Chapter 10 Reward Item?

Hearing the question from Yuanshi Tianzun, the group of Lingjing Xingzhe were first stunned. Then, they all turned their gazes toward Tianxia Guihuo.

He was the one who came up with the method to get out of the Mobile Forest. According to the previous two instances, the item (consumable) would be rewarded to the person with the most merit or who met special conditions.

For example, Yuanshi Tianzun, who figured out the law of the Mist Spider killings; for example, Guan Ya, who had the most vigorous life force and wasn't anemic.

Therefore, it was logical for Tianxia Guihuo to receive a reward item. Facing the gazes of his teammates, Tianxia Guihuo frowned and said,

"I only got 10 points, I didn't get a reward."

Zhang Yuanqing glanced at him, looked around at everyone, and once again said loudly:

"I'll ask again, who has the reward item?" The official Xingzhe looked at each other, and there was a moment of silence.

Yu Nv Wugua, a man in his early 30s with a "light uncle" vibe, raised his hand and carefully worded his response:

"I think, whoever gets the reward, it belongs to him. There's no need to pry into it."

Yu Nv Wugua felt that Yuanshi Tianzun's actions were intended to gather the rewards for his unified use. But the person who got the item (Tianxia Guihuo) didn't want to hand over the reward he earned through his own strength. If this matter wasn't handled well, there would be a major conflict in the team... The official Xingzhe present frowned secretly. They were generally all captain-level figures, mixed in with units, and knew that Yuanshi Tianzun's behavior might start a power struggle, plunging the originally harmonious team into conflict and contradiction.

Even though Elder Shibu asked everyone in the online meeting the night before the killing instance to take Yuanshi Tianzun as the core, listen to his leadership, and help each other.

But once they entered the killing instance, the organization's opinion could only be used as a reference. No one would truly obey unconditionally. Zhang Yuanqing nodded and looked at his teammates:

"I promise, I won't ask you to hand over the items. Everyone can testify. So, now you can answer me, who got the reward item?"

Still, no one spoke. Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice, "You see, I've already made a promise, but still no one responds." Mudan Xianzi, Yu Nv Wugua and others frowned. They sensed something was wrong. "Yuanshi Tianzun, what do you want to say?"

Mudan Xianzi asked. So, the person who got the reward item is the traitor... Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice:

"We're about to reach the top of the mountain. There are some things I need to be frank about with you all." After a pause, he said word by word, "There is a traitor among us.

"A traitor from the Dark Rose." Everyone's expression changed. Zhang Yuanqing continued:

"To tell you the truth, before entering the killing instance, the Gou Elder of the Songhai Branch told me something. The three major evil organizations wanted to kill me and Fu Qingyang. Dark Rose also participated in this matter. The latter plans to use spies planted in the official ranks. "Not long ago, I ambushed outside the exit of the thick fog, trying to attack the people of the evil camp. I didn't expect them to know my actions in advance and set up a counter-ambush trap. If I hadn't been strong enough, I wouldn't have been able to come back." Hearing this, the official Xingzhe realized the danger and couldn't help but look at each other. It turned out that Yuanshi Tianzun killed 'Human Nature is Evil' under such pressure.

"Careful people should have noticed the leaderboard. Except for the three people I killed, the evil camp didn't lose anyone when they passed through the Mist Spider territory.

"In addition, they have now passed through the Breeding Forest, but still no one has died. Is this normal?" Zhang Yuanqing questioned:

"If it wasn't for an internal traitor informing them and reporting our exploration results to the evil camp, could they have passed so easily?" The official Xingzhe opened the leaderboard and map with ugly expressions. After checking, they found that it was indeed as Yuanshi Tianzun said. The evil camp had once again cleared the Breeding Forest without any losses. "No wonder the people from the evil camp chose our route. They knew that Yuanshi Tianzun was good at clearing instances and wanted to freeload on our results."

", who is the traitor, I'm going to skin him alive." Not only was the Fire Master furious, but the other professions were also quite angry.

Zhang Yuanqing said: "Whoever takes the reward and doesn't say anything is the traitor. Currently, there are two suspected targets, one is 'Little Match Selling Boy', and the other is 'Tianxia Guihuo'."

He told everyone what Tianxia Guihuo had said earlier.

Instantly, everyone stood by Yuanshi Tianzun's side, isolating the two of them. The Little Match Selling Boy glared at Tianxia Guihuo:

"You're the traitor, right? You're actually slandering me. Do I have a grudge against you?" After saying that, he looked at his companions and said loudly:

"The reward from the Mobile Forest must be on Tianxia Guihuo. He refused to take it out just now. It's clear who the traitor is."

Guan Ya asked, "What did you do touching the trees?"

The Little Match Selling Boy frowned and said, "Of course, I was trying to communicate. Although the plants in the maze didn't seem to be able to communicate along the way, the task prompt didn't explicitly mention that communication was invalid. Moreover, the trees in front couldn't communicate, but that doesn't mean all the plants along the way couldn't communicate.

"I think the necessary attempts should be insisted upon and not given up."

This explanation was commendable, not very convincing, but also couldn't be faulted.

But compared to the Little Match Selling Boy, Tianxia Guihuo, who solved the Mobile Forest by himself, was more suspicious. The reward item was likely on him, and he refused to hand over the reward just now. Facing the doubts of his teammates, Tianxia Guihuo took a deep breath, controlled his emotions well, and asked:

"If I were a traitor, I would have handed over the item just now. Why would I do something that incriminates myself?"

"No!" Guan Ya exposed the loophole in his words and said:

"The spies that Dark Rose planted in the Five Elements Alliance can avoid the lie detection items and skills of the Transcendent Realm during the general physical examination again and again. It's impossible for it to be effective on you. So you know that even if you don't hand over the item, we don't have any substantial evidence to accuse you. "And without evidence, Yuanshi wouldn't be able to kill you.

Of course, this also applies to the Little Match Selling Boy." Tianxia Guihuo sneered:

"So what? Unless the traitor exposes himself, you can't find him at all. What's the use of you making such a fuss, except to make the team lose morale?" Zhang Yuanqing smiled and said: "It's useful! As long as we control you two, won't the problem be solved?"

After saying that, he took out the Silencer Mask and said:

"I need to restrict your freedom and put you under surveillance. Everyone is a colleague, don't resist."

At this time, whoever resisted was the traitor. Baihu Wansui immediately said, "I have an imprisonment-type item."

"I have one too." Niulanshan Xiao Xiannv echoed. The two's items were a chain made of iron and a wooden cangue.

The iron chain had the function of restricting hands, feet, and movement, while the wooden cangue could only restrict hands, but it could put the target in a weak state. The Little Match Selling Boy took a deep breath, his face full of indignation, but chose to obey: "The clear are clear!"

Tianxia Guihuo took a deep look at Yuanshi Tianzun: "Forcibly controlling is indeed a good method." Under Zhang Yuanqing's instructions, everyone used iron chains to tie up the Little Match Selling Boy, and used wooden cangues and masks to seal Tianxia Guihuo. Then, they let Tianxia Guihuo carry the Little Match Selling Boy on his back, and under everyone's supervision, led the team forward. The group walked towards the top of the mountain. This place was less than ten minutes away from the mountaintop temple. Near the exit, Tianxia Guihuo said, "You guys open the map and take a look. The light spots representing the evil camp have been moving forward in an orderly manner, and there has been no chaos or regression. What does this mean?" Mudan Xianzi and others opened the map to check, and it was indeed so, and they were all shocked. Tianxia Guihuo said in a deep voice:

"This shows that they already know how to clear the Mobile Forest, but since we joined forces, everyone has been together. If I am a traitor, how did I transmit the information?"

Since joining forces, Guan Ya and I have been observing their ears. No one was wearing a headset, and no one whispered secretly during this time. There shouldn't be an opportunity to transmit intelligence... Zhang Yuanqing pondered and asked, "What do you want to say?" Tianxia Guihuo shook his head: "I don't know, but I instinctively feel that something is wrong. I'll tell you when I figure it out."

As a result, Tianxia Guihuo didn't figure it out until he left the maze forest.

[Ding! Congratulations on crossing the maze forest, reward 30 points.] From entering the maze forest to leaving, there were a total of 60 points rewarded for the three checkpoints.

At this time, Yuanshi Tianzun was still at the top of the leaderboard, with a total score of 398 points. The second-ranked A-Yi had 190 points.

The others on the list increased by 20 points each, and the ranking basically remained unchanged. The point growth in the maze was fixed. Each time a level was passed, ten points were added.

Walking out of the maze forest, the bright moonlight poured down like a blanket. In front was a shrine made of boulders, with a rough and simple style, but with a magnificent atmosphere. Outside the shrine was an open space, without weeds or trees. Except for a few flat stones lying across, it was empty and clean.

This open space should be where the monkeys worshiped the mountain god.

The simple and unadorned mountain god temple stood quietly on the top of the mountain, bathed in the moonlight, with a clear night sky and lush, layered treetops in the background.

Zhang Yuanqing and the others quickened their pace, crossed the open space, and entered the mountain god temple along the crude steps. The inside of the temple was empty and crude. Six thick stone pillars supported the dome, and the dome was pieced together by thin and large slabs of stone. The stone pillars were also made of stones mixed with mud. Although rough and simple, this group of mountain monkeys had indeed mastered the simple principles of architecture. Their IQ was very high. At the end of the hall was a high altar. On the altar stood a stone statue, vaguely a female figure. The facial features were blurred, and there were even no clothes, but the monkeys had tried their best to express that this mountain god was a female through physiological characteristics.

——Prominent breasts! The statue held a staff woven from rattan in its hand, with a emerald green gem embedded in the top of the staff. Zhang Yuanqing led everyone to the statue and reached out to touch the staff.

An invisible barrier stopped his movement. At the same time, a task prompt sounded in his ears: [Ding! This item cannot be touched!] Background-style props cannot be used by Lingjing Xingzhe? But the side quest three mentioned that the evil cultivators sent minions to try to seize the mountain god's staff... Only the mountain ghost camp can take it away?

Just as Zhang Yuanqing was thinking, he suddenly heard Jiang Jingwei shout, "There are paintings here!"

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound. They saw Jiang Jingwei holding a "torch" and standing by the wall, pointing to the murals on the stone wall. The murals were dilapidated and dim. Most of them were drawn with simple lines in limestone. A few were colored, and the painting style was extremely abstract. A group of people carefully identified them for a long time, half-watching and half-guessing, before they understood the content of the murals. It told the story of the battle between the mountain god and the evil cultivator. The powerful evil cultivator wreaked havoc in the city. He bewitched the living people in the city, gathered everyone together, and then, the stick figures in the murals kept falling down, covered in blood (the blood was colored with red berries).

Everyone's blood gathered into a pool of blood, and a pair of black eyes opened in the pool of blood. Just as everyone was dying, the mountain god holding the staff descended, engaged in a fierce battle with the evil cultivator, and successfully killed the evil cultivator. After that, the mountain god built "high walls" around the city, cutting off the city's connection with the outside world.

"Strange, the content of the murals shows that the evil cultivator has been killed by the mountain god. Then what is the purpose of her sealing the city?"

"The evil cultivator seems to be holding some kind of ritual? The eyes in the pool of blood... Could the purpose of the mountain god sealing the city be to prevent those eyes from coming out."

"It should be, so our main quest is to arrive at the Lost City." Everyone discussed in a low voice. At this time, Asano Ryo said loudly: "The people from the evil camp are coming soon." The official Xingzhe opened the map to check, and the guys from the evil camp had already passed through the Mobile Forest and were very close to the exit of the maze forest. Zhang Yuanqing immediately said: "Let's go out and prepare to meet the enemy... The other two teams have not yet arrived, but they are not far from the top of the mountain." The other two teams were progressing slightly slower, after all, there was no Yuanshi Tianzun in their teams.

"I hope they can arrive sooner..." Mudan Xianzi sighed.

Otherwise, their team would suffer heavy losses. Just then, someone gave a light shout:

"Don't worry, you don't need to meet the enemy. In this level, the mountain ghost camp is destined to win." Hearing this, everyone turned their heads to look. The person who spoke was Yinchi. He stood by the stone pillar away from the crowd, and took out a palm-sized, miniature forest sandbox with a sneer on his face. "Go back to the Mobile Forest!" As soon as he finished speaking, the forest sandbox turned into light debris and dissipated, wrapping everyone present.

The next second, they disappeared. He was the traitor, a member of the Dark Rose.

After informing the evil camp of Yuanshi Tianzun's ambush plan, Yinchi considered that if the ambush of Yuanshi Tianzun failed, the existence of the traitor would inevitably be exposed. He needed to respond. So he secretly used the hypnotism ability of the musician to influence the unsuspecting "Little Match Selling Boy", making him deliberately make a series of strange actions in front of Tianxia Guihuo. People who are hypnotized will not feel any problems and will not realize that they have been hypnotized. And with Tianxia Guihuo's wisdom, he will definitely notice the abnormality of the Little Match Selling Boy. If Yuanshi Tianzun really comes back alive, Tianxia Guihuo will definitely tell Yuanshi Tianzun about this.

In the case where the lie detection prop is invalid, Yuanshi Tianzun will most likely take measures such as restricting the actions of suspicious people.

*The Almighty Soldier King of the Female President*

Sure enough, Yuanshi Tianzun did do this.

However, the development of the situation was a bit beyond Yinchi's expectations. He originally just wanted to divert the disaster to the east. However, the subsequent excellent operation of Tianxia Guihuo was something he did not expect. But it was just right, the more suspects, the more detached he was from the outside and not suspected.

The reward of the mobile forest also exceeded his expectations.

After being separated from the crowd, Yinchi thought of using the method of positioning with reference objects, which is a common method when trapped in a "maze". He didn't even think about using this trick to leave the mobile forest. Coincidentally, the position he was moved to happened to be not far from the exit, so he was lucky enough to be the first person to leave the mobile forest.

Luck doesn't make sense. No matter how smart Yuanshi Tianzun is, he can't guess. Of course, he couldn't hand over the reward item. After getting the reward item from the mobile forest, Yinchi knew that he was destined to win. He first shared his experience with the mountain ghost camp, then put away the prop and returned to the mobile forest to join the official Xingzhe. Although he became the last one, fortunately he was not suspected.

The development afterwards was as he expected. Although Yuanshi Tianzun didn't have a way to find out the traitor, he adopted the simplest, most rude, and most effective method - control! However, those two people were just a cover.

Yinchi glanced at the mountain god's staff. The mountain god camp could not touch this item. He turned around and walked out of the mountain god's temple without any nostalgia, stood in front of the temple door, and waited silently.

Twenty minutes later, the evil camp led by A-Yi and Baiwu Jinji appeared in the open space outside the mountain god temple after passing through the maze forest. Baiwu Jinji saw Yinchi at the entrance of the mountain god temple at a glance, and the corner of his mouth raised:

"Well done!" Yinchi nodded slightly, "The staff is inside, go in and get it." The Xingzhe from the evil camp were not surprised at all when they heard the conversation between the two. They had participated in the summit. They knew that there were people from them in the official team. They just didn't know who it was. "So it was you."

"The Dark Rose is too insidious. They can even co-opt the top eight players in the arena competition."

"Hahaha, Yuanshi Tianzun is dead this time."

While speaking, everyone quickly crossed the open space and ran towards the mountain god temple. Suddenly, A-Yi's amber pupils caught sight of a pair of exquisitely crafted retro long boots standing by a bluestone in front. They were woven from bright yellow silk and embroidered with delicate cloud patterns. "Why are there boots here?"

He stopped and said in a deep voice.

Yinchi at the temple door was stunned. He didn't remember that there was a pair of such boots here when he came. Just as he was wondering, a figure appeared by the bluestone. It was Yuanshi Tianzun. He appeared out of thin air and looked at everyone with a mischievous expression: "Oh, this is my thing! Sorry, I forgot it here. I'm back to get it."

As soon as he finished speaking, another figure teleported back, a tall and beautiful mixed-race woman wearing rattan armor, arm guards, and leg guards.