On the small slope outside the Imperial Munitions Depot.
Seeing the huge crater left on the ground after the explosion, the players of the Purilla Game Union were stunned for a moment.
What's the meaning?
The ground collapsed?
Both His Majesty Mingyue and the undead lord fell?
Is it a trap?
Has the empire been tricked?
Who set the trap in advance?
Ed was confused, and questions were popping up in his mind.
They had just seen His Highness Mingyue and Undead Lord Fang Heng coming towards the slope, and were about to go over and have private contact with them. Unexpectedly, they heard several loud explosions before they emerged from the slope.
It exploded, can you believe it!
The other players in the union looked at Ed.
Salvin looked at Ed, suspicious in his heart, and asked in a low voice: "Boss, you designed this?"
Ed looked gloomy.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, he had a feud with Tang Mingyue Ye and the lord Fang Heng. Moreover, he led people to ambush here early in the morning, watching helplessly as Tang Mingyue and his party fell into a trap.
No matter how you look at it, he seems to have planned it in advance.
But really not!
Ed suddenly felt a little lucky again.
Fortunately, no one else nearby saw this scene, otherwise I would have been saddled with a big problem.
Ed shook his head and said, "No, it's not me."
Everyone looked at each other.
"Boss, then let's..."
"Well, let's go over and have a look."
Ed led the players away from the slope and went to the crater left by the explosion to observe.
The bottom of the pothole is not deep, only about seven or eight meters.
If you look closely, there is actually a passage extending inward under the pothole?
That’s strange, when was the passage dug out?
Putting this aside, His Highness Mingyue's disappearance in this place must have been planned in advance...
Could it be that person?
No, isn't that mysterious player in the same group as His Highness Mingyue? Why did he suddenly attack His Highness Mingyue again?
broke up?
For a moment, Ed was confused.
He realized that there were more and more unexplainable doubts, and his hair was falling out in bunches in the past two days.
Just when everyone was confused and at a loss, the game suddenly appeared on everyone's retinas again.
[Tip: The player triggers a special hostile mission - the missing princess].
Mission name: The missing princess.
Mission type: Hostile mission.
Mission Difficulty: Unknown.
Mission description: His Highness Mingyue was suddenly attacked and disappeared together with the royal treasures he was guarding. Please inform the empire and continue to try to find traces of His Highness Mingyue.
Mission requirements: Notify the Empire of the disappearance of Her Royal Highness Mingyue (0/1); pursue and find Her Royal Highness the Princess (0/1); recapture the lost royal treasures (0/1); find out the whole story (0/1); report the incident
The truth is revealed to the Ming Empire (0/1).
Current task completion: 0%.
Task rewards: Depending on the completion of the task, you can get up to a random SSS level team task reward.
Seeing the mission that suddenly appeared, the players' breathing became heavier, and they all turned their attention to Ed in the middle.
It’s an SSS level reward!!
Ed's expression also changed slightly.
He carefully checked the task prompts, groped his chin, and fell into thought.
Judging from the mission prompts, the mission requires them to track down Tang Mingyue and recover the missing royal treasure.
Thinking backwards based on this clue, the tasks that enemy players receive are most likely to kidnap His Majesty Mingyue and plunder royal treasures.
Is that mysterious man so brave?
Take action against His Highness Mingyue and the royal family?
"Captain, we..." Salvin felt his throat was a little dry. He hesitated, looked at Ed, and asked: "SSS-level rewards, do we want to catch up?"
Chase?
Ed's eyelids twitched and he looked inside the pothole.
hehe.
Stupid game system.
You lied to him the first time and want to lie to him a second time?
You're still addicted to cheating, right?
Do you think the SSS level reward will fool him?
"Salvin, greed is the original sin."
Ed sneered in his heart, said lightly, and looked away from the passage.
This hostile mission seemed to him to be a deep pit.
There is a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves.
His guild was fooled the last time he did a hostile mission.
At that time, it was only random rewards for S level.
The result was disastrous. The entire union was pinned to the ground and crushed, and was almost wiped out.
Did you get SSS this time?
Ten times more difficult?
Haha, he won’t be fooled!
Our union will not do the task! Anyone who likes to do it can do it.
Ed couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
Um!
Ed thought of something again and narrowed his eyes.
Not only do they not do tasks, they might even be able to find that big boss to hug them and help them do tasks together!
Isn’t the mission to help the empire find His Highness Mingyue and the missing supplies?
We also helped them cover up their traces.
Notifying the empire could have been done very easily.
But I just decided not to do it now.
After all, the final reward is related to all completion levels. This step of notifying the empire is very simple, and even if you do it, you will not get much reward.
It's just that the operation of burying the traces is a bit difficult.
Forget it, wait for now, take one step and see the next.
…
On the other side of the forest, the imperial guard Cheng Jiqiang who was escorting Tang Mingyue's team was leading the team in a fierce battle with the 'barbarians'.
The strange ‘barbarians’ are powerful.
The elite imperial guards of the imperial family also have extremely powerful combat capabilities.
The two sides were in a stalemate, and a human team of more than 200 people from behind rushed towards the crowd.
"Help them!!"
Eric, the squadron leader of the Imperial Guard who was accompanying him for support, shouted, picked up his spear and led his team into the battlefield together.
With the addition of new blood, the battlefield advantage suddenly tilted towards the human side.
What's even more exciting is that there are three human mages in the support team.
The mage provides powerful assistance, greatly limiting the demon's ability.
The team couldn't kill the demons in a short time, but these demons didn't have much desire to fight. After struggling for a while, they found that the situation was not good and immediately ran away.
Seeing that the crisis was over, Cheng Jiqiang cupped his fists to the support team and said, "Thank you very much!"
Eric, the squadron leader of the escort army, looked solemn, and he also responded with clasped fists: "I have just received the warning that the seal of the royal treasure trove of materials has been erased. I received the order from the commander of the army to come to meet His Highness Mingyue, and the follow-up teams are also arriving one after another. Several have
Haven’t you seen His Highness Mingyue?”
Hearing this, Cheng Jiqiang's pupils suddenly shrank, "No, His Highness Mingyue may be in danger!"
"Let's chase!"
The two human teams came together to pursue the traces left by the wheels of the cart that Tang Mingyue and others had previously pushed, and pursued them all the way forward.
After chasing forward for only a few minutes, Cheng Jiqiang discovered a pothole on the ground and Ed's team gathered around the pothole.
"Who are you! Why are you here!"
When Ed saw the people from the Empire chasing him, his heart moved and he nodded to Salvin.
Salvin stepped forward, gestured to the Mage Association mark on his chest, and responded, "Sergeant, we are members of the nearby Mage Association. We were just attracted by the explosion of the munitions depot to check it out. We found this deep pit on the way and felt that
If something seems strange, stop and check it out.”