After this Large-scale Campaign Quest ended, life gradually began returning to normal.
The changes occurring within the Shadow World could only be considered one part of it; more changes came from reality.
Across the world, the likelihood of Anomaly Incidents was steadily increasing, their intensity growing by the day. Online, all sorts of rumors were spreading without end.
Matters concerning Anomalies and Players had reached the point where they could no longer be concealed through national power.
Based on the frequent television reports concerning these rumors, Bai Zhi concluded that the existence of Anomalies and Players would be made public within one or two weeks at most.
As for what sort of upheaval human society would undergo afterward, Bai Zhi could not be bothered to spend more time thinking about it.
"Wait... why did you buy so many groceries?"
Around noon, Bai Zhi could not help looking rather strange as he watched Xia Wen and Tian Huo return from outside, their hands laden with bags.
"What? Didn't you say we were going to cook for ourselves?"
After setting down what she was carrying, Xia Wen looked utterly baffled.
After the Large-scale Campaign Quest ended, the Players who had taken part in it began facing the system's Sword of Damocles once more.
At regular intervals, the system would issue Players corresponding Mandatory Quests based on an assessment of their overall strength. These Mandatory Quests might take place in their own world or in other worlds; there was no fixed pattern to them.
For example, Bai Zhi had experienced two Mandatory Quests before. One had taken place at the Orphanage where he had once lived in this world, while the other had been in the world of Tombstone Apartment.
During Mandatory Quests, outsiders could neither help nor interfere. They were trials imposed