"..."
The air seemed to freeze at this moment.
Yan Jun was stunned on the spot.
It's like it's stuck in the throat.
Several seconds passed, and Yan Jun opened his mouth for a long time, but could not spit out a word.
After finally regaining the language function, Yan Jun stuttered and asked:
"What did you say?"
"Did you give [Frozen Heart] to...Give Mullen?"
Xia Mingzhe nodded: "Yes."
Yan Jun repeated it again: "Let me ask again, did you give the [Frozen Heart] to Mullen?"
Xia Mingzhe nodded again: "Yes."
Yan Jun: "..."
The air solidified again.
The expression on Yan Jun's face was confused and shocked from the beginning.
Gradually it turned into restlessness, anxiety, and excitement.
"What are you thinking about, Lao Xia!"
Yan Jun was very excited, and there was a hint of hatred in his words:
"Do you know what that thing is?"
"If it falls into that guy's hands, what if..."
Xia Mingzhe's face looked a little depressed: "Of course I know..."
Yan Jun said: "Then why are you still doing this?"
"Xiao Xia is in his hands, I can't do anything to him."
Xia Mingzhe covered his face weakly and said in a weak voice: "That's why I said, I'm sorry to you."
Just half an hour ago.
After several hours of intense ideological struggle.
Xia Mingzhe, who couldn't stand it any longer, finally chose to compromise.
"You did a great job, Chairman Xia."
"I knew you would be a good, responsible father."
The words fell.
There was another long silence.
However in fact.
When Xia Mingzhe just spoke, Yan Jun had already roughly guessed the reason.
Something that would allow this archmage, who has been exploring the Holy Spirit Realm since the closed beta version, to walk through more bridges than young people today, to break through the defenses.
Apart from his precious daughter, I am afraid he will never find another one.
At this age, Yan Jun also has a family, so he can naturally understand Xia Mingzhe's mood.
If the roles were reversed, it would be if he came to this fork in the road.
It is very difficult for him to make this choice, and it can even be said to be cruel.
And to other bystanders.
Of course they can condemn Xia Mingzhe as much as they want and point fingers at him from the moral high ground.
But for a man and a father.
Protecting your family and children is engraved in your bones, an instinct that belongs to normal creatures.
Thinking of this, Yan Jun could only sigh helplessly.
There is no other way.
Now that things have happened, there is no point in continuing to debate whether it is right or wrong.
What we really need to care about now is how to solve this problem.
But the problem within the problem is...
With Yan Jun's ability, this is actually not something he can solve at all.
"Lao Xia."
"I really don't want to put pressure on you, but this matter is really too big."
Yan Jun sighed and said:
"This is no longer something that the academy can solve."
"If it really gets to that point, it will be a battle between two city-states."
"If things get serious, the Duke might be alerted."
"So I have to report it to the Holy Grace City Hall and the Brave Association and let them handle it."
Xia Mingzhe nodded and said:
"good."
"I'm sorry, Lao Xia."
"I've caused you trouble again."
Yan Jun patted his shoulder and said:
"You don't have to say such things to me."
"No matter what, Xiaoxia, just be fine."
"It's you, you might be punished."
Xia Mingzhe nodded and said, "Yes, I understand."
With that said, Xia Mingzhe opened the game panel: "I'll contact Xiaoxia first."
Yan Jun nodded and said, "Okay."
Xia Mingzhe had just opened the game panel and was about to send a message.
Before he could send it, a new message was sent first.
"Xiaonatsu!"
As soon as the phone was connected, Xia Mingzhe screamed in surprise.
"How are you?"
"Where are you now?"
"You're not hurt, are you?"
"No one bullied you, right?"
"..."
The moment the call was dialed.
Xia Mingzhe then sent a series of fatal questions from his old father.
"dad!"
"Don't be so surprised!"
"I'm with the students of the same grade in our academy!"
Xia Yubing's voice came from the other end of the screen.
"As long as it's okay, it'll be okay..."
Xia Mingzhe breathed a big sigh of relief and almost burst into tears:
"How did you escape?"
"That [Secret Realm] is a [Fireless Land]. Once most players are imprisoned in that kind of place, there is generally no good solution!"
"indeed."
"When we were first imprisoned in that place, we felt helpless."
Xia Yubing said:
"But fortunately, thanks to classmate Lu Qingge."
"If he hadn't taken action, we would probably still be stuck there."
"Lu Qingge?"
Xia Mingzhe was slightly startled, thinking that the name seemed familiar to him:
"Is he the boy you told me about before?"
"The student who followed Grian..."
Xia Yubing nodded and said:
"Yes, that's him."
"It was he who cracked the secret realm and led us out."
Is he so powerful? This guy...
Xia Mingzhe pinched his chin, a little unbelievable.
When he was chatting with Grian before, he did hear him mention this student.
The old guy Grian commented on him as "smart and hard-working", "down-to-earth and hard-working".
The only bad thing is that this guy has a bit of a stubborn personality and is very easy to get into trouble...
But now it seems that this kid must indeed have some strength.
After all, among so many second-year students, he is the only one who can lead everyone to break out of the siege, which already shows that he is not simple.
And if he said that, he had to thank this kid properly.
If it weren't for this kid, he wouldn't have been able to contact his precious daughter so quickly.
"Okay, got it."
"Then where are you now?"
Xia Mingzhe said: "Dad will send troops to pick you up right now."
"In [Casalin]..."
"We don't know the exact location. The layout of this city is very confusing, and many streets don't even have names..."
"I can't find any conspicuous landmark buildings nearby..."
"I'll send you the location directly, but the location of this place may not be accurate..."
"Okay, got it."
Xia Mingzhe said:
"You guys should find a safer place to stay for a while, and I'll bring someone over to find you right away."
*
*
"OK."
"Please be careful when you come here, Dad."
"You're old, so take it easy."
"..."
After hanging up the phone, Xia Yubing breathed a sigh of relief: "We've been contacted."
"How long will it take for them to get here?"
Lu Qingge asked.
"No matter what, it will take three or four hours."
Xia Yubing said: "Including the deployment time, it will probably take five hours."
"Five hours?"
Lu Qingge muttered: "That's a bit difficult..."
"What's wrong?"
Chen Xun asked nervously: "What happened to five hours, Brother Lu?"
Lu Qingge slowly raised his head and looked at the scene ahead.
After escaping from the [Fireless Land] spiritual realm, their current location is the urban area of [Casalin].
To be precise, it is an abandoned construction site located on the edge of the city.
Surrounding them were patches of old and abandoned building materials, as well as unfinished buildings one after another.
Not far from the abandoned construction site, there is another huge landfill...
An extremely large pit was filled with all kinds of garbage.
The sour, rotten smell could reach the place where Lu Qingge and others were located over a hundred meters away.
It is precisely because of this that this place is sparsely populated.
On weekdays, Lu Qingge could definitely guarantee that no normal person would visit a place like this.
But this statement is not quite accurate either.
After all, there are not many normal people in a ghost place like [Casalin]...
Lu Qingge couldn't help but complain silently in her heart.
"because……"
"The next wave of [monster siege] monsters will begin soon."
Lu Qingge said.
"Eh?"
Milani was slightly startled: "But when we came, didn't they say that [the monster siege] would only start at six or seven in the morning?"
"Just lying to us."
"The purpose of what they said is just to make us relax our vigilance and take it lightly."
"This will allow the group of [Red Named Ones] to break into the hotel more smoothly in the early hours of the morning and launch an attack on us."
Lu Qingge said:
"Actually, [the monster siege] has already started at about midnight."
"It's just that the previous waves of monsters that were spawned were not that aggressive."
"But as time goes on, the number of waves keeps increasing."
"The monsters that are refreshed will become more and more difficult to defeat."
Chen Xun stood aside, stunned for a moment: "Brother Lu, how do you know this?"
"I have read a lot of literature about the [event] [Monster Siege] before, and then I summarized some common points."
"Almost all information mentions that when the [monster siege] event occurs, the game environment of the Holy Spirit Realm will undergo certain changes, especially the background of the sky."
Following Lu Qingge's narration, everyone raised their heads.
"There will be strange, unusually heavy clouds in the sky, and they will appear closer to the ground than usual, just like now."
"And based on some of the subtle shapes of the clouds, we can deduce how long the [monster siege] has been going on."
Lu Qingge spread his hands and said:
"Although it sounds incredible."
"But this is the conclusion reached by most scholars after conducting research."
"I can only talk about the map mechanism of the Holy Spirit Realm, and
There are many hidden settings and rules that we have not fully explored. "
The other second-year students around him looked confused and looked at each other.
Although I don’t quite understand what this person is saying, I always think it’s very powerful…
After all, most of them would not go to the library system to read documents to pass the time when they are idle and bored.
"Then what should we do now?"
Chen Xun asked.
"What else can I do?"
Lu Qingge spread his hands and said, "We can only find a way to survive these five hours."
"After all, it is unrealistic to fight out of this city [Casalin]."
Although [Casalin] is a desolate city, its area is no smaller than [Saint Grace City].
It is very difficult to leave the city in a short time without relying on vehicles such as airships.
Not to mention, [Casalin] is still under the influence of the [Monster Siege] incident.
"If that's the case, shouldn't we find some better terrain to stay in now?"
Chen Xun suggested: "Just like when we played CS biochemical mode in the past, we had to stand on a high place before the mother zombie spawned."
"Yes, that's right."
Lu Qingge nodded and looked at Chen Xun with affirmation and approval: "This is exactly what I am going to tell you."
"So Brother Lu, do you have an idea?"
Chen Xun became excited and looked at Lu Qingge with slightly excited eyes and asked.
"certainly."
"I know a really nice place."
Lu Qingge nodded and said, "Follow me."
"I'll take you there."
ten minutes.
"...Brother Lu."
"Is this a "very nice place" you said? "
Chen Xun, who was standing in the middle of the open and spacious intersection with a pale face, said with a twitching corner of his mouth.
"yes."
"Any questions?"
Lu Qingge said seriously.
"...????"
Chen Xun's expression now is very ugly.
—— Damn, what kind of plane are you doing!
What he just described was "better terrain."
It obviously refers to some locations with relatively high terrain that are generally easy to defend and difficult to attack, right?
So what is going on at this huge intersection? !
Brother Lu, do you have any misunderstanding about the term "easy to defend but difficult to attack"...
"yes."
"Isn't this place OK?"
Lu Qingge nodded and said seriously:
"I have observed that among all the places nearby, only this intersection is the most open."
"When the next wave of monsters spawns, they will gather in this place in large numbers."
Chen Xun was stunned: "...then what?"
"Then?"
Lu Qingge looked even stranger than Chen Xun: "Then we can kill monsters to our heart's content!"
"A lot of statistics show that."
"The [experience points] gained by killing monsters spawned by [Monster Siege] are on average 1.9 times that of other monsters."
"The probability of exploding dropped items is also 1.4 times."
"And the most important thing is-"
"In the [Monster Siege] event."
"Monsters won't be scattered like they are in the [wild area]."
"They will appear in groups, and will actively look for players and launch attacks."
