Three days later, when Gu Xi hurried back from that snowy forest, the first person he saw was Mary.
"My lord, the negotiations are settled."
Looking at Mary's smug expression, Gu Xi merely smiled.
"Oh? What terms did you settle on?"
"The human higher-ups of Shangjing City are willing to offer up their own lives as sacrifices to send all the civilians in the entire nation out of this Game World."
Mary's very first sentence stunned Gu Xi.
"What did you say?"
"All the human higher-ups in Shangjing City are willing to sacrifice their lives in exchange for the civilians leaving safely."
Mary repeated it.
"They're willing to do that?"
"This was not something they could choose."
Mary spoke calmly. There had certainly been Mary's hints involved in this, of course, but there was also the backbone of those higher-ups.
They all understood that they had offended Gu Xi. If they did not eliminate this impact, then relying only on the help granted by the Heavenly Dao, once they left this game, these humans would simply be a slab of fat meat.
It would not take more than a few days before they were wiped out by someone.
If Gu Xi came over at the end to help collect their corpses, he would already be doing right by the Heavenly Dao's commission.
So they had to dispel the resentment in Gu Xi's heart.
And during the negotiations, they also understood from Mary's hints that Gu Xi had nearly died at their hands.
This was exactly why, the moment Gu Xi entered Shangjing, he had launched a massacre outright.
Now it could be said that Gu Xi had been tempted by the Heavenly Dao into agreeing to take these humans out.
If they could not eliminate that bit of malice in