Without any flashy preliminaries, Hero's Island's Reward and Punishment Envoys led all the NPCs and players who had come to the island straight into a cavernous hall behind a waterfall.
The huge cave was lit with tallow candles, and more than a hundred tables had been set up inside, clearly prepared for guests like them.
The cave was enormous. Even with so many tables arranged within it, it did not feel crowded in the least. Hundreds of men in yellow moved back and forth, directing everyone to their seats. Each guest occupied a table alone, with no hosts seated beside them. Once everyone had settled down, the music ceased.
Ye Weiming looked around and discovered that he, Sanyue, Xiao Qiao, and the rest of his teammates had all been seated apart from one another, interspersed among players they either barely knew or did not know at all. There were both players and NPCs, and no discernible pattern in their appearances.
Ye Weiming observed for quite a while, but whether by alignment, gender, strength, appearance, weapon of choice, or even something as simple as height and build, he could not find any reliable standard.
In the end, he arrived at one answer... Hero's Island had assigned their seats completely at random?
That was really damn casual!
Just as Ye Weiming was silently complaining to himself, A Zhong's voice suddenly came from behind and to the side. "Grandpa, once we're done drinking the Laba Porridge, let's hurry back. Grandma is waiting for you in the fishing village by the sea. She said she'd wait three months. If she doesn't see you by the eighth day of the third month, she... she'll throw herself into the sea."
Turning around, Ye Weiming saw that A Zhong had somehow left his seat and was speaking