Repair the Plank Roads, Secretly Cross the Chencang Pass!

The players were utterly shocked.

At this point, Fire Knife interviewed the auction initiators, and everyone thought they were about to pull something big.

For example, maybe they had gotten hold of the memory card, were feeling great about it, and wanted to show off.

Or maybe they wanted to ride the traffic wave to build up an account, then switch careers and become streamers or something.

Even if they threatened everyone with something like, "Whoever dares rob our logs, we'll kill you until you don't dare leave your house," people would at most laugh at their overblown arrogance.

But no one had expected—

They actually dropped to their knees!

And without any concern for saving face, they appeared on camera with their real faces, admitting defeat and begging for mercy before the whole world through Fire Knife's video interview.

In the internet age, once a video like this was published, it would leave a record forever and never be forgotten.

The price they had paid was no small one.

This move truly caught everyone by surprise.

But precisely because it was so unexpected, it greatly strengthened the credibility of Ibu's claims.

Combined with Fire Knife's reputation backing it up and the list of materials he had included at the end of the interview, more innocent-minded players immediately believed it. They then felt considerable guilt over wanting to rob the auction items and snuff out this poor village's only hope.

However, veteran players who had been scammed too many times online and had seen too many reversals were much more cautious.

Following the materials Fire Knife had provided, they quickly verified them, then searched for more information through other channels to compare and confirm the truth of the matter.

But in the end, all their verification did was further reinforce