Chapter 49 – 49 – You’re finished. I’m telling you, Murphy’s got a lot of heart.

Chapter 49 49.You’re screwed, I’m telling you, Murphy has a small heart.
The rowdy rescue operation continued until the first rays of morning light fell on the dawn.

The good news was that because Cadman City was shrouded in chaotic astral energy causing sunlight to be impenetrable, allowing orthodox vampires like Missy to still move freely, and last night’s rescue was a great success!
Three consecutive searches had allowed them to rescue a staggering 409 people and doubled the number of people in the survivor camp.

The bad news was that the simple and easy phase was over.

The next areas were those that were intensely shrouded by the Shadow of the Star Realm, called the “Monster Wilderness” by Murphy’s little players, where the concentration of the Shadow of the Star Realm was so thick that it could put out a fire, so it was impossible for ordinary people to enter on a large scale.

Worse news is, according to Missy’s in-depth investigation, she can determine that there are at least 200 life breaths in that shadow-heavy area just in the periphery.

In other words, there were still at least 200 people there waiting to be rescued from the outside world.

Thus, a choice was placed in front of Murphy.

“It’s actually enough to save so many people.”

Miriam, who hadn’t slept all night, would be yawning, and she whispered to Murphy, who was looking at the map:

“I just talked to a few appointed militia captains, the survivors are very grateful for your rescue, they saw those dangerous star world beasts and shadow derivatives with their own eyes last night.

It would be dangerous to go any deeper into the city, and with reports of people seeing many fleeing into the labyrinthine sewers, it’s impossible to mount a large-scale rescue in this situation right now.

So they can understand the choices you will make.

One of the Sisters even told me to tell you that you don’t have to be too hard on yourself.”

“What about morale?”

Murphy asked, and Miriam nodded vigorously:

“Higher than I expected!

I thought that such an action would scare them even more, but it turns out that instead of unsettling them, rescuing more of their compatriots has infused them with courage and stabilized everyone’s mindset.

Some of the young men even volunteered to join the search and rescue team, they are the ones who still have families left in the city and are not willing to give up.”

“This proves that our actions are correct, Miriam, the initial collective identity has already been molded, and it would be a shame to give up now.”

Murphy glanced at the three markers on the map.

Those were the locations of the three family warehouses he had heard about from Tris earlier, which happened to be highly overlapping with the areas that had yet to be searched, which immediately gave Murphy an idea.

He said to Miriam:

“You ask the several militia captains under you to select the people with the strongest will to fight, organize them and hand them over to Maxim, and formally set up the ‘Cadmanian Self-Rescue Army’.

Don’t worry, I won’t let them go to their deaths.

I intend to completely eliminate the remnants of the Astral Shadow by burning through the areas where the search and rescue has been completed, and I will need them to set up a defense line outside of these areas to receive my warriors for the next raids.

Those surrounded by monsters are still alive!

We are going to attempt one last rescue of them.

You’ll have to tell those people the purpose and process of this operation, and make sure they understand their duty.

If they withdraw before my warriors do, then they will be executed as deserters! There is no room for discussion on this point.”

He glanced at the scarlet hand cannon at Miriam’s waist.

The thing hadn’t fired last night, but it might not next.

“I see.”

Miriam said as she let out a long breath:
“I know time is precious, it will be ready in two hours, I’m going to go squint for a while.”

“Well, go ahead.”

Murphy patted Miriam’s shoulder as a sign of encouragement, then he called Maxim over.

This guy was the first to die in last night’s action, his cheeks were covered with claw marks from the Star Realm Beasts, and there were scratches on his neck and both cheeks, which were not life-threatening thanks to the fact that he was still good at force and wore better armor and weapons.

“Mark, I need you to command the ‘Cadmanian Self-Rescue Army’ that Miriam has organized to construct a defensive line in front of the explored area.”

The vampire drew a line on the map and spoke to a tired Maxim:
“You will hold out until my warriors’ breach of the ‘Monster Wilderness’ is over, and place those they have rescued along the defense line until the operation is over.”

“As you command! My lord.”

Maxim responded with a standard blood vulture salute, but he then frowned:
“I don’t doubt the will and courage of your warriors in the slightest, but their strength is still a bit poor, and with only so many of them, letting them go in there is basically the same as sending them to their deaths.”

“Missy and I and Adele will move with them.”

Murphy said as he waved his hand:

“My warriors are going to do great things in the future, they have to adapt to this kind of intense battle as soon as possible, and I’m also curious to see where their limits are.

Look, here they come!”

The vampire pointed to the broken shack, in which Brother Woo Meow and the student party had climbed up.

They were on the line, and it just so happened that Lumina’s playtime for the five was almost over, just in time for a shift change.

“Yo, Lumi girl, what are you doing? Where did these little mud monkeys come from?”

Brother Woo Meow carried his war halberd and rubbed his eyes as he walked over with a big grin, just in time to see a messy Lumina playing with a group of children.

She was also holding a small, grayish girl in her arms.

The latter seemed to be frightened and hugged Lumina to death without letting go.

Facing Brother Woo Meow’s inquiry, Lumi tilted her head to show a very proud expression, reached out to the several children next to her, and said loudly:
“All of them were rescued by my own hands last night, awesome, right? A whole thirteen of them.”

“666! Woman warrior receive my obeisance!”

The Happy Stick next to her immediately gave a thumbs up.

They had also already known about last night’s big rescue operation in the group, and there was also Black Silk Brother who had specially written an emotionally-charged little essay describing in detail how the brave Lumina had drilled into the vent and saved the two children.

This had greatly changed these old brothers’ impression of this brave and powerful international student girl.

“A woman is a woman, Lumi-san.”

“Convinced, convinced, Che Che, no wonder taking a graduate school exam is like playing, Sister Lumi, you will be Che Che’s idol from now on!”

“Sister Lumi begs for a hug!”

“Get lost, you pervert!”

Pigeon Treasure and his dormitory brothers came over and joked cheekily with Sister Yang Trace.

Everyone was a student, so it was easy to become friends when they were close in age.

Cuckoo Chicken and Meow Shark squatted down to say hello to the kids, but the latter gathered around Lumina, looking at the “big uncles” with a curious yet fearful gaze.

With the nutritional benefits of the modern world, none of the players’ characters were under 165, especially Bull’s height of 194, which made him look like a giant to the children.

In the Transylvanian region, with the poor productivity and the vampire’s oppressive rule, malnutrition is the norm.

“Ah, my time is up, time to get off the line.”

Lumina regretfully glanced at the fact that she only had 2 minutes of today’s game time left, she yawned, placed the little girl in her arms on the ground, patted her head, and said:
“Call sister!”

The latter looked at Yang Trace with an unwilling face and whispered in a weird accent:
“Jiejiejie.”

“Ha, good boy, I’ll come back tomorrow to play with you.”

Lumi scratched the bridge of the little girl’s nose and got up to say to Brother Woo Meow:
“I’ll leave them to you guys, even though they’re NPCs, this is too smart, don’t do anything bad guys.”

“Don’t worry.” Although Brother Meow Meow is a big old bachelor, but also not a heartless guy, occasionally the mood to come will also participate in public service activities, this will look at these little mud monkey like NPC children that vivid expression, he patted his chest and said:
“You rest, the next job we took over, we a group of big men will not let you a little girl look down.”

Black Silk Brother and Ring Chong this will also be a batch of tired, and their own boss said hello and said today to take leave to rest.

Woo Meow Brother also happily allowed.

It is not that his boss is not qualified, he squeezed up enough to pick a beautiful street lamp, mainly because of the recent market downturn, they did not receive a single software outsourcing studio, take this opportunity to let the brothers enjoy relaxing a little bit should be, but also for a small boss, let the employees lie at home to play the game than to go out to spend less on the reunion, right?

“Woo meow, there’s no way to share that hidden quest we triggered.”

Dirt Bike Lao specifically admonished Woo Meow and the others before going offline:
“But from our experience, you guys will have to dig deeper into the details of the quest.

The development team of this game is very cocky and hides a lot of clues, so if you can find them, you’ll naturally be able to get the hidden quests. Although we don’t know what the rewards are yet, I reckon it must be a bit more powerful than the normal quests.”

“Thanks for sharing, hurry up and go rest, you guys have been up half the night here.”

Woo Meow and Dirtbike were friends in reality and spoke naturally, while Shovel beside them rubbed his back while spitting:

“That said, the test group is still not adding people? This point of people enough to do what ah, last night if there are fifty brothers who are not afraid of death to go out together, we can at least explore two more blocks.”

“It’s good to have fewer people.”

Woo Meow said with narrowed eyes:
“You see how good the atmosphere of the game is now, if a few idiots come to do something wrong, it’s really disgusting, not to mention, when you see NPCs, you will draw a knife and cut a cut of the mixed evil funzi people in this game is an extremely unstable bomb.

And I reckon the official must have action, wait patiently.”

A few minutes later, the 11 small players who were newly online received three exploration quests from Murphy.

[Test Mission – Explore Secret Vault 001
Mission Description: this mission is part of the game’s testing and doesn’t count towards the main quest, but you can still receive rewards.

The mysterious-born Lady Tris has shared with you the locations of the Blood Vulture Clan’s three secret warehouses in the outer city of Cadman, but they are all located in densely populated areas that have been overrun by Astral Beasts and Fear Derivatives in the aftermath of the disaster.

Murphy has decided to launch a raid to recapture the resources of the secret depots and search for those beings that still survive, and the operation will be led by the last three Sons of the Blood Vulture, who will complete the operation in all three locations at the same time.

Mission Objective: Reclaim the crypt [0/3], rescue those trapped

Mission Reward: Blood Vulture Clan Recruit Armor [6/6

Tip!

This mission needs to be carried out in groups, please go to the three NPCs to open the action after the groups have been assigned].

“I’ll group up with Sanwu Dou and Old Qu, split the bulls and cows for us on your side.”

Brother Woo Meow immediately said to the student party’s boss leading Big Pigeon’s deliberation:
“We’ll follow Lord Murphy.”

“On what grounds?”

Pigeonbottom rolled his eyes and said:
“Who doesn’t know that you guys are planning to brush up on your goodwill, and Bull is the strongest combatant at this stage! I won’t give it to you unless we switch! You guys follow Missy, we follow Lord Murphy, doesn’t a powerful, cute and adorable three-less rich loli smell good?”

“What’s the point of arguing!”

Beside him, Badger couldn’t help but spit out:
“These three in addition to Mrs. Adele is a new addition, the other two are important NPCs, this goodwill will absolutely have to be brushed to full, as to grab this half a moment?”

The short bionic snail next to him made a gesture of pushing his glasses, even though his character didn’t have glasses.

As he watched Brother Woo Meow and Pigeon Treasure choking on the fire, he couldn’t help but suggest:
“Why don’t we draw lots? With eleven people in three groups, there’s bound to be one group that will be short of people.”

“You three follow me! The rest go and report to Femis!”

Just as they were clowning around with their grouping, Murphy directly designated the Woo Meow trio.

This caused Brother Woo Meow to snicker.

He felt certain that the three of them had a high favorability rating to make Lord Murphy choose on his own accord.

But soon they didn’t have time to be happy, because the despair derivatives near Secret Vault #1 were simply overflowing!

Its number and density was almost five times more than that of the fringe area, and those rolling black smoke flakes on top of the complex ruins were like a small-scale “monster siege” constantly pouring out.

However, the interference of these invisible things to the small players has not been as serious as yesterday.

Their skill proficiency has generally reached mastery and completed the first transfer, in the professional talent and cooperation with the support can often be one against many.

As for the dangerous Star Realm Beasts, not even one of them had been spotted from start to finish.

Murphy guessed that this should be related to the change of day and night.

Although there was no sunlight in the city now, those Star Realm creatures would still be affected by the sun’s spiritual energy, and would be less likely to leave their “nests” during the day.

In this case, the process of entering the secret vault was not as dangerous as Murphy had imagined.

Of course, this ease was for Murphy who had already triggered the Black Iron Trial.

For the small players whose current character levels were all still between level 3-4, facing the despair derivatives swooping out from all sides put them under great pressure from the very beginning.

Brother Woo Meow roared angrily and commanded his two great vajayjays to hold their shields and defend left and right, and he himself kept flinging out Spiritual Energy Blasts, looking like he was determined to take the caster’s route.

It was tough for them to hold out.

It was like a taut spring that risked coming apart at the drop of a hat, but Murphy would only come up to help relieve them when they couldn’t hold out, not simply for the joy of watching the players in a sorry state, but he had to make his little players grow up quickly.

Before he set off, he also gave the same instructions to Missy and Lady Adele, asking them to properly fulfill the basic ethics of being an NPC, and not to care if they could, in short, not to interfere too much in the actions of the small players.

“We have reached the location of the secret vault, I need to cast a spell to unlock this seal, this process cannot be disturbed!”

Murphy said to the three wretched little players with a serious face:

“Therefore you must brace yourselves against the constant onslaught of Despair Derivatives…”

Dry!
As expected, this kind of escort mission was the most annoying category of all online game missions! Luckily, Lord Murphy was steady enough not to run around screaming to attract monsters.
“I can’t hold out, my lord.”

Brother Woo Meow wiped the sweat from his face.

He realized that he had underestimated the difficulty of this game’s Beginner’s Copy Test, and that with their current equipment and level, they were completely unable to cope with such a large-scale Derivative Attack.

“Snap.”

Three bags were thrown in front of their eyes by Murphy, and the vampire said to the three little players:

“I’ve seen all your performance just now, you already have the qualifications to become Blood Wyvern recruits, I’ve brought you better armor, they’ll help you last longer in this dangerous place.

Break out to the outside when you can’t hold out any longer, Maxim and his ‘Cadmanian Self-Rescue Army’ will meet you.”

The three little players who heard this immediately got into the spirit of the game, and opened the bag to see the sets of finely crafted recruit armor in it with a sudden burst of joy.

The leather armor of the escorts they were wearing was already tattered and torn from the constant battles, and these better equipment with various weakly reinforced phrases could obviously effectively boost their combat power.

“Hang in there! Warriors.”

Murphy said to the three small players behind him as he walked into the secret vault passage:
“The longer you guys hold out, the more supplies I can get from the secret vault, and the smoother our endeavors will be.”

But what he was actually thinking in his heart was .
The stress test belonging to the players had officially begun!
Haven’t you been clamoring for a copy?
Nah, the copies are here, and this time, I’ll let you guys brush until you puke.

In addition, you three have been making fun of me and Tris on the forums and writing nasty little stories, right? Although that story is very exciting and the writing is quite good, however, that’s not the point!

Lord Murphy holds a grudge!

So learn to enjoy the next battle, little ones.

Ps: Thank you for the reward from the “Summer’s recklessness” brothers! I’ve got news that the book will hit the shelves on September 1st.

(End of chapter)