Chapter 1317: 428. Chaotic Profit-Seeking_2

From this part of the content alone, this female player named “FanFan Eating Meal” is acting as the commander who directs players’ actions.

She has a lot of experience in commanding players to siege the Demon God host, being recognized as the team leader.

It’s just, her hobby of trash-talking with others after battles is somewhat baffling.

It’s as if she was holding back a bellyful of fire during the command, only to vent it all after the battle.

Noland Lee noted down the name “FanFan Eating Meal” and activated the spell again to eavesdrop on the Cucumber Slice Team’s movements.

The Cucumber Slice logged back on five minutes after logging off.

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His game character, lingering in the ship cabin, recovered from a dazed state and stated:

“Guys, Boss Jin said he’s really having a severe headache today, estimated he won’t be able to do the Task; he’ll have to let the guild handle it. He will log on to accept the Task and then see if he can share the Quantum Leap Beacon mentioned in the Task with the guild members. If the guild members can’t use Spells to take away an Artificial Angel, then we’ll have to try other methods, like using a fleet and ropes to drag an Artificial Angel directly and hide it. When Boss Jin feels better, he’ll come and use Spells to contain this Artificial Angel.”

The team members discussed:

“This is indeed a solution.”

“It’s not certain if it’ll work, though. If the Quantum Leap Beacon in the Task can’t be shared, then there’s no play in this Task at all.”

Cucumber Slice coughed lightly and said:

“Cough cough, guys, there’s another last resort that I want to discuss with you. Don’t we just happen to have an Artificial Angel? Boss Jin said, if it really doesn’t work, he would directly buy our ship and let himself drive it to complete the Task. Since the Artificial Angel is bound to our ship, whoever drives the ship there can complete the Task. About the money to buy the ship, Boss Jin is willing to exchange it for three Battleships.”

“Eh? This could work.”

“Boss Jin is so generous.”

The players’ eyes sparkled.

This deal was definitely a win.

Chatting cheerfully, Noland Lee fiddled with the Task System interface behind the scenes.

To assign Tasks to players, you don’t need to know where the players are.

Noland Lee just needed to enter the player’s name on the Task interface to assign a Task to a specific player.

No matter when Gold Dragon in the Sky would log on, Noland Lee had already composed the Task and thrown it over to him.

The Quantum Leap Beacon mentioned in the Task was actually set up by Noland Lee at the last minute.

It was a black Metal Box over a meter tall, equipped with a United Bureau standard space signal source, to provide navigation services for ships produced by the United Bureau.

Any ship from the United Bureau could follow the guidance of this Quantum Leap Beacon.

This meant Gold Dragon in the Sky could share the identification code of the Quantum Leap Beacon with other players.

By entering this identification code into their ships’ navigation systems, other players could locate this Quantum Leap Beacon and then jump to it.

In the player community, such methods of summoning off-field reinforcements by sharing identification codes seemed quite common.

While eavesdropping on players conversing, Noland Lee had heard that a player team was forced into a tough situation by a foe who knew the Quantum Leap Beacon code, leading to them being ambushed and heavily defeated during the Task.

It appears the shareability of the Quantum Leap Beacon identification codes was already becoming common knowledge among players.

Back to the main topic.

Noland Lee was not sure how long it would take for the Angel Enterprise Alliance to arrive at the scene, but that wouldn’t stop him from continuing the Task.

Encountering setbacks during gameplay was inevitable; Noland Lee didn’t need to shield the players from every setback.

After waiting patiently for a little while, Noland Lee saw a squadron composed of seven ships jump in.

All these ships were Battleships, the shell of which bore the insignia of the Gold Dragon Guild.

At the forefront, several players stood together, looking slightly tense, gazing forward at the driving cabin’s 19 Artificial Angels.

First, they wondered why the Artificial Angels hadn’t attacked them, and then they started casting.

The first Spell recited was mentioned in the Task received by Gold Dragon in the Sky.

This Spell was intended for use by Gold Dragon in the Sky alone, so the players’ attempt to recite it had no effect.

The second Spell recited was mentioned in the Task received by the Cucumber Slice Team.

Likewise, this Spell too had no effect.

Of course, Noland Lee knew that making the Spells effective could help the players a great deal.

But he didn’t want to do that.

This was a matter of principle.

He could not break the rules just for the benefits of a few players and allow non-task receivers to cast spells.

Noland Lee wanted to use this incident to tell the players that only those assigned the task could cast spells, and no one else could.

This was the only way to put an end to many players’ undue thoughts and prevent them from causing trouble.

There was no choice, as the players’ previous actions of insisting on watching the battle scenes had made Noland Lee acutely aware of the players’ “chaotic” and “profit-driven” tendencies.

Only by making them realize early on that this path was blocked could a greater disaster be prevented.

The players in the fleet, seeing their casting fail, immediately initiated Plan B.

They released a swarm of drones from the battleships to bind the Artificial Angels.

Seven battleships simultaneously used metal chains to drag the Artificial Angels, accelerating towards a sparsely dotted starry sky.

At the same time, several other fleets jumped here.

This time, the ships that teleported here were all invisible escort ships.

They surrounded the battleships and the dragged Artificial Angels to form a three-dimensional enclosure, activating the invisible field to create an invisible bubble, hiding both the angels and the ships from space.

This was a fairly common tactical maneuver, usually used for special operations.

If the “Gold Dragon” guild had special operations stealth raider ships of raider level, they wouldn’t need to send out fleets of invisible escort ships to help the battleships achieve invisibility.

Because just one special operations stealth raider ship would provide an invisible field covering up to five to six kilometers, shielding a large number of ships during the operations.

Noland Lee saw the “Gold Dragon” guild’s players cooperating seamlessly, and nodded silently to himself.

This was correct.

Since the players could find a workaround to complete the task, there was no need for him, the person behind the scenes, to make an exception to help them.

But just then, within the invisible state of the fleet, a sparkling light point emerged.

The fleet, secretly transporting the Artificial Angels, had actually placed a quantum leap beacon here!

Under Noland Lee’s slightly shocked gaze, numerous player ships teleported here.

In just a short half a minute, the empty starry sky was filled with a deluge of player ships, resulting in numerous collisions.

Minor bumps and scrapes were no longer enough to make the players stop and argue; everyone’s gaze focused on the 18 “unwanted” Artificial Angels.

The player ships, as soon as they arrived, sent out swarms of drones to tie up the Artificial Angels, pulling them forcefully, with the ferocity of tigers.

“Hiss—I really never expected this group of players to be so wild.”

Noland Lee instantly realized what was happening!

It must have been Golden Dragon in the Sky that told the other player guilds about the unguarded Artificial Angels.

Whether this sharing of information was paid or unpaid, Noland Lee did not yet know.

But the series of events it triggered were definitely beyond Noland Lee’s expectations.

A large group of light drones, dragging long metal chains, came near to the Artificial Angels near Noland Lee, wrapping the chains around it in circles.

Noland Lee’s mouth twitched, and he promptly prepared to switch to another Artificial Angel.

However, looking around, each of the 18 Artificial Angels at the scene was being treated the same.

“Thank goodness I didn’t help the ‘Gold Dragon’ guild’s players when they wanted to use spells to contain the Artificial Angels,”

Noland Lee consoled himself silently while also cautiously moving away from the area.

He had a vague premonition that it wouldn’t be long before the fleet of Angel Enterprises Alliance would arrive.

Indeed, just after Noland Lee flew out more than ten kilometers, a large area of white light symbolizing quantum leaps appeared, enclosing the entire scene.

The fleet of the Angel Enterprises Alliance had arrived.

The size of this fleet was quite large.

Not only were there 40 Artificial Angels armed with long spears and shields, but also battle ships of the Alliance that looked like pristine Holy Daggers.

Noland Lee noticed that on the Artificial Angels there was the emblem of the Redemption Angel Group, and on those battle ships filled with a holy aura, the emblem of the Archangel Group appeared.

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