Chapter 466 - 184: The Forum Debut Everyone is Watching, and Inheriting the Super Divine Artifact Again

WHOOSH!

Shen Fei arrived on the walls of Ye City in Songhai, having just helped eliminate a surging wave of monsters. He hadn’t expected to immediately receive more bad news. The players in Qing City had received a mandatory quest to kill monsters. Meanwhile, in the suburbs of Songhai near the coast, special ocean creatures were capturing ordinary humans and players.

Faced with this situation, the only thing Shen Fei could do was remotely command his countless Defense Towers. Within the range of his Detection Towers, he immediately began capturing every ocean creature he could "see."

"Have the players in Songhai received any mandatory quests?" Shen Fei asked Zhao Li, who was nearby, all while rapidly capturing ocean creatures and pulling them toward the city walls.

"No!" Zhao Li, who was circling Ye City and slaughtering monsters with his giant Flying Sword, answered instantly. "But I do know about the mandatory monster-killing quest that the Qing City players received!"

He continued his report, "Reports of people disappearing near the coast started coming in three days ago! At the time, we didn’t know ocean creatures were behind it. After all, all sorts of strange situations have occurred since we inherited our game abilities. It wasn’t until just now, with the fourth inheritance of game abilities and the arrival of a massive monster tide, that these abducting ocean creatures started appearing so brazenly. That’s when everyone confirmed that the missing humans and players had been kidnapped!"

Zhao Li quickly shared his findings.

The fourth inheritance of game abilities had once again boosted the powers of all human players, which was naturally a cause for excitement and happiness. However, it was also accompanied by events like monster tides, random monster spawns, and the rapid expansion of the planet. Zhao Li had thought he was mentally prepared for this, but he never expected mandatory monster-killing quests to appear, nor that Intelligent Ocean NPCs would seize the opportunity to escalate their capture of human players. Moreover, he was also on guard for the version updates that seemed to happen with almost every ability inheritance. The fourth inheritance had only just occurred, but the sheer number of incidents had already left Zhao Li feeling overwhelmed.

"Alright! I’ll interrogate them first!"

Remotely controlling his Vine Towers, Shen Fei had already captured all the ocean NPCs he could see within a ten-thousand-kilometer radius. He ensnared them with vines and used a Teleportation Gate to bring them directly before him. After nodding to Zhao Li, he waved his hand and deployed ten Tenth-Tier Defense Towers, setting them to attack automatically to help Songhai fend off the monster tide. With that done, Shen Fei’s gaze fell upon the creatures he had caught, beings that were clearly inherited from the game.

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!

Shen Fei had captured over a hundred ocean creatures for abducting human players. He found that more than half were just mindless minions acting on orders. Without a second thought, he grabbed their heads and twisted them into knots.

Then, his gaze fell upon the few remaining creatures, the ones that were clearly intelligent.

"Alright, start talking. Why are you abducting human players, and why ordinary humans as well?" Shen Fei already knew that asking Intelligent NPCs or Super Bosses from special regions about their ultimate purpose would cause their heads to explode, so he avoided the sensitive question. This time, he was only asking why these creatures came ashore to abduct humans.

"I... I’ll talk!" The intelligent NPC, pinned by Shen Fei’s gaze, saw the killing intent in his eyes. It had just witnessed his decisiveness in instantly killing the other minions, and it gulped, not daring to refuse. "I... If I talk, will you let me go?" the NPC being interrogated tried to bargain.

CRACK!

The moment it asked the question, Shen Fei ripped off its leg.

"AAAAH—!" The intelligent NPC let out a horrific shriek.

"If you talk, I’ll grant you a quick death," Shen Fei whispered softly into the NPC’s ear. Before the creature could respond, he finished it off with a sickening crunch.

"You. Talk," Shen Fei ordered, his gaze falling on the second one.

At this moment, all sorts of other matters awaited his attention. He couldn’t afford to leisurely bargain and scheme with this group of captured Intelligent Ocean NPCs. He needed speed. He needed to finish the interrogation quickly and move on to other tasks. There was simply too much to do, and he couldn’t afford to waste time here. This was the only way—to be fast and brutal, cutting straight to the point.

"I’ll talk! The Giants ordered us to capture humans! Before, whether it was human players or ordinary humans, the Giants had us arrest them all and take them back for interrogation! But just now, the Giants sent a new directive! They told us to stop hiding and go all out, capturing humans with maximum effort. And this time, the main targets are the ordinary humans!"

Staring at the sharp vine hovering over its head, the second NPC, under pressure from Shen Fei, quickly spilled everything it knew.

"Interrogate humans?" Shen Fei pressed for details, unsure of what the Intelligent Ocean NPCs and Super Bosses were planning. "Interrogate them about what?"