Without the NPCs knowing a thing, the players began their self-rescue operation.
The first step was relocating the contaminated players. This was carried out first, and it also had the highest success rate. After all, they were just doing quests—where they did them didn't matter.
Besides, they could farm dungeons together with familiar friends. How fun was that?
Even if one or two stubborn players were being bizarrely obstinate, well, sorry, bro. I'll have you log off for three days to cool down first.
You'll forgive me as soon as you log off.
Then they killed the other party.
The second plan was the "High-Level NPC Monitoring Plan."
This plan was also implemented relatively smoothly.
Given a certain leader's powerful will, the NPCs did not discriminate against players. Instead, because they had also come from the Cyber Test Site and shared similar experiences, they felt a few more points of natural affinity toward them.
The NPCs already had several players with high intimacy levels. Besides, this was only monitoring, not assassination.
Under the invisible hand of pp, the head of the intelligence department, everything was quickly arranged.
"You two—one of you has a master-level 'Starship Piloting Technique,' and the other has master-level 'Long-Range Lock-On'?"
The online "Five Grandmasters" pressed them for confirmation.
"Yes." The two players nodded honestly.
The "Five Grandmasters" pondered for a moment before saying:
"There's a hidden quest with fairly generous rewards. Are you interested?"
"Yes, yes!"
"Good. Follow me for now. I'll arrange things for you when the time comes."
"Okay, okay."
The "Five Grandmasters" nodded and turned to leave. To him, this was merely the final route inspection for his "Encirclement Plan," ensuring that no problems would arise when it was launched.
As for the players he encountered along this route, it could