Minecraft: Is this still the Minecraft I used to play?

Ran Xiao recounted all her previous discoveries in one go.

He went through Qi Ming's account and followed the timeline.

After he finished playing with Qiming, Qiming went on a rant about himself on his forum account.

Because after their base was demolished by Ranxiao, they were disbanded.

Qi Ming's friends all went to other places to develop their careers, leaving him as the only one left at their base.

After a period of quiet, around the day they fought with the Moon Half Guild, Qi Ming posted a few more messages.

It roughly means something like, "The master and apprentice are exactly the same."

Ran Xiao didn't understand, but she still told Shi Qian about it.

That afternoon, he posted that he had been contacted by a big shot.

The expert who could teach him how to become stronger in the game was a bit far away, in a disgusting, barren biome swamp.

However, he was already alone in the game at that time, so he brought all his belongings with him.

After that, Qi Ming's account remained quiet for a while.

He didn't become active on the forum again until the day before Shi Qian opened the Ocean Gate.

However, the posts I made during this period were mostly normal, and I mostly replied to other people's posts.

However, one reply was rather strange; he went to the comments section of Ah Qi's post.

When the turtle hat was developed, Qiming commented on it.

He can breathe underwater without such a thing.

But nobody paid him any attention; some didn't believe him, and others mocked Qi Ming.

Then Qiming and he engaged in a 30-round verbal battle.

However, they didn't explain how they managed to breathe underwater without using a turtle shell.

Ran Xiao also followed Qi Ming's reply to find a comment under another strategy post by A Qi.

However, there is quite a large gap between the time of Qi Ming's reply and the time of the comment.

This is a post that's been sitting for quite a while.

Although the guide post is very popular, people are still reading it.

However, the anonymous comment that Qiming replied to was from a very long time ago.

It seems like they deliberately went out of their way to reply to this comment.

This reply was posted shortly after Qi Ming set off for the swamp, and it was the only post during that period.

The comments were fairly normal; it was just a newbie getting killed by a monster and asking others to help clear it out.

Qi Ming's reply was his testimony; the monsters and experience points were indeed plentiful.

The comments and replies look normal at first glance, but when put together, they don't seem normal at all.

However, Ranxiao couldn't find out who the anonymous account belonged to.

Otherwise, we should be able to find out the identity of another entity.

After that, Qi Ming's posts were about Ocean's big moves and how to switch accounts.

Shi Qian frowned after listening to Ran Xiao's words. There was a lot of information, and Ran Xiao's words were quite disorganized.

Every now and then, the conversation would veer off to the side, completely veer off-topic.

He had to straighten it before he could continue listening to the information.

However, he did manage to extract some key information.

It's highly likely that Qi Ming wasn't the mastermind behind this invasion; the one who followed the second clone inside the portal was.

And so far, it seems that only these two players are involved.

However, it's uncertain whether there's a larger conspiracy behind them that needs to be uncovered.

As for the location...

The swamp is quite a mysterious place.

New monsters that don't belong to this version have appeared, since there isn't currently a version of the terrain in the Overworld that matches the Swamp Skeletons.

It was indeed loaded ahead of time.

There might be something to explore in the swamp, but I can't really leave for now.

Once either of the two bodies in the portal has resolved something, let's go check out the swamp.

Then there's that place with lots of monsters.

He felt it was more like a means of attraction than a purely purported purpose.

Ranxiao said that many players went to that comment section.

Players' goal is definitely experience points, so what attracts these players...?

What is the purpose?

Killing people to gain energy?

That's unlikely, but it's certainly possible they're using the player's identity to do something.

Human experiments?

They can't actually build a basement for the igloo, can they...?

Speaking of the basement, I wonder if any lucky person managed to retrieve the golden apple they left in the box.

He put it in and never took it out.

Something feels off, the physical entity, the swamp, and that place that attracts players.

Shi Qian felt that there must be some connection between these three pieces of information.

A message popped up for Ran Xiao, who was packing boxes in the basement.

Tell him to find out the players who died in the swamp. He doesn't need to be too specific, but he needs to know the approximate number.

Especially the swamp near the world's starting point.

That is, the place where Shi Qian killed the witch Numakoku before.

Ranxiao replied with an "okay" and then logged off.

Shi Qian vaguely remembered that during the guild war, the players who dug tunnels to escape seemed to be heading in that direction.

I wonder if someone was so scared that they dug several miles into the swamp.

He remembered very clearly the round trip from the plain to the swamp; it was a very long distance.

Not to mention that the Moon Half Guild's base is located at the border of the plains and forests, spanning two huge biomes.

No one would be foolish enough to do that.

However, there was one player in that group who left a deep impression on him.

I've met him several times, and each time I felt... hostility towards him?

Is this guy playing the villain...?

Thinking of this, I left a message for Ranxiao asking her to search for the player 【枫宁】.

I remember Ranxiao mentioning before that this player seemed to have posted something.

It happened during the period when he was just starting to develop.

Ranxiao saw the post around that time and that's how she found herself.

However, Ranxiao logged off not long before logging back on.

They came straight for Shi Qian.

"Boss—"

Shi Qian was a little bewildered because he had returned so quickly.

"Stop, stop, stop, speak slowly."

"Boss, I just searched for the one you mentioned."

"but..."

Shi Qian rarely saw Ran Xiao in such a state of heavy breathing.

"but what?"

He felt that this time, there might be big news.

"After I searched, a few posts popped up. After I clicked on them, he told me..."

"The content I'm looking for doesn't exist, and it's the same for every single one!"

"Then, refusing to believe it, I kept refreshing, and it crashed my system!"

"After I logged back in, I found that searching for that topic and content now showed 0 results."

"Fortunately, I had just memorized a few account names, so I sent them private messages directly."

"I asked him if his post had been deleted, and he just answered me yes, the swamp is too strange."

"His account showed 'User has been banned for violating regulations and cannot use the private messaging function.' After I refreshed the page, his account was directly shown as having been deleted!"

"And that's not all, I can't find any posts about swamps anymore."

"Even if you search on other websites, as long as Minecraft is mentioned, all the swamp content disappears completely!"

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