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Chapter 757 - 385 Third-party Power_3

Chapter 757: Chapter 385 Third-party Power_3

"Yes. Of course, I understand that you may find this hard to accept just like I did before, so allow me to offer you some more practical advice."

"What might that be?"

"From now on, try to reduce your input." the Son of Heaven said.

"Wait a minute, aren’t you just telling us to give up?" The man in the sunglasses twitched at the corner of his eye.

"Not exactly. I just want to help minimize your losses. When I initially invested, it was the first city, so my early investments were utilized in another city later. But it’s different now. This is the final city, and there is no chance of recouping your investments. A single failure would mean that all your efforts were wasted!" Son of Heaven suggested.

"I understand now..." The man in the sunglasses sighed. He knew for sure that he couldn’t get any more information from Son of Heaven.

"Good luck," Son of Heaven returned.

"I hope so..."

After responding to the last sentence, the man in the sunglasses looked up and saw that the four people were all looking at him, waiting for his result.

"So?"

"Nothing. The other party doesn’t want to offend the Ghost Captain, so they refuse to talk." The man in the sunglasses casually shook his head. As for Son of Heaven’s suggestion... he believed it was better not to bring it up, as it would severely damage the morale of his team.

...

[You have collected ten pieces of the Moon Wolf skin. Would you like to combine them into a Moon Wolf skin?]

[You have obtained a Moon Wolf skin.]

[Moon Wolf: A type of werewolf whose strength and combat power change with the waxing and waning of the moon. It is weakest during a new moon and strongest during a full moon. Talent: Lunar Phase. Ability: Shape-shifting.]

[Because each fragment used to combine the skin contained a special toxin, your Moon Wolf skin has temporarily received a toxin-enhanced state. Damage dealt to vampires through scratches or bites will not heal, and the victim will lose the ability to resurrect. Time remaining until effect wears off: 74 hours. Re-injecting the toxin can extend the effect.]

The newly activated werewolf skin carried the anti-vampire toxin, but the only effective time was just over three days, after which it would expire.

That means this toxin needs to be continuously produced to maintain the werewolf group’s toxin-enhanced state for a long period. Once the supply of the toxin is cut off, they will quickly revert to regular werewolves.

Back to the main topic, after having acquired the new skin, Mu You didn’t have much to do.

As expected, their fishing plan could only work once. After being exposed, the opposition have hidden the rest of the Eternal Night City Fragments very securely, resolutely denying Mu You any chance of seizing the fragments.

Moreover, Mu You couldn’t possibly launch a direct attack on the enemy’s main base. After all, Dark City was someone else’s city. In this city, one had to ensure that all activities followed the city’s set rules.

This directly resulted in a stalemate in the competition for the fragments of the City of Eternal Night. As long as the enemy was determined to camp out in the Wolf Den, he temporarily could not find a breakthrough.

Of course, they couldn’t do anything to him, either.

However, the enemy can use their advantage in numbers to continuously send out minions to harass him.

In the two days following the fragment robbery, every time Mu You visited other vampire families in Dark City with May, they would always be ambushed by a group of werewolves along the way. The opposition was very clear about the size of their ambushes. There were no player werewolves in the ambush, all were natives, and they attacked once and then retreated, never engaging in protracted combat.

It was clear that the enemy wasn’t trying to kill him, but purely gather some intelligence.

Mu You was confident that his movements were very covert. With May’s super perception ability, they could always ensure that they could avoid all the werewolves. However, their enemy could still find their location at any time. There was only one possibility: a traitor within the vampire clan was continuously leaking his information to the enemy!

"A traitor, huh!"

Mu You was considering whether he should first expose the traitor in the clan before thinking about the fragment competition.

In the real world, another Sky City, Dark Night City, had come into existence in the last two days. Its City Lord was an epic-ranked player from West Russia.

The West Russian players were, of course, celebrating this, while players from other regions didn’t show much interest. Many ordinary people had gradually become numb after the continuous emergence of Sky Cities. The identity of City Lord didn’t arouse people’s interest as much anymore.

As it has come to this, there was only one Sky City left. The focus of everyone’s attention was immediately drawn to the contest for the City of Eternal Night.

The discussion about the City of Eternal Night was still stuck in the post where The Tyrant issued a call for assembly on the forum. Many people didn’t know that Dark City was already in turmoil, gearing up for a big battle between the two clans.

In the eyes of most people, it seemed that Blood Clan already had an absolute advantage. The ownership of the City of Eternal Night may be the most stable of all twelve cities.

Unfortunately, only the two mutually hostile factions in Dark City knew what was really going on.

In a stalemate with Blood Clan, Mu You suddenly received a message from Lin Xue at noon. "Quickly look at the forum!"

"Oh?"

Mu You was taken aback and went on the forum, discovering a post that was continuously pinned manually. The title of the post was rather eye-catching.

[Eternal Night City Map Fragment Five, Detailed Diagram]

And the poster’s pseudonym was ’Anonymous’.

Mu You clicked into the post and, sure enough, there was a hand-drawn map displayed. It was marked with the various paths in some central area of Sky City according to the pattern of the map fragment, seemingly quite authentic.

"Fake, right?"

"Too fake! Who would openly reveal a map fragment upon obtaining one?"

"If I got a map fragment, even if I didn’t intend to keep it, I’d sell it off. The Blood Clan is currently buying at a high price, isn’t it? Surely it could sell for a good price."

"Whoever has the time to draw such a thing in a post with ill intentions, isn’t it tiring?"

"Disperse, it’s just a cunning post..."

...

Upon scrolling down, the majority of the comments were full of skepticism.

However, Mu You looked carefully at the hand-drawn map again and quickly furrowed his brows.

Since Fragment Five was in his possession, only he could confirm that this map was real!

Except for Lin Xue and Little Ya, he hadn’t shown the map to anyone else, and Mu You absolutely did not believe that either of them would reveal the map.

In that case, the only possibility was...

"Is it Red Sleeve?" Lin Xue messaged at this moment.

This Fragment Five was acquired when they killed Red Sleeve. Aside from the three of them, the only person who might have seen the map was Red Sleeve.

However, this also implies that Red Sleeve had at least three fragments at that time in order to display the map pattern.

They stole one, so where are the remaining two? Are they still in her possession? Or has she allied with Blood Clan?

While Mu You was brainstorming, unbeknownst to him, there was a group of people at the headquarters of the Blood Clan who were much more confused than him.

"What’s going on? Isn’t number five in the hands of the Ghost Captain? Could it be that there’s a third party competing for the City of Eternal Night? Or is this just a smokescreen put out by the Ghost Captain?"