A flame shot into the sky at the boundary between the tundra and the ice field in the Fontainebleau region.

The immortal flames painted the azure sky with a rosy glow, the brilliant light lasting for a full minute before fading away along with the flames.

A figure slowly formed in the blazing flames, and then gradually solidified.

As the fleeting light dispelled the flames, I looked up at the azure sky of Fontainebleau, then at the wolves hiding far away around me. A sense of disorientation washed over me, and I felt as if I had been reborn.

What I just experienced, what I've seen these past few days, might all have been a dream.

The thought had barely crossed my mind when it was quickly dismissed by the numerous debuffs displayed in the status bar.

These debuff markers, whether gray, green, or purple-black, are not generated out of thin air.

He traveled to the United States and saw many things he could never have imagined.

As time flowed by, I couldn't help but lower my head and look at the phoenix longbow in my hand.

Besides those things, there was something else that no one had ever imagined would happen: You Yuehan...

"What are you standing there for?"

You Yuehan's voice came from behind, and Liu Guangbudongwo was startled and quickly turned around.

Nie Wan stared at him intently, her eyes as calm as ever, without the slightest ripple.

Suddenly, I felt a dryness in my throat. After a moment of hesitation, I managed to ask, "Sister, is there more than one base in the United States? Because I think I heard you talking to someone, and I also saw that...that..."

“Edward’s soul, is that it?” Nie Wan knew perfectly well and spoke for him, “When I temporarily occupied your clone, you also saw the person and concept that spoke to me through my consciousness.”

Liuguang Bugongwo nodded: "Yes, I actually have a general idea of ​​what the concept is. I just didn't expect that the interaction between them and the players has reached this point, and I also didn't expect that some people, who are also human, have been lured to the point of completely abandoning their humanity."

Nie Wan said, "That's normal. When faced with natural disasters or man-made calamities, many people want to sacrifice others to save themselves. Now it's just that they're sacrificing others in a more tragic way."

While she was speaking, the forum private message notifications kept ringing.

Nie Wan opened it and saw that Tianxi Changyi was requesting to move part of his consciousness over, as he wanted to communicate with Liuguang Bugongwo.

Nie Wan agreed to his request, neatly arranged the two blood-red gems she carried with her, and then crushed them in her hand.

A bloody, rusty odor emanated from the gemstone, swirling around the two of them before randomly coalescing into the shadow of Tianxi Changyi.

Tianxi Changyi first looked at Liuguang Bugongwo to make sure he was still alive despite being covered in debuffs, then turned to Nie Wan and said, "Thank you."

“There’s nothing to thank me for,” Nie Wan said. “I can’t afford the loss of his life.”

After a pause, Nie Wan added, "You should have already sensed it, right?"

Tianxi Changyi nodded slightly: "I did notice something, but it was too hasty, so we can't rule out that it was an illusion."

“It’s not an illusion.” Nie Wan looked directly at Liu Guang Bu Gong Wo, but nodded her chin toward Tian Xi Chang Yi. “Tell him what happened after you entered the United States, so that he can rest assured.”

Liu Guangbu thought about it and agreed, then quickly said, "At first, we couldn't get off at the Ghost Ship, so I thought I'd follow Huatang Chunxiao's group to Fontainebleau and see if we could enter the United States through the Fontainebleau border. I was lucky enough to run into a group of players smuggling themselves into the United States, and I followed them across the border and successfully arrived. But I didn't expect that there were already people lying in ambush behind the border, and there were also their spies in the smuggling group. It's like... before the game even started, Annan tricked people into going to the park from here."

At this point, Liuguangbugongwo suddenly paused, looking nervously at Tianxi Changyi.

Nie Wan knew that Tianxi Changyi's father was tricked into going abroad and disappeared. Later, his mother died of illness, and he was sent to an orphanage. He and Liuguang Bugong became brothers raised by the same director, Grandma.

This is Tianxi Changyi's little-known past, known only to Liuguang Bugongwo and Nie Wan, who happened to see Liuguang Bugongwo's memories.

Seeing that Tianxi Changyi remained unmoved, he continued, "The deputy captain of the smuggling team is an undercover agent. He orchestrated this scheme to send people to the United States to serve as...materials for various bases."

Time flies, and I never actually uttered the word "ingredients".

But Nie Wan and Tianxi Changyi were both fully aware of the truth.

One of them had a contract with Liuguang Bugongwo, and the other had directly occupied his clone and accessed his memories, so they both knew a little about the United States base.

"I was originally thinking of disguising myself and seeing if I could be taken into the base so I could observe what the United States guilds were doing. But their tools were very powerful. They had all sorts of robots that could seal force fields, and some strange suction cups that I couldn't recognize but could seal skills and class panels. I felt that I might not be able to turn the tables if I fell into their hands, so I charged out, hid behind them, and followed the teleportation traces to the base."

"And then you saw the scenes of that base killing and sucking blood?" Nie Wan asked.

The shimmering light did not nod to me; its eyes flickered incessantly, filled with apprehension and uncertainty.

"If it were just ordinary killing and bloodsucking, that would be one thing. What I can't accept is processing people with the same meticulous care as other food ingredients, treating this plunder as some kind of enjoyment. That's outrageous. Survival of the fittest is a natural law, but this perverse pursuit is purely a sign of human depravity..."

Tianxi Changyi also said, "If every base guild is like this, then the United States is doomed."

Nie Wan shook her head: "It's not that exaggerated. The reason that guild base is abnormal is because the guild leader Edward is a madman, and it's just a case of the upper echelons setting an example."

Although the Memory Gem is not currently at hand, the memory access is always present, and Ying Yuehan always shares it openly. Nie Wan can easily use the inheritance of the Goddess of Memory to reproduce a certain memory.

In the hazy white light of her palm, the life of Edward Kort, the leader of the base, flashed by.

A childhood born into poverty, a hardworking teenager in a small town, a middle-aged man whose job is easily taken away by rich kids and who becomes corrupted, and now a man who convinces himself that he is logically consistent and willingly becomes a lackey of the person who plunders him.

It's perfectly normal for him to be mentally unstable; very few people can maintain mental stability and a healthy mindset after experiencing the shattering of their faith several times.

But Edward became a neurotic who often yelled and screamed not only because of the corruption of the concept of destruction, but also because of the person he originally followed.

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