Only a hundred meters away from the core of the formation, two figures were entangled with each other. You couldn't even see their movements clearly because they were just two shadows.
Hua Sui used Backstab and stabbed into Lawrence's back.
"Ah —"
Lawrence almost reverted to his original form as he screamed. He gritted his teeth and fought back, but as a golden light was cast on Hua Sui, Hua Sui's wound quickly healed.
That was the Light Elementalist's Light Healing.
In order to ensure the safety of the core, Xu Yuheng attached great importance to the configuration of the team. He assigned four Light Elementalists who mastered Light Healing.
With these four healers, they could make up for the difference in HP between Hua Sui and Lawrence.
While Hua Sui was entangled with Lawrence, powerful offensive skills such as Metal, Fire, Earth, Wind, and Thunder were constantly greeted on Lawrence's body.
Because they did not have to worry about hurting Hua Sui, the players in the team threw skills as if they were worthless.
Indeed, damage was money!
Lawrence was a Warrior and a Lv15 player with a lot of HP. As long as they could take him down, they would have a high chance of entering the top eight damage output.
The top eight damage output was 10,000 Exxon coins!
10,000 Exxon coins was equivalent to 100,000 dollars in real life. Only a fool would slack off at this time.
This undoubtedly left a huge psychological shadow in Lawrence's heart.
At first, he thought Hua Sui wanted to die together with him, so he ignored his teammates' attacks, but in the end, he realized —
All the attacks fell on him, and all the Light Healing was on Hua Sui!
The two of them were entangled together, why was it so unfair? Was there any justice in this?!
He knew his plan had failed, but he did not run away immediately. He even thought of destroying the core by himself.
Of course, that was difficult. Without Explosive Bullets, it was impossible for him to destroy the core by himself.
So after hesitating and realizing that he could not contact Bryce, he prepared to escape.
Originally, for a Dark Warrior like him, escaping was very easy, but now he had been entangled for at least half an hour!
Damn it! Weren't the brave ones very weak?
Why were there so many Elementalists? There were also Dark Warriors with higher levels than him, and damn it, did these people have eyes?
Lawrence was very sullen, but there was nothing he could do.
His strength was constantly being weakened, while his opponent not only maintained his peak state, but also had helpers!
At this moment, something even more despairing happened.
"Flower Goddess, let us help you!"
"Hold on! Our brothers are here!"
Flower Goddess?
Hua Sui's expression changed, and he immediately roared at the players who came to provide reinforcements, "Get lost!"
Then, taking advantage of Lawrence's despair, he suddenly took out the laser gun that he had never used before and fired a clean shot at Lawrence's heart.
-10880！ Critical Hit!
Bloody numbers floated in mid-air. Lawrence, who had already been whittled down to one-third of his HP, lost half of it in an instant. He even received a damage buff.
Hua Sui ruthlessly added another shot, taking away Lawrence's life.
The other players sighed regretfully. There was no joy in defeating the Boss because Hua Sui jumped to the top of the damage output. Only Eight Gods, who had killed a Half-Star Martial Artist alone, could compare to him.
Hua Sui snorted and put away the laser gun. He then began to search for Lawrence's belongings.
Other than a waist tag, there was nothing particularly valuable. He curled his lips and was too lazy to stay here and be watched. He turned into a shadow again and disappeared.
This anti-night attack came to a perfect end.
However, the mission to protect Orchid City was not completed yet. There were still two traitors hiding in the border barracks, and the traitor leader, Bryce, did not appear here.
Although Xu Yuheng had sent people to surround him in advance, the news just came that Bryce had escaped.
This old man was very cunning. After the mission was issued, he slipped away and even left his communication device in place. The AI's intelligence was simply heaven-defying. It actually had such a strong anti-detection ability.
Now that he was not wearing his communication device, Xiao Wu could not monitor him. Even if he escaped, they would not be able to catch him for a while.
However, according to Xiao Wu's feedback, the traitors in the border barracks did not show any abnormalities. They probably thought that they were foolproof and hid very well.
Unfortunately, they encountered an AI. Otherwise, it would have been really difficult to find them.
Although Xu Yuheng wanted to go back to the border to catch them, it was already late at night. In reality, it was around three or four in the morning. Most players had to go offline to rest.
The remaining two traitors were two-star Elementalists. Their positions in the army were not low. Without players to hold the fort, it would not be easy to deal with them.
He had to suppress his anxiety and lead the players to gain a wave of favorability in front of the Magic Circle Core Garrison Army. Then, he let the players go offline.
The epic-level escort mission that had been online for nearly two weeks was now the target of the opponent's company. As a game official, Xu Yuheng could not make the same mistake again.
According to the test results of the game cabin, there were no problems so far. After being online for two weeks and only going offline for basic physiological activities.
Most players chose to go offline to rest. Only a few night owls were still online, such as Gentle Yan and other professional players.
It was rare to come to a new map, and a place like the Magic Circle Core. They were very curious and could not help but wander around in the chaos.
But soon, they were caught by the patrolling guards.
Xu Yuheng could not be bothered with them. He had been busy for the past few days. He was tired and went offline to sleep.
Various posts were still active on the Starry Sky Forum. Among them, the most discussed was no doubt the battle to protect the Magic Circle Core that night.
The accurate information and the counterattack plan that the players had made based on the information, the tactical cooperation against the two-star Elementalist William, and the exciting battle between Hua Sui and Lawrence were all compiled into strategy posts. The players could summarize a lot of information from them.
First of all, the battle system of this game abandoned the fixed skill release mode of other online games. It completely achieved high freedom and flexibility in battle. High-level players could create new skill combinations by themselves.
Just this alone was enough to beat most of the games on the market.
Especially the battle between Hua Sui and Lawrence. Many game uploaders had edited the material into various commentary videos and published them on various platforms.
Even at night, the data was quite impressive when it was first published. As time passed, it was spreading outside the game circle.
The performance of this battle was remarkable. It was like special effects in a movie. What was more terrifying was that the graphics were more realistic and smoother than a movie!
Then, there was this mission to protect Orchid City that was called a spy battle. There were also researchers who sorted out the relevant information and sorted out the entire context.
However, this researcher felt that the biggest flaw in the design of this mission was that the information given by the traitor NPC was too detailed. As a result, the story that should have been more exciting and intense turned into a battle between the players and the NPC.
Although it was enough to make one's blood boil, it was not enough to make one's brain burn. He hoped that the game team could improve on this aspect.
In the end, what made this post become popular was the official reply —
"Dear players, the logic of Star Age's game plot is completely deduced by the mainframe. The game team can no longer interfere. As for the information obtained by the mission recipient, it is obtained by the recipient himself through the game. It is not directly given by the mission prompt."
"PS: Large-scale defense missions like this may be unique and may not appear in the future game process."
This kind of reply immediately stirred up a lot of passionate discussion among the night owls.
Moreover, this "uniqueness" made a lot of cloud players feel a bit strange. After all, the games on the market now would open a new server after a certain stage, and the story missions of each server were the same.
Even if they did not experience the mission in the old server, they could experience it again in the new server. But looking at the meaning of this reply …
A lot of people asked and quickly got a reply — Star Age would only have one server and would not open a new server.
This reply sparked a new round of discussion again.
Because — it was too revolutionary!
Did this mean that the players who entered the game earlier would have more advantages, and the new players would never be able to compare to the old players?
Regarding this point, the officials did not answer and only said that it was up to the players to explore on their own.
There were pros and cons to the game company releasing this information in advance. On one hand, the group of old foxes might be more aggressive toward the Xu family, but on the other hand, it could also stimulate those who were optimistic about the game to stop waiting and enter the game as soon as possible.
Of course, what would happen in the future would be left to time.
According to tonight's battle, the cloud players concluded a few strategies —
For example, mental elementalists were much more fragile than warriors. William, a two-star elementalist, could kill him faster than killing Lawrence. For example, the critical hit bonus of weak point damage was terrifyingly high.
It was similar to reality. No matter how much stronger a person was, he would still die after two shots to his temple.
These were all experiences from actual combat. It was very useful information for new players and even for the current closed beta players.
Of course, if Xu Sili saw this post, he would probably delete it immediately.
However, His Majesty the Emperor could not see the forum in reality. After watching tonight's battle and getting the final result, he went to sleep peacefully.
As for someone …
Because he said goodnight to him before midnight, he did not dare to talk to him.
Xu Sili slept until it was almost ten in the morning.
When he went to wash up sleepily, he picked up his communication device and saw a message from Xiao Wu —
Something happened in Orchid City!
He shuddered, and all the sleepiness in him disappeared.
Xu Sili asked Xiao Wu about the specific situation as he ran into the dark room and turned on the surveillance device.
The surveillance little bee was hidden in the hood of his second brother Xu Yuheng's clothes. At this moment, under his control, it flew up secretly.
As the little bee flew high into the sky, the situation at the scene was broadcasted in real-time.
This was already the border of Orchid City. Looking at the environment, it should be in the military camp. The scene was divided into two groups.
One group was led by the Governor and Xu Yuheng, and the other group was led by two two-star elementalists. Although there were also soldiers on the Governor's side, they were still crushed in terms of numbers.
The two groups were confronting each other. Both sides were more agitated. It seemed that there was even a sign of a mutiny.
Xu Sili frowned and looked solemn.
Xiao Wu also explained the situation at the scene to him.
It turned out that after Xu Yuheng organized the players to return to the border, under the leadership of the Governor, they went to the military camp to capture the remaining two traitors.
However, these two traitors were very cunning. Because they were two-star elementalists and had been guarding the border for many years, they had established a very high prestige in the army.
It should be known that there were only six two-star elementalists in Orchid City. Including William, this was equivalent to directly reducing the entire high-end combat power of Orchid City by half.
The Governor actually hesitated about whether to arrest them, but in the end, considering that this was an order directly issued by the Imperial City, he had to obey.
However, in the process of arresting them, they encountered trouble.
Not only did these two traitor elementalists not admit their crimes, but they also tried to incite the soldiers' emotions.
"Governor, I have always respected you, but your actions today are really too disappointing!"
One of the wood elementalists said with a pained expression. "Natasha and I have diligently guarded Orchid City for many years. All the soldiers have seen it for themselves. Do you want to use such a despicable method to erase our achievements and let the newcomers take over?"
As he spoke, his gaze fell on Xu Yuheng and the players. "How did Natasha and I offend you? You actually want to collude with outsiders to slander us like this! "
Natasha was a fire elementalist and also a rare spirit elementalist. She glanced at the other two two-star elementalists who rushed over and then looked at the soldiers with red eyes.
"Do you also think that we are traitors like the Governor?"
Seeing this usually hot-tempered elementalist reveal such a fragile side, the generals and soldiers who were originally on their side naturally sided with them even more.
Under the lead of some people, the soldiers surrounded the two elementalists, looking as if they would live or die with them.
The Governor's face was ashen.
He said sternly, "Jack, Natasha, the evidence of you secretly contacting the traitor commander Bryce is conclusive. Last night, you and William even wanted to blow up the guardian array core and destroy the array of Orchid City. You still want to deny it?!"
"Governor, if you want to remove us from our positions, just give the order. Why do you have to use fake evidence to slander us?"
The wood elementalist Jack said with a frown, still looking as if he had been wronged.
"Yesterday, Natasha and I stayed at our posts. In the middle of the night, we even dealt with a two-star beast that sneaked in. We only came back to rest just now. The soldiers who followed me can testify."
"That's right!" Natasha said. "We stayed at the border last night and didn't leave. Many people can testify to this. You actually said that we went to blow up the guardian array core? That's ridiculous! "
"We have evidence —"
Before the Governor could finish, Jack interrupted him again.
"Extraterrestrial technology is advanced. This kind of chat record can be fabricated at any time. Governor, you should come up with stronger evidence."
The two of them insisted on this point. The Governor had no choice but to look at Xu Yuheng for help.
Xu Yuheng also had a headache.
These two people reacted too quickly and hid very well, so he couldn't find any evidence in their residence.
In fact, there was another way, and that was to publicize the video recorded by Xiao Wu. As long as the video was taken out, it would be a done deal. But in this way, the existence of Xiao Wu would be exposed.
There were more traitors in the Roland Empire than in Orchid City. Once the traitors were alerted, if they directly stopped using the communication device in the future, Xiao Wu's monitoring ability would be greatly weakened.
Xu Yuheng hesitated, and this hesitation undoubtedly made Jack and Natasha even more arrogant.
Yes, they didn't have conclusive evidence!
The two of them looked at each other and continued to incite the soldiers, thinking that it would be best if there was a mutiny and directly killed the Governor.
Once the Governor was dead, the backbone of Orchid City would be gone.
If they wanted to do something, it would be much easier.
The emotions of the soldiers had actually reached a critical point. On the one hand, the endless battle, physical and mental fatigue had accumulated a lot of negative emotions.
On the other hand, they heard that Elementalist William had been executed, and once they lost two two-star Elementalists, their battle line might collapse. This knowledge made the generals afraid.
So, even if they knew that the Governor couldn't lie, they didn't want to deal with Jack and Natasha at this moment. At least give them some time to breathe, and then slowly deal with them.
So they chose to remain silent, which indirectly led to the detonation of the negative emotions that the soldiers had accumulated for a long time.
The barracks that had always been disciplined were now in a mess.
Xu Sili's face was dark, and he was thinking about how to solve it when he suddenly heard the sound of a horn from the city wall.
The sound of the horn generally indicated an enemy attack, and it was often blown in very serious circumstances.
The originally noisy barracks quieted down, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound of the horn. In the sky, a large group of flying interstellar beasts was flying from the distant horizon.
They were migratory birds that were moving south.
With the protection array, they generally wouldn't cause harm to Orchid City. So …
Why did they blow the horn?
Soon, they knew the reason —
They saw that in the dark flock of birds, there was a vacuum zone, and the flying interstellar beasts were far away from the center point.
And in the center of the vacuum zone was …
A military shuttle?
No, when did the Roland Empire's shuttles become so advanced? How could they make the huge interstellar beasts avoid them? If there was such a powerful shuttle, Li Lai and the others wouldn't have to take such a huge risk to escort the Elementalist instructor here!
Everyone was dumbfounded, and even the players' attention was drawn to it.
Then, under everyone's gaze, the military shuttle stopped outside the protection array of Orchid City.
It was suspended in mid-air, and seemed to be blocked by the array.
In the control room of the shuttle, Si Sheng's face was cold.
Because of the speed of the shuttle, he arrived at Orchid City nearly a day later than expected, so at this moment …
He was in a very bad mood.
The pilot was about to cry. He trembled as he looked at the Marshal, whose aura was so strong that it was invincible, and said in a trembling voice, "Sir, Orchid City's array …"
"Contact the Consul." Si Sheng said coldly, "I'll give you one minute."
As for what would happen if the array was not opened after one minute, the poor pilot couldn't imagine.
In order to prevent the Marshal from breaking the array violently, he quickly contacted the military of Orchid City and rushed the shuttle into Orchid City within one minute.
So, under everyone's gaze, the shuttle only stopped for a short time before it started again and directly entered Orchid City, arriving above them.
"Sir, there's no suitable place to land here …"
The pilot glanced at the crowded military camp below. If they wanted to land, they would have to fly to a further drill ground.
"I'll go down, you guys do as you see fit."
Si Sheng finished speaking indifferently and disappeared from the shuttle in a flash.
Below, everyone looked up at the shuttle in the sky, waiting to see what this mysterious shuttle was going to do.
Only the Consul thought of something. Just as he was about to speak, his voice suddenly got stuck in his throat —
In the blink of an eye, the blonde man in the snow-white military uniform had appeared in front of him without a sound.
The wind blew the cloak behind him. In the warm sunlight, the man was like a god, appearing in front of everyone without warning.
"F * ck, when did this guy appear?"
"Ahhhh, I'm scared to death!"
"So handsome! This modeling is amazing! But who is he? "
"It seems to be … Si Sheng?"
The players who reacted first were discussing in the team channel, and the soldiers quickly retracted their gazes from their raised positions and discovered Si Sheng's appearance.
Everyone was stunned.
After a long time, someone took the lead and all the soldiers fell to one knee.
"Greetings, Sir Marshal!"
The fanatical shouts were deafening.
It was actually the Guardian God, Si Sheng!
No one had noticed how he had appeared. This was simply too strong!
So the reason that the shuttle could make the flying Galactic Beasts retreat was because of Sir Si Sheng? He was indeed as powerful as the rumors said. He was indeed worthy of the title of the strongest player!
In the military camp, except for the players, all the NPCs, including the Consul and the four two-star Elementalists, were kneeling.
This scene shocked the spectating players.
However, Si Sheng's expression was still indifferent, and he did not even look at the players.
He placed his white-gloved hand on the sword at his waist, looked at the Consul, and said coldly, "What happened? Why is the military camp so noisy? Are they trying to stage a rebellion? "
The Consul, who was directly affected by the aura, was lying on the ground, trembling like a sieve. However, he forced himself to explain everything to Si Sheng.
Si Sheng listened to his narration and narrowed his eyes slightly. He also retracted the trace of pressure that leaked out of his body.
"Sir Marshal, please don't listen to the Consul's nonsense. He is slandering me! Natasha and I are innocent! "
Jack refuted with reddened eyes. "I have followed you to fight against the Galactic Beasts and protect the Empire. How could I betray you?"
He spoke with great emotion, and perhaps even he himself believed that he was not a traitor.
Si Sheng looked at him coldly. When Jack looked up unintentionally and met his gaze, Si Sheng's grayish-blue eyes suddenly turned golden.
At that moment, Jack also became strangely still.
His expression became a little sluggish, and his eyes lost focus.
"You are a traitor?" Si Sheng asked.
"Yes."
Jack nodded obediently.
The soldiers were stunned, and even the players were confused. Jack, this guy, was so stubborn just a moment ago. Why did he suddenly admit to it?
Natasha, who was at the side, was already paralyzed on the ground.
"Apart from you, who else betrayed us?" Si Sheng continued to ask.
"I'm not very sure … We were all on a single line. I only found out today that William and Natasha betrayed us too …"
The scene quietened down, and Jack's voice reached everyone's ears.
"You are preparing to destroy Orchid City's protective circle?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"An order from the Bevat Empire."
"How long has it been since you betrayed us?"
"It's been almost two years …"
Si Sheng's interrogation went smoothly, and with such questions and answers, Jack basically confessed everything that he could.
Finally, when Si Sheng's eyes returned to normal, Jack also regained his senses. Of course, at this moment, his face was as white as a sheet of paper.
Natasha was not to be outdone, especially when Si Sheng looked at her. Without waiting for him to use his "Ask All Questions" skill, she told him everything.
"Wuu wuu, Sir Marshal, I just joined not long ago, just a few months ago … I didn't participate in any of the traitors' actions … Please forgive me … I'm a two-star Elementalist, I can still contribute to the Empire!"
Natasha lay on the ground and begged for mercy, without any of the high-spirited appearance from before.
The only response she got was a laser bullet that pierced her skull — this Two-Star Spirit type Elementalist died just like that.
Jack, whose face was splattered with blood, suddenly gritted his teeth and turned into a small bud. He drilled into a crack in the ground, wanting to take the opportunity to escape.
Si Sheng glanced at him.
In an instant, his eyes turned golden again, and at the same time, his face lit up with complicated and mysterious lines.
"Bang —"
The open space suddenly exploded, and Jack, who had just drilled into the crack, was ejected out. His body had exploded, and he was already badly mutilated. He couldn't be more dead.
At this time, the abnormality on Si Sheng's face had disappeared, as if it had never appeared.
He calmly retracted his gaze and swept it across the soldiers who were still kneeling on the ground. Finally, his gaze fell on Xu Yuheng and the other Bravehearts who were still standing, but were obviously in shock.
He spoke softly. His voice was not loud, but it clearly traveled to everyone's ears.
"Those who dare to betray the Empire and His Majesty will be killed without mercy!"
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