thefictionvixens Chapter 8 Prerequisite Quest
Chapter 8 Prerequisite Quest
After deciding to rescue his family through official channels, Lu Chen had no more reason to hesitate.
He swiped his phone screen all the way to the bottom of the Dawn Project page.
There was a button there, gray with white text that read "Confirm Join".
Lu Chen pressed down with his thumb.
The page redirected and a form popped up. He originally thought he would have to fill in a lot of complicated information—such as a superpower level assessment, a practical ability test, and an identity background check.
After all, this is a military-led project, so the review process shouldn't be too simple.
Surprisingly, the process was extremely simple.
There are only four fields to fill in: name, ID number, address, and description of your special ability.
In particular, the description of his superpowers was entirely in text form, with no requirement to upload videos or undergo any form of verification. He didn't even need to prove that he was telling the truth.
Lu Chen frowned slightly.
Is it really that hasty?
With a hint of doubt, he filled in the information and clicked the submit button.
The page redirected again.
There was no "under review" waiting message, and no official platitudes like "please wait patiently for notification".
The moment the submission was successful, a new page popped up on the screen.
The title is in bold black font: "Preliminary Tasks (Trial Period Tasks)".
Lu Chen's gaze moved down, reading line by line. After finishing, the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
He completely understood why no review was needed.
Because this task itself involves review.
The mission details are clearly stated: rescue at least 10 ordinary survivors and bring them back to the shelter, or hold out until the rescue team arrives. Completing the mission will allow you to officially join Project Dawn.
To put it bluntly, this is a threshold.
You claim to be a superhuman? Sure, no proof needed. Go rescue people, bring them back alive, or protect them while waiting for the rescue team.
If you succeed, you'll be a superhuman! Welcome to join us!
If you can't do that, you're not even qualified to join.
This threshold assesses not only ability, but also willingness.
Those who have the ability but are unwilling to save people, and only want to enjoy the benefits of being a superhuman, cannot even pass the first hurdle.
At the same time, if someone wanted to impersonate a superhuman, he simply wouldn't be able to complete such a task.
Lu Chen leaned back on the sofa and stared at the task description on the screen for several seconds.
Very rough!
But it makes sense!
We have now entered the third day of the apocalypse, and the death toll continues to soar. What the authorities need most is time.
There's no time to review each candidate individually; this method allows us to quickly select the first batch of truly usable individuals.
More importantly, this mechanism can greatly alleviate the problem of insufficient official manpower.
According to the data released on the radio, the survivors in Wan Shun City are scattered in every corner of the city, while the number and capacity of rescue teams are far from sufficient.
In many places, it's not that the authorities don't want to help, it's that there's simply not enough time. By the time the rescue teams have searched floor by floor, it might be too late.
But if these scattered superhumans are mobilized, the situation becomes different.
The superhumans are scattered throughout the city; they are right next to the survivors, and if they are willing to help, they can provide the most direct assistance to the ordinary people around them.
Lu Chen continued to look at the task rewards.
Although it's a prerequisite task, the reward is quite high.
Rescuing a regular survivor earns 10 military merit points. Rescuing 10 survivors earns 100 points.
What can you exchange 100 military points for?
He returned to the redemption list page and scanned the prices in the weapons and equipment section again.
An automatic rifle costs between 30 and 50 military merit points, depending on the model. The basic model costs 30 points and comes with 100 rounds of ammunition.
Body armor 15 points, body armor helmet 13 points, night vision goggles 10 points, tactical knife 8 points...
Based on the price of these weapons and equipment, 100 military merits are more than enough to arm you to the teeth.
And this is only the military achievement for rescuing people.
Below the mission description is a supplementary clause: If you can safely escort the rescued survivors back to the shelter, you will receive additional military merits based on the escort distance. The farther the distance, the higher the reward.
Lu Chen opened the map and glanced at it. Xiangyang Community was located in the west of the city, while the shelter in Wanshun City was located in the east of the city.
The distance from the residential area to the shelter, taking the shortest main road, is nearly 50 kilometers.
If he can find 10 survivors and successfully escort them there, he can get an extra 500 military merits according to the calculation formula in the mission description.
Of course, doing so is quite dangerous.
They were leading a group of ordinary people with no fighting ability across a distance of 50 kilometers, traversing most of the city. No one could say for sure how many areas teeming with zombies they would pass through, or how many unexpected situations they would have to deal with.
Therefore, the mission description provides another option: stay where you are and wait for the official rescue team to arrive.
There are contributions to be made while waiting; you earn 1 contribution point for each survivor you protect and help them survive a day. Ten people would earn you 10 points per day.
Although there are far fewer such places as shelters, they are safer.
Lu Chen put down his phone and began to calculate rapidly in his mind.
He didn't know how many survivors were left in Xiangyang Community. Three days had passed; there were certainly not many alive.
But this is a fifteen-story residential building with six units per floor, totaling ninety units. Assuming an average of two to three people per unit, there were more than two hundred people living in this building before the apocalypse.
Even if 90% of the people turn into zombies or die, the remaining 10% would still amount to more than twenty people.
Moreover, there is more than just this one building in the community. There are seven buildings in the entire Xiangyang community. If the survival rate of each building is about the same, then there should be hundreds of survivors in the entire community.
Rescuing them all would earn you nearly 1000 military merits just for that one act of rescue.
Add to that the hundreds of points of waiting contribution each day—and this number will continue to grow if the rescue teams arrive slowly.
Moreover, the survivors are not only in this community.
The Xiangyang Community is surrounded by dense residential areas. Next door is the Sunshine Garden, across the street is the Cuizhu Garden, and two hundred meters to the west is a cluster of old-style dormitory buildings belonging to work units.
It's the third day of the apocalypse, and there should still be quite a few survivors.
"Rescue as many people as possible first," Lu Chen set the tone for himself. "Try to get as many military merits as possible in the first preliminary mission. At the same time, the more people I save, the more attention I will receive from the military."
This is very simple logic.
If a superhuman saves only ten people, the military will say, "Not bad, you've passed the test."
But what if he saved a hundred or two hundred people? What if he single-handedly organized all the survivors in the surrounding neighborhood?
By then, he would no longer be an ordinary participant in Project Dawn, but a high-value collaborator.
His request was only taken seriously if the Ningcheng City shelter sent a rescue team to pick up his parents.