Quadruple split.

Chapter 2678 A Win-Win Proposal

"Is...is that so?"

Clearly lacking Gu Xiaole's imagination, the winged girl, stunned by what she was being said, nodded blankly, tilted her head, and after a while, asked somewhat bewilderedly, "Then what should I do now?"

"Pfft, you definitely have to make the decision."

Gu Xiaole couldn't help but laugh, then suggested, "But I think, instead of choosing a date, why not create one (Mo Tan: it's like 'crashing' a date)? Little Pigeon, why don't you just designate the third test taker?"

Ji Xiaoge pursed her cherry lips and hesitated, saying, "But now the only test takers we can choose are the mentor and Fimi, and neither of them are players."

"But you don't have anyone else to choose from."

Gu Xiaole touched Ji Xiaoge's wonderfully soft wing tips and said with a grin, "How about this, you try to designate Master Lu Wei as the tester first. If he accepts, great; if not, we can talk about it later."

Unaware that Mo Tan seemed hesitant to speak, Ji Xiaoge nodded vigorously. Then, while quickly carrying out Gu Xiaole's suggestion, she muttered, "I'll give it a try!"

Then--

"Eh?!"

The next second, Ji Xiaoge, who had suddenly let out a gasp, stared wide-eyed and froze on the spot.

"Wang?"

Ya Ya immediately rushed to Ji Xiaoge's side with some concern, grabbing the latter's hand and shaking it back and forth: "Sister Wang Ge, you don't have a dog, do you?"

"Uh, it's nothing, it's nothing."

Ji Xiaoge first waved her hand, then said with a rather subtle expression, "It's just... how should I put it, it seems there's no confirmation process for the mentor's assignment."

"what?"

Upon hearing this, everyone was stunned. Even Mo Tan was bewildered for several seconds before she reacted and asked with a subtle expression, "So what exactly do you mean?"

"Specifically, I succeeded the moment I tried to designate a mentor as the third tester."

"what?"

"Yes, the task panel has been updated."

"Ah this——"

……

Truth and Justice

Omission
Test [Three]: After receiving the quest, players can try to go to [Tianzhushan - Seventh Outer Mountain] to find the tester Ruvi Fitzgerald. After finding [Ruvi Fitzgerald], players can apply to complete the test. The test is to assist Ruvi in ​​completing an extremely dangerous experiment, and the completion rate must be no less than 90%.

Test [Three] Limitations: None

Trial [Three] Completion Rewards: 1000000 EXP, 500000 Gold; unlock a total of 135,879 mainstream Battlefield Engineering blueprints; upgrade the Engineering and Battlefield Engineering specializations to level 60; and obtain the area quest [Flesh and Blood Weakness, Mechanical Ascension].

Test [Three] Failure Penalty: None

[Note: The glory of Valhalla lives on!]

……

"Well, how should I put it..."

Cordova tapped his monitor and exclaimed, "Just looking at the rewards gives me the feeling that if I go to see old man Ruvi, I'll be dead without a trace."

"nonsense."

Wang Badan nodded in agreement, adding, "He'll be killed without a complete corpse."

"Putting aside whether the corpse is intact or not, just finding Master Lu Wei feels like an impossible task."

Gu Xiaole frowned slightly and said in a serious tone, "I remember Little Pigeon once said that only the first outer mountain of Tianzhu Mountain is open to outsiders. Places like the seventh outer mountain are impossible for ordinary people to find even if they search for a lifetime without authorization or a guide. This situation is simply unsolvable."

Mo Tan nodded slightly and said in a rare tone of certainty, "Indeed, I think this third test can basically be ignored. It's an impossible task no matter how you look at it."

"I think so too. Anyway, I should go and apologize to my supervisor later. I feel like he was turned into the third test subject without his knowledge."

Ji Xiaoge scratched her chin, then projected a complex message into the air, waving her small hands as she performed some operations, saying without turning her head, "Then I'll show you the current progress of [Ascension Fortress], hmm, this seems to be translatable into common language, wait a minute—"

A few seconds later, accompanied by a buzzing sound, the semi-transparent projection in front of everyone distorted several times, and then the strange, cryptic text on it transformed into standard Common Language:
【Valhalla Status Log】

Lower left wing: Forge area, current state: ruins
Lower right wing: Repair area, current status: ruins
Lower front section: Residential area, Current condition: Severely damaged
Lower tail section: Power furnace, current status: scrapped
Lower middle section: Take-off and landing platform, current status: damaged.
Upper Left Wing: Research and Development Department, Current Status: Abandoned
Upper right wing: Test site, current status: collapsed
Upper front section: Armory, current status: empty

Upper rear section: Command post, current status: severely damaged.
Upper middle section: Training ground, Current status: Damaged
Upper Abandoned Zone: Codename: Empress, Current Status: Closed
……

"Oh haha~"

Although he retains the inherent evil of human nature, Wang Ba Dan, who is not illiterate but also possesses a vast amount of knowledge due to the secret techniques inherited from the Dragon Clan, glanced at the screen and said with a forced smile, "Simply put, it means that everything is finished, from the inside out, from top to bottom, from the skin to the flesh, right?"

Ji Xiaoge: "..."

Clearly, although she wanted to refute Wang Ba's statement, faced with the irrefutable evidence in the log, the winged beauty ultimately turned her thousand words into a long sigh, pouting and lowering her head.

"It looks like a huge project."

Mo Tan smiled and asked Ji Xiaoge, who looked somewhat melancholy, "So, have you made any progress?"

"I can't say for sure."

Ji Xiaoge pursed her lips and said with some hesitation, "The current situation is that if I don't issue this mission, the mission to repair the fortress is definitely out of the question, but if I do issue it, the situation feels like it will become very difficult to control. To be honest, I'm a little panicked."

“I understand.” Mo Tan echoed gently, then reassured her in a calming voice, “However, I don’t think it’s a big problem. If you really have no clue, although I don’t know if I can help, I can still offer some suggestions.”

"I want to hear it!"

Ji Xiaoge's eyes lit up immediately, and she grabbed Mo Tan's arm, shouting, "I need your help to think of a solution! I know you're the best!"

"No, no, I was just saying whatever came to mind. If it could give you some ideas, that would be great."

Mo Tan remained humble as always, speaking in a lighthearted tone: "First and foremost, the most urgent task is definitely to disable the friend switch. After all, once this quest is released, regardless of how many or how few players meet the requirements, there will definitely be a lot of people who want to add you and Cordova directly. But I remember you two should have already disabled the friend switch back during the [Questioning and Debating], right?"

Cordova displayed an "=.=" emoji and chuckled dryly, "You're overthinking it, bro. I disabled the friend request switch as soon as the [Personal Ranking] came out. Damn, the day the rankings opened almost gave me a heart attack—hundreds of thousands of friend requests! Holy crap, hundreds of thousands!"

"I was locked up during the [criticism and debate]."

Ji Xiaoge winked at Mo Tan and smiled, "Because someone who loves to worry reminded me right away."

"That's good. Master Ruvi isn't a player, so there's no problem. But after this quest is released, you'll definitely become the center of attention, and you won't be able to hide it."

Mo Tan touched the scale between his brows and pondered, "Then, I think Cordova could first contact the [Professional Safety Federation]."

"what?"

Cordoba was immediately stunned, and asked in bewilderment, "With whom?"

"Joint Alliance for Security and Stability Work with Professional Organizations".

Mo Tan, without changing his expression, recited this long and difficult-to-pronounce name, and said seriously, "It just so happens that you have their contact information, and they value you highly, so you can tell them in advance and let them prepare early."

Córdoba, who had just realized what the [National Association of Professional Footballers] was, was confused again and asked curiously, "What preparations are we making?"

"They're definitely preparing to send people over here, you silly girl."

Gu Xiaole tapped Cordoba's monitor lightly with his fan and said cheerfully, "It's obvious that a significant portion of the people who meet the requirements of the Little Pigeon mission are members of those studios or clubs, and even if they weren't at the beginning... they definitely will be in the future."

Cordova suddenly realized and exclaimed, "You mean they're definitely going to get involved?"

"That's obvious."

Mo Tan looked around the only intact, sci-fi-style hall in [Ascension Fortress Valhalla] and calmly explained, "First of all, we all know how tempting a regional world quest is for normal players. And long-term quests with strict class and specialization restrictions are even rarer, you could count them on one hand. It's impossible for a studio not to be interested."

Gu Xiaole opened her fan with a 'whoosh,' covering half of her face as she said with a smile, "Moreover, our [Innocent Realm] is different from ordinary games. Both Little Pigeon and that player called Little Balance have proven the role of engineering in actual combat. If I'm not mistaken, after Little Pigeon won the runner-up in the individual competition, a wave of secondary professions should have already swept through professional players."

"Moreover, when the names Nightsong, Cordova, and Ruvi Fizlban appear in this quest, those professional players will probably immediately think of the [Rune Body] thing. In addition, since it is an engineering-related quest, they will do everything they can to accept the quest and pass the test in order to get associated with Tianzhu Mountain."

Having thoroughly grasped the logical connections, Mo Tan smiled and said leisurely, "After all, even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance of getting in touch with the secret of Cordova's 'inhuman strength,' those professional organizations would never let it go. Besides, even if they don't get in touch, they still have such a good mission to do with their own people, so they won't lose out either way."

Ji Xiaoge nodded and clapped her hands vigorously: "So you mean, since they're bound to get involved, why don't we give them a heads-up beforehand?"

"That's what I mean."

Mo Tan nodded slightly and said softly, "This is actually a win-win deal. The professional studios and clubs get to receive regional world missions and the unfounded opportunity to connect with Tianzhu Mountain; while we can recruit a large number of professional and dedicated engineers as soon as possible, and then start the repair work on this [Ascension Fortress Valhalla] as quickly as possible."

"Mowang!"

Just then, Ya Ya, who had been quietly listening, suddenly jumped up, hugged Mo Tan, and said with a grin, "So handsome! So amazing!"

"really."

Gu Xiaole raised her eyebrows slightly and joked, "You don't look like an intelligence type at all, but your thinking is very clear. You seem like a super shrewd strategist!"

Jadka, looking puzzled, held his staff and asked curiously, "Hasn't Mo always been quite clever?"

"Hehe, he's just that amazing!"

Ji Xiaoge immediately puffed out her chest and raised her head, flapping her wings proudly as if she had been praised, and said, "Handsome! Smart! Cute!"

Wang Badan: "...Ugh."

"I appreciate the cuteness."

Mo Tan, who was being praised for being cute for the first time since becoming an adult under her current personality, wiped away a cold sweat and said with a very subtle expression, "In short, these are all I can think of right now. They may not be entirely comprehensive, but the general direction should be fine."

Cordova gave Mo Tan a thumbs-up and said happily, "Don't be modest, isn't it good to accept a few compliments without feeling guilty?"

"Let's just do it the way Mo said!"

Just moments ago, Ji Xiaoge was feeling down because of the principles behind the [C·E·7·Special Assault Combat Mobile Weapon], but now she's fully recovered and out of her sentimental state. She took a deep breath, waved her little fist, and said, "I'll go to the terminal now to further confirm the status of this fortress. I'll leave the contact with the professional players to Cordova."

"No problem, I'm so poor, I'd love to get those rich people to owe me more favors."

Cordova's monitor flashed a rather lewd emoticon that was difficult to describe in words, before it went into a blue screen state, clearly indicating that it had started sending messages.

Meanwhile, Mo Tan, Jadka, Gu Xiaole, Ya Ya, and Wang Badan planned to take a short stroll around the fortress to get a good look at the place where they would be locked in a long battle of wits with Ji Xiaoge.

Before they had even walked twenty meters, Cordova's monitor returned to normal, and at the same time, he exclaimed, "We have results! The Occupational Safety and Health Association wants us to come to the public space when we have time; they want to discuss this matter in person!"

"Hmm, that's somewhat expected, so when exactly?"

"Now."

"what?"

"Yes, they just told me that the sooner the better, now is the best time!"

Chapter 2669: The End

(End of this chapter)