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Mo Fan didn't try to hide anything: "My name is Mo Fan."

“Brother Mo Fan!” Fang Xu immediately changed his form of address. “Which city were you from before? Your accent doesn’t sound like you’re from Beining City.”

Mo Fan: "Yunhai City".

"Yunhai City?" Fang Xu's eyes lit up. "That's a big city! I heard the competition among guilds there is fierce. Vanguard, Dawn, Pharaoh, and Evil God all have branches there!"

Mo Fan: "It's alright."

When Murong Sha heard Mo Fan's name, she frowned and muttered to herself.

"Mo Fan? Where have I heard that name before?"

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The Murong sisters walked at the front of the group, with Murong Sha remaining silent throughout. She would occasionally glance at her surroundings, her calm eyes always showing alertness.

Her spirit fox was the same; its deep blue eyes were always watching the surrounding movements, its tail swayed gently, and its ears twitched slightly, catching any subtle sound in the forest.

Murong Jiao moved with light steps, and every now and then she would jump up to pick a leaf from the top of her head and play with it in her hand.

"What are you all looking for in this secret realm?" she suddenly asked, turning around.

Fang Xu thought for a moment: "I just came here to explore and see if I can find anything good. Maybe I can get some rare pets or items."

Murong Jiao nodded: "That's about what I thought."

She then looked at Mo Fan.

"What about you?"

Mo Fan: "Me too."

Murong Jiao: "This is so boring. I always feel like you're just giving me the runaround."

Mo Fan was speechless: "Then what can we do inside the secret realm? Just wander around?"

Murong Jiao frowned: "Don't talk back to the boss!"

Mo Fan pursed his lips helplessly: "Fine, whatever you say."

The four people walked along a path in the dense forest.

The road wasn't difficult to walk on, but the tree canopy was getting denser, and only a few scattered fragments of sunlight could seep through.

Murong Jiao walked in front, occasionally kicking a pebble on the road. Fang Xu followed closely behind, muttering about his various "thrilling encounters" in the ancient cocoa tree secret realm—although those encounters were basically just getting lost three times and stepping into a pit twice.

Murong Sha walked on the right side of the group, with the spirit fox silently following at her feet, its blue-gray tail brushing low against the ground.

Mo Fan lagged behind at the back of the group.

He didn't join in the lively chatter between Fang Xu and Murong Jiao. He opened the interface and entered the four-person group channel for his team.

Mo Fan typed a line of text and sent it.

[Mo Fan: How's the situation on your end?]

The message was sent, and the reply came very quickly.

[Zhuang Xiao: Reporting, Captain, everything's going smoothly here! We've just finished synthesizing the Gulu Ball and are ready to continue exploring. Captain, should we regroup?]

Mo Fan glanced at the simplified map on his panel.

The map can only show the approximate location of yourself and your teammates; the accuracy is not high, but it is sufficient to judge the distance.

The four points of light are distributed in the four directions of the secret realm, with a considerable distance between them.

[Mo Fan: The secret realm is too vast, and we are quite far apart. If there's nothing you absolutely need to acquire at your current location, head towards the midpoint between where the four of you are, exploring the area along the way.]

Zhuang Xiao: No problem!

Immediately afterward, news from Feng Ling'er arrived.

Chapter 158 A Hero's Miracle in Public, Saving the Beauty

[Wind Chime: I'm fine here. The Alchemy Cauldron is very close to me; I was the first one there, and I left after refining the Gulu Ball.]

[Wind Chime: But it seems there's been a conflict over there.]

Mo Fan paused slightly upon seeing the message.

When Feng Ling'er said "a conflict occurred later," it most likely meant that a dispute arose among the players who arrived after she left the Alchemy Cauldron.

The situation is similar to his.

As a public resource, the alchemical cauldron is naturally a trigger for conflict.

Mo Fan was about to reply when Zhao Mingyuan's message popped up first.

[Zhao Mingyuan: !!!]

[Zhao Mingyuan: Brothers! A conflict has broken out on my end too! But! Here's the important part!]

[Zhao Mingyuan: I'm going to show off my skills in front of everyone! There's even a scene where I save a damsel in distress! Do you want to hear it?!]

Three messages were sent in a row, each with more exclamation marks than the previous one.

Mo Fan stared at the screen for two seconds.

[Mo Fan: In that case, let's continue exploring.]

There was silence on the channel for about three seconds.

Zhao Mingyuan: ......

[Zhao Mingyuan: No, aren't you even a little curious???]

[Zhao Mingyuan: I was a hero saving a damsel in distress, bro!!! You know what a hero saving a damsel in distress is!!!]

No one replied to him.

Zhuang Xiao sent a message: 【Received.】

Wind Chime sent a message: 【Okay, I'm busy now.】

[Zhao Mingyuan: Did the three of you conspire to collectively ignore me? ? ? ]

[Zhao Mingyuan: Wind Chime, you're one too?? Aren't you a girl? Don't girls love stories of heroes rescuing damsels in distress??]

[Zhao Mingyuan: Zhuang Xiao, don't you ever dream of being a hero like your brother Mingyuan, rescuing a damsel in distress someday?]

No one in the channel responded to him.

After a long silence—

Zhao Mingyuan: Okay.

[Zhao Mingyuan: You guys are ruthless.]

Zhao Mingyuan: I hate you all.

Mo Fan's lips twitched slightly upon seeing this, and he closed the panel.

"puff--"

A suppressed laugh came from the side.

Mo Fan turned his head and looked.

Murong Jiao had somehow gotten behind him and was peeking at his control panel. Although the panel was closed, she had clearly read most of the chat messages.

"You were spying on my messages?" Mo Fan frowned.

Murong Jiao didn't feel guilty at all, with her hands behind her back and a calm expression.

"What do you mean by 'peeping'? I'm your boss, isn't it my right to check my underlings' social media activity?"

Mo Fan: "......"

He couldn't refute this logic.

No, why would he argue back?

"Your teammate is quite interesting," Murong Jiao said, suppressing a laugh. "A hero saving a damsel in distress, hahaha—and then getting ignored by the whole team, hahahaha—"

She laughed so hard she almost fell over, her pigtails swaying back and forth.

Fang Xu also curiously came over: "What hero saving the damsel in distress? Who? What happened?"

"Mo Fan's teammate rescued a damsel in distress in the secret realm, and then bragged about it to his teammates, but no one paid any attention to him." Murong Jiao recounted the story while laughing, tears welling up in her eyes.

Fang Xu laughed after hearing this: "That's too tragic!"

Ahead, Murong Sha continued walking, but turned her head slightly and asked in a calm voice, "You have your own team?"

This isn't casual conversation; it's about confirming information.

Mo Fan nodded: "The four of us got separated when we entered the secret realm."

Murong Sha did not ask any further questions.

But Murong Jiao wouldn't give up so easily.

"A four-person team? What kind of pets do you have in your team? What are their levels? How strong are they?"

Mo Fan glanced at her: "It's none of your business."

"How can it be nothing! I'm your boss—"

"you are not."

"If I say so, then it is!"

Mo Fan stopped talking, quickened his pace, and distanced himself from Murong Jiao.

Murong Jiao stomped her feet in anger behind her.

Fang Xu cautiously spoke up from the side, "Big Sister, don't be angry. Brother Mo Fan is just like that; he's not targeting you..."

"I know!" Murong Jiao snorted. "It's precisely because of his foul temper that I find him interesting!"

Fang Xu: "......"

Fine, he doesn't understand, and he doesn't intend to understand.

The procession continued onward.