Chapter 159 Deceiving the Xiongguo people into taking the fall, and they're practically being taken down by the Japanese...
Just as she was being escorted away by the Japanese, Sang Zhitao suddenly swayed and plummeted to the ground from mid-air.
"Watch out!" Ying Jun, the only person on the scene who still had energy and the only one closest to Sang Zhitao, flipped over and caught Sang Zhitao with his own body.
The shimmering, pigeon-sized mulberry peach, upon landing on him, instantly transformed back into a yellow ball the size of a chick.
"How is Phoenix?" Douzi jumped off her brother and rushed to Sang Zhitao, carefully picking her up.
Ying Jun covered his chest and shook his head.
"How are you doing down there?" Anya asked, using her sword to support herself as she slowly walked over.
Ying Jun sighed slightly and briefly described the conditions at the bottom of the lake.
Anya frowned and looked at Yingjun, her eyes filled with a silent question.
Yingjun slowly shook his head and pointed to the control panel, where he had sent a message to Anya.
"No, the bottom of the lake is completely different from what the data says. There's something wrong with the game."
He sent this message to Anya immediately after he went into the water, but Anya was being attacked by the Japanese at the time and didn't have time to see it. This was the first time she had seen it.
Looking at the message above, Anya's expression turned extremely grim.
The Xia Kingdom, one of the three great powers, has poured all its resources into creating a game that has shown signs of invasion—a truly humiliating disgrace.
After thinking for a moment, she quickly typed a few lines on the control panel before saying to the Douzi siblings, "Something's not right at the bottom of the lake. Let's leave here first."
Upon hearing her say that, Dou Ge immediately reached out his hand to his sister.
Douzi jumped onto Douge's back. Before anyone else could react, Douge carried his little sister and ran more than ten meters away, shouting, "Let's get out of here!!"
Anya was taken aback by how fast the brother and sister had run away. She paused for a moment, then quickly ran after them.
The others, having already received some basic treatment from Miao Yi, helped each other up and quickly followed them away.
When they had run about a hundred meters, they ran into the people of the Bear Kingdom.
Meanwhile, the people of Xiong Kingdom are engaged in an internal conflict.
"Onev! What have you done?!" Lisa, supporting Alexei, glared angrily at Onev.
Meanwhile, Onev stood there blankly, holding the food the Japanese had left for them, muttering repeatedly, "It's delicious, you should eat it, it's delicious..."
Inov lay on his side, clutching his chest, frantically pouring healing potions into himself with his free hand. Unfortunately, the blackness gradually spreading into his eyes showed that everything he was doing was in vain.
As Lisa supported him, Alexei's eyes gradually turned black. One of his hands was stuck in his chest, as if he was holding onto something, and he didn't pull it out.
Seeing that she couldn't wake Onev, and seeing that the others were also falling to the ground and pouring medicine into their mouths, Lisa gritted her teeth, carefully placed Alexei to one side, picked up her weapon, and walked towards Onev.
Inov had been protecting Engev until this very moment. He stood in front of Engev with all his might, his legs trembling, and looked at Lisa: "He's being controlled. We can't kill him."
"Not kill him, just wait for him to continue being controlled by the code?" Lisa frowned and warned him sharply.
Inov still stood in front of Onev, shaking his head at Lisa.
Lisa glanced at him impatiently: "It's just a game, he has more than one life!"
Inov hesitated, the reason that came to mind swirling in his mind, but he didn't say it out loud, only shaking his head firmly.
Lisa was furious at his behavior and no longer wanted to argue with him. She pushed him away and raised the axe in her hand to chop him down.
"Bang!" With a burst of energy, Inovance shoved her away.
Watching Inov panting heavily, he was both giving himself a potion and stabbing himself with a dagger to stay conscious.
Lisa's anger towards him subsided considerably in an instant.
She sighed softly: "Inovav, we came here on a mission. We can't afford to be wiped out. Neither of us can bear that responsibility."
Inov was completely exhausted and could only collapse to the ground, watching Lisa continue toward Engev with her giant axe in hand.
Just as she raised her giant axe again, Sang Zhitao and her group happened to run over and took in everything.
"What's wrong?" Since the Xiong Kingdom and the Xia Kingdom had maintained a superficial friendship, Anya naturally pretended to be unguarded and asked from a distance.
Lisa sighed at being stopped again, but she didn't dare to reprimand Anya and the others as she had reprimanded Inov, nor did she want them to see infighting among their own people. She could only smile and say, "It's nothing."
Anya raised an eyebrow, not caring about Lisa's concealment. After all, looking at the appearance of that group of people, she immediately realized that their situation was very similar to that of the Japanese, and she instantly understood that they had really done something.
She was only being polite by saying a few words; after all, she couldn't very well say, "Your family members are being controlled by someone."
It's as if the people of Xia Kingdom did it.
Although Lisa felt that the Xia people were all in a sorry state, she didn't think much of it, assuming that the Youyue Forest was more dangerous than they had imagined, and that they had just happened to avoid it.
“Then we’ll be going.” Anya glanced at the path carved out by weapons behind the Xiong Kingdom people, and her keen senses as the head of the intelligence agency immediately kicked in, giving her a guess about the Xiong Kingdom people’s destination.
Her eyes lit up with a sudden idea, and she smiled at Lisa, saying, "Are you going to Moon Lake? You've also accepted an NPC quest, haven't you?"
Lisa couldn't very well say that she came for them, but they didn't know much about the Moonlit Forest either, so they could only pretend that what she said was right and nod with a smile.
Seeing her like this, Anya became even more certain of her guess and continued to deceive her, saying, "There is a kind of herb at the bottom of that lake that the NPCs want. It respawns every three hours, and if you go now, you should just happen to catch the most recent respawn."
Fearing the other party might not be tempted, Anya continued, "The rewards include protective equipment; you can sell us any extras you have."
That statement was obviously empty talk. Guardian equipment is extremely rare, and there isn't enough for even their own use. Why would anyone be foolish enough to sell it? Anya was just deliberately trying to trick the Bear Kingdom people into going to the lake.
Upon hearing this, Lisa's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and she pretended not to understand as she looked at Anya: "I wonder if we've accepted the same mission."
Anya understood the other person's probing question perfectly well, and patted the other person's shoulder affectionately: "Of course there is one, it's just the herb-gathering female quest 200 meters east of Moon Lake."
Lisa's eyes lit up with joy upon hearing this. Then she silently calculated in her mind that, from their current direction, they would need to cross Moon Lake to return to the east side.
Thinking of the refresh time Anya mentioned, and fearing that she would be delayed too long and fall behind the Xia people, thus missing out on the god-level missions, she wavered a little.
But then Anya added another weight to the scales that were swaying her: "It seems like you've been corrupted. The guardian bracelet might be useful."
Hearing this, Lisa looked at her companion, and her wavering heart finally made up her mind.
"Thank you." After thanking Anya, Lisa helped Alexie up, called out to her companion who had regained some of her senses due to the appearance of Sang Zhitao, and slowly walked towards Moon Lake.
"The treatment seems to be working, don't stop using it," Lisa's voice faintly reached, reminding her companions.
The Xia people looked at the little yellow ball in Douzi's arms.
After observing everything around the lake, they vaguely sensed that Sang Zhitao was truly their nemesis. After all, they hadn't forgotten that at the moment Sang Zhitao appeared, a hint of clarity flashed in the eyes of Xia Liang, the Japanese man who had once appeared before them.
However, that clarity did not last long before it was truly destroyed by pollution, but even so, they managed to capture it.
"How is Little Phoenix? Did you really say you gave her a gift? Perhaps you were referring to the giant beast." Anya paused before continuing, "Let the Bear Kingdom handle this now."
Douzi looked at Sang Zhitao in her arms with concern, and after a while said, "It's still unclear whether the Xiong Kingdom people can handle it."
Anya frowned: "Never mind that for now. It seems that only Phoenix can restrain Zhen. Protecting her is the most important thing."
She then turned to Yingjun and said, "You need to report everything immediately. There's a problem with the game. It's highly contagious and can still give us missions. It's definitely not a player."
"It's been reported ahead, don't worry." Yingjun gave her a directional look before continuing, "Let's hurry up, I still feel like this distance isn't safe."
Anya didn't say anything more, nodded, and continued walking forward, with the others quickly following.
After leading the Japanese away from Moon Lake, Zhen chose to go deeper into the forest, heading straight for the other side of the Ghost Moon Forest.
According to the game information she discovered, the other side of the Moonlit Forest is an area that has not yet been opened, where she can get temporary rest.
"Keep going in." She waved her sleeve, and black tentacles reappeared from under her skirt, stabbing at the surrounding Japanese people.
Zhen slowly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling the energy coming from the tentacles, and his originally pale face regained some color.
However, she didn't notice that one tentacle was transmitting far less energy than the others, as if it were being blocked.
In real life, the game monitoring center received letters from Yingjun and Anya immediately.
"Pollution? Bug?" Lei Hai, the head of the testing center, frowned as he looked through the documents handed to him by his subordinate. "Can we contact them?"
The subordinate nodded: "Okay, but they said they're still on the run and can't give any more details."
"Then go investigate!" Lei Hai's eyes were fierce. "The Dragon-Phoenix Continent is of utmost importance, and there can be no mistakes! Investigate all the information about the Ghost Moon Forest so far! Especially Moon Lake and that NPC who called himself Zhen."
"Yes!" The subordinate quickly accepted the order and left.
Lei Hai looked down at the documents and felt a bad premonition. He sighed silently, tidied up the documents, and submitted them directly.
This kind of thing should be handled by the technical department. He's just an intelligence officer and he's really powerless when it comes to technical issues.
Soon, the subordinate also copied the data and submitted it to the technical department.
Sang Zhitao, who was still fast asleep, was unaware of all this. When she woke up, they had already arrived at another part of Youyue Forest.
While everyone was still searching for ingredients for the divine mission, Sang Zhitao looked at the single-digit satiety level on the control panel, sighed deeply, and decided to give the Xia people a little cheat.
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