"yes."

Elleri nodded in agreement. The glider that Xiao Linlin mentioned was a technological item purchased after the last game. It could be used to carry people in a skateboard form using a magnetic field. It had a single function and was expensive, but it was convenient and easy to use.

After all, not many people in the team can fly, except for Xiao Linlin, Su Lin, and Lyanna.

At this stage, Su Lin can only use the sword-controlling incantation to achieve brief airtime, while Xiao Linlin can use the high-level flight magic within the Holy Scepter to fly at low altitudes, and Lyanna can do the same.

The other pure-blooded elves are not good at this kind of high-level magic, not to mention Jia Zhengyi. This item can greatly make up for the team's ability to fly.

Before long, Elleri led her team into the darkness. The gliders appeared as flying swords in the local match world, and the group quickly disappeared inside the city walls.

A moment later, Elleri sent a telepathic message: "Landed safely, no danger, the patrol did not spot us."

"good."

Xiao Linlin nodded, confirming that there were no martial arts masters in the city who could see through the concealment magic, before leading the whole group into the city quietly.

"Do we really have to act like thieves?"

Jia Zhengyi couldn't help but mutter, not quite understanding why they had to enter the city at night. Xiao Linlin explained, "Evil is stronger than righteousness. If we enter the city after dawn, we will be questioned. Brother's current identity and image are very sensitive, and our team is large, so it will easily attract attention."

"Although there are ways to sneak into the city at dawn, it's not necessary to go through all that trouble. Let's go in and check the situation first."

As Xiao Linlin explained, the entire team had already swiftly landed inside the city.

Immediately, Xiao Linlin instructed Jia Zhengyi to scout the entire city, while simultaneously using the senses of the Mimic, Lyanna, and Su Lin—three powerful individuals—to sweep across the city and ensure that there were no overly powerful martial arts practitioners.

After spending two hours sweeping the entire city, Xiao Linlin broke up the team and assigned them to different groups: Jia Zhengyi led one group, the Mimic transformed into Xiao Linlin and led another group, and Su Lin and Xiao Linlin led a third group.

This way, the team has someone who can at least take charge, preventing the Pokémon from getting lost in the unfamiliar world and helping them quickly familiarize themselves with it. At the same time, it reduces the size of the team to avoid attracting attention.

After a busy period, the sky was beginning to lighten, and there were already a few pedestrians on the streets.

The three teams acted according to Xiao Linlin's established plan, quickly traversing every corner of the city, focusing on collecting intelligence on the current world situation.

At dawn, Su Lin and Xiao Linlin led their team to a relatively secluded shop to stay in. After settling the elves in, Su Lin took Xiao Linlin out to gather intelligence.

As a young江湖人士 (jianghu figure), he moved between various restaurants, teahouses, and other places with complex crowds.

Of course, before this, Su Lin used the mechanical props that Xiao Linlin had prepared to make preliminary disguises on his face and body. Although this ordinary method may not be able to stop the escapees, it at least ensures that the evil NPCs will not see his identity as a Sword Pavilion disciple.

Then, some small pieces of gold and silver were taken out from the warehouse to serve as local valuables. This was thanks to Xiao Linlin's good planning in advance, as she had purchased some hard currency in advance to meet the expenses of different worlds.

While it may not perfectly fit every world, at least it doesn't have any major flaws, and at most, NPCs will take advantage of it.

But that doesn't matter, since these things aren't worth much in resource coins, and few survivors would care about such money.

The young swordsman roamed the city, spending lavishly and claiming to be a novice in the martial arts world. This easily attracted many people with ill intentions, and he readily cooperated in being slaughtered, appearing exceptionally naive.

Su Lin almost used money to quickly gather some useful intelligence.

"The situation doesn't look good."

In a private room at the restaurant, Su Lin frowned as he stared at the table full of food and wine: "The Sword Pavilion Sect has been destroyed, its members scattered, and the major righteous sects have either been wiped out or have surrendered to become new evil sects."

"Moreover, the city is basically full of unorthodox martial arts practitioners, and not one of them dares to call themselves righteous."

"It seems that... the positions of good and evil have been completely reversed. The righteous path has become a rat that everyone hates, while everyone is proud of evil, and the suppression of the righteous path is more intense than before."

“In the previous world order, although evil people were despised, they could at least walk around without getting in the way. At most, a few big devils would be shouted at and killed... But now even the small fry of the righteous path cannot show their faces. If they are exposed, they will be killed to collect the reward.”

Su Lin murmured, "If I hadn't been here before, I would have almost thought I had entered a completely different new martial arts world."

"Brother, you don't look that stupid."

Xiao Linlin was enjoying the food and drinks on the table when she heard this. She looked up and smiled, "There's no such thing as good or evil in this world. It's all about the winner taking all the blame. As for the rest of us, we just follow the crowd and naturally go with the winners."

"If evil wins, we are all evil; if righteousness wins, we are all righteous."

"These low-level martial arts practitioners are mostly just trying to make a living."

"I understand this principle."

Su Lin nodded silently, and Xiao Linlin asked with concern, "Then why is brother still like this? Is it because you're thinking of your senior sister?"

"No, it's just that I haven't gotten used to the new atmosphere of the game world yet, and it also feels very strange."

Su Lin frowned: "This Sword Pavilion was quite strong, how could it have declined so quickly?"

This is the issue that Su Lin cares about most. When he first started learning on his own, he took world-class players like Senior Li and Su Qingyang as his role models and worked hard in that direction.

As a result, when they returned to the same place, all the opponents they had once touted as powerful suffered crushing defeats!

This is what Su Lin finds most unsettling—how can they be so weak!

They could have posed such a huge threat to me back then.

"There must be some hidden reasons, but it's nothing more than being outmatched in strength."

Xiao Linlin held up her chopsticks and analyzed seriously: "In the martial arts world, to put it bluntly, might makes right. If the Sword Pavilion is weak, it can't beat others, so it will naturally decline quickly."

"The problem most likely lies with that mysterious master of evil arts."

"This is also the biggest problem in this match. A master who is even stronger than Senior Li? That's probably... not just close to immortality, but really at the level of immortality."

Xiao Linlin looked at Su Lin and suddenly sighed, "Brother hasn't even started the Foundation Establishment stage yet, so a direct confrontation is probably hopeless. We can only try to outsmart him..."

Before she could finish speaking, Jia Zhengyi's inner voice suddenly echoed in their minds.

"Hey! Boss! Linlin! Can you hear me?"

"explain."

Su Lin replied in his mind, and Jia Zhengyi said with delight, "Boss, where are you? I'm coming to find you!"

"I just got some big news, it's absolutely explosive!"

How explosive is it?

Xiao Linlin asked curiously. She greatly admired Jia Zhengyi's interpersonal skills; this guy was a natural at intelligence gathering.

"Xu Zhenshu of Jian Ge".

Jia Zhengyi said mysteriously, "I've found the whereabouts of the boss's senior sister!"