Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 466: Plotter Gets Plotted

"Then how do you think we should develop next?"

Li Wei asked another sentence. Listening more to other people's opinions was a kind of good virtue.

However, Hathaway directly shook her head. "Eldest Brother, don't ask me. I have already been taught a lesson by reality. I am very honest now; I beg to be let off, ah! To tell the truth, I am completely at a loss about the future right now. This situation has already exceeded my imagination. I don't even know what is best to do next."

"Are you speaking out of anger or speaking Child's Play words?"

Regarding what Hathaway said, Li Wei didn't believe it. Okay, in a certain sense, he was also somewhat confused about the future. It was primarily because he was currently situated within Jiang Xinran's Faction. This was a plot that had been set up right at the start. You couldn't jump out of your faction; otherwise, 50 points of World Reputation would be deducted!

It was worth mentioning that Li Wei's starting World Reputation was -10. Now, after painstakingly fighting a battle, aside from what was handed over to the faction, he currently still had 15 points of World Reputation left! But even so, his current World Ranking was at the 96th place! He entered the top hundred, ha!

Therefore, for a period of time in the future, he definitely couldn't shake off Jiang Xinran. Thus, how to develop in the future would to a large extent have to obey Jiang Xinran's words.

To give a simple example: Jiang Xinran was now Gao Yingxiang, and Li Wei was now Li Zicheng. Before Gao Yingxiang died, it was impossible for Li Zicheng to establish his own portal no matter what.

At this time, Li Yue spoke up: "Let me say a few words. I feel that the difficulty of obtaining World Reputation on this Ascension Continent will probably be extremely huge, even bigger than we imagined. Li Wei, your current World Reputation is only 15 points, right? And your current total World Ranking is only the 96th place. So I feel that next, you absolutely must not attempt to leave Jiang Xinran's Faction. Otherwise, just deducting those 50 points of World Reputation will make your heart and liver ache for a long time."

"In addition, I still recommend you communicate with Jiang Xinran to see what her strategy is, and then make a decision. Also, we must seize the time to build a castle Fortress. Grasping the crucial period at the start, once we have a castle, have a base, have a main camp, doing anything will be much more firm.""That's right, that's right. Build high walls, accumulate abundant grain, and be slow to claim the title of king. This is a wise saying for rebellion applicable at any time." Zhao Xuanxuan also chipped in.

"But matters aren't that simple, oh. Li Wei, I agree with Sister Yue's words. You should still hurry up and contact your Faction Leader. I'm afraid she might have some Moth Tricks." Hathaway still couldn't help but speak up.

"What Moth Tricks could there be? Our faction has already conquered four Magic Territories. We have a Five-Star Stone Mine here, and hundreds of Four-Star big trees. I don't believe the Magic Territory conquered by the Faction Leader doesn't have similar precious mineral deposits. Could it be that she's just going to leave them unwanted and go be Wandering Bandits?" Zhao Xuanxuan didn't quite understand.

But Li Wei, Li Yue, and Hathaway suddenly looked at each other quickly, all unable to help but suck in a breath of cold air. No way, right? No way!

With that old woman Jiang Xinran's disposition and habits, it was truly possible she would do this! Otherwise, why would she choose such a starting location? Directly facing the military edge of Duke Kaidel?

This Old Geezer Kaidel was a millennium-old Player, with profound foundation, having a Tyrant Start! Jiang Xinran was currently not even 90 years old. How could she compare with a millennium-old Tyrant? She couldn't compare in any aspect, right!

"Grass! Quick, Thomas, Zhao Qingshan, gather everyone who has the Miner Profession or Artisan Profession! Forget It, let's all come together! Strive to mine out and dig out that Five-Star Stone Mine completely overnight for me!"

Li Wei let out a loud roar. He truly had a feeling of being scared witless. Yes, it was too possible! He had felt that something wasn't right. Unless Jiang Xinran was Duke Kaidel's 508th concubine, otherwise, blatantly running to Duke Kaidel's doorstep to start—wasn't this courting death?

Absolutely, it couldn't be wrong!

Thanks to Zhao Xuanxuan, an unintentional remark had Awaken the Dreamer, ah!

Next, all 920 of them, except for The Cook making meals, all mobilized. Every person had a Three-Star Enchanted Barrel Shovel; digging down with one shovel was equivalent to the kind of ten ordinary iron shovels!

They didn't let go of the excavated dirt either, storing it all into vacant Resource Cards, with one thousand kilograms taking up one slot. After digging through the dozen meters deep surface dirt, below was the Five-Star Stone Mine. At this moment, everyone switched to Four-Star Enchanted Miner's Pickaxes.

Zhao Xuanxuan was in charge of the first echelon. She directly used a five-meter-long Four-Star Enchanted Steel Rod, smashing it down hammer by hammer! Smashing out a row, forming orderly holes. Then Thomas, whose Miner Destiny Grid was the highest, directly Shapeshifted into a Stone Giant. With a slap of his palm, a large intact chunk of Five-Star Ore was harvested!

The group of Miners and Stonemasons like Zhao Xuanxuan and Thomas with extremely high Destiny Grids formed the first echelon. Those with lower Destiny Grids were in the second echelon, responsible for the scraps.

Finally, those who were physically strong and robust with strength but nowhere to use it, like Li Wei, were in the third tier. They either continuously excavated and collected dirt, or excavated lower-quality stone mines, like the Three-Star Stone Mine.

These nine hundred plus people were like over nine hundred giant locusts, crazily plundering everything in the darkness of the night.

Of course, security was handled by Adai leading hundreds of Hunting Pets on the periphery.

"Li Wei, don't busy yourself here! There are so many Four-Star big trees outside, cut them all down, ah!"

Hathaway conversely mingled to become a commander. Mainly, she didn't want to mine in a dirty manner.

"Don't mind me. You should hurry up and absorb the free Mana, ah!"

"Eldest Brother, do you have any common sense? Without a Magic Power Mine, everything is useless! Unless I am a Fourth-Tier Mage... However, in this place, the free Mana is a trivial matter. Mine out the Five-Star Stone Mine, chop down and take away all the Four-Star big trees, then excavate enough fertile dirt, and that should be about enough. We only have one night. No matter what, regardless of whether my master initiates a motion tomorrow to become Wandering Bandits, we all have to retreat. Duke Kaidel won't be able to discover us, but don't you feel that the Treacherous Officials and Traitorous Generals around us are a bit too many?"

"This is clearly Duke Kaidel's subordinates clicking 'follow' and dropping into this P City."

"To tell the truth, my heart is very panicked right now. I just want to run away now."

Hathaway was somewhat anxious.

"It's fine, it's not a big problem. Just being Wandering Bandits, that's what I'm best at."

Despite saying this, Li Wei still handed the task of felling the big trees to those Soldiers with the Woodcutter Profession, while he himself took advantage of the night to begin a comprehensive reconnaissance of the area within a five-hundred-li radius.

He couldn't rely on Jiang Xinran, ah.

Perhaps this old woman's goal was to annex and violently absorb them all, just like that old coward Lu Ziming! Yes, although they belonged to the same Faction, how could it be as fragrant as drilling into the same pot?

That Old Geezer Guo Wang was Causing Trouble, and Jiang Xinran was also Causing Trouble, ah!

Centralizing power, centralizing Military Authority, motherf*cker!

He almost made a huge mistake!

So, should he inform William and Fred, these two unlucky bastards?

This thought flashed through Li Wei's mind, but then he felt that William and Fred, as experts in infighting for many years, should be able to deduce it. Perhaps everyone was currently preparing to sneakily run away.

Thinking of this, Li Wei instead turned back and directly found Li Yue, who was excavating wild grass and collecting medicinal herbs everywhere, and handed that Troubled Times Pioneering Card to her.

Exploring the surroundings while carrying the Troubled Times Pioneering Card, the map would be recorded in the Pioneering Card, and then it would be shared with the Faction's friendly forces.

But if he didn't carry the Pioneering Card—for example, Adai explored at least a five-hundred-li radius today, but its explored area was not in the shared map!

This f*cking thing, from its roots it permeated a flavor of A Loving Family.

At this time, Adai was flying twenty to thirty li ahead of Li Wei, while Li Wei silently followed behind. He didn't need to be like before, where he had to squeeze into and feel around every ravine and every small grove of trees. It was unnecessary.

The current objectives were three:

One: Figure out what areas are suitable for forced marches? And whether there are Magical Creatures of Six-Star or above in the current area.

Two: Figure out if the surrounding areas have been infiltrated by the enemy and ambushed at key locations.

Three: Figure out where the enemies' starting locations are, and whether there are deployments aimed at their side.

As for specifically where to settle down, that was impossible. At the current stage, facing a pitch-black Grand Map, even a peerless genius would have no way. But staying far away from Duke Kaidel and his Faction members, while simultaneously staying far away from Jiang Xinran—this was a basic strategy.

This night, Li Wei almost madly sprinted nearly four thousand li, roughly scouting clear the Northwest Direction and Southwest Direction of his own side! He confirmed three retreat routes and five temporary emergency retreat routes, and locked onto the lairs of two enemy Traitorous Generals. Although he temporarily wasn't sure if the opposing party had received Duke Kaidel's orders to initiate an encirclement or blockade the surrounding areas, he didn't want to gamble on this result.

It was worth mentioning that Duke Kaidel's starting location was less than 1700 li away from Jiang Xinran's starting location, situated in the southeast direction. Mm, this distance was actually quite far too.

"If I were Duke Kaidel, when seeing Jiang Xinran set her starting location in his own backyard, I probably would have understood Jiang Xinran's intentions right away! And this kind of Old Geezer who has lived for over a millennium probably wouldn't give Jiang Xinran, and wouldn't give us, even a sliver of a chance."

"So I guess, yesterday, when Jiang Xinran was dealing with that Magical Wolf Pack, and when I was dealing with the Stone Trolls, Duke Kaidel should have already sent out elites to sneakily come over."

"Today is probably the time he launches."

The moment he thought of this, Li Wei couldn't help but feel somewhat anxious. It was truly a millennium Old Geezer, unfathomable to Deities and Ghosts, ah!

With one hour left until dawn, Li Wei returned to the starting location Without a Trace.

This place was still a scene of busyness, but The Plains that was as picturesque as a painting yesterday was now full of potholes today, as ugly as a mangy head.

Outside that Great Pit, Hathaway stood there, constantly gazing toward the Northwest Direction, as if she had turned into a Husband-Watching Stone.

It didn't feel quite right, but Li Wei hadn't discovered any anomalies.

The moment Li Wei appeared in front of her, she almost burst into tears, hugging Li Wei in one go. At the same time, a full five Sequence Three Magical Crests landed on Li Wei's chest, followed by a Sequence Three Life Blessing!

"Flee—"

And she only had time to say one word, before her entire person was flipped away by Li Wei. Almost in an instant, a pitch-black, grim reaper-like sharp arrow had already pierced through Li Wei's chest Without a Trace!

His +15 Perception didn't even notice anything, because he was suppressed!

(End of Chapter)