Chapter 464 - 183: A Sky Full of Stars, Chaos Strike! An Endless Attack on the Distant Stars

But more importantly, they had to stay alive. They didn’t want to lose their lives while chasing after the Heroic Mark.

After confirming that the ancient emperor was dead, the remaining Intelligent NPCs and the Giants among the Super Bosses immediately gave Great Xia a wide berth and never approached it again. They then dispatched all sorts of underlings and followers to invade every city along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. It wasn’t just Great Xia’s cities; they invaded any city from any nation, as long as it bordered the special region of the Pacific Ocean. They arrested both human players and ordinary humans without inherited abilities, interrogating them for the information they wanted.

Unfortunately, whenever they asked about the Forum or any related news that appeared on it, the interrogated human’s head would instantly explode. The information they sought was completely unattainable. The only scrap of information they did manage to get came from an Austrian player, from whom they learned about someone called "Brother Kaipan." According to this player, he had lost a lot of money on one of Brother Kaipan’s betting pools—specifically, one for an event called the Great Chaos Secret Realm. Then, just as the player mentioned that the betting pools were run through the Forum, his head exploded too. It was proving difficult for the Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses to uncover humanity’s secrets.

At this moment, sensing that the fourth wave of ability inheritance for human players was imminent, these Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses hoped to use the massive fluctuations in the world’s rules caused by the inheritance event to probe the secrets of the so-called Forum once more.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Unfortunately, it was completely useless. Even though the rules of the world were wavering due to the vast number of abilities being inherited that night, they could still hardly detect any information related to human players.

"Seize them! Keep capturing the ordinary humans!" a Giant from one of the special regions secretly ordered, seeing that they couldn’t get the information they wanted even by exploiting the ability inheritance event. "The players’ heads explode after just a few questions. Ordinary humans may know less, but since they haven’t been granted abilities by the rules, we might get a major breakthrough from them!"

In any case, because of the Heroic Mark, they were no longer content to just hide away in their special regions. They had to get intelligence on Great Xia.

"Send out my people! Search every special region for me! I want to see how many of my kind have appeared in this wave!"

Along with the order to interrogate humans, another was issued: to devour their own kind. That night, another ability inheritance was taking place. Players with fewer than eight inherited abilities began to inherit from the "Other" category. Inevitably, a huge wave of NPCs and bosses from the game would appear in the real world. As beings from the same game, what the Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses wanted was to devour these newcomers, enhancing their strength and perfecting something within themselves.

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH!

As these various plans were set in motion, the human world plunged into over a dozen hours of chaos due to the ability inheritance. Inside the special regions, the same scenes were playing out.

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POP!

POP!

POP!

In Qing City, from the comfort of his home, Shen Fei used the vision from his Detection Towers to remotely control his Defense Towers and slaughter monsters. When he saw the monster tide was only three kilometers from the nearest Neutral City, he acted without hesitation.

With the enhancement from the Gem Array, his Cluster Attack could now be split into numerous smaller array attacks. This way, he no longer had to worry about the attacks being too powerful and causing damage to Blue Star. Once he determined that the monster tide had reached its maximum number of spawns, Shen Fei immediately unleashed the Cluster Attacks from all thirty-six of his Defense Towers. In an instant, without the slightest disturbance, the monster tide besieging Qing City was annihilated, leaving no trace behind. This feat was something the countless players of Qing City were already used to seeing; they considered it perfectly normal.

Thirty-six monster tides...

Watching as the monsters he had just cleared in a single blow began to spawn once more from the distant nests, Shen Fei mused to himself. Qing City originally had 31 monster nests, a number determined by its count of Neutral Cities. A few days ago, however, he had planted another five. As a result, Qing City was now facing a total of 36 monster tides, a number that accounted for nearly half of all monster nests currently in the entirety of Great Xia.

Hm?

He was just about to check the flood of experience points scrolling across his personal panel, while also remaining on alert to use a Teleportation Array to assist other cities, when he suddenly froze. With a sharp wave of his hand, he sent countless vines shooting out.

While controlling his Detection Towers to perform a full-area scan, he had spotted a creature materializing out of thin air. The moment he saw it, Shen Fei knew it was an Intelligent NPC that had just been brought over through ability inheritance. What’s more, he saw the creature quickly scan its surroundings upon appearing, then lock onto the location of a special region and lunge for it. Instantly, an idea struck Shen Fei, and he commanded his Vine Towers to capture it for interrogation.

Interrogating a being that has already entered a special region causes their head to explode. So what if I interrogated an NPC that had *just* been brought over from the Game World?