Early the next morning.
Lu Yang returned to Sky City carrying a storage bag full of Ancestor Tree Fruits. However, instead of immediately doing quests, he waited leisurely for someone in a private room at a tavern.
Before long, a long-unseen figure entered the room. Even before she came close, the pungent, sharp scent of perfume announced who she was.
"Alice, it's been a long time," Lu Yang said as he looked at Alice, whose gritted teeth only gave her a different kind of beauty.
"Yes, it has been a long time." Alice snorted and sat across from Lu Yang. She lacked all elegance and instead resembled a shrew as she angrily said, "Let's not waste words. Give me 200 million euros, and I'll transfer twenty Hearts of Virulence to you."
Lu Yang smiled at Alice. He could see faint wrinkles on her face, and she was no longer as delicately beautiful as before. Instead, she carried an exhausted, aged air.
During the war back then, Alice had believed she had captured Zhou Tianming's heart and used him to attack the Iron Blood Brotherhood. Yet Zhou Tianming had defected on the spot, causing Alice to suffer a crushing defeat and become the laughingstock of players around the world.
Alice's life became even harder afterward. The war on the New Continent grew increasingly clear, and White Devil's room for survival was further squeezed. Previously, they could still survive in the cracks between Radvijev, Stephen, Jerz, Tom, and the others, but once discovered, the three guilds would pursue them without hesitation.
After all, they possessed Hearts of the Gods. They could still deal with such pursuits for a short while, but now Tom, Jerz, and Stephen had all been eliminated, leaving only Lu Yang and Radvijev.
There were only so many high-level