CHAPTER 487: CHAPTER 365: 50 BLOODLINES!

"Why has this guy returned?"

Early in the morning, Not Enough Money habitually opened the regional channel and saw the name at the top of the leaderboard, glaringly conspicuous.

Behind that name, there was even a "Management" badge shining with golden light, as if afraid others wouldn’t know his identity.

"I say, boss, we’ve searched and asked around in this channel, and waited, but there’s no information about that lantern. Could it have been taken and transported away?" a subordinate, Zhang San, asked in a whisper from behind Not Enough Money.

Zhang San, surname Zhang, given name San... He also has two older brothers, named Zhang Da and Zhang Er. Because of his mismatched profession, he couldn’t join Nine Heavens and is now mixed in a small regiment somewhere.

"We can’t rule out that possibility." Not Enough Money looked up at the sky, unable to bring himself to go back until now, ultimately unwilling to let it go.

After spending so much time, he couldn’t find what he wanted, and now he’s being told that it might not be here anymore.

How could he be willing?

Once he gives up searching and leaves here, the sunk cost truly becomes sunken.

Not Enough Money and Zhang San can complement each other in abilities, so they’ve been exploring together recently.

Another individual named Zhao Wu was exploring solo and sent a private message to Not Enough Money: "Boss, while we slept, was channel 879 slaughtered?"

An entire channel, if it weren’t for Li Zheng and another player from Nihong Country, it really would look like two people cleaned it up.

But...

Since Li Zheng came back, it proves the situation isn’t what they thought it was.

"Seems like... a full migration?" Not Enough Money thought of this idea, and his hairs stood on end.

What did Li Zheng do?

He actually made such a big move, directly migrating an entire channel’s players?

"Yesterday I saw in the regional channel, someone mentioned fully supporting Li Zheng Uncle, did someone attack Li Zheng last night, and then all players on 879 channel teleported over to help?" Zhang San also seemed to have received a private message from Zhao Wu and spoke up.

"If that’s the case, then it makes sense." Not Enough Money quickly operated and asked in the regiment, and got a confirmed reply, and even someone detailed the events to him.

After reading it, Not Enough Money was astonished: "Five regiments joined hands to attack Li Zheng, but Li Zheng led a counterattack to kill them?"

That was over a thousand people!

Even if it was a one-way ticket, how many materials would it take to use over a thousand Jumping Devices?!

Too ruthless!

In Matrix, fighting a group battle is completely just burning money!

"Hmm? A message from the captain?" Not Enough Money’s expression shifted, and he opened to read it.

Before long, with a look of doubt and puzzlement on his face.

"Boss, what’s up?" Zhang San asked curiously.

"Nothing." Not Enough Money shook his head, eyes thoughtful, and after a while, he said to Zhang San, "Notify Zhao Wu, we’re heading back!"

"Really?" Zhang San was overjoyed; he had long wanted to return to the Nine Heavens’ main channel, having no common topics with others outside, bored to death.

"Then... did the captain say whether to continue looking for that lantern?" Zhang San recalled the mission and cautiously asked.

Not Enough Money said, "No need to search anymore. Not only are we not searching, but the captain wants me to hand that thing over to Li Zheng."

"Hand it over to Li Zheng?" Zhang San’s voice rose two degrees: "Why?"

Why?

Of course, because the captain discovered the other three components are appearing in channel 879!

At first, when Li Zheng was in 879, they could still track the coordinates.

Once Li Zheng left, the coordinates became erratic and irregular in appearance.

Now that Li Zheng returned to 879, the captain found those three components reappearing in that channel.

The answer is self-evident.

"You guessed it right. Someone took the lantern and teleported to another channel." Not Enough Money sighed, "The one who took it was Li Zheng!"

"It was Li Zheng?" Zhang San was slightly stunned, feeling it was unreasonable, but upon thinking it over, found it reasonable.

He actually resisted the temptation not to go to the mechanic to check it out?" Zhang San said a bit dejectedly, "To think we had Wang Er and Chen Si guarding for two days, all for nothing..."

"Lies are things that, no matter how perfect, have a day they are seen through." Not Enough Money didn’t expect himself to have lied so much in his life and to be seen through directly this time?

Was it that the Extraordinary Level mecha held no allure for Li Zheng, or because he saw through his lie, he didn’t go to the mechanic?

Not Enough Money believed it was the latter.

Because, in his mind, unless there is a weapon or equipment surpassing the Extraordinary Level at this stage, how could anyone resist the lure of an Extraordinary Level mecha!

Just like the drug dealers in the Golden Triangle, who wouldn’t want better quality, more quantity, cheaper raw materials?

Unless they have better material channels!

"Let’s go, the captain wants us to join up with Wang Er and the others and retreat!" Not Enough Money sent a private message to Zhao Wu, pulled out half a candle from the capsule, and, through the trading hall, directed it to Li Zheng.

Then left channel 879 alongside Zhao Wu and Zhang San.

...

At twelve noon, Li Zheng woke up after nearly seven hours from holding his bladder.

Upon opening his eyes, he found that Xiaoying was still soundly asleep.

"Strange, the little one is sleeping more and more recently." Li Zheng sat up from the bed, went to the washroom to take care of his biological need, and returned to find the two scarlet mechs still diligently guarding the third floor.

At this point, because they had stood guard all night, Isth and Kuro’s energy was depleted, and they were ’recharging,’ so Li Zheng did not disturb them.

He came before Xiaoying and woke it up, then went back to the first floor together for washing and eating.

The little one, who used to be energetic after eight hours of sleep, was yawning all the time today, as if ready to doze off at any moment.

"What’s up with you these days? Becoming lazy?" Li Zheng opened Xiaoying’s attributes panel to check but didn’t find anything abnormal.

Prelis’ Eye similarly didn’t give any reminders.

"Hmm?" Xiaoying groggily scratched its head, seeming also unable to figure out why it suddenly needed more sleep.

’It’s the bloodline.’ The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade flew to Li Zheng’s side, actively burrowing into his palm for him to grasp, and communicated via thought.

’The Blood Patterned Black Dragon’s bloodline is like this, prone to sleep. Otherwise, the guy who forged me wouldn’t have been able to get a drop of that Blood Patterned Black Dragon’s essence blood back then.’

"A drop of essence blood?" Li Zheng said in surprise, "No wonder Xiaoying mentioned before about having an inexplicable feeling of intimacy with you; turned out it was because of that essence blood?"

’Intimacy? In fact, it’s because its bloodline awakening happened first. If other bloodlines had awakened first, it might not feel this way.’ The demon blade vibrated in response; after being nourished again with a batch of blood last night, it was learning more and more.

"You mean Xiaoying has more than one bloodline in its body?" Li Zheng found it a bit far-fetched, because Xiaoying becoming what it is now was a result of using the Heart Core of an armored Dragon Turtle back then.

’More than one? It has at least fifty types of bloodlines of the same tier hidden in it, just depends on which awakens first. The bloodline that awakens first suppresses the others, so it is becoming prone to sleep these days.’