Outside the restaurant, there was a couple wearing coats to hide their faces and bodies, acting mysteriously but standing out in front of the restaurant in the middle of the mall, making passersby turn to look. The couple was peeking through the glass into the restaurant, acting very suspiciously.
"That's him for sure!"
"Definitely, Mo (Tangmo) is out meeting a guy!!!" the father said, fiercely protective.
Ignoring the father's intense tone, the mother added, "Mo really, she left in such a rush she didn't dress up as nicely as usual, even for meeting a guy."
"Giggle, he looks decent. A man who's tanned and weathered, someone like him could protect Mo."
"I wish I could see Mo's face right now, I wonder if she's smiling. We can only see the guy; they didn't choose a good spot to sit."
The mother kept talking to herself while the father, still listening, continued muttering, "This is outrageous! He's seated our daughter with her back to us so we wouldn't spot her! If we didn't recognize our own daughter's back, we'd have walked right past her!" He spoke as if that tanned man knew they'd be following their daughter to spy on her.
As if that wasn't enough...
"A rough and dark face like that must be a laborer! Nowadays, you can't survive without money. Why can't Mo see that! Doesn't she know that love can't Make a living!!!!"
While the parents were busy spying on each other outside the restaurant, Phakin, sitting opposite to Tangmo who was facing the restaurant, was explaining the next detailed plan to her. When he looked up, he saw the suspicious couple staring at him.
He thought to himself...
Could they be reporters?
After hearing about Sagittarius's popularity in Thailand, he figured the press would find him out sooner or later.
Is today the day he'll be exposed?!
In a flash, Phakin thought hard and said to Tangmo, "Things aren't looking good."
"?? Do you mean our backup plan won't work?" Tangmo, who was using a long bean from a plate of shrimp paste chili dip as a strategy, looked up in confusion while she was listening intently and thinking along.
But Phakin shook his head, quickly grabbed Tangmo's arm, and rushed her out the back of the restaurant!!
Talk about the long bean plan
on the original island of the Solomon Islands.
A masked man sat down on the sand and said, "Sagittarius is really cunning. There's even a trial job!"
"Robby tiger 0001 is one of our pawns. Should we abandon it?" a woman's voice asked.
A man's voice asked with interest, "Did Sagittarius mention model A?"
The masked man, who was clearly Shamshir, responded, "It probably refers to that giant golem."
The man who asked nodded and said, "According to our agent in Chang'an, they couldn't steal the golem blueprint from Guhai Wubian, but they saw the head of an armed golem blueprint labeled model B. So it's possible that model A is the sword-wielding golem!"
The woman's voice spoke up, "So model C, D, and E change according to the weapon they hold, right!" This means they still have the right to let blacksmiths carve out the golem blueprints.
But there's one unfortunate thing...
which is,
they have no golem to carve!
Remember, the five metropolitan lords have golems to carve because they won the war outside seven lakes city and got war spoils, not just items, but also golems and tanks.
But they live off the defeat of tens of millions of players.
While they indeed collected many dwarf tribe items, no scavenger retreating with a giant house-sized golem could fit it in their dimensional bag.
So their current situation is having materials but no blueprints to build!
They already have a tank—from the auction house in seven lakes city that time.
But what they are interested in now is the giant golem! Thus, they sent spies to uncover secrets from the five lords to steal blueprints. For the four lords surrounded by players, infiltrating and extracting secrets wasn't too difficult. But for Sagittarius, who is surrounded by NPCs and AI, this is the problem. To make their spy valuable enough for Sagittarius to accept, they sent one of the collaborators to befriend him to find the blueprints.
They could foresee obstacles arising. No one trusts anyone immediately for sure. The job trials involving intimidation in their own "command" might be straightforward; they just need to stage it to make the intimidation convincing.
But there's no guarantee that Sagittarius won't give Shamshir another test after this one. It might not be worth it. Anyway, they still have the option to steal blueprints from other lords.
Thinking this, all collaborators turned to look at each other without a word.
Shamshir spoke first, "If... Sagittarius really brings golems to attack..."
The woman's voice said, "We have several max-level blacksmiths ready to carve models..."
"We have the materials ready..."
"In that case/In that case/In that case/In that case," everyone said simultaneously and changed their expressions.
"Hehehehehehe..."
"Chuckling..."
"Hoohoohoohoo..."
"Giggle-giggle..."
The collaborators all laughed wickedly. No need to discuss the plan further; just a look at each other was enough to understand what to do.
If Sagittarius didn't know that Shamshir and Robby Tiger 0001 were on the same side, and even more, that they were on the same side as the group of people who spent money lavishly to buy all the dropped items, whether dwarf items or those from players in the city of Sirius war, to build a great power base... he wouldn't have ordered Shamshir as he did.
He was the only city lord player who didn't receive support from other players, but he still survived and grew powerful. Whether the long bean battle strategy will work or not, we have to see.
However, the plan is not yet complete. The long beans on the plate of shrimp paste sauce are already set, but other vegetables are not yet in place. Tangmo still couldn't get the overall picture.
"Dad!!!" Mom shouted.
"Follow!!!" Dad was stunned for a moment, then ran into the kitchen only to find that both had already escaped through the back of the shop! All he could do was swear.
The young man who was scolded by his father was overthinking.
He probably got too carried away by the scene with Shamshir and Robby Tiger 0001 and imagined things excessively. He thought that Tangmo's parents were reporters who took Tangmo and escaped into the restaurant's kitchen and out the back door."