Sword Among Us Novel - Chapter 253
Chapter 253: Fox Monster Escapes, Royal Mausoleum Appears
The day was already destined to not be peaceful!
The shock the Nine-tailed Fox experienced because of Yao Hua’s death made her completely lose control. In her anger, not only did she kill tens of thousands of players, she had even destroyed Immortal Fox Village. She then ran to Wuhu County, and wherever she went, the land would be scorched!
The government soldiers and officers in charge of protecting Wuhu were not opponents of the Nine-tailed Fox, who was already in Inaction Realm. In fact, they were not even the opponents of some of the normal players. Before they got close to her, they were either torn to shreds by a sword aura that came charging at them or got buried under a pile of rubble from a collapsed wall. No one knew whether they survived the crash.
Bows, hidden weapons, and all the other long-distance weapons were ineffective against the Nine-tailed Fox.
She might have walked down the path of demons, but she was still intelligent. She formed a layer of defense with her qi and easily prevented any projectiles from touching her. She was not injured in the slightest, which terrified and shocked countless players. They completely gave up on the thought of killing the Nine-tailed Fox, and when they saw her in the distance, they would immediately use the fastest speed possible to flee from her.
However, the Nine-tailed Fox did not just move forward in one direction. She would occasionally go on the side where there were many people to rain down genocide while howling in anger! The collapsed houses showed the path that she took, and they also pointed to where she was headed next.
Within less than an hour, nearly one-fifth of the houses in Wuhu had collapsed. If anyone looked from above, they would find that Wuhu City was covered in wounds, and smoke could be seen curling up everywhere.
However, the Nine-tailed Fox was just a part of the disaster.
The areas with plenty of dead would have a lot of people keeping an eye on them. Their covetous stares watched them from a distance, and once the Nine-tailed Fox left, they would immediately dash over like a swarm of bees to steal what had been dropped.
There was always a pile of gold under the corpses, and if the thieves were lucky, they could even get equipment. Regardless of whether the quality was good or not, many of the guilds, sects, and organizations cast their gazes on the areas with a relatively high number of corpses. Those with bad temper would even begin warning the others around them to not take their loot while they were still in the distance.
It was precisely because of this that once the Nine-tailed Fox left, an even greater chaos washed over Wuhu.
Usually, a few sects and forces of power would engage in a major fight for one rather good piece of equipment or because they wanted to occupy a rather good resource. They would dye the land with even more fresh blood despite the fact that the blood on the ground had not even dried off yet.
There were some players who were more unfortunate. If they were too hasty to rush in for looting, before the Nine-tailed Fox had left far into the distance, and started fighting, the Nine-tailed Fox would turn around and sweep through the area again, making the number of corpses on the ground twice what it was before.
However, this still did not stop the players from fighting for the wealth outside and inside the city. After all, as long as they did not die, they could proceed without hesitation and engage in the fights to pick up the wealth left behind wantonly.
Even the people from the three great sects were injured during the chaos of plundering and looting, because they were also involved in taking the spoils that belonged to no one. Once the imperial court no longer served as a deterrent in Wuhu because it had become a lawless place, Wuhu turned into a chaotic and dark world!
At that moment, even though the Nine-tailed Fox held two divine weapons and one ultimate technique manual, no one really paid attention to her. Instead, everyone just prayed hard that they did not run into that demon.
In the end, a player took the initiative to upload a battle replay online, and it was shared like crazy.
It showed the Nine-tailed Fox who had come to another city near Wuhu after she left the county. She was held back outside the city by two Six Doors constables who were dressed in black and white tight-fitting robes respectively. They fought against each other, and both parties were injured. In the end, they vanished from the battle replay.
[Tsk, tsk, so dangerous!]
[Thank goodness the Nine-tailed Fox didn’t rush over here. I was in that city…]
That reply to the thread on the forum was soon rebuked by a group of people saying that the speaker was not aware of what was going on.
[Idiot! It would have been good if she rushed in! We just needed to log off for a while to avoid not dying, and when we logged in again, we would have been rich!]
[Urk…]
In many players’ eyes, the unprecedented disaster turned into a grand banquet that allowed nobodies to easily get rich. They actually cursed the two Six Doors constables who chased away the Nine-tailed Fox, blaming them for making them lose the chance to get rich.
“These people want to get rich so badly that they’ve gone mad.”
Chen Fan could not help but laugh before leaving the table. He was just in time to see Happy log out of his game and was stunned for a moment. “By the way, you seem to have been in Wuhu lately, right?”
Happy sighed in exhaustion and nodded.
Chen Fan froze and immediately became nervous. “Are you alright?”
“Are you talking about the Nine-tailed Fox?” Happy scratched his arm.
When he heard Happy mention the Nine-tailed Fox, Chen Fan became even more nervous. He quickly rushed off his bed. “Are you okay?”
“You’re the one not okay in the head. Look at me, do I look like I’m in trouble?”
“Oh, I thought you ran into the Nine-tailed Fox.”
Chen Fan looked as if a huge burden had been taken off his shoulders, and he explained himself once he let out a breath of relief. “If you die once at this moment, the losses you’ll suffer will outweigh the gains. Over the past few days, Beautiful Robes Faction has been discussing whether we should ask you to come and help us in a hidden sect quest.”
“Hidden sect quest?” When Happy heard this, he was immediately alert. “On what scale?”
Hidden sect quests were very difficult to trigger. Unless the person who triggered it had abnormally high reputation points or extraordinary luck, it was very difficult for them to trigger a single decent quest in a year.
Also, there were different types of hidden sect quests.
The smaller ones could be done alone, such as finding something, or those that had a lot of twists and turns. They would also give extraordinary rewards, but there was no need for Happy to join such a quest. Sect quests that would require his help were high-grade ones and of a very large scale. Their rewards would also be great. In fact, there was a possibility that an ultimate technique would be given to them, and it could be learned by the entire sect.
“It’s rather large, and there’s no limit to the number of people we can bring. We can get quite a number of masterpieces and even divine vessels. Also, I heard that there will be seven other sects who will join this quest. If Beautiful Robes Faction is the only one participating in it, it might be very difficult for us to get it, which is why we’ve discussed bringing you along to clear the quest!”
When Chen Fan mentioned divine vessels, Happy moved a little, and he cast him a glance in surprise. “Divine vessels? Are you certain?”
“Absolutely!” Chen Fan answered firmly.
‘Seven great sects. Could it be that quest?’
Happy frowned a little. He remembered that he had received a letter from the Murong Clan Lady before he logged off the game, and he could not help but ask in puzzlement, “Is the location of the quest in the tomb of the Yan Dynasty? Is it a royal mausoleum?”
“You know about this as well?” Chen Fan looked incredibly surprised.
Happy rolled his eyes at him. “Duh. Murong Clan has the blood of Yan Dynasty royalty flowing in their veins. If you’re going to run off to Murong Clan’s ancestral graves to do stuff, how can I not know?”
“Then what should we do?”
“I know about this quest as well. But the quest didn’t mention any divine vessels as rewards. How did you get to know about this? Who’s the person who triggered the quest?” Happy asked with a face full of puzzlement.
“Oh, it’s Xu Yao!”
Chen Fan’s answer made Happy suck in a sharp breath. “It’s her? Which clan or sect does she belong to?”
In his memories, Xu Yao never had the ability to trigger such a high-level hidden quest.
“Oh, she joined Mount Hua Sect recently because she heard that it’s very easy to get reputation points there. Her sect is also very kind to her. But that quest’s rewards are too great, so she thinks that it’s better if she left it for Beautiful Robes Sect so that we can make Beautiful Robes Sect stronger and develop it even further.”
Chen Fan did not notice that Happy’s expression had become slightly strange.
“Alright… alright,” Happy mumbled. “Looks like I’ll have to go back to Murong Clan as well.”
Things had progressed in a manner that had a very clear change from the progression of events in his previous life. Xu Yao wanted to use another method to get closer to him, which gave him a very uneasy feeling.
Someone might have given Xu Yao some pointers beforehand for the quest in the mausoleum so that she would take the initiative to come into contact with it.
‘Does that person want me to expose myself beforehand?’
When Happy walked out of his dorm, his expression was very sour.
