Chapter 191: Hidden Main Storyline (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“There’s no rush to return the favor. Just don’t forget about it,” Han Xiao joked.
Every ti Bennett owed him a favor, their relationship points would increase. Being in good relationship with one of the main characters on the planet would definitely be quite beneficial.
Triggering a hidden storyline without actively looking for it was clearly one of the benefits it had brought. Bennett’s relationship network was very wide, so one could go through Bennett to get in contact with many others, most of them being strong ones with missions that had a chance to be triggered.
After waiting for a while, Bennett transferred Hannes’ call.
Ka-chin.
They both kept silent after the call was connected. They could only hear the sound of each other breathing.
In the end, Hannes spoke first. “I’m Hannes, we have t last night.”
“Bennett had told . Heard you need my help. What’s it about?” Han Xiao got straight to the point.
“It’s regarding a secret that was buried in history. We have found so traces of it, and I want to find out about this secret.
Han Xiao was very confused. He had no idea what secret he was talking about.
However, a notification showed up on the interface. Han Xiao could not move his eyes away from it the mont he saw it; he was completely shocked.
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You have triggered Planet Aquamarine’s Hidden Main Storyline Grade A Mission [New Era—Origin].
Remarks: This mission will cause unknown and irreversible effects to so events and organizations. Please consider carefully before choosing to accept or reject.
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Han Xiao’s eye imdiately widened.
A main storyline mission that no one ever triggered!
There were three main storylines in Planet Aquamarine—two of them were the war between the Six Nations and Germinal Organization and the creation of the refugee camp, and another hidden main storyline was triggered by the players, but it was not it!
He had completely no recollection of it, which ant this mission had not been triggered by the players in his previous life!
Hidden main storylines were a special type of mission. They needed an opportunity to be triggered, and they would impact the other main storylines and change the plot in one way or another. Han Xiao had played through many versions in his previous life, and he had read about hidden main storylines on the forum before.
Without exception, they all impacted the main storyline missions of their civilization or planet in a profound way.
The first ti Hannes and the guys appeared before the players they were already dead. No wonder no one triggered it.
Han Xiao suddenly realized how dangerous this mission was. Even two people at the maximum level for Planet Aquamarine had died. It would probably be much more difficult than he thought.
Han Xiao’s grade A mission against Germinal Organization [Fall of the Germinal] was a branch of the main storyline mission. Players in different organizations would receive different main storyline missions. For the Six Nations, it would of course be to destroy the Germinal Organization, but for Germinal Organization, it was the other way around.
However, Han Xiao’s mission was special because he did not belong to any organization but was Germinal Organization’s enemy. Thus, the requirents and details were different, but the main goal was the sa.
However, he knew nothing about this hidden main storyline mission.
Origin? Does it an to dig into the history of the planet? In that case, which event’s origin is this?
The unknown was feared, yet people were curious about it. Han Xiao felt an itch in his bones—it was the feeling of excitent and anticipation.
He was an extrely long-term player that loved to dig the important factors in ‘Galaxy’, and this was a secret that no player had found out about!
“Accept.”
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You have accepted [New Era—Origin].
10 Relationship with Hannes, Vernina, Garian, and Jiang Yuan.
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Hmm? Han Xiao noticed sothing.
He knew that Jiang Yuan was the last person buried in the grave, but who was this Garian?
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Talk to Hannes. Listen to his introduction.
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The mission requirent at the mont was only this. Han Xiao was used to it; it was sothing like an opening cinematic.
“It has sothing to do with us attempting to kidnap Dorasi last night. He took part in a secret plan so years back, and this secret plan of Maple is one of the leads. There are many secrets in the nation of Maple.
“When you infiltrated the governnt officials’ mansions, did you feel weird that these officials were protected around the clock, but this doesn’t happen in other nations?”
Han Xiao nodded. “I know about this, the ‘Ulrich Assault’ from many years ago.”
“Yes, Ulrich Assault...”
Hannes described the event in detail.
Ulrich’s position in Maple at that ti was similar to a pri minister. He had been attacked at ho, not by a few people, but a large group of civilians who sohow had weapons from an unknown supplier. They used gunpowder weapons and burned Ulrich’s expensive mansion to the ground. Ulrich, his wife, and their three children aged around ten years old were brutally slaughtered by the attackers. The entire process was recorded and uploaded online. It shocked the nation and even the entire world.
The reason for this was that Ulrich approved a policy that was basically to remove power and citizen benefits from the civilians and to use it as an investnt of a ridiculous project, which was actually a way for Ulrich to put money into his own pocket.
Corruption of the governnt officials in Maple was known throughout the world, but before the war of the old era had broken out, Maple had been known for their gentle governnt. They were normal and not a strong nation.
When the old era war broke out, the governnt implented policies that were very pressurizing for the civilians. Most people showed understanding and accepted the policies under pressure, and so even actively contributed. The governnt officials of Maple had tasted the delicious fruit of evil. After the war ended, because of the pressure from the nation losing power after the war, they did not go back to the old easy-going policies. Instead, they continued to pressure the civilians with tax and labor, which was used to recover the nation’s power. Conflicts within the country beca worse as ti passed by, the gentle society environnt disappeared and never returned.
People who were not living the life they wanted were like a spring that was pressed to its limit—the policy Ulrich approved was the last straw.
Then, half an hour after Ulrich was attacked, the special force received a command to kill everyone who took part in the attack. They showed no rcy. The nation was shocked, and this signified as the opening of the change of tis in Maple.
If this had happened before the old era war, it would have a been a scandal that could cause the complete downfall of the governnt, but in the new era, where power was left unchecked, the other five nations had no intention of getting involved.
It was already difficult for everyone just to protect themselves after the war. Organizations that protected human rights and power alliances no longer existed.
The structure of the world changed. The balance was broken; economies were close to collapsing; resources and military power beca the only standard to asure a nation’s power. Maple felt that the civilians’ feelings did not matter anymore, so they did not serve the citizens like before. In their eyes, it was ti for the citizens to serve the nation.
The old era was over. With everything being destroyed and waiting to be rebuilt, it was a chance to reshape the country, so they chose a radical way of doing it.
The assault that shocked the nation also alerted the governnt officials of Maple. They decided to retrieve the ‘weapons’ from the civilians. The governnt officials had never been this united before—they approved twenty-four strict policies with high efficiencies within two days. The twenty-four-hour protection of the officials was the most basic policy, and there were even insane ones that graded civilians, which led to ‘rotten at’ being evicted from the big cities every so often—rotten at being citizens deed worthless.
Thus, the effects of the assault went down a weird path. The Maple governnt announced that the attackers were not ordinary citizens—there was a reactionary group in the nation who planned the attack. Their weapons were the best evidence.
The Maple governnt listed dozens of la pieces of evidence. With the justifying excuse of capturing the reactionary group, they started to use force to take back the power that they had given to the civilians, pressure the ‘reactionary group’, ‘deal’ with anyone who ‘might be a threat to the nation’, then lock the information down. They wanted to turn civilians into a completely controlled labor force.
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