Wearing Crystal Suits, Red Viper, Black Spear, and Flash Point, the three Immortal Cultivator players, dashed among the clouds like three fast and agile flying swords, ignoring the interconnected lines of fire around them as if they were nothing. Every time they dived among the clouds, blood would splash out, and screams would burst out. A few guardians of Liberty City fell from hundreds of meters high and were smashed into meat paste together with their armor.
However, the 'allies' around them were exploding and falling in the storm of blades and bullets, too, as if another team of elite experts who were on par with them were lurking in the clouds.
Suddenly, two new Exos appeared in the clouds on their opposite side. The two parties engaged each other several times, but neither of them managed to kill the other party easily.
The three Immortal Cultivators smelled a familiar scent, like wolves running into wolves, vipers running into vipers, and players running into players.
"Trial-Takers?"
Floating in midair, Black Spear asked coldly.
"Yes, but we are not very lucky to have been randomly assigned to the leader of Liberty City's side," the Exos said with a smile.
The Exo on his opposite side said with a smile, "What bad luck. We never like defense. We only like … offense."
"Don't be so arrogant."
Black Spear licked his lips and said, "There are only two of you, but there are three of us."
"But we are in the sky of Liberty City. We can receive tremendous reinforcements at any time."
The enemy was not moved at all. He waved his chainsword and asked, "Do you want to have a try?"
"Hehe …"
Black Spear narrowed his eyes, with brutality beaming out.
"Black Spear, Flash Point, are they your competitors in the family?"
Red Viper suddenly asked.
Black Spear and Flash Point shook their heads at the same time.
"Then, there seems to be no need for a conflict right now," Red Viper said.
"The final battle is about to begin. It is a great opportunity for us to collect as many points as we can. Since there is no fundamental conflict, why do we have to fight until neither of us wins? What do you think?"
The two people on the other side nodded slowly. "That's right. If we really want to fight, we'll have plenty of chances later. Why are we in such a hurry?"
The two figures flashed and disappeared into the black smoke, leaving behind a sentence with a smile. "Seeing that you guys are so rational, I'll give you a reminder. If you want to retreat, don't go back the way you came. Take a detour to the southeast. There are a few lunatics lurking behind you. Everyone knows that these lunatics don't care if you are a player or not. For the sake of ratings, they will do anything."
"Hmph, you're just bluffing!"
Black Spear clenched his fists. "So what if I run into those lunatics who play live streaming? Let me beat them up one punch after another in front of countless viewers!"
"Quiet!"
"You know how crazy those people are. They are all psychopathic madmen. They came here specifically to find excitement. They are different from us who came here with a mission. There is no need to tangle with them.
"After all, our reconnaissance mission has been completed. With the credit and fame we've accumulated over the past half month, it is enough for us to meet 'A Boxing Champion' in person. Let's retreat.
"However, we can't trust what the two guys said, either. Let's neither go back the way we came nor take a detour to the southeast. Instead, we will march forward for a while and take a detour to the west!"
Under the cover of the other scouting squads, Red Viper, Black Spear, and Flash Point, the three Immortal Cultivator players, detoured out of the range of Liberty City's anti-air firepower.
As they expected, before they returned to A Boxing Champion's base, they received the news that all the scouting squads except for them had been annihilated.
"The two guys did not lie to us. They are indeed the lunatics who play live streaming!"
Flash Point said, not entirely convinced. "Thankfully, we were not harassed by them. Otherwise, our main quest would've been much more difficult!"
"Our 'servant soldiers' are over there. Let's land!"
Black Spear said, "Those few servants were rather smart. I thought that they would be killed by the enemy in the first operation. I didn't expect that they would still be alive after so many missions. Their vitality was rather tenacious. Also, the puppets that they carried, although their combat ability was not very impressive, they were quite adept at the maintenance and maintenance of all kinds of magical equipment. I almost didn't want to kill them to shut their mouths.
"Of course," Red Viper said.
"This is the first time that the two of you have participated in an extreme survival trial in the Land of Sins. Naturally, you will be taken better care of. The few servant soldiers that are relatively useful to you are perhaps the preferential treatment for the newcomers.
"As for killing them, it is probably unnecessary. It is impossible for them to survive a gory siege or a street battle that is ten times more gory."
The seven-star quest 'Falcon Plan' was basically accomplished. The three Immortal Cultivator players landed and walked toward Han Te and the Coloured Glaze with a smile on their faces.
But they did not know that their conversation just now had been recorded by the soundwave collector chips embedded in the most inconspicuous part of the crystal processor, which would be read by Li Yao during the maintenance later.
While the three Immortal Cultivator players were enjoying the game where living people were chess pieces and props, Li Yao was analyzing the game of the Immortal Cultivators carefully, too.
The more he analyzed, the more he realized that the truth of the Martial Meritocrats Sector was not as simple as he imagined.
He had thought that the entire Martial Meritocrats Sector was the most important laboratory and test base for new magical equipment and techniques in the Imperium of True Human Beings.
However, the arrival of the three Immortal Cultivator players told him the deeper meaning of the 'test base'. It was not just the magical equipment and techniques that were tested, but also the 'Immortal Cultivators' themselves.
By collecting the conversations between the three Immortal Cultivator players every day, as well as the results of his investigation with his soul carefully, he discovered that the 'war game' seemed to have a third, more subtle meaning.
With his keen senses as a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator, Li Yao discovered at least hundreds of Immortal Cultivator players. But the players were different from each other.
For example, the three that he followed, Red Viper, Black Spear, and Flash Point, were obviously here for certain quests, including 'side quests' and 'main quests'.
The 'side quests' were the operations that had been going on in the past half month to accumulate money, fame, and trust. As for what their 'main quests' were exactly, Li Yao did not know yet. He only vaguely felt that it was not as simple as' conquer Liberty City '.
Of course, there was also a 'hidden quest', which was to kill the competitors in their families so that they could gain more resources and favor.
Other than the players who were obsessed with quests, there was also a type of Immortal Cultivator that they called 'lunatics who played livestreams'. Li Yao did not know who they were yet, because Red Viper, Black Spear, and Flash Point were all very wary of the lunatics and were unwilling to have a head-on clash with them. Every time they smelled their scent, they would retreat.
On the other hand, other than the 'quest players' and the 'lunatics who played livestreams', there seemed to be a third type of Immortal Cultivator, but it was even more mysterious and completely hidden in the darkness. Even Li Yao only sensed the existence of one of them by accident, and he was almost discovered by the guy.
Li Yao speculated that the Immortal Cultivators in the darkness were probably the manipulators and maintainers of the rules of the whole game, responsible for guiding the war game to develop in the direction that they expected.
The unique rules in the Land of Sins created the most suitable conditions for the Immortal Cultivator players to blend into the sinners.
It was a cruel world that was changing all the time.
The dominating, unparalleled experts the day before might be mentally deranged and killed by self-detonation because of the fatal flaw of their arts.
The Nobodies a year and a half ago, on the other hand, as long as they were assisted by the 'old grandpas' and the 'marvelous arts', or even the strengthening kits that fell from the sky, would be able to modify themselves into half-human, half-machine, unparalleled monsters in the blink of an eye.
Although it was very likely that they would lose their potential for training in the decades to come, as long as their strength could be improved by ten to twenty times, who would care about their life and death tomorrow?
Therefore, other than the leaders of the major cities who occupied the Elysian Worlds, few experts and forces in the Land of Sins could survive for decades to come.
On the other hand, countless Nobodies would rise as quickly as lightning, with mysterious, uncanny abilities, hoping to distinguish themselves on the most glamorous stage.
In both A Boxing Champion's camp and the leader of Liberty City's camp, there were plenty of such weird-looking, disobedient, disobedient new experts of unknown backgrounds.
When the Immortal Cultivator players were mixed among them, they were like a few waves in an ocean. They would not raise any suspicion at all.
Besides, everybody's attention was now focused on the great battle between A Boxing Champion and the leader of Liberty City. Other than Li Yao, who would care whether or not the war was manipulated by the 'angels'?
Had the life in the Land of Sins not been repeated in such a way for hundreds of years?
Those who might not survive the next second were incapable of imagining the future and searching for the truth.
Li Yao, on the other hand, was trying to dig out the truth behind the Land of Sins, or the Martial Meritocrats Sector.
He was going to capture an Immortal Cultivator player for interrogation.
Naturally, such an action was highly risky and certainly not easy.
The Immortal Cultivators must be monitoring the battlefield in various ways. Every Immortal Cultivator player should have a secret communication system, too. There were also countless Immortal Cultivators hiding in the darkness who were responsible for maintaining the order of the 'war game'.
Therefore, in the past half month, Li Yao had been observing calmly and disguising himself in a low profile, not in a hurry to take action.
He had been waiting for the best opportunity, which was perhaps the moment when A Boxing Champion's army began to attack the city.
At that time, the entire battlefield would be filled with violent and chaotic spiritual waves. Both parties would bombard and interfere with the enemy's local war network. Even the wireless network among the Immortal Cultivator players would probably be jammed and cut off, even if only for a brief moment.
The sky would be blocked by smoke and dark clouds, too. Even the mystic rays from 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' might not be able to illuminate every corner of the battlefield.
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