Chapter 3943: The Real Plan

Rain Bath City · Lord's Mansion, deep underground secret shelter.

This place had been surrounded by the Zerg nest, which could be considered as adding a second layer of insurance. Su Xiao walked out of the elevator with a metal texture but quite a Zerg style. Sensing his arrival, the dark silver door leaf turned into a fluid and opened to the surroundings.

There were many things in the secret shelter. Except for the alchemy workbench and various blending instruments, the skill upgrade chamber occupied most of the area. Su Xiao walked into it. As the chamber door closed, relevant prompts appeared.

【Detected that your current area is a non-Paradise internal environment. Activating Paradise facilities in this environment will cause a "massive" increase in Space-Time Power consumption, consuming 216 ounces of Space-Time Power per hour.】

Su Xiao chose to pay and adjusted his state. Upgrading Green Shadow King level by level was too slow. It was likely that he wouldn't be able to consume 80 Mie Fa skill points in 24 hours. So,

it was time to show the resistance accumulated from mastering various Mie Fa system abilities for so long. He chose to upgrade Green Shadow King by 26 levels continuously.

With a hum, the skill upgrade chamber operated, and Su Xiao was successfully sent into a dream.

Thud thud thud~

Knocking sounds came. Su Xiao sat up from the skill upgrade chamber, glanced at the prompt record, and paid a total of 864 ounces of Space-Time Power. Regardless of the lingering tingling sensation all over his body, he walked out of the skill upgrade chamber. Xiang Bubu Wang was waiting at the door. According to Su Xiao's instructions, it let Little Bu hit the skill upgrade chamber hard a few times every hour.

In general, these Space-Time Powers were not spent in vain. After this world progress ended, he could sell this skill upgrade chamber, for which he had obtained notarization rights, to the Samsara Paradise for a price of 5000 ounces of Space-Time Power.

Returning to the terrace on the fourth floor of the mansion, Fanny was indeed there. She was leaning on a lounge chair, sensing nature. This was her method of improving her own "Gifted Speech Passive". "Gifted Speech Buffs" were indeed powerful, but the improvement conditions were harsh and could only be improved through self-cultivation or soul stones.

"I like the scenery of this city. It has a feeling of regaining vitality after decay. Bai Ye, you..."

Fanny's words stopped abruptly here. She was surprised and sat

up, asking three questions in a very fast speed.

"Bai Ye, was this injury of yours caused by an assassination? Where is the assassin? Will they assassinate me?"

"..."

"You must protect me. Having entered the contention battle battlefield, you definitely can't find a treatment system like me whose strength level and interests are completely bundled with you."

Fanny was really a bit panicked. As a life winner who was only 21 years old this year but was an Absolute Strong treatment system, she only needed to survive this time, and every day in the future would be a happy day. She was not a combat system and never had the awareness to risk her life. Didn't she choose the treatment system for this? Otherwise, how could she develop this profession that didn't have much combat power but enhanced others to this point?

"..."

Su Xiao leaned on the lounge chair and let out a long, refreshing breath, although his whole body was still faintly aching.

"You don't say anything. It's over. This assassination system is so strong that even my eternal-level perception equipment didn't react. It's over, it's over."

Although Fanny was panicked to the point of being confused by fighting with the air, she still treated Su Xiao immediately. Fanny's pseudo-deep recovery was very top-notch, and the tingling sensation all over Su Xiao's body gradually dissipated.

"I just improved my professional inheritance ability."

"Hmm?"

Fanny's ignorant big eyes seemed to be saying: 'My strange knowledge has increased sharply recently, don't lie to me, I'm not easy to lie to anymore.'

"..."

Su Xiao never had the habit of explaining. The comfort of his body after receiving treatment, coupled with the slaughter with the Troll legion in the afternoon, and now being in this quiet, cool summer night, with the occasional sound of insects and frogs in his ears, was very suitable for a nap.

"Is this injury of yours really caused by improving your professional inheritance ability? I feel like you were hit by a star."

"..."

"Your Mie Fa faction must have very few people."

"..."

"I actually like chatting very much. It seems that after I was promoted to Ninth-Tier, I started to be 'cold'. After all, someone called me a big-shot combat angel. Now it seems that the star realm is really big, boundless. How did you monsters in this echelon reach this strength?"

"..."

"Sure enough, it's more comfortable to be your original self. Compared to you monsters, our Absolute Strongs don't seem to be anything great. Why bother to keep up the facade? You might not believe it, but after I was promoted to Absolute Strong, these few days were the happiest days of my life, although I was so nervous that my heart almost stopped several times."

"..."

"Being strong doesn't seem like such a big deal either. Why keep up the act? You might not believe it, but since I advanced to Absolute Strong, these past few days have been the happiest days of my life, even though I was so nervous a few times that my heart almost stopped."

"..."

"I find that confiding in you seems quite nice. However, are you asleep? I'm opening my heart to confide, and falling asleep is too impolite."

"..."

"Hmm? Really asleep? Bai Ye is a dog."

A moment later, Fanny, with bruised eyes, sniffed her runny nose. The coolness of the night breeze made her drowsy as she lay on the lounge chair. But in her daze, she seemed to see two sisters dressed in gorgeous Gothic dresses walking over. Their Gothic dresses were dotted with some gold, making one even more drowsy. The older sister had a black cloth strip over her eyes, while the younger sister's eyes had no luster. Wherever they passed, all things fell into a deep slumber.

At this moment, in the back city district of Mu Yu City, inside an old two-story building, the female leader Xina, the small giant Moduo, the One-Eyed Snake, and the Dwarf Mechanic were all present. The Blind Twins sat on the sofa holding hands, and while leaning back, they both had black cloths covering their faces, with golden ring seals embroidered on the black cloths.

"Did the twins sneak in?"

The female leader Xina spoke, and the One-Eyed Snake nodded. Seeing this, Xina picked up her gun holster, tied it to her waist, and stood up: "I'm going to stroll around outside to prevent any rats from sneaking nearby and hurting the twins. I'll leave this to you, Moduo."

"Woo."

The small giant Moduo responded; apparently, his ability to speak had been damaged.

After Xina nodded to the One-Eyed Snake and the Dwarf Mechanic, she walked out. The reason she decided to take action this time was, of course, not only because she witnessed the expressions of Chief Governor Gilbers and the others at that time, but also because of the subsequent terrifying slaughter by this Lord. Its cruelty was something that the previous Lords could not compare to.

Walking in the alley, the coolness of the night at eight-something made Xina take out a cigarette, which she lit after leaving the alley.

"Hoo~"

Xina tilted her head slightly and exhaled smoke. She could feel that her body couldn't hold on for many more years. The overly violent body energy was gradually eroding her source life force. Even so, she still hadn't given up; she felt that she would definitely wait for the arrival of a Lord willing to protect Mu Yu City.

The faint moldy smell of the back street, mixed with the smell of tobacco, was the scent Xina was most familiar with. But suddenly, she smelled a meat aroma that made her saliva secrete.

Looking in the direction of the aroma, she discovered it was the meat aroma wafting from the tailor woman's house. Thinking of this tailor's ridiculously poor craftsmanship, as well as the woman's alcoholic husband and terminally ill son, the corner of her eye twitched. In a family in Mu Yu City suffering to the point of heartbreak, what was being stewed when a meat aroma wafted out? It really made one not want to guess.

Thinking of that little brat who was still mischievous and cute yesterday, she walked up quickly, her hand subconsciously brushing the grip of the large revolver at her waist. If hunger drove this family mad, that was a matter for the police to handle. The problem was, sometimes there would be extra-dimensional demons parasitizing innocent people and doing some horrifying things.

Knock, knock, knock.

Xina knocked on the window. Mu Yu City rained all year round, so the windows were designed to lift upwards. A moment later, after the sound of an old person coughing, the coarse hemp curtain was pulled open, and the window was lifted.

"It's Xina, have you eaten?"

The tailor woman's smile was very kind, not like it was deliberately faked, which made Xina breathe a sigh of relief. She stood with one hand on her waist, smiling, and asked: "I've eaten. Why? Did your drunkard husband dare to go out of the city to hunt today?"

Hearing Xina's words, the tailor woman looked puzzled: "Hunt? Hunt what?"

"Then what meat are you stewing? My nose, it hasn't

become dull enough to not smell meat."

Hearing Xina's words, the tailor woman was even more puzzled and asked back: "Didn't you go to the police station to collect the resident welfare this afternoon? They didn't say it would let us eat for five days, but there was enough meat for several months, plus a fresh water quota. It's said that as long as the pipeline renovation is completed, every resident household will have clean fresh water to use. Now we can only go to the police station to get water ourselves, with each person taking at most two buckets a day."

Hearing this, Xina was stunned for a moment. At first, she didn't quite believe it, because Mu Yu City had never had anything like this before.

"The stingy Governor Ge'er of our city district will distribute food to you? How much help did your family give him?"

"It's not us, it's that all residents in the city district have a share. There are still people collecting resident welfare over there now. By the way, didn't you receive news from the police this afternoon?"

Hearing this, Xina didn't speak. She didn't think that the guy who had tried to molest the girl next door and was hung up and kicked by her until he almost lost his "little partner" would notify her about city district welfare.

Xina sighed: "It seems I don't know our city district's Governor Ge'er well enough. He would actually do such a thing."

"It's not the governor, it's the new Lord. This afternoon, several governors died. It's said they withheld the resident welfare the Lord gave us. They really deserved to die, but they were all beheaded."

Speaking of this, the usually gentle and timid tailor woman couldn't help but be filled with righteous indignation. She didn't notice that after hearing her words, Xina was already stunned in place.

"I also heard that after the Lord learned that the temperature in Mu Yu City is cold in rainy weather, he wanted to rebuild the steam hub. Don't say, the sound of gas rushing inside the steam pipes tonight will occasionally ring. I even thought that the main pipeline in our slum area had long since rusted and broken."

Although the tailor woman had opened the conversation, the meat aroma in the pot at home made it impossible for her gossip soul to burn completely. She had forgotten the last time she ate stewed meat. Just as she wanted to invite Xina to eat this dinner, which was a bit late due to queuing for resident welfare, she discovered that Xina had disappeared, leaving only half a cigarette still emitting blue smoke on the ground.

The door to Xina's second floor was kicked open by her with a bang. The small giant Moduo, the One-Eyed Snake, and the Dwarf Mechanic were all full of surprise. Ignoring their reaction, Xina strode forward. Although she was anxious in her heart, she slowly lifted the black cloth on the twins' faces and patted their cheeks, trying to wake them up. Unfortunately, it had no effect at all.

"Find a way to wake the twins."

Bloodshot eyes burst out in Xina's eyes. She had just rushed to the underground area of the city center where the steam hub was located at the fastest speed. Seeing that brand-new steam hub, which was just waiting for the cold rainy weather to arrive to be fully powered, she knew that what the tailor woman said was not half false. Moreover, repairing this steam hub, which was about to be scrapped, would definitely require a high price for maintenance if there wasn't ridiculously high technology. If it was just for show to win people's hearts, there was no need to do this.

The One-Eyed Snake said in a deep voice: "Xina, don't talk nonsense. At this stage, the twins should have already succeeded. You can say goodbye to the new cruel Lord."

Hearing this, Xina staggered back a big step. She pressed one hand to the side of her head, her whole body in pain as if it were about to split. She muttered: "Our brains have all been eroded by the violent body energy. We didn't investigate carefully before acting, and we trusted the judgment in our own cognition. Too stupid, so stupid that I want to shoot myself in the head now. Anyway, it doesn't have much thinking power."

Xina's muttering left the few people present looking dazed.

"Ah!!"

Xina shouted angrily, swung her arm, and smashed the side, breaking the square pillar next to her by nearly half.

Just at this moment, the older sister of the twin sisters sat up straight from the sofa. Her movements were somewhat strange, as if her whole body was being manipulated by an invisible giant existence behind her. She pulled off her eye mask, and her eyes were already black-blue like a demon spirit.

The twin sister suddenly grabbed her younger sister's throat, which surprised Xina. Subsequently, she said the most peak-intelligence sentence of her life: "The twins failed, great."

Hearing this, the twin sister, who was like a marionette, didn't immediately strangle her younger sister's neck, but tilted her head to look at Xina.

Seeing this, Xina exhaled and said firmly: "I am their

leader. I ordered the assassination of you. I will now, immediately, pay the price. Let them go."

Xina, who had assassinated three Great Lords and seen all kinds of ugliness from the Lords, decided to gamble. She wouldn't live for many more years, and this Lord who built a steam hub as soon as he arrived was worth gambling on. She wouldn't be naive enough to think that apologizing now could make up for the assassination just now. That was an assassination to take a life; it had to be paid for in blood.

With the muzzle against her chin, Xina said a vulgar phrase from the back street area and pulled the trigger. Bang! The gold elemental bullet grazed her cheek, blowing debris out of the lower half of the small building. The One-Eyed Snake had already transformed into a snake form, one hand pulling Xina's head to the left, while the small giant Moduo was on the other side, pulling away Xina's right hand that was gripping the wall.

Normal people wouldn't be as extreme as Xina. She was actually right. As the price for gaining power to protect Mu Yu City, her brain had indeed been eroded by the violent body energy to the point of not being very sharp. In contrast, she had an exceptionally formidable combat intuition.

"Come, see me."

After this voice came from the darkness behind the twins, the twins fell into a coma.

Xina and the others looked at each other. After discussing for a moment, they carried the twin sisters on their backs and walked toward the Lord's manor. After they left, Baja flew out from the darkness on the roof of the opposite building. With these six subordinates who were dedicated only to Mu Yu City, the situation at this base would be stable.

Was everything just now accidental and coincidental? Of course not. Almost every step was in the plan, except for Xina's brain-dead moment and that sudden shot at the end. Xina loved this dilapidated city more than imagined, and was more extreme than imagined. These were better subordinates; this personality could allow her to do many things.

At nine o'clock in the evening, in the inner hall on the third floor of the Lord's mansion, Su Xiao was wearing pajamas, looking at the few people kneeling in a row in front of him. Behind him was the maid chief, who looked at them with malicious intent. That gaze, with lowered eyelids as if looking at trash, made the corner of Xina's mouth, who was kneeling there, twitch twice.

"So, it was you who prepared this assassination."

Su Xiao spoke with a bit of drowsiness. This was a negligible side effect of using "Green Shadow King"; every ability had a cost after use.

"Yes."

Xina admitted it directly.

"Reason."

"Well..."

Xina was not very eloquent. She nudged the One-Eyed Snake with her elbow, wanting the One-Eyed Snake to speak, but she nudged the One-Eyed Snake's waist so hard that, with Xina's arm strength, she almost sent the One-Eyed Snake away.

"That is to say, you assassinated me for no reason, and now you want to pay with your lives."

Su Xiao looked at Xina with a gaze of caring for the intellectually challenged. Xina's expression was very complex. She let out a long sigh and pointed to Xiang Bubu Wang, who was sitting next to Su Xiao, saying:

"We can be your dogs just like it."

"Woof?!"

Xiang Bubu Wang was shocked. That innocent look seemed to say, "Don't drag me into it when you're scolding yourself. I am a Void-Tearing Hound, not a dog."

"So, you assassinated me, and I still have to find you a stable job."

"Uh~, well..."

Xina scratched her head and could only smile awkwardly in the end.

"I am indeed short of people under my command recently. Will you do a job without pay?"

"Yes!"

"Dirty work."

"As long as it doesn't harm the interests of Mu Yu City, yes!"

"..."

Su Xiao raised his hand, and the maid chief behind him leaned over to listen. After hearing Su Xiao's low-voiced instructions, she walked out of the inner hall. When she was about to go out, she frowned at Xina and the other five who were still kneeling there and questioned:

"Why, do you want to live on the third floor where the Lord resides?"

Hearing this, Xina and the other five stood up one after another and walked downstairs. The maid chief arranged rooms for them, but after a while, Xina was brought alone by the maid chief to the third-floor inner hall to see Su Xiao.

"You are dying soon."

Su Xiao glanced at Xina and signaled for her to sit in the chair opposite.

"Yes, I can probably live for a few more years."

"Within half a month, you will definitely die."

"This?? Really?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He stood up and went to the collection cabinet, pushed it open to reveal the secret cabinet inside, took out a few bottles of potion, and sat back down on the sofa. He raised his hand, and Xina opposite him immediately stood up, leaned over, and took the few bottles of secret medicine from his hand.

Baja flew onto Su Xiao's shoulder and said: "We offended the Scarlet Lord and Minor Lord Gu'erbak's group before coming here. My boss, as a pharmacist, is not short of money or resources. Your situation of consuming 'Core Food' to increase power, which causes your life force to be eroded, is very common in the Lord cities of the Great Swamp area. This is a soothing secret medicine. Drink it, and you will truly be able to persist for a few more years. Each of you drink more than 3 bottles. It's impossible to recover to your original lifespan, but recovering half of it will allow you to live for quite a while."

After hearing this, Xina looked at the secret medicine in her hand and wanted to say something, but Baja said: "Go back, it's getting late. Sleep early, there are important things tomorrow."

Xina didn't ask any more questions and left the inner hall. Seeing this, Baja asked: "Boss, I'm a bit worried. How about I swap the gambling city side with Amu? It's dangerous, but Amu and I can handle it."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, so Baja didn't say anything more. Baja never questioned Su Xiao's plans, at most mentioning the parts it was worried about, and it would always be the one to take the initiative to step up, striving for the most stability.

The next morning, when the first ray of dawn rose at the edge of the sky, Su Xiao opened his eyes and picked up Benny, who was sleeping soundly on his face.

This time in the war world, Benny couldn't go out traveling and seemed somewhat bored. Combat, infiltration, and intelligence gathering were not Benny's strengths, but Su Xiao's team could never lack Benny. With Benny managing finances, the ratio of their gains converted into soul coins was 25%~30% higher. However, Miss Benny's investment ability and financial management skills were somewhat lacking in level.

After breakfast, Su Xiao went to the first basement level. Xina and the other five were already waiting there. Among them, the Dwarf Mechanic was studying the teleportation array and whispering in amazement about miracles, masterpieces, and so on.

Regarding this, Fanny on the side had a complex expression. Even if the teleportation array hadn't started yet, she wanted to stay away.

After Baja on Su Xiao's shoulder repeated the plan again, the teleportation array started. The group arrived at the Gobi area. Except for Xina, who sat on the ground with her legs spread, the others bent over and roared like dragons at the ground. After Baja "comforted" them by saying they would get used to it after a few more teleports, they roared like dragons even more vigorously.

Half an hour later, the train started and headed toward the direction of the Golden City.

At this moment, in the Golden City, Central-West District, inside the top-floor office of the Platinum Gambling City.

"Boss, it's ready."

Compared to the title of Lord, Minor Lord Gu'erbak preferred to hear his subordinates call him Boss. In his view, those Lords were useless except for seizing territory. Their vision was only placed on this Lord Continent; the Void Myriad Worlds were Minor Lord Gu'erbak's goal, or rather, to become one of the overlords of the Myriad Worlds.

"Very good."

Minor Lord Gu'erbak glanced at his confidant Laswo, who was as jumpy as a flea. For some reason, since yesterday, he had found his subordinate increasingly displeasing to the eye, especially after the other party reported to him that they had lost a total of one "World-Class Teleportation Array" plus six giant troll legions yesterday.

Boarding the gambling city's dedicated elevator, Minor Lord Gu'erbak went down to the first floor of the gambling city. Looking at the magnificent reception hall, Gu'erbak's mood improved a lot. His goal was to build the largest gambling city in the Myriad Worlds, letting money pour in like waves.

Surrounded by a group of subordinates, Gu'erbak took the capsule train and quickly arrived at the front area of the Golden City, going up to the top floor of the Lord Tower, the highest point in the city. From there, the entire Golden City and the surrounding areas outside the city could be seen at a glance. The holographic map displayed the changes outside the surrounding city in real-time. The remaining two "World-Class Teleportation Arrays" were, of course, the focus of attention, with the first transfer station and the third transfer station both having separate bird's-eye views.

Minor Lord Gu'erbak sat in the leather chair. Seeing this, the subordinates at various posts continued to work busily. Gu'erbak picked up the cigar roasted by his subordinate. This out-of-print cigar produced in the Wind Sea Continent had to be roasted after being lit to roast out 90% of the rich moisture inside, stimulating its unique aroma.

Minor Lord Gu'erbak, puffing on his cigar, waited quietly for the prey to arrive. Just at this moment, there was a reaction on the holographic map.

He looked at the bird's-eye view of the third transfer station. A figure descended from the sky and landed in front of the "World-Class Teleportation Array" at the third transfer station. The next second, Gu'erbak received feedback from his subordinates there: perception complete, this was that Law-Breaker.

Through the bird's-eye view, Minor Lord Gu'erbak even heard a hum. The "World-Class Teleportation Array" at the third transfer station was shrouded in multi-layered defensive barriers, and further out, three layers of large barriers and spatial interference devices appeared. This Law-Breaker would not be able to escape this time.

Minor Lord Gu'erbak, who had taken a sip of his cigar, smiled and shook his head. This reckless person could at most cause him very painful losses during the first surprise attack. The trap he set at the third transfer station was just to guard against the 1% probability of the opponent attacking the "World-Class Teleportation Array" there. He didn't expect the opponent to really step into the trap.

But thinking about it carefully, Minor Lord Gu'erbak couldn't help but break into a cold sweat. The enemy had used reverse thinking. Precisely because it was unlikely, it happened just like this. If he hadn't taken precautions and set up these barriers, today's losses would have been very heavy.

At the same time, on the 12th floor of the Platinum Gambling City, in the VIP area, Xiang Bubu Wang quietly arrived on the unmanned crystal stage and placed down a soul stone engraved with spatial runes. The soul stone exploded, forming a Law-Breaker teleportation array.

Thud!

All the spatial shielding devices in the Platinum Gambling City collapsed, and the adjacent spatial blocking towers exploded with a bang, with the dozen or so spatial-type users inside dying simultaneously.