Surprise!

What exactly is the point of Monster One's existence?

Chen Shanshan, clutching a giant lollipop, mulled the question over in his head.

What Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo guessed, Chen Shanshan also guessed.

"There's five players in this game, two on Customs, two on Monster 2, and I'm on Monster 1."

"Monster Team One's side quest is to ...... assist the Customs Team, to find the stolen goods being smuggled." The short-haired girl sighed softly, thinking in her mind, "So Tang and Major Fu are the Customs Team, and those two players are the Monster Two Team. Players on different teams can t recognize each other, so what exactly is my role ......"

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo, as customs, are in the best position to find out the loot. As a small and insignificant monster, she was lucky not to be bullied by the other monsters. She doesn't seem to have any role to play amongst the monsters, but the Black Tower has given her the task of assisting the Customs team.

"I'm raiding the third level, Tang and the others are raiding the fifth. My game will be much less difficult than theirs, but again that means the Black Tower has lowered the bar for me. There are more things I can do."

Chen Shanshan lowered his head, his brain working rapidly.

Her mind kept echoing with every piece of information that the Black Tower had just said, as well as the words of the underground officer on the radio. The little girl repeated the words "customs", "monsters", "stolen goods" and so on. When a few underground people officials came out of the hut, shouting for the monsters outside to squeeze in, Chen Shanshan suddenly looked up in surprise and astonishment. When several underground human officials came out of the hut, yelling for the monsters outside the hut to also squeeze in, Chen Shanshan suddenly raised his head in surprise and said, "How could it be like this?"

On the long drawbridge, two Undergrounder officers with black batons roared in a no-nonsense manner, "Get in there, the officer is going to line up the damn human players mixed in with you next." Saying that, one of the Undergrounders gave Chen Shanshan a hard shove, pushing her to the door. And when they encountered strong monsters, they changed their faces again, "This sir, please come in."

Chen Shanshan understands that he must be a weak little monster in his current appearance.

A strong appearance brings some convenience, and a weak appearance doesn't necessarily mean it's useless.

Before stepping into the cabin, Chen Shanshan's gaze swept over all the monsters behind her as she lifted her foot and buried it in the customs cabin while her eyes lingered for a second on a parchment scroll notice taped next to the door-

"Reward:

All monsters can report stowaways, and if a stowaway is found, a reward will be given to the perpetrator based on the amount of money stowed.

Up to one King's Gold!

--The esteemed customs officer, Dwarf Doodle Dandy.

Customs Chalet.

One by one, the monsters were led into the cabin, while the Groundhog officials were called aside to a transparent hut.

Tang Mo stood on the edge of the officers and looked at the short, midget officer. This officer stared at them with a sneer, his hands pinned behind his back. After he had paraded his subordinates through the room, he exclaimed, "Now, right here in this very room, mixed in with the damned humans! Maybe, just one human, maybe, five humans!"

"You, all of you, are untrustworthy because you could all be human! At the moment, only I am definitely not human." After his reprimand, the officer said to the dogged midget beside him, "You, now go and tell those monsters that we will be searching them in five minutes, and that they should turn in whatever they have with them to receive their numbered tags. After we've searched them, we'll retrieve their belongings by number plate."

The dogged midget hurriedly said, "Yes!"

The gnome officer muttered, "Heh, those stupid and smelly monsters, I wonder how many more fools will try to smuggle in items today, don't let me catch them."

As the words fell, he gave a wink towards his assistant. The other nodded and came up triumphantly, holding a thick roll of test paper-like things in his hand: ''Now I will hand out the civil service test papers for this year for our underground people, Wang Guo. Humans must not be able to do it, while you guys can do it. My colleagues, catch out the humans and eat them!"

"Capture the humans and eat them!"

Tang Mo watched as the subterranean man began to hand out the papers one by one, and his hand crept up to his waist.

Tang Mo realized early on that the underground people could not see that he had a small Yang San tied around his waist, which meant that based on looks alone, the underground people could not really recognize humans. But really, they might have a hard time hiding their identities after making this paper. Perhaps they will be the first players to be caught out.

A low male voice suddenly rang in Tang Mo's ears, "He just said that there are many monsters smuggling items every day."

Tang Mo froze and turned his head to look at Fu Wenduo. he quickly understood the other party's meaning, "Yes. As a matter of common sense, with this customs department receiving so many monsters every day, stowaways should be quite common."

Fu Wenduo: "What can be smuggled is bound to be very valuable. Once there is a proper profit, the capitalist will be bold. With fifty percent profit, he is desperate; for one hundred percent profit, he dares to trample on all earthly laws; with three hundred percent profit, he dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of hanging." After a pause, he added: "Marx's Capital."

Tang Mo : "You memorized it well?" He knew the general meaning of this phrase, but was not as skillful as Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo: "I am a party member."

Tang Mo was silent. Yes, in Fu Wenduo's position, this kind of thing must be learned from recognizing words.

Fu Wenduo : "The production level of the subterranean people Wang Guo is, as we all know, on the low side of medieval Europe. There wouldn't be much that would be valuable to be smuggled in a place like this."

Tang Mo : "There are not many things that have value to begin with, of which the Black Tower monsters can sell for a profit, even fewer."

Fu Wenduo looked at him and raised one eyebrow, "If there are ten monsters smuggled in every day, what they smuggle in might be very similar, if not identical."

Tang Mo : "The Black Tower wants us to find the stolen goods that were smuggled in and have Monster Team 2 protect the stolen goods. This means that the stolen goods are in their hands and only in their hands."

Fu Wenduo: "What if other monsters have the exact same loot?"

"No way."

The two men looked at each other, curled their lips, and said in unison, "That loot the Black Tower is looking for has absolute uniqueness!"

Outside the transparent hut, Chen Shanshan looked at the twenty or so Underlander officials inside. She carefully scrutinized everyone's clothing, appearance, and even the other small ornaments on their chests, but did not find Tang Mo or Fu Wenduo.

At this time, a gnome underground man with his chin held high, walked into the room and turned to the monsters, repeating the gnome officer's words, "...... Now, please ask all the monsters to hand over all their belongings. Please rest assured that once we have searched you, we will return the items to you in number plate order, after you have been released."

A monster immediately complained with dissatisfaction, and this gnome shivered a bit and braced himself again, "What the fuck ...... for! This is the order of Officer Muddlehead, if you have, if you have the ability, you can go to him to appeal. Besides, we can all eat them if we find out the humans. This is also for everyone's good!"

Most of the monsters were simple-minded, and although they found the matter troublesome, they had to endure it for the sake of finding out the humans.

Chen Shanshan heard one of the monsters beside him grumble, "If it wasn't in your territory, what's eating humans, underground people are delicious too!"

The gnome official started at the front row, collecting the monsters' belongings.

Chen Shanshan hugged the lollipop and watched him move like this with a calm expression. After a few moments, she said in a weak voice, "I'm afraid it'll take him a long time to collect them all by himself."

The underground people were all locked into the transparent hut to do their papers, and only this gnome came out. There were more than five hundred monsters in the room, and it was too much effort for him alone to collect things and give out number plates. It would take at least three hours.

A monster with a fox's head heard Chen Shanshan's words and rolled its eyes, "No, wasting our time. This damn bureaucracy, that's why I hate those underground people so much!"

Chen Shanshan licked his lollipop, "Can't we help collect it."

The fox narrowed his eyes and stared at Chen Shanshan: "What?"

In the fox's eyes, all that could be seen was a small monster with a Tu Zi head hugging and licking hard on a lollipop while winking at him, "I see you're a monster from the elfin prairie, too."

Fox nodded, "You too?"

According to the information he got from the previous games, Chen Shanshan said, "The monsters in our Elf Prairie are not the same as the ones in their Monster Valley, they just know brute force. The underground people are so smart, why do they have to hand over their belongings if they want to search, they can search with their belongings as well."

This fox had already thought of this aspect, and being reminded by Chen Shanshan, he said, "Could it be that ...... he wants to take the opportunity to see if there are any monsters smuggling stolen goods?!" Quickly, he refuted himself, "No, that's not right. There are at least fifty monsters smuggling stolen goods every day, but the Underground People's customs officials they are all blind, it would be good if they could spot five. So he's just trying to spot as many as he can."

Chen Shanshan : "What if, we can help him collect?"

Three minutes later, David and Pitt, who were standing at the back of the monster group, frowned as they saw a fox-like monster constantly wandering among the monsters. The monsters he was looking for were some prairie monsters, and after he said a few words, those monsters showed surprise expressions.

Then the creature walked to the front and spoke to the dwarf official.

David : "What's with all the drama with that monster, is he that guy from Monster One?"

Pitt looked at the fox for a few moments, "It's possible, but David, have you forgotten that Monster Team One is tasked with assisting the Customs Team. The Black Tower doesn't say what constitutes assisting. Maybe he just needs to find the Customs Team guy, and it's considered assisting, and the mission is successful. If I were that guy, I wouldn't be so stupid as to expose myself and be so conspicuous in a group of monsters. I would hide myself."

David, thinking about it, "So what the hell is he doing?"

A flirty yellow fox rubbed his hands together and looked down at the gnome official, "Sir, look, if you collect them all by yourself, how long will it take you to collect them. We have twenty monsters here, if we come to help you, we can definitely collect them all in half an hour at most."

The gnome's eyes glanced up and he coughed, "Help me? It's not like I'm in a hurry, so I'll just take my time collecting."

The fox squinted, "Don't, if we delay too long, those impulsive and rude monsters of the Monster Valley will get angry, and it won't look good for everyone." The male fox hid his hand under his sleeve and made a "three" gesture, "Seven for me and three for you."

The gnome was stunned, then ecstatic. He pressed on, "No."

Fox: "Four!"

Gnome: "No way."

Fox gritted his teeth, "Fifty-fifty!"

The gnome snickered, "Yes!"

However, in a short while, David and Pitt saw two dozen monsters holding numbered tags and began to collect the other monsters' belongings. At first they didn't feel anything unusual, until a yellow-haired fox received the middle of the monster group, and he suddenly raised a golden pocket watch high: "Sir, I report, I report her for smuggling!"

That fawn monster's eyes reddened with anxiety, "You, you're talking nonsense!"

Foxtail cocked his head, "I'll know if I'm bullshitting or not when I show the officer."

The gnome officer walked over to inspect it, "Heh, how dare you smuggle in a Transparent's pocket watch. This thing is not allowed to be brought to the monster world, even if you pay more taxes!" While saying that, the gnome took out three silver coins and threw them at the fox. The fox smiled fawningly and shoved one hidden back into the gnome's hand, "Make it up later."

The gnome was then satisfied and left with the pocket watch.

The next thing you know, one voice after another is ringing through the cabin.

"You hid this bow in your belt and thought I couldn't find it! You're trying to evade taxes!"

"Well, how dare you hide a ring in your mouth! Sir, I'm reporting that she's trying to smuggle it in, it's stolen property!"

Some stolen goods are not allowed to be smuggled in and will be confiscated even if you pay the tax. Some stolen goods can still get a numbered card to turn around and collect the loot as long as the monster pays the tax.

David breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily, our stuff is allowed to be taken away, as long as we pay some money. These two wolves have wallets on them, which can contain quite a few silver coins. Probably all left over from when they used to smuggle stolen goods."

David, not intending to draw too much attention to himself, paid his dues and continued to hide himself.

Beside him, the blonde foreigner's brow furrowed. Pitt closed his eyes, his fingers quickly fiddling with the red onyx bracelet on his wrist, and the next second, his eyes snapped open, "Fuck! David, it's a trick, it's that fucking Monster One player who's doing the fucking dirty work!"

David froze for a moment, "Pitt, what did you say?"

Pitt said angrily, "Don't you get it, I finally realize now that the Black Tower gave us the only loot it wanted us to smuggle in that none of these five hundred or so beasts here had! Otherwise, in this game, those two guys from the customs team could hardly win, because there was so much loot that no one knew which was the real loot. Unless, of all the loot, all the other loot comes in pairs, or even more than one. Only this one we have," the blonde man shook the banana drank lees in his hand, "this fucking thing is actually the only fucking one!"

Pitt clenched his teeth and crushed a red onyx on his wrist in anger, "We've all been screwed by that monster team of assholes!"

In the glass hut, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo do not know what is happening outside.

Before getting the test paper, Tang Mo still had some luck in his heart. The Black Tower shouldn't have given them such a high level of difficulty, maybe he and Fu Wenduo could do it. But after getting the paper, Tang Mo saw the first question and was first happy, then he saw the second question and suddenly: "......"

"Wang Guo, Underground Man, 9,614th Civil Service Examination Paper.

"Question 1: 1+2+3+4......+99=? Please calculate.'

"Question 2: What would be the first thing the Princess would say if she was out for a walk and came across an underground man dressed as a frog?

A.You ugly flea! B. You ugly frog! C. you ugly fellow! D. you ugly cookie!''

...... Who the hell knows what the princess will say!

Besides, why do civil service exams have to test for such odd things!

Moving on, the title is even more bizarre.

Tang Mo turned his head to look at Fu Wenduo, who shook his head at him, "The questions in Happy Quiz are simpler than this one."

No, it's a hundred times easier than that!

Tang Mo quietly observes the outside world as he writes answers to as many of the questions on the paper as he can. He notices that some of the monsters are starting to help the gnomes collect their items, Tang Mo notices a hint of something wrong and he raises an eyebrow. Soon he realizes that the monsters are already about to finish collecting all the items.

Collect items and report stowaways.

The world outside the glass hut can be a lot livelier than inside.

Tang Mo's gaze swept over all the monsters, it was obvious that he couldn't possibly spot Chen Shanshan. however, as he watched the monsters report the appearance of their companions, the corners of his mouth slowly hooked up, "Shanshan, well done."

Fu Wenduo stopped the pen in his hand and stared out.

After a moment, he whispered, "Originally, I thought that if we couldn't write this paper, there was only one way left to pass. That gnome collected all of the monsters' belongings and piled them up there," Fu Wenduo pointed at the corner with a collection of fingers, "There are about seven or eight hundred things. Your and my chicken coops can now stow ten things each, and beyond that, with curtains, we should be able to take all of those things with us. After all, things that can be smuggled in aren't usually too big. But after doing this, our identities were revealed|revealed. The underground people and monsters are our enemies, as well as the two players from Monster Team 2. How do we break out? This game tests our force."

Tang Mo laughs, "And now what?"

"Now, at least we have an idea of what is smuggled and what is normal, and there is much less to take away. Maybe Shanshan can even help us discover which stolen goods are unique, and by taking it, we win."

Tang Mo thought about it, "That's it? Do we have to reveal our identity?"

Fu Wenduo's dark eyes stared at Tang Mo, and the corner of his mouth curled up.

"It all depends, how much that little girl can surprise us."

Yes, from start to finish, for Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo, there are a total of two passes for this side quest.

First, they forced the use of force to take all of the monsters' belongings. The gnome officer will make the act of seizing the monsters' items and organizing them all in one place, which is sort of the last thing the Black Tower gives Tang Mo , Fu Wenduo to make it possible for them to grab all the items.

However it was too much of a test of their force.

To escape from the heavy siege of monsters and underground people. And to be wary of the Monster Squad 2 players who may attack at any time.

The strength of those two players was not weak, and even in a single fight, Tang Mo was not sure that he would be able to win against them.

The second, however, is the task of the Monster One players: to assist the customs team and find the stolen goods.

The Black Tower's definition of found is very vague... what exactly counts as found? Does seeing it count as finding it, or does it have to be held in the hand to count as finding it? Tang Mo speculates that it's more likely to be the latter. They have to take the loot away from the Monster Squad Two.

What Chen Shanshan had to do wasn't necessarily difficult. She was just raiding the third floor of the Black Tower, so maybe she didn't need to do anything but help keep an eye on the monsters' movements, which would be considered as "assisting", and she could pass this side quest.

But she did more.

There is no way that a cryptozoological officer can discover all the loot hidden by the monsters; only profit can move the needle. So she incites one of the smarter-looking Black Tower monsters to gather more people and search the monsters one by one for all the loot that might be hidden.

Finding a stolen item earns you a bounty. Up to one king's gold coin.

Anyone would move.

And now, the last thing the little girl can do is save Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo.