Chapter 185
Chapter 185 Don’t Sleep Too Deep Tonight
The next plan for the two of them was to check out the situation at the Spire and see if they could find other players.
According to that group, even if the Spire wasn’t the Control Hub, it was definitely related—after all, the game wouldn’t just construct a building completely unrelated to the missions for them to blow up, right?
Of course, with the limited information they had gathered, it was clear they couldn’t analyze anything useful, so they needed to exchange intel with other players. After all, the Dungeon was so large that it was unlikely they could complete the mission by themselves.
This time, Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo were quite lucky; they hadn’t investigated for long when they spotted another two players on the street.
—It wasn’t that Xia Xinyan memorized everyone’s faces when preparing the Hall before, but mainly she thought it was unlikely there would be someone with two wings sticking out in this city.
One of them looked pretty normal aside from being handsome, but the fact that he chose to walk with that bird-man was the biggest red flag.
Xia Xinyan approached without much thought and asked, “Players?”
Upon hearing this, the two paused and then exclaimed happily, “You’re players too? We finally found others! We wandered around this city for half a day without running into a single teammate.”
Ling Mo examined the bird-man up and down, asking, “So, what’s the deal with you, bro?”
“Oh, this is my Ability,” the bro said, smiling innocently. “My Ability is called Divine Eagle. My combat power increases gradually based on how long I stay transformed, so in the Dungeon, I usually keep it activated to prevent sudden encounters with enemies.”
“Is there such a setting?” Ling Mo raised an eyebrow, “So your Ability can become limitless?”
“Of course not, there’s a maximum limit. Otherwise, if I stayed in this state forever, I’d be invincible, right?” he scratched his head. “Actually, this Ability is pretty good, it just looks a bit strange…”
Like, he couldn’t quite understand why his Divine Eagle wings were white.
Just then, a group of passersby walked past them, their attention naturally drawn to the bird-man, who immediately waved at them, “COS street photography, please don’t crowd!”
The group moved on.
Ling Mo: “……”
He felt like this bro was already used to such scenes.
Pretty funny.
After that, the four of them introduced themselves; the bird-man was called Tian Yi—fitting for his surname—and the other was called Zhu Di. They were friends in real life and had entered the Dungeon from the same spot.
What they had been doing was quite similar to Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo; they had also been searching around the city for useful information, and… had encountered a group claiming to be the Resistance Army.
According to them, they had met an infiltration team responsible for breaching the Spire’s defense protocols and providing cover for the demolition team—namely, Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo’s group—by drawing the guards’ attention while they blew up the outer walls.
At least according to Tian Yi, that infiltration team sounded quite reliable, so they successfully convinced them to join the Resistance Army.
After hearing this, Xia Xinyan pondered, “It seems like other people might have encountered different Resistance teams too. If that’s the case, we don’t need to rush to find others; they’ll naturally lead us to the main force.”
Ling Mo frowned slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn’t speak up.
He was wondering if their demolition team was the only brainless group around?
“So what’s our next move?” Tian Yi and Zhu Di planned to stick with them.
Just as Xia Xinyan was about to speak, a broadcast suddenly blared from the sky above the city—
“Sis! If you can hear this, come find us at the city TV Tower right away! Be sure to be safe, sis! Don’t let those with ulterior motives trick you! Don’t listen to strangers; let’s discuss everything after you get here. Brother will protect you! Sis, are you listening?!”
Xia Xinyan: “……”
Ling Mo: “……”
This is amazing.
Tian Yi and Zhu Di were clueless: “A missing person announcement? This method is quite advanced, could it be part of the Dungeon’s plot?”
“Not… really like that. Could it be other players looking for… a sister?”
After a couple of exchanges, they noticed the strange expressions on Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo’s faces.
After a pause, Tian Yi cautiously asked, “Could it be looking for you two?”
Xia Xinyan bit her lip.
She really couldn’t understand what that guy was thinking.
In her last life, he didn’t seem that dumb; how could he pull something like this now?
Does he really think no one would know where he is?
If there really was a danger hidden in this city, then by the time they got there, that guy would probably already be toast.
And besides, she didn’t want to go look for that guy.
Not wanting was one thing; she knew deep down that it wasn’t time to be willful. Meeting up with other players in their current situation was indeed the best option. She sighed and nodded, “Right… Let’s go to the TV Tower. Maybe a lot of people are already waiting there.”
The TV Tower wasn’t far from here and was also a particularly eye-catching building. When they arrived at the TV Tower, they noticed a group of people standing by the roadside—at the forefront was Xia Jincang.
The chubby guy and Murong Yue were also among them, looking like they had just arrived and were chatting with Xia Jincang. However, the latter wasn’t focusing on them; he was constantly scanning the surroundings, searching for his sister.
As soon as Xia Xinyan and the others appeared, he noticed them and immediately broke away from the group, rushing over: “Sis! You finally made it! Did you get tricked? Did anyone bully you? Don’t worry, big brother is here; anyone who bullies you will get beaten up!”
Xia Xinyan: “……”
She silently stepped back two paces to distance herself from Xia Jincang, asking, “Did you find anything?”
Ling Mo was just about to say something but got cut off by her.
He actually wanted to say he could protect Xinyan just fine.
Unfortunately, Xinyan seemed more focused on the business at hand.
Xia Jincang’s various concerns and inquiries were effectively snuffed out by her single question. He paused and nodded, “Of course, we’ve found quite a bit—let’s first find a quiet spot. This city is quite interesting. I’ll explain everything to you slowly.”
With that, he turned and led them to another location.
The chubby guy moved closer to Ling Mo, a smirk on his face, “I just realized that Young Master Xia is a severe sis-con… Usually, those kinds of people have a lot of malice toward their sister’s boyfriend. Old Ling, I suggest you don’t sleep too deeply tonight.”
Ling Mo: “……”
He got the picture.
