Chapter 400: The Battle of the Green Forest Council Alliance: A Uprising

That very night, Yu Yuan arrived at the Black Rock Caravan.

"Sir!"

"Is it confirmed?"

Zhou Yuan nodded firmly.

"Sir, it's confirmed. Including Watson, a total of three councilors wish to defect to us. The Green Forest Parliament Alliance was already rife with internal conflicts.

The reason they maintained the status quo before was simply due to external pressure, forcing them to endure the situation.

However, with the submission of the Big Gold Tooth Brotherhood and the escalation of their internal panic, they've realized that the internal threat now far outweighs the external pressure.

Therefore, they hope to submit to us. Additionally, Watson revealed that they are indeed mentally and physically exhausted by this sudden Extreme Cold disaster. The entire organization is in a state of panic and anxiety.

Just last night, a soldier picked up his weapon, shouting as he attacked others. Fortunately, someone noticed his abnormality immediately and shot him dead, minimizing the losses."

Yu Yuan didn't know about this incident; it wasn't mentioned in the newspapers.

But it was likely true.

Yu Yuan could sense that in the direction of the Green Forest Parliament Alliance, the number of people marked by the [Nightmare Mark] was close to two hundred. This was no small number.

"What about the others?"

"The others are hardliners. They support maintaining the current status quo, unwilling to give up their power and authority. They also don't believe the situation has reached the point where they need to submit to us.

Even if they were to submit, they would demand sufficient benefits first. Currently, both sides are in a stalemate. Additionally, there are two other councilors who are neutral, essentially just fence-sitters!

Watson's difficulty lies here. Only three of them are willing to defect to us now. If they rashly break away, the other councilors would absolutely refuse."

"Hmph..."

Yu Yuan snorted lightly.

If it were before, he might have let the panic ferment a little longer.

But after gaining control of Dead Mine Town, he was no longer satisfied with the current pace of development.

Compared to the now frozen Green Forest City, expanding into other worlds was clearly the better choice.

But before that, the unification of Green Forest City must be completed.

Previously, he had wanted to minimize casualties, as the population resource was currently quite scarce.

Now, he no longer thought that way. If Green Forest City lacked people, other worlds had plenty.

Furthermore, Yu Yuan needed to prepare for his promotion to the Bronze rank. To advance to the Bronze rank, he must raise his shelter's ranking on the Shelter Leaderboard to the first position.

This was related to whether he could complete that Gold-tier civilization event—Civilization Overlord.

The first requirement alone demanded he raise his ranking to first place on the leaderboard and develop the progress of one Title Path to 100%.

Among the three Title Paths Yu Yuan currently mastered, the one with the highest development progress was undoubtedly [City Shadows].

Yu Yuan speculated that when he completely occupied Green Forest City, it would be the moment the [City Shadows] Title Path development reached 100%.

As long as he obtained the ultimate title of the [City Shadows] Title Path, the rewards brought should be enough to push his shelter ranking up.

After all, through comparisons with other players, he had long discovered that the [City Shadows] path was no ordinary Title Path.

Now was the time to accelerate the pace of unification.

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Snowy night.

A dark figure moved swiftly across the snowy ground.

Yu Yuan looked at the Green Forest City Municipal Building ahead, sensing the locations marked by the [Nightmare Mark] in his mind.

In the underground structure beneath the Municipal Building, the [Nightmare Marks] were divided into two groups. A small number were marked in the area near the surface, in a conscious state.

Most of the nightmare marks, however, were deep within the underground structure, and many had already entered a state of sleep.

The group near the surface was led by Watson, the defectors, who had gathered there deliberately.

Those hiding deep within were all hardliners, also controlling the most important Material Reserve Warehouses of the entire Green Forest Parliament Alliance.

This was the reason for their confidence. As long as they firmly controlled the survival supplies.

Coupled with their numerical advantage in personnel, they weren't worried at all about Watson and the others leaving. In this environment, without survival supplies, leaving the shelter was suicide.

Since the targets were confirmed, Yu Yuan directly activated the title ability of [City Nightmare], activating all the nightmare marks of the hardliners.

He quickly infiltrated these people's dreams, summoning nightmare projections to trap them within their dreams.

After doing this.

Yu Yuan arrived at the entrance of the Municipal Building.

"Coo, coo, coo—"

Soon, a crack opened in the main door of the Municipal Building.

A person with a red cloth strip tied around their upper arm poked their head out to look.

But outside was only the pitch-black night and the blizzard. Just as they were puzzled.

Yu Yuan had already canceled his [Concealment] state, appearing abruptly right in front of them.

"Holy crap..."

The person was startled. The next moment, Yu Yuan had already covered their mouth.

Yu Yuan recognized this person.

"Watson?"

Hearing this, Watson immediately reacted.

"You... you are the sir Zhou Yuan mentioned?"

Watson was somewhat pleasantly surprised. Just now, he was certain he hadn't seen anyone.

Now, the other party had suddenly appeared before him. This ability made him realize his gamble was right.

Led by Watson, Yu Yuan entered the Municipal Building and then proceeded into the underground structure.

The passage was very dim, but it had no effect on Yu Yuan.

"Sir, our people have all assembled!"

Yu Yuan saw over a hundred thugs waiting here, each with a red cloth strip tied around their upper arm.

Their complexions were poor, clearly having been through the wringer lately.

But surprisingly, there was a fierce glint in their eyes at this moment.

Two more people came to Watson's side.

"Sir, these two are Councilor Malin and Councilor Char."

The two looked at Yu Yuan with a trace of doubt in their eyes.

They wondered how the person before them could lead them to complete this coup.

After all, the other party was alone!

But out of trust in Watson and the Black Rock Caravan, they didn't voice anything.

"Good, time is tight. Let's skip the unnecessary talk."

"Right now, over a hundred enemies have fallen into a deep sleep. Watson, you just need to command the combat. Capture the remaining enemies as quickly as possible. As for those Speakers and councilors, leave them to me."

"Any questions?"

"This... no, sir!"

Finally, Watson spoke up.

"Good. Remember, anyone without a red cloth strip, if they don't surrender, shoot them all."

"Understood!"

Watson also took out a few photographs.

"Sir, these are what the other councilors and the Speaker look like."

Yu Yuan took the photos and gave a slight nod.

"Then... let's begin!"

After uttering these words, Yu Yuan directly activated [Shadow Stride] and vanished before everyone's eyes.

Witnessing this scene, the entire passage echoed with sharp intakes of breath.

"This is..."

Councilor Malin kept looking around.

But Watson was already looking at them.

"Stop looking. The sir is clearly no ordinary person. Precisely because of this, it shows how correct our decision was. The task the sir just gave us cannot have any mistakes..."

This time, neither of them hesitated at all.

"Right, let's begin too! Everyone, check your armbands. Move out."

With the command given, the sound of bolts being pulled and rounds being chambered echoed in the passage. Then, everyone quietly advanced toward the depths of the underground structure.