Chapter 114: Fishing

After logging into the game, Su Sheng first found his father and obtained the remaining demon energy cores.

With these demon energy cores, the Demon Energy Castle should be able to open once today.

Afterwards, Su Sheng contacted Chen Guan.

"Kong Lang, how's the investigation into the traitor going?" Su Sheng got straight to the point.

"We have a rough range, but we still haven't found any concrete evidence to pinpoint the person." Chen Guan responded.

"If we don't find this traitor, we'll be hampered in everything we do."

"I have a plan that could yield great profits, but we can't let Qiancheng Muxue's side find out, so we need to root out the traitor as soon as possible."

"That's a bit difficult." Chen Guan said, somewhat embarrassed.

"I have an idea: gather all the suspicious people together."

While playing with the demon energy core in his hand, Su Sheng explained his plan in full.

This plan uses the regularly respawning level-35 Ultimate Demon Puppet Boss as bait!

With such a big bait, I don't believe we can't catch this fish.

Anyway, that Ultimate Demon Puppet has already been farmed so many times that the quality of its loot drops has fallen to a certain low point.

So, since that's the case, we might as well make full use of the Ultimate Demon Puppet's final value.

"Won't it be a waste?"

After hearing Su Sheng's plan, Chen Guan felt somewhat reluctant.

It's a fixed level-35 Elite Boss.

Just let it go to Qiancheng Muxue like that?

"Don't worry, it's not a big problem; my next plan is absolutely worth more than this level-35 Elite Boss."

"Furthermore, we've farmed this Ultimate Demon Puppet so many times; letting it go is fine."

"If we don't root out that traitor, it'll remain a thorn in our side, making many actions inconvenient to adjust personnel."

Su Sheng spoke up.

"I understand."

Upon hearing that, Chen Guan had nothing more to say.

Afterwards, Chen Guan began to gather personnel.

He gathered all the suspicious personnel together.

However, there weren't many—only about ten people—so Chen Guan felt it was too deliberate and also drafted some normal Assassin Alliance members.

He formed a fifty-person squad, but Chen Guan didn't say what they were going to do.

Meanwhile, Su Sheng was also thinking.

It's better not to let Qiancheng Muxue's people know about my relationship with Huakai for the time being.

Su Sheng doesn't trust those guys' bottom line at all.

After all, from Su Sheng's perspective, those guys have no bottom line whatsoever.

Although my stats are now quite abnormal, soloing the Ultimate Demon Puppet is unlikely, mainly because I can't reach its weak point.

But even with a group of Assassin Alliance assassins, there are limits; although they can gain great fame when facing players,

yet when it comes to fighting bosses, there are inevitably some limitations.

In that case, Su Sheng turned his gaze to his friend list.

Dream Building Squad.

Su Sheng immediately sent a private chat to Zhu Meng Junjie.

"Are you free?"

Just two seconds later.

"I'm free, I'm free, Mo Wen, what's up?"

"I have a small matter; I'd like to ask for your help, but this might cause the guilds allied with Qiancheng Muxue to bear a grudge against you."

"So think it over—whether you do it or not, it's no problem."

Su Sheng also didn't hide anything; he directly laid out the stakes.

"No problem, anyway we don't have any good feelings toward Qiancheng Muxue."

"Moreover, we'd be delighted to help Mo Wen."

Zhu Meng Junjie replied almost instantly; their previous mission at Wild Burial Hill had already been killed once by Qiancheng Muxue's people.

Their follow-up mission was also killed once by Demon Tail; although Demon Tail isn't Qiancheng Muxue, they are allies with Qiancheng Muxue.

"Don't you need to consult your teammates?" Su Sheng asked.

"No need, I believe they won't have objections either; just give them a heads-up later—worst case, we'll just develop in another town."

Zhu Meng Junjie replied.

Having said that much, Su Sheng hesitated no longer: "Then I'll give you coordinates—come over directly and help take down a boss."

"Sure, on my way." Zhu Meng Junjie responded happily.

Although they still didn't know why fighting a boss would possibly earn a grudge from Qiancheng Muxue,

…

Since Chen Guan's side still needed to gather personnel, the Dream Building Squad arrived first.

"Mo Wen!"

Zhu Meng Junjie brought the Dream Building Squad members running over in a hurry.

"You've already told them, right?" Su Sheng nodded slightly, looking at Zhu Meng Junjie.

"I have."

Zhu Meng Junjie naturally knew that Su Sheng was referring to Qiancheng Muxue's matter.

"That's fine, wait a moment, there's still one more person coming." Su Sheng said.

"Okay."

The members of the Dream Building Squad looked at the Demon Energy Castle beside them, curiously examining it.

As for the castle with a countdown on its gate, the Dream Building Squad members also knew a bit about it.

Someone posted the situation of the drum castle on the forum, so many people knew about it; although curious, no one wasted time to investigate further.

Soon, Chen Guan brought the fifty members of the Assassin Alliance over.

About ten of them were suspected traitors, and Chen Guan had already clarified these to Su Sheng via private chat.

"Let's begin." Su Sheng saw that everyone was present, without hesitation went straight to the gate, and started inserting the Demon Energy Cores.

The castle's countdown still has over thirty hours left; under normal circumstances, these Demon Energy Cores would not be used up before the castle could be directly activated.

Besides Chen Guan, everyone else, including the Dream Building Squad members, looked at Su Sheng's actions with a bewildered expression, as well as the rapidly decreasing countdown on the castle gate.

"This is a special map, similar to a dungeon mechanism; each time you clear it, you enter a refresh countdown."

Meanwhile, Chen Guan began to explain the castle's mechanism.

After hearing Chen Guan's introduction, everyone was surprised.

The ability to steadily farm a 35‑elite spawn point is indeed surprising.

Zhu Meng Junjie looked at Su Sheng with some doubt, wondering why such a spawn point would be told to himself.

Moreover… it would also offend Qiancheng Muxue?

However, Su Sheng didn't say anything, and now it's not a good time to ask.

As expected, Su Sheng hadn't guessed wrong.

When there were still a dozen or so Demon Energy Cores left, the countdown ended.

The Demon Energy Castle was activated again.

"Let's get to work, kill the monsters!" Chen Guan ordered.

Although there was no Huacui Squad, there were fifty Assassin Alliance players and the Dream Building Squad.

These peripheral puppets would be cleared up shortly.

Next was entering the castle's corridor.

"The red spider lilies have moved."

When entering the castle, Chen Guan's private chat came to Su Sheng.

Su Sheng raised his eyebrows; the traitor wasn't someone from Qiancheng Muxue's side?

"As for the red spider lilies…"

The difference isn't big; anyway, the Red Spider Lily Guild and Qiancheng Muxue are allies, so if the Red Spider Lily Guild knows, it's tantamount to Qiancheng Muxue knowing.

"Indeed, among these people, they are truly hateful."

They are all core members, receiving a salary every month.

"It's fine; just lock down the range."

"Then we'll find a way to flush them out." Su Sheng replied.