Without a doubt, all of them chose to cooperate. The bald man was a stranded Player, but he had nothing to do with the Imperial Treasure Dungeon. He had merely happened to team up with them, hoping to get some benefits. Still, he had provided some value by using his own experiences to verify whether the other two people's accounts were accurate.
The clear conditions for the attacking faction's mission overlapped with those of the defending faction to a certain extent. They also had to find the Imperial Treasure, but not to help Lian Qingkong. Instead, they had to let another faction take his place.
That wasn't strange. If the attacking faction's mission had only been to stop the defending faction, they never would have let Gong Shu live.
Among them, the old man and the female Player had only arrived recently. The other male Player was a stranded Player from the attacking faction, and his purpose was obvious: he didn't want anyone to have any chance of clearing the Dungeon.
The female Player, meanwhile, wanted to find more clues through the people who came looking for Gong Shu.
As for the Unlucky Egg who had been captured, he belonged to the defending faction and had already been there for more than half a month. His route to finding Gong Shu had been rather roundabout. He had first found a distant relative of Dou Hui, and only after getting nothing from interrogating him had he obtained this dispensable clue about Gong Shu.
The library had already collapsed. The group sat dejectedly in a small restaurant nearby. They didn't dare run, nor did they dare fight. After all, Xu Huo hadn't even let the bald man go, let alone the others.
"Teacher Gong, are you hungry? What would you like to