Wenren Sheng then said, "Is that really the case?"
"Take a closer look, and you'll find that it isn't."
After observing carefully, they discovered that those players were searching for a certain herb.
They seemed especially obsessed with treating serious illnesses.
They searched everywhere for all kinds of folk remedies.
This included physicians, alchemists, and wild herb gatherers.
They asked about such matters more than anything else.
Clearly, someone had offered these players significant benefits to motivate them.
It seemed some force was protecting them anyway. They could not be beaten to death, so they acted without restraint.
Wenren Sheng knew this was probably the beginner protection period.
Below a certain level, players were invincible.
Of course, they could not attack others either.
Some people were exploiting loopholes to steal from other people's homes, and now many were frightened.
They could only leave their homes empty.
Grand cultivators afraid of a group of mortals—it was truly ridiculous.
This was a very common setting in games.
It was meant to protect novice players, allowing them to experience the game properly and preventing high-level accounts from deliberately crushing low-level ones until they could not play at all.
Basically, once the level difference exceeded a certain limit, they could not PK each other.
They could only PK within ten levels.
That was why all these players were so unrestrained.
After combining the players' activities, Wang Bao and Lin Xiaofan made a startling discovery.
They were actually searching for medicine to cure an illness.
Wang Bao said helplessly, "Could it be that someone with such a powerful Golden Finger is merely a mortal suffering from a terminal illness? Is that person the Behind-the-Scenes Manipulator?"
Wenren Sheng said, "Very likely. It seems you have guessed the Truth as well."
"Yes, it's so annoying. Any random