Blazing Sun
Mao Ting was stunned: "I didn't do that."
He thought for a moment and said, "Although I am looking forward to your growth, players entering the dungeon are randomly selected by the system based on various factors. If you intervene rashly, it may affect the operation of the dungeon."
Xu Wei: "Random? It's not just a matter of personnel ratio, the boss also pays a lot of attention to me."
Mao Cheng's hand stroked the buttons on the instrument panel in silence.
Xu Wei: “Is it really a coincidence?”
"I don't quite understand why I did this..." He looked confused.
Xu Wei frowned: "What do you know?"
Mao Ting: "Maybe someone is helping you."
"help me?"
"To be able to modify the copy without the system noticing - it can't be an Earthling, nor can it be from an interstellar civilization," he said. "Do you understand what I mean?"
The incandescent light bulb above my head suddenly flickered, and the current crackled.
Xu Wei looked up: "The power system of the city hall needs maintenance."
Mao Cheng looked very unhappy, and he was busy at the instrument table with his head down.
After he was busy for a while, Xu Wei was able to learn how to use the cosmic connection in a short break.
On the other end of the phone, Chief Engineer Xu obviously recognized her face and greeted them warmly and friendly.
Mao Ting exchanged pleasantries with him for a while, then hurriedly cut off the connection and kicked the two out.
Xu Wei felt a little depressed and looked inside through the crack in the door.
Mao Ting stared at the information screen seriously, unusually nervous, and tapped the operating table from time to time, as if his subordinates were controlling something of vital importance.
Xu Wei vaguely guessed that it might be related to the out-of-control power system just now, but he was unwilling to talk about it in detail, so it was not good to disturb him from working.
It’s a pity that their conversation was interrupted. I guess Mao Cheng won’t be so easy to talk to next time.
No matter how hard Xu Wei tried, she couldn't figure out how he determined that the "person" who modified the copy was doing so to help her.
If this was the work of an interstellar civilization, Xu Wei could still continue with her previous speculation - they wanted to promote her growth as quickly as possible, so they arranged for auxiliary teammates to force her to fight the BOSS alone.
How can a "person" who can't even explain himself clearly, judge whether the other party's intentions are good or bad?
Unless Mao Ting was lying, he knew who the other party was.
But when it was mentioned just now, the other party looked confused, and there was deep bewilderment in his confusion, as if he was trapped in some thoughts. Based on Xu Wei's past understanding of him, it didn't seem like he was lying.
Completely confused.
Xu Wei was getting annoyed and raised his hand to turn off the silent mode of the bracelet.
The bracelet has been vibrating non-stop since she was notified of entering the transfer station. She muted it because she didn't want other information to distract her from the things at hand.
Now looking through the messages one by one, the one with the most messages is Li Xia.
[Li Xia: Oh my god, you guys are awesome! Our 7865 is going to the sky! ]
[Li Xia: You don’t know how excited I was when I heard the announcement. As expected! I knew that joining our organization was the right decision!!!]
[Li Xia: You didn’t reply to me? Why do you ignore old friends now that you are famous? Come to Zhang Yuan’s hot pot party! ]
Other people in the organization also sent congratulatory messages, and Xu Wei scanned them one by one and replied briefly.
Li Xia, the big mouth, called all the people from 7865 who were still in the transit station to eat hot pot, under the pretext of celebrating while formulating a development plan for the "seventh greatest organization on the list."
The originally deserted internal group of the organization also became chaotic. Apart from the initial queue of congratulations, the rest were filled with photos of various hot pot ingredients. In the middle was a snapshot of Li Xia hugging Li Shaodong, with the two of them baring their teeth and looking at the camera happily.
Xu Wei rubbed his brows with a headache and looked at Lu Fanye.
Lu Fanye understood: "Come back soon."
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It’s not that Xu Wei didn’t want to go to the party, but he had more important things to do, so he had to let Lu Fanye deal with Li Xia first.
She raised her wrist to reconfirm the message.
Among all the private chats, one stood out.
[Fang Yi: There is news. Come to the Used Pants Second-hand Props Exchange, the second building next to the supermarket.]
Xu Wei followed the address and found a store that looked like a pair of inverted blue jeans.
It fits in with the decoration style of Judgment City.
Although many buildings in the city can be rented, the rent is very expensive and the shops have no special functions, so few players buy them.
I think the players' night market doesn't lack points, so it would be a good choice to buy a store as the organization's daytime contact base.
When Xu Wei arrived at the store door, Fang Yi had been waiting for a long time and was slowly making tea at the elegant coffee table beside him.
The interior decoration style of Old Pants is quite different from its exterior, and it has an antique style. As soon as you enter the door, you can see a folding screen with ink and blue paintings next to the guest seat, a cloud-patterned satin tablecloth on the table, a dark red rosewood counter, a bunch of red plum blossoms blooming in a sky-blue vase on the tabletop, and a few cranes on the lattice frame behind them, trying to fly but unable to.
Fang Yi was wearing a Tang suit, his muscular muscles stretched the clothes tight, he didn't look like a refined boss, but rather a gangster who was ready to grab a weapon and go out for a fight at any time.
He was pouring tea in a serious manner, his broad palm making the fairness cup look much smaller. A wisp of smoke rose from the incense burner behind him, and the landscape painting on the wall was so vivid that it seemed as if it would come alive in the next moment.
Xu Wei held the teacup. She didn't know how to taste it. She just felt that it quenched her thirst and gulped down a few more mouthfuls. "Has the cage for the trapped beast been sold?"
Fang Yi put the tea set back in place, then returned to the counter and took out the small black box. "Someone came to inquire about the price. I checked their background and found out that they are from Yue."
Xu Wei frowned and took the black box: "The number one player organization? Are they related to a cult?"
"I was asking for someone else's price. The person behind it is very secretive and I haven't found him yet," Fang Yi said. "But I found out where this group of people used to be. Have you heard of the organization called 'Scorching Sun'?"
Xu Wei shook his head: "I've been in the game for less than two months."
Fang Yi: "'Liyang' was once number one on the leaderboard. Their president at the time had some connections with... the top leader. He was one of the first A-level players. He died unexpectedly in an accident during a dungeon. After the president's death, 'Liyang' was quickly disbanded."
"Didn't the second-in-command take over?"
Fang Yi sighed: "Their second-in-command disappeared after this incident, and the organization seemed to have suffered a major blow due to some internal circumstances, and soon fell into decline."
Xu Wei: "You mean this group of cult members might be members of Lieyang? After they disbanded, the remaining members reorganized into a cult, and then started targeting the current number one organization?"
"That's probably the case," Fang Yi said. "In fact, the top leader believes that the accident at 'Scorching Sun' was man-made. She suspects that the evil cult had already started invading the player organization at that time, with the goal of disintegrating the players from within."
Xu Wei was shocked when he heard this.
"Nearly two months ago, not long after you entered the game, there was a drastic change in the player organization rankings. The change lasted for seven days, which happened to be the cycle of a copy. In the past, everyone's rankings were very strict and could change at any moment, but after that time, many potential organizations disappeared silently like snowflakes." Fang Yi looked melancholy.
"The top leader suspected that the cult group deliberately murdered the members of the ranking organization, but he has never found any evidence. Your cage may serve as a kind of evidence to some extent."
Xu Wei stroked the small black box in his hand.
"It sounds a bit far-fetched, but I think this speculation is reasonable," Fang Yi took a sip of tea, with a worried look on his face. "Test Item No. 1: The Beast Cage is probably not made by the system. Before this, there has never been a saying that 'players can also make props', including from the system officials. If they can really bypass the system to produce this kind of prop with polluting properties, how long will it take for them to hunt players by interfering with the dungeon?"
The little black box is the first test product, which can only be used by believers of "God". The effect is already very powerful, so the second and third ones... When the properties are constantly improved, they can create props with huge lethality.
Sacrifices, hunting players, destroying organizations, Xu Wei couldn't imagine what else this group of people would do when their power grew to a certain extent.
She calmed down and said, "At least they didn't show up in public to recruit people. There is still room for maneuver."
Fang Yi put down the teacup and looked at her with sharp eyes: "You are right."
It seemed as if he had been waiting for her to say this, and Xu Wei felt uneasy being stared at.
"Other members of the organization know very little about the cult, and some are still keeping silent about past events. Even among our internal members, we are always worried about the risk of infiltration, so for now, the plan to eradicate them can only be carried out by me and the top leader."
"But you are different. You took the initiative to find us and had a conflict with us. I think..."
Xu Wei waved his hand to indicate a pause: "Aren't you afraid that I'm an undercover agent and have infiltrated you?"
Fang Yi was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "I'm not afraid."
"Why?"
He scratched his head in embarrassment. "The top leader said that if you are a spy, even if you force your way into the dungeon from the transfer station, you will be killed. She kept her word."
"She didn't let me tell you. Is that okay?"
Xu Wei: “…”
She recalled Fu Fenglou's description of the former leader of the Player Night Market - "resourceful, powerful, calm, and calculating." When it came to Ye Yan herself, she felt the arrogance of "strength that crushes everything" without any pretense.
Perhaps because of her complicated expression, Fang Yi quickly added: "I am just inviting you. You can choose not to join. We will continue to help you sell the black boxes, but we cannot reveal all the follow-up information. By the way, the top leader asked me to describe the follow-up plan for □□ to you."
He clicked on the bracelet, looked at the screen and cleared his throat: "First of all, this evil cult calls itself the 'God's Descent Sect', and believes that as long as they continue to offer sacrifices, God will one day descend on Earth, and any behavior that prevents God from descending is disrespectful. Typical behaviors of believers include hunting players for sacrifice, spreading panic in the Judgment City, and instigating self-destruction."
"According to the investigation of the top leader, they are divided into six black-robed priests, numbered one to six, who are responsible for acting on behalf of the leader and issuing religious orders to their subordinates. The person you killed is most likely their number three priest."
Xu Wei was puzzled: "You even found out who the leader is?"
Fang Yi shook his head: "The leader never shows up. It is said that only Priest No. 1 has seen him, but we haven't even found Priest No. 1."
Seeing that Xu Wei did not continue to ask, he continued the previous topic: "The top leader's attitude towards cults in the past was to eliminate them immediately after they were discovered, but they will still revive after a period of time, so we plan to collect clues, focus on killing the core figures, and play the long game to catch the big fish, and strive to eradicate them completely."
Xu Wei pointed at himself and asked, "What should I do if I join?"
Fang Yi smiled and said, "You are responsible for killing the core figures."
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