Chapter 1607 - 1603: Sabotaging the Meeting

"Can I ask some questions?"

"Please."

"What benefits does the Fire Elf gain from attacking the Wind Elf and the Cat Demon's lord?"

"Well, firstly, it can prevent an alliance. If the Wind Elf leaks the message and the lord is killed, the Cat and Monster Race won't give up. It might develop into a war between the Wind Elf, Cat, and Fairy... The Fire Elf is currently the largest power, but if the Wind Elf and Cat Demon unite, the balance of power should adjust. So they definitely want to stop this alliance."....

They crossed the bridge and began entering the cave, Qiuya opened the map in front of her and confirmed the path.

"There is a high reward for killing the lord. After killing the lord, you can unconditionally get 30% of the funds stored in the consulate. Furthermore, the territory will be occupied within ten days, and the occupier is free to symbolize and collect taxes. This is also a considerable amount of money."

"The Fire Elf became the largest power because they set traps in the past to kill the earliest king of the Wind Elf. Generally, the lord doesn't go to the neutral zone. In this Fairy Fantasy story, our king was only ever killed once."

"That's it..."

"So..."

"Ye Qiu..."

Qiuya looked at the side face of the boy next to her and continued to speak:

"This is a problem for the Wind Elf... you don't have to accompany me any further... Once we leave this cave, we can go straight to Allen. If we go to the meeting hall, we won't come out alive. It takes several hours to set off from Shuolong. No, I should say..."

Qiuya felt suffocated in her chest and continued to speak.

"Maybe the quickest way to get to the World Tree you want is to help the Fire Elf. As long as the Fire Elf succeeds in this battle, they will surely gain enough resources to attack the World Tree under the most complete conditions. If it's the Shadow Elf, they might hire you as a Mercenary. Now—if you want to kill me here, it's also a wise choice."

Qiuya thought that Ye Qiu would not resist at that time, although she herself never thought like that, she was sure that even if she fought him, she wouldn't win, and she didn't know why she didn't want to fight with the boy she met just yesterday.

If it really happened... maybe Qiuya would never play Fairy Fantasy again.

Qiuya accepted this thought, looked at Ye Qiu again, but he did not change and continued to run, uttering such a sentence.

"Anyway, this is just a game. Kill as much as you can, take as much as you can..."

He paused for a moment and continued to speak:

—Ye Qiu encountered many such people, in fact, they were right because Ye Qiu himself used to think so too, but Ye Qiu later realized that it was not like that, even in a fictional world, even if it seems silly, there are some principles that must be followed, Ye Qiu learned this from a very important person.

Then, Ye Qiu's voice became very gentle, with a warm atmosphere.

"In a VRMMO game like this, although it sounds a bit contradictory, Ye Qiu thinks it's hard for players to completely separate themselves from the characters they control. If we just blindly satisfy our desires in this world, then the personality in the real world must pay quite a price."

"Players and their characters are one. Ye Qiu—I like Qiu. A lot. Ye Qiu wants to be friends with you. For whatever reason, I would never, for my own benefit, kill someone like you. Absolutely not."

"Ye Qiu..."

Suddenly, a trembling filled her chest, making Qiuya breathless, so she stopped. Ye Qiu also paused for a while.

Qiuya's hands tightly clasped in front of her chest. She did not know how to handle the torrent of feelings she could not express. She could only gaze into the black eyes of the adolescent.

"So that's how it is," Qiuya muttered in her heart after hearing those words.

"Until now, in this world, why do I always keep a certain distance from other players? It's because I'm not sure if the other party is a real person or just a character in the game. When you hear what the other party says, you're always concerned about whether the other party really thinks that way. Because I didn't know how to get along with others, I felt happy. Sensitive to the hand of friendship extended by others. In the end, I always pushed others away with my wings by quite a distance."

But in fact, there's no need to worry about these things. Just trust your feelings—that's it, because that's what real feelings are.

"Thank you..."

What Qiuya said today from the bottom of her heart came out truly. If she had to say more, she might cry.

Upon hearing Qiuya's gratitude, Ye Qiu awkwardly laughed.

"Sorry, I seem to be overstepping a bit. This is my bad habit. Saying things like this at first, it easily makes me hot-headed."

"No, I'm really happy, so once we leave the cave, it's time to say goodbye."

As a result, Ye Qiu unexpectedly raised an eyebrow and said:

"No, of course I want to go with you."

"Huh, huh?"

"Oh no, we've wasted a lot of time. Dong, our sprint is about to start. Please lead the way."

"Got it!"

After Ye Qiu confirmed the fairy nodding on his shoulder, he turned to Qiuya and said:

"Can I borrow your hand?"

"Hey, wait a minute."

Ye Qiu extended his left hand and grabbed Qiuya's right hand, the whole person was stunned, although the current situation was urgent, thoughts were likely their first concern, and Qiuya's heart instantly skipped a beat.

But the next instant Ye Qiu suddenly leaped forward with fierce speed, like an impact breaking through an air barrier; it pounded at Autumn Elegance's eardrums.

Originally thought she was flying at high speed, but it was completely incomparable to the current speed, too fast, the texture of the rocks looked like it was melting radially, and Qiuya's right hand was pulled, almost floating horizontally in the air. Whenever Ye Qiu made a sharp turn along the cave, the whole person swayed back and forth, not a hint of romance at all.

"Whoa ah ah ah?"

Qiuya couldn't help but scream as she looked forward and soon noticed many yellow arrows appearing in a place where the passage was slightly wider, like Half-Beastmen inhabiting the cave.

"Wait, wait, wait, there are monsters..."

Even though Ye Qiu yelled so loudly, he had no intention of slowing down. He charged directly into the group of monsters.

"Whoa ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah."

The autumn's cries overlapped with the monster's roars, but the monsters didn't even hit Qiuya once with their weapons that resembled kitchen knives.