Chapter 2671: Jia Yu Trapped

The person lying on the ground was in a daze for a moment before reacting. He suddenly turned over and climbed up, grabbing Xu Huo’s arm and said, "Quick, save Yan Jiayu, she’s trapped in a random dungeon!"

Xu Huo’s expression turned serious. He gave him a bottle of water and, after taking him to the side, said, "Don’t rush, take your time to explain."

Qi Congming, real name Qi Cong, had previously tracked Yan Jiayu to the Rose Castle. After gulping down two mouthsful of water, he hurriedly recounted the events of the past two months.

He had always been following Yan Jiayu, but two months ago, after coming out of an instance, he couldn’t contact her at all. At first, he thought it was because he was annoying, and Yan Jiayu was ignoring him, so he had no choice but to use a special tracking item to follow her tracks.

That item could only be bound and used; once bound to Yan Jiayu, no one could replace it. It could indicate her approximate direction, which essentially meant the locations she had been, and it had to be in the same sector. So he spent a lot of money buying Return Tickets for numerous sectors. By combining the item with it to determine which ticket had a higher chance, he finally found her trace after nearly a month.

"You’re really amazing," Girl in the painting praised him, "With such patience and courage, you’ll succeed in anything you do!"

Qi Cong wasn’t embarrassed at all and continued to talk about his subsequent encounters.

What he found was the trace left by Yan Jiayu in another wormhole point’s sector. It was a message Yan Jiayu left using a special item, saying she was coming to this sector. Qi Cong felt his sincerity had moved her and eagerly followed her to this sector.

But by the time he got near Yu Country according to the item’s direction, he couldn’t find Yan Jiayu. The item must not be wrong, so he guessed that Yan Jiayu accidentally went into a random dungeon while doing an instance here. Calculating by time, she probably had been in the random dungeon for nearly two months.

Yan Jiayu had never experienced this kind of situation before; a dungeon that could trap her for two months must not be a simple one. But since she wasn’t dead, anything was possible, so Qi Cong came to Yu Country for help.

But he was unlucky, encountering player wars along the way, almost costing him his life just for passing by. He intended to leverage the news of missing Yu Country players to lure Yu Country into entering the random dungeon, but it was hard to find the Capital City only to find out Lian Qingkong had died.

Having just lost a national leader, Yu Country obviously wouldn’t spare any attention to investigate the disappearance of its own players. Still, Qi Cong was too exhausted to seek help elsewhere, holding on to a final glimmer of hope in this place.

Xu Huo didn’t care about the deliberate concealment regarding the item’s effect in his words and asked after hearing everything, "Do you know when Yan Jiayu left you the information?"

Qi Cong was momentarily stupefied, "It should have been about two months ago."

"I also haven’t been able to contact her for nearly two months." Xu Huo said, "This suggests that the place trapping her isn’t an ordinary one. The worst-case scenario is that she might be stuck in a special space where her personal panel is locked."

Normally, instances wouldn’t cut off the player’s contact with the outside world, and advanced dungeons even less so. Utilizing such methods to weaken the player’s power to create difficulty is not in vogue, giving high-level dungeons no reason to exist.

It must be either a special space or there was a special situation encountered in the dungeon, such as being trapped in a container item or someone tampering with it, severing the connection between dungeon players and the outside world.

The sky is boundless, although Yan Jiayu is excellent in terms of physical capabilities, it doesn’t mean she has no opponents under the same conditions without props and instruments.

"Have you inquired with others about that random dungeon?" Xu Huo carefully examined the map drawn by Qi Cong and found that the dungeon’s location pointed to a primeval forest area where mutant creatures were active, "Are you sure it’s here? Random dungeon entrances usually aren’t this remote."

Qi Cong, however, confidently said, "No mistake, it must be here, I swear on my life and the love for Jiayu!"

Xu Huo automatically ignored the latter half of his sentence, reminding, "What about the dungeon situation?"

Qi Cong sighed, "Players in this sector are fighting each other everywhere, hardly anyone is willing to pay attention to me, let alone the fact that the dungeon’s location is so remote, average players wouldn’t go there. I asked everyone I could speak to, and no one knows about this dungeon. Moreover, if the dungeon can sever the player’s contact with the outside world, how could the situation in the dungeon get leaked out?"

So the current situation is that they only know Yan Jiayu might be trapped in a random dungeon, unable to contact the outside world via her personal panel, and the dungeon entrance is located in a mutant creature active area, making it extremely difficult to locate.

Xu Huo put away the map and instead contacted Dai He to return to the Capital City.

Dai He contacted the Law Enforcement Team, and they immediately allowed them into the city, which somewhat caused dissatisfaction among other players. There was a clamor around the entrance, with players from Yongta and Moon Corner also becoming restless, strongly expressing their desire to enter and mourn.

The Law Enforcement Team was notified and also allowed the two countries’ players to pass.

After meeting the new Chief Governor Ji Qingcheng, Xu Huo directly stated his request. This young player had managed to conceal his grief and promptly arranged for government personnel to gather all information related to that forest.

"The government needs to regularly monitor the movements of mutant creatures. If there’s an instance inside, there should be some clues to investigate."

Xu Huo expressed thanks and quickly perused the materials that were delivered.

Ji Qingcheng didn’t stay for long, as Dai He soon came to take him away.

Yu Country’s data wasn’t comprehensive, they usually used machines to deliver instruments near the edge of the forest, mainly to guard against mutant creatures venturing out, while the forest’s depths weren’t of concern.

However, the detection data did capture several abnormal activities of mutant creatures within the past two months. Compared to past data, mutant creatures have been particularly active recently, resulting in three instances of small-scale stampedes. The hypothesis proposed by Yu Country’s detectors was that a new mutant species might have appeared in the forest, but no one had delved deep to know for sure what kind of species it might be.

Now it seems this should not be the matter of mutant creatures but ripples caused by the emergence of a dungeon.

Whether it’s a Ticket Dungeon or a Random Dungeon, appearing here is very abnormal.

"Could it be that the dungeon boss did it on purpose?" Qi Cong said, "Some instances use mutant species as trump cards, it’s not surprising to supplement resources."

"That’s certainly a possibility." Xu Huo also asked government personnel about the activity of the Battle Dolls in Yu Country.

"I’m sorry, I don’t have sufficient authority," said the staff member.

Xu Huo went out to find Ji Qingcheng.

The atmosphere in the mourning hall was tense, with Yu Country players confronting those from Yongta and Moon Corner who came to pay their respects, both sides on edge, seemingly about to clash at any moment.

Players from Yongta and Moon Corner intentionally provoked Ji Qingcheng, asserting the decisions made by Lian Qingkong before his death, sowing discord between the government and the Player Organization, leaving government players angry but unable to act.

While the standoff was ongoing, a voice suddenly came from behind the players of the two countries, "Since we’re mourning an elder, kneeling down and kowtowing shouldn’t be too much."

Before the words finished, the captain of Yongta kneeled down with a soft thud. Next to him, the captain of Moon Corner was pressed down on his knees by a hand, kneeling solidly!

The two who realized what happened were ashamed and angry, immediately trying to get up. However, with a rush of gravity, every single player from both countries was prostrated on the ground.

The pressure from the prop appeared just for a moment and vanished, but the fact remains that the kneeling was real. Before they could make a move, the figure at the back moved to between the two captains.

Xu Huo looked at the two of them, "You kowtowed, are you satisfied now?"