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He shifted his gaze, looking at Xia Li, Bai Xiao Mao, and Bei Feng in turn, and asked, "Is only Lily willing to cooperate with us? What about Xiao Mao's character, that cat?"

"Ah~"

White Cat suddenly sighed softly, "My character... Cat Cat's situation is a bit special."

"We found her, but she was unwilling to get involved in our affairs and rejected our attempts to win her over."

"In short, she didn't come to the real world voluntarily; she was forcibly brought here by Cinderella... By the way, Brother Fan Jin, you should know about Cinderella, right?"

"Speaking of which... Brother, your character Fan Xiaoxiao wasn't recruited either?"

"Fan Xiaoxiao's situation is a bit complicated, I'll talk about it later. As for Cinderella, I do know her—the creator of the intrusion crisis."

Fan Xiao said, "This information was given to me by Fan Xiaoxiao."

“That makes things much easier,” White Kitten continued. “Kitten didn’t come to the real world willingly, so after arriving here, she’s been looking for a way back. She mentioned to us that Cinderella has extended an olive branch to her, wanting to recruit her as a teammate. She… she said she’s going to try and get that woman to send her back.”

"Didn't you mention saving the world?" Fan Xiao asked.

The cat is a primary school student.

Logically speaking, elementary school students should be easy to morally bind... He meant that they should be easy to persuade.

"This one……"

The little white cat stammered, "We told her, but she... she said she's a monster and doesn't really want to get involved in human affairs. Besides, this is another world. She just wants to get back quickly and go to school so she won't be late or skip class and get punished by the teacher."

Fan Xiao: "..."

As expected of a monster elementary school student, his logic is perfectly reasonable.

"We also stated the relationship between the world of the work and the real world."

At this moment, Beifeng, who was standing to the side, added: "That is to say, if the real world is destroyed, the world of the story will most likely be destroyed as well. But... Miss Cat seems to think that we are exaggerating and trying to stop her from going home, and she has firmly refused us."

"She didn't even have the thought of changing her own fate... or the plot of the story," Xia Li added.

This is easy to understand, and Fan Xiao was not surprised.

After all, "Would You Like Some Kitty Today?" is a lighthearted, cute, slice-of-life anime, and its main appeal is the adorable antics of elementary school students.

Without a life filled with hardship or deep-seated grievances, what needs to be changed?

Fan Xiao gave the white kitten a meaningful look.

Other players also glanced at the cat-eared girl who was trying to look young.

This cat... appears harmless on the surface, but it's actually not so easy to get along with.

The fact that the middle school version of Xia Li was lured away, while the elementary school version of Bai Xiao Mao remained unmoved, already speaks volumes.

On the other side, the white kitten, under everyone's gaze, drooped its snow-white ears and remained silent.

She couldn't even handle elementary school students, which made her, who had been so confident before, feel a little embarrassed.

To divert everyone's attention, she glanced at Fan Xiao and asked, "Brother Fan Jin, what's wrong with your... Fan Xiaoxiao, Sister Xiaoxiao?"

“I have won her over, but she will not be working with us for the time being.”

Fan Xiao didn't hide anything and said directly, "We discussed it before and made the decision to have her act as a spy to gather intelligence."

“Cinderella cares a lot about the characters in the works that correspond to our players. Didn’t Xiao Mao mention before that Cinderella recruited Xiao Mao? She didn’t just extend this olive branch to Xiao Mao alone; Fan Xiaoxiao also received it.”

"This is an opportunity, a chance to get close to Cinderella. If we handle it properly, we can always find out something."

“This…” Xia Li frowned slightly, glanced around, and then subconsciously lowered her voice and said, “You really shouldn’t tell us this. There is a risk of being exposed if you tell us. The fewer people who know, the better.”

"It's alright. This internet cafe is under the cover of my concealment ability, and no one can easily obtain any information related to us."

Fan Xiao said calmly, "Unless the enemy can directly access the memories in our heads, this matter cannot be exposed."

"If memories can be exposed, then the so-called spy plan is doomed to fail from the start, and it doesn't matter whether it's revealed or not."

"And don't forget, both Fan Xiaoxiao and I have the ability to control luck and reduce the probability of this situation occurring from a causal perspective."

He's habitually lying here.

Fan Xiaoxiao's "destiny" has already taken the initiative. Luck is linked to mental strength and is inexhaustible, so there is no need to store it. It can be said that she can use it whenever she wants.

But he's different; he has to be careful with his money.

So he didn't contribute anything to "reducing the probability of accidents"; Fan Xiaoxiao did all the work.

His current statements, besides giving people the illusion that he is trying hard, will also mislead other players about information related to his abilities.

"How dangerous is it? How dangerous is it?"

Xia Li asked with concern, "You dared to make the decision to conduct espionage activities, so you must have a general understanding of Cinderella's capabilities, right?"

"Well... to be honest, I only have a very basic understanding of it."

Fan Xiao shook his head and said, "All we know is that she is very strong, extremely strong, far stronger than any single player. Even the strongest player among us would probably not last more than a few moves against her alone. As for whether she can withstand our combined strength... I have no idea."

"Cinderella can even invade reality from her own creation, so her abilities must be quite special, and her strength must be abnormally high. She might even be the boss of this dungeon!" The little white cat's face was full of seriousness: "Brother Fan Jin, will Sister Xiao Xiao be in danger? What she did is too risky."

You seem to recognize your older brothers and sisters quite quickly… Fan Xiao replied, “As I just said, she has the ability to control her luck, so it’s not that easy for her to get into trouble.”

"Luck, cause and effect... it really is a versatile ability."

Hearing Fan Xiao's confident tone, Xia Li sighed inwardly, "Since you think there's no problem, let's leave the discussion here."

As the prototype, Van Chau certainly possessed the same abilities.

She was a little curious about what level of psionic energy this was.

It leans towards conceptual manipulation, and is very likely to be classified as Grade A.

An A-level psionicist... No wonder he gained the approval of the core members of the Zoroastrian Church and was gifted the Azure Flame Sword.

She paused for a moment, then asked, "When Von Smann and the others return, should we inform them about this?"

“They’re not on the same path, so let’s keep it from them for now,” Fan Xiao said. “It’s best if the five of us know about this.”

Xia Li and the other three nodded.

Fan Xiao then looked at the young girl, Lily, and asked, "What do you know about Cinderella, Lily?"

“All I know is that her name is that, and that she can repeatedly travel between the works and reality, bringing the characters with her,” Lily replied. “If Mr. Fan is asking about her abilities… well, I’ve only met her once, and she has never used her abilities in front of me.”

"Is that so... I do have some information here."

Facing the onlookers, Fan Xiao first recounted the story of "Cinderella not being found," and then gave his own deduced conclusion.

This suggests that Cinderella is very likely the real name of the instigator, and that she not only concealed information about herself but also some information about the true mythology.

Upon hearing this, everyone showed surprise and astonishment.

They could understand Fan Xiao's assessment of Cinderella's condition—after all, whether or not her name information could be found was obvious.

However, they couldn't quite understand the conclusion that mythological information was also hidden.

How the hell did you figure that out?

To this day, they haven't even figured out which myth is the real one, yet they know that there are hidden messages in the myths?

Isn't the order and steps of this investigation a bit... too disjointed?

How exactly was this found out?

"If that's the case, then we're in trouble!"

Xia Li frowned and said, "None of our remaining players have the talent or psychic ability to see through hidden information. To obtain further intelligence, do we really have no choice but to rely on Fan Xiaoxiao's espionage activities?"

"This...this is really bad news! This puts us in a very passive position." Beifeng's expression darkened. "If Fan Xiaoxiao's side is exposed and fails, won't our intelligence chain be cut off?"

"Yeah, this situation is really bad!" White Cat commented. "If we lose contact with Sister Xiaoxiao, won't we have to engage in a final battle with Cinderella if we want to gather any more clues?"

She wasn't just acting and agreeing with her teammates; she genuinely felt the situation was terrible!

Players have only been in the dungeon for a short time, yet they are already facing the biggest problem of a broken information chain?

Isn't this a bit too difficult?

"It may not be the final battle. Cinderella is currently only the apparent boss; whether she is the true dungeon boss is still uncertain."

Xia Li said rather seriously, "Considering the worst-case scenario, if Fan Xiaoxiao really fails, we can go directly to her and fight her, forcibly extracting information. That is actually a viable option, even though it's a bit aggressive."

"Sister Xia Li, isn't this a bit too reckless...too impulsive?"

White Cat hesitated for a moment before saying, "I think it's better to take a steady approach and start by adding more elements to the story. As long as Cinderella doesn't contact us, we can... just hide and develop our skills secretly?"

Xia Li did not refute this statement.

Because she herself had this plan... no, the proposal to add this setting to the work was put forward by her from the beginning.

However... she felt that her "junior" Fan Jin had never really been interested in this plan.

So she looked at Fan Xiao and asked, "What do you think we should do next? Should we focus all our efforts on adding more details to the story?"

Fan Xiao did not answer the question immediately.

After a few seconds of thought, he said, "Have you ever considered this question? According to the earliest records of bizarre deaths, the crisis of intrusion into works of art began before we players even arrived. With so many characters from various works flooding into reality, didn't they ever think of finding their creators, either to negotiate or to threaten them, to change their own settings?"

"Indeed... we overlooked this direction of investigation."

Sorrowful Wind said thoughtfully, "The dungeon only opens when players enter, so we naturally assume that no one has conducted this kind of experiment before... This is a misconception based on habitual thinking! It's very likely that some characters have already done this additional setting!"

It is correct that the dungeon will only open when players enter.

However, the "history" that occurs after the instance is opened, or the "story" that is related to the player's progress, may not necessarily start from the point when the player enters the instance.

There are quite a few copies that come with their own time, history, and past interference rules.

Simply put, the "work intrusion crisis" is a crisis that only occurs after players enter the game or the dungeon is opened.

However, the starting point of this crisis may not coincide with the player's entry point—the starting point can occur before the player enters the game.

The day before, the week before, the month before... even the year before is fine.

Although this does not conform to the logic of time, it can be achieved in the instance with just one "history adjustment".

"Should we conduct an investigation...?"

Xia Li thought for a moment and said, "Then let's conduct the investigation and experiment together. The investigation can start by finding those creators. We will be in charge of that, and the Von Smann team will be responsible for adding to the plan. I will tell them about it when they return."

"During the day, our two teams operate separately, and at night we stop all plans and gather together to guard against crises involving secondary creation roles."

"As long as the investigation yields results quickly, we can save ourselves a lot of unnecessary work. Let's leave it at that for now."

The proposal was agreed upon by everyone.

Fan Xiao had no objections.

He added, "The rest is just waiting for news from Fan Xiaoxiao."

“In addition, I have another plan—if Fan Xiaoxiao’s espionage activities fail, whatever plans we are currently undertaking must be stopped immediately.”

"Then……"

His eyes narrowed, becoming somewhat dangerous: "Find Cinderella immediately and eliminate her!"

"...So radical?"

The sad wind was a bit unexpected.

Hasn't Xia Li's successor always been steady and reliable?

Why did you suddenly become so reckless?

"Can you tell me why?" Xia Li asked. "What did you find out?"

"It's not an investigation, but a guess, an intuition."

Fan Xiao said, "Right now, our intelligence chain for clearing the dungeon has broken down with Cinderella. The current situation is that she's hiding all the key information. Don't you think... this is actually a hint the dungeon is giving to the players?"

No one present was a fool; they immediately understood his meaning.

All information has been cut off with Cinderella, which is, in a way, an indication—that if they can get Cinderella on their side, they can solve all their intelligence problems.

Now, everything about the dungeon boss points to Cinderella, which makes players subconsciously think that Cinderella is very powerful and cannot be defeated by force; they must use their wits to outmaneuver her by investigating the crisis rules.

Inertia in thinking is not advisable.

Therefore, sometimes we have to do the opposite.

Seeing the thoughtful expressions on everyone's faces, Fan Xiao continued, "Furthermore, there's one more thing we need to pay attention to."

"Cinderella has shown extra attention to our player-created characters, and in the worst-case scenario, she may already know about our existence."