Chapter 515 - 200: Manipulating Desire, Up, Up, Down, Down! Direct Third-Party Invasion

He sensed it—there was one connection node that he couldn’t disconnect. As the one currently holding the highest authority in the Ninth World, Shen Fei only needed a moment of thought to understand the situation.

He had just been wondering how to find Zero’s location. Shen Fei never expected that he would pinpoint Zero’s position just by starting to manipulate the Ninth World’s connection nodes. He had found Zero’s location through an undisconnectable connection node in the Ninth World. This made Shen Fei’s rescue plan much simpler and easier to execute.

"Let’s do this!"

I remember from the last interrogation... these NPCs and Super Bosses have a communication space similar to the players’ Forum...

His idea was feasible, and now he had direct confirmation that Zero was in the Neutral City up ahead. Without another word, Shen Fei immediately sprang into action.

He did not enter the Neutral City. As someone holding the highest authority over hundreds of Neutral Cities, Shen Fei understood all too well that he would be in danger if he entered one and got caught in its unique rules. To avoid tipping off the enemy and accidentally harming Zero, he couldn’t just destroy the Neutral City outright.

Therefore, Shen Fei stood just outside the Neutral City’s effective range and began his operation.

SWISH.

He opened the Ninth World interface and saw that the Credit Points accumulated from taxes had reached over ninety billion. Without a second thought, Shen Fei started spending, wiping out all ninety billion Credit Points to open 400 new connection nodes to the Ninth World. Then, using his supreme authority, he directed all 400 of these new nodes into the Neutral City ahead.

SWISH.

He didn’t know what these 400 new nodes would mean for the Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses inside the Neutral City. However, when he tracked the 400 new nodes and saw people almost immediately entering the Ninth World to buy and sell things, Shen Fei knew his plan had worked.

After waiting for three minutes, with a SWISH, Shen Fei instantly severed all 400 connection nodes.

SWOOSH!

Three minutes later, he again randomly re-established the 400 connection nodes within the Neutral City ahead.

And so, Shen Fei began to repeat the process.

Heh. Just playing around. Just to get under their skin!

SWISH.

SWISH.

SWISH.

Standing on the outskirts of the Neutral City, Shen Fei commenced his "troll operation." He soon discovered that his actions were having an effect.

He could see the once-quiet Neutral City ahead descending into visible chaos. A number of NPCs and Super Bosses charged out of the city with open hostility, immediately starting to fight each other just outside the city’s limits with a thunderous RUMBLE. Moreover, even more NPCs and Super Bosses stormed out of the city, their faces a mixture of regret, excitement, and fury.

Everything was proceeding at high speed, exactly according to Shen Fei’s plan.

"Hm?"

Just as Shen Fei was about to use the 400 connection nodes to bait out more big fish, intending to use the chaos to slip into the Neutral City and activate a Defense Tower’s ultimate ability near Zero’s location, he suddenly froze.

Shen Fei saw the calm ocean behind him suddenly begin to churn as if it were boiling, with huge bubbles rising to the surface. At the same time, countless dark shadows began to dart rapidly through the water.

"Holy shit!!"

He stealthily summoned a Detection Tower, shrinking it to the size of his palm to investigate. Shen Fei was shocked to find that the weakest creatures he could sense in the water were at the [Giant] level. And there were so many, packed so densely, that he couldn’t even begin to count them.

"FUCK!!!"

The moment he sent out the detection scan, Shen Fei saw countless black shadows leap from the sea like intercontinental ballistic missiles launching from a submarine. Then, when he got a look at the creatures, Shen Fei was utterly dumbfounded.

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「Half an hour earlier.」

In a grand hall at the center of the sprawling, interconnected Neutral Cities, hundreds of [Giant]-level NPCs were gathered for a meeting. During a break, they brought up two prisoners from the dungeons for further questioning: "Zero" and "Tang San," whose names they had already managed to extract.

Ever since the third inheritance of game abilities, this alliance—located in a special region of the Pacific Ocean closest to Great Xia—had one primary goal besides Devouring their "own kind" to gain more power: to gather intelligence on Great Xia.

Unfortunately, due to special rule restrictions, their attempts to enter Great Xia’s territory and gather information had not gone smoothly. That is, until five days ago, during the fourth inheritance of game abilities, when they arrested "Zero" and "Tang San." Their intelligence-gathering operation suddenly became much more successful.

Although they were surprised to find that when they interrogated Zero, who was a human player, they couldn’t hear the vast majority of what he said. They could see Zero’s mouth moving, but the information itself was blocked by the rules.

However, aside from the human player Zero, they had also captured an Intelligent NPC named "Tang San." Compared to Zero, whose speech was mostly blocked, they could hear the majority of what Tang San said, even if some parts were still censored. This brought great joy to the [Giants] living on this largest island in the western Pacific Ocean.