Chapter 319 - 160: All Versions Updated! A Super Chain Reaction Appears
Then, a carefree-looking young woman chewing bubble gum blocked his path.
"You!"
"What are you trying to do?!"
The young woman unleashed an exceptionally unique ability. Seeing this, Tang San immediately grew wary. He only had one life now that he had left the special area.
He couldn’t sense the young woman’s power. The fact that she had appeared out of thin air, however, told him that she was no simple character. In fact, it was precisely because he couldn’t sense her power that he was even more worried. Moreover, he was only a few hundred kilometers from Qing City and didn’t want to fight a human player so close by, lest it cause unnecessary trouble. As the young woman continued to block his way, Divine King Tang San became even more alert.
I really did manage to block him! You really were heading to Qing City! No wonder you asked for a map! An NPC who kept their memories would either come to Qing City to assassinate him or to surrender to him!
"You?"
"Divine King Tang San!"
"You have your memories!"
To Tang San’s utter confusion, he heard the young woman across from him speak these words with a grin.
"You!"
"You!!!!!!"
The young woman’s words instantly threw Tang San into turmoil.
Memories!
Retained memories!
Without needing any further explanation, he knew at once she was talking about memories from the Great Chaos Secret Realm.
"That’s right!" the young woman grinned and said it outright, seeing Tang San point a trembling index finger at her. "I’m a human player who retained my memories from the Great Chaos Secret Realm! Hello there, Intelligent NPC who also retained your memories!"
The relevant memories from the Great Chaos Secret Realm couldn’t be told to others. However, there were no restrictions on communication between two people who had both retained their memories.
"You!"
"You!"
"You!"
Hearing the young woman admit her identity, Tang San trembled and instantly panicked.
By all logic, his first move after retaining his memories was to come straight here and surrender to the all-conquering Shen Fei. This other person who had also kept their memories should, by that same logic, have made it their first priority to latch onto that same powerhouse.
He didn’t understand why this person was blocking him right now.
Is she going to kill me to keep the secret for herself? Or is she trying to force me to do something I dare not even consider...
"Stop acting!" she said into his silence. "My name is Number 0. You should have seen me in the Great Chaos Secret Realm. Don’t even think about going to Qing City. You’re coming with me. You’re going to follow me into the special area!"
Tang San had heard the very words he least wanted to hear.
They had both retained their memories. His final choice was to surrender and cling to a powerhouse, yet the human before him planned to counter-invade the special area.
Originally, human players weren’t supposed to know that the special area contained such a large number of NPCs and Super Bosses with immense Combat Power. On the NPC side, they weren’t supposed to know that a super-freak like Shen Fei existed among the human players. But the fact that their memories hadn’t been erased allowed Number 0 and Tang San to retain this knowledge.
The two of them were the only ones on their respective sides who knew the truth.
Now, Number 0, having guessed Tang San’s intentions, had intercepted him dead in his tracks. Moreover, she was planning to take Tang San directly into the special area to conduct counter-espionage!
"Impossible!"
"I won’t go!"
Hearing Number 0’s demand, Tang San instantly objected.
I finally managed to get out of that special area to find a powerhouse to back me. How could I possibly go back?! Besides, if those special NPCs back in the special area found out that I was thinking of betraying them, then even if I could revive in a weakened state, I’d be suppressed immediately.
Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I, Tang San, will never go back!
Shaking his head in refusal, Tang San took a wary step back and released his attack Soul Ring. Although he was very close to Qing City and reluctant to fight a human player—lest it affect his chances of joining—the threat of being forced back into the special area meant he had no choice but to resist. He had to fight!
"That’s not up to you!"
Seeing Tang San’s defensive posture, Number 0 gave a light chuckle and suddenly produced two peculiar items in her hand.
"A Divine Artifact!"
"Two of them???"
Tang San cried out in alarm. Then, before he could even react, a large patch of small, multicolored squares appeared beneath his feet.
"Ethereal Transmission!"
"Empowered by a Divine Artifact!"
A sharp cry from Number 0 rang in his ears. The ground beneath his feet suddenly vanished, and he let out a bloodcurdling scream as he plummeted into the Teleportation Gate that had opened below him.
WHOOSH!
After teleporting Tang San away, Number 0 took one last deep look in the direction of Qing City, then waved her hand and teleported away as well.
Actually, back in the Great Chaos Secret Realm, Number 0 already knew she had been chosen as one of the people who would retain their memories. It was for this reason that, unable to explain the situation, she gave all the rewards she had obtained directly to Shen Fei. At the same time, she manipulated the [Ninth World] to bind two links to the special area, hoping to draw Shen Fei’s attention to it.
Then, she left the Great Chaos Secret Realm in a state of emotional turmoil.
The first thing Number 0 did after leaving the Secret Realm with her memories intact was to block Shen Fei, cutting off all contact with him. This was because, in the Secret Realm, Shen Fei had told Li Xiaohong, "I like you," right in front of her.
Not daring to analyze her own emotions too closely, but knowing for sure that those words had made her unhappy, Number 0 immediately broke the connection. Of course, she felt that this severing of the connection might have had a tiny bit to do with Shen Fei discovering "Number 5" in the Secret Realm.
After cutting off all contact with Shen Fei...