Volume 4, Chapter 24 – Preparations for Action

[Anran has been spotted in Yaxi City. No wonder she’s an NPC with a 500,000 Bilu bounty from Morningstar. She really is strong!]

[How strong are we talking?]

[She casually wiped out another Morningstar contact point in Yaxi City. Then she only needed a few seconds to wipe out all four of us.]

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[Hey, hey, hey, are you kidding? She killed a group of players with an average level above 12 in just a few seconds?]

[If you don’t believe it, why not come over and experience Anran’s service for yourself?]

[Ha, I seriously don’t believe it. Just wait till I call my brothers over!]

After He Fuyu’s post went up, the forum on No. 1886 was filled with conversations like these.

Because there was no video evidence, a lot of people simply refused to believe it.

Even the ones who did believe it were not afraid enough to back off.

They had already spent nearly two months in the game.

They had never encountered a mission with rewards this rich before, so the players were fearless.

“How scary!” Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Anran smiled to herself as she casually squeezed one of her own breasts with one hand.

The hype had already been stirred up.

A whole bunch of players were already shouting that they were coming to kill her.

But the truth was, Anran had no intention of staying in Yaxi City for long. She was only here to collect a bit of interest, and also to stir up some trouble and muddy Morningstar’s attention so she could quietly head for Morningstar Canyon Continental Branch.

Anran logged out of the forum.

She glanced at the bathroom. Behind the frosted glass, Aila was diligently washing herself.

The little pale figure swayed back and forth, and more importantly, the bathroom door was not even locked. The crack it was open by was wide enough to stick a foot through.

“Mm…”

Anran shook her head and cast aside her wandering thoughts.

Her own appearance was actually rather cool and breezy too. She had already removed her disguise and was wearing nothing but a pair of light pink panties with a rabbit head printed on them.

It was not that Anran was especially girlish. In fact, those clothes had all been bought by the previous Anran.

As for her upper body, Anran was currently letting her little steamed buns breathe the free air, which was good for their growth…

Anran took out the laptop she used for programming.

All the useful information from the computer He Fuyu had snatched had already been copied over. As for the computer itself, Anran had tossed it into a sewer halfway back.

There was a tracker on it.

“First, let’s check the dark web and see if there are any targets.”

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Anran set the laptop on her thighs and had just pressed the power button.

Her phone suddenly rang.

Anran fished the phone out from beside her butt.

A familiar number was displayed on the screen.

It was from Zhou Jieyu.

Tap.

Anran hung up immediately.

“Huh?”

Why was it hung up on?

Zhou Jieyu was startled.

She called again.

Strange. Hadn’t Anran said she could contact her if anything came up?

Beep, beep—

The busy tone came back through the phone almost immediately.

“…”

Little circles were practically spinning above Zhou Jieyu’s head.

After thinking for a moment, she directly @-mentioned Yumo in the chat system.

“Hey, why can’t I get in touch with Anran?”

“…”

Yumo, who was in the middle of doing a mission, was completely dumbfounded.

Who was this person?

Then she suddenly realized this was one of the two players Anran had asked her to contact the other day.

The chat record was still there.

“Anran isn’t by my side. She already left.”

“Mm…” Zhou Jieyu was very disappointed.

Then how was she supposed to turn in her mission?

Ah.

Annoying.

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And ever since she entered this lousy military camp, she had not been able to write a single strategy guide anymore.

A month ago, she had still been a big-shot everyone looked up to. Now she had sunk to the bottom.

Zhou Jieyu felt awful.

She started missing Anran.

“How did you contact Anran?” Yumo asked.

As if it were only natural, Zhou Jieyu said, “By phone.”

This person has no brains at all.

“You called her directly?”

What, was I supposed to call her indirectly?

“Yeah,” Zhou Jieyu answered reluctantly.

“Then of course Anran wouldn’t pick up,” Yumo replied.

“Why?”

“…”

Are you stupid?

For a moment, Yumo and Zhou Jieyu began despising each other’s intelligence.

“Isn’t Anran under a bounty? If you just call her directly, how would she know it’s really you? What if you’re being threatened?” Yumo instantly achieved an IQ suppression over Zhou Jieyu.

Uh…

That actually made a lot of sense.

Zhou Jieyu quietly lurked without saying anything.

I’m not going to stoop to her level.

Since Anran would not pick up the phone, then she would send a text message instead.

Anran had just logged onto the dark web and was still filtering information when she received Zhou Jieyu’s text.

“Anran, I’ve gathered new information!”

“…”

Anran pondered slightly for a moment.

Then she wrapped her coat around herself, put on a pair of darker-colored pants, and left the hotel.

It was better to be careful, just in case anything unexpected happened.

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By the time Anran came back from outside,

she had obtained a total of three pieces of information.

The first was that several guilds aligned with Morningstar were collecting information about her.

The second was that Morningstar’s special operations troops in Wutong City had all already been transferred to the southern hemisphere of No. 1886.

They went to the southern hemisphere?

What kind of move was that?

Even if they were not coming to Yaxi City, they still should not have gone to the southern hemisphere, where there was no war.

The third was that Zhou Jieyu would be coming to Yaxi City together with the Security Department.

Then, just as Anran was taking off her clothes, Li Zhuying’s message also arrived.

The Security Department was coming over as reinforcement. There was temporarily no fighting in the east, and people from the Nine Songs branch in Twinmoon City were also coming over to reinforce them.

Li Zhuying was very excited, but Anran was not excited at all.

If Li Zhuying saw her, there was no telling what the irrational Li Zhuying might do.

“Assassinate Lorion, president of the Yaxi City United Chamber of Commerce. Bounty: 300,000 Bilu.”

“Assassinate Helan, deputy leader of the Kongquan Gang in Yaxi City’s western district. Bounty: 100,000 Bilu.”

“…”

These people Anran had filtered out were all people she had found traces of on the contact list.

In other words, all of them had ties to Morningstar.

“Anran, Anran, I’m done bathing!”

Aila walked out of the bathroom.

She was not wearing anything at all. Her fair little feet stepped into pink slippers as she happily walked to the bed and slipped under the covers.

Good thing she had not excitedly jumped right onto the bed.

Anran let out a sigh of relief.

But still, it really was hard to endure staring at her like this.

“Aila, after you finish bathing, remember to wrap yourself in a bath towel. Or just put on clothes.”

“Mm!” Aila poked her head out and nodded.

Anran shut off the computer, then went in to take a shower.

After showering, Anran did not do anything else. She simply lay down to sleep beside Aila.

The night was not peaceful. With the news of Anran appearing in Yaxi City, along with the destruction of a Morningstar contact station, all sides began taking action.

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Even more panicked were the people who had been in contact with that station.

What if their names had been leaked?

Then, early the next morning, related posts suddenly appeared online.

The names of several people connected to Morningstar appeared in those posts.

And the people of Nine Songs quickly picked up on the news.

Worth making a move over.

“Anran, Anran, where are we going today?”

“We’re going to a charity reception and mooch some food while we’re at it!”

Dressed up like an “effeminate pretty boy,” Anran smiled and bared her white teeth.

“Don’t worry, your share won’t be missing either!”

Anran rubbed Aila’s head.

Mm.

Some of the cutlery used at charity receptions like that was made of rather high-grade metal.

Anticipation immediately appeared on Aila’s face.

Recently, with all the running around, she felt like the things she had been eating were no longer doing much.

…

At Yaxi City’s station,

two groups of players suddenly ran into each other.

“Huh, isn’t that guy one of Morningstar’s people? I saw him on the forums yesterday saying he wanted to gather a group to kill Anran!”

“Who?”

“That guy called Smiling Doghead!”

“What are you staring at? Got a problem?”

“Damn, you’re only level 10 and you dare act this cocky?”

“So what if I’m cocky!”

Bang!

“You dare fire a gun? Fuck, brothers, get him!”

A vicious encounter battle suddenly broke out inside Yaxi City’s station.