Chapter 130: The Second Star Particle

After telling his mother about the importance of the Forum, Mo Xiaobai shook his head and went back to his bedroom to rest.

He pushed the door open, rubbed his forehead, and felt that the bedroom was much brighter than before.

“No oil lamp? Where is this light coming from?”

Surprised, he glanced around, and finally looked down at the space beneath him.

Huh?

The Star Disk?

Mo Xiaobai took the Spacetime Star Disc from his waist, and he was even more surprised. The Star Disk that originally only had one star particle glowing with a faint light had now lit up a second one.

“When did this light up? I didn’t even notice it during the day.” The change in the Spacetime Star Disc made Mo Xiaobai instantly awake. He blinked several times in a row, finally confirming that he wasn’t seeing things.

The second star particle had really lit up!

“Now the problem is, what is the function of the second star particle?” Looking down at the Star Disk in his hand, Mo Xiaobai raised an eyebrow slightly.

Unlike other Items, this thing did not give him any functional hints.

The function of the first star particle was discovered unintentionally during the Trial Mission. Now that the second one has lit up, how was he supposed to discover its function?

“Spacetime, spacetime. The first function was to shorten the cooldown. Will the second one be a similar effect?” Mo Xiaobai couldn’t figure it out, but he was no longer sleepy now. He turned around and walked out of the bedroom immediately.

Unless he figured this problem out, he simply had no mind to sleep.

Leaving the Baron’s Manor in a hurry, Mo Xiaobai’s first reaction was to run to the rice paddy. However, the rice seedlings planted there that day had not yet grown into mature rice ears.

It was estimated that the morning would come before this batch of rice would mature.

“So it has nothing to do with the cooldown?”

“Then what could it be?”

Carrying two question marks, he continued to patrol his Territory under the moonlight. He walked from the rice paddy to the Academy, then ran straight to the Martial Temple, before returning to the villagers’ houses and the other properties on his Territory.

After circling the entire area, he gained absolutely nothing.

“The first star particle has its function; there is no reason for the second one to be useless. I don’t need it as a flashlight, and I’m not used to sleeping with the lights on anyway.”

An unexplained restlessness rose to his head. Mo Xiaobai, who had already drunk quite a lot, felt a bit annoyed.

He thought about waking Li Ji and the others to ask if they noticed any changes, but he held himself back before knocking on the door. Walking back to the Manor alone with a frown, his mind was still filled with thoughts about this unusual change.

Arriving at the entrance of his Manor, Mo Xiaobai did not go inside. Instead, he sat heavily on the steps and looked up at the bright full moon in the sky.

He wished the moonlight could give him a hint, but the moon, high above, obviously didn’t want to pay attention to him. It even pulled a black cloud around itself and hid.

“Darn it!”

Mo Xiaobai pursed his lips and cursed, and his gaze dropped down with his mouth.

Just as his eyes moved downward, Mo Xiaobai suddenly froze.

He saw the Territory Stele!

The Stele could open an Instance Space!

Mo Xiaobai slapped his forehead with his right hand and quickly got up, rushing straight for the Stele.

When he walked within ten meters of the Stele, the second star particle on the Star Disk immediately burst into dazzling light. At the same time, the light arc that usually only appeared when opening an Instance also materialized in front of the Stele.

Following that came a piece of Instance information:

“Great Han Dynasty Instance: Battle of Guandu!”

“Camp Selection: Cao / Yuan!”

“Battlefield Selection: Guandu / Pengcheng / Guangling / Chang’an / Runan!”

“Instance Capacity: 10 People!”

“Instance Duration: 30 Days!”

“Instance Progress: None!”

“Instance Deaths: None!”

“Brief Overview: In Jizhou, Yuan Shao’s army of 100,000 threatened Guandu. Cao Cao followed Guo Jia’s advice, closed his camp to resist the battle, and waited for a change. At this time, five major battlefields stood together, and Cao and Yuan faced each other to decide the winner.”

…

Instance?

What did this mean? There was actually an Instance?

For a moment, Mo Xiaobai was completely stunned. Could he go into a closed Instance again?

What would it look like inside?

Would it reset to the beginning, or would there be a different version?

Staring blankly at the Instance information in front of him, Mo Xiaobai was unsure what he should do. Because in his past life, the Star Disk did not belong to any Player, so naturally, no Player would have had such an opportunity.

With no past life memories to refer to, Mo Xiaobai did not dare to make a random choice.

Go in and take a look?

What if he couldn’t get out for 30 days after entering?

But if he ignored the Instance information in front of him, Mo Xiaobai felt a bit itchy and eager to try.

“Is this Instance as real as the Dynasty Instance, or is it just a copy? Can items inside be taken out? Does the limit of 10 people refer specifically to Players, or does it include my own Territory Citizens?”

Mo Xiaobai’s mind was full of question marks, but he had to figure these questions out. And the best way to understand them was to find someone to go in and scout first.

“Wait until tomorrow morning. I need to find a subordinate to test this first.”

With this thought in mind, Mo Xiaobai waved his right hand to scatter the floating text in front of him. He took back four or five steps, and the light on the Star Disk began to fade, returning to a glow as small as a rice grain.

…

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky lightened, Mo Xiaobai, who had barely slept at all the night before, stepped out of the Baron’s Manor.

He didn’t even have time to eat breakfast before rushing to find Gao Lan.

Choosing Gao Lan was the result of Mo Xiaobai thinking all night.

Li Ji, Li Guang, and He Chun all had important duties, the Scholars each had their own tasks to do, and Zhang He was currently busy commanding the 300 Elite Soldiers who had come to Daming Village with him.

Only Gao Lan, as Zhang He’s Vice General, could be pulled out to do other things. In addition, Gao Lan was very familiar with Guandu, so it was most suitable to let him go first to check the Instance situation.

Mo Xiaobai was only worried about whether the ten spots could be given to the Territory Citizens.

If the limit required Players to enter, Mo Xiaobai would be stuck.

Currently, besides himself, the only two Players in Daming Village were his mother and Little Dot.

First, he found Gao Lan, then went to the Drill Ground to summon nine Village Soldiers. Taking these ten people with him to the Stele, the Instance information appeared in front of Mo Xiaobai again.

This time, Mo Xiaobai found that he could confirm which ten of the eleven people present would enter the Instance.

“As I thought, Territory Citizens can enter too!”

Mo Xiaobai marked and assigned the ten spots to Gao Lan and the Village Soldiers beside him. He looked at Gao Lan and said, “This is the passage I used to enter Guandu back then. General Gao will also enter Guandu again from this place later. I am not sure what Guandu looks like now, so I need you to lead the troops there to scout.”

“Before entering, I have a few things to tell you. First, immediately check if you can come back after entering. If you can, have one Village Soldier come back first to send news.”

“The second thing, when you are able to return, remember to bring some things from Guandu over here to see if you can bring them back to Daming Village. The last thing, the situation over there is unclear, so be careful with everything. If you have time, train these Village Soldiers; it would be best if you could drill them into elites like your own troops.”

“This matter is of great importance. I cannot rest easy entrusting it to ordinary people, so I can only trouble you to make this trip, General.”