"So your future is in your hands now."

At the same moment, around the harbor southeast of Liberty City, surrounded by a group of players in one of the warehouses, two players were talking to each other, and one of them had a sense of confidence in his voice: "This is the third time I've come to warn you, isn't that enough to wake you up?" ”

"Wake up? It's a good word, I've got to write it down. The cynical prodigal appearance appeared between the large crates at the other end of the warehouse, and the figure of another player standing there with his hands behind his head was revealed: "But...... If I'm not mistaken, the meaning of this word doesn't seem to be used to us now, right? After all, we haven't promised you yet. ”

"We didn't intend to continue persecuting you, but things don't sound going well on Tania's side." The cyan cloth clothes swayed back and forth between the dim lights of the warehouse, and the originally relaxed tone and voice of the figure who spoke earlier seemed to have become much lowered: "If the progress over there is not going well, we must accelerate the progress on this side to find balance, so...... You get the idea, right? ”

"Huh? What did you just say? Sorry I got distracted, so I didn't hear it...... Well? ”

At some point, the excuse like a buffalo suddenly stopped, and then the silence was broken by a third player figure who suddenly appeared in the warehouse, and the player who looked like a thief in a black cloak then raised his head from a half-kneeling position, and looked at the green shirt figure without any intention to deflect: "Boss." ”

"Don't call me the boss, after all, you're not on our team anymore." The smile full of kindness on his face slowly disappeared, and the green-shirted figure known as the boss waved his hand and replied, "And...... You are here now. It's not a good sign, is it? ”

"The people who spy on the Dark Arts Hut have made a new discovery." Not paying attention to what the green-shirted swordsman in front of him said, the thief, who was half-kneeling, replied with his head bowed, "Two men disappeared in the evening, and we tried to track their whereabouts, but it was too late. ”

"Heh, when I came to the door two days ago to look for trouble, I boasted about Haikou, but now there is nothing I can do." His eyes opened slightly, and the swordsman in the green shirt let out a self-deprecating laugh: "Have you found out the purpose of their actions?" ”

"It's supposed to be for us."

Standing up from a half-kneeling position, the thief player still bowed his head deeply: "Chunhua followed the clues left by the previous Sanqing to find the wasteland outside the city, there is indeed a large trap there, plus the eyewitness testimony of some players nearby, we are almost certain that it is the same people." ”

"From the empire to the city of freedom, across thousands of mountains and rivers...... Hum. Let out a heavy cold snort, and the expression on the face of the swordsman in the green shirt also became angry: "At this point, the ghost is still lingering, do they really think they can do anything?" ”

"That's probably not what the above means." There was no change because of the resentment of the man in the green shirt in front of him, and the thief with his head bowed still replied in a voice that was neither humble nor arrogant: "The situation outside is very tense now, and the family is now unable to spare more energy to deal with the accidents in this world. ”

"Lou Yuyan's attention hasn't moved a minute lately, and she seems to have made up her mind to crush us in this way." After pondering for a while, the green-shirted swordsman's eyes regained a bit of brilliance: "The more pressure we give here, the less pressure there will be outside—heh, when did the situation turn to this point?" ”

"Fortunately, there is not much deviation from what we are trying to achieve now."

Clenched his fist vigorously, and the eyes of the green-shirted swordsman fell on the thief in front of him again: "As long as the ritual circle can be reactivated, the wind direction of the free world will also change again because of us......

"The problem is on Rondaul's side." Looking in the direction of the figure standing still between the crates next to him, the thief replied in a low voice, "Although the man still looks confident, I always feel that there may be other surprises in this. ”

"I think that guy is unreliable, Akang."

A heavy cold snort came out again, and the green-shirted swordsman replied in a low voice: "But at this point, these potential problems can only be solved by ourselves, after all, our duty here is to cooperate with their actions and eliminate and solve potential obstacles that may arise for them. ”

"Like the guys we're focusing on right now." Speaking of this, he looked in a certain direction in the distance: "Don't think that they are sneaking away from us, we won't be able to find out where they are, there are not many places in this city that are not under our control and surveillance, the City Lord's Mansion, the Dark Magic Hut, the port, and those few stubborn candidates for the throne, as long as you use the elimination method......"

"Do you need to use 'those things'?" The Rogue player known as Akon whispered, "Those places are not easy for us to enter, without the help of some external forces-"

"No, those things are the last resort we have to keep." Interrupting the other party's words, the green-shirted swordsman gritted his teeth and shook his head: "Using them before everything is completely settled, it is no different from planning in advance, we definitely can't do this." ”

"We are now left to our own devices."

The deep voice echoed through the darkness of the warehouse as the rogue player's voice disappeared, and with a gradually recovering silence around the green-shirted swordsman, he finally took a deep breath after standing quietly for a while, and then whispered to the figure who had been talking to him all the time, "You must have heard some of our internal communication just now, handsome guy Jack." ”

"Sorry, my ears aren't that bright." Combing his shiny hair, the figure of the player, known as Handsome Jack, shook his head with a smile: "You can talk about yours, remember to call me when you're done." ”

"I came here to negotiate with you and the Borderlands behind you." Exhaling the inhaled breath deeply, the green-shirted swordsman's gaze lost the friendliness he had shown when he first faced the player: "But you should understand that we don't have much time to waste right now, so-"

"Against people like you who aren't very 'smart', we have to use some tougher methods."

He looked at the other party's still unchanged smiling face, and his tone became as cold as cold winter: "Long story short, give you two choices: either join us or be destroyed by us, there is no other way to go." ”

“……”

"Don't try to be a swingman."

Looking at the other party's motionless appearance of standing in place with his hands on his hands, the warning in the voice of the blue-shirted swordsman became more and more intense: "You are the last large-scale guild in this city that has not yet established its position, and many guild forces in the free city, including the second in the world, have now made their own choices, only you are borderless land, relying on that little bit of family business, and still vainly trying to use the method of wall grass to scrape layers of oil and water from both sides." ”

"It's actually pretty easy to deal with a guy like you - it's enough to give you an ultimatum." Putting away the gloomy look on his face, the green-shirted swordsman who turned around snapped his fingers behind his back: "If you Borderlands still choose to stand by and watch before the deadline comes, we and the Magic Empire behind us will be the first to clear you from this chessboard." ”

"Clean up your biggest destabilizing factor."

In the scene of Jack's face changing slightly, the green-shirted swordsman who walked to the door of the warehouse said in a low voice, no longer caring about the other party's expression and feelings, and then he temporarily stopped his steps, and looked up at the night light and shadow faintly revealed through the warehouse gate in front of him: "Please forgive my temperament, it's just that many things have happened recently that have made my mood a little bad, so ...... Well. ”

"How about ten more days?" He looked back, as if to threaten the darkness deep in the warehouse: "Ten days later, it's January 26th, the wind in the game time—that's broad enough. ”

"Looking forward to your final answer."

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"So that's the final answer, isn't it?"

In the middle of the night, several figures regathered near the Freedom City's Dark Magic Hut, and one of them then put away his original guarded shield, and asked helplessly in a deep voice, "Doesn't sound very satisfying." ”

"It's nice to be able to tell us about the history of Liberty City." Putting away his arms, which looked a little tired, Duan Qing, who was dragging his feet, slowly walked through the line of defense guarded by the big shield warrior: "The prophecy and the intelligence have overlapped, and our future action goals can be regarded as having a direction...... What's going on inside? ”

"The black mage you told you earlier has already taken the herb." Standing the shield in front of him again, Gedmayne replied without looking back, "But listening to her tone, it will take some time to refine the corresponding healing potion." ”

"Do you still need our help?" Walking through the entrance of the alley he was guarding, the voice of Snow Spirit Phantom Ice also sounded in the small dark space: "There is barely a self-proclaimed strong alchemist in our team now, I don't know if I can give that Excellency a hand-huh?" ”

"There was a battle here?"

The footsteps suddenly stopped when she stepped over a certain place, and the long white hair of the woman covered by the cloak also floated out a little with the inertia of her walking: "Those people are looking for trouble again?" ”

"It's true that people have come to ask for trouble, but I'm not sure if it's those people." Glancing at the cracked walls and dented sword marks that Snow Spirit Phantom Ice had noticed at this time, Gedmayne waved his hand back indifferently: "They just stepped forward to test it, and they immediately retreated before they could exchange a few moves. ”

"Hmm...... It looks like they've been keeping an eye on us. Slowly turning his head from the front, Duan Qing's tired voice then carried a bit of a low meaning: "After confirming our identity, do you want to always determine our whereabouts?" It's really a lot of respect. ”

"The situation is not in our favor right now." Frowning at his brows, Xue Lingphantom Ice, who had retracted his gaze from those battle traces, also whispered: "They are in the shadows now, but they have more intelligence information and vision than us, if this situation is allowed to continue to develop, we will be led by the nose sooner or later." ”

"We have a lot of trump cards in our hands, but we hardly use them now."

Gesturing to the corner of the dark magic hut that was faintly visible in the depths of the alley behind him, Duan Qing's voice also carried a bit of helplessness: "There are really not many things that our five-person team can do, and completing two of the three goals at the moment is already our limit." ”

"It got into more trouble." Pouting his mouth, the figure waiting in front of him came from a muffled voice: "Like that mysterious woman - we will continue to deal with that troublesome guy who seems to be extremely powerful in the future?" ”

"I can't say for sure."

Duan Qing, who glanced at each other with the snow spirit phantom ice beside him, shrugged his shoulders, and then let out two wry smiles: "In short, whether it's a blessing or a curse, we can't avoid it after all, let's put that person's affairs aside, the information in front of us is enough for us to think about what we should do next." ”

"What do you think?"

As he said this, he looked at the two people in front of him with inquiring eyes, and then there was a moment of silence between the several pairs of eyes that looked at each other in the streets and alleys that kept blowing in the cold wind of the night, and finally gathered together in an instant with the action of Xue Ling's phantom ice suddenly clapping his palms: "Okay, while everyone is here now, let's discuss it together." ”

"The first thing to consider is more reinforcements."