My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 274: I Was There in Person

Bam Bam!

Cheng Mingyue punched twice, using her bizarre strength to smash the resurrected breaker monk into ashes. She clapped her hands and said discontentedly, "Hey! Stop chatting! Focus a bit, will you, Guan Gui!"

Saying this, she twisted her shoulders and stepped closer, stepping on the slippers she had kicked off on the sidelines earlier. "What are you discussing?"

Li Rui then recited the conversation they had before.

"Ah, right, last week while tackling the Secret Realm, I also encountered a world event."

Cheng Mingyue said casually, "But it wasn't as strong as the one Xiaogui encountered."

….. Xiaogui?

Li Rui felt a twitch on his scalp.

Guan Gui still had a blank expression: "The frequency of world events is getting higher."

The two of them looked at Li Rui.

"Huh? Why are you looking at me? I didn't ask Brother Zuo to find you guys?"

"Who's Brother Zuo?" Cheng Mingyue asked.

"He should be related to the world NPC we encountered." Guan Gui's observation was very meticulous, surely having noticed some details in the Secret Realm to make this inference.

Li Rui didn't rush to explain, but rather asked, "Do you have information about others, anyone else encountering similar situations?"

"This is difficult to understand from a personal perspective."

Cheng Mingyue, after a brief excitement, returned to a lazy state, "The intelligence analysis department will have complete information."

"Oh?"

Li Rui rubbed his hands, "How about asking? Isn't Director Xiang here?"

He referred to the deputy director, the one who had shown up when they came to the capital that night.

Because he held many people's intelligence data on passing the Secret Realm, he was specially assigned to assist the Secret Realm battlefield command level.

Guan Gui blinked, Cheng Mingyue disdainfully said, "You think asking is that simple."

"Well, let's try?" Li Rui said nonchalantly.

The three of them discussed briefly and decided to ask.

Anyway, the three were like top students in a class, who spoke well with the teachers.

So they wandered into the middle of the command building and sneakily reached the office door where the high officials met.

Inside, it was like usual: various sand table plans, blackboards.

Li Rui also saw familiar faces like Cheng Wen and Kong Ji; the battlefield was about to commence, they seemed very busy.

"What to do?" Cheng Mingyue only realized at this time that they hadn't planned how to ask a question, and any leader from the Superpower Division couldn't be underestimated, likely being near level 70 experts.

Li Rui said, "Let me ask."

He proceeded straight into the room, walking alone towards Deputy Director Xiang Cheng at the corner flipping through documents.

Cheng Mingyue glanced at Guan Gui, found him still like a dead person, so she gritted her teeth and followed over.

Seeing the three of them walking toward him, Xiang Cheng appeared somewhat surprised. He instinctively closed the folder in his hands and smiled kindly.

"Looking for me?"

Li Rui nodded.

"What's the matter?"

Even facing others, Xiang Cheng would not show impatience but would kindly express that he was busy, and people should look for the appropriate person. Of course, most people wouldn't dare to disturb him.

However, facing these three, he decided to patiently inquire.

Cheng Mingyue tried to organize her words, Guan Gui naturally wouldn't speak, but Li Rui quickly asked, "They both encountered the world NPC by Zuo Qiutian in the Secret Realm, Director Xiang, I want to ask, does this have connections with that night?"

So direct? At least be polite and ask if he's busy first.

Cheng Mingyue was still mentally complaining when Xiang Cheng smiled and nodded, then began to answer.

"So that's the question, I can tell you, there is indeed a connection. Just like we speculated that night, they have surely begun to act."

Cheng Mingyue didn't expect the other party to actually respond, and they seemed to know each other?

Guan Gui was also a bit curious.

If Dong Sanchuan were present, he probably would have guessed it was related to the Tomb of the Peach Blossom Madam. After the Secret Realm concluded, Li Rui rushed to the capital that night.

"Then Director Xiang, do you know about others' situations, has the World NPC invasion in the Secret Realm increased?"

"Hmm..."

Xiang Cheng pondered for a while, "Come here."

He brought them to the balcony, lit a cigarette, and said, "For you few... I can reveal a little."

"Li Rui already knows, let me first explain to you two." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

He addressed Cheng Mingyue and Guan Gui, "Zuo Qiutian, do you recognize?"

The two nodded.

"He originally plagued a few Secret Realms, often resulting in bloodshed, with several occasions leading to complete deaths for Secret Realm agents. In Liangting's moral excellence and the seven years' timeline, he and some righteous sects colluded, including the Mola Sect, Baiquan Sect, and others, seemingly plotting a conspiracy leading to chaos across the world."

"Following this plot's emergence, the frequency of world NPCs appearing in Secret Realms at around level 50 or higher significantly increased, altering some Secret Realm plots."

Almost to confirm his words, everyone received a notification at this time.

[All Secret Realm agents please note, the difficulty below the 5-star Secret Realm Gray Spring Mountain is adjusted to 8-star.]

"No wonder." Cheng Mingyue sighed, "This month, I received three notifications, and there's an added defensive Secret Realm called Cyan Cloud Plateau."

Li Rui coughed lightly: "That's different, it was my doing."

"....."

The three were speechless for a moment.

"In short."

Xiang Cheng coughed and said, "What we can be sure of is, Zuo Qiutian and his cohorts' plotting has led to imminent major changes in the Secret Realm World. No, it should be said it has already begun."

He tossed the cigarette into the communal ashtray: "So young people, do your best, elevate yourselves as much as possible in this Secret Realm battlefield; you will soon be drawn into some unknown major event."

Li Rui nodded.

The good news was, Brother Zuo's influence mostly affected Secret Realms level 50 and above. Indeed if the sky falls, the tall will hold it up.

The bad news was, damn, I'm about to become tall.

Suddenly, he realized his luck seemed to have turned once, as he was about to enter the range of level 50, he could first tackle a Secret Realm battlefield, if he could gather more benefits, he could better cope with the changes ahead.

Unlike others, his desire to stall at level wasn't very feasible.

Because those trying to stall levels typically directly ignore the main storyline via Secret Realm emergence exit, but some Secret Realms don't have exits, so occasionally, they need to purposely seek death, forcibly disengage.

As long as the opponent doesn't possess soul-trauma methods, the chance of actual death due to reality would be very low.

However, odds like these are a killer for Li Rui. He dared not die recklessly in the Secret Realm, so it was better to earnestly improve himself.

Since avoiding was not possible, then clear the incoming crisis, just like all these years before.

After Xiang Cheng left first, Cheng Mingyue asked, "Wait, earlier Director Xiang said, you know Zuo Qiutian and those bad guys are conspiring, but how do you know?"

Li Rui scratched his chin, "Because I was there when they joined forces."