The barrier between the cities had vanished. This news wasn't just known to Yang Jia; after all, knowing it would eventually vanish, the major guilds naturally deployed personnel to monitor it at all times, reporting any anomalies immediately.

The disappearance of the barrier means the removal of all obstacles to conquering the entire game world. Upon receiving this news, everyone has their own plans in mind.

The six major guilds' willingness to cooperate with Yang Jia wasn't so much due to Nirvana's strength as it was due to objective constraints. Even if they had wanted to invade, the underground tunnels couldn't transport a large number of people at once. If they had sent them in batches, it would have been like delivering food.

In this case, the Nirvana Guild hadn't done anything to anger the public, so naturally no one would pay attention to it.

But now it's different.

Not to mention that the Nirvana Guild had accumulated a large amount of supplies due to Yang Jia's previous operations, the current experiments alone were worth a look by other guilds.

Under such circumstances, the six major guilds naturally made frequent small moves.

Yang Jia simply ignored the so-called inspection team and directly contacted the Forget-Me-Not Guild.

The process went smoothly and she soon got in touch with the president Xuan Zijie.

As Qin Yan had commented, the Xuan family had always been low-key, keeping to themselves. While this didn't mean they didn't have their own ideas and plans, they were at least much easier to deal with than ambitious families like the Sheng or Lei families.

At least there is room for negotiation.

As for the Li family, Yang Jia hadn't considered them from the beginning. Although they appeared to be one family, she and Li Bai were planning to overthrow the entire Li family. Without the necessary strength to do so, they could only avoid them for now.

Sure enough, after Xuan Zijie received Yang Jia's message, he quickly responded and expressed his willingness to talk to her.

Although the other party's attitude was unclear, Yang Jia was not in the least bit anxious. Judging from Xuan Zijie's reaction, the so-called alliance of the six major guilds was quite loose, and there must be many internal conflicts. Making a decision would definitely not be a matter of one day or one night.

She then had several more contacts with Xuan Zijie, until she announced that her Nirvana Guild had successfully developed a virus vaccine. Xuan Zijie finally expressed a clear attitude: as long as the Nirvana Guild was willing to share vaccine-related research data, the Forget-Me-Not Guild and the Nirvana Guild could form an alliance immediately.

This was within Yang Jia's expectations. After all, they were just factions within the game, and without significant interests involved, the vaccine research data was naturally more important.

Everything was going smoothly, but just one day before the alliance, Xuan Zijie suddenly sent a completely unexpected message.

The news that the Nirvana Guild had developed a virus vaccine had somehow gotten out. Now everyone knew about it, and the six major guilds were discussing the matter.

This time, they directly excluded the Silver and Spark Guilds, seemingly already knowing the relationship between these two guilds and the Nirvana Guild. If Xuan Zijie hadn't tipped off Yang Jia, he might not have known until someone came knocking on his door.

She told Bai Ting that fighting wouldn't happen anytime soon, but only if the vaccine remained secret. Once they knew about the vaccine, it would be strange for the other guilds to remain silent.

How did the news leak?

Only those within the Nirvana Guild knew about this; outsiders, only Fang Pingyuan and Bai Shu were privy to it. Fang Pingyuan was an NPC, a natural ally of Yang Jia, but unlikely to find common ground with players. For him, the Spark Guild had already been merged into Nirvana, so their success and failure were naturally shared. There was no need to dig his own grave. As for Bai Shu, even if Yang Jia didn't trust her character, he certainly didn't doubt her wisdom.

After all, vaccine research data is also a very important trump card in reality, and Bai Shu would not reveal it directly to others.

In other words, it was someone within the guild.

This was beyond Yang Jia's expectations.

Although the Nirvana Guild had always been a relatively loose organization, its strong research atmosphere had kept it away from political intrigue and, instead, it appeared quite peaceful. Previously, everyone had worked together to overcome difficulties without such a lapse. Suddenly realizing there might be a traitor within, Yang Jia was both shocked and furious.

Because even within the company, those who could get the news were of high status and were people she felt she could trust.

However, precisely because they were so few in number, it wasn't difficult to pinpoint the perpetrators. And almost immediately after receiving the news, Yang Jia had identified the suspect. Within the Nirvana Guild, besides her own direct lineage, only the mayors of several other cities held the highest positions and were often involved in these major events, but their loyalty was uncertain.

Following this line of inquiry, we soon found the three members of the Yu family.

This surprised Yang Jia.

Because according to Xuan Zijie, the person who came up with this information was from the Dawn Guild.

After the Li family replaced the Yu family, they showed no mercy, wiping out the entire family, leaving only a handful of members. Under these circumstances, Yang Jia had initially believed the Yu family could be trusted. After all, the Yu and Li families held an irreconcilable feud. She even planned to use the Yu family as a key factor in any future conflict with the Li family.

Although they have not been entrusted with important tasks during this period, it is because the current main tasks are farming and research, and there is no place for them to use their skills.

But regardless, this betrayal was unexpected and inexplicable.

"Why?" she asked directly after seeing Yu Xingliang and three others.

"I don't know why either." Yu Xingliang's expression was complicated. "Carrying the hatred of an entire family and surname is such a painful thing. You can't possibly understand. Sometimes I wonder, what does this have to do with us? Why should we bear it?"

Yang Jia understood what had happened. "What did the Li family promise?"

"Freedom," Yu Xingliang replied. "From now on, we'll be free. We won't be subjected to inexplicable suppression or boycotts just because we have the last name Yu. We can live a normal life, join the army, or continue our studies. It's up to us to choose."

"Do you know the value of the information you've sold?" Yang Jia couldn't help but ask. With this vaccine, let alone freedom, even if they wanted a fiefdom, it would be no problem.

Yu Xingliang smiled. "I know. But it won't belong to us, will it?"

Yang Jia was speechless.

Indeed, she couldn't possibly hand over the vaccine information to them. So all they could sell was information, not information. This information was only worth so much.

In this situation, Yu Xingliang could still see this clearly and did not let greed cloud his reason. He did not even think about snatching the vaccine information. If the person who was sold was not him, Yang Jia felt that he should be praised.

What surprised Yang Jia even more was that after the Yu family's affairs were exposed, she heard from Zhang Zitao, Du Qing and others that they had also recently received offers from various parties, but they had simply rejected them all.

"You're bullying us, you're not alone." Yang Jia gritted her teeth. Although she knew the Nirvana Guild had little foundation, she couldn't stand it when its core members were being coerced. At this moment, Yang Jia was extremely grateful that she had chosen the right path. If her subordinates hadn't been so focused on research and had instead been combatants, how many would still be left?

Qin Yan asked, "What should we do now?"

"Now that the news has been made public, let's put it on the table and discuss it." Yang Jia said.

…

Yang Jia didn't know that she was not the only one who was angry about this matter.

At that moment, in the Dawn Guild, Li Ze was also angry at Zheng Yizhao, "Who told you to leak this news directly? Our original goal was to put pressure on the Nirvana Guild openly and secretly find a way to get this information out. After you made such a fuss, how could we still have a chance?"

"There wasn't a chance in the first place," Zheng Yizhao said calmly. "If we could do it, we would have the information by now. The people you sent out can only do this."

"Zheng Yizhao!" Li Ze gritted his teeth. He had long been dissatisfied with this outsider who was more favored by First Leader Li Fang than himself, but he knew he could do nothing, so he could only endure it. But Zheng Yizhao's constant attitude was always like that, which made him on the verge of exploding.

"Don't forget, our Dawn Guild represents the Li family." Zheng Yizhao reminded.

Li Ze snorted, "So what?"

"We all know what's going on with the Nirvana Guild, and there are probably a lot of people talking about it outside. Only by defeating them fairly and taking the Nirvana Guild back can we let some people know that the Li family is still the same Li family as before, and they'd better behave themselves." Zheng Yizhao said nonchalantly.

"Fight me if you want!" Li Ze glared at him, but finally said, "Do we in the Li family still fear them?"

"We can't be careless. The Nirvana Guild isn't a big deal, but the others are probably waiting to take advantage," Zheng Yizhao patiently analyzed. "And the Nirvana Guild won't sit idly by. If they join forces with the others, we'll be in trouble."

The jealousy in Li Ze's eyes flashed away, "Anyway, you are the person the commander trusts the most, I'm sure you won't let him down!"

Zheng Yizhao did not answer this question, but just lowered his head and looked through the information in his hand.

…

Bai Ting emerged from her room and walked to the viewing corridor. The entire wall was made of a special material that looked like glass, allowing a direct view of the dazzling and beautiful space outside. She stopped at the window, raised her telescope, and after a few moments of adjustment, she found her target.

In the vast galaxy, there is a beautiful planet whose geographical environment is very similar to that of the ancient Earth. Therefore, it was chosen by the human beings on Earth as an immigration site.

Hope Star has arrived.