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"You know about it, but you've been leaving it unattended. Don't you think that's a bit strange?"

"Perhaps she's restricted by the instance rules and can't attack us proactively?" Beifeng guessed. "Unless we step on a landmine in the rules."

"That is indeed one possibility, but I think another possibility is more likely."

Fan Xiao's tone became more serious: "Another possibility... Last night, when I was researching information about the work online, there was something I don't know if you noticed."

"The protagonist of the work 'Ordinary Talent Creates the World's Strongest' is Xiong Li, who has become the God of Power at the end of the work and has the fighting power to destroy the surface of a planet in a day. However, judging from his battle with the God of Fiend, his power was severely weakened after he came to the real world. The scope of destruction caused by his battle with the God of Fiend is pitifully small compared to the surface of the earth."

"Therefore, the characters in the game are suppressed in this real world, just like us players. This dungeon rule is, to some extent, to take care of us players. After all, if a character with the power to easily destroy stars appeared, how would we fight? Considering the balance, players and characters are on a similar starting line, and even if there is a gap, it is not particularly large. This is a kind of protection, similar to a 'safe house' in the dungeon."

He didn't need to say anything more; the other players already understood.

How much dungeon experience do A-level players have?

Almost instantly, Xia Li and the others' expressions turned somber.

The "safe house" in the dungeon isn't there from beginning to end!

In other words, this "weakening rule" will not protect players indefinitely and is likely to become weaker over time... until it becomes ineffective.

Fan Xiao continued, "It seems you've thought of that too. That's right, if Cinderella is also a character from a work of fiction, and one with exaggeratedly abnormal strength, then her power will most likely become stronger over time... no, it should be said that she will gradually regain her original strength."

"We can also deduce the cause from the result. Cinderella kept bringing characters from her works into reality, which resulted in a large number of bizarre deaths. The supernatural powers in various works continued to wreak havoc in the real world, constantly clashing with the ordinary reality. The rules of different worlds were colliding... The real world is becoming more and more chaotic."

"If her goal was to change the fate of the works, she wouldn't act so recklessly; if her goal was to kill people... she could kill everyone in the world by herself, without needing to bring in so many helpers... After filtering by elimination, I personally believe that her goal is chaos—she needs the real world to be thrown into chaos by the intrusion and conflict of the worldviews of various works."

At this point, he directly gave his conclusion: "I previously used the term 'work intrusion crisis' to describe this crisis, emphasizing the word 'intrusion'."

"The real world is constantly being invaded by the extraordinary power rules brought by the characters in the works. As this invasion deepens, will the suppression of the extraordinary by reality gradually collapse? At that time, will the characters be able to use their power more freely and without restraint?"

"I suspect this might be Cinderella's goal."

"Reality suppresses the extraordinary... Multiple works continue to intrude... The balance between suppression and the rules of the extraordinary continues to tilt..."

Xia Li murmured a few words and realized that this logic was very complete.

Is Cinderella using this method to continuously restore her original power?

What does she want to do after regaining her strength?

Thinking of this, she suddenly turned her head to look at her fan-made character and asked, "Lily, do you feel that your power has become stronger?"

"Huh? This..."

Lily said a little embarrassedly, "I didn't notice. I... I only arrived in this world yesterday, so I didn't pay much attention to the subtle changes in my strength. Um... I'll keep a close eye on it from now on."

Xia Li nodded slightly, then looked at Fan Xiao and said in a serious tone, "This is very likely the correct answer! I approve of your plan."

Sighing, Beifeng said, "I thought we could secretly develop our strength, but I didn't expect the other side to pull this open trick... It seems that we don't have much time left."

The white kitten's erect ears drooped down again, and there was a hint of worry in its eyes.

She did not object to Van Chau's suggestion.

As for Fan Xiao... Fan Xiao actually had the idea of ​​attacking right now.

However… since Fan Xiaoxiao had already taken the risk, he decided to trust “himself” for once.

That's how the matter was settled.

The group patiently waited for the return of Vonsmann's team.

During the conversation, Beifeng was in a good mood and took the initiative to chat about some of his experiences as a homeless doctor, including both earlier and later stages of his career.

As they chatted, he intentionally or unintentionally steered the conversation toward the large player organizations at the forefront, sharing some amusing anecdotes.

Many of the anecdotes he mentioned were about the Mammon organization, such as scapegoats, entertainers, and stokers.

As he was talking, he seemed to suddenly realize something and brought it up: "By the way, do you think there might be some Mammon players mixed in with us this time?"

"I heard that players with the Mammon Key Blessing item can sense each other at close range. Now that the dungeon has blocked the use of the item, I don't know if this identification and sensing is still useful."

"I've also heard that not long ago, a new candidate for King Mammon seemed to have emerged..."

As he said this, his gaze swept over Xia Li and the others, and he secretly observed them carefully.

He was simply driven by curiosity and a gossipy nature, wanting to test the waters—yes, he was a Mammon.

Those who pursue their true nature and avoid vulgarity will enter Mammon. Here, "true nature" does not simply refer to the chaos of evil, but encompasses everything.

Some players are very powerful, but they live ordinary lives and are destined to never reach the Mammon. Others may only be C or D rank, but because of their unwavering pursuit of their true nature, they gain the recognition of the Mammon Key.

In short, those who can enter Mammon all have some strange psychological problems to varying degrees.

His tragic nature is that of a beast girl of another race... cough cough!

As someone who frequents the top nodes and is also a full member of the Mammon node forum, he naturally knew about Gu Hange—one of the new candidates for King of Mammon.

So when he heard the name Gu Hange in this instance, he was actually quite surprised.

"Fan Xiaoxiao and Gu Hange" - Will Fan Jin, the prototype of the protagonist Fan Xiaoxiao, know the real-life Gu Hange...? No, according to the setting of this work, Fan Jin and Gu Hange are not just acquaintances, but may be siblings!

The thought crossed his mind.

If that were truly the case, he certainly wouldn't dare to test the waters like that.

The more you know about certain things, the more likely you are to lose your life.

However... Fan Jin is a Zoroastrian reserve member recognized by Xia Li, a partner of justice, and it is basically impossible for him to be involved with a smiling devil like Gu Hange.

It's probably just a coincidence of names.

Or perhaps Gu Hange is simply a fictional character created for the story, and that such a person never existed in Fan Jin's life.

Because this consideration greatly reduced his concerns, he took advantage of the opportunity of casual conversation to probe the topic.

He had no expectation of finding any results from the test.

Really.

He swears!

It was simply a matter of gossip, without any other purpose.

He didn't even take it to heart.

Until... his secretly observing gaze swept over Fan Xiao, and he noticed that Fan Xiao gave him a meaningful look and gave him a kind smile.

At that moment, he felt the hairs on his body stand on end!

Damn it! ?

Chapter 711 Something unexpected is about to happen.

A mournful wind carries the scent of the dead.

The relaxed atmosphere of casual conversation gradually subsided.

Xia Li and the others, who were listening with great interest, all looked at him with suspicion.

"Could you elaborate on the new candidate for King Mammon?" Xia Li asked, looking at Bei Feng.

"I've only heard about it; I don't know the details." Beifeng shook his head and asked in return, "Isn't Miss Xia Li a member of the Zoroastrian Church? Logically, she should know more than I do, right?"

"This must have happened recently, I didn't know about it."

Xia Li shook his head and said, "Mammon advocates that chaos is human nature and that people should pursue their nature. This is completely opposite to our Zoroastrianism. Our members cannot pass the detection of the Mammon Key and cannot infiltrate them to carry out espionage activities."

"Therefore, we are unable to obtain information from within Mammon immediately."

"We will only have a way to find out once the news has spread completely."

Internal information from major gaming organizations is generally not leaked.

Mammon was an exception; he couldn't be described as having a leaky wall anymore, he was like a sieve, unable to hide anything.

There were even Mammon members who deliberately leaked internal information—not for any personal gain, but purely to stir up trouble.

However, no matter how the message spreads, it takes time for it to completely disseminate, and it has a certain delay.

In particular, the scope of evolution games is so vast that sometimes there is no connection between partitions or nodes, which makes it take even longer for information to spread.

Not every player organization can have the best information platform across all time and space nodes like Mammon.

Sometimes, game companies have to go through the Mammon Forum to send timely messages to game governments in lagging game nodes.

Moreover... she wasn't responsible for liaising with the Mammon domain, so she couldn't know about Mammon's information immediately.

Currently, she is in charge of eliminating the cannibalistic players at node D01.

"I have heard about this."

At this moment, Fan Xiao suddenly said, "Not long ago, I had a conflict with an A-level player of Mammon. After exchanging blows a few times, I heard this news from him. The candidate for the new King of Mammon seems to be named... Gu Hange."

"..."

Everyone cast surprised glances at Fan Xiao.

They were quite familiar with the name Gu Hange—Fan Xiaoxiao's sworn sister and her lesbian love interest...

"Don't look at me like that."

Fan Xiao sighed, "If Beifeng hadn't brought this up, I wouldn't have remembered it. Now that I think about it... it's quite a coincidence that they even share the same name."

"Hmm... it shouldn't be considered a coincidence."

Xia Li looked at Fan Xiao and said, "The name Gu Hange isn't special. The population covered by the Evolution Game is astronomical. If you really want to count, there could be hundreds of thousands or even millions of people with this name in just one node. It's not surprising that you could encounter him in the dungeon."

"They also feel there's no need to overthink it."

The little white cat echoed Xia Li and said something on Fan Xiao's behalf.

Actually, she was a little suspicious—in her perception, Fan Xiao's strength was ridiculously high, so it wasn't surprising that he was associated with a candidate for King of Mammon.

Or rather, this is the reasonable approach.

Within the circle of the strong, there are certainly many strong individuals as well.

Of course, she might have suspicions, but she certainly wouldn't say them out loud.

Furthermore, she had no prejudice against Mammon, and she didn't care whether Fan Xiao was right or wrong.

The only people present who didn't doubt Fan Xiao were Xia Li and Lili.

Xia Li believed in the Azure Flame Sword.

Lily, on the other hand, believed in "herself".

Both of them believed that Fan Xiao was one of their kind.

Thus, this slightly dangerous topic quickly came to an end.

The mournful wind still blew, and the ostrich, head buried in the ground, barely dared to look at Fan Xiao anymore.

No one started a conversation, and the other players stopped chatting and went online to search for information, slowly comparing and digesting the intelligence and numerous speculations that Fan Xiao had given them.

It wasn't until around 5:30 PM that Feng Siman's team returned to the internet cafe and reunited with them.

Those who returned included Feng Siman, Lang You, and Xue Lun... but not the obese lady Alice.

The three of them looked rather grim, as if they had encountered something unpleasant.

Xia Li stepped forward and asked, "Where's Alice?"

“Gone!” the wolf said in a low voice. “The person disappeared halfway there.”

"Gone?" Xia Li asked in surprise. "What exactly happened? Did they act alone? Or what?"

"Well... I don't know the specifics either."

At this point, Von Smann stepped forward and replied, "That's the strange thing about this. None of the three of us know when or how she disappeared. In short, by the time we realized the group's numbers were off, Alice was already gone."

"If she wanted to act alone, she wouldn't have gone without telling us. This instance is so dangerous, how could she dare to be a lone wolf and disappear?"

"Besides, even if she really didn't intend to say goodbye, we shouldn't be completely unaware that such a living person is gone."

"Could it be... mental interference?" Beifeng guessed. "If Alice is mentally sound, she wouldn't leave alone without a word. You must have been affected by someone else's mental interference?"

Xia Li asked, "Did you encounter any trouble during this process?"

“No, our work went very smoothly throughout, and we didn’t encounter any unexpected problems,” Von Smann said seriously. “Except for Alice’s disappearance.”

"Alice's character, Little Ai, does not have the ability to track and locate. It's not that easy for her to find Alice and kill her."

Xia Li said thoughtfully, "During the day, the characters can't locate us using the dungeon rules. I've already confirmed this with Lily... Plus, with the four of you acting together, it's very risky to attack you... This is most likely not something done by our player-created characters. You've probably encountered characters from other works causing trouble, just like in 'Mary's Phone Call'."