Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Xi Wei’s return immediately drew the attention of several maids around Winter City.
Loli waved her hand, and countless beams of light filled with the divinity of life shot up into the sky south of Winter City, piercing several large holes in the dark clouds. The Old Ones’ Retainers that were closing in instantly turned to ashes.
After completing all of this.
She hurried to Xi Wei’s side.
“Master!”
The little maid, like a swallow returning to its nest, threw herself into Xi Wei’s arms.
But after a moment of affection, she immediately pulled away.
She knew this was a critical moment, and the situation was urgent.
There was no time for romantic sentiments, especially since Xi Wei had brought two wounded individuals with him.
“What’s the situation in Winter City?”
Xi Wei placed the two saintesses on the ramparts and glanced inside Winter City.
Fortunately, the situation inside Winter City was relatively stable.
At this moment, soldiers from Winter City were constantly reinforcing the city walls. Although several goddesses were doing their best to eliminate these monsters, their numbers were simply too vast. It required soldiers to constantly rotate and rest, making even more soldiers insufficient.
“Master, the Old Ones’ Retainers suddenly appeared and launched an attack on the city walls two hours ago.”
Loli helped the two saintesses to a less crowded spot and sat them down against the wall.
A stream of life divinity had already connected to their bodies and begun to take effect.
Soon, Gabriel’s complexion looked much rosier. Nalia’s condition had stabilized. Although she had lost a significant amount of life force, she was recovering and nourished with Loli’s help, her damaged body recovering and being nourished.
While busy, Loli did not forget to continue reporting the situation to Xi Wei:
“…After the Old Ones’ Retainers attacked the city, Ruo Yi and I immediately organized soldiers and Foreigners to defend the city.
But something strange happened.
Approximately half of the newly arrived Foreigners in Winter City also degenerated into Old Ones’ Retainers.
However, the previously powerful Foreigners have basically not mutated, and after the battle began, more and more Foreigners have mutated.
To prevent them from causing unrest in Winter City, I took it upon myself to drive them out of Winter City. Their Resurrection Crystals have also been moved outside the city, and they have now become the first line of defense on the east city wall.”
Xi Wei’s brow furrowed upon hearing this, and for a moment, his scalp tingled.
Obviously, the players had been contaminated.
How many players were there?
Although not all were recorded daily, on the first day of open beta, 1 billion players descended upon the Cain Continent.
Assuming only half of them degenerated, that would be a staggering 500 million people!
Winter City, with the help of a few goddesses and its formidable military strength, could still hold off the attacks of players and Old Ones’ Retainers.
But what about other countries, other cities?
He had to immediately sever the connection between the players and this world.
With this thought, Xi Wei immediately tried to mobilize the Godhead of the God of the Wilderness.
As a “GM,” even without the system’s help, he had indeed managed to access the server.
However, when he immersed his will in the server, he only saw countless writhing tentacles and trembling eyeballs, and heard dense, terrifying babblings. The originally starlit divine realm had become a rusty, defiled land.
Before being discovered by those Old Ones’ wills, Xi Wei hastily withdrew from his Godhead.
The launcher had been contaminated.
The divinity he had invested could not be retrieved, and he currently had no way to destroy this Godhead.
This was because the Godhead was actually stored by the system, but the system was now unresponsive.
That’s right, the system’s identity was either Cain Will or Creator Dragon.
Now that the Divine Realm was under invasion, Cain and Creator Dragon were too preoccupied to manage him, a mere king?
He could only rely on himself now.
……
At the same time, below the east city wall of Winter City.
Nobody Does Human Things and Surfing For True Master were sternly commanding the player legion in battle against the Old Ones’ Retainers.
Although they appeared calm on the surface, their hearts were in turmoil.
The fact that players had degenerated into Old Ones’ Retainers was understandable.
It was like teammates being infected into zombies in a survival horror mode.
But the problem was, even if infected into zombies, the two would not lose contact.
However, the new players they had met in the game just recently, including good friends, apprentices they had taken in, etc., had all, without exception, lost contact. The party function had disappeared, the private chat function had disappeared, the trading function was gone, and they were even removed from the friend list!
Nobody Does Human Things was the most deeply affected.
Because some time ago, he had taken in an apprentice, a honest and kind-hearted guy who played as a warrior.
He was certain that his apprentice, even if turned into a monster, would not attack him.
But the reality was that after degenerating into an Old Ones’ Retainer, his apprentice immediately attacked him.
At first, Nobody Does Human Things thought his apprentice was joking.
But after dodging several times, even after severing his apprentice’s limbs, the latter relentlessly wriggled like a worm, trying to get closer and bite him.
At this moment, Nobody Does Human Things felt that something was wrong.
He killed his apprentice with a sword and continued to command the player legion to fight, but the doubts in his heart grew.
“Surfing! I can’t take it anymore!”
Suddenly, he shouted to Surfing For True Master, who also had a pale face and a furrowed brow.
Surfing For True Master looked at Nobody Does Human Things, and without a word, understood Nobody Does Human Things’ thoughts.
“I understand, you log off and check. I’ll hold the fort here… But, be quick and come back soon!”
Nobody Does Human Things nodded solemnly.
He went to the Temporary Resurrection Crystal, found a relatively safe spot, and logged off.
Today, he had to figure out what was going on!
Did their accounts get directly deleted after becoming Old Ones’ Retainers?
Why would Cain’s official do this?!
With such doubts, the first thing Nobody Does Human Things did after getting out of the gaming pod was to open a webpage and browse the official forum for the Cain Continent.
However, contrary to his expectations, the official forum for the Cain Continent was not filled with scolding.
Not a single player was complaining about losing their account.
There were many old players questioning why their teammates changed so drastically after being infected.
But the responders were few and far between, mostly speculation.
The forum, which was very active yesterday, had suddenly become deserted today.
“Maybe everyone is busy fighting the war…”
Nobody Does Human Things could only console himself this way.
He took out his phone and decided to call his apprentice.
*Ring—ring—ring—*
The phone rang three times before the other side finally answered.
“Hello? Xiao Zhang, what’s going on over there? Why is your account out of control??”
[……]
There was no answer, but there was a faint sound from the other side.
Nobody Does Human Things listened intently—
It was a sound like the sliding of mucus, which was uncomfortable just to hear.
“What the hell??”
Nobody Does Human Things frowned.
Suddenly, he felt the light in his bedroom had dimmed considerably.
He turned his head and saw that it had become pitch black behind the curtains.
Nobody Does Human Things glanced at the time—2:34 PM.
Even with rainy weather, it shouldn’t be so dark outside.
Something seemed to be blocking the window.
He put down his phone on the table and, with a sense of confusion, walked to the window and pulled the curtains to the sides—
He saw that the entire window was covered with suction-cup tentacles, almost completely sealing the window. The tentacles were covered with wriggling mouthparts and eyeballs.
At this moment, as the curtains were pulled open, they seemed to be stimulated by the light inside.
The eyeballs, which had been tightly closed, “crackled” open.
Hundreds of eyes trembled in unison, their gazes finally focusing on the pale-faced, terrified young man.
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