"So your future is now in your hands."
At the same moment, around the harbor in the southeast of Liberty City, a group of players surrounded and guarded one of the warehouses. At this time, the sounds of two players talking to each other were heard. One of the players also had a few words in his voice. Feeling extremely confident: "This is the third time I have come to remind you. Isn't this enough to wake you up?"
"Awakening? That's a good word to use. I have to remember it." A cynical and slutty look appeared between the large cargo boxes at the other end of the warehouse, and at the same time, another player standing there with his hands behind his head appeared. The figure appeared: "But...if my understanding is correct, the meaning of this word does not seem to be applicable to us now? After all, we have not promised you yet."
"We didn't originally intend to continue to force you, but unfortunately the progress on Tania's side doesn't sound very smooth." The blue cloth clothes swayed back and forth between the dim lights in the warehouse, and the figure who spoke previously was originally The relaxed tone and voice seemed to have become much deeper: "If the progress on that side is not smooth enough, we must speed up the progress on this side to find a balance, so... you understand?"
"Huh? What did you just say? Sorry, I was distracted, so I didn't hear...huh?"
The excuses like buffalo grinding suddenly stopped at a certain point in time, and then the silence was broken by a third player who suddenly appeared in the warehouse. He was covered in a black cloak and looked like The player who looked like a thief then raised his head from the half-kneeling position, and looked at the figure in blue with eyes that showed no intention of deflecting: "Boss."
"There is no need to call me boss, after all, you are no longer in our team." The kind smile on his face slowly disappeared, and the figure in green shirt, known as boss, waved his hands and replied: "And... you are now Showing up here. Doesn't bode well, does it?"
"The people monitoring the black magic cabin have made new discoveries." Not paying attention to what the swordsman in green shirt said, the thief half-kneeling on the ground lowered his head and replied: "Two people disappeared in the evening. , we tried to trace their whereabouts, but it was too late."
"Haha, I boasted about Haikou two days ago when I came to look for trouble, but now I can't do anything." His eyes opened slightly, and the swordsman in green shirt let out a self-deprecating laugh: "The purpose of their actions has been found out. ?"
"It should be coming for us."
Standing up from a half-kneeling position, the thief player still lowered his head deeply: "Chunhua followed the clues left by the previous Sanqing to find the wasteland outside the city. There is indeed a large trap there. , coupled with the eyewitness testimonies of some nearby players, we are almost certain that they are the same group of people."
"From the Empire to the Free City, across thousands of mountains and rivers... Huh." He let out a heavy cold snort, and the expression on the face of the swordsman in blue also seemed to be angry: "Now we are here. It’s still lingering at this point, do they really think they can do anything?”
"That's not what it means above." There was no change due to the resentment of the man in green shirt in front of him. The thief's voice with his head lowered still showed a sense of neither humbleness nor arrogance: "The situation outside is very tense now. In the family, It’s no longer possible to spare more energy to deal with accidents in this world. The higher-ups’ intention should be for us to try our best to gain the initiative here in order to contain more of the other party’s energy.”
"Lou Yushang's attention has not moved at all recently. She seems to have made up her mind to defeat us in this way." After pondering for a while, the blue-shirted swordsman opened his eyes again and regained his consciousness. With a bit of enthusiasm: "The more pressure we put here, the less pressure there will be outside - oh, when did the situation reverse to this point?"
"The good news is that it's not too different from what we're trying to achieve now."
Firmly clenching his fist, the blue-shirted swordsman's eyes fell on the thief in front of him again: "As long as the ritual circle can be restarted, the direction of the free world will change again because of us. I have been too busy to care about Tania’s affairs, and the current No. 2 in the world will surely end up with the same fate..."
"The problem lies with Rondoer." Looking in the direction of the figure who had been standing still among the cargo boxes next to him, the thief replied in a low voice: "Although that person still looks like that He looks confident, but I always feel that there may be other surprises."
"I also think that guy is unreliable, Akang."
He let out a heavy snort again, and the swordsman in blue replied in a low voice: "But at this point, these potential problems can only be solved by ourselves. After all, our duty here is to cooperate with them. Take action to eliminate and resolve potential obstacles that may arise for them.”
"For example, those guys we are focusing on right now." Having said this, he cast his gaze in a certain direction in the distance: "Don't think that if they sneak away without telling us, we won't be able to find out their whereabouts. There are not many places in this city that are not under our control and surveillance. The city lord's palace, the black magic cabin, the port, and the few stubborn candidates for the throne, as long as we use the elimination method..."
"Do we need to use 'those things'?" The thief player known as A'kang whispered: "Those places are not easy for us to enter, if we don't use some external force-"
"No, those things are our last resort." Interrupting the other party's words, the swordsman in blue shirt gritted his teeth and shook his head: "Using them before everything has completely settled is not the same as starting a plan in advance. No matter what the difference is, we definitely can’t do that.”
"We are now left to our own devices."
The low voice echoed in the darkness of the warehouse as the thief player disappeared in response, surrounding the green-shirted swordsman with a gradually restored silence. After standing quietly for a while, he finally felt deeply. He took a deep breath, and then whispered to the figure who had been waiting opposite him and who had been talking to him before: "You should have heard some of our internal communication just now, handsome Jack."
"Sorry, my ears are actually not that sharp." After combing his shiny hair, the player figure known as Handsome Jack shook his head with a smile: "You can talk about yourselves, but remember to call me after you finish talking. One sound."
"The purpose of coming here this time is to negotiate with you and the Borderlands behind you." He breathed out deeply, and the swordsman in blue also lost his sight when he first faced him. The friendliness shown by this player: "But you should understand the situation. We don't have much time to waste now, so——"
"To deal with people like you who don't have much 'aura', we have to use some tougher methods."
He looked at the other party's still smiling face, and his tone became as cold as winter: "To make a long story short, I'll give you two choices: either join us or be destroyed by us. There is no other way to go."
"..."
"Don't try to be a rocker."
Looking at the opponent standing motionless with his hands behind his back, the warning in the blue-shirted swordsman's voice became stronger: "You are the last large guild in this city that has not yet taken a stand, including the world." Many guild forces in the Free City, including the Second, have now made their own choices. Only you, Borderless Land, rely on your little family fortune, and still try to use the wall-mountain method. Playing both sides, scraping layers of oil and water from both sides.”
"It's actually very simple to deal with a guy like you - just giving you an ultimatum is enough." Putting away the gloomy expression on his face, the swordsman in blue turned around and hit him in the back. Snapping his fingers: "If you Borderlands still choose to stand aside and watch without helping each other before the deadline comes, we and the Magic Empire behind us will take the lead and clean you off this chessboard first. go out."
"Clean up your biggest factor of instability."
In the scene where Jack's face changed slightly, the swordsman in blue shirt walked to the warehouse door and whispered. No longer caring about the other person's expression and feelings, he temporarily stopped his steps and looked up through the warehouse door in front of him. The light and shadow of the night were vaguely revealed: "Please forgive my temper, but many things that have happened recently have made me feel a little bad, so... um."
"How about leaving you another ten days?" He turned around, as if he was threatening the darkness deep in the warehouse: "After ten days, it will be January 26th in game time—— This time is broad enough.”
"Looking forward to your final answer."
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"So that's the final answer, huh?"
Late at night, several figures regrouped near the Black Magic House in the City of Freedom. One of the figures then put away his originally guarded shield and asked helplessly in a low voice: "It doesn't sound very impressive." People are satisfied.”
"Being able to tell us about the history of the Free City is already very good." He put away his tired arms and dragged his feet slowly past the gate guarded by the big shield warrior. That line of defense: "The prophecies and intelligence overlap, and our future action goals can be considered to have a direction... How is the situation inside?"
"The black magician you told us about before has already collected the herbs." He stood the shield in front of him again, and replied without looking back: "But according to her tone, I want to It will take some time to refine the corresponding healing potion."
"Do you still need our help?" Also walking through the entrance of the street he was guarding, Xue Ling Huan Bing's voice also sounded in the small dark space: "There is still one person in our team. He claims to be a powerful alchemist, so I wonder if I can give him a hand - eh?"
"There was a fight here?"
The footsteps suddenly stopped when they crossed a certain place, and the long white hair of the woman covered by the cloak also floated a little with the inertia of her walking: "Those people came here to cause trouble again?"
"It is true that some people have come here to cause trouble, but I'm not sure if they are those people." Looking at the cracked walls and dented sword marks that Xue Ling Huan Bing noticed at this time, Gedmane didn't notice at all. He waved his hand back carelessly: "They just stepped forward to test it out, and immediately retreated before exchanging a few moves."
"Well...it seems that they have indeed been monitoring us." Duan Qing slowly turned his head from the front, and then Duan Qing's tired voice also had a deeper meaning: "After confirming After identifying us, do you want to confirm our whereabouts all the time? You really have given us enough respect."
"The situation is very unfavorable to us now." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who frowned and looked away from the battle traces, also whispered: "They are in the dark now, but they have better intelligence and vision than us. There are more, and if this situation is allowed to continue to develop, we will be led by the nose sooner or later."
"We do have a lot of trump cards, but we can hardly use them now."
Duan Qing gestured toward the corner of the black magic hut that vaguely appeared in the depths of the street behind him, and Duan Qing's voice also had a sense of helplessness: "What our five-person team can do alone It’s really not much, completing two of the three goals right now is our limit.”
"It ended up causing more trouble." Pouting his lips, the figure waiting in front of Gedman also heard a muffled voice: "For example, that mysterious woman - we will Are you still going to deal with that troublesome guy who looks extremely powerful?"
"That's impossible to say."
Duan Qing glanced at each other with Xue Ling Huan Bing beside him, shrugged his shoulders, and then let out two wry smiles: "In short, whether it is a blessing or a disaster, you can't avoid it. Let's put that person's affairs aside for now. This information is enough for us to think carefully about what we should do next."
"What do you think?"
As he said these words, he looked at the two people in front of him with inquiring eyes. There was a moment of silence between the pairs of eyes that looked at each other in the streets and alleys that kept blowing in the cold wind in the middle of the night. Finally, with Xue Ling Huan Bing's sudden action of clapping her palms, they gathered together in an instant: "Well, let's discuss it together while everyone is here now."
"The first thing that needs to be considered is more reinforcements."
