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With Fang Yan's persistence, Prince Philip and Nasus finally entered, spending a total of 20,000 points.
They didn't have that many points, so after reporting back to the Queen, they gave Nasus ten thousand points for entry. Philip was somehow so determined to get in that he even used his own personal funds, his expression visibly distressed.
Hungry, hungry, hungry, earned twenty thousand.
Fang Yan was not at ease. When he heard the name Nasus, he couldn't help but think of another more well-known title - God of War.
Duke Feng also wanted to enter, but was discouraged by the price and only met Fang Yan at the city gate.
Fang Yan was worried about Nasus at the time, and Duke Feng smiled and said, "I have long admired Lord Hung Hung. I wonder if I'll ever have a chance to meet him. It's not that I can't afford these 10,000 points, but I have immense wealth and limited resources, and I'd like to offer them in a more sincere way."
Are you trying to surrender?
Fang Yan looked Duke Feng up and down. If Nasus was the God of War, then this man was a black-hearted fox. Did he want to surrender?
Yan knew that Hungry Hungry was a good place to go, but he didn't believe Duke Feng.
With a forced smile, he simply asked, "What about Nasus? I've never heard of him being a noble."
"Him? He's just a nobody, how can you even mention him?"
"So that's how it is. Then..." feigning confusion, "Why would the Queen specifically send money to let him in? If anything, you should be the one to negotiate."
These words choked Duke Feng. No matter how smart he was, he could not have imagined that Fang Yan had already witnessed what he did in his previous life and did not believe in his character at all. He was just trying to trick him.
"Maybe... he has special communication skills!" Duke Feng only knew something vaguely, but with his personality, he would never tell such private information even if he wanted to surrender.
Fang Yan raised his eyebrows, and a rare smile appeared on his expressionless face. His attempt to trick people was successful.
Conduct logical deduction——
Although Fang Yan knew "nothing" about the future and his past life, after hearing what Duke Feng said, he wondered why Nasus, who was not a noble, could be specially sent by the queen to the hungry ghost town. Could it be that this special communication ability was for assassination?
The moment the logic made sense (he successfully pua'd himself), Fang Yan had an intuition that he could stop Nasus just like he stopped Charles from poisoning him.
After all, as a member of the Hungry Hungry Security Team, he should eliminate all "billions" of dangers.
"Then when can you introduce me to a lord..." Seeing Fang Yan's smile, Duke Feng also relaxed - he said, how could it be possible...
However, just when he was halfway through his words, the young man put away his smile and looked at him expressionlessly.
"Not ten thousand points. Goodbye, I won't see you off."
Duke Feng: "..." Damn it! Don't you understand what I'm saying?
Unfortunately, Duke Feng couldn't do anything to this ignorant young man. After sitting in a high position for so long, for the first time he felt powerless and gnashed his teeth.
He was half sincere in his surrender to Hungry Hungry, of course, on the premise that Hungry Hungry could bring him sufficient benefits. Assuming the latter did not exist, then Hungry Hungry...
Duke Feng sneered, his dignity, which had not been offended for a long time, taking effect.
So what if they didn't cooperate? It was just a new territory, with residents from all over the world and no centripetal force. The lord was an ordinary office worker, a world apart from Margaret, who had a century of history. He didn't even understand these unspoken rules and subtexts.
He is making this clear today: this territory will never achieve anything great.
He glanced at Fang Yan, then got into the sedan chair and left.
"Body search, surveillance, and no leaving the room."
With Duke Feng's "reminder", Fang Yan could do what he thought was necessary to maintain safety.
Over there, Prince Philip was welcomed by his son and boarded a sightseeing bus, which took him all the way to the hotel entrance. He looked at the bustling surroundings in amazement and could hardly believe his eyes.
Convenient steam vehicles, towering houses, and fragrant aromas.
Compared to Margaret, this place is a real paradise.
"That's all," Charles said, unaware of Margaret's dramatic transformation. He simply thought his father was making a fuss and was somewhat dissatisfied. "Don't be fooled by the glittering surface. There's a lot of filth hidden underneath! I'm telling you, once you come here, you'll be doing rough work!"
My father had mentioned moving and there was no way he would agree.
The other people in the car looked at him expressionlessly: "..." Yes, yes, you are right.
However, most of the people taking the tour bus to the hotel were new residents from Margaret. Even if they didn't know the father and son, they had heard of them. The two groups were not of the same kind, and they didn't have a good impression of each other.
"Be careful with your words!" The prince frowned and glanced at the two team members in front of the car, and Nasus who was sitting beside them with a smile on his face.
Originally, Nasus was the only one on this mission, and Philip and Duke Feng both came forward on their own initiative.
Margaret was gradually declining, and their top management knew it better. With all their assets, few people wanted to be dragged down by Margaret. Wasn't Duke Feng one of them?
They were anxious to find a new owner, and the often heard sound of hunger became one of the options.
"Would it be nice to have Margaret?" Charles murmured.
Philip ignored him, weighing the various conflicts of interest in his mind and wondering how he could get rid of Margaret at the lowest cost and gain greater benefits.
"Then I'll go help Nasus? To make up for my mistakes?" Charles' words flashed past Philip's ears, but Philip didn't hear them clearly. After a perfunctory "hmm", Charles cheered up again as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
For the territory, for the queen!
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At this time, Ye Miaomiao had just led the team members to the roof. Holding the crystal, he looked at the fierce battlefield behind him, with rotten broken arms everywhere, and felt a little uneasy.
This uneasiness was hard to explain, but it was more like a player's intuition - she had a feeling that this side quest was a trap.
The Hungry Hungry team members were all armed, but it was not easy to get up there. After standing on the top floor, the team members finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked around excitedly.
"There's the machine!"
Looking at the dim light on the opposite building, Ye Miaomiao found the same position and hung the crystal in her hand there.
After a while, cheers were heard from upstairs.
"As Researcher Zhang Pei said, we will count three, two, one simultaneously to start the machine."
Ye Miaomiao checked the machine and found that there was indeed not a single crystal inside.
but...
Ye Miaomiao paused, and suddenly saw a line of crooked blood words on the side of the machine -
"Don't... fear... the dark."
Ye Miaomiao: “…” Here it comes, here comes the trap that wants to harm the honest farming players.
She knew that it would not be easy to start the side quest of the electrical age.
However, where exactly is the pit? Ye Miaomiao didn't know. She thought back and forth, and searched the entire building, but she didn't find any clues until she was about to open the door.
Seeing that time is almost up.
Ye Miaomiao: “…” Damn it, I can only start the summoning ceremony.
The moment she poured in the crystal, a message popped up on the light screen.
[You have completed 50% of the side quest...Start the summoning ceremony (success)]
In an instant, a dark light shone brightly, and an inexplicable sense of dread rose from the machine, causing everyone's breathing to quicken. It was a pure unknown, a source of reverie. In a trance, one could hear the screams of humanity, the sounds of the universe's destruction, or the bloody feeding of wild beasts, followed by the cycle of life, death, and decay.
But this brightness was not light, but a terrifying, unknown black light. Furthermore, Ye Miaomiao did not receive any information that the mission to "dispel the darkness" had been completed.
After a moment of silence, someone swallowed his saliva.
Ye Miaomiao: It’s broken.
"No, this is not a summoning ritual!" she screamed in shock.
To be precise, this is a summoning ritual, but it is not a correct summoning ritual.
Because the person providing the summoning ritual—the one on the other side of the building—could be seen clearly by the blacklight. Missing her daughter, Zhang Pei, along with the hundred or so people around her who were eager to return home, stopped cheering at some point.
They stood quietly facing Ye Miaomiao and others with strange smiles on their faces.
"Mom, I have reached the eternal night.
With hope for all mankind.
I will never see the sun again,
There is no morning and no dreamland.
But mom, I'm not without hope of going back.
Those who have never entered the eternal night,
I don’t know what horror is.
Inside and outside the building, every moment, there is horror and sadness.
Mom, I have a feeling in my heart,
Your beautiful girl will never be able to return home again."
These people began to chant, and the simple sadness of the melody made people tremble with sorrow. Under the dark light, the weird feeling was even more suffocating.
The bass chorus had just ended when the high-pitched accompaniment from the crowd soared up, stimulating everyone's brains.
“Eternal Night gives my children limbs fit for crawling, and its countless hands touch me, but I cannot see;
The eternal night gave my child a sensitive ear, and it was always trying to murder me, but I could not hear it;
The night gives my children patience day after day, stealing my food every moment, but I don’t know it.”
The sharp sound was like sandpaper being scraped across the ground, making the hungry people shudder. Then, the ground shook slightly, as if the entire Guangming Community was about to collapse.
"The door is open!"
Everyone looked downstairs and saw that countless dark substances were indeed surging out of the ground, slowly wriggling and condensing.
Logically speaking, staying on the seventh floor would prevent the door from opening. But Ye Miaomiao's instinct as a skilled gamer told her that the door had been opened over a thousand times without issue, and that it was just waiting for this player to come in and cause trouble!
"Summoning Ritual!"
Ye Miaomiao turned to look at the machine.
The machine didn't summon any souls, but instead continuously gushed out dark matter. At this rate, the cosmic creatures, relying on dark matter for their bodies, would become more powerful than ever before.
Zhang Pei and others in that building had stopped singing. They looked at the machine expectantly, wishing they could worship the dark matter.
What's there to not understand?
"Are you crazy? Don't you want to go home? Why are you summoning dark matter?!"
Zhang Pei looked over coldly, "I'm not crazy, you're the ones who are crazy. Dispel the darkness? How can human power dispel darkness?"
"The government used sweet words to lure us here. Have those high-ranking officials ever experienced eternal night? Look at the stumps beneath your feet. They wanted to dispel the darkness, but what happened? Neither human nor ghost."
“Humanity cannot resist disasters; it can only submit to them.”
Everyone: “…” Having experienced two disasters, are they proud?
"Pour out all the crystals!" Ye Miaomiao shouted, "Does anyone believe in Tesla? I'm not talking about the car, I'm talking about Tesla, the man who invented alternating current!"
Everyone was silent.
The descendants of the dragon have no traditional faith, let alone these weird things...Tesla.
Everyone quickly thrust their guns into the machine, attempting to extract the crystal. But someone exclaimed in surprise as the gun muzzle instantly burned red and seemed to be melting.
Someone used a wooden stick to dig it out, but it burned faster and faster.
"It's okay. I think there's a trap in the side quest. We've only poured out half of the crystals. We still have time!" Ye Miaomiao said calmly.
At this juncture, the team members also calmed down.
"Get the crystals out! Using monster excrement to summon them won't work! I'll attract these monsters and see if I can slow them down!"
Ye Miaomiao quickly activated the skill "Arrow of Judgment", randomly aimed at a dark matter, and started shooting flames at it.
The arrow was like salt in water, leaving no trace, but the flash of fire that disappeared in an instant did attract the surrounding dark matter.
Ye Miaomiao seemed to be encouraged and kept shooting arrows at the sign of Guangming Community. Fire flashed one after another like fireworks - but unfortunately, nothing here could burn.
"It works!" the team members shouted, their morale boosted. They collected all the arrows and piled them next to Ye Miaomiao.
The most significant proof of its usefulness came from the gloomy faces on the rooftop opposite: "What are you doing?! Do you really think our God of Darkness can't..."
Unfortunately, Ye Miaomiao remained calm in the face of the scolding, and even felt like laughing. If her hands hadn't been moving, she would have wanted to pick her ears.
"Believe in light? The corpses beneath your feet are your future!"
Ye Miaomiao: Yes, yes, yes, they can trust Tesla.
She was about to laugh out loud when she was suddenly stunned - Faith in light? A corpse under her feet?
Fortunately, after being abused by Li Yihan these days, his mind was full of organ trading. Ye Miaomiao suddenly had an idea: since faith is the energy source of summoning, can the corpses of those who believe in light be used as energy?
The moment she thought of it, Ye Miaomiao immediately asked her teammates to try it.
Coincidentally, one of the team members had tried to dig out the crystals with his arm. Under the gaze of everyone, his arm gradually turned into white crystals!
“Hurry! Hurry!”
Without Ye Miaomiao's urging, the team members quickly picked up the surrounding limbs and threw them into the machine.
A familiar light streamed from the machine, dispelling the darkness. Like a torch lit by primitive humans, or the first ray of sunlight after a long night, it dispelled the anxiety and tension that had plagued everyone for so long.
Ye Miaomiao felt relieved, finally finding a way to break through.
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