The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 378 Become a Star

In S-level copies, no matter who is chasing you, you can ensure your safety as long as you escape into the slums.

If someone else said this, Jian Xing would definitely sneer at it, because there is no concept of a safe zone in the Abyss game dungeon.

Even the royal palace where Queen Olivia resides, or St. George's Cathedral, the headquarters of the Holy Revelation Church, are not so arrogant.

But since it was Heping who said this, Jianxing believed it a little.

The fog rules can indeed be isolated within the scope of the Gray Church Slums. If the reason for isolating the fog rules really comes from Mrs. Sean, then what Heping said is entirely possible to be true.

More importantly, this was not the first time he had seen the natives of the dungeon possess incredible powers that were beyond the players' comprehension.

For example, in the Silent Route dungeon he had entered before, he encountered a terrifyingly powerful native of the hidden dungeon.

A group of players followed the native inhabitant of the dungeon and completed the dungeon by lying down without putting in any effort.

Not only is the native inhabitants of the dungeon strong, but his level of dungeon strategy is also far better than that of ordinary players, which even earned him an A- rating.

If the hidden native had not been mentioned in other players' guides, he would have thought that someone had recharged money into the Abyss game and activated the VIP sweep mode.

Jian Xing looked outside the church and asked:

"Who is this Mrs. Sean? Is her existence related to a hidden side quest?"

Wu Chang shrugged and said:
"Then I don't know. I only know that Mrs. Sean likes to help the lower classes. If you have more time, you can come here as a volunteer and see if you can trigger some kind of mission."

Jian Xing wrote down the information and said, "If I find out the hidden mission, I will tell you how to trigger it."

Wu Chang said: "Justice."

He was not worried that Jianxing had observed Irene for too long, remembered Irene's characteristics, and would recognize Irene in other dimensions or realities in the future.

Like him, Irene had triggered the True Walker effect when she entered the dungeon, and had completely integrated into the plane, changing her face.

In the future, when Jian Xing sees the Yongguang Church in other places, he will just think that the three major evil cults in the believer circle have become the four major evil cults, and he will not be able to recognize Irene's identity at all.

The two chatted briefly, and when Jian Xing was about to leave, he reminded:
"We have another piece of news, but it's not accurate enough. We can only give you a reminder."

"The Steam Councillor who received us mentioned that they expect to have a big move in a week and will notify us in advance, but whether it will really be a week and what the big move will be is still unknown."

Jianxing took out a piece of wood, pointed his right hand like a sword, and carved a dent on the wood.

Wu Chang saw a faint green light in the dents of the wooden board. That was the root power of swordsmanship left in it by Jian Xing.

Jian Xing handed the wooden board to Wu Chang and said:

"The sword energy on this wooden board needs me to keep injecting the power of the root into it so that it can remain stable."

"If the sword energy cuts the wooden board, it means that I have taken the initiative to disconnect the root power, or Leng Shan and I were summoned by the Steam Council and entered a place that can isolate our root power. Either way, it means that the Steam Council is about to make a big move."

"If there is a problem on your side and you need us to contact you as soon as possible, just break the sword energy I left behind and I will be able to sense it."

After Jianxing left, Wu Changzhen and I stayed in the slums for a while, and when it got dark, we returned with Irene.

The next morning, Olivia signed the Corn Law Repeal Agreement at the Stellan Palace, announcing the complete repeal of the Corn Laws.

Ever since Wu Chang set a precedent and established the Secret Security Department overnight, the efficiency of the Stellan government has increased rapidly.

The process that originally took several months or even two to three years to complete can now be condensed into two or three days. I don’t know if this can be considered as reorganizing the workplace.

Because the land nobles and the queen cooperated too well, people's attention was not fully attracted by the Corn Law Repeal Agreement.

With the assistance of the Ming Deng newspaper, the general strike, which had just eased for two days, showed signs of rekindling.

Glad had no choice but to admit that supervision was inadequate and promised to strengthen the power of trade unions and further improve the Factory Act soon.

Not only that, Glad even met with Connor and expressed his willingness to negotiate a suitable bill with these worker leaders.

Glad's move temporarily calmed the general strike in Grimland, but his move to compromise with the workers caused dissatisfaction among many people in the Liberal Party.

From Prime Minister Ron's iron-fisted suppression to his sudden cowardice and compromise with the mob, Gladwell was called the "sheep prime minister" by many Liberal Party members.

Many Liberal MPs even claimed at private receptions that they would rather have a war than make unconditional concessions.

These words were written down by a reporter from the Ming Lantern who was among the waiters and published in the Ming Lantern the next day.

Gladwell's compromise not only caused his support rate within the party to plummet, but the subsequent turmoil also caused the support rate of the entire Liberal Party to begin to decline.

Judging from the results, although the conservative land aristocrats lost the support of land law by retreating to advance, they are not necessarily the real losers.

When the two parties were fighting each other and the situation was in chaos, Wu Chang did not pay any attention to it, but focused all his attention on tracking down the steam explosives.

The side quest of the copy is to help the target run for prime minister, but he is an Abyss game player, and he uses player thinking rather than politician thinking to run for election.

The so-called player thinking means that only those who survive can become prime minister.

So instead of focusing on those intrigues, it is better to get rid of the Steam Council as soon as possible and then think about how to eliminate competitors.

The list Luca provided was very detailed, and the players made rapid progress by investigating several of the key materials.

Not only is there progress on the players' side, but good news is also coming from the indigenous arcane knights.

The secret knight he sent to contact Henry, the editor-in-chief of the Lantern, sent a message. Henry no longer hesitated and wanted to meet him at eight o'clock tonight.

Henry wanted to seize this opportunity to promote the Charter Movement.

Wu Chang immediately agreed to the meeting with Henry, and asked the secret knight to convey the message that Henry could choose the place.

The clues for investigating the assassination of the Prime Minister were cut off by the Lantern. Just because he and Ravington found Connor, it didn't mean Henry was not involved.

Connor is a moderate activist and too calm to be a breakthrough point. Henry is an armed resistance advocate and impulsive, so perhaps he is more suitable for extracting intelligence.

On the other side, Henry, who had obtained Wu Chang's consent, sat on the sofa with a bottle of wine and drank half a bottle of whiskey in one breath.

The alcohol started to take effect, causing his face to quickly turn red. He frowned, exhaled a deep breath of alcohol, and then suddenly stood up from the sofa.

He grabbed the top hat on the hanger, put on a black coat, lowered his head, left the Mingdeng Newspaper Office, and walked quickly towards home.

Henry lived not far from the newspaper office. His house was on the third floor of a three-story building. The single-story space was even smaller than Ravington's detective agency.

dong dong dong.

He walked up the old wooden stairs and quickly came to the door of the room. He opened the door as quickly as possible, then closed the door and locked it from the inside.

He trotted to the bookshelf, roughly swept the books lying on the shelf to the ground, and pulled out a thick book from the back.

I opened the book and found several copies of the Hills newspaper inside.

The content in the newspaper is ordinary and no one can see anything unusual. However, after mastering certain secret codes, one can interpret other meanings from the recruitment information and second-hand item transfer notices published on the newspaper.

The information contained therein was extremely brief, consisting of simple commands, which after translation were usually only ten to twenty words.

For example, "Songshu Coal Mine, Explosion Abnormal, Deep Layer."

"South Bank, textile district, expensive cloth, unusual number of workers dying."

"Advance the general strike, top level, intelligence is in D."

……

Most of the information conveyed to him in the newspapers was not specific, and many of them were just an introduction, such as the Pine Tree Coal Mine explosion and the Sloan Textile Mill case. For more detailed details, Henry needed to send people to investigate further.

Instructions on promoting a general strike are usually very specific, and in case the Ming Deng Daily is worried that its capabilities are insufficient, the other party will also provide detailed intelligence.

For example, yesterday Henry was at the fixed intelligence point D and obtained secret conversations between Liberal Party members and a list of people who were at the scene at the time.

Henry knew that the person he was working with was not a good person, and his cooperation might help the other party complete some conspiracy.

But he didn't care. To win the struggle, he must have power. Even evil power was better than bare hands.

All these years he had believed that the Charter movement could only succeed with the help of that group of guys.

But after the Secret Security Department appeared and demonstrated their strong strength, Henry wavered.

He saw new hope, so he was ready to say goodbye to the past and embrace a safer and more likely to succeed path.

As for what those people would think, he didn't care either. Putting the newspaper back into the book, Henry prepared to leave, but as soon as he turned around, he seemed to be under a spell and stood still.

Behind him, on the sofa in the living room, a man in a black robe holding a cane appeared there at some point.

Henry was so frightened that he took a step back, his back hit the bookshelf, and the book in his hand fell to the ground.

While the man in black robe was looking at the newspapers scattered on the ground, he pretended to hold on to the bookshelf, took out a revolver from the gap between the books, and hid it behind his back.

He shouted in a trembling voice: "Who are you! Who allowed you to come in!"

The man in black robe took off his hat and saluted him, then said slowly:

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Xavier, and I'm your former partner."

"The information you received before was delivered to the Hills newspaper by me personally. The people who had contact with you before were all my subordinates. This is the first time we two have met."

"The sad thing is that I thought our first meeting would take place at the Stellan Palace, with champagne in hand, witnessing our victory."

"The reality is that we met in a small, shabby room, witnessing a shameful betrayal."

Henry's heart skipped a beat. He pointed his gun at Xavier and said:
"I don't know what you're talking about, get out of my house right now or I'll shoot you!"

Xavier shook his head and said, "I suggest you don't shoot."

Henry pointed the gun at Xavier and yelled, "Then get out of here!"

"I only count five numbers, 5, 4, 3..."

Unlike Connor, Henry never has any illusions and never shows mercy to his enemies.

He knew that his only chance of winning was to bet that the black-robed man in front of him was careless and that he would not dare to shoot or would not be able to hurt him even if he did.

But what the other party didn't know was that the bullets in his pistol were magic-breaking bullets used by the secret police, specifically designed to deal with extraordinary people!
When Henry counted to 3, his hand had already pulled the trigger.

But the moment he pulled the trigger, he suddenly realized that the gun in his hand was not pointed at Xavier, but in his own mouth.

"Mmmmm (shit)."

boom!
Looking at Henry who was full of imagination in front of him, Xavier tapped the ground with his cane, and the scattered newspapers on the ground caught fire and turned into ashes in a moment.

He shook his head slightly and said:

"What a hassle. We have to speed up the process again. It is really unpleasant to rush into an operation without sufficient preparation."

Late at night, 8:10.

Wu Changzhen I was sitting in the Secret Security Department, waiting for a reply from my subordinates.

Ten minutes had passed since the agreed time, but Henry hadn't even informed us of the meeting place.

If the editor-in-chief hadn't had such a poor sense of time, he would have been in trouble.

He no longer waited and used teleportation to come directly to the vicinity of the Light Newspaper Office and found the member of the Mystic Knights who was responsible for connecting with Henry.

"Where is Henry?" In order to prevent Henry from getting into trouble, he specially sent someone to monitor him all day long.

The member of the Mystic Knights said: "I was at the door the whole time and did not see Henry leave. At seven o'clock, I sneaked into his office and took a look. He was working hard."

Wu Chang frowned and said, "I'll go take a look."

He turned on his social phobia and elite stealth, entered the Light Newspaper Office, and went straight to Henry's office.

He pushed the door open, and there was indeed a Henry in the office, but it was not Henry himself.

Because around the fake Henry, there is a circle of steam rule power.

Fake Henry noticed someone coming in, turned to look at Wu Chang, and said in a jerky voice:
"Waiting for you for a long time."

After the fake Henry finished speaking, he started to spew out steam, which instantly submerged the Mingdeng Newspaper Office and entered a countdown to self-destruction on the spot.

Wu Chang wanted to use the same trick again and use space distortion to destroy the cyborg's detonator, but after the plane rules were further affected, his space distortion could no longer penetrate the fog around the cyborg.

He took out the All-Knowing Crystal and asked, "Is there any other way to make this guy stop?"

The All-Knowing Crystal hesitated for a moment and said, "The target is in an unstable state. If it is hit hard, it will explode immediately. You don't have any way to stop the steam explosives."

Wu Chang sighed and continued, "Can you estimate the range of the explosion?"

The All-Knowing Crystal replied: "The estimated explosion radius is one thousand meters. Targets within the steam range will feel fear and think that the explosion will cause harm to them, which will increase the power and speed of the explosion."

Wu Chang sighed, damn the first law of mysticism.

Fortunately, it was he who discovered the transformed doll. He was not afraid, so he prolonged the explosion time of the steam explosive to a certain extent.

If he ran away by himself, with his speed, he would definitely have time to escape.

But he could run, but Mingdeng Newspaper and its staff could not.

Connor and the newspaper manager Nestor were there at the moment. If the fake Henry exploded, they would all die.

Even if Wu Chang took them away, all the editors and staff of Mingdeng Newspaper would die, and Mingdeng Newspaper would be dead in name only.

The Steam Parliament wanted to destroy the Bright Light Newspaper, but he wouldn't let them do that!
Under the steam rules, energy-related skills cannot take effect, but not only are his skills powerful, his true body is also powerful.

He lunged at the fake Henry, pressing it against the wall.

In the face of his 339 points of strength, the fake Henry's small body had no power to resist. He was pulled in his hand, broke through the wall, and came out.

Then he grabbed the fake Henry's arm, spun him twice on the spot, and threw him high into the air.

"Man!"

"Become a star!"

The cyborg created by the Steam Parliament has its chest cavity hollowed out for the most part in order to hold as much steam explosives as possible, making it lighter than an ordinary person.

Under Wu Chang's tremendous force, the fake Henry's body flew into the sky like a cannonball. His body tore through the air, making a scream that could be heard throughout the East District, and rushed into the clouds with the scream.

The next moment, a huge roar erupted from the clouds above.

In the huge explosion, a big hole was blown in the thick clouds covering everyone's heads. Through the hole in the clouds, people could see the starry sky, which was a rare sight.

Although the fake Henry failed to become a star, he did bring a starry sky to people.

Wu Chang breathed a sigh of relief. Compared to the skills that he acquired easily, the physical attributes that he obtained through sweat and hard work were indeed more trustworthy.

The noise of Wu Chang breaking through the wall attracted the attention of Connor and Nestor. They chased him out from the hole and looked at Wu Chang standing outside and asked:
"What happened?"

Wu Chang had no time to explain, so he took the two of them to a nearby carriage and asked:

"Henry asked me to meet him at 8 o'clock tonight. I couldn't wait to hear from him, so I came to the Light of Life newspaper to look for him. But when I arrived at his office, I found that he had been replaced by someone else. The person left in his office was a superhuman disguised as him."

"From what you know about Henry, if he wants to pass on some information to me, where does he usually hide it?"

Connor and Nestor exchanged a look, and Connor said, "If he doesn't have it with him, it must be at his house."

"His house is on the third floor of 13 Tars Street!"

The arcane knight drove the three of them to Henry's home quickly. As soon as they entered Henry's room, they saw the mind-boggling corpse on the ground.

"Damn it!" Connor's eyes turned red instantly, and he wanted to go forward to check Henry's body.

Although he had different opinions from Henry and Nestor, the three of them had a very good personal relationship. Connor became anxious when he saw his good friend die tragically.

Wu Chang reached out to stop Connor and said, "Don't act rashly and don't destroy the scene!"

"Wait a moment, let me check the scene first."

Henry was not a supernatural being, so his death left no resentment.

Just as Wu Chang was about to check the scene, his pocket suddenly shook and the wooden sign that Jian Xing left for him broke.

This means that the Steam Council is about to take big action.

(End of this chapter)