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← Back to novel Online Game: The God-Tier Assassin, I Am the Shadow

#519 · 519 of 2210

The False Emperor, and the True Emperor!

Harare Ruins.

This was a city located in the southern part of Non-China; within the borders of Great Xia, very few people had ever heard of it.

However, this city possessed a fair bit of legendary color…

Because this place had once been rated as the world's least livable city.

As for the reason, the local currency had long since devalued to the point where billions couldn't buy a bottle of mineral water, enough to shake the status of hell money!

In a sense.

The arrival of the God Forsaken Game could be considered to have saved this city's economy…

Because everyone began using 'lifespan' as the trading currency, and lifespan wasn't issued by some official institution, but rather anyone could enter the God Forsaken Game and obtain it by killing monsters.

When Qin Feng, maintaining his stealth state, teleported to this city.

He appeared on an open-air teleportation square.

The square was built from countless giant stones, and right around the teleportation array, there were many dark-skinned youths holding rice bowls, kneeling on the ground, seemingly begging…

When Qin Feng teleported over.

On the teleportation array, there were two other middle-aged men teleporting in as well.

They were both wrapped in white turbans, and it was unknown where they had teleported from, but they were clearly not locals.

When those two appeared.

The dark-skinned youths nearby immediately crowded around, looking like they wanted to beg.

"Get lost, get lost."

Those two impatiently tried to drive the people away.

But more and more beggars gathered around, each holding a rice bowl and looking at them… and just after dozens of people had surrounded them, those seemingly begging dark-skinned youths suddenly erupted!

Each person used a skill, smashing them point-blank into the two turbaned middle-aged men!

A full dozens of skills surged forth like a storm.

Those 'beggars' were all below level 15, so they hadn't been taken seriously by the two men.

With this sudden eruption, before those two could even react, more than half of their health was smashed away!

"Shit!"

"Go die, go die!"

Those two turbaned middle-aged men also had extremely fast reaction speeds; one of them raised a hand with a healing skill, bringing their health back up.

The other flipped open a magic book at his waist and directly released a flame skill!

Boom! Boom!

A sheet of fiery red flames burned all of those dozens of 'beggars' into ashes!

However, after these dozens of dark-skinned youths were killed, the lifespan they dropped was only a little over a day each; they were clearly all paupers… otherwise, they wouldn't be staying here to 'beg'.

"What a mess."

Qin Feng was expressionless as the Death Wings unfolded behind him, and he flew directly into the sky.

Grinding monsters peacefully brought in lifespan too slowly.

In a place like this, there were people at every moment wanting to 'bet small to win big'—tense and exciting!

Like those two turbaned middle-aged men, they were most likely players from the Middle East; once successfully killed, they would likely drop a huge amount of lifespan!

Even if they failed, dozens of people added together would only lose a few dozen days of lifespan, which was absolutely nothing…

And after killing those dozens of 'beggars'.

Those two turbaned middle-aged men were surrounded by even more people from around the teleportation square, each one looking fierce and aggressive!

These people clearly couldn't be compared to the 'beggars' from just now.

Each was level 17 or 18; if a fight broke out, they could probably easily crush those two turbaned men to death.

"Mister Yang!"

"We were invited here by Mister Yang!"

The two turbaned men immediately began to speak with animated gestures.

That group of local dark-skinned players then withdrew their combat stances, but remained very alert; two small squads stepped forward and escorted the two turbaned men away.

"Mister Yang?"

"Mr. Yang?"

"Could he be from Great Xia?"

Qin Feng hadn't flown away yet, and seeing this scene, he was a bit surprised.

It sounded like that Mr. Yang's status in the local area was very high, and in this era, high status meant strong power!

"If he really is from Great Xia, then it'll be easier to communicate."

"Have him provide people to burn the Ancient Jungle with me?"

Qin Feng had a preliminary idea, but he didn't reveal himself rashly; he decided to observe first.

Thus, he followed the two escorted turbaned men all the way.

Not long after.

Qin Feng saw from a distance that in this city, which was still mostly ruins, a luxurious and magnificent palace complex had suddenly appeared; the palaces in this complex were actually all in the ancient architectural style of Great Xia!

A layer of Emerald-grade defensive barrier enveloped the palace complex, looking extremely solid.

"Although I can break the barrier, there's no need to alert the enemy…"

"Let's observe the situation inside first."

Qin Feng possessed Original Shadow Perception; he didn't need to enter at all to detect everything inside.

He sensed casually and 'saw' that in this palace complex, there were a total of several hundred players, and the leaders among them were actually all Great Xia players!

Their subordinates were some relatively high-level dark-skinned players, busily working all over the palace complex.

"I don't see that Mr. Yang."

Qin Feng was in no hurry.

He saw the two turbaned men being led into the palace, where they met a Great Xia youth wearing glasses in a side hall, and the two sides began to communicate…

Because the language they used was too obscure, Qin Feng really couldn't understand it.

Helpless, he could only release Osirio and Grey Chicken.

After all, these two had the protection of the God Forsaken Game's rules; as long as they came into contact with any language, they could immediately be instilled with the information of that language and understand it instantly!

And so…

Qin Feng recounted to them the content of the conversation between the two turbaned men and the glasses-wearing youth.

Soon, after listening to those two, Osirio and Grey Chicken looked at each other, seemingly a bit shocked.

Osirio: "Well, Boss, I suggest you learn from this Mr. Yang, really."

Grey Chicken deeply agreed: "Indeed, the false emperor associates with the Crouching Dragon and Fledgling Phoenix. The true emperor possesses a harem of three thousand!"

"…"

Qin Feng laughed: "Do you even know what Crouching Dragon and Fledgling Phoenix mean? Calling yourselves that?"

Grey Chicken was puzzled: "Aren't they terms used in your Great Xia culture to refer to people with high IQs?"

Qin Feng was speechless, then paused and said, "Yes, that's right. They are used to describe 'big smarties'."

Upon hearing this, Grey Chicken clearly felt something was wrong, but didn't know where the problem lay… and decided to ask the people from Sky Vault Guild later.

And after Osirio's detailed explanation.

Qin Feng finally understood…

That Mr. Yang really was from Great Xia, but he had been in this place before the God Forsaken Game arrived, specially dispatched here by a large heavy industry enterprise.

After the God Forsaken Game arrived, relying on his superior strength, he led the other Great Xia players from that enterprise to directly become one of the top forces in Harare City!

And now, he had even built an 'Imperial Palace' and proclaimed himself the 'Wolf Emperor'!

As for those two turbaned men, they had come over to discuss selling 'goods'.

As for what the goods were… naturally, beautiful women from all over the world!

Their transaction with Mr. Yang was that they would bring the women they captured over, and if Mr. Yang was satisfied, he would pay with lifespan to buy the women.

"Even though he's become a local tyrant here, he still finds the local women too ugly."

"So he can only constantly find people to kidnap women from outside to sell here, becoming his 'concubines', while also letting his subordinates have a taste of the soup…"

"These women are all imprisoned in the 'Imperial Palace' in reality, never seeing the light of day?"

Qin Feng could only say, he really knows how to enjoy himself!

Of course, for such things, Qin Feng was naturally too lazy to care; anyway, these people couldn't kidnap Great Xia women, unless they had actively emigrated…

"It seems there's nothing more to investigate."

Qin Feng decided to go straight over and get to the point.

At this time, those two turbaned men were bargaining with the Great Xia glasses-wearing youth: "No way! No way! Six hundred years is too little, at least eight hundred per person."

"Those are female soldiers from North America that we finally managed to catch; they are well-trained and very rare! Their figures, their asses, are all top-notch…"

Just then.

The glasses-wearing youth doing business suddenly had a huge change in expression because he heard a system prompt that the Emerald-grade defensive barrier of their Hideout… had suddenly failed!

"What's going on? Is someone attacking? Who can break our defensive barrier…"

The glasses-wearing youth immediately shouted in the guild channel.

Before he could get an answer.

In an instant, a figure with Death Wings unfolded behind him descended before him like a ghost.

It was Qin Feng.

Qin Feng didn't waste words, speaking straight to the point: "Hey, tell your guild leader to get online; I have something to discuss with him."

"Who the hell…"

The glasses-wearing youth was used to being arrogant and reflexively blurted out a curse, until he saw the two large words above Qin Feng's head—Shadow!

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