Chapter 114: Jiangdong Players, Rest in Peace

The “Little Conqueror,” his name lives up to his reputation!

Gazing at Sun Ce’s body before him, Li Guang sheathed his blade and bowed once.

Then he scanned the Personal Guards around him and waved his hand, saying: “You may go, take your lord back, and bury him with honor.”

The remaining over one hundred guards hesitated upon hearing this, but finally, a few plucked up the courage to step forward, lift their lord’s corpse, glance at Li Guang, and quickly retreat to the southern bank.

Having let over a hundred Jiangdong Elite Soldiers go, Li Guang led his troops back with a stern face, arriving before Mo Xiaobai to bow deeply again: “This subordinate released the enemy and failed to cut off Sun Ce’s head. I beg my Lord to punish me.”

Letting the Personal Guards escape was equivalent to exposing all of his own men to Sun Quan’s eyes.

But Mo Xiaobai did not blame Li Guang. Instead, he smiled and waved his hand: “Heroes admire heroes, and nothing is different from this. As for Sun Ce’s head, what use is it to me? Flying General, do not worry, we will retreat west according to the original plan, then find a chance to return north.”

With Sun Ce dead, Mo Xiaobai was not afraid that Sun Quan would chase relentlessly.

First of all, no matter who Sun Quan sent to pursue, with the banner of Jiangdong, Sun Ce, fallen, the hearts of the people in Jiangdong would scatter, and Sun Quan would have enough to do to make everyone obey.

However, to be safe, Mo Xiaobai did not choose to cross the river directly. If they crossed the river, they might accidentally be spotted by Tower Ships. Mo Xiaobai could Respawn if he died, but Li Ji and Li Guang could not.

To ensure the safety of his Soldiers, Mo Xiaobai felt there was nothing wrong with taking a slightly longer route.

As they traveled, Mo Xiaobai also tallied his gains.

Sun Ce, as the master of Jiangdong, had died under Li Guang’s blade, adding another 500 Merits for Mo Xiaobai, which was much more than the combined total of Han Meng and Chang Xi.

At this moment, Mo Xiaobai’s personal Merit total had risen to 3693. Besides the points earned from escorting Liu Ye and exchanging grain, the Pengcheng battlefield ended with 800 points, Chang Xi’s head was 150, and Sun Ce’s head was 500. The total was close to 4000.

Moreover, Mo Xiaobai believed that Sun Quan would withdraw his troops and stop the battle soon. When that happened, the Intellect Brain would declare the Guangling Instance Quest finished, and a large sum of Merit would be earned.

Just as Mo Xiaobai had thought, when Sun Ce’s corpse was sent back to Sun Quan by the Personal Guards, the young Sun Quan, not yet 20 years old, almost collapsed to the ground.

The Sun Family generals around him looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

In the next moment, some shouted for revenge against Sun Ce, some said they must stabilize the morale of the troops immediately, and others said they must return the army right away to prepare Sun Ce’s funeral.

It was a noisy mess, no different from a Market.

The young Sun Quan did not receive the respect he deserved, and no one thought to ask for his opinion. Until the crowd argued until their faces turned red, the green-eyed, purple-bearded Sun Zhongmou came to his senses and roared: “Order Doujian warships to block the vast river! If any Cao soldiers cross the river, beat them back! The rest, settle your Troops of My Command and await orders. Do not cause trouble at such a time!”

“Send a messenger to Gongjin. Ask him to personally organize the transport of a batch of military grain. Come, come, come see my Big Brother for the last time.”

After roaring out the last sentence, Sun Quan felt his whole body lose strength, but he had to hold on.

The Sun Family must not fall!

…

Five days later, north of the Yangtze River.

Although Sun Quan had sent large and small Warships to block part of the river area, the entire Yangtze River was so vast. As long as Mo Xiaobai did not walk into a trap, it was very easy to find a place to cross north.

Returning to the northern bank, they were now in Cao Cao’s territory.

Mo Xiaobai could walk on the official road without fear, but instead of going to Guangling again, he returned directly to Pengcheng.

With Sun Ce dead, the matter Guo Jia had assigned was actually finished. Although Mo Xiaobai also wanted to meet Chen Deng in Guangling, thinking about the upcoming Cao-Yuan Final Battle, he decided to return quickly to catch the last bit of the pie.

Just as Mo Xiaobai led his troops back to Pengcheng and returned the Soldiers to Zang Ba, the long-awaited Intellect Brain announcement finally appeared:

“Great Han Dynasty Announcement~ Because Player ‘Daydreaming’ led troops to kill Sun Ce and forced Sun Quan to order a retreat, the Guangling Instance is declared over. Special reward: ‘Daydreaming’ gets 1200 Merits. All Cao Camp Players in the Guangling Instance get 80 Merits. Yuan Shao Camp Players in the Guangling Instance are punished, their Instance Quest is forcibly ended, and they must return to the Plane to maintain a dormant state until the Instance ends.”

“Great Han Dynasty Announcement~ Because Player ‘Daydreaming’ led troops to kill Sun Ce and forced Sun Quan to order a retreat, the Guangling Instance is declared over. Special reward: ‘Daydreaming’ gets 1200 Merits. All Cao Camp Players in the Guangling Instance get 80 Merits. Yuan Shao Camp Players in the Guangling Instance are punished, their Instance Quest is forcibly ended, and they must return to the Plane to maintain a dormant state until the Instance ends.”

“Great Han Dynasty Announcement…”

After the Pengcheng Instance ended, the Guangling Instance also ended.

And once again, it ended in the hands of Daydreaming.

Hearing this announcement, except for the Jiangdong Players who already knew Sun Ce was dead, the Players in other areas, even those in Guangling City, found it hard to imagine.

Although they drove back the Jiangdong troops and forced Sun Quan to retreat, they never thought Sun Ce would die at the hands of a Player.

Sun Ce was not like Chang Xi; he was the famous Little Conqueror of Jiangdong!

“I don’t understand the Great Gods anymore.”

“Great Gods really play a different version of the game. Is he playing the NPC-nerfed-stupid version?”

“My knees are shattered, and do I have to break my head too?”

“Jiangdong Players, rest in peace~”

“Let’s mourn for three minutes. Why couldn’t they meet anyone else, but had to meet Daydreaming?”

Similar conversations spread across various battlefields, and the Players in the Runan battlefield were even more startled.

You know, Jiangdong is quite close to Runan!

If the Great God could kill from Pengcheng to Guangling, he might not hesitate to come to Runan next.

If he comes to Runan, which NPC does the Great God want to kill?

Zhang Fei?

Zhao Yun?

Or Liu Big Ear?

For a moment, all Players in the Liu Bei Camp felt their mood was ruined.

They had already been beaten to death by the experts like Cao Ren and Man Chong, and only held on because Zhang Fei led Chen Dao to resist. If Great God Daydreaming got involved, what chance would Liu Bei have?

They could only roll away to Jingzhou to find his father, Liu Biao!

However, the Players in Runan were actually worrying too much. Mo Xiaobai never thought about going to Runan from start to finish.

After handing over the troops to Zang Ba, Mo Xiaobai should have returned to Guandu with Wang Zhong. But before leaving, while organizing his Xumi Bag, he suddenly remembered one thing.

A small task that happened in the Yuan Shao Camp. It was not very noticeable, but it had a very high difficulty.

The task was very small and had almost nothing to do with the Guandu Instance.

Moreover, the location was the deep rear of the Yuan Shao Camp, where almost no Players visited. In his previous life, no one had completed this small task.

After carefully recalling the details of the task, Mo Xiaobai quickly decided not to go to Guandu.

Although Guandu was good, in Mo Xiaobai’s eyes, it was not as good as that special task known as “The Most Impossible Task of the Guandu Instance.”

He was going to Wei Commandery, to a small County City named Yuancheng.