Chapter 218: The Land of No Return - Resting Place
Just like in the dream, the players could tell that this was the president warning them.
Nan Huan finally realized that the atmosphere was not right. After Shijiu and his men came over, he pulled Bei Xi's sleeve, signaling her not to get entangled with those people and to go back and talk about anything.
Bei Xi had originally planned to do so, but the players on the scene didn't seem to intend to let them go.
"Miss, please stay."
Suddenly, a voice appeared in the crowd. It was very ethereal. Although the volume was very low, for some reason it could quiet down the players who were originally watching the fun, and also made Nan Huan stop.
"I believe that all the players present have a question, which is really difficult to understand with our abilities. I hope the young lady can help us solve it."
Nan Huan didn't want to pay attention at first, but the nineteen people in front had been automatically surrounded by other players, and they seemed to want to hear an explanation.
Bei Xi had already stretched out his hand and threw out an air arrow, but was stopped by Nan Huan.
She turned around and found that it was a woman standing on one side of the crowd. She was wearing a brown robe, a bit like the ones worn by Taoist priests in ancient times, but the lower part of the robe had been changed into a skirt, which looked a bit torn.
"There are many people who want to ask me questions," Nan Huan looked at her and did not directly agree or deny, "But don't you think you should tell me your name first? I don't seem to know you, and I don't have the habit of talking to strangers."
It is definitely not possible to start a massacre here. Even if Bei Xi can control the force and not kill people, they have already obtained so many faith totem fragments and are disliked by other players. If they take the initiative to attack now, they will probably become the public enemy of all players.
And so many people gathered here. Nan Huan felt that it was not only because this copy was permanently offline, but now he happened to meet someone who took the initiative to speak, and Nan Huan wanted to see what tricks they were going to play.
She looked the woman up and down and realized that she really didn't know her.
Since the other party wants to chat, you must not let yourself be at a disadvantage and be led by the nose.
Before entering the game, wherever Nan Huan went, people would come up to her and talk to her and introduce themselves to her. After entering the game, she had no interest in knowing the names on the long leaderboard. Besides, with Twelve know-it-alls around her, Nan Huan was unwilling to spend her time on this.
However, what she said was seen as an intentional provocation by others.
After all, the presidents of the top ten guilds, that is, the top ten on the game rankings, not to mention players like the eldest lady who have been in the game for a while, even players who have just entered the game not long ago will get to know them first.
After all, you need to know which guilds' territories are not to be touched in the rest area and what quirks the leaders of other guilds have.
Upon seeing this, Twelve wanted to step forward to remind the eldest lady, but was stopped by a look from his own president.
Bei Xi knew that Nan Huan didn't need these. She didn't need to please, didn't need to be cautious, and didn't need to care about other people's eyes. Just like now, whether it was an intentional provocation or an unintentional strategy, it didn't matter.
Bei Xi has always cared about Nan Huan's safety, and no one has ever been able to do anything to her under her nose.
"It seems that Miss is really busy," the woman's face was filled with a trace of anger, but it was quickly suppressed. "I am the president of the 8th Guild, the Soul Journey - Judge. I don't need to say that I am glad to meet you, right? I think neither of us is very happy to meet each other?"
A false smile appeared on her face, and she began to fight back against Nan Huan's light-hearted provocation.
Nan Huan still had that indifferent expression on his face, and did not show any other expression because of what the other party said. Instead, seeing that this conversation would not end for a while, he reached out and stroked the dirt on his collar.
"Well... President Judge, I think you misunderstood." She clapped her hands twice, raised her head, and smiled at the other party. "I am actually very happy to meet you..."
She said this but her hands didn't stop moving. Anyone could see the perfunctory tone in her words, but she pretended to be well-behaved, making it impossible for people to lose their temper.
The judge had always felt that because of her skills, she was calmer and less easily influenced than ordinary people, but at this moment she realized that in just a few short sentences, she had been led by the young lady.
Thinking of this, her eyes darkened, and she ignored the young lady's words and spoke to herself, "Young lady, you have entered four dungeons since you entered, and obtained four pieces of Faith Totem Fragments. I won't talk about the first three. Maybe you have special abilities, and you can get something that all players have been working hard for for a long time but have never found after entering the dungeon."
The Judge's Guild Master's words seemed to be addressed to the young lady, but he managed to make his voice heard by all the players present. Nan Huan even heard a bit of missionary meaning in them.
"Hey?" Nan Huan nudged Bei Xi with his shoulder. "Have you ever offended her before? Why do I feel like she's planning something bad and wants to catch us off guard?"
Nan Huan stood there and took stock. Even though the dream that night left many players with lingering fears, and some even made enemies with a guild, fortunately, the final result was good. The system was back online, and except for a few players who were punished by Bei Xi, no one else was fundamentally harmed.
Therefore, in the short term, they should not be so united in attacking a guild.
As for what happened in the "Mizuki Private High School" copy, the players who were far away in the rest area had no possibility of uniting in advance because of this matter, except for the results they had just learned.
So it was obvious that the so-called judge in front of them might have already mobilized them before they came out of this copy, and there must be a reason for the mobilization.
It's not surprising that some people are jealous of a guild that is currently in its heyday.
The main thing is that in this situation, the player who took the initiative to jump out is the president of a large guild. Nan Huan couldn't think of any other reason for him to openly break up with the guild except that Bei Xi had taught the other party a lesson before.
"Probably not." Bei Xi glanced at the other party, as if trying to recall the possibility of such a thing, but she gave up after a few seconds, "I can't remember. You know, I won't be distracted to remember those unimportant things."
Nan Huan smiled helplessly. She knew that Bei Xi was not saying these words to show off, but she really didn't remember.
Nan Huan had no choice but to go see Twelve and Six Gods and the others to find out if there was any connection between them.
"Probably not in public," Twelve One added hastily when he saw his performance, "To be precise, it should not have happened since the guild reached its current position, but I am not sure about the previous times when the guild leader fought alone. When the guild leader first entered the game, he was too powerful, so every once in a while there would always be some people who came to seek revenge, but many guild leaders have no impression of him."
Twelve seemed to have thought of something interesting when he said this. "You also know that the guild leader in the game will not talk too much if she can get started. Many players did not even have the opportunity to sign up. This situation did not improve until she became the guild leader. Regardless of whether what the Judge Guild Leader said was true or not, it was just an excuse for them."
Nan Huan nodded, thinking that the matter was almost a done deal, and judging from the judge's revenge, the other party should remember it for a long time.
This was also Bei Xi's dark history. She didn't wait for Nan Huan to ask for more information before interrupting him, "I roughly know what she wants to do by creating so many players. I'm afraid we will become the target of criticism from most players soon."
This really attracted Nan Huan's attention. She glanced at the president of the Judge who was still trying to accuse her, and asked nervously, "Will there be a fight?"
It is not a good idea to take action here. Bei Xi and players from the first guild are present, and the opponent does not have much advantage in numbers.
Besides, she didn't think the judge went to all that trouble just to have a fight.
Bei Xi shook his head and said, "Don't worry, there will be no fight here. It's just that the next copy may be a bit troublesome."
"The rest of us players have no objection to this," Bei Xi had just finished speaking when the Judge continued, "But according to the Assassin Guild President and other players, they didn't participate in the fourth instance at all. In other words, the latest instance of the system failed to go online. What does the failure of a instance to go online mean?"
She used a persuasive tone, like a patient parent teaching her children, to guide the players to think about the questions she wanted them to think about. "This means that there are no side quests or main quests in this dungeon."
As she spoke lightly, the players' eyes widened.
After all, the failure of the "Mizuki Private High School" copy to go online was news not long ago, and many of them did not have time to investigate it in depth. This failure to go online was different from the previous collapse and closure.
That is to say—
"That is to say, we are really curious, in a copy without side quests and main quests, how did you get the fourth piece of the Faith Totem fragment?"
Her originally persuasive gaze turned into a sharp blade and fell on Nan Huan's face the moment she spoke.
Nan Huan finally understood what the other party wanted to do. Although she was not sure what other mechanisms were set up in the system that allowed the other party to use this trick, she was not interested in playing out this drama with the other party bit by bit.
Since Bei Xi said that the fight cannot break out here, let's just skip the previous introduction, development, turning point and ending and move on to the climax.
"I am the system's insider? Otherwise, how could I get the fourth piece of the Faith Totem fragment?"
Nan Huan yawned, leaned on Bei Xi's shoulder openly, and waved his hand impatiently, not caring at all that his casual words would cause a lot of waves among the players.
The players of Guild One, including Twelve, knew that the eldest lady's words were false and had also received some of the true teachings from their own president. They tried their best to remain calm, but there were still a few who almost got exposed, not to mention those unprepared players.
What they had originally expected was nothing more than the eldest lady's explanation, refusal to admit, and proving her innocence, but no player thought that she would admit it.
But at this moment, it was the accused young lady who directly admitted the facts.
She didn't even stand up straight, half of her body leaning in the arms of the president, who also looked at the young lady tenderly, not thinking that there was anything wrong with what he said.
The man hiding in the crowd, who was originally preparing to close his eyes to calculate the probability, suddenly opened his eyes upon hearing this and cast a strange look at the young lady in the spotlight.
“You…you…what did you say?”
It took the President of the Judge a long time to find her voice, and her stuttering tone revealed her surprise at the moment.
She had made all the necessary preparations, but she found out that the "Mizuki Private High School" copy had failed the test. This was like a sharp sword being sent to her, and she was extremely happy.
In the end, she didn't have to do anything yet. Just a simple question earned her the other party's recognition.
Isn't this the drama she arranged?
"I said I'm the system's insider," Nan Huan repeated, raising his voice a little for fear that other players couldn't hear him. "Isn't that what you meant? Wouldn't it be good if I could save the Judge Guild President some trouble?"
She still didn't stand up straight, and spoke lazily, "I think you're right. Even I can't believe it. If I wasn't an insider in the system, how could I get so many Faith Totem fragments at once? I'm simply a bug. I've just entered the system not long ago, and I've achieved such a high achievement. If I put myself in your shoes, I would doubt myself too."
Is this some new tactic?
What does the young lady want to do?
This is probably the true reflection of what the players present are thinking, right?
Nan Huan had been in the game for such a long time that, to be honest, she was a little tired. Coincidentally, she just realized that because the copy had failed to go online, they had not completed the main quest in essence, so there was no quest reward or points reward at all.
No wonder she felt like something was missing just now. Now it seemed that apart from a piece of faith totem fragment and the time Hel and gifted skills, her trip was in vain.
Naturally, his mood is not very good now, and the train of thought of this Judge President seems to be a little out of date.
Even though I had said so much, she still didn't rush to take advantage of the situation and just stood there in a daze.
It seems that it makes sense that she was defeated by Bei Xi.
Nan Huan looked gloomy, and spoke again, but this time it was not directed at the president of the Judge, nor at any of the players present, "System, stop pretending to be dead. You have become my accomplice now, come out and prove your innocence."
She was not polite at all, and her words were disrespectful, and she really acted like an accomplice, but the tone she used towards this accomplice was not very nice either.
If you can't speak, you don't have to speak.
If the system had eyes, it would definitely be staring at Nan Huan at this moment.
It wanted to play dead but couldn't. Ever since the "Shui Mu Private High School" copy failed to go online, it knew that some things were inevitable today, but it thought it only needed to wait until the time was right and then show up. It didn't expect Nan Huan to be here to cause trouble and this happened.
"I'll give you five counts. If you don't come out, we'll kill you right away. You can sing a one-man show with them later."
Seeing that the system did not respond, Nan Huan simply started counting down, "5, 4..."
【Good morning, everyone! 】
After only two counts, the system's voice rang out throughout the entire game hall, and all the light screens flashed briefly.
If it weren't for the fact that the system could feel these words being shouted out with gritted teeth, this scene would have seemed quite grand.
In the past, the system always counted down for them in the dungeon, but now the position has suddenly changed. Although they don't like the young lady very much, the scene before them makes them feel inexplicably relieved. What's going on?
[During the entire game, the system has always maintained a fair and just attitude. The young lady is just an ordinary player, and there is no such thing as a system insider.]
How could an ordinary player get four pieces of faith totem fragments in just four copies?
What kind of ordinary player can directly cause a new copy that has just been launched on the system to fail?
System, are you blind? Listen to what you are saying.
All the players were roaring in their hearts, but it was obvious that they did not have the courage like the eldest lady to question the system face to face.
This unilateral declaration was not convincing at all, and players could feel the system's brief despair in these words.
[However, according to the rules of the game, the top ten guilds have the right to vote on abnormal players in the game and decide whether to start a guild league?
If more than half of the guilds decide to start a guild league, the system will select a suitable instance for the top ten guilds to conduct the league competition.
If more than half of the guilds decide not to start the guild league, then the league will not be started. 】
Oh, so he wanted to use this trick to get other guilds to agree to the league competition. Then he would unite with other guilds and launch an attack on one guild at a time, use the rules to kill them, and seize the fragments of the faith totem.
Nan Huan understood from the eager looks in the eyes of many players that this was the highlight of the day.
As soon as the system finished speaking, there was silence for a few seconds, and then the scene fell into a heated discussion.
"Is this what you were referring to?" Nan Huan also turned to look at Bei Xi. "The Guild League, as the name suggests, if the final vote results in favor of the league, will all the top ten guilds send people into the dungeon?"
"Well, the president must enter, and the remaining players can choose whatever they want."
There was not much expression on Bei Xi's face. She didn't care about the result of the vote, but it seemed like she had already anticipated the result of the vote.
"How do you know so clearly?"
Nan Huan noticed Bei Xi's calmness, and Twelve, who seemed to be uneasy and had something to say, as if he had lice on his body, asked again, "Has this happened before?"
Before Bei Xi could open her mouth, a familiar voice was heard behind her.
"Of course I did, but only once," President Alice appeared from somewhere and explained to the young lady with a smile, "After that time, I grew up and became famous. From then on, I became an unattainable existence in the dungeon."
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