Chapter 150 The People Heading to Anya's Tavern in the Dark Moon Forest...
There were far more people at Anya Wine House than Sang Zhitao had imagined.
She had thought that Anya Wine House would only send two or three high-level players to escort them, but she didn't expect that seven or eight people would come this time.
Dou Ge was also a little surprised, but he didn't say anything. He just greeted the team leader and then led his sister into the teleportation array.
Teleportation arrays on the Dragon and Phoenix Continent only exist in various cities, and the Ghost Moon Forest is quite far from the cities, which is one of the reasons why Brother Dou chose to find someone to cooperate with.
"You chose to go over there to find food?!" The leader was Anya, the manager of Anya Winery.
She was stunningly beautiful, with sharp, aggressive eyes and a devilish figure encased in a clean and sharp combat suit, her long, red curly hair tied high on her head.
However, Anya is not very tall, and even looks a little petite when standing in front of others. Her face and overall demeanor make people not pay attention to her height at first glance, but only think that she is a tall and extremely strong beauty.
"Well, as I told you before, this cyclical mission is mainly for her. The first step is to provide her with food." Brother Dou pointed helplessly to the mulberry tree above his head.
Sang Zhitao rolled her eyes at him from the ground, a level-three gem in her mouth, pecking at it every now and then, while Dou Dou's eyes were full of disgust.
"Since we can eat gems, why can't we just keep providing them?" Anya asked curiously.
Douzi looked a little embarrassed. She glanced at Sang Zhitao carefully before lowering her voice and saying, "She looks down on low-grade gems, and we can't afford high-grade gems."
Anya became even more curious, her phoenix eyes almost turning into almonds, and her domineering aura diminished somewhat: "So now she..."
Douzi knew, of course, that she was asking why Sang Zhitao had agreed to eat a level-three gem.
She sighed softly, "I was so hungry that I had no choice but to eat the gems in my own phoenix nest this morning, and now I can't bear to part with them."
As she spoke, she began to recount what had happened that morning.
This morning, after she and her brother logged on, they were pecked several times by Sang Zhitao. After being apologized to several times, they learned that it was because they had subconsciously stuffed the bird's nest into their backpacks before logging off, resulting in Sang Zhitao going hungry all night.
Seeing that her satiety level was only in the single digits, she was so frightened that she quickly took out a bird's nest for her.
After eating seven or eight gems, Sang Zhitao collapsed in the bird's nest, not forgetting to tell the brother and sister: "Every gem in my nest is divine, and each one used is one less, so I won't eat them anymore. You two need to find a way to provide me with temporary food."
"God...God-level?!" Brother Dou's eyes turned green with envy, staring intently at the bird's nest while drooling.
Sang Zhitao braced herself, immediately shielding herself with the several divine gems that were near her, and glared at Dou Ge warningly: "Mine!"
Dou Ge's face lit up with a fawning expression. He looked down at the little phoenix in the bird's nest in his arms and said, "My little ancestor, could you give me one? This bird's nest of yours..."
“Phoenix Nest! It’s a Phoenix Nest!” Sang Zhitao couldn’t help but peck him.
Dou Ge quickly changed his words: "Yes, yes, your Phoenix Nest, look, there are dozens of them on it, can you give me one?"
Sang Zhitao shook her thumb-sized head like a rattle drum, and before Dou Ge could say anything more, she said again, "No, no! You haven't provided me with any food. I'm saving it for relief food so you won't starve to death."
Dou Ge and Dou Zi blushed for a moment. They exchanged glances for a long time before taking out most of their money from their backpacks to buy two level-three gems for Sang Zhi Tao to fill her stomach.
"It's barely passable..." Sang Zhitao pecked at the food with a hint of disdain.
Seeing this, Douzi touched the tip of his nose. Nowadays, level three gems are only available to very few wealthy people. Anything above that is extremely rare and hard to come by. Even if you do find one, the seller might not sell it.
Like that level eight gem they encountered yesterday, it was the shop's prized possession. Not to mention the two siblings, even Anya Wine House would have to consider whether their own savings were enough to buy it.
After finally calming Sang Zhitao down, the two siblings began packing their backpacks.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Sang Zhitao took out all the gems from the nest, counted them one by one, put them under her bottom, and eagerly urged Douzi, "Make me a bundle."
In the Dragon and Phoenix Continent, players can certainly craft their own storage backpacks, but the limit is only ten slots. This crafting skill is also known as the most useless skill in history by Dragon and Phoenix Continent players.
Douzi is someone who likes to learn all sorts of random skills, so naturally she learned the skill of making backpacks. When she heard Sang Zhitao urging her and saw her look of concern mixed with defensiveness, she couldn't help but find it funny.
The backpack was very easy to make; she finished it in just two minutes. After stuffing all the gems inside, she jumped onto Bean Brother's head with the egg-sized backpack on her back.
After carefully recounting what happened yesterday, Douzi glanced cautiously at Sang Zhitao before saying to Anya, "This ancestor has kept a record of our debts. All the divine gems we ate are now on my brother and me. We've calculated it, and we'll never be able to pay it back in this lifetime."
Anya twitched her lips speechlessly: "Fine, we really can't afford to support an eighth-level character."
Just as she finished speaking, she suddenly thought of something else: "In that case, why don't you go find ingredients and make food for her? Are you sure that can replace the gemstone?"
Bean nodded: "Yes, she said that specially prepared food has the most suitable energy for her, and is more useful than gemstones."
Hearing her say that, Anya said nothing more.
The group soon arrived at Youyou Town, a small town near Youyue Forest.
There aren't many players in the leisurely town. After all, although the game has been running for more than a year, most players are still around level 30 or 40. The few players who are level 50 or 60 tend to choose maps that are more suitable for training and don't come to the remote Ghost Moon Forest.
"I asked around among the NPCs, and it seems things are calm over there lately. Let's head straight into the forest."
"Alright, let's go!" The group, map in hand, entered the Ghost Moon Forest.
Today happens to be the annual international communication conference, and representatives from various countries have tacitly chosen to enter the Dragon and Phoenix Continent to start a virtual meeting.
"The divine beasts, dragons and phoenixes, are the cornerstone of the Dragon and Phoenix Continent. We believe they belong to all humanity and should not be attributed to any individual." The representative from the Li Kingdom smiled and looked around, occasionally glancing at the representative from the Xia Kingdom.
Japan and Korea have always been vassal states of Xia. However, when Xia faced a major crisis, they turned to Korea and became its two dogs, always eager to bite Xia.
Seeing the various hints from his father's country, he spoke directly: "Xia Kingdom, you shouldn't be so selfish, keeping the divine beast in your arms."
The Xia Kingdom representative was a young woman. She smiled slightly, completely ignoring the Japanese representative and focusing only on the Li Kingdom representative: "What evidence do you have that the divine beast is with us? I would say the divine beast is in the hands of you Li Kingdom people."
Before the representative from the Kingdom of Li could react, the representative from the Kingdom of Xia continued, "I have found very reliable intelligence. The clues to the divine beast Phoenix are in the hands of your Kingdom of Li's Beautiful Gang. How come they have turned to us instead?"
The representative of the Republic of Korea turned green with rage. The intelligence they had finally obtained had been stolen, and they couldn't even publicize it or arrest people. This feeling of being unable to express their grievances was like a thorn in the side for the Republic of Korea, which had always considered itself powerful and successful.
"Whether the information is clear to our country or not, it is a fact that your Anya Wine House in Xia Kingdom led people to Youyue Forest."
"What are you saying? Our Xia Kingdom has always valued human rights and freedom, and we would never interfere with your choice of where to level up." The Xia Kingdom representative still had that gentle demeanor, but his words were tight and difficult to counter.
When she said this, the Li Guo representative's face was beyond ugly. After all, Li Guo always liked to tout human rights and freedom, but they always liked to force their own players who entered the game to do things their way.
Not only that, they also love to spread rumors with their lackeys that the Xia Kingdom does not care about human rights, and have fooled many Xia Kingdom citizens into smuggling themselves into the Li Kingdom. Now they have finally been slapped in the face.
The Xia Kingdom representative, completely unconcerned about the other party's expression, simply smiled and looked at the Xiong Kingdom representative beside him: "I heard that your country also led people around searching for information about divine beasts a few days ago?"
The Xiong Kingdom representative was nearly two meters tall and muscular. He sat not far from the Xia Kingdom representative, making the Xia Kingdom representative, who was not short, appear extremely petite.
He gave a simple, honest smile and scratched his head: "We're just asking around, asking around."
The representatives from Xia and Li exchanged glances, their wariness of Xiong growing even stronger. The person sitting in the game's representative position was like a real-world ambassador; they couldn't possibly be someone so honest and simple.
The Xia Kingdom representative didn't say anything, but the Li Kingdom representative laughed sarcastically: "Our country doesn't have any now, and I'm not sure about the Xiong Kingdom, but you, Xia Kingdom, are the most suspicious."
A glint flashed in the eyes of the Xiong Kingdom representative. He glanced at the Xia Kingdom representative, then at the Li Kingdom representative, lowered his eyes and considered for a moment before making up his mind: "Xia Kingdom has always loved peace. Even if the divine beast is contracted by Xia Kingdom, it's fine. It's better than it falling into the hands of some ambitious people."
Upon seeing his open support for Xia, the Li Kingdom representative's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he slightly turned his head to look at the Japanese representative.
The Japanese representative turned green with rage. He understood perfectly well what the Li representative meant: they were telling them to find an opportunity to kill the Xiong representative.
But how could such a weak and small country dare to assassinate the ambassador of the third strongest country? If the incident were to come to light, he believed that the people of Li would definitely not help them explain, but would only push everything onto them.
The representative from Li Kingdom didn't care whether the representative from Japan was willing or not. Ignoring his unpleasant expression, he looked at the representative from Xia Kingdom and said, "We don't want to take your divine beast. We just heard that the divine beast has some missions. We wonder if we can cooperate?"
His sudden change of tone was not entirely unexpected for the Xia Kingdom representative. After all, seeing that she refused to admit it and that the Xiong Kingdom did not support them, the Li Kingdom representative naturally had to put aside his pride and soften his tone.
The Xia Kingdom representative simply smiled and said, "They're really not here with us."
The representative from the United States' expression changed slightly, and a meaningful smile appeared on his lips: "Alright, since you insist, then I will believe you."
As he said those words, he typed a few words on the panel, his murderous intent growing stronger.
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