Chapter 437 - 179: The Allure of the Beauty Snake, Speedrunning the Secret Path

I need to focus on gathering information about the traders in this area...

"Boss!"

"Boss!!"

"Boss, check the Forum! What do we do? Should we respond?"

Just as Shen Fei was about to grant permission for the random link nodes again, and just as many of the NPCs in the special region over the ocean were excitedly connecting, Sun Yu suddenly contacted Shen Fei in a panic.

Fine... I’ll head back and take a look.

Sun Yu’s frantic state left Shen Fei with no choice. He had been planning to speak with Zhao Li, but now he had to step onto the Teleportation Array and return to Qing City.

"Boss!"

"It’s the Forum!"

"Someone’s stirring up trouble, trash-talking you!"

"Shouldn’t we do something about it?!"

Back in Qing City, Sun Yu, who believed his boss was Invincible and was determined to protect Shen Fei’s reputation and image at all costs, immediately blurted out the problem.

The latest monster wave had just ended, but someone already dared to start trouble for Shen Fei on the Forum, where everyone used their real names.

"Don’t rush," Shen Fei said. "First, tell me what you were doing in the Ninth World earlier. How did the Intelligent NPCs find out your name?"

He glanced at the Forum. Seeing the drama being stirred up, he simply rolled his eyes, having no desire to deal with it whatsoever.

He knew this would happen. After he had stopped keeping a low profile, he had unleashed his full power, and just a moment ago, he had effortlessly shattered the Boundary Wall of the special region. These actions had pushed the Great Xia players’ adoration for him to a new peak.

A display like that was bound to make certain people uncomfortable, and now, those people were starting to cause trouble. However, Shen Fei had anticipated this sort of thing back when he decided to stop laying low. Therefore, after seeing the petty tricks they were pulling on the Forum, he didn’t give it a second thought.

Instead, since he was back in Qing City and had run into Sun Yu, he wanted to ask something.

Back in Ye City, how did that group of NPCs from the special region know Sun Yu’s nickname?

He was fairly certain it had to do with the Ninth World and the Heroic Mark. Moreover, he could have used his top-level administrative access to find out what happened, but investigating it himself was clearly not as fast as asking Sun Yu directly.

"Hehe! I don’t know either..."

When Shen Fei pressed him, Sun Yu suddenly grew a bit bashful and chuckled sheepishly.

"Spit it out!"

Seeing him squirm, Shen Fei speechlessly aimed a kick at Sun Yu’s butt.

"Well, uh! Boss, you made me a tester for the Ninth World, right...?"

Sun Yu flinched, dodging his boss’s kick, and started explaining with a cheeky grin.

"Then, some people were clamoring about finding out the origin of the Ninth World, right? I got mad and wanted to make a bet with them. I bet them that the Ninth World’s security was top-notch and that no one could ever trace it! And then... I couldn’t help myself. I just shouted my catchphrase: ’When Brother Kaipan shows up, everyone gets knocked down’..."

Looking a little embarrassed, Sun Yu explained the situation to Shen Fei. He had been so convinced that the Ninth World released by his boss was completely secure that he not only made a bet with others but even blurted out his "Brother Kaipan" catchphrase. As a result, he had been targeted.

"Alright, I get it. Be more careful next time."

After hearing Sun Yu’s explanation and understanding the full story, Shen Fei didn’t press the matter further.

Sun Yu was deep within the defensive perimeter of Qing City’s nine Neutral Cities and protected by hundreds of his own Defense Towers. Shen Fei wasn’t worried about his safety. He was just worried that Sun Yu might impulsively say something he shouldn’t.

From the looks of it, the problem wasn’t a big deal and was still within a controllable range.

"Boss, about the Forum..."

Seeing his boss move on from the topic so quickly, Sun Yu brought up the matter on the Forum again.

"Ignore it. Let them talk."

Shen Fei had no intention of dealing with the matter Sun Yu had mentioned. In fact, as a thought struck him, he waved his hand, grabbed Sun Yu, and left the city walls, appearing beside a Monster Nest on the outskirts of Qing City.

POP!

POP!

POP!

Standing next to the naturally formed Monster Nest, Shen Fei pulled five similar items from his inventory that he had acquired before, including one called Skeleton Nest. He then activated and used the nest items.

WHOOSH!

The automatically activated Monster Nests instantly appeared, floating neatly in mid-air. In this spot, there had originally been only one Monster Nest. But with Shen Fei’s actions, six Monster Nests, looking like chrysanthemums floating in the air, appeared at once. Including the one that had automatically spawned with the full version 4.1 update, there were now five more Monster Nests around Qing City.

Moreover, unlike the automatically spawned nests, which were only LV1, the five new Monster Nests that Shen Fei had just placed were quickly upgraded by him to LV5 using Monster Nest Energy Blocks. And the monsters spawned by a LV5 nest were at least 10 times stronger than those from a LV1 nest.

"Uh, this..."

Seeing what his boss was doing, Sun Yu started to panic. Right now, with the end of the minor monster wave that occurred every three days, the drama being stirred up on the Forum was precisely about the issue of leaving Monster Nests intact. Sun Yu never expected that not only would his boss ignore the drama on the Forum, but he would also add five more, even stronger Monster Nests around Qing City.

The minor monster wave that came every three days had now ended. Just like last time, the Monster Nests that had finished spawning monsters had a visible health bar that could be attacked. However, because this had been a minor monster wave, the health bars would only be present for half an hour.