Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 597 - 463 missing?_2

"In the end, let me leave you with this, kid—the reverence for power is far stronger than the bonds of gratitude and obligation. If you wish to grow and eventually rule over everything, the first thing you need to learn is to harden your heart."

The doctor left, with his legion in tow.

After a series of clandestine observations and tests, a father seemed to finally feel assured enough to entrust his daughter into the hands of a stranger.

When Bai E arrived at Gilder's house, a petite figure immediately sprang up like an octopus and clung onto him, "Bai, you finally came!"

Petting the fluffy white-haired head in front of him, Bai E smiled indulgently, "Didn't you go to work?"

Nova was responsible for the communication convoy between Black Street and Li Ming Town. Without a powerful candidate overseeing it, Bai E was not at ease with the convoy frequently traversing the wasteland back and forth carrying large amounts of materials.

In fact, even with Nova's combat abilities alone, Bai E was not entirely reassured.

He would definitely need to assign more people in the future.

"Just got back," Nova looked up at Bai E, with eyes shining brightly, "Haven't seen you for a long time, they said you were locked up by the bad guys in the military camp?"

"Locked up?" Bai E narrowed his eyes slightly, "Who said that?"

"It has been dealt with, sir," Gilder responded respectfully from behind, "Some of the old soldiers heard some rumors about you from individual officers in the camp and spread them here. Of course, with Nova absent, there were still other guardians arranged by you in place. The foreign combat group that was colluding with that old soldier has been completely annihilated."

Yue Ying?

Bai E instantly realized who had intervened.

The combat groups' strength varied, but given the military force on Black Street, a full assault by even the lowest-level combat group would be more than Black Street could handle.

Without Nova and without Yue Ying stepping in, they would have been doomed.

"What about the old soldier who colluded with them?"

"He died too, it seems he was corrupted by demons, when he died not even his flesh and blood remained."

"Demons again..."

Bai E's eyes sharpened.

The demons in this world seemed to infiltrate every aspect of humanity, finding their way into every crevice.

Wherever there was a slight gap, they could stretch out their claws.

"Do you know what kind of demons were involved?"

"I don't know..." They didn't have that much knowledge.

Perhaps the guardian who had been protecting them in secret hadn't spoken up to explain, "Maybe you can ask the guardian you arranged."

"I understand," Bai E nodded.

Since the incident had passed, and trusting in Gilder's abilities, Bai E decided not to pry further into the matter. Yet, he asked about another concern, "What about the subordinates I had before?"

"They? It seems they ran off to the city with the people who came to Black Street last time to perform limb surgeries for the disabled."

"To the city?"

Bai E nodded to show he understood.

Indeed.

The players were not ones to sit still.

Having been out of touch for several days, they wouldn't have just waited in one spot.

He wondered what new maps they might have opened up in the city.

Speaking of which, he had yet to see what the inner city actually looked like...

...

"Darn it! Where's Kuang Xin?"

"Nowhere to be found~"

The underground space expanded by steel was also vast, its broad dome almost as comforting as being on the surface, without any sense of oppression.

Under Wen Jie's enthusiastic guidance, a few players were navigating through the liveliest black market underground.

Witnessing all sorts of strange and cyberpunk-style gadgets, they were marveling at the sights.

Turning around, however, they realized that the composition of their group was a tad off.

Dai Lian counted heads one by one and finally seemed puzzled, "Seems like we're one short."

"Right, where's Kuang Xin?" Gu Lan was also a bit curious.

"Wasn't he just behind us?" Gong Yan tried to recall.

Zhou Wenjie took the lead and looked back to search, "It's okay, let's go find him. Maybe he got distracted by something and wandered off without us noticing?"

In this bustling underground black market, losing one or two people couldn't be more normal.

"I've been lost here several times before and each time I was found by the wolves and scorpions."

Wen Jie chuckled, "Don't worry, we usually can find them."

The tall with a scar on his face, the Wolf and Scorpion, followed behind the group, rolling his eyes in resignation.

How clueless could this kid be to just blurt out such 'noble deeds'?

Of course, if he wasn't so innocently clueless, perhaps she, someone used to the cunning hearts of others, wouldn't have found those moments of tranquility and peace by his side.

It's just hard to figure out how someone with his personality has managed to live this long...

"Come on, I'll take you to find him." Seeing the youngsters wandering the streets like headless chickens, Wolf and Scorpion took the initiative to step forward and speak out.

However, after a thorough search, even the well-connected Wolf and Scorpion couldn't find out where that impressively handsome gorilla had gone.

"That blockhead gorilla," Dai Lian gritted his teeth, wishing he could see Kuang Xin right in front of him to sock him a couple of good ones.

"We can't log off and ask him? Let him wait at some conspicuous place for us. Speaking of which, who here knows him in real life?" specifically avoiding Wolf and Scorpion, Gu Lan suggested proactively.

"Don't know him..."

"Don't know him..."

Everyone tacitly shook their heads, adhering to the principle of an online acquaintance with a touch-and-go approach.

"But I think I heard Kuang Xin say that he met Xu Ruoguang offline before."

"But Xu Ruoguang is outside the city…"

"What else can we do?" Dai Lian was so frustrated, he wished he could flay Kuang Xin on the spot, "I'll head back to Black Street and ask Guang. You guys keep searching for him here."

"Alright."

"We've got no other choice."

Zhou Wenjie hadn't said much.

His interaction with these players had been limited, and since entering the game, apart from aimlessly wandering around initially, the rest of his time was spent working in silence for Wolf and Scorpion in her guild.

It was for this reason that he wasn't very familiar with the other players but knew the tough on the outside, tender on the inside, gang leader Wolf and Scorpion quite well.

It wasn't just the players who deliberately avoided Wolf and Scorpion; she also deliberately kept her distance from them.

Wolf and Scorpion, who was lost in thought with her head down, had a noticeable shadow in her eyes.

Watching the players discuss amongst themselves, Wen Jie cautiously approached Wolf and Scorpion, "What's up?"

Wolf and Scorpion glanced at him, "What is it?"

"You know what's going on, right?"

Wolf and Scorpion pursed her lips, glanced at the other partners who seemed to still be discussing, and then slightly lowered her gloomy face closer to Wen Jie's ear. The warm breath accompanied her words into Wen Jie's ear, "I have a rough idea... Your friend, he's really good-looking, right?"

"I suppose…" Wen Jie wasn't too concerned about such matters.

The appearance of characters in the game was far less exciting to him than the rules within it.

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"..." Wolf and Scorpion rolled her eyes helplessly, before continuing on, "With his looks, he'd likely attract a lot of attention in this underground market. He might have been targeted by someone the moment we entered this black market. Now... he's probably been knocked out and taken to some corner, and you guys are almost certainly not going to be able to find him."

The barbarity inside the city is no more civilized than that outside it.

Even from certain perspectives, it's even more chilling.

Wolf and Scorpion, speaking these words, hung her head slightly, looking somewhat guilty, "It was my negligence. I didn't think of this at the beginning."

She'd been mingling with these mischievous fellows for the past few days, and the underground fighter in her had become a bit lax in her thinking.

Which led to such a grave oversight.

"Ah~" Wen Jie was just thinking about how to resolve this, "So what do we do?"

"Auction... or maybe some, that place, we might be able to find him there."