The Game with Fairies

Inside Tianjiao City, Qu Shihong once again reviewed a report about a ferocious tiger descending from the mountains to devour humans and attack grain transport carts.

After glancing at the report for a few seconds, he habitually approved it and tossed it aside.

He picked up the next report and began to review it. However, just as he opened the next one, Qu Shihong paused, his brows furrowing slightly.

“A ferocious tiger devouring humans? Attacking grain transport carts?”

He vaguely remembered seeing similar reports several times over the past month.

But each time, he didn’t pay much attention and simply approved them before moving on.

Now, thinking back… wasn’t the frequency of these tiger attacks a bit too high?

And every time, it was the grain transport carts that were targeted?

Qu Shihong hurriedly retrieved the discarded report and read it again.

The content was straightforward: a white-foreheaded tiger had descended from the mountains and attacked a grain transport convoy, killing over thirty people, burning the grain and swallowing the spiritual medicine.

Although somewhat strange, this wasn’t unheard of.

After living for a certain number of years, tigers in the mountains gradually developed some intelligence and even acquired some magical powers, becoming fierce creatures akin to demons and terrorizing the local area.

It was normal to overlook a single tiger when there were more pressing matters to attend to.

However, this tiger specifically targeted grain transport carts every time, and the number of attacks was excessively high…

Qu Shihong looked up and ordered, “Gather all the reports on the tiger attacks and bring them to me.”

After giving the command to his clerks, someone immediately set out to handle the task.

When his subordinate presented all sixteen related reports, piling them up on the desk, Qu Shihong realized something was amiss upon seeing the thick stack of seventeen reports.

“A mountain tiger suddenly preying on humans? Attacking grain transport carts seventeen times in a month?”

Qu Shihong stacked the seventeen reports together and instructed his subordinate, “Take these seventeen reports to the young lady and let her decide.”

Tianjiao City, which had been busy dealing with frontline affairs, finally realized something was wrong with that tiger.

……

Meanwhile, in the same drizzly weather, Li Muyang, lying in wait on a cliff, was slightly puzzled.

“…Did I remember it wrong?”

He closed his eyes, immersed in the game.

At that moment, he was in a time-limited level, having just broken through the enemy lines.

Over the past month, Li Muyang had cleared the time-limited level seventeen times using Lord of Mount Wu and was now very familiar with the task of attacking transport carts.

But this time, as he controlled Lord of Mount Wu to emerge from the darkness and kill half of the Blood Lotus Sect disciples on the official road, scaring the rest away, Li Muyang, about to burn the carts with a torch, suddenly had his attention drawn elsewhere.

Next to the cart lay a corpse, flung away by a slap from Lord of Mount Wu, its chest a bloody mess, a gruesome death.

However, on the face of this Blood Lotus Sect follower was a very noticeable green birthmark, even sporting disgusting mole hair.

Li Muyang generally didn’t criticize others’ appearances, as looks are innate, but such a unique appearance still made him take a second glance.

He vaguely remembered that in an attack mission three days ago, there was also a Blood Lotus Sect follower with the same birthmark and mole hair.

But that person had been killed by Lord of Mount Wu.

Yet now, only three days later, he saw an identical corpse appear again…

Li Muyang furrowed his brows: “This is weird!”

“Have I encountered two identical twins?”

But would twins have the exact same birthmarks and mole hairs?

Li Muyang bent down and began to examine the bodies on the ground, surprised to find that several of them looked familiar as if he had seen them several times before.

The eerie situation made Li Muyang’s frown deepen.

“The same person killed twice?”

“Is it a problem with the system? Or…”

Li Muyang looked up in the direction of Tianjiao City…

……

The blazing sun shone down on the vast land.

A huge airship hovered high in the sky, overlooking the expansive terrain below.

However, no airship dared to enter the region ahead.

Thick clouds enveloped the sky above that land.

For the past month, the area had been under continuous rain.

The followers of the Blood Lotus Sect, bathed in the persistent drizzle, seemed to have gained some sort of power boost.

Not only were the beast cavalry much stronger than ordinary beasts, but even the ordinary followers of the Blood Lotus Sect were astonishingly powerful.

When dispersed, a force of tens of thousands could firmly hold back the six-pronged assault of the Demon Refining Sect’s army of millions.

But the bigwigs of the Demon Refining Sect were not to be trifled with and soon noticed the anomaly.

“The corpses of the Blood Lotus Sect’s followers who die in battle will be collected and retrieved by any means.”

“Even those with severe injuries, with only an arm or half an ear left, they try to find and take them away… This is somewhat abnormal.”

After a relentless assault for thirty days, with no regard for casualties, the mortal army of the Demon Refining Sect suffered heavy losses, with the compensation for the fallen reaching nearly two hundred thousand people.

On the Blood Lotus Sect’s side, the casualties were also at least forty thousand.

But with such a massive number of casualties, the numbers of the Blood Lotus Sect did not seem to decrease.

They appeared to have an endless supply of reinforcements.

“Find out the source of the Blood Lotus Sect’s troop reinforcements. This matter is slightly odd…”

Sect leader Gong Yanghong issued such an order.

After a month-long fierce attack without success, jokes about the Demon Refining Sect and Gong Yanghong himself had already begun to circulate outside.

This was intolerable for Gong Yanghong, who always cherished his reputation and cared about his face.

……

On the cliff, Li Muyang collected his rewards for completing the level and returned to reality.

He prepared to eat some spiritual rice for a meal and then continue playing the game.

But the chat group, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly started to buzz.

【Dangerous Star I: Is Blue Star III still alive?】

【Dangerous Star I: You said last month that you were going to investigate the Blood Lotus Sect’s secrets… What were the results?】

The group members, who usually avoided Li Muyang like the plague, were now actively seeking conversation with him.

Li Muyang became curious.

【Blue Star III: Number I, you’re not afraid of me anymore?】

【Dangerous Star I: …Talk about serious matters!】

Li Muyang pondered for a moment and decided to share his discovery in the group to bluff his group members and see their reactions.

These group members knew far more about the Blood Lotus Sect than he did.

【Blue Star III: I’ve discovered an interesting little thing and was planning to share it with everyone】

【Blue Star III: On the Blood Lotus Sect’s turf, I killed a person… twice!】

【Blue Star III: What do you say, isn’t that eerie?】

Li Muyang deliberately made his statement vague, leaving those who were unaware of the details completely baffled.

However, after he finished speaking, everyone in the group fell silent.

It was clear that everyone’s avatars were active except for Everlasting North Star’s.

Yet, they all collectively lapsed into silence.

Just when Li Muyang thought these folks were about to log off en masse, Well Wood Prison, who rarely spoke, chimed in.

【Well Wood Prison: The sinister power of the Four Directions Cauldron has been fully unleashed…】

Clearly, these people knew the reason behind it, and they knew it very well.

As Li Muyang was pondering how to continue deceiving these people, Dangerous Star I suddenly made a remark.

【Dangerous Star I: Blue Star III, are you interested in destroying the Four Directions Cauldron? If you can destroy it, all of us are willing to owe you a favor and do something within our power for you!】

Dangerous Star I’s abrupt statement took Li Muyang by surprise.

Three question marks appeared over his head.

A group of mysterious Purple Mansion powerhouses, all promising to do him a favor… what kind of hellish task could possibly warrant such a reward?

Such wealth and honor wouldn’t be an exaggeration, right?

Li Muyang instantly became more cautious.

【Blue Star III: What? You want to trick me into a suicide mission?】

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