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Chapter 326 - 298: Identity

Chapter 326: Chapter 298: Identity

With the reinforcements joining, the previously faltering front line was immediately stabilized.

Li Cheng snapped his fingers, and the long-range artillery, guided by drones, bombarded the targets with precision. Each cannon’s firepower equaled six, blasting the monsters that couldn’t escape into disarray.

Bai Jixiong transformed from an orange cat into a griffin with a lion’s body and an eagle’s head, helping to deal with the aerial enemies.

As for Gray Rain, she broke through the encirclement, spinning in place like a domesticated Shiba Inu, shaking off the viscera and blood stains clinging to her body.

After repelling and killing a new wave of monster tides, everyone finally had a moment to catch their breath. Zhao Zijing watched as Li Cheng jumped down from the armored vehicle, and greeted him with a somewhat complex expression, "We meet again."

Last time on the battery escort mission, both were Lv12, and now both were Lv16.

But Zhao Zijing had the dual backgrounds of the Special Affairs Bureau and GOC, allowing her to access a large amount of regular task resources in the real world, making her level up much faster than ordinary players.

Even under such circumstances, the lone wolf Pi Fu could still keep pace with her leveling speed... making Zhao Zijing feel like saying, "This child will surely achieve great things in the future."

"Welcome, all three."

Talisman Nail Hua Long also breathed a sigh of relief, gathered everyone, and briefly introduced the current situation.

There were a total of sixteen players from different guilds in this building, all with mid-level strength, as well as more than forty ordinary people who soul-traveled from the real world, and more than a dozen Otherworld survivors.

Like Tina, these locals were all wasteland scavengers with rich survival experience.

"Currently, there are two problems. First, why the ordinary people, who should be in a soul state, have bodies consistent with the real world.

Second, how to get them back to the real world."

Talisman Nail Hua Long said solemnly: "Both problems can fundamentally be reduced to one—find out what’s happening in the Otherworld and locate the so-called Dr. Noah who caused the disaster.

According to the survivors, about fifty kilometers north from here, there is a thousand-meter-high artificial high tower built after the apocalypse, surrounded by numerous monsters.

The tower’s location was exactly where Dr. Noah’s Portland Laboratory was before the apocalypse."

"Fifty kilometers, that’s quite far."

Gray Rain frowned and said seriously, "It would be great if it were fifty kilometers; we could get there by car in an hour."

The atmosphere at the scene froze for a moment, and Zhao Zijing reminded after a brief silence, "Kilometer equals kilometer."

"Ha?"

Gray Rain had a "don’t try to fool me" expression and said oddly, "How is that possible? Do humans describe height using 0.00182 kilometers?"

??

Forget it.

Zhao Zijing had witnessed Gray Rain’s astonishing wisdom during the battery escort mission, did not dwell on it, took a deep breath and said, "In short, we now have two options.

First, hold our ground, send out broadcasts, find other players who have teleported into the Otherworld, and send teams to rescue survivors from both worlds, and hold out for 48 hours.

The advantage of this approach is that it is relatively safe, relying on solid terrain for defense, reducing loss and lowering risk.

The disadvantage is that it is too passive.

Second, everyone boards the armored vehicles, forms a convoy, and heads to the artificial high tower fifty kilometers away, directly to find Dr. Noah and uncover the truth of the Otherworld apocalypse.

The disadvantage is that it’s extremely risky, and the advantage is to get it done once and for all."

The players present were not rookies and clearly understood what Zhao Zijing was saying.

[Anchor Point Connection] is a survival mission, and according to past conventions, the last few hours of a survival mission are the most dangerous. If you don’t try to crack the worldview and uncover the hidden truth before that, the risk of death will exponentially increase."

"Or, there might be a third option."

While everyone was seriously contemplating, a gentle, handsome blond man spoke up, "We hold our ground here, send out broadcasts, and let other players resolve that high tower."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of everyone changed slightly.

Indeed, there were as many as two hundred participants in this large-scale mission, including many Lv20 and Lv25 experts. Players from other directions could also obtain information and learn the location of the artificial high tower through their methods.

Dr. Noah alone had technologies like the brain-computer interface and spatial teleportation engine, and the value of these couldn’t be measured with money. There would undoubtedly be experts attempting to directly find, rescue, or capture Dr. Noah to reap the greatest benefits.

Meanwhile, while the experts cracked the worldview and revealed the truth, other players could just stay put, kill monsters, and earn points, winning the mission effortlessly.

The risk was others’, and the rewards were all their own—just now, some low-level players had already gained nearly two thousand experience points by killing monsters beyond their levels, leveling up twice.

In the adjacent room, Xue Luomeng, resting with the other ordinary people, was eavesdropping on the Transcendents’ meeting against the wall.

Upon hearing the suggestion, Xue Luomeng felt anxious—her brother Xue Lingyu was not in the building and was likely still somewhere in this world.

However, Xue Luomeng also knew that as a rescuee, she was not in a position to make more requests, such as asking the Transcendents to look for Xue Lingyu in the perilous wasteland.

"Foolish,"

Through the wall, she heard Pi Fu’s indifferent voice, "Naive."

Since becoming a player, the blond man had seldom been spoken to this way, and his eyes turned sharp instantly, "What did you say?"

"Chinese."

Li Cheng said as a matter of course, "You only mentioned in the broadcast that Dr. Noah might be in the artificial high tower, but could not provide evidence, nor detailed the risks inside and out of the tower.

High-level players are not fools; no one would rush in recklessly to be your pawn.

Coming up with such an idea, it seems like you’ve read too many female-oriented novels and South Korean movies, really thinking you’re an elite, and just one word can make others sacrifice."

"Do you know who I am?"

The blond man’s expression turned cold, his tone calm, as he placed a hand on the dusty conference table, his ID appearing above his head.

[Perfect Skin·Dorling Gray][Lv18]

The expressions of the players varied, Bai Jixiong turned back into an orange cat and scratched the sofa, Talisman Nail Hua Long remained silent, and Zhao Zijing, under the table, used Telekinesis to tap an arrow lightly on Li Cheng’s thigh.

This Dorling, in the real-life identity, was the lover gigolo of a female director, one of the thirteen top-level directors of the European Heavy Industry Guild.

Given the wealth of the European Heavy Industry Guild, Dorling’s resource control was likely not less than Gouchen’s brother.

Li Cheng, casually taking out his phone, started tapping away at the screen with lightning speed, leaving Dorling puzzled, "What are you doing?"

"Posting on the forum."

Li Cheng replied as a matter of course. He showed the screen content: a post by a Level One account named "Dorling Gray" on the forum, saying [Feels like Zero Zone is not as good as Sound Tide... Graphics]

"Didn’t you say you didn’t know who you were? This method works well. Once, I went to an exam without my ID and just bashed a game company online. In less than a minute, an enthusiastic netizen sent over my ID card front and back, along with my home address."

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