In the dense jungle, two figures walked between the trees.
They wore clothes that resembled chameleon skin, changing colors and patterns with the environment. This allowed them to blend in almost perfectly with their surroundings.
They had human body shapes and their heads and hands were covered with brown-green fine scales, shaped like some type of reptile.
Xu Fengqing frowned and used the system to check the information of the two.
[???]
[Level: Unfathomable.]
This was the case for both of them. The difference in level was too great to detect anything.
They were definitely not humans. Were they also a rare race? Then why did Ah Xe show such deep hostility toward them?
Xu Fengqing observed them quietly.
Seeing these two figures heading their way, he suddenly felt the person next to him holding his hand.
Xu Fengqing looked sideways and met Xenos’ eyes.
The silver-haired man’s eyes weren’t just cold but also solemn. Xu Fengqing understood what he meant after thinking about it.
He quietly pulled up a shadow barrier before Xenos needed to warn him.
He fell asleep late last night. Without the blessing of his magic power, the effect of the skill disappeared.
Once the shadows completely enveloped the two of them, he put the quilt covering him into the backpack and gripped his dagger tightly.
All of this happened silently.
Once Xu Fengqing finished all of this, one of the two figures approaching them suddenly stopped and spoke.
It was an unfamiliar language, but Xu Fengqing had the system’s real-time translation function. He could understand them.
“Cole, wait.”
The man walking behind him suddenly stopped. He listened and his movements became alert.
“Eller, what’s wrong?” Cole looked at his companion and saw that his expression was strange. This caused him to observe the movements around him, but he found nothing.
Eller shook his head slowly, but the tawny beast pupils were still shifting rapidly. He didn’t find anything wrong, but his intuition became more sensitive once his strength reached a certain level.
As he passed through here, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
It wasn’t sensing a crisis but… the feeling of being watched.
“Are you too nervous?”
Cole shook his head. He scanned the area and confirmed that there were only interstellar beasts around three stars nearby.
They were already close to a five star strength. The interstellar beasts in this area couldn’t pose a threat to them.
Seeing that his companion didn’t answer, Cole looked into the distance and said, “You don’t know what the situation has been like recently. The interstellar beasts have been acting strangely and a small beast wave was formed last night.”
“Say… did something happen on Roland’s side?”
Bewatt’s spies in Roland had all been pulled out in the past six months. They hadn’t received any more intelligence on their side and it was like being blind.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, they didn’t find new spies.
Eller was looking up at the big tree where Xu Fengqing and Xenos were. However, the branches were luxuriant and he could only see rich shadows. He didn’t see anything else.
He had to withdraw his gaze and say, “I don’t know. Just go take a look and you will know.”
Cole nodded and laughed.
“Let’s go. Go back as soon as possible. When the layout here is over, we have to go to the next place. I am especially looking forward to doing what we did four years ago… Hehe…”
The lizardman with a calm face glanced at him and didn’t refute it. He raised his feet and continued to walk.
Once the two lizardmen left, Xu Fengqing slowly let out a sigh of relief.
They were able to walk unscrupulously in the jungle and were obviously confident. They were probably stronger than Ah Xe in terms of strength.
If he could, he naturally didn’t want to go against these two NPCs. No matter how they looked, they were enemies. Ah Xe’s expression also showed this very well.
Xenos bit his lower lip desperately. He couldn’t speak the Bewatt language, but he could listen. The words of these Bewatt lizardmen were all heard by him.
When did the Bewatt lizardmen appear on Escher Star?
Had Escher Star’s secure passage been cracked? Or had Imperial City fallen? And…
They just mentioned four years ago.
Was the beast wave four years ago related to the Bewatt lizardmen? Was it their handiwork?
“Ah Xe?”
The man called out to him in a low voice, making Xenos’ mind return. It was only then that he felt a tingling pain and a hint of blood from his lower lip.
He bit too hard and his lip cracked.
Xenos wiped it casually. The wound on his lip was quickly repaired using the water healing technique.
Then he looked at Xu Fengqing and said uncontrollably, “Fengqing, I know that you don’t want to have an intersection with me. You don’t want to know my identity and you don’t want to talk about your own affairs.”
“But now, I still hope that you can tell me… are you from Roland?”
If not, how could he speak such pure Roland language?
Xu Fengqing saw his serious expression and hesitated. Still, he replied, “I belong to the Roland faction.”
He could open Roland’s faction warehouse so this rare race account belonged to the Roland faction.
Xenos knew that the entire Escher Star was recognized as Roland’s territory. All creatures on Escher Star were considered to belong to the Roland Empire.
He wasn’t sure if Fengqing was talking about this concept.
But…
At the very least, this ancient beast recognized Roland.
Thinking of this, Xenos frowned slightly and he asked again, “Then have you been to Roland’s Imperial City recently? Have you been any time in the past four years?”
He was eager to know the situation of his homeland, to know if Roland had been occupied by those hateful Bewatt.
Xu Fengqing saw his nervous expression and thought for a while. “I haven’t been there but I probably know a bit about the situation.”
He briefly mentioned what he had learned, such as Roland only having five main cities left, the guardian circle and that Roland’s main cities weren’t afraid of interstellar beasts.
Xenos listened quietly to his description. He had heard what Xiao Wu told him and could finally be sure that what Xiao Wu mentioned was true.
He couldn’t help sighing with relief.
At the very least, Roland hadn’t completely shattered. They still had hope!
It was just that these Bewatt lizardmen… why did they come to Escher Star? What were they planning behind the scenes?
Xenos pondered on it, brow furrowed deeply.
He was suddenly less anxious to return to Silin’s side as soon as possible.
He couldn’t sit idly by like this. His intuition told him that these lizardmen were planning a bigger conspiracy!
But…
Xenos lowered his head and looked at his original body. He couldn’t do anything at all in his current state. Perhaps he could let Fengqing help him? No, it wouldn’t work. He couldn’t let Fengqing take such a big risk.
Thinking of this, Xenos couldn’t help feeling a bit depressed.
“What are you worried about?” Xu Fengqing frowned. “Those two humanoid creatures… do you know them?”
“They are from Bewatt Star.”
Xenos confirmed it. “Since a long time ago, they have coveted the land of Roland. They are our enemies.”
“Due to Escher’s special environment, they haven’t been able to enter Roland and carry out their invasion plan. Now that they have actually appeared here…”
Xu Fengqing understood what this person was worried about and vaguely remembered that in the information given to him by the game group, there was indeed an introduction to Roland’s hostile forces.
He had forgotten when the opposing faction would appear, but it was absolutely impossible for them to appear at this point in time, just one week after the start of the open beta.
At most, the human traitor NPCs had just started to contact players to lure them to the hostile faction. Then they would reveal the true face of the hostile faction and the related gameplay as the plot progressed.
At this moment, the system notification sound was heard.
[Ding~ You have successfully triggered the legendary mission ‘Conspiracy of Bewatt Star’.]
[Description: You have found traces of the Bewatt lizardmen far from the original border of Roland. They seem to be planning something.]
[Mission content: Find out the reason why the Bewatt lizardmen have appeared in the Roland Empire and their plan.]
[Mission reward: Unknown.]
Looking at this mission notification, Xu Fengqing sighed deeply in his heart.
He already understood it. Since his account appeared too far from the city where the newcomers were born, he triggered this plot in advance.
No player would go deep into a remote jungle at the beginning of the open beta… this was at least tens of thousands of kilometers away from Roland’s Imperial City!
This was obviously unreasonable.
Xu Fengqing always believed that he was the game publisher, not a player. Therefore, his behavior in the game was extremely restrained.
He had been trying to avoid any impact on the game, although the act of saving Xenos might be the biggest impact in itself.
So now, it was impossible for him to do this legendary mission. The trigger and person who completed this mission should be a player, not him.
Xu Fengqing thought of this and closed the mission interface.
He looked at Xenos and said, “Let’s continue to look for your companions.”
Xenos looked in the direction where the two lizardmen left with some worry.
He was a bit unwilling to give up such a clue, even though he knew that it would be useless to find the truth if he couldn’t pass on the news.
At this moment, Xenos’ pupils suddenly shrank.
The moment Xu Fengqing was about to speak, he felt a huge force coming from his chest. He watched Xenos stretch out his left hand and push him hard against the tree trunk.
Due to the pull of the belt connecting them, Xenos fell along with him.
Xu Fengqing hugged him. Then he looked up and saw that where they had just been, there was a small hole silently created, as if hit by a bullet.
Then under his gaze, the small hole spread and actually corroded the bark, revealing the fibrous tissue underneath. There was a tendency to continue to corrode it!
“You actually dodged it.”
Xu Fengqing fell from mid-air and rolled on the ground with Xenos in his arms. Then when he got up again, he saw the two lizardmen standing not far from them.
The one called Cole was holding a high-tech gun in his hand. It was obvious that he had fired the gun just now.
“Eller, you are too smart. How did you know there was someone in the tree?” The lizardman asked his companion while playing with the weapon in his hand.
Eller kicked the nut shell on the ground.
Xu Fengqing could see at a glance that this was thrown down after they ate on the tree last night!
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