Chapter 138: So This Is the Great God You Are

“Guest, the wine you ordered is here.”

A tall, thin young man dressed as a waiter shouted, carrying two jars of wine to Mo Xiaobai’s table. The moment he saw the token, his eyes narrowed sharply.

“Guest, please put your accessory away. This shop has many people and eyes everywhere; someone might steal it.”

“No worries. I was entrusted by someone else to receive this as a gift.” Mo Xiaobai chuckled and tossed the small token in his hand.

As Mo Xiaobai finished speaking, every player present, including Mo Xiaobai himself, heard an Intellect Brain notification:

“Ding~ Since the Player is holding the quest item ‘Yingfeng Bureau Order Token’ to enter the Instance scene, the Plane Instance ‘Yang Zhi’s Calamity’ has officially begun. Please confirm the number of players. The Instance will start in ten seconds!”

Instance?

Is there really a quest here?

Hearing the sudden Intellect Brain notification, all the players, inside and outside, immediately stopped what they were doing. Those with quick reactions looked at Mo Xiaobai and Bai Hualin.

In that short while, only this man and this woman had arrived.

Even though the surrounding players reacted quickly, none could react faster than Mo Xiaobai. Upon hearing the notification about the Instance starting, Mo Xiaobai did not hesitate and immediately confirmed that the number of players entering the Instance was the three of them at the table.

The very next moment, the ground beneath them shook violently.

It felt like the scene had transformed. Although they were still in that unremarkable shop, all the other players around them had completely vanished, leaving only Mo Xiaobai, Bai Hualin, and A-Dai.

“Plane Instance: Yang Zhi’s Calamity!”

“Instance Difficulty: B”

“Instance Players: 3/5”

“Instance Quest: Due to the delay in transporting the ‘Huashi Gang’, Yang Zhi will be escorted to Bianjing. Players must try to rescue Yang Zhi.”

“Instance Reward: Instance Treasure Chest (Silver)”

“Failure Penalty: Randomly lose 1 Innate Attribute!”

“Instance Introduction: In the first year of Emperor Huizong’s Xuanhe reign in the Song Dynasty, he specially established the Yingfeng Bureau because he liked strange stones from Jiangnan, with Zhu Mian coordinating all matters regarding the Huashi Gang. Zhu Mian dispatched twelve people, including Hua Rong, Xu Ning, Li Ying, Yang Zhi, and Sun Li, as Bureau Deputies to transport the Huashi Gang back north. Yang Zhi was blamed for missing the deadline and was escorted back to the capital by the County Commandant. Sun Li and others learned of this and immediately plotted to rescue Yang Zhi.”

…

“What kind of Instance is this?”

“Water Margin?”

When the Instance information expanded, Bai Hualin and A-Dai both showed a hint of surprise.

All the people listed in the Instance Introduction should be figures from the Great Song, right?

Why did it jump to the Great Han Dynasty?

Compared to the two of them, Mo Xiaobai was much calmer. He smiled and said, “There is nothing strange about this. Don’t you know what this area, Daye Marsh, was called during the Song Dynasty?”

“What was it called?”

“Liangshan Marsh!”

“Huh? Is this Water Marsh Liangshan?” Xiao Bai was clearly stunned by Mo Xiaobai’s explanation. Her surprise was even stronger than when she saw the Instance information.

“Although the specific map has been messed up by the Plane Intellect, this is indeed Water Marsh Liangshan. Or more accurately, Liangshan Marsh is a small part of the ‘Daye Marsh-Dang Mountain’ map.”

Mo Xiaobai explained with a smile, then took out two bottles and handed out a revitalizing pill to Xiao Bai and A-Dai each. “Here, take one first.”

After speaking, Mo Xiaobai took a pill himself. Then Bai Hualin swallowed hers in one gulp. Seeing both had taken their pills, A-Dai did not think too much and swallowed the small pill in his hand.

“Alright, let’s start the Instance.”

Speaking again, Mo Xiaobai stood up, put the revitalizing pills back into his Xumi Bag, and held only the sleeping incense in his hand.

“What are you going to do?”

Even Bai Hualin, who boasted about being an expert in Plane Quests, was confused about what Mo Xiaobai planned to do. She turned to look at A-Dai, who looked even more baffled.

A-Dai had only been able to enter the Instance because Mo Xiaobai had given him a slot. Now that Mo Xiaobai was about to start the quest, how would he know what Mo Xiaobai wanted to do?

If they were to rescue Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi wasn’t even on the scene yet.

The two completely confused men stared dumbfoundedly as Mo Xiaobai opened the cork of the sleeping incense bottle and walked over to the female shop owner who seemed to be doing the accounts.

He gently placed the porcelain bottle down. In less than a sentence’s time, both the shop owner and the waiter “poofed” and fell to the ground together.

Just then, another burly man who was busy in the kitchen came out, holding a tray.

“Guest, your well-cooked…”

He couldn’t finish the last character, “meat,” because his whole body went soft.

Mo Xiaobai, standing nearby, quickly caught the tray and shook his head. “If you are going to fall, just fall. Don’t let the dish I ordered go to waste.”

Before he finished speaking, the man had already collapsed onto the floor with a thud.

In less than half a minute, the three task NPCs fainted and fell to the ground one after another.

After covering the sleeping incense again, Mo Xiaobai waved to Bai Hualin and A-Dai. “Why are you just staring stupidly? Come help.”

Help?

Help with what?

Seeing Mo Xiaobai unceremoniously drag the unconscious man out and start stripping him, Bai Hualin looked awkward. “Great God, I didn’t know you had this kind of taste?”

“I didn’t expect that either,” A-Dai added from the side, his expression equally strange.

Mo Xiaobai glared angrily at the girl sticking out her tongue and pointed to the shop owner and waiter next to him. “Did the ideology and education you learned before taught by the physiology teacher? Can you be any more vulgar? Come over here, and hurry up and change into their clothes.”

“Change clothes? What are you planning, Great God? I won’t play your uniform game with you.”

“Uniform? Do you still want to finish the quest? Hurry up and change clothes. Hmm, drag her inside to change.”

“Really changing?”

Bai Hualin had basically guessed Mo Xiaobai’s plan when she saw him stripping clothes, but she was still a bit unclear.

Why would he pretend to be a task NPC for no reason?

Didn’t these NPCs need to be the ones to rescue Yang Zhi here?

Bai Hualin couldn’t figure it out, but she trusted Mo Xiaobai quite a bit. She knew deep down that Mo Xiaobai must have figured out some Instance strategy she didn’t understand. Although she was very reluctant to change clothes, she still dragged the shop owner into the kitchen.

The three of them spent about seven or eight minutes changing clothes. When they finally managed to fix everything, seeing Xiao Bai come out of the kitchen, Mo Xiaobai immediately waved his hand. “Xiao Bai, go find some ropes and tie up these three people first.”

First strip, then cosplay, and now playing with ropes?

I never thought you were this kind of Great God!

Bai Hualin’s eyes twitched, and she helplessly said, “Great God, at least tell us the reason why we are going through all this trouble.”

“I said you were smart this morning, and now you’ve become stupid again.”

Mo Xiaobai shook his head and had to explain while working. “Don’t you think, if this group rescues Yang Zhi, what will they do next?”

“Of course, they will go back to the capital. Wait, no, they will go to Liangshan to start a rebellion!”

“Starting a rebellion is correct, but the location is not Liangshan. Let’s talk about Liangshan later. For now, this group is about to become bandits. We helped rescue Yang Zhi? Do you think this group of would-be bandits will do what?”

“Kill the witnesses and silence the source so they won’t reveal their tracks.”

“Heh~ You guessed right, but unfortunately, there’s no prize.”

Hearing A-Dai’s answer, Mo Xiaobai snapped his fingers and nodded. “That’s it. When doing quests, you cannot just look at the quest content, and you certainly cannot blindly help the NPCs. You have to think clearly about how to gain the most benefit as a Player. Sometimes the interests of task NPCs and the interests of Players are two completely different things.”