Chapter 88: I Will Never Talk to You Again

At noon, in Daming Village.

A circular flash of light with a ten-meter radius erupted right in front of the Stone Stele in the square.

“Come over here.”

After Mo Xiaobai gathered Li Ji, Li Guang, He Chun, Mother Mo, and Xiaoyou around him, a voice sounded in his ear from the Intellect Brain: “The Instance of the Battle of Guandu has opened. Please choose a faction.”

“The Cao Cao Faction.”

“Beep~ Player ‘Daydreaming’ has chosen the Cao Cao Faction. Please proceed to enter the battlefield.”

“Guandu.”

“Beep~ Player ‘Daydreaming’ has finished choosing the battlefield. Please wait for the Instance teleportation. 10… 8… 5…”

The ten-second wait time flew by instantly. With a soft “swish,” Mo Xiaobai and the others disappeared from the Daming Village square.

The next moment, they appeared in a vast sandy area filled with camps.

“Is this the Instance Space?”

“What a huge empty field.”

“Are they all Players?”

“My goodness, I finally met other Players today. I’ve been playing a single-player game for over a month, so this is not easy.”

When Mo Xiaobai and the others entered the battlefield Instance, they looked up and saw that people were everywhere.

There were many Players, and even more Territory Citizens who followed the Players.

At this moment, the Great Han Dynasty had at least 100,000 Village Level 2 Territories. Even with five battlefields divided, the number of Players born in Guandu had already exceeded 30,000.

After all, this was the main battlefield of the Battle of Guandu.

Fortunately, not all 30,000 Players were on Cao Cao’s side. Otherwise, one or two camps could not have held them. In fact, Mo Xiaobai was very clear that in this Guandu battlefield, the number of Players choosing the Cao Cao Faction was less than 13,000, while nearly 18,000 Players were on Yuan Shao’s side.

It seemed there was only a difference of 5,000 Players on the surface, but if you counted the 20 Territory Citizens each Player could bring, the comparison between the two sides at the Player level was no longer at the same weight class.

“Big Brother, where should we go now?”

Mo Xiaoyou had never experienced what it felt like to be in a crowd of tens of thousands or even a hundred thousand people before. Looking at the Players around her now, she was naturally a bit excited. She rarely called Mo Xiaobai by his name, and this time she called him “Big Brother” instead.

“Don’t wander around yet. Let’s see if there are any changes in the Instance section,” Mo Xiaobai answered, while opening the Instance section.

The Instance section had many more changes now compared to when it was added just a day ago.

The most obvious change was a string of prohibition notifications.

During the Instance, the Player Chat, Forum, and Friend Communication channels were completely blocked, and the Player Backpack was locked.

This cut off the possibility of Players communicating remotely and also prevented them from using Items from their backpacks.

“So that’s why you asked us to bring our bags, Xiao Bai,” Mother Mo said with a smile after seeing the section notifications.

She had been wondering the night before why her son said they needed to prepare their travel bags.

Now she finally understood; they couldn’t use the Player Backpack inside the Instance.

While Mother Mo was still looking at the section introduction, Mo Xiaoyou had already skipped the text at the top and looked at the new Instance Quest section that appeared on the panel: “Big Brother, there is a large Instance Quest up here.”

“‘Battle of Guandu’ Large Quest: Five-Way Grain Transport!”

“Quest Description: Due to the long standoff between Cao and Yuan, the Cao Army’s grain supply was in imminent danger. The Agricultural General Ren Jun cleverly designed five known roads and five hidden roads to transport grain and supplies between Xudu and Guandu.”

“Quest Objective: Please go to Xudu to participate in the grain transport on the known roads and successfully deliver the food to the Guandu camp.”

“Quest Acceptance: Han Bao, General of the Household (Xudu)”

“Quest Completion: Han Hao, Army Protector (Guandu)”

“Quest Reward: 1 Merit Value per 10 units.”

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“Look, there is a quest to do.”

“Escort grain, from Guandu to Xudu and then back. My goodness, the distance is really far.”

“The key question is what is the quest reward good for? What is this Merit?”

“It must be a brand-new setting. Anyway, if there is a quest, we must do it. That goes without saying. Let’s do the quest first to get a feel for the Instance, then think about other things.”

“You’re right. At least finish the first quest. The Cao Army lacks grain for days and days. If they were truly defeated by Yuan Shao because they had no food, we would really be wronged.”

Not only did Mo Xiaoyou see the Instance Quest inside the camp, but more than 80% of the other Players also thought of the same thing when they saw the quest: regardless of the consequences, go try it first.

After all, it was an Instance Quest. Doing it was better than not doing it.

“Big Brother, should we do the quest too?” Seeing one Player after another lead their groups out of the camp, Mo Xiaoyou tilted her head and asked.

“You want to do the quest? Little Dot, weren’t you going to find Zhang Chunhua?”

“Yes, let’s do the quest first, and then go find Zhang Chunhua.”

Mo Xiaoyou wore an expression that said, “Of course I remember,” which made Mo Xiaobai chuckle: “Do you know where Zhang Chunhua is right now?”

“Where is she? Just tell me.”

Upon hearing this, Mo Xiaobai’s eyes flashed with a strange smile: “Zhang Chunhua’s father is currently serving as the County Magistrate of Suyi County in Gaoling Commandery, near Chang’an. Where do you think she should be?”

“Chang’an is great! I want to go to Chang’an to see Zhang Chunhua!” Little Dot did not notice the change in Mo Xiaobai’s expression at all and immediately shouted that she wanted to leave.

Her shout caused Mo Xiaobai not to laugh yet, but a Player next to him burst out laughing: “Haha~ Little sister, you are currently in Zhongmu County. Chang’an is nearly 2,000 kilometers away. Even if you drove a car, it would take a whole day and night to get there. There are no cars here. I don’t think you can get there in less than a month by carriage.”

“Huh?”

No matter how mature Mo Xiaoyou was, she was still a child who hadn’t even finished elementary school. In her eyes, a one-kilometer walk to school every day was already very far.

2,000 kilometers, how far was that?

Thinking of this, Mo Xiaoyou immediately turned her face and glared at her big brother: “Mo Xiaobai, you are still lying to me!”

Mo Xiaoyou declared that she was very angry!

She had come to the Instance to find Zhang Chunhua, but now the situation required her to ride a carriage for a month just to see the person.

How could this be allowed!

“Hahaha~”

Watching his little sister’s angry round face, Mo Xiaobai couldn’t help but laugh teasingly: “Little Dot, this time I am not lying to you. I have already told you where Zhang Chunhua is. If you want to go, you can ask Mother to take you. If we travel faster, we might be able to see Zhang Chunhua’s last face before the Instance closes in Suyi County.”

“You are a liar! I will never talk to you again!”

Mo Xiaoyou turned her head away angrily. Her little eyes were red with grievance. Seeing this, Mother Mo immediately slapped her son: “Look at you. You only know how to tease your little sister all day. Why don’t you try acting like that when you find a girlfriend some day?”

“Cough, cough. I was wrong. Is it okay if I admit my mistake?”

In his past life and this life, Mo Xiaobai feared his mother most when she pulled such a powerful move. He quickly went over to comfort Little Dot: “Alright, alright. Big Brother is not joking with you. If I guess correctly, Zhang Chunhua’s family should have already started fleeing towards Luoyang. It won’t be hard to see her.”