098. Watchdog

  "Eh? Is it ending here?"

  The video paused before Li Aozi detailed the abilities of the 【Mutant】, abruptly cutting off the anticipation that had been building up, making Lu Run's heart itch:

  "No way, I still want to tig the plot. Why stop here? At least expin the abilities of the 【Mutant】. Once I edit it, I directly use it as material."

  Though he said this, it was the first time Lu Run had seen such a powerful and impactful game plot.

  Ihan two hours of the Abyss Humanitarian surveilnce footage, the characters of Li Aozi, Nomi, and Qiu Ran were vividly brought to life.

  "This 【Mutant】 named Li Aozi is simply born to promote the 【Domination】 system. Look at his smooth use of Omega Energy, freely switg abilities, and he even has the power to extract others' Omega Energy—this would be the protagonist in ames, right?"

  After watg the footage, Lu Run was ecstatic, his mind full of Li Aozi's movement and bat stance, whether it was his mid-air direal ges or the stunning flurry of his long bde, even the wild brutality of extrag enemies' life force—all of these showcased the characteristics of the 【Domination】 system.

  What do pyers want?

  Cool, strong, exhirating!

  Think about it, among the six systems, only the 【Domination】 system has the initial profession of a 【Mutant】. Previously, it was thought to ck popurity and potential.

  But now, seeing Li Aozi freely switg bat Omega Energy, his versatile stahe pyability of this profession has suddenly increased.

  "Have you finished watg?" Xue Nian and Luo Le didn't watch the footage closely. Seeing Lu Run so excited, they were curious:

  "What's the deal with that Li Aozi? Have you found out the reasons behind the massacre of the Abyss Humanitarian?"

  "Yeah, I roughly uand."

  Lu Run anized his thoughts and said:

  "The Abyss Humanitarian is actually a researstitution supported by the Frost-Pted Republider the guise of humanitarianism, but secretly researg various biochemical ons."

  "Especially by intimidating people from the ions and the edge cities of Frost-Pted with the term 'Camity Ied,' making them willingly leave their homes to ehe Abyss Humanitarian for treatment—essentially biochemical experiments."

  "This footage involves multiple forces. There are also some internal power struggles that I don't fully uand, but I get some of it."

  "The force behind the Abyss Humanitarian—the Frost-Pted's Law III institution, has been supp the activities of the Abyss Humanitarian. The ultimate goal is to awaken Omega Energy in all Frost-Pted women, solidifying women's political status."

  "Currently, the Abyss Humanitarian has developed a terrifying Camity Armament—each Camity Armament is modified from young children, at least Alpha tier, with bat power above level 20."

  "Nomi, Qiu Ran, Xue Nuo, and many other ied, from young adults to babies, are all victims of the Abyss Humanitarian experiments."

  Luo Le couldn't help but curse under his breath upon hearing this:

  "Such bastards, tet children."

  "Even if the Abyss Humanitarian really did these things, Frost-Pted wouldn't admit it... By the way, what's Li Aozi's role? Didn't Nelia say Li Aozi isn't from the Rose Army?" Xue Nian was ed about this.

  After all, their task was to help Li Aozi reveal the truth.

  "I watched several times. Li Aozi should be from the Red Arrow Empire, became a sger ier Regions, probably a chaotieutral type."

  Lu Run wasn't sure either.

  Although Li Aozi seemed to have many ses and plotlines, from their perspective, they still didn't know who he really was.

  "I specute he might be a main storyline character of the 【Domination】 system, possibly even the professioor of the 【Domination】 system."

  Xue Nian thought for a moment and opehe task panel.

  【Settlement ditions】: A. 《Lawful Good》—Wrong is wrong, apprehend/hunt down Li Aozi (Warning: The target is extremely dangerous, you ck the prerequisites)

  Reward: 1 million experience, +15 main attributes.

  "Based on this, Settlement dition A clearly stands on Frost-Pted's side, so the reward is extremely generous."

  B. 《Lawful ral》—Right and wrong have nothing to do with me, justice is in the heart of the people, find out the truth about the Abyss Humanitarian and Li Aozi (You plete it at your level and avoid fighting the target)

  Reward: 150,000 experience, +1 main attribute, Li Aozi favorability +30;

  "Looking at B, it seems like a very ral option, not offending Frost-Pted, nor fully siding with the notorious Li Aozi, just revealing the truth—in my opinion, this is the most rational approaot pletely severing ties with Frost-Pted and still being able to operate within Frost-Pted."

  C. 《Lawful Evil》—Even though you're wrong, I'm no good either, join forces with Li Aozi to eliminate all bounty hunters and Frost-Pted meraries, with a tribution rate of 10%. (You easily plete it and avoid fighting the target)

  Reward: 80,000 experience, Li Aozi favorability +50, if the main profession is not obtained, unlock 【Mutant】 profession iance.

  "Settlement dition C is very iing."

  Xue Nian analyzed, pointing to the st reward:

  "Look, the task reward includes unlog the 【Mutant】 profession. This fully shows the close retionship between Li Aozi and the 【Mutant】. He is likely the guide for pyers born in Frost-Pted to join the 【Domination】 system."

  "That makes a lot of sense—no wohe AI has arranged everything so well."

  Thinking about this, Lu Run got excited again:

  "Hey, I suddenly remembered, the other five systems haven't found a simir professioor role—acc to this idea, doesn't that mean as long as we follow Li Aozi, the pyers of the 【Domination】 system will have much less pressure at the start?"

  He took a moment to g the internal pany chat group: sure enough, everyone was w overtime, looking for the main professioors of each system. Only the Tianhuan District had found a 【Warrior】 NPC of the 【Destru】 system to act as the promotional image, and they were filming.

  "We o speed up."

  Luo Le projected a map, gng at the tired and weary GTB bounty hunters on the bus—these desperados were blinded by the dream of css leap and had no idea what kind of ehey were about to face.

  "We o meet Li Aozi first. Otherwise, sidering his effi killing in the video, if we really fight, it will be hard to unicate with him."

  Xue Nian nodded.

  As game testers, they had pany requirements.

  They couldn't join a fa, their level had to be higher than the pyers, they couldn't attack pyers, they couldn't reveal information to outsiders... and so on.

  If they could plete this task earlier, they could get off work earlier. Their levels would also increase signifitly, making it easier to hit the end-of-month target without w overtime every day.

  "What should we do?" Lu Run was worried: "If we don't get close to Li Aozi, how I shoot the footage?"

  "That's easy to say."

  "Hmm?" Lu Run uzzled.

  "The video footage you have is intercepted from the Abyss Humanitarian. If it's just for shooting footage, we ge our approach—go directly to the P-205 shelter of the Abyss Humanitarian, which is only 30 kilometers away, search, download, edit the video, and it takes less than forty minutes."

  "Oh! But, where do we get a vehicle..."

  Xue Nian g the GTB vehicle.

  This transport vehicle was modified from an ordinary Frost-Pted unmanned bus, without a real driver, trolled by a pre-written program—after all, a bunch of bounty hunters couldn't expect good treatment, like armored car pickups, tank and meized armor escorts? That's a bit of a pipe dream.

  He g Luo Le, his old rade immediately uood his purpose.

  Luo Le raised his hand, releasing a data cable, eg it to the vehicle's air ditioning chip. His pupils split open, revealing interronic cameras, and a series of data codes flowed through his vision.

  "The firewall level is low, but my RAM is not enough to pletely hack the trol of this vehicle—here's a pn: brake pads e 15% memory, air ditioning es 17%, camera and position signal be blocked, totaling 57% memory. How about that?"

  Xue Nian nodded: "Don't hold back, use the virus program we got from w overtime st time."

  "That's a [Masterpiece] level. I haven't figured out the underlying logic yet!" Luo Le grumbled: "If the pany didn't ban trading of game items by prisoners, it

  could sell for at least 30,000 Derbies in the pyer market when it unches."

  "Trust me, it's worth it."

  Xue Nian slowly stood up, pretending to stretch, walking around the bus aisle, gng at the zy bounty hunters, and unicated through the out-of-game voice el:

  "There are 21 people in total on this vehicle, all below level 10, two of them with military-grade rifles—I will trol the door in a moment, you lower the prote outside the window to prevent anyone from jumping out."

  "Okay, but be careful." Luo Le heed a virus package named 【Act Expert】 from the program bar, dragged and uploaded it to the vehicle.

  "Hey, hey, hey? What are you guys doing?" Lu Run was fused. Why were they suddenly discussing something strange?

  "Hold on tight, cameraman."

  Luo Le grinned, grabbing a nearby handrail. The upload progress bar quickly moved to 100%.

  【Hacked Target】

  Squeak—

  The bus suddenly braked, stopping abruptly, throwing the unprepared bounty hunters from their seats, tumbling around the bus.

  "Damn it, what's going on? AI malfun?"

  A skilled warrior had been drinking beer, nearly fell in front of the door. Beer spilled all over him, he cursed, about to wipe off the stains, when suddenly, a bear paw bigger than a human head appeared in his vision.

  "...Huh?"

  He looked up in shock, immediately seeing Xue Nian's eyes—the tter's eyes were fierce, irises glowing green, like a possessed demon, his exposed muscles covered with thick brown bear skin.

  "Shaman—you are a 【Shaman】—"

  Thud!

  Xue Nian raised his cw, swiftly and ly snapping the warrior's head off his neck.

  FAL