Volume 15: Organisms and Organisms and Organisms Chapter 43: The World of the Strong (Part 2)
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The most embarrassing thing in the world is to be caught talking bad about someone behind their back.
Seeing the different expressions on the faces of the players, Alice and Leng Feng felt that they were in trouble. Because those present were not the Undead Hall or other small wild players. Strictly speaking, those who emerged from Gwen's shadow were basically well-known figures in the adventure world.
Rather, it looks like a gathering of super players. Alice looked around with a sweat on her forehead. All the players in different clothes were big anchors or well-known archaeologists. In addition to the experienced small team , there were some other small teams and alliances, mythical individuals and the like. However, these people were all staring at the face of the goddess of luck, and the atmosphere between the two sides was so awkward that it was killing people.
It's not that no one was staring at Leng Feng, but Leng Feng, who used to be a pirate and had trained on the cold planet, was not a shy person at all. It was all said, there was nothing wrong with admitting it. Instead, he glared back at the players with different expressions. The two sides glared at each other, and under the strange gazes of the NPCs coming and going in front of the Holy Light Council Hall, they were in a subtle stalemate, and no one was willing to show weakness. Although I don't know what the meaning is, it is very embarrassing to admit defeat in the game, especially in front of the NPC, so the two sides were back and forth, and it felt very lively.
"...Adventurer's Alliance, Fourteen Idlers, what are you doing here?"
After staring at him for a long time, Alice felt her eyes were a little sore and she felt a little guilty. She turned her eyes away and asked in a low voice:
"Why don't you just be adventurers instead of coming to our place to participate in the player competition? I'll let you know in advance that there are no vacancies right now. If you want to participate, you can only grab the secret spot. We can't give you a backdoor, so it's useless to look at us."
"Who's going to participate in the Players Tournament?"
One of the Dragon City mad young men said sarcastically:
"If it weren't for repaying a favor, I would—"
"Wait, this is not the place to talk. Everyone, be patient."
Chatting at the wine table.
Gwen smiled, calmed down the somewhat irritable players, walked up to the prosecutor and said a few words.
The Holy Light faction actually didn't need any gatekeepers, and the management review was very relaxed, with a time system. You just had to work your way through the work schedule within a month. So after listening to Gwen's words and confirming it, they gave the three people a holiday.
The group continued to sneak into Gwen's shadow in a mysterious way, and continued to maintain a mysterious style. There were no other players in the Holy Light Council Hall at the moment, but it was clear that there would be no other players in a while, and there were players coming and going outside. These big guys must be a super big news for banding together, and they couldn't just appear casually. So after discussing with the Holy Light trio, they dressed up from the small road and ran to the restaurant inside the Holy Light.
Gwen was relieved only after she was sure that there were no surveillance devices or related products in the meeting room inside the Holy Light. The players also emerged from the shadows one after another and sat down in the magnificent closed restaurant. The originally empty restaurant suddenly became very crowded, but the others did not dislike anything, just gathered together, chatting privately and exchanging various information and secrets. It seemed that there was no good start, and the two sides fell into a strange silence again, waiting for a brave man to break this mysterious atmosphere.
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It seems that I have to do it again.
Alice looked at the people who were looking evasive, coughed, and smiled.
"Ah, that, I remember that you all discussed on the forum recently that you wanted to go to the Black Forest for a collective research. Aren't there remnants of conceptual erasure rules there? If we extract elements from them and transform them, I'm sure we can get a lot of secret information, right?"
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But what Alice didn't expect was that a casual polite remark would make the other players present turn pale, and then look up at Alice with an indescribable look. That look made Alice wonder if she had made a mistake, or if she had just said something wrong. Looking at those players was as surprised as if someone had suddenly said their lottery winning number.
"…Since it's a secret, I won't ask."
Maybe there is something unspeakable.
Unexpectedly, a random word she said would bring bad luck. Facing the shocked looks of others, Alice sighed helplessly and sat back.
But this was a good start. The players no longer whispered to each other in private, but raised their heads and looked at Alice and Leng Feng with a strange expression, as if they were looking at some unlucky test subjects.
"No, nothing. We just found a lot of conditions and traced logical chains related to conceptual erasure in the Black Forest. Then we discovered some big problems."
As if she had heard something extraordinary, one of the petite and cute female players whispered mysteriously:
"That Li Lin is indeed the peak form of the former player. We still have no way to trace the concept of sacrifice left in the Black Forest. But we can identify the name 'Li Lin' through these remaining traces. And it is limited to the player Li Lin, there is absolutely no mistake."
"Lock on the name Li Lin...?"
Alice and Leng Feng looked confused.
"But what's the use of that?"
"It's very useful."
One of the Dragon City Mad Young Masters stood up and said with a heavy face:
"When we were conducting an experiment a while ago, we used this affix to trace back and found that everything was blank, or there were energy fluctuations of extremely high energy levels. However, we were able to trace back some strange messages and news in a few places occasionally. Most of them were players and some inconspicuous NPCs."
"Through this tracing, we reversed time to find out the truth of that time. Although there is no way to time jump or correct the past, we can still see the historical mirror of what happened at that time. The time is not too recent, and we restored what happened in the room at that time. Then we found that the good man who has been helping us adventurers, Senior Li Lin, was actually targeted. A group of people created the 'God Killing Plan' and planned to assassinate Li Lin at this player banquet. And we came here to stop their conspiracy."
The others also nodded, looking solemn.
"Li Lin has helped us a lot, but I don't know why he can't be contacted on the forum. We want to stop this conspiracy in our own way. I hope you two can help us."
"God-killing Plan...? Targeting Li Lin?"
Looking at the serious looks of those adventure players, Alice and the other person couldn't help but look at each other, feeling absurd.
