information and found no records about this organization. So either they are too small, or they have just been established. You can also collect relevant information."

"It's been two days, Crane, time is running out, you must find the file as soon as possible."

"In addition, since the person holding the clue is most likely no longer in the tower, the dedicated airdrop to the tower will be canceled from today on. You can also consider starting from this point to find that person."

Crane was stunned for a moment, then became a little anxious: "Wait! This can't work! There are a large number of survivors in the tower, most of them are just ordinary citizens without fighting ability, and there are even children!"

"If you stop airdrops now, they will risk mutating!"

But GRE was very cold: "This is also a way to break the situation. If Li You really left a clue, then if we reduce the airdrops, wouldn't it be possible to force that person out?"

Crane still hesitated: "But..."

"There is no but. Don't forget, Crane, everything we do is for the benefit of all mankind. A few infected citizens don't matter."

"That's it, hurry up."

With that said, the communication was cut off.

Crane sat on the bed in the room and was silent for a long time.

After a while, he took off the small red flower on his chest and held it in front of his eyes to observe carefully.

The little red flowers are actually folded very roughly. After all, they are children’s handiwork.The texture of the paper is not good, and it is not red originally. The color is applied bit by bit with a red crayon.Perhaps because there wasn't enough red crayon, there were a few streaks of yellow and orange along the edges.

Crane opened the paper flowers and saw several crooked names on the paper, as well as the children's grateful words:
"Thank you, Uncle Crane!"

Crane suddenly smiled.

"I may...not be worthy of such thanks."

Crane folded the paper and put it away carefully.

Then, as soon as he got up and planned to inquire about the news, he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from outside.

"Bashir, what's wrong with you!? Open the door!"

Crane was startled, and then ran out quickly:

"What happened?"

……

In the afternoon, Crane, who was out, returned to the tower again.

The noise in the corridor earlier was due to something happening.

To put it simply, a guy named Bashir purchased a drug from a second-hand dealer who was new to the tower.

It turned out that the second-hand dealer was selling fake medicine, and Bashir almost killed himself.

Everyone realized something was wrong and thought he had mutated in the room, but they couldn't open the door.

Crane, who just arrived, picked the lock and entered the door to find out the situation.

Crane: "Don't you still have the antidote here? Why did you ask someone else to buy it?"

Bashir: "Uh, um, ah, this..."

Crane: "Say it quickly."

Bashir: "This...well, it's actually a friend of mine. He's a little weak, so he asked me to buy him some little blue pills."

"Then I thought, I must help my friend confirm the authenticity of the medicine, so I tried one. And then... Ouch, it hurts!"

Crane: "..."

"Where is the guy who sold you the medicine?"

Bashir: "I can't say that. If I tell him, he will never sell medicine to my... friend again."

Crane hates iron: "What he sold you was a fake medicine! This time it was just a little blue pill. If he gives you a fake antidote next time, what will you do? What will others do?" !? Tell me where he is!"

Bashir: "Well, God, I'm telling you!"

After asking about the situation from Bashir, Crane handed Bashir to Dr. Lina. He followed the counterfeit drug dealer's line and caught the scout Yusef who was hiding on the roof of the tower. I found the den of counterfeit medicine dealers again.

When he arrived, the counterfeit drug dealers had received a tip from Yusef and were preparing to evacuate.

Crane knew the dangers of letting a group like them slip away, so even if he was the only one, he did not hesitate to take action.

A melee.

In the end, Crane successfully eliminated the five-man gang selling counterfeit medicine, but he was inevitably injured and staggered back to the tower.

Crane is now a celebrity in the tower, and the guard at the door immediately noticed something was wrong with him: "Klan! Are you injured!?"

……

Half an hour later, Crane was lying in Dr. Lena's infirmary with bandages on his arms and shoulders.

Dr. Lina is a middle-aged woman with short hair. Her appearance is not outstanding, but she is gentle and careful, and her professional skills are beyond doubt.

She covered Crane with a quilt and said, "That unfortunate Bashir is fine. Fortunately, you delivered him in time, otherwise he would have become asexual."

"As for you, I'm not telling you, you are too reckless. Going to deal with five villains alone? You should wait for support from Amir and the others!

"Fortunately, you only have scratches and contusions, and a very shallow cut. I have bandaged it for you. You just need to rest for a while."

Crane smiled bitterly: "Thank you. I originally planned to wait for support, but at that time they were already planning to escape, so I had to take action."

Lina still shook her head: "In fact, there is no need. The light guards will not let go of such a vicious group. As long as we determine their location and report it, someone will naturally clean up this group of garbage."

Crane heard the name again and asked: "What kind of organization is this light guard? Can I know now?"

Dr. Lina glanced at him and said: "If you ask me, then I think you can definitely know. But this is not what I have the final say..."

Just then, Amir walked in.

"Let me talk to him, Doctor Lina."

Doctor Lina looked at him, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to you."

Amir sat down next to Crane and asked, "Is your injury okay, Crane?"

"It's okay, just minor injuries."

So Amir nodded and turned to the topic: "I know you are curious about the situation of the light guards, and we all feel that we can tell you."

"But before that, there is one last task that you need to complete. As long as you do it well, we will definitely know everything about you next."

Without much hesitation, Crane said, "Tell me, what's the mission?"

"Today, for some reason, the GRE airdrop fell to the other side of the city, making it difficult to obtain."

"However, our parkours and scouts have their own tasks and cannot carry the airdrop back, so I hope you can take over this task and take back today's airdrop.

"The antidote in it is related to the lives of all our infected people."

Amir looked at Crane: "Can you do it?"

Crane looked at him and answered without hesitation: "Yes."

"Okay!" Amir clapped his hands, "Then leave it to you! When you recover, come to me on the second floor."

……

Half an hour later, on the second floor of the tower.

"This is the approximate location of the airdrop. Please confirm it." Amir said, handing over another modified baseball bat.

"Your weapon is damaged. Use this new one."

"This is the one I used before. I guarantee it will work well. You must take good care of it."

Crane looked at the map for a while, folded it and put it in his pocket, and then took the baseball bat handed over by Amir.

"give it to me."

Just as he was about to set off, Amir suddenly said:

"If you have anything to say to someone important, don't forget to contact him as soon as possible."

Crane didn't react at first, but when he looked at Amir's eyes, he was suddenly shocked.

Could it be that... I was discovered?

But Amir said nothing more, and Crane could only embark on the road to find the airdrop with an uneasy heart.

After he left, Amir took out the radio and dialed the communication.

"Is this test... really necessary? I think he is completely trustworthy."

On the other end of the radio, Li You's voice came:
"He's really trustworthy, I knew that from the beginning."

"What this task is going to test is not whether he is trustworthy, but... whether he has the ability to think independently."

"Anyway, you don't understand much, so leave it to me."

……

On the other side of the slums, the airdrop point.

Six o'clock in the evening.

Crane swung a baseball bat and smashed the heads of two infected people. After ensuring that the surroundings were safe, he opened the airdrop box.

In the airdrop box, three blue boxes containing antiviral agents in the middle and a gray box containing syringes on each side are neatly arranged in a row, which makes people look very comfortable.

Crane originally wanted to take away all these medicine boxes, but when he was about to take action, he suddenly paused. After a moment of hesitation, he took out the GRE dedicated radio.

"This is Crane."

"Klan, what's wrong?"

"The antidote in the tower consumes a lot, and you threw the airdrop across the city. They didn't have enough manpower, so they asked me to get the antidote. I have it now."

"Are you here to pick up the airdrop? That's great. Crane, listen up, burn all the anti-viral agents right now."

Although he had already made some vague guesses, Crane couldn't help but trembled when he heard these words:
"why!?"

The tone of the GRE correspondent was still cold:

"Why? Didn't I say it before? The mysterious man who took the clue left by Li You is missing. Considering that Li You should have told him the importance of this clue, that person probably also noticed your true identity.

“Then we cut off the source of the antidote in the tower, which is a signal.

"Through this signal, we are telling the mysterious person that if he wants the antiviral agent, he has to come up with clues in exchange. In this way, it will probably stimulate him to come to you proactively, and then you will be able to get the clues ”

Crane finally understood: "So you are suspecting that the person holding the clues is a high-level person in the tower?"

"Yes."

"But, even so, without an antidote, everyone in the tower will be in danger!" Crane's tone was very exciting.

The GRE correspondent didn't care: "Klan, we paid you to come to Harlan, not to play the Virgin. Executing the order as required and getting the document is what you should do."

"Hurry, burn those antiviral agents!"

However, after giving the order coldly, the correspondent seemed to feel that his tone was too unkind, so he added:
"Anyway, we decide how much antiviral agent to put in. It's really a big deal. Once you find the mysterious man, we'll just put some more into the tower."

"Don't hesitate, take action immediately!"

The correspondent cut off communication again.

Crane looked at the three boxes of antiviral agents at hand and gritted his teeth.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally reached out, picked up a box, and held it close to the fire nearby.

Crane, who was fighting between heaven and man in his heart, did not notice that there was a figure at the window of a small building not far away, placing an arrow without an arrow on his bow.

However, at the moment when the flames began to lick the bottom of the medicine box, Crane seemed to suddenly react and suddenly moved the medicine box away from the fire!

"No! What am I doing!?"

He glanced at the medicine box that he had thrown aside, and there were some beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Even if I want to stimulate the mysterious man to appear, I don't need to burn these antidotes! I just need to hide them!"

"And...GRE feels wrong to me. Are they really planning to save citizens?"

Crane wiped the sweat from his forehead and finally made his decision.

"Find a place to hide all these antiviral agents, and then tell Amir and Bracken that they were not found. I will come back to get them when needed."

"The recent performance of GRE is too strange, so...just give it a try."

With that said, Crane walked to the medicine box, intending to clean up the antiviral agents scattered on the floor.

But at this moment, he suddenly heard a burst of applause from above his head.

"Crack, snap."

Crane was startled, and he immediately grabbed the modified baseball bat, looked in the direction of the sound, and asked: "Who is there!?"

However, the man didn't seem to have any intention of concealing his whereabouts. He walked out openly and stood at the edge of the small building, allowing Crane to see his appearance clearly.

He was a slender young man with standard facial features and a well-proportioned figure.

He wore a leather three-cornered hat on his head, a gray turtleneck woolen coat, and a short leather cloak around his shoulders.

But in addition, hanging around his neck is a pair of high-tech goggles that don't match the overall style of his clothing at all.

When he saw the young man's face, Crane was stunned.

Because, in his opinion, the owner of this face should be dead long ago!

"…How can it be!?"

But Li You just smiled at him and said:

"Hello, Crane."

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Li You, a former GRE agent and the leader of the 'Light Guard' organization."

"You just did a good job, junior."

(End of this chapter)