Is the person you sculpt as cute as me?

"Poison Mage, be careful." Yu Man typed to Xiaolu in the guild channel, "This guy has some skills."

"This is the legendary poison wizard..." Xiaolu has heard Yu Man mutter it several times.

She quickly distanced herself from him, observing Ginkgo.

Undoubtedly a strong man.

He was probably already maxed out in a single specialization, his equipment primarily Tier 7, emitting a very oppressive aura. Judging by the gold coins inlaid on his cuffs, his adventurer class was a Trader, and was above Tier 6.

He was undoubtedly a pirate, and he had upgraded his trader level a lot through pirate trade.

"JD... can you understand English?" Ginkgo spoke.

"Hello, Pirate Leader."

"That's fine." Ginkgo waved his hand, asking his resurrected and well-equipped men to stop, and stepped forward alone. "Negotiate?"

Xiaolu wants to look back at Yu Man——

But before she could act, Yu Man had already typed the text in the guild channel.

"President, it's up to you."

Let’s see what happens.

The deer cleared his throat.

"What we demand is that your pirate group be completely shut down and stop looting. Also, please load all your assets, including all the equipment you have, onto your ship, take it to the black market, convert it into gold coins, and send it to us. Then you will be safe."

When the pirates heard her request, they became restless and uneasy.

Some people shouted at the captain to beat them to death, while others clamored to treat them with the same conditions.

But in any case, Ginkgo is quite rational.

"JD, I know your skill level. We've fought each other many times in the arena. Even in an environment like that where specialization and equipment tiers are limited to the same level, I can't beat you, and I'm certainly no match for you in the wild."

Have you ever fought against each other?

The deer was quite surprised, as he had no impression of it.

The main thing is - every time you enter the field, just use your two ultimate skills in turn, and the opponent will basically die instantly, that's all.

But since he has played against me many times, it means that Ginkgo has met me many times in the one-on-one arena and is a top-level player.

"Since JD is here, the legendary eel might be the creator of this icy sea."

"Hello." Yu Man stood behind and raised her hand to greet happily.

This caused even greater commotion.

Of course they knew about "Eel" - that was a legend.

Ginkgo raised his hand, calming the noise of his men. "If you can do what you ask, we will compensate you completely. That's true. But you misunderstood one thing: players are free."

Seeing that they were all looking at him with puzzled eyes, Ginkgo's tone was confused.

"Isn't it? You've killed us countless times, so what? You've taken all our assets in this illegal area, so what? We can go offline, we can admit defeat, but we'll come back soon."

Hearing this, 70's expression became gloomy, because this was indeed the truth.

Even if the pirate base is reduced to dust, players can revive and regroup endlessly, and they can start from scratch to plunder and retaliate. And neither "Xian Kan" nor Yu Man can fight them forever, after all, they all have other things to do.

They lost this resurrection point, so what? They just had to set sail again from the main city.

It doesn’t matter if you lose all your money, they have expertise in saving money from scratch.

Sooner or later, they will plunder again.

Ginkgo knows this well - and that's what's so terrifying about players.

Players have grudges against each other and have to face these horrors together.

Ginkgo used this as leverage and calmly asked, "Who paid a huge price to hire you two legends? We admit defeat and will not attack your boss again. But in exchange, how about you let us go and sign a contract? Otherwise... we will not stop until we are dead."

Seeing Xiaolu was a little embarrassed, Yu Man waved his fingers slightly——

An ice staircase extends from the ship to the sea.

She walked along the foggy road towards the battlefield.

"The resurrection points for all of you are right here, right?" Yu Man asked.

Ginkgo and the pirates were quite shocked to see the legendary eel in person.

Compared to them, the person in front of them seemed to have climbed into another world and seemed to be playing a different game.

Ginkgo was very sensitive and sensed a hint of danger in Yu Man's words.

He didn't answer.

But Yu Man didn't want to ask further: "It's okay, your deputy leader has already said that all of you will resurrect here... That's all."

Even the most insensitive person could sense the danger.

Rich, unknown, unimaginable danger.

They thought to themselves several times, players are indeed free... Is there something wrong?

"This game has a flaw."

As he spoke, Yu Man opened the magic book, and a dreamlike magic lingered in it.

"The teleportation is so conservative that you can't teleport from here... to anywhere."

Frozen - frozen.

The thunder that seemed to announce the end of the world exploded in the ears of all the pirates.

But someone stuck his head out and found that it was an ice wall.

A huge, transparent, flawless, and extremely hard ice wall.

In an instant, it rose from the sea.

But such loud noises continued one after another.

Many walls suddenly surrounded their island, making it impenetrable on all sides.

Only through a small window left by Yu Man could one hear Ginkgo's terrified gasps.

The glass-like transparent ice wall allows you to perfectly appreciate the pirates' various lives.

"Cold..." They were just repeating the same thing.

Yu Man said through the icy window: "Yeah, everyone says so."

Ginkgo nervously ran to the window and stared at Yu Man and the others: "What do you mean? What did you do? What are you going to do?"

Every time he opened his mouth, cold air would slowly come out, then condense into ice chips and slowly fall to the ground.

Yu Man smiled back, "The ice wall is indestructible. You can rest assured that no one will be able to disturb you in the short term."

"...W-What?"

"The downside is that, with your skills, you wouldn't be able to break through it even if you spent your entire life... It fulfills my wish, revealing itself here as eternally as possible, becoming a high wall to protect you."

"...a lifetime? You must be joking...laughing."

Ginkgo covered his body, feeling the vitality and warmth flowing out of his body along with the cold.

A little bit, a little bit more.

Slowly... but inevitably and irreversibly.

He realized that he was dying.

He tried to turn his head back——

I was shocked by the stiffness of my neck and the slowness of my thinking.

But what was even more terrifying was that the entire group of pirates following him had been frozen into ice sculptures.

The lower-level ones died first, then fell to the ground, withered, and broke apart.

After struggling at a high level for a while, it became even more broken.

But it doesn't matter...it doesn't matter. Ginkgo told himself subconsciously - it doesn't matter.

Because it can be resurrected.

Players can be resurrected endlessly... endlessly... This is the protection the system gives to all of them.

but……

The resurrection point, isn't this the place?

"You're strong and have held on for a long time." Yu Man sincerely praised the pirate leader in front of him, "But it doesn't matter. This ice wall will last for a long, long time... and then I'll seal this small window as well."

"……Don't--"

"Not only that, I will also place you and this island... into the sea, just as you did before... No one will find you. But... you will sink deeper and deeper."

In the sea...

Sink in?

forever?

"Log out—log out—" He struggled with his last bit of life.

But then he realized something.

Even if I could return to the warm reality——but...

Isn't that my only refuge?

Anyone who wants to return to this old world, take back everything here, and experience everything here...

That can't be done anymore.

This eternally cold prison of ice, this perfect ice wall that cannot be scratched in the slightest.

And the ice magician who created all this.

She easily decided their future in the old world.

"Don't--"

Ginkgo tried his best to type, but it was too late.

Life abandoned him first.

death.

At last, he heard the sound of himself breaking.

……

Ginkgo resurrected in the captain's cabin, just like everyone else who had died before him in the pirate group.

Just like them - I have nothing but fear.

The impenetrable wall of ice seemed to hang forever over their future.

It also swallows up and exhales endless coldness.

The cold was slowly eroding the entire island, with the temperature dropping by several degrees every minute.

soon……

All the pirates squeezed as close as possible to the door of the captain's room, which was the last place the cold could reach.

Or--

Sooner or later the cold will arrive.

They didn't log off simply because everyone had figured it out and didn't want the future, forever sealed in ice, to become the end of their journey into the old world.

They don't want to be frozen to death here, resurrected - and then frozen to death again, over and over again forever.

"...Captain, I have an appointment with someone else to go to the next book."

"I met a girl in the game... I really can't stop playing this game. I can't say that I was banned by the legendary eel... can I?"

title.

No one wants to face such a future.