Chapter 150: News

Luolita was dragged away inexplicably. She looked helplessly in the direction of Ye Laoshi, but at this moment, Ye Laoshi had already been pushed somewhere by the crowd, and her shadow was nowhere to be seen.

Never would I have thought that once in a crowd, no matter how bright and beautiful a person is, they look so insignificant.

Seeing that the octopus had been controlled, the crowd gathered to watch the excitement again, pushing forward. When Ye Laoshi looked back, she could no longer find where Luolita was.

It seems I can only ask offline.

Luolita was dragged onto a vehicle by the police with a blank expression, then watched helplessly as that octopus was loaded onto a cargo truck; it took a full four horses to pull the octopus away.

As for Luolita herself, she was being watched closely, and even her hands were tied up.

"I clearly helped you all; is this how you treat an Honorary Citizen?" Luolita said with a dark face. Even if what she said about being a believer of the Wealth Church was a bit problematic, she shouldn't be tied up like this.

This was truly disappointing.

Could it be that these NPCs want to embezzle her credit? Isn't that a bit too realistic?

The flashbulbs were still firing, but no one cared. The organizers of the auction seemed to have only just appeared; the hired guards firmly isolated the crowd from the salvaged shipwreck supplies. People didn't get to take many more looks at the captured octopus, nor did they see who exactly helped catch it; everyone only remembered a flash of a red figure.

Only two Reporters, still shivering, were excited about what they had just captured.

They would absolutely never hand the negatives over to the police!

After securing the negatives, Mika Fuleze signaled to his companion. He walked toward the police with the negatives, while his companion ran for his life with the camera.

As professional Reporters, they had long known how to deal with those stupid police. They would certainly block the news this time. Of course, these police were only desperately blocking the news because they were worried they hadn't managed the dock area well.

As for the church, they had plenty of ways to keep the public from panicking. In short, this kind of exclusive scoop could absolutely not be missed; this year's year-end bonus would probably depend on it!

Seeing someone running away, the police chased after them immediately. Luolita only felt the whole world becoming noisier and noisier; she closed her eyes and fell asleep right away.

Taking off her Helmet, Luolita typed furiously on her keyboard to vent the dissatisfaction in her heart.

This dog of a planner, pfft, what kind of plot is this? It definitely has bugs. No wonder they aren't opening up places like the Royal Capital to all players yet; as expected, the new map isn't finished.

I clearly did the right thing, so why did they arrest me?

She must, severely, report this bug and have the officials fix it!

Are the NPCs in the Royal Capital not fully evolved yet? I clearly did a good deed, but I was arrested by the police!

Today, Ye Laoshi and I went to the auction at the dock. As a result, during the auction, an octopus crawled out of an auction box and started eating people, spraying poisonous ink; a whole row of NPCs collapsed. Later, two NPCs from the Sun Church came and started catching the octopus, but because the NPCs had all collapsed and no one was helping, they weren't succeeding. At the critical moment, it was my fishing net that I threw out, and then I just said I believed in the Wealth Church, and I was arrested. Heaven and earth bear witness! I was just arrested by the police because I didn't believe in the Sun Church; this is just too unreasonable!

Game King: What did I just see? Someone is actually posting in the middle of the night...

Gu Nanyi: I thought someone had died again. Sigh, fewer people have been dying lately.

Unknown Secret: Seriously, you should ask veteran players about these things. I don't think the officials would release such an obvious bug; it's very likely just plot-required.

You'eryuan: I see someone humble-bragging again.

Yunxiao: Honestly, I don't think there's a problem. I feel that the faith of the Wealth Church is just a polite phrase in most situations. Those church people probably wouldn't think anyone truly believes in Wealth... or rather, everyone might truly believe in wealth, but it's not a "proper" faith.

Yaohuanghuang: Even if it's someone from the Wealth Church, if they say they truly believe in wealth, they'd be doubted, right...

At first, the replies were all from new players, but gradually veteran players came to check the post. Of course, everyone still held a skeptical attitude toward Luolita. Mainly, the officials had never released such an obvious error before.

Everyone knows that this is an epoch-making game, at least that's what has been revealed so far.

So the officials wouldn't make such an obvious error.

"Could it really be my problem?" Luolita was a bit puzzled by the replies, so she had no choice but to put on her Helmet again to see what was going on.

When she logged back in, she was already inside the Police Station, undergoing some kind of test.

Her hand was placed on a crystal ball, but the crystal ball didn't change at all. The person testing her shook their head, then looked at the people around them with some hesitation.

"She hasn't awakened; she is not an Awakened, but her spiritual sensitivity is high..." the person speaking said with a frown, "You might have arrested the wrong person."

"I heard you arrested a believer of our Wealth Church. May I go in and take a look?" The voice of the person speaking was somewhat familiar. Luolita looked up and discovered that it was actually an old acquaintance.

Feng Brown walked over with a gloomy face. He seemed a bit exhausted. There were many troublemakers these days who claimed to be believers of the Wealth Church, but there weren't many Awakened. Even so, he was busy to death every day.

As the first choice for dealing with such troublesome matters, even if he didn't want to do this kind of work, he had to run around for it.

He just didn't expect to actually see someone he knew here.

He was no stranger to Luolita, at least he recognized her, and he knew very well that Luolita had not awakened.

"If I remember correctly, she shouldn't be an Awakened. Isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to come find me?" Even without seeing the crystal ball that had been put away, Feng Brown could accurately state that Luolita had not awakened. "I hope you can give me, and my believer, an explanation."

Every time he was the one taking the heat; now, he finally had a chance for Feng Brown to lose his temper.

This was the first time Luolita had seen Feng Brown with this attitude. She immediately understood something and began to cry and wail like a drama queen, "I was just helping the Sun Church and the police catch that evil octopus. You know, we Xiahui People are all very brave, but I didn't expect the people in the Royal Capital to be so unreasonable. Even after I declared that I was a believer of Wealth, they still wanted to arrest me."

"I will seek justice for you, and helping to catch a Mutated Creature is inherently rewarded." Feng Brown was clearly much more spirited and said to those few police officers, "What, is the Wealth Church actually going to be suppressed by the Sun Church?"

"That's not what we meant, but... we suspected at the time that she was an Awakened." Kainong Kuke, the manager of the Police Station, naturally discovered where the problem lay. He usually always complained to Feng Brown that those people pretending to be Wealth Church believers should make Feng at least suggest to the Bishop not to dump trouble on the Royal Capital's police department.

Now, he rarely had a gray face, glaring at those few arresting police officers and saying: "Why haven't you untied this lady yet? You all are really something; you were only asked to assist the Sun Church in catching a Mutated Creature, not to go looking for trouble."

"Also, I need to find those two people from the Sun Church. We helped them, after all; they should have some sort of response." Feng Brown continued with a straight face, "If this were the Wealth Church, we wouldn't be stingy with rewards."

"Uh, this requires us to communicate with the people from the Sun Church." Kainong said apologetically, "Please wait in the conference room for a moment."

"Then I shall wait and see." Feng pulled the crying Luolita, then gave her an approving look, "It's alright, you are very brave, and you did quite well."

At this time, inside the Police Station, Kainong Kuke scolded several police officers with a dark face, "What on earth are you doing? Now everyone knows we've lost over a dozen excellent police officers, and their families have already arrived at the hospital entrance."

"Captain, we were only following your orders, and this time we didn't expect to lose so many men; it's not like the Sun Church side..."

"Damn it, I shouldn't have helped them with this favor in the first place. Now it's great, all the pressure has come onto me. The people from the Wealth Church are not that easy to deal with; if they donate even a little less, we'll all be fired!"

The police below naturally didn't dare to speak, and the police sent out didn't get any useful response either.

"Captain, we just went to the Sun Church to ask, and they... said they are too busy to deal with this matter right now."

"What are you all doing! Are we going to let that guy from the Wealth Church keep waiting here with that crying woman?"

The Police Station was indeed in chaos at this moment, but the interior of the Sun God Cult was even more chaotic. Although the two people sent out had caught that Mutated octopus, the Sun God Cult had not truly controlled this octopus.

On the square inside the church, this octopus had already sprayed poison again, causing two believers to be carried into the Sanctuary.

The remaining people could only look at each other in dismay at the octopus inside the fishing net.

"That's enough, you all step aside." Bishop Andre David held a long sword and sliced open the octopus's belly.

Several human skeletons fell directly out from inside.

"It's a bit too late; why didn't you say anything sooner if you wanted to capture this thing?" Andrew's expression was also very poor, and he looked heavy-hearted as he stared at the corpses of the dead that had flowed out onto the ground.

This octopus had caused the deaths of too many people, having eaten over a dozen; not only that, but the ink it sprayed had also sent many innocent people to the hospital.

There was no need to mention the police, and these crew members could be dealt with using effective methods, but those reporters were all a troublesome matter.

The two Believers who were reprimanded were not very convinced.

One of them even said, "Other churches are all researching Mutated Creatures, but if we don't conduct research, the Believers below..."

"Do not use the Believers as an excuse. If you want to conduct research, you can recruit enough personnel in advance, rather than using this method. You, as well as Marie who performed the divination, must all go face the wall; you are not allowed to come out of the Confession Room for one week."

"This... very well, Bishop."

Now even Lady Marie had to face the wall, and the other Believers dared not speak again, fearing they would be implicated by the Bishop's anger.

Today's matter was indeed handled too rashly, but no one had expected that this kind of Mutated Octopus would cause such great trouble.

Previously, there had been no reports of Mutated marine creatures causing such terrifying problems, especially since other churches had not encountered such issues, and those who were eaten could even survive.

Yet looking at the current situation, not only could those who were eaten not survive, but it was difficult to even identify them.

Outside the church of the Sun Church, some commoners had already gathered, and everyone began demanding that the Sun Church give the commoners an explanation; naturally, these people did not believe in the Sun Church.

Mata stood at the very front of this crowd, though no one recognized that this was the well-known actress; at this moment, she looked like a pitiful family member, crying and accusing those people of the Sun Church of treating human lives like grass.

"My husband was eaten inside; why haven't you sent him for medical treatment yet?"

"Please give us an explanation! He was just an ordinary fisherman!"

"Why won't you come out!"

Mata's voice was quickly drowned out by the voices of the masses; the Sun Church was not a very prominent church in the Royal Capital, and their influence here was clearly no different than it was in Tana City.

Andrew naturally heard the voices outside as well; he held his blood-stained sword, pushed open the church doors directly, and then said to the people outside, "We have already personally slain that octopus. If not for our assistance, I fear you all would have become rations for this octopus. I hope you can give us some time. We mourn for those who have passed away; if your relatives are among them, please follow me."

"Who knows if you'll lock us up too!" Mata shouted along, "Give my husband back!"

"What exactly have you done?"

"Hurry and release the people; those poor souls are not your test subjects!"

Those commoners had clearly already begun to resent the Sun God Cult; damn it, it must be those actors inciting those ordinary people.

"Close the door first; we need to perform some Purification. Damn it, the Believers of the Beauty God are endless. Where are our Reporters?" Andrew turned his head back, not looking at the people outside the door, even if those people were truly relatives of the ordinary fishermen, there were certainly actors mixed in among them.

Damn it, things were truly getting worse and worse; Andrew shook his head helplessly, "In any case, tell me about the situation today first."

Just as Andrew was learning about the situation, a fresh newspaper was released, and the photograph printed on it was clearly visible—it was none other than Luolita.

(End of this chapter)