Chapter 117 Madness and Chaos

Rong Yi got up at eight o'clock in the morning and arrived in the capital. Their first thought was to capture the Ghost King of this district.

It was noisy outside during the meal.

Rong Yi put down his bowl. "I'll go take a look."

“Together.” Wei Yanqing stood up as well.

Upon opening the door, they found the players emerging from inside, all looking up. Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing also felt a familiar pressure.

He Xin Ghost Lord had a similar oppressive aura back then.

This time, the source is...the top of their heads.

Rong Yi looked up, and the scene before him was enough to shock the whole world. The azure sky was tinged with a layer of gray, and in the gray was a few dilapidated buildings, cracked and scorched earth, and countless ghosts.

They seemed to see the human world as well, howling across time and space, wishing they could tear every living person here apart.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know."

"We're really going to be in deep trouble now."

Players are discussing this extensively.

Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing returned to their room immediately and released Jin Ning Ghost Lord again.

Seeing their serious expressions, the female ghost waited quietly for their questions.

"There's a mirage outside, do you know what's going on?" Rong Yi tried to describe the scene he had just witnessed while he was outside.

King Jin Ning hurriedly shook his head, "I've been in the human world for almost a year now, and I really don't know anything about what's happening in the ghost realm."

The two felt slightly disappointed, but also a sense of urgency.

"However..." the female ghost king hesitated before speaking, "You can pay attention to the full moon on the fifteenth."

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The mirage in the sky persisted, causing numerous flight cancellations. News reports indicate that this phenomenon was not unique to the capital but was observed worldwide.

Now, not only are the indigenous resistance alliances worried, but the players are also trying to figure out what's going on.

The players in this area gathered together and even knocked on Rong Yi and his friends' door.

"The situation is bad right now, as everyone can see. For now, if we have any information, we should share it with everyone. To get off to a good start, let me say this first: this mirage is an invasion phenomenon, even worse than before. It's a situation where the ghost realm can launch a large-scale invasion, and humanity is unable to fight back." The female player who spoke had a serious expression, and it seemed that she was showing her sincerity.

After a few seconds of silence, a player finally spoke up, "We also have some news. At the beginning of the dungeon, we caught a little ghost that seemed to have just come from the ghost realm to the human world. It kept emphasizing that the living would soon be doomed, and now it seems that's what it meant."

Then, the group spoke intermittently about information that was either useful or irrelevant.

Rong Yi raised her hand, and the other players immediately fell silent upon seeing her. "I believe you didn't gather in the capital for no reason. We received information that there is a Zhongdu Ghost Lord in the capital, and the Ghost Realm Token is with him. The other Ghost Lords must follow him to return to the Ghost Realm with the offerings, but there is no specific time."

Some people were surprised by this news, since there are at most ten ghost kings in a city, and there are many player teams, so it is impossible for each one to capture a ghost king and interrogate him for information.

"Is there no time to act?"

Rong Yi glanced at the player who had asked the question, and the person quickly turned his face away.

The players present all recognized them. Not long after they entered the dungeon, they revealed important information about the second-tier bullets through a program.

Sitting next to Rong Yi, Wei Yanqing said, "The Ghost Lord does not contact the Ghost King, so we do not know when the operation will take place. Everyone should pay attention to this in the near future."

Since that's been said, the other players didn't have any more questions.

"that……"

Someone suddenly spoke up, and everyone looked over in unison.

A female player, sitting on the periphery of the group, was short and her feet barely touched the ground. She was wearing a functional outfit that seemed out of place with her personality. She appeared somewhat uncomfortable with so many people looking at her.

She lowered her head and said in a low voice, "I have a good feeling. After seeing the mirage, my intuition tells me that there will be a full-scale invasion soon. Instead of exploring how to get to the ghost realm, we should think about how to fight against a large number of ghosts."

This statement is quite bombshell. Everyone had been vaguely speculating about it, but hearing it out loud makes it feel different. Some players might have been hoping for the best, thinking it would take some more time, but now it's said there's not much time left.

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Ye Wenlin took the ghost crystal home and spent a restless night. He didn't know if he would be able to go out normally the next day, whether the mall staff had seen the surveillance video of him killing the ghost, or whether the mother and daughter had reported the ghost to the authorities.

This kept him on his phone all night, contacting members at the base.

Everyone was very excited about him obtaining the Ghost Crystal, but dared not make any rash moves. Ye Wenlin had not made any move, yet they were making a big show of going to pick him up despite the ghosts' ambush. Wouldn't that be an admission of guilt?

As dawn broke, Ye Wenlin, looking exhausted, headed to the stronghold.

Upon arriving at the base, the members were already waiting for him at the entrance.

"Wenlin, take your things with you." The member who asked the question looked at him with such a dignified appearance that he was afraid he might have forgotten something due to a lapse in concentration.

Ye Wenlin nodded repeatedly, "I brought it, go downstairs first." He didn't dare to take it out at this moment.

He was lucky. If he had been a day earlier, the ghost crystal would have been found and devoured by other ghosts. But most of the ghosts were busy with important matters in the ghost realm last night and not many were wandering around outside.

The group arrived underground and looked at Ye Wenlin with expectant eyes.

They knew about the Ghost Crystal. The strange people who cooperated with them would get a glowing crystal after killing a ghost, but the crystal was too precious for them to repay, so they could only watch with envy.

Now they finally have their own ghost crystal.

Although Ye Wenlin's actions were very risky and could have severely damaged the alliance, everyone felt it was worth it after seeing the Ghost Crystal.

The Ghost Crystal was carefully taken away for various research projects, which could bring more breakthroughs to the Alliance.

To find out what was going on, Yuan Tianyu cleared the meeting room, leaving only the two of them.

Ye Wenlin recounted the events of last night in detail and took out the small peach wood sword.

“Brother Yuan, peach wood is really important. It took me a lot of effort to kill that ghost yesterday. When I stabbed it, it was almost powerless to resist.”

Yuan Tianyu nodded, "Of course I know that. You brought good news today, and I also have the latest investigation results. Many of the high-ranking officials are sober and are working for the ghosts. But they are not stupid. They know that the ghosts are going to destroy a large number of peach trees and are worried about being used and discarded. So they are careful and only cleared the peach orchards near the city. They didn't touch the ones in the mountains. The ghosts only like big cities and none of them are willing to go to the wild. Even if the peach trees were cut down, they only burned a little bit to make it look like a big deal."

Ye Wenlin leaned forward, his eyes brimming with undisguised joy. "Really? So, Brother Yuan, you've found those trees?"

“That’s right,” Yuan Tianyu said. “The message from the new members who were added to the official team is that they transported the peach wood to the wilderness far from the city to ensure that it wouldn’t be noticed by the ghosts.”

For ghosts, peach wood is not a threat if it is not close to them.

Yuan Tianyu patted Ye Wenlin on the shoulder, "We know the address, but there are guards there, so we can't act rashly. We can only look for the peach grove deep in the mountains first."

(End of this chapter)