Players’ NPC daddy.

"A straight road, 120 gold coins. Anyone who can read a map will know where my fourth daughter is."

"That's not much of an answer." Blaze shrugged.

Just as if it was timed, not long after the old man at the fruit stall disappeared, the chicken fell from the sky and landed on the eaves of a nearby house. As the chicken grew, it could no longer land on one of his shoulders.

If you have to stay on his shoulder, you can only sit on his head with one foot on each side like incubating an egg.

"Hey, you took a long detour again this time." Blaze joked to the chicken, while thinking about how to tell him about the other lion king.

The chicken was silent for a long time, so long that Blaze had a premonition of something and fell silent as well.

"I told Herbie Hermes about the Nemean Giants and asked her for help."

Chicken lowered her head. She felt that this was a betrayal to Blaze, so she was willing to accept Blaze's anger, but Blaze didn't say a word. The dead silence was more terrifying than the rebuke she had imagined.

After waiting for a long time, Blaze's answer made the chicken stunned.

"I'm sorry for asking you to do this. This should have been my job."

The chicken's heart was deeply hurt. It turned out that what was more unbearable than silence was the boy's self-blame.

"I didn't understand the seriousness of this matter, I—"

She didn't want to continue hearing the boy blaming himself for her betrayal, so she chose to pounce on him and hug his body with her wings.

Blaze reached out and patted the chicken on the back, jokingly saying, "It shouldn't take this long to tell Herbie all this, right?"

"I also went to see the preparations with Herbie. It will be a huge project." Chicken closed his eyes and felt the burning heart in Blazer's body with his soul.

"If you saw it, you would definitely...ah!"

The chicken screamed as if it suddenly remembered something, flapped its wings and flew into the air in a panic.

"I forgot to deliver the letter!"

Blaze rolled his eyes and waved.

"Go, go, go!"

"That's right." The chicken stopped in mid-air and said seriously again, "I don't want to be tortured like this anymore, so I won't betray you behind your back anymore."

The chicken flapped its wings and blinked apologetically yet cunningly.

"Next time I'll do it in front of you!"

"Hey!"

Blaze waved his fist helplessly at the chicken's disappearing back.

After the chicken disappeared from view, Blazer slowly lowered his fist. His self-blame was not to comfort the chicken, but his true thoughts.

He underestimated the Nemean giant and overestimated himself, and his great success made him arrogant.

Did he really not want to look for Herbie and Audrey because he didn't want to drag them into this? He didn't know. He only knew that it was because of his hidden complacency and leisure that he had to betray her.

The chicken's betrayal made him realize that the idea that "he would not be fighting alone if he found the Knights and strangers" was naive.

Fortunately, everything that can be done has been done now.

Next up is the grand preparations for the battle!

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Chapter 130 Special Mission Kidnapping

"Lip-sync!?"

Melusi looked at his colleagues around him in disbelief.

She was very happy today because her colleagues who usually don't go online were very active and sang on the stage. Although they didn't sing with their heart, they sang anyway.

But when she mustered the courage to step forward, she heard disconcerting whispers between them.

"Is the sound engineer you hired reliable?"

"Reliable, people with such good skills don't need to sing, they can just mold a voice for you."

"Well, I need to practice my lip syncing."

"It's fake. Lip-syncing is not good. The audience comes to listen to live performances." Meluxi couldn't help but spoke to the two anchors who were talking about faking it despite the panic of looking at each other.

But her voice was so soft that the other party only heard her scream at the beginning.

"Didn't you receive any notice from the company?" When their fraudulent plan was discovered, the two anchors did not panic, but asked back with a strange look on their faces.

"Notification? I've been practicing singing online..."

"The company asked us to come up here today to record a song, and asked us to find or use the company's sound engineer to edit the song, and then lip-sync it on the day of the concert." The tall female anchor said it very clearly and as a matter of course, and was even surprised by Melusi's disbelief.

"What are you wondering about? Isn't this a very normal thing in this circle?"

"This is deceiving the audience. How can you do this?" Meluxi couldn't help but look at the other person, but the face with beautiful makeup made her lower her head.

After all, she didn't have the courage to criticize the wrong things, she could only promise to do the right thing.

"Me, I don't need to record the song. I can sing it myself on the day of the concert."

"No, you have to record it, otherwise you will be disobeying the company's arrangements and will be fined for violating the contract." The tall female anchor's cold words made Meluxi's eyes widen.

"Isn't this an unfair clause?"

"It's 2100, there are no such things as unfair clauses. There are many situations that may occur in a live concert. If you sing badly that day, it will lead to the failure of the entire concert. This is damaging the interests of the company, and you will be in violation of the contract." The tall female anchor was a little impatient, but she was still trying to persuade Meluxi. After all, a real singer would make it impossible for others who were lip-syncing to hide.

"You've only ever recorded songs and haven't even done a live broadcast. How can you guarantee you won't mess up in front of hundreds of thousands of people? Aren't you practicing all the time because you know you might not perform well?"

Melusi lowered his head and denied it quietly.

She would keep practicing on this huge stage, and she was indeed worried about her poor performance, but when she sang, her mind was full of wanting more people to hear her voice and to convey her emotions.

She regards this stage as the starting point of her dream.

She doesn't want to be an idol singer, but to have the courage to communicate and interact with others.

If she could make her debut on this stage with 30 spectators, she would have nothing to fear.

“I don’t want to lip-sync.”

Seeing that Melusi had no intention of cooperating, the short female anchor rubbed her bangs nonchalantly.

"You're a mute in real life anyway, so aren't you always lip-syncing in the virtual world?"

"Hey!" The tall female anchor pulled the short female anchor's hand, not wanting her to say anything harsh. But someone tried to stop her, and the short female anchor only got more excited.

"I heard you're acting to overcome your social anxiety. So what you need to learn is how to read the atmosphere and not get in the way of everyone else making money. Make it clear now: do you want to lip-sync? If not, don't act."

"I..." Melusi had just said one word when a sharp bird cry came from the sky.

A huge black shadow approached rapidly. It was a giant bird. The moment it got close, it opened its ferocious claws and grabbed Melusi's shoulders.

call out--

Melusi was like an innocent white rabbit being captured by a giant bird.

"...Didn't they say this venue has defensive features?" The tall female anchor was taken aback, but soon stopped caring. She lowered her head and scolded the shorter female anchor, "Why are you saying such harsh words? She's a streamer with 100 million followers after all."

“What if I really don’t participate?”

"You're stupid! She's leaving just to make way for our sisters. They have just as many fans as Meluxi." The short female anchor didn't care at all. "She doesn't make money from fans at all. The company's attitude towards her is that one more or one less doesn't make a difference."

"What if she tells this to others?"

"How can someone with social anxiety get the courage to say something like this? Besides, that would be a real breach of contract."

The two soon ran out of time for discussion as it was their turn to record the duet song.

In the magnificent art hall, perfunctory singing echoes.

Melusi grabbed the two thick bird claws on her shoulders with both hands. The wonderful feeling of flying in the sky made her temporarily forget the depression in her chest.

"You're Blaze's bird, right? I recognize your voice!"

Melusi raised her head. Although its size had changed drastically, she still recognized this messenger pet from Blaze.

The chicken remained silent, clutching Melusi as it flew aimlessly through the air. She felt sick at the sight of those foreigners solemnly discussing fakery in the very place where others had spent their entire lives pursuing art.

Melusi wasn't supposed to be there, so she rushed in and grabbed him out.

Because she didn't know chickens could talk, Melusi first read Blaze's reply, which was full of encouragement as always. Unlike player-written text, which would automatically correct itself, NPC letters were all handwritten.

Although the content was similar each time, the words were always paused, and occasionally there were traces of deviation. She could imagine the person in heavy armor, carefully holding the fragile pen and writing.

"As for me, should I give up something for those who want to listen to my songs?"

Blaze was encouraging her and expressing his anticipation for the concert, and her supporters were expecting her to be there, so she had to perform.

"As expected, you still send me off—"

Before Melusi could finish his words, the chicken suddenly changed its flight path and flew at an extremely high speed, its destination being a completely unfamiliar city.

Arriving above the city, the chicken swooped down, dragging the screaming Melusi into the moat, and arrived at a huge cave in seconds.

"Cough cough cough-"

Meluxi coughed subconsciously. Although he didn't choke on the water, the feeling of choking was very real. The culprit stood aside and elegantly adjusted his feathers.

"Where is this?" Melusi looked around in confusion, and at this moment, a pair of hands pressed on her shoulders.

"Wow, wow, wow! You're amazing! You immediately captured a strong man for me."