Right at that moment.
Long City Underground City.
The mayor's office.
It was worth mentioning that even the mayor's office occupied an area that wasn't particularly large—only thirty square meters.
Because resources were scarce, this was the best the Underground City could offer. But to Ye Qing, it was already a very good arrangement.
At that moment, he looked at the panting captain of the defense team beside him and waved his hand. "This kid is exactly as he described. He really is the only level-20 player, Ye Tian. He must have had a reason for leaving. Don't be too surprised."
"Also, the monster attack that happened in the square earlier was resolved by him as well. Quite a few people recorded videos at the scene and uploaded them to the [Primordial World Forum]. You'll understand once you take a look."
"..."
The captain was practically dumbfounded as he listened to the mayor.
Really...
Was it really that Ye Tian?!
Holy crap!
Recalling how Ye Tian had transformed into a cloud of smoke and floated straight out of the Underground City, he finally understood what kind of demon god he had encountered.
"All right, everyone go back."
Ye Qing waved his hand and had everyone resume their normal work procedures.
Although things gradually settled down, the incident still spread through countless people's word of mouth.
Before long, every citizen in Long City knew about it.
It was also worth mentioning that early that morning, before countless people had even logged into the Primordial Chaos game, a forum called [Primordial World Forum] had been established by the leading powers of the Dragon Kingdom together with countless Federal Empires. It was a large-scale, cross-regional global communication forum.
The forum had only one purpose—real-world communication between players across the globe.
Moreover, although surface communications had already been cut off, humans were hardly fools. They had long since developed a complete underground simulated-wave communication system. This system could pass directly through rock and receive network signals through a special form of transmission.
Therefore, the network operations of the Underground Cities around the world were completely normal.
At that moment, a full billion players had logged into the Primordial World Forum.
Among them, three posts had become trending topics.
<Global Mutation! Massive Monster Attack on an Underground City, Countless Human Casualties!>
<Under the Rejuvenation of Spiritual Energy, Monsters Are Growing and Mutating Faster—Humans Must Level Up as Soon as Possible!>
<Shocking! [Ye Tian] Is in the Long City Underground City of the Dragon Kingdom—When Monsters Swept Through the Area Just Now, Only the Long City Underground City of the Dragon Kingdom Suffered Zero Casualties!>
These three different pieces of news instantly set the entire Primordial World Forum ablaze.
However, the hottest one was undoubtedly the post about [Ye Tian].
After all, the name of this player, Ye Tian, had already resounded across the globe. As the world's number-one player, everyone wanted to find information about him!
When everyone saw the video uploaded by a "kindhearted person" showing Ye Tian sweeping through the monsters with the Golden Cudgel, the entire post exploded.
In just a few minutes, the post had received a full two hundred thousand replies!
And the number was still rising at a terrifying speed.
"Damn... The people's power really is formidable. They found out Ye Tian's identity this quickly?!"
"No, it isn't that they investigated him. It's that Boss Ye Tian is just too powerful! I'm one of the players who watched from the side in the Long City Underground City."
"You have to understand, those monsters were enormous and incredibly powerful. But Boss Ye Tian used just one move—less than a second—to instantly kill them all!"
"Besides, quite a few people know that Boss Ye Tian wields the iconic Ruyi Jingu Bang. After all, that was the divine weapon he used when he fought the Qilin Clan in the game. Who wouldn't know it?"
"Doesn't that mean the players in Long City are in luck?!"
"No. On the contrary, once this world's news gets out, those foreign Federal Empire bigwigs will immediately pinpoint Boss Ye Tian's location. I think Boss Ye Tian will actually be in far more danger than we imagine. For all we know, the next time he logs into the game, countless foreign players may even surround and attack him!"
"...That's a little terrifying."
At that moment, countless people began communicating on the Primordial World Forum.
In fact, things unfolded exactly as that player had analyzed. Once the news went viral across the Primordial World Forum, it immediately set off the leading powers of every Federal Empire around the world.
In just a few minutes, Ninja Country, America Country, Europe Country, Bear Country, A Country, and the other Federal Empires instantly convened a series of meetings.
At the same time, the spies hidden throughout the Dragon Kingdom also began to act.
However, the next moment, another piece of news broke on the forum.
"Dragon Kingdom, Long City—A Super Earthquake Has Occurred!"
"Long City Mayor [Ye Qing] Has Executed 321 People. The Announcement States That All 321 Were Spies from Various Federal Empires!"
"Fuck!"
As the news spread, countless people exploded in an instant.
They had dealt with the spies that quickly?!
Were those spies really so easy for Ye Qing of the Dragon Kingdom to find?
Countless people were stunned, but they could never have imagined that Ye Tian possessed memories of his previous life and had long since reported all these matters.
It had to be said that this incident immediately intimidated quite a few Federal Empires.
At the same time.
Whoosh!
Light flashed.
Ye Tian's figure instantly transformed back into the appearance of an ordinary person.
He looked at the apocalyptic world that resembled a wasteland—the nauseating drainage channels, the chaotic ruins of the city, and the gloomy sky—and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.
Although the city had already become a wasteland, before humanity moved from the Underground Cities to the surface cities, there were still countless treasures in the surface cities at this moment.
"Roar!"
Just as Ye Tian was observing his surroundings, terrifying roars emerged from all directions. Immediately afterward, a full twenty ape-man monsters, each more than ten meters tall and resembling enormous statues, charged furiously toward Ye Tian.
What was more, as they raced forward, beams of light shot from their eyes.
"Trash."
Ye Tian sneered coldly. As the Ruyi Jingu Bang flashed in his hand, he swept it around once, and overwhelmingly powerful ripples of icy coldness surged outward.
In an instant, the monsters surrounding him were frozen into ice sculptures.
However, under Ye Tian's deliberate control, the moment those ice sculptures exploded, vast amounts of thick monster blood splashed across the ground.
The heavy stench of blood began to spread in all directions.
At that moment, this wasteland seemed to have transformed into an icy sea of blood, causing the countless monsters preparing to charge over to scatter and flee.
Someone this powerful was not someone they dared to provoke!
After Ye Tian dealt with the monsters, he couldn't be bothered to communicate with them. His figure flashed, and he vanished from the spot.
He had come to the surface not to perform this kind of messy cleanup work, but for a super treasure that could rival a Primordial Chaos supreme treasure!
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