Chapter 125 (1/2)
Chapter 125
In the evening, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang went to knock on the door of Room 507. Mo Xuemin opened the door and smiled when he saw them. “It’s you again!” he was impressed by the two men who had stared at each other for a minute in front of him.
Yu Hanjiang directly asked, “Old Mo, have you found a team?”
Mo Xuemin sighed. “No, there are relatively few new people in recent days and the forum recruitment posts aren’t very reliable. I think it really isn’t possible and will spend this World Weekly alone.”
Xiao Lou looked at him. “Consider joining our team. We are just missing a person.”
Mo Xuemin looked suspiciously at the two men and touched his nose. “Join you? To be honest, you are all new and didn’t know about the World Weekly at all. I have to clear the instance and go back… it isn’t very good to join a team of new people.” He spoke vaguely but his actual meaning was that he couldn’t rely on a group of new people.
However, Yu Hanjiang’s words let Old Mo change his mind.
He stated quietly, “My name is Yu Hanjiang and this is Xiao Lou. Our team set the world record for 3 and 4 of Hearst. In 4 of Spades, we got a perfect clearance with an S-grade evaluation.”
Mo Xuemin stared like he saw a great beast. Sometimes, people didn’t need to talk nonsense. Grades were the best proof.
Xiao Lou glanced at the always straightforward Group Leader Yu and added with a smile, “Group Leader Yu is a criminal police officer and I am an a.s.sociate professor of a forensics department. This is the key to our ability to break the world record of the Hearts rooms. We are both very good at the suspense-type secret rooms. Our team might be new but everyone is very strong. Old Mo, you have a better understanding of the World Weekly. Are you willing to come with us and be a guide?”
Mo Xuemin was worried for a moment. A new team was very p.r.o.ne to problems, such as infighting during a life or death crisis, causing the team to fall apart. Most new teams temporarily formed couldn’t stand the test and would disband.
However, the two men in front of him were masters who broke the world record!
A criminal police officer and a forensics professor could be called an ace combination in the Hearts secret room. A perfect clearance in Liuxi Village showed that the new team they led wasn’t weak. This team would become stronger and stronger if they united and experienced going through several secret rooms together.
If he joined now, it was equivalent to buying a potential stock during the rising period. The risks were high but the benefits were greater. Rather than going to the forum to find unreliable teams that were recruiting, try and break the world record.
Thinking up to here, Mo Xuemin immediately nodded. “Ye. In any case, I don’t have a team and can go with you! How many people are there in the team now?”
Yu Hanjiang looked around at the open corridor. “This isn’t the right place to talk. Old Mo, let’s go downstairs.”
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Mo Xuemin followed the two people to Room 311. Xie Qi gently knocked on the door. It was ‘three long and two short’ knocks. Xie Qi soon opened the door and Mo Xuemin saw there were five people in the room.
Xiao Lou smiled and introduced him. “This is Mo Xuemin. Old Mo is the oldest senior in the team. Let’s greet everyone.”
The man with maroon hair in a short ponytail was the most handsome one apart from Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang. His eyes narrowed as he held out his hand with a smile. “Old Mo, I’m Shao Qingge. I run a fund company in the real world. I am responsible for the finances of the team.”
Mo Xuemin immediately shook his hand. “h.e.l.lo Chief Shao!”
Beside him was a young man with very white skin. He was 170cm tall and didn’t seem completely grown yet. However, there was a touch of aura in his eyes and his smile was very cute. He spoke enthusiastically, “Uncle Mo, my name is Xie Qi. I’m 20 years old and a study of a music university. You can call me Little Xie later.”
Immediately after him was a thin girl with an indifferent expression. She extended a pale hand and said, “h.e.l.lo Uncle Mo, my name is Liu Qiao. I’m 18 years old and a first year study in the Traditional Chinese medicine department of a medical university.”
He had seen these three people the night before and there were two strange faces. The man was tall and big, with a height of 185 centimetres. He had obvious muscles on his arms and his smile was simple and honest. He scratched his head and said, “h.e.l.lo Old Mo, my name is Long Sen. I am a racewalking coach at a sports school in reality.”
The woman next to him had very curly hair that went down to her shoulders. “My name is Qu Wanyue, Long Sen’s fiancee. My profession is a dance teacher.”
Mo Xuemin greeted everyone in turn.
The team’s professional configuration was enough to make him feel shocked. A criminal police officer, a forensics profession, a fund company owner, a musical teenager, a Chinese medicine girl, a dance teacher and a racewalking coach. Along with him, who was a s.p.a.ce designer, it covered most types of secret rooms.
In the Hearts secret room, there was a police officer and forensics professor. They didn’t need to be afraid of not finding the murderer. There was a great possibility that so many people could work together to clear the instance. There was also Professor Xiao and Chief Shao in the Clubs secret room. In the physical confrontation Spades secret room, there was police officer Yu Hanjiang and Long Sen, a physically fit racewalking coach…
He was enlightened and looked a bit surprised. Wasn’t this a bit too strong? Xiao Lou took out the contract book. “Old Mo, our contract book rose to the advanced level but it requires at least eight people to be activated. Please sign here.”
Mo Xuemin didn’t hesitate to take the feather pen and signed his name.
Looking at the pages filled with various handwriting, Mo Xuemin’s heart beat violently. He didn’t expect that after his previous team was destroyed, he would be able to find an elite team so soon! Old Mo held back his excitement and looked at Xiao Lou. “Professor Xiao, I don’t know if you have heard about an elite team in the Card World who reached J of Hearts?”
Xiao Lou nodded. “I heard the president of the Distant Guild say that they once organized an elite team to clear the SS rooms. As a result, the group was destroyed in J of Hearts and never came back.”
Mo Xuemin nodded solemnly. “The configuration of that team was very similar to yours. There was a reasoning writer, a doctor, a physical school coach, dance teacher, singer etc. The team brought talents from all walks of life together… unfortunately, they didn’t last. Many people say that the later secret rooms are too difficult. Such a team can’t pa.s.s then other teams definitely wouldn’t be able to pa.s.s them. What does Professor Xiao think about this?”
Xiao Lou laughed. “For the reason behind their demise, I personally think there were internal problems. Mr Gui said there were 15 people in the team. So many people aren’t easy to manage. As long as there are cracks in the team, it is enough to destroy a levee a thousand miles away.”
Facing Xiao Lou’s calm eyes, Mo Xuemin couldn’t help nodding and firmly clenched his fists. “I think so as well! I think that if it is really at the difficulty that humans can’t pa.s.s, the gatekeeper at the beginning shouldn’t tell us that we can leave after clearing the SS level rooms. They should just say ‘Welcome to the Card World and start your new life.’ Why give us the hope to leave?”
Yu Hanjiang nodded. “There is no secret room that can’t be cleared. It is just that the challengers have insufficient strength. For the elite team, everyone might be very strong individually but the combination isn’t necessarily strong.”
Xiao Lou glanced at Group Leader Yu in agreement. “Yes. Sometimes it is the 1+1 is greater than 2 effect while sometimes is it less than 2. The team will only drag each other down.”
He smiled and looked around, making eye contact with everyone for one second. “We now have eight people. I hope that together, we will be greater than eight and not less than eight. Since we have decided to form a team, from now on I will establish the team rules.”
He took out the contract book and turned to the first page. In addition to the original 1-6 rules of the contract, number seven onwards was vacant and could be supplemented by the owner of the contract.
Xiao Lou picked up the feather pen and added three things to the seventh spot:
Going home is a common wish.
All members of the contract must pledge to follow orders, to unite, support each other and to trust each other. In the future, we will walk through countless roads of thorns. No matter what, we shouldn’t forget the significance of a ‘teammate.’
Those who betray the team will be immediately kicked out of the contract book once discovered and responsibility would be pursued to the end.
Xiao Lou showed it to everyone in turn and asked, “Do you have any opinions on the additional rules?”