[Ding~ Congratulations, you have obtained the quest item Holy Wings. The Divine Emperor's trial is complete. Please return to the Divine Kingdom to submit the quest!]
As the system prompt sounded in her ear.
Ning Xi, who had claimed the Holy Wings through the mail, felt a flicker of surprise in her eyes.
Meanwhile.
Under the pressure of fifty-odd guilds and some hundred thousand players.
The Iron Blood, Golden Age and Chaotic World guilds had been about to give way.
But just then, as if they had received an order.
On the outskirts, the players of the Divine Nation, Genesis and Mortal Dust guilds suddenly stopped their siege and pulled out of the fight, one after another!
"What's going on? Why did they suddenly stop?"
"Is this some kind of trap, letting us go so they can catch us?"
While the players of the Iron Blood, Golden Age and Chaotic World guilds were wondering.
Ahead, the players of the Divine Nation and Mortal Dust guilds stepped aside to the left and right.
Ji Ningshuang walked out of the crowd.
Without a word, Wang Junjie personally led a group of Chaotic World Guild knights to hold the line in front of Ning Xi, and shouted at Ji Ningshuang:
"Bitch! Don't think you can seduce me just because you've got a bit of a pretty face! Don't think you can get me to come over to your side!"
"Right now there's no room in my heart for any woman but Ruoxi! Don't waste your effort! Even if you wore white thigh-highs, I wouldn't spare you a glance! Because my Ruoxi will wear them for me!"
"As long as I, Wang Junjie, am here, you're not touching a hair on my Sister-in-law Mo!"
But Ji Ningshuang paid Wang Junjie no attention at all.
She only said one thing to Ning Xi: "Hurry up and go submit your quest."
"Godfather... no."
"Lonely Island hasn't revived the Ghost Royal Guard yet. Use this time, and you and Mo Shouchenggu still have a chance."
As soon as Ji Ningshuang said this.
Everyone present was stunned.
"What's wrong with Shuangwu? Why the sudden personality change?"
"Yeah! She was just trying to wipe us all out, so why is she suddenly letting us go?"
"Oh, I get it! This woman must have set another ambush over at the Divine Capital! As soon as we go there, it's another round of ambushes!"
"Same trick every single time. Is it even fun?"
At that moment, only Ning Xi understood: this time, it wasn't a ploy!
Because if Ji Ningshuang were still only trying to deal with Ning Xi, she'd have no need to go to all this trouble.
She could simply have destroyed the Holy Wings.
Or she could have given one order for the Divine Nation and Genesis people to keep up the siege, and easily taken down the three guilds, Iron Blood, Golden Age and Chaotic World.
There was no need to hand the Holy Wings to Ning Xi in perfect condition and then let her go!
And as Ji Ningshuang's words fell.
Even Liu Kai, Chen Feng, Yu Jin and the others were completely baffled.
"Sister Shuangwu, what do you mean by this?"
"Are we really letting Liuli go? But isn't what the boss wants for us to stop Liuli from entering the Divine Temple and cripple her?"
Ji Ningshuang's face was cold and striking.
"You don't need to question my decisions. Godfather said everything done here is up to me!"
"All you have to do is follow orders!"
At her command.
All around, the guild players obeyed and backed away to the left and right.
Seeing this.
Even Zhao Lingyun was completely puzzled.
She asked Ning Fei beside her, "Little Fei, what video did you just show Shuangwu?"
"Why did she suddenly turn into a different person?"
Seeing Zhao Lingyun gazing at him with an admiring look, Ning Fei crossed his arms, a little proud of himself, and said, "I happened to overhear Nether mention something about Shuangwu's past, so I followed that thread and did some digging."
"One winter night ten years ago, Ji Ningshuang's own brother, Liu Hao, stepped in to save a girl who was being bullied by thugs, and the thugs beat him to death by accident."
"Later, in court, the girl he saved turned on Ji Ningshuang's brother Liu Hao instead, and Liu Hao died a wrongful death."
"That's when Ji Ningshuang's so-called Godfather, Lonely Island, showed up! Lonely Island took action against those thugs, avenged Ji Ningshuang, and took Ji Ningshuang in as his goddaughter."
Hearing this, Zhao Lingyun still hadn't noticed anything off.
She only said, "Isn't that pretty normal?"
"Right. If that were really how it happened, it would be pretty normal," Ning Fei said, wagging a finger. "The point is, that's not what happened!"
"What really happened is that those thugs and the girl who was saved were all a show Lonely Island staged, to lure Liu Hao in on purpose and then fake it so it looked like the thugs had accidentally beaten Liu Hao to death. All of it was to deceive Ji Ningshuang!"
"It was a deliberate murder planned specifically against Ji Ningshuang!"
Shocked, Zhao Lingyun asked, "How did you find all this out?"
Ning Fei said, "The alley where it happened that night had no surveillance cameras, but there was a car."
"I pulled the dashcam footage from that car."
"The dashcam recorded the whole thing, from before it happened, of Lonely Island plotting on the spot with those thugs and the girl!"
Zhao Lingyun suddenly understood. "So the video you just showed Ji Ningshuang was the footage from that dashcam!"
Ning Fei nodded. "It was so old that I was afraid the video couldn't be recovered, so I didn't mention it at first. I figured if I could just grab the Holy Wings directly, I wouldn't need this video as proof to turn Ji Ningshuang."
"But luckily, even though I didn't get the Holy Wings, the video was recovered!"
Zhao Lingyun realized. "No wonder Ji Ningshuang suddenly changed so much after she saw the video!"
"This Lonely Island really will do anything to get what he wants!"
Ning Fei pondered. "Looking at it this way, that Super God Athena probably has some kind of story too~"
"When I get a chance, I'll go dig around~"
Zhao Lingyun couldn't help laughing. "Oh, come on! Little Fei, you're awful, always digging out other people's foundations!"
Ning Fei said, "A foundation only gets dug out if it's shaky!"
"With a solid one, where would I get the chance to dig!"
Meanwhile, outside the Divine Temple.
Now that Ning Xi had the Holy Wings.
She was about to head back to the Divine Capital and on to the Divine Kingdom to hand in the quest to the Divine Emperor · Ying.
Right then.
Rumble!
High in the sky, the winds and clouds suddenly changed!
Above a region in the east of Purgatory City, black clouds pressed down in an instant!
Endless dark power seemed ready to swallow that patch of heaven and earth!
Seeing this sudden strange sight, the first reaction of ordinary players was only curiosity.
"What's going on over there?"
"What happened?"
"Is a big BOSS spawning or something?"
Only Ji Ningshuang, seeing this strange sight, frowned at once.
Because she noticed:
'That's the direction where Godfather is!'
'The Ghost Royal Guard...'
'It's been revived!!!'