Chapter 187: The Red Moon Returns

"We have absolutely no way to contact them." Ganseer's subordinates were all frowning; although the cargo had been successfully placed in Gannaer, and Baroness Clara had promised to help them sell it and purchase supplies, they still were not permitted to leave the city privately.

The control here was loose on the outside but tight on the inside, much stricter than in Tana City.

Beside them, Xin Zhi Xiang Wang was already lying on a chair, looking completely devoid of fighting spirit.

He had originally wanted to experience a thrilling spy life; who could have guessed that he would just be wasting time online now?

If he weren't still hoping that the NPCs might have some good ideas, he would have already logged off.

Although sleeping is better inside the game, there would definitely be many fresh things on the forums.

Even if he couldn't provide useful information, he could tell the players that they could pose as ships coming from other ports at any time, as long as there was nothing on the ship that could allow for Channeling.

With Rita and her sister around, it was incredibly easy to avoid being Channeled; even creating a few benevolent spirits to help players get through difficulties was no problem.

The drowsy Xin Zhi Xiang Wang was just about to log off when he saw Ganseer disappear from where he stood.

The sky outside had already darkened, and because it was an overcast day, the wind was blowing harder and harder.

"What the hell, where did this NPC go?"

"He disappeared on the spot!" several players who were watching gathered around. "What's the situation? I clearly..."

"Keep your movements small, don't let people discover you. Remember, don't talk too much, after all, your language is Federal Language." On the side, Ganseer's subordinate cautioned the players. "Oh right, unless you use the Xiahui language."

"An NPC is coming in a moment?" Xin Zhi Xiang Wang looked at the two subordinates, feeling somewhat puzzled. "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Although the players could understand what the Gannaer people were saying, they ultimately could not speak it and could only use some stiff Federal Language.

Sure enough, sensing the fluctuation of spiritual power, Annie soon brought people over. Inside Baroness Clara's inn, there were facilities to monitor spiritual power fluctuations; she had said that these guests were unusual.

It was just that she couldn't distinguish who exactly was the source of the problem.

After all, she had to inspect dozens of ships a day; how would she have the time to identify every single one?

So she could only start by checking the room with the greatest spiritual power fluctuation.

"Good afternoon, gentlemen, where has your Captain gone?" As soon as Annie entered the room, she saw that there were fewer people, so she took the initiative to ask.

A follower on the side said in broken Gannaer: "Our Captain went to other rooms to see what supplies were on other ships, wanting to ask if they could trade, and he also needs to write an application to request to visit his grandmother."

"I know about this matter, so he is the only one not here, right?" Annie scanned the people in the room again; those crew members looked at her with blank expressions, indeed not looking like spies.

The woman behind her pushed her back and shook her head, signaling that there were no other spiritual fluctuations in the room.

"Could it not be this room?" Annie glanced at the people in the room once more. "I'll go upstairs to take a look; you two guard here."

"Yes!" The two subordinates stood directly at the room's entrance and refused to let anyone close the doors or windows.

Xin Zhi Xiang Wang watched the heavy rain about to fall outside and walked to the door.

The two female guards immediately became nervous, fearing he might do something out of line; after all, they hadn't awakened and didn't know how to deal with spies.

If they had known, they shouldn't have let the Queen open up Baroness Clara's port.

However, Xin Zhi Xiang Wang did not do anything that violated the rules, but instead began to gesture with clumsy body language.

"Where are you from? You actually can't speak?" one female guard said coldly.

Seeing that the two subordinates belonging to Ganseer did not speak, Xin Zhi Xiang Wang had no choice but to gesture while saying in Chinese: "Red Moon."

Before he came, he had been carrying the Gallows left behind by the Goddess of the Red Moon, but that Gallows had no use anymore, only black energy coiling around it.

According to the Lord of Calamity's request, he had thrown that Gallows in a place very close to the Gannaer port; by now, there should already be a reaction.

Looking at the direction Xin Zhi Xiang Wang was gesturing toward, the two female guards saw the Red Moon in the sky.

The two seemed to realize something and immediately left the doorway of the room to go upstairs and find Annie.

"The Red Moon has actually appeared, how could Gannaer..." Ganseer's subordinate on the side trembled, not knowing what to do.

"I only know that with this thing appearing, there will inevitably be a certain degree of chaos in Gannaer City. I think we can take advantage of the chaos to run out and take a look," Xin Zhi Xiang Wang said dismissively.

"Then just now..."

"I didn't see the Red Moon just now either. If someone hadn't pushed the door open, you wouldn't even have allowed us to breathe fresh air." Xin Zhi Xiang Wang thought with a dark sense of humor: who told you NPCs to always want us to click 'follow'?

If they were to let go of their restraints, it wouldn't necessarily be clear who was leading whom.

Ganseer, who had used his ability to go out, also saw the Red Moon in the sky.

This kind of Red Moon could not be seen everywhere; it usually only affected the region where it was located, and the range of seeing the Red Moon would not be particularly wide.

As for why this was the case, Ganseer was not clear.

He only knew that all of Gannaer seemed to have entered a state of alert.

All pedestrians on the road had returned to their rooms, and the entire street was empty.

The children playing in the small alleys were also summoned home by their parents.

Those who were working also gave up their work, and the ships docked at the shore were ordered to stay in place; no one was allowed to go out.

The Slaves moving cargo were driven into the warehouses and could not go out.

In other words, the Gannaer people were trying their best to keep these people from seeing the Red Moon.

But was it enough just not to see it?

Annie, who had gone downstairs, clenched her fists nervously and whispered: "I knew those witches were trouble. It's a good thing the Queen made preparations in advance."

"They are too naive. They couldn't complete the Ritual in a place like Tana City, do they still want to complete their clumsy Ritual on the territory of Lord Death?" Several female guards were also filled with righteous indignation. "We must find Baroness Clara as soon as possible; this is a major event."

Seeing Annie leave, Xin Zhi Xiang Wang and several other players slipped out of the room.

This was the time when the guards were most lax; as long as they weren't too conspicuous and didn't go to open areas, hiding in the shadows, they wouldn't be discovered.

At least in such a large city, it was impossible to have eyes everywhere.

"Gannaer looks much larger than Tana City." Xin Zhi Xiang Wang looked at the intricate roads in the distance. "I remember there were clearly Patrol members here, why are even the people on patrol gone?"

When those Slaves were moving cargo, Xin Zhi Xiang Wang had been observing the whole time.

He had long felt that there was a reason the Lord of Calamity gave him this secret mission; sure enough, this Gallows had a purpose.

The skeleton of that Item back then had made even Ryan feel troubled; if it weren't for several major churches surrounding and suppressing it at the same time, who knew what that out-of-control witch would have done.

Now, on the entire river outside Gannaer, there were corpses everywhere; once these corpses underwent corpse-transformation, just thinking about it felt terrifying.

And all of this was a change brought about by the allies of the Gannaer.

Pedestrians on the road were in a hurry, almost everyone walking quickly toward their own homes; no one noticed Xin Zhi Xiang Wang and the others who had run out.

Those guards were also heading toward the river embankment; it turned out they also knew that those corpses would cause a major problem.

There were still some people on the river embankment unwilling to leave; after all, their own loved ones were floating in the river, and even if they were just corpses, they did not want those corpses to suffer from problems like reanimation.

After all, if reanimation occurred, they would be unable to go to the Underworld of the God of Death.

Those guards were currently struggling with the family members and had no time to pay attention here; unable to concern himself with whether those players had followed him out, Ganseer headed directly toward the stronghold in his memory.

Although it was very likely there would be surveillance, he had to go there once, and he had full confidence that he could leave there smoothly.

"The Red Moon has come." Several spies returned to the room, "This is our chance."

"Chance? Where do we still have a chance? You aren't unaware of how strict the control is here; we haven't had contact with people in the Royal Capital for three whole months," Howard said with a dark face, "We must ensure our own survival first, and you aren't unaware of how many people outside are watching you."

"But we must contact the Royal Capital; those Gannaer have already cooperated with the Barbarian and intend to occupy Tana City and the Port City," the elderly female spy patted the table, "If you are afraid..."

"They are actually plotting against the Port City too?" A gust of wind blew by, and some shadows appeared in the room; no one knew who was speaking.

As a shadow, Ganseer did not want them to see his face; although these spies had undergone professional training and would not expose themselves or sell out intelligence, in the kingdom of the God of Death, Channeling was not an impossibility, and he had to be careful and guarded.

"Is it actually someone from the Federal who has come? Which lord is it?" The elderly female spy stood up excitedly, "We have complete information; they hope the radiance of the God of Death can spread to further places, while those Barbarian hope to obtain the support of the God of Death to seize a certain Seal Object of the Alliance."

Seal Object? Ganseer said indifferently: "Do not worry about who I am. If someone comes to confirm tomorrow, then it is me; you must remember to tell them that you indeed have a grandson who is a navigator and has not been in contact for a long time. Remember, I am a Rierna."

"I understand. The Red Moon outside..."

"Is not a problem we need to worry about; this is a matter for the Gannaer, though this should effectively divide their alliance. I don't know what those witches are actually doing." Ganseer did not know what the players had done, and he was also very curious about what those witches were thinking to actually affect their own alliance.

However, it could be seen that the descendants of the God of Death were not without preparation; after all, cooperating with the Believer of the Red Moon would affect the Believer of the God of Death.

The Gannaer did not accept cremation and often only chose the method of river burial; once reanimation occurred, those female guards might not necessarily be able to solve the problem.

With no one watching them, the players could be said to be wandering around Gannaer unscrupulously.

Anyway, they didn't care what those Gannaer were doing, and their languages were not mutually intelligible; as long as they could come out to walk around, take a look, and take some photos back—preferably to scout out some information—then this trip would not have been in vain.

One must know that the player who went to Rierna had described the prosperous Rierna in detail, and those details and photos would soon be transmitted back to the forum.

And if this wave of theirs, these grand explorers, only brought back port scenery and river burial traditions, wouldn't that be the same as saying nothing?

"How come there isn't even a bar in this place."

"It's not just that there's no bar; there are Temples of the God of Death in every block here, everywhere, but it's so hard to find a restroom." A player who was bursting to go was already planning to solve the problem on the spot.

"Anyway, no one is watching, just solve it wherever; I don't see any Sewers here. But it's actually not smelly everywhere here." Perhaps because there were Temples of the God of Death everywhere, the ground was still relatively clean and tidy.

Even without Sewers, the fact that the roads here could remain clean and tidy meant that every household did their own cleaning.

"Why haven't you gone back yet?" A Priestess wearing a uniform walked past the players and advised them, "The Red Moon is in the sky, and you are in great danger like this; you must return to your rooms."

Fortunately, although there were differences between the Gannaer language and the common Federal Language, some words were mutually intelligible, just with different accents.

As long as one knew part of the language, one could communicate with her; of course, the players had no obstacles here, as the translation function was built into the game.

Xin Zhi Xiang Wang could not help but say: "Lost, port, don't know..."

"You came from the port? How did you run out?" The Priestess said with some resentment, "Now the entire Gannaer has very strict control over outsiders; even if you are Barbarian, you must undergo very detailed inspections, and you are not allowed to leave the inn."

"Business," Xin Zhi Xiang Wang continued, "Making money."

"Business and making money are not as important as life. Hurry into the church; oh, heavens, that Red Moon is becoming more and more crimson. I said long ago that those witches are not to be trusted." This Priestess pulled Xin Zhi Xiang Wang and walked toward the church, "You outsiders, do you not even know about the Red Moon? Where did you come from?"

"Xiahui," Xin Zhi Xiang Wang had not expected to meet someone so kind and gullible; he had thought that since Gannaer was so guarded, the people in the city would be very exclusionary toward outsiders.

He had not expected the other party to actually have the intention of striking up a conversation.

Of course, this Priestess was also very vigilant; she brought everyone into the Temple and had them sit on the chairs in the Temple, continuing to ask: "I haven't seen Xiahui People for a long time; I will send you back in a while."

(End of this chapter)