Chapter 167

Chapter 167

Over with Bu Ci, there were six individuals, three of whom belonged to the hunter team, and all of them were B-level transcendents.

Even if Bu Ci was an A-level transcendent, one level above them, facing three well-prepared enemy allies launching a surprise attack, his defeat was already sealed the moment he let his guard down.

As for the other three individuals, two were ordinary people, while the remaining one was a C-level transcendent. In this situation, ensuring their own safety was already a challenge, let alone helping Bu Ci.

Fortunately, luck was on his side. They targeted him during the period when the results of the Night's Recruitment had not been announced.

Among the players who participated in the Night's Recruitment, except for Xu Yunshu and Mia Qing, who followed Fangzhou, the other departing players had personnel arranged by Lei Che to shadow them. They observed their subsequent actions based on Fangzhou's orders.

In particular, Bu Ci's group was too conspicuous. The two individuals assigned to tail them were highly skilled in stealth techniques and had significant combat experience.

Just as he was about to be killed by these three individuals, the personnel arranged by Lache intervened and rescued Cloth Mag from their clutches, sparing him from elimination in this game.

Thanks to their interference, it was virtually impossible for the hunters to take Cloth Mag's life.

Seeing the situation, the three individuals wasted no time and immediately left the scene. The personnel sent by Nightfall had no chance of catching up with them. Their duty was merely to prevent any accidents from occurring among these "job seekers" before the final results were announced, without an obligation to resolve conflicts.

After resolving Cloth Mag's crisis, the two Nightfall branch members didn't give him a chance to communicate and left the scene, retreating back into the shadows.

—These were the messages conveyed to Fangzhou from the wire python's side.

Fangzhou couldn't have anticipated that in just a few days, this so-called hunters' team had already gathered so many "like-minded" players.

Judging by the members who had appeared so far, they had recruited at least B-level transcendents or higher.

After all, there were only fifty final prize spots. As long as their team members numbered below that threshold, they could obtain the game capsule by collaborating and advancing the plot together.

If left unchecked, they might indeed form a team that would be challenging to eradicate.

After confirming the situation on Cloth Mag's end, Fangzhou and Qidao separated to plan their next steps. As for how Qidao would handle Miae and the black-clad man, the wire python she still had on him would tell her everything.

After Qidao left, Xu Yunshu followed Fangzhou's footsteps, still digesting the information she had just acquired. After a while, she looked at Fangzhou and belatedly expressed her gratitude, "Xunzhou, thank you for what you did earlier."

Fangzhou snapped out of her thoughts and smiled at her, "It wasn't a big deal. Even without me, with your abilities, Miae and that man couldn't have harmed you."

Xu Yunshu shook her head, "You can't say it like that; you helped me, and that means a lot."

After this battle, she certainly knew that Fangzhou wasn't the ordinary person she had claimed to be, and Xu Yunshu didn't harbor any resentment towards Fangzhou for concealing her true nature.

Instead, as she recalled Miae's leading questions when they first struck up a conversation, she realized how weak her vigilance had been. A little more attention and she would have detected something off about Miae.

This left Xu Yunshu with a somewhat chilling feeling, but luckily, it was just a game.

She lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers, "So, are we a team now?"

Fangzhou replied, "Of course, I thought our conversation with Qidao had already made that clear."

With the affirmative answer spoken from her own lips, Xu Yunshu breathed a sigh of relief. Over the course of today's journey, she had come to understand that this game wasn't as straightforward as she had imagined. Once the official chips were on the table, the true enemies of these players were their own kind.

It wasn't just those in dire need of money who wanted to obtain the game capsule; even Xu Yunshu, with her decent family background, had seriously considered participating to aim for a spot in the top fifty.

Sensing her slight unease, Fangzhou reassured her, "I'm not an ordinary person, and my ability level is quite high. You don't need to accompany me back. Where do you live?"

Xu Yunshu glanced at their surroundings, confirming their current location, and pointed in a direction. "Not far from here, just ahead."

She scratched her head and added, "No need to see me off; I can find my way back."

Fangzhou didn't insist and smiled, "Alright, let's get in touch tomorrow. Goodbye."

Xu Yunshu replied, "Goodbye."

After bidding each other farewell, they went their separate ways.

After parting ways with Xu Yunshu, Fangzhou located Lache and the others' whereabouts and joined them.

As the main figure in dealing with the Order members, Fang Xunjiang was the last to return, and Fangzhou glanced behind him, naturally leaving no traces of the Order members.

With all the personnel gathered, Fangzhou sat in the branch office chair and reviewed the information about the people from today, including the results of the follow-up arrangements made by Lache.

"So, how are we doing? Who should we bring in?" Lache asked, producing a few files. "These individuals have decent abilities."

"Hmm..." Fangzhou propped her chin and flipped through the files Lache handed her. After a while, she surprised them by saying, "Let's bring them all in."

Lache / Li Baizhi: "?"

Li Baizhi cautiously said, "Sis Zhou, do you need to reconsider?"

Lache leaned slightly forward, closer to her. Seeing no mocking expression on her face, he said, "Hey, hey, you can't be serious, right? You should know there's competition and conflict among them."

Only Fang Xunjiang always accepted her decisions with a calm "Whatever you say, sis," and even took the initiative to straighten her disheveled clothes from the battle earlier.

Lache didn't know the specific identities of these people, but tonight's dispatched personnel had mainly passed through his hands. So he was well aware of the covert struggles and bloodshed among these individuals.

The suspicion surrounding this group of people had exceeded Lache's understanding. For some reason, he felt that Fangzhou was playing a big game, and they were her pawns, slowly moving toward the endgame.

Therefore, he believed that Fangzhou knew the identities of these people and the relationships among them.

Members of an organization should never engage in mutual killing, and if all of them were brought in, it would definitely affect the internal morale.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" Fangzhou blinked, flipped a few pages, and pulled out some information to hand over to them. "I want to bring these people in. For the others, just arrange them in the branches outside the amusement park. Don't let them access headquarters information. Bringing them all in doesn't mean I actually intend to make them our comrades; it's just giving them a title."

"As for their future actions, there's no need to restrict them. Let them grow wild."

Fangzhou chose to gather these players for "observation."

This period won't be very long; she'll quickly figure out why this group of players landed in this world. Otherwise, what they might do over time, as well as the actions of the external world that brought them into the game officially, all remain unknown.

She despises the unknown the most.

The next day, players who had participated in the recruitment interview also received the final results at the same time, without a doubt.

——Everyone passed this interview.

This result sparked a small-scale discussion on the third board, confirming a player's speculation about the setting of this plot, which Fangzhou had deliberately orchestrated.

[Topic: Did everyone who participated in the Nightfall recruitment receive approval messages from Nightfall?]

[It seems like that's the case; everyone who went received it.]

[It makes sense when you think about it. They had to get everyone involved somehow; otherwise, what would be the point?]

[Disappointing... Even an ordinary NPC is made so realistic, yet this underground organization related to the main plot in Nightfall is being used as "mission guides"? How boring.]

[I completely agree. Such an important entity is just used to help the officials clean up their mess.]

[Things aren't that simple. Even if everyone who went yesterday joins Nightfall, they can't just enter Nightfall headquarters directly. Don't get too excited; there's still a long way to go.]

[Didn't someone speculate yesterday that the massive blockade in the central part of Poyang City was about finding Nightfall headquarters?]

[They have the energy to recruit people; they must have relocated safely.]

[Looks like it's another failure for the Central Authority.]

[By the way, is Nightfall's role really to protect and guide players like these "mission sprites" claim?]

[Where did that idea come from?]

[Guiding sprites... I want to laugh so hard, what a strange description.]

[It's probably about the incident where the Order members came to arrest people yesterday and were beaten back by Joker.]

[Not just that, yesterday some hunters infiltrated the interview scene, pretended to form teams with players, and attacked them. It was the members of Nightfall who stopped them.]

[And there's this kind of thing! Wow, they're totally troublemakers.]

[Is Nightfall really such a warm-hearted sprite?]

[Wake up a bit. This indicates that they've had people following those interviewees, observing your movements. And nobody noticed?]

[...A slap from above woke me up. It's a bit dangerous.]

[After all, they're not some benevolent organization... What's their purpose in all of this? Fangzhou wouldn't do something meaningless.]

[I was going to say this might be their way of assessing them, but considering the final results, I think it might really just be guiding sprites...]

[Wait a minute, were the hunters also recruited? Will they dare to show their faces? It would be quite awkward if they ran into their previous attack targets.]

[Won't they start fighting? Things suddenly got ridiculous.]

……

Regardless of how players on the third board discuss this, the final result has been determined.

On the same day the notifications arrive, in the afternoon, the allocation of positions for these players will be carried out. Everything outside the amusement park will be handled by Reche and Li Baizhi, while those "lucky ones" chosen by Fangzhou will report in and enter the park.

On this side, after the notifications were sent out, Xuyunshu and Qidao also contacted Fangzhou for the first time.

Among the information she extracted were Xu Yunshu, Bu Ci, Qidao, and herself.