Muscular Rabbits Legion: “No one can escape from the novice village!”
Chapter 553 - 543 Mysterious Imperial City

Chapter 553: Chapter 543 Mysterious Imperial City

And then it was all about devoted cultivation, followed by Li Hongyi leading a rebellion, overthrowing the Cangshan Mountain Emperor, and ascending the throne herself to become the Empress.

In the end, they joined forces to defeat the guardians of the Heavenly Gate and stepped into West Kunlun.

"Those guys are really some lucky ones." Thinking about the ordeals of the Earth World, this Cangshan Mountain World was truly fortunate, unlike Earth with its Ten Thousand Clans War, other continents invading, Daoist Xuan Gu performing Sacrificial Refining of the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, and the invasion of the Dark Heavenly Demon...

Thinking of this, Yi Zheng curiously asked,"So you guys never had any darkness descending?"

Qin Gui replied,"Are you talking about the Heavenly Demon invasion?"

Yi Zheng nodded,"Yes, that thing!"

Qin Gui bitterly smiled and said,"That thing did come, and the system notified us, mentioning some ’Yongye’ mission.

It sounded terrifying. We worked relentlessly on cultivation and built all sorts of defense works, but a year later, a mass of darkness appeared in the northernmost part of the continent. And before that darkness even dispersed, there were people shouting about being invaded, and then the darkness scattered.

We were all dumbfounded and ended up cursing the system as a scammer for a full three days!

You have no idea, the year we spent preparing against the darkness... you can’t imagine what we went through!

Oh... it was indescribably tough!

In the end, this so-called Yongye was just a complete farce!

What complete bullshit!"

Hearing this, Yi Zheng was in tears, realizing that his invasion of the Heavenly Demon World had saved the players of the Cangshan Mountain World.

"I felt a bit guilty for slaughtering too ruthlessly before, but now I don’t feel guilty at all, it’s you guys who owe me!" Yi Zheng roared inwardly.

"Your Majesty, I’ve told you everything I know. Beyond that, I really have no clue," Qin Gui pitifully looked at Yi Zheng, as if saying,"Can I go now? I’d really like some rest."

But Yi Zheng just looked up at the sky where the moon was high.

"It’s been half a day of rest; those resting should be just about okay now. It’s time, lads, go wake them up for supper!"

The next moment, Qin Gui wore a look of despair as he and a group of ministers continued to kneel on the ground, shouting,"Long live the Emperor, long live, long long live, may the Emperor eat well and drink well!"

This new slogan continued until dawn, then Rabbit, tipsy, pulled out a brush and scrawled crooked, cockroach-like text on the ground, waving his hand,"Read this!"

Everyone looked down and their faces turned even sourer, thinking,"Isn’t this a bit shameless?"

But when a group of Rabbits came in armed with knives, they immediately started shouting obediently:

"Our Emperor’s Mana is boundless, offensive unbeatable, victorious in all battles!

His divine presence over Cangshan Mountain, divine skills vast and supreme!

May our Emperor enjoy ten thousand generations of prosperity, eternal bliss, and life as everlasting as the heavens!"

...

And so, it went from moon set to sunrise, sunrise to moon set.

From initially loud slogans to later hoarse whispers, and then, the voices echoing in the vast Imperial City sounded as though they were coming from the depth of the Netherworld, weak and barely alive.

One fine day, as the sun was setting, a golden light emerged at the Resurrection Point.

The instant it appeared, the rabbits, wild boars, wolves, groundhogs, and chickens among other beasts in the city all glanced sideways, then revealed smiles as if welcoming friends from afar...

In the Resurrection Space.

"I’m finally going to resurrect! Damn it, three days! You dead Rabbits, you tricked us for three days! And those who didn’t fight, they made a killing!"

"I can’t stand it anymore, let me resurrect, the losses of three days! Falling behind this step, catching up will be difficult!"

...

Piercing cries of despair echoed in the Resurrection Space.

That was countless players swearing furiously,"System, you bastard, you call that Newbie Village? That’s bullshit for a Newbie village!"

"System, you old whore, you count that chicken as a Newbie monster? Are you sure it’s a Newbie monster? You must be drunk!"

"Damn it, three days!

My people and I have fallen behind others by a full three days!

Who knows how much those hundreds of thousands of people have improved their strengths by now!"

"Damn chickens, even if I can’t kill you now, I will definitely kill you, you hundred-and-eighty-pound chickens, someday!"

...

General Yu slowly opened his eyes, smiling sinisterly:

"You damn chickens, General Yu is back, remember this, I will become your nightmare!"

The angrier General Yu thought, the more his heart ached, the more depressed he became, and his killing intent surged!

At the same time, someone else was also roaring.

"Groundhogs, you damn fat vermin, wait for me!" Yinianjian was howling.

Zun Shen was also growling low,"Groundhogs... within three months, I will slaughter your kind! Next time we meet, I’ll exterminate your tribe!"

Meanwhile, Zun Shen was also calculating. Falling behind by three days, the people outside probably had already looted all the resources. He was significantly behind, and the road ahead required more madness to cope.

...

Just when everyone’s hearts were seething with rage and their resentments were sky high, the first beam of golden light descended upon the Cangshan Mountain Imperial City’s Resurrection Point, followed by the second, third...

Beams of golden light, like a torrential downpour, descended and eventually, the flashes dissipated, revealing the figures of various players.

General Yu and Zun Shen slowly opened their eyes.

General Yu immediately spotted Zun Shen amidst the crowd, and Zun Shen noticed General Yu, both almost simultaneously exclaimed, "You... also got killed?"

Then, seeing the continuous fall of golden light and the resurrecting companions around them, they fell silent.

General Yu looked disdainfully at Zun Shen and his tens of thousands of followers, taunting Zun Shen, "You brought so many people, and you still got killed? What, are these tens of thousands all useless?"

The players of the Zun Shen Gang glared angrily at General Yu, "What do you mean by that?"

"General Yu, are you trying to start something?"

General Yu’s followers, the Yu Lin Army, also stepped up and roared back, "A bunch of losers who can’t even take criticism?"

"We are just stating the facts!"

"Shut up! The title of General Yu isn’t something you can call out! A bunch of losers!"

Zun Shen Gang: "Don’t agree? Wanna fight about it?"

Yu Lin Army: "Let’s go! Whoever doesn’t is a coward!"

...

The followers argued back and forth, but the two leaders stood firm as Mount Tai.

Zun Shen’s strength was not weaker than General Yu’s, and as the largest gang in Cangshan Mountain, they had plenty of manpower. However, it was only after joining forces with General Yu and Li Hongyi that Zun Shen had fallen into a disadvantage and had actively avoided conflict.

But that does not mean Zun Shen was afraid of General Yu, so he snorted coldly, "I really don’t understand how you, leading tens of thousands, can go out to kill chickens and still get killed! Has General Yu and the Yu Lin Army gotten so weak that even slaughtering chickens is now a struggle?"

"You!" General Yu’s expression darkened.

Zun Shen glared fiercely with a face as dark as thunder while the two glared at each other like fighting cocks, neither willing to back down.

Their followers started arguing again, pushing and shouting...

"If it weren’t for taking into account the guard NPCs in the city, I would kill you right now!"

"You think you’re the only one concerned? We are too... huh? Where are the NPCs?!"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked around and discovered that the NPCs who should have been stationed around the Resurrection Point had all disappeared!

Looking further afield, the huge square also didn’t have a single NPC!

A breeze blew by, and someone shivered and quietly said, "Fellas, something seems off about this city!"

Upon hearing this, Zun Shen slightly furrowed his brows while General Yu immediately cursed, "What’s off? This is the Imperial City, for heaven’s sake. Could it be that there are ninety-pound chickens here?"

Zun Shen cleared his throat, "If there were... they’d be expensive."

General Yu glared at him, "Beast!"

While bickering, General Yu and Zun Shen didn’t take their eyes off the surroundings and soon both of them also noticed something was amiss.

Not a single person in the vast Imperial City!

Ideally, even though it was evening, the city should have been ablaze with lights, as bright as daytime!

But at this moment, there wasn’t any light at all!

The wind blew, chilly and piercing.

"Has anyone seen any other players?" someone asked.

Everyone shook their heads, "No, we haven’t seen any."

"Usually, the plaza outside the Resurrection Point is crowded. Why don’t we see anyone today?"

"Not just players, even the NPCs are gone! Look, even the soldiers guarding the Resurrection Point are missing!"

"Yeah, where are they?"

"We died at noon, and logically resurrection takes three days; we should have resurrected at noon. But here, it’s clearly evening! The sun has already set, only the afterglow remains, this timing isn’t right! The place is eerie, with no signs of life, could we have entered a ghost town?"

At his words, everyone felt a cold shiver.

At that moment, Yinianjian said, "That’s not right, what you are saying is incorrect! The system’s exact words were the resurrection time takes more than three days! Not three days! There was no exact timing mentioned, just more than three days.

I suspect that the game system’s integration with this world is too low, leaving many things uncertain.

For example, we should have been transported to an area where we could survive, fight monsters and level up.

But instead, we have been thrown into this place full of bizarre things!

This itself does not conform to the logic of the game system.

So, a change in the resurrection time isn’t that strange."

"But what about the people in the city? How do you explain that?" someone asked.

Yinianjian was at a loss for words, unsure how to explain.