Chapter 262 All Gathered
"King, king..." Choi Mingzhi murmured.
Liu Xingquan nodded, "Well, you have repeated it six times."
"king……"
"Yes, I am the king of this country now."
Cui Mingzhi suddenly woke up from his dream and shouted, "This is totally wrong!!! There is no way to play like this!"
"What's wrong?" Liu Xingquan looked at him innocently.
"Isn't this an RPG game??? Aren't we supposed to fight monsters and save princesses? Why why——"
"What the hell is he yelling about?" A voice came from the entrance of the hall. Cui Mingzhi turned around. He found Wei Hongzhuo and a female warrior walking into the hall one after the other. A small octopus was lying on the shoulder of the female warrior. The small octopus waved its tentacles at him, "Hey, Cui Mingzhi."
This voice sounds so familiar, Choi Mingzhi thought.
"Yan Zhen, you're back." Liu Xingquan stood up from the throne, "Hello, Aunt Sheng, hello, Uncle Wei."
"Yan Zhen? Yan Zhen?" Cui Mingzhi pointed at the little octopus in surprise and shouted, "Are you Yan Zhen?"
"Yeah, that's right." The little octopus said as a matter of course, "Unlike you who still have a human form, I don't even have a human appearance."
"Yan Zhen?" Wei Hongzhuo was shocked. "Are you Xiao Zhen from Yan An's family?"
"So you are the leader of the Octopus Cult?" Cui Mingzhi shouted, then pointed at Liu Xingquan, "And you are the king. What on earth did you do!!"
Wei Hongzhuo's eyes widened: "He is the king? Isn't he Jingjing's classmate Liu Xingquan?"
Sheng Shihua said: "Yes, he just ascended the throne two hours ago."
Cui Mingzhi approached Liu Xingquan and asked, "That's ridiculous! How did you become the king?"
"It's the vast ocean of people's war." Xiao Zhen said seriously.
"There is still money." Liu Xingquan added.
Afterwards, Xiao Zhen briefly explained the history of his and Liu Xingquan's rise to wealth.
"My identity is set as an ordinary monster. Well, one of the most common settings is that monsters have no intention of fighting against other monsters, and this game is also the same. So I had a friendly conversation with the monsters in the mine." After some communication, the monsters in the mine agreed to let the little octopus take away the glittering ores deep in the mine that were of no use to them. After that, the little octopus and Liu Xingquan quickly accumulated the first sum of funds in a short period of time. They used the funds to exchange for fresh ingredients needed by the monsters in the mine - fruits, vegetables, cream, fresh eggs, bacon, ham, etc. For the monsters, this is much more delicious than eating earthworms and mice in the mine or occasionally killing a person to satisfy their hunger. So the monsters agreed to the deal and took the initiative to dig the ore underground and give it to Xiaozhen in exchange for more food. After several exchanges, the funds of the little octopus and Liu Xingquan increased rapidly, and then they took the opportunity to buy the mining site and hired all the original workers.
With the cooperation of the monsters and the support of the workers, their wealth grew day by day. Starting from the mine, Xiao Octopus and Liu Xingquan used money to pave the way and infiltrate various industries across the country.
"This country has been plagued by various monsters. I used resources to raise its reputation in the monster camp to the level of reverence. Then, with the cooperation of the monsters, I used money to raise the reputation of the human camp in this country to the level of reverence." The little octopus concluded that money is a good thing.
"The game world is already plagued by disasters and the people are living in poverty, but the nobles are still enjoying themselves and the king is not interested in state affairs. We have already gained the support of most of the people in this country, so..."
Cui Mingzhi said weakly: "So, you just rebelled."
The little octopus said: "This is the voice of the people."
"This is a revolution," Liu Xingquan said.
Cui Mingzhi said nothing, squatted down again, and curled himself up into a ball.
Sheng Shihua said, "What happened to him?"
The little octopus said, "It's okay. I was just overwhelmed by the amount of information. It will be fine after a while."
Liu Xingquan said: "Yan Zhen believed from the beginning that there were more than just the two of us who were pulled into the game, so we have been collecting information about other players. Now everyone should be here."
Soon, Granny Lin, Fifilu and the mushroom elf were brought to the hall by the servants, and then Ren Anzhi and Gin were also brought over.
At this moment, the players who were accidentally drawn into this game world finally gathered together.
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"There are actually two cats." Ren Anzhi said, staring at the cats.
When Fifilu saw Gin, she came forward and sniffed him, then raised her tail and circled around the Siamese cat.
Gin squatted gracefully, "Now, we have finally met. Let's exchange information."
"Let me first state my point of view." Gin's tail swung slightly behind him, "I think this game world is related to Wei Jingjing. I can sense some of Wei Jingjing's consciousness in this world. The fact that Wei Jingjing's parents, Wei Hongzhuo and Sheng Shihua, were pulled in proves this. Fifilu is Wei Jingjing's cat, so it was also pulled in. And I was pulled in because I was too cute and was the cat that Wei Jingjing wanted to take home and adopt."
Wei Hongzhuo and Sheng Shihua didn't say anything, obviously agreeing.
"Ren Anzhi is a popular star that Wei Jingjing likes. It's not surprising that he came in midway."
Ren Anzhi nodded with a look on his face that said, "I have too many fans."
"Then there are your classmates, Cui Mingzhi, Liu Xingquan... and Yan Zhen." Gin asked in confusion, "Why did you become an octopus?"
"Because the game system has a grudge against me." said the little octopus.
"Ah?" Gin decided not to dwell on this question and continued, "Liu Xingquan and Yan Zhen are classmates of Wei Jingjing. Cui Mingzhi was Wei Jingjing's classmate in elementary school and is now a classmate in the same school. They are all very cute, so it makes sense that they were dragged into this."
"Then it's Granny Lin."
After seeing Gin talking, Granny Lin kept looking at him in amazement. She smiled and said, "It's really interesting that cats can talk."
"Hello, Granny Lin. Please accept my respect. Your kindness towards cats has touched us, the Altes."
Granny Lin grinned and said, "Although I don't understand what you are saying, you are really cute."
"Thank you." Gin raised his ears happily, and his tail slid softly in front of him. "Then let's get down to business. Granny Lin, do you know Wei Jingjing?"
"This name sounds familiar. There is a little volunteer at the stray cat and dog shelter named Chen Yuxin. She once mentioned her classmate Wei Jingjing. I don't think this Wei Jingjing knows me."
" Well this is very strange. Granny Lin and Wei Jingjing don't know each other, so why was she dragged into this?"
The little octopus said: "Maybe it came in randomly."
Wei Hongzhuo suddenly said, "And this one, what is this, a mushroom elf?"
The mushroom elf became a little nervous when Wei Hongzhuo looked at him, and his body suddenly turned red.
The little octopus said, "Oh, it's a slime mold."
Gin said, "Oh, it's the fake one."
Wei Hongzhuo was stunned: "What?"
"In short, except for Granny Lin, everyone was basically pulled in as someone related to Wei Jingjing." Gin said, "Then I assume that this game world may be left after fulfilling some wish of Wei Jingjing. Do you think there is something wrong with my conjecture?"
"Wish?" Sheng Shihua said, "There is a prompt on my interface." She reached out and clicked on the game interface. A heart-shaped icon of the princess's wish appeared on it, and the current progress was 51%. "As I complete the tasks, the progress will go up."
Gin looked at the interface and said, "Oh, this is probably the hint for clearing the mission!"
Wei Hongzhuo said, "Why don't I have this?"
Sheng Shihua said: "This is a new task system that appeared when I reached level 30. You are only level 4." Sheng Shihua's tone was calm, but the "you are only level 4" she said was like a dagger, which visibly hurt Wei Hongzhuo deeply.
"Well, it seems that our level is too low so it was not triggered at all." Gin added.
"Level 4." Sheng Shihua said, "I reached Level 4 in the first half of the first day."
Wei Hongzhuo: “…”
"It's already the 54th day," Sheng Shihua said, "and he's only level 4."
Wei Hongzhuo: “…”
Wei Hongzhuo stood silently with Cui Mingzhi. Xiaozhen felt that the two of them looked sad, and they were visibly emitting a dark aura.
Ren Anzhi said: "So, if we fulfill the princess's wish 100%, can we leave?"
Sheng Shihua held the axe, "Can Jingjing be restored to her original state?"
"No." Xiao Zhen said, "This Princess Wish System is fake. The system is misleading you."
"What?"
Xiao Zhen raised a tentacle, "Gin's analysis is basically correct. This game world is built based on Wei Jingjing's dream. But one thing is that it already contains Wei Jingjing's wish. In fact, her wish has been realized in some form here."
The little octopus nodded to Liu Xingquan, who turned around and called the attendants. Soon the guards escorted two people into the hall. When they saw the faces of the two people, Wei Hongzhuo and Sheng Shihua were both surprised.
The man and woman looked very similar to Wei Hongzhuo and Sheng Shihua. They were dressed in gorgeous Western court costumes and both wore crowns on their heads. The man shouted, "Don't hurt my wife! Don't hurt my daughter!"
"This is the king and queen in the game. Yes, they look a lot like Uncle Wei and Aunt Sheng. Because this is what Wei Jingjing imagined, they love each other and their own parents. They are the characters constructed in this game world in the first place, and they are the perfect parents created by Wei Jingjing."
The king blocked the queen behind him and kept begging everyone to spare his wife and daughter.
Sheng Shihua looked at the couple in silence.
Wei Hongzhuo looked at Xiaozhen, "If it was Jingjing's wish, then why did she become a monster?"
"That's our daughter!! Please just lock her up, don't kill her!" The king jumped up and shouted when he heard the words Jingjing and monster. The queen shouted with red eyes: "Don't kill her, don't kill my daughter!"
"Originally, this game world was beyond common sense. Due to an accident, Wei Jingjing invaded the game system in her dream. She unconsciously rewrote the game structure with her dream, and at the same time, as an ordinary girl, she could not keep this world running. As a result, she was overwhelmed and rejected by this world and turned into a monster. If she continues to sit idly by, she will devour this world to maintain her own existence or be crushed by this world."
"We must save Jingjing!" Wei Hongzhuo shouted.
"We must save Jingjing!" Sheng Shihua shouted.
They shouted almost at the same time. After they finished speaking, they looked at each other and then silently looked away.
Gin said, "I have a question."
"Please go ahead."
"Why does the game system use the Princess Wish System to mislead players?" Gin asked.
"Wei Jingjing is an invading foreign body to this world. Eliminating Wei Jingjing is the ultimate goal of the game system."
After hearing what Little Octopus said, almost everyone's expression changed drastically.
"What--"
"Are they going to eliminate Wei Jingjing?"
Sheng Shihua stared at the little octopus, "Are you sure?"
"In order to prevent players from realizing this, the system will use various methods to interfere with your game progress. For example, this fake princess wish system will guide you to do tasks that will not lead you to the capital. Aunt Sheng and Granny Lin were just killing monsters, leveling up, and completing tasks during this journey. They hardly got any news about the capital and Jingjing."
"Yes." Sheng Shihua admitted.
"Uncle Wei and Cui Mingzhi's team were arrested and thrown into jail on the first day. Their level was too low to trigger the system at all."
Cui Mingzhi muttered, “Stop cursing, stop cursing.”
Liu Xingquan said: "I saw intelligence that Uncle Wei was in jail because he claimed to be Princess Jingjing's father, right?"
"Yes." Wei Hongzhuo nodded.
"Is this another case of the system deliberately interfering? They don't allow players who know certain information to approach Princess Jingjing in the capital, so they are forced to go to jail."
The little octopus climbed onto Liu Xingquan's arm. "Yeah, that makes sense. Because Wei Hongzhuo's team had Gin, they knew from the beginning that the world was related to Wei Jingjing, and there was also Wei Hongzhuo, the real father, so they encountered many obstacles from the beginning. Fifty days in jail, haha, this is indeed what that retarded game system did."
Cui Mingzhi murmured in fear : "How vicious! Are we being targeted by the game system?!"
"Yes, this is the biggest reason for your team's various troubles. No matter what you do, there will be interference. Even if Uncle Wei doesn't go and talk to the guards, there is a high probability that you will be imprisoned or expelled for some other reason."
"And Ren Anzhi, his identity is Princess Jingjing's fiancé." Gin said, "That's why the king canceled the engagement and expelled us. So that's how it is."
"I have a question, too." Liu Xingquan said, "Since Jingjing has already built loving parents in her dream, why did players like us come in?"
The little octopus said, "Good question. Because Jingjing has an implant in his body. This implant is a very powerful signal receiver. In this accident, this dissolved and reorganized receiver pulled us in according to her subconscious. The roles of the king and queen were already constructed at the beginning, and Aunt Sheng and Uncle Wei who were pulled in became outsiders. I guess Wei Jingjing had mutated and lost his rationality before he had time to construct the role of the prince. Because the prince does not have a ready-made role like the king and queen, Ren Anzhi who came in later naturally has the attribute of the prince of the Emerald Kingdom."
Gin said, "Then how did Granny Lin get in?"
Wei Hongzhuo asked sensitively: "What implant?"
The little octopus said, "A device that pulls us in, and projects personality consciousness."
"Why is there this thing inside Jingjing?"
"I don't know. Maybe we'll know the truth after we rescue Wei Jingjing." The little octopus said, "That's why I called everyone together. Next, we have to work together to save Wei Jingjing!"
"You want to save my daughter?" The king and queen, who had been held aside and didn't know what was going on, shouted, "You can really save my daughter? You want to save her! Can she really stop being that terrible monster?"
"We'll try our best," said the little octopus.
Wei Hongzhuo watched them in silence.
The king, who looked like him, had a sad face, "She was only fifteen years old. I remember the way she laughed, her voice was like a lark, and she was as beautiful as a flower in the garden. But she suddenly turned into a monster. In fact, I, I don't know what she looked like. That day, they - the servants all said that she had turned into a monster. They locked her up. I, I didn't want to confirm it with my own eyes." He held the queen's hand, "That's our child, but how could she turn into a monster..." The queen burst into tears.
"After she turned into a monster, didn't you go to see her?" Wei Hongzhuo asked.
The king looked away. "The queen and I are both very scared. We - we don't know how to face her. She was such a sweet and lovely child. The servants and guards have told us about the monster's terrible ugliness. The queen and I are both very scared - so we never went to see her. Are you going to save her? Please, save her." The king stopped talking and took a breath. "Or are you going to kill her?"
"You are not her real parents." Wei Hongzhuo whispered.
"ah?"
"Real parents wouldn't leave their children alone in the dark." Wei Hongzhuo turned around. They weren't, and I wasn't worthy either.
Sheng Shihua took a step forward and asked the little octopus: "When are we going to rescue Jingjing?"
"Get ready," said the little octopus. "All of us."
