Chapter 319: NO. 81: Aomo: You wouldn

NO．81：Aomo：You didn't expect that, huh? I didn't either!

「Is the time almost up? 」

「There are still a few minutes. 」

Dream, hazy and unclear.

Human shape, the fluctuation vague.

The giant beast's dream is strikingly evident; it stands tall in an ocean of countless dreams, inherently distinct from the surrounding ancient purity.

This makes it easy to locate; for Yuger Company's Dream Construction Team, which has built private dream servers before, it directly bypasses the highest difficulty trial.

Moreover, even if countless guards surround them, they are utterly unstoppable.

The only question is whether to act or not.

After the last time they were investigated by the police, Yuger Company's stock once dipped.

There were both layoffs and voluntary resignations.

Among the remaining employees, loyalty is not necessarily strong.

Of course, company employees and such—loyalty isn't something you can expect; who isn't just a wage‑earner hired by my company?

Besides that, either there's clear room for promotion, or one is trapped by the so‑called company shareholding concept.

A truly passionate, like‑minded enterprise is hardly to be found; though the possibility isn't completely erased, it's obviously rare.

Even if one or two occasionally appear, they get big coverage and are suspected of being publicity stunts.

And Yuger Company clearly does not belong to such miraculous companies.

As a typical business organization, it relies on salary, promises, contracts, etc., to retain staff; when the company's prospects are poor, you can't blame employees for wavering.

Then a certain 'friendly stranger' offers those employees a 'part‑time' job, hitting exactly the point that would move them.

This isn't hard to pull off; after all, a certain chairman of Yuechi Logistics has secretly sponsored their company for years, and capable people familiar with its operations have all been marked.

Their situation has also been looked into to some extent.

And this information was given to that 'friendly stranger'.

Although the 'Merchant' and the 'Recluse' have together been listed as a disgrace of Gui Yuan Zhi Tang, once becoming a derogatory term peculiar to a certain clique, it's undeniable that even such a lowly stepping stone can be used to throw stones at people.

The Merchant is not useless; at least, after obtaining the information, he used it to thoroughly dupe those few Yuger Company staff.

After the monster industry took a heavy blow and the Dream Maintenance Team gradually faded from the company's technical core, these technicians, having been duped by him, prepared to go to Beiximos's dream to show their mettle.

Investigation by the Divine Blessing Gospel Team?

Although the Divine Blessing Gospel Team also has a long history of acting on souls and spirits, they are confident in their specialized expertise regarding processing.

Investigation? Doesn't exist!

Those bird people will absolutely never be able to trace our tracks!

This is the confidence brought to them by their daily work researching the mentality and dreams of monsters.

Now they have already achieved a state of waiting to clear traces; all it takes is a word from the patron, and they'll act!

Directly injecting into Beiximos's dream the twisted wave drawn from Bixiuwu, using the Old Ones to strike the vessel of the beast molded by God, can completely make Beiximos go berserk on the spot.

Moreover, there's no need to worry about influence or leaving evidence.

After all, when that group of Ultramen went to cause trouble for Hasuta last week, the surging distortion wave that could be intercepted all around Bixiuwu ended up letting every living mercenary make a fortune.

Hasuta hasn't had the time to investigate each human who used her tentacles one by one, and the Gospel Team also struggles to trace them from the black‑market‑circulating 'Outer God fringe material'.

Hope that a briefly frenzied Beiximos can yield decent data… that's what these employees think.

They want to restart the monster data on the dream server; even if not used for business, it could serve to build amusement parks, game zones, and similar industries.

And the 'Merchant' has already entered the Gospel Team's church.

Carrying his monster secret key.

「We've only just arrived at the church; isn't it a bit late, Ludao Fu? 」

「So I said from the start there's no need to insist on buying that honey special drink… Qianming. 」

「But I'm sure there'll be lots of junior schoolmates there! 」

A brown‑haired Umamusume holding a big bag of sealed drinks speaks confidently, arguing with the tri‑colored Umamusume beside her.

Even so, their pace is much faster than his.

「And you're still supposed to keep that state, huh~. 」

「With the attitude of 'not interested at all, even a bit annoyed by that guy, but only coming along because my friend wants to,' showing up now—isn't that perfect! 」

「This is the super‑reasonable script designed by Director Qianming! 」

「Sigh… I don't mind your excuse, but this is a public place, so change the topic, Qianming. 」

「Boring, you're just as dull as that guy! Ludao Fu. Let's pick up the pace! 」

「To not miss the exciting moment! I specially brought a pixel‑enhanced camera and bought an audio‑quality upgrade kit for the terminal recorder! 」

「You're sure this is for the performance, not to do some other dangerous act? 」

「Detective work—can that be called dangerous! 」

Really noisy, the Merchant thought.

Although elves are also a race agile from the dexterity scroll, he, not intending to race the two Umamusume, kept his original pace, watching those two horse‑girls stride farther ahead.

Probably they're here to play with the Gospel Team; although they look somewhat familiar, what do they call each other?

Letting his thoughts wander aimlessly, he also noticed passersby giving those two horse‑girls looks of astonishment, but the Merchant didn't dwell on it, withdrawing his thoughts and walking step by step toward the holy place indicated in the intelligence.

Whether they're here to play or have some issue to handle, it's all the same—soon the whole Gospel Team crew will be rushing about to deal with a disturbance somewhere.

He couldn't attend to them.

「Ready? 」

He typed the characters; the content is both sent to the 'assistant' holding a monster card and will be converted by the assistant's device and transmitted to the dream.

The power extraction rate of the Fourth Generation Secret Key has decreased, but what replaces it is that Cheng Ka is quick; he only needs to fish in troubled waters, and incidentally create some suspicious traces for Lin Dun, making him the scapegoat of this Gospel Class.

With this face, as long as he blends in, all of this is easy to do.

But what's the matter with this unease in his heart?

He was thinking, yet he also saw a series of confirmation replies on the other end of the call.

Very smooth.

Even smoother, before he could produce his forged identity, a nun standing at the sanctuary's door stepped out of the line beside her and actively led him:

"Sir, are you also here for the Behemoth awakening performance? Please go this way."

"……" At this, the merchant was a bit dazed.

Is this performance openly public?

How could it be like this… he practically wanted to scratch his head.

Awakening the Behemoth, such a major event… how could it be just a performance……

Moreover, from the other's reaction, it seems many people have already come.

Although I've heard that the Blessing Gospel Class's style in recent years has been quite special, but matters involving the Earth Beast shouldn't be conducted secretly, right?