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Chapter 573: Chapter 570: "Your Doctor Airdrop Has Been Delivered.

A five-person squad quietly hid among piles of garbage, with their captain, Rimu Sheng, drenched in sweat.

He was dressed in black attire, with twin swords crossed on his back and a small dagger sheathed at his waist, exuding a cold, blademaster aura.

By his side were his four squadmates, members of a remote-controlled army guild squad, who had been scavenging this "trash dump" for a full three days, their bodies reeking of pungent gasoline.

They belonged to a high-end squad, yet only one of their members had an occupation related to the technological world, with Captain Rimu Sheng’s three-sword style completely suppressed in such an environment.

Fortunately, this area, every so often, had airships drop mechanical fragments or supplies like food, munitions, and gun parts, which allowed them, players who didn’t venture deep into the city, to glean some resources.

"... Captain, are we really not going deep into the City of Measurement?" a squadmate named Rui Ying hesitated as he stared at the distant mechanical checkpoints.

He was a former football star with thick brows and large eyes, hailing from Gentin, possessing a set of white teeth that often gave people a favorable impression when he smiled.

But now, he was covered in black motor oil, looking extremely dirty.

No matter how noble one’s former status, being thrown into such a dumpsite would leave them in a wretched state.

Captain Rimu Sheng remained silent, just focused on watching the airships slowly passing overhead like cold crows.

The airships dropped supplies every three hours, and the past two days they had been robbed by some damned players with invisibility skills; they had to seize the opportunity this time.

If Su Ming’an were here, he might recognize Rimu Sheng. They had once clashed in the Seventh World, Pulaya. Rimu Sheng had helped the Soul Hunter Department set up island barriers, and his demeanor, as steady and sharp as an ancient blademaster, was unforgettable.

"... Wait."

Rimu Sheng uttered a single word and remained as still as a statue.

Rimu Sheng had noticed that it wasn’t just their squad hidden; at least dozens of player squads were ambushed in this garbage area, with mounds of metal trash serving as their cover.

The number of people around exceeded eighty, no different from a battle royale.

Thanks to the hacking skills of their teammate Fang Yuan, Rimu Sheng already had a rough idea of the player distribution. The City of Measurement was divided into four rings, and they were on the outskirts of the outermost ring — a place full of metal trash inhabited by fugitives and gray-zone dwellers like arms dealers, information brokers, assassin organizations, rebel armies, local gangsters, scavengers, the impoverished, and those involved in human trafficking...

Although everyone here was implanted with the Dawn Chip, they had all escaped, and the Dawn System had let them go, not capturing them all. As long as they did not approach the core area of the City of Measurement, the Dawn System effectively allowed their existence.

Otherwise, the city’s ten prisons couldn’t accommodate this large mass of people.

The most chaotic places were relatively the safest. Given the complex identities of the residents here, robot armies weren’t deployed to massively level the area.

Three-fifths of the players were deployed here. At the start of the game, most of them chose not to venture deep into the City of Measurement, planning to just get by on the outskirts for twenty days. After all, this "newbie spawn point" was relatively safe.

... After all, in a large-scale instance involving thousands of players, there would definitely be top players taking the lead; why would these small fries need to follow the plot?

But Rimu Sheng and his team were different from those "small fries"; the people from their Remote Control Army were high-end players.

They had something to strive for.

"... From the outside to the inside, the City of Measurement is divided into the ’Fringe,’ ’Third Ring District,’ ’Second Ring District,’ and ’Core Area.’ At the very center of the Core Area is ’Central City,’ where the Dawn System and the City Lord of the City of Measurement reside," explained their teammate Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan was a calm hacker, rumored to have been in the same college computer science class as Laine who once infuriated the Number One Player in White Sand Paradise.

His fingers danced on a virtual keyboard — this was his occupational core skill "Two-dimensional Keyboard," which he could summon at any time to connect to regional information within a certain range.

The amount of information obtained depended on his occupation level and his ability to crack passwords.

"... The selection for Kaius Tower will start the evening after tomorrow, so we have a little more than two days left," Fang Yuan stared at the enlarged map on the virtual screen:

"On the day the selection for Kaius Tower begins, the mechanical army won’t capture any lesser personas, so we can safely enter the city then."

"It seems that the first five days of this instance are meant for our development," Qiuqiu remarked from the side.

She was dressed in a purple robe, her hair slightly curled, resembling a prophet. Her occupation was a diviner, a very metaphysical occupation closely related to luck values.

"After we snatch this batch of airdropped resources, let’s try to make contact with the ’War Band,’" Rui Ying suggested.

"War Band? Isn’t that the large-scale rebel organization on the fringe?" Qiuqiu asked.

"Yes. The ’War Band Line’ is likely an important plot line. If we can help the leader of the War Band, Che Kylstia, to infiltrate Central City, it might even lead to a Perfect Pass," Rui Ying analyzed. "I suspect that many players wanting to take a chance will tend to join the ’War Band.’"

"But I’ve heard there’s a big shot in this parallel instance," added Qiuqiu.

"Big shot?" Rui Ying raised his thick brows. "Are you referring to us?"

He wasn’t blindly confident, for their average combat power exceeded fifteen hundred, and in many initial instances, they were the dominating force on the battlefield, upon which other players relied.

"Don’t be blindly confident. I’ve detected several high-energy reactions within the city; there may be players whose combat power exceeds two thousand," Hacker Fang Yuan seriously said.

On his screen, several blood-red dots flickered.

"...Two thousand." Rui Ying’s expression finally changed. "That means top hundred-ranked players? I thought our team was already the peak in this instance."

"Even more, there is one about two thousand right nearby," Fang Yuan said.

He had also just discovered a red dot that had always been hidden and was now very close to them.

Rimu Sheng looked in the direction Fang Yuan indicated and saw a "woman" hiding behind a dirt wall, dressed in a striking red long dress, looking charming and attractive.

Based on the high-energy reaction, this was likely the big shot cross-dresser from Yamada Machiichi, ranked thirty-second. His cross-dressed appearance was very distinctive and easily recognizable.

"We are done for," Rimu Sheng muttered to himself. "Yamada Machiichi is here... This means..."

His expression drastically changed.

It was well known that Yamada Machiichi was a member of the Peak Alliance, and to say that the Number One Player hadn’t teamed up with Yamada Machiichi, he wouldn’t believe it.

—They were actually in the same parallel instance as Su Ming’an.

Rimu Sheng was already considering retreating when he heard a loud commotion.

"Squeak—squeak—"

Above their heads, the airship carrying resources was gradually approaching, casting a shadow like a dark cloud over everyone in the scavenging area.

People with faces covered in dust looked up, clenching the outdated firearms in their hands. They were like rats about to pounce, intently watching for the hatch at the bottom of the airship to open.

Their bodies tensed, ready to snatch the resources being released.

Living here meant resources were always scarce. If they did not learn to fight and snatch, they could easily starve to death. Even if they managed to grab something, they could still be killed by hungry wolves following them.

This area was still within the range of the City of Measurement, designated as a "Safe Zone." People could only live here; if they stepped out and left the City of Measurement to enter the "Danger Zone," they could be affected by spatial vortices at any time, sucked into another dimension, and die in the chaos.

Everyone looked at each other in the eye and cautiously stayed away from all those around them. The laws of the Dark Forest were fully exploited here.

And just then, a little girl running suddenly appeared in their sight.

Amidst pairs of vigilant eyes, the appearance of the little girl seemed particularly jarring. She ran from the direction of the garbage mountain, coming from the direction of the Third Ring District.

Behind her followed a chasing robot army. There were at least twenty of them, armed with light ion ray guns, infrared ray guns, and light sabers. Their weaponry was tiers above that of the impoverished people, firing as they ran. Their beams crisscrossed and melted mechanical hills one after another.

"Huff... huff..."

As the little girl ran, she wore a well-made cotton outfit and heavy cotton shoes, looking every bit like a child from the privileged Core Area.

Her fair face housed a pair of jade green eyes, beautiful like emeralds, now filled with confusion and panic.

She seemed to want to cry for help, her mouth opening and closing, yet unable to speak.

[Help... Help...]

She couldn’t make a sound.

She was mute.

She ran desperately, but no one came to her aid; people even started to retreat en masse to avoid drawing the robots’ attention, as many of them had unclean records.

"Are they... capturing an escaped criminal? This girl doesn’t look like a criminal," Rui Ying spoke out.

"... Don’t meddle," Rimu Sheng warned.

He knew this must be a key episode in an instance. Although their squad was indeed powerful, that didn’t mean they had to engage in such dangerous scripts.

Rescuing the little girl would mean starting a war with the robot army; they were not capable of directly challenging the entire City of Measurement.

The players coldly retreated, seeing the girl as a dangerously attracting NPC, even Yamada Machiichi drew back. He didn’t want to stir up trouble; he hadn’t even contacted his teammates like Su Ming’an yet.

... But just then, Yamada Machiichi heard a crisp sound.

"Ding-dong!"

[Detected a teammate within one thousand meters of you, team chat is now open.]

[Current squad members (Su Ming’an, Noel, Lu, Luna, Yamada Machiichi)]

[Squad members can freely chat in the team channel (only during daylight and non-combat states)]

...

"It’s on!" Yamada Machiichi immediately grinned—no matter which teammate it was, he had been alone for three whole days.

Hoping to find a teammate, he looked around, but saw only the retreating players and NPCs, no one who looked like his teammates.

As hundreds of people moved back en masse, metal grinding sounds were constant, like a colony of underground rats relocating.

... Where were his teammates?

Just as he was searching, he suddenly felt a hand firmly grasp his wrist.

— The little girl who was being chased had somehow popped up in front of him without making a sound.

Her lips moved, as though she was saying—

[Please, save me.]

Yamada Machiichi’s hair stood on end, cold sweat soaking his back, completely unaware of when the girl had approached him.

By then, the robot army had already surrounded them, dozens of ray guns aimed at his location, clearly intending to shoot him and the girl into pieces.

"Don’t come any closer!" he shouted, backing away rapidly.

"— Fire!" The robot captain ordered without hesitation.

Yamada Machiichi’s face turned pale; he activated the Defensive Barrier, inevitably including the girl within its radius. He was not skilled in defense.

The other players watched, eager to see how this would unfold, many recognizing the cross-dressing bigwig, Yamada Machiichi.

"Should we save him? Owe him a favor?" Qiuqiu asked Rimu Sheng. She had a random teleportation prop that could help Yamada Machiichi escape.

Rimu Sheng shook his head; he wasn’t looking for trouble. Although Yamada Machiichi was a top-ranked player with considerable Points significance, it wasn’t worth risking their lives for that slight increase in human Points progress.

The guns were aimed at Yamada Machiichi; the weapons emitted a red glow as the robot army prepared to fire.

At that moment, the airship above suddenly burst into intense opening and closing sounds.

"Boom—!"

The belly door of the airship swung wide open, and large cubic shadows slammed down; they were containers filled with survival resources.

But now, no one dared to rush forward to loot. They could only watch as the robot army took over the airdrop area, determined to execute Yamada Machiichi and the little girl.

The sharp-eyed Rimu Sheng suddenly noticed a straight falling shadow in the air, a small and unclear figure.

"... How come there’s a person in the airdrop?" Rimu Sheng muttered.

The shadow was surprisingly jarring, mixed among the falling containers, like a fledgling bird that couldn’t fly.

Some wondered if the supply officer on the airship responsible for distributing resources had accidentally fallen.

From this height, a real fall would certainly be fatal. Not to mention that the figure seemed to be sitting on a wheelchair, like someone disabled...

"Chief, should we abort the order?" The robot squad sought directive from the robot chief.

"Ignore the sky, attack immediately!" The robot chief decided without a second thought, prioritizing the elimination of the little girl.

They didn’t regard the sky as a threat, raising their gun barrels at the girl, apparently a high priority for them.

Amidst the layers of containers, the plummeting shadow suddenly solidified in mid-air, fire from the wheelchair’s jets tracing a stream in the air, halting the imminent crash halfway.

The figure lingered in the air, no longer falling.

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