The forest wind swept past, and the leaves overhead rustled. Sunlight filtered through the branches, casting broad patches of light across the ground covered in fallen leaves.
Su Xiao walked through the dense forest. He had not returned to the Sunlit Wetlands. Before Bel City completely transformed into a high-risk area, he still had a few things to do. After that, he could focus on entering Bel City to search for the "Talent Awakening Device."
It could be predicted that Bel City's transformation into a high-risk area would inevitably draw in most of the participants in this world. At present, the most common posts on the World Contact Platform were team recruitment notices. Teams of three to five people were preparing to explore Bel City.
Aside from that, the Mushroom Village in the Sunlit Wetlands was expected to become a temporary safe zone in fourteen hours. This had been certified by the Void Tree. Presumably, Mushroom Prophet had paid a considerable price to accomplish this, so giving the other party twenty percent of the earnings from selling "tickets" was only right.
Su Xiao noticed something. Bel City's upheaval this time had attracted many Violators, which was puzzling. Previously, Gray Gentleman had always restricted the routes along which these Violators could act, but now he had stopped interfering.
There was only one possibility: Gray Gentleman's arrangements were nearly complete. That was not good news.
Until now, Su Xiao had only a vague guess about what Gray Gentleman intended to do. For Gray Gentleman to summon so many Violators this time, there had to be some shared interest connecting them. Empty promises alone could not have gathered so many people.
The common interest of the Violators was easy enough to guess. It was nothing more than resolving the Hunts and pursuits from