702. Players

"Players?"

Hearing the term, Stone looked rather confused.

The players in his understanding were probably those fellows who haunted casinos, pointing every day toward making a fortune in one go, only to end up getting caught by the mafia and thrown into some remote place to plant potatoes, spending the rest of their lives paying off their debts.

Many people misunderstood the mafia, thinking they liked lending money at high interest and chopping off people's hands and feet when they could not repay. In reality, that simply was not how the mafia operated.

If you could not repay a high-interest loan, the mafia would only lose money. The severed limbs were not even as easy to sell as pork. The mafia was not that cruel.

They just sometimes offered conditions you could not refuse.

Thus, when Lu Ban mentioned players, Stone failed to understand what he meant.

Trist, on the other hand, was well-informed and had heard a few things. More importantly, he understood that silence was golden, and that one could not casually respond to Lu Ban's words. Otherwise, an extremely awkward situation might arise.

A true old Chosen of the Gods.

Xiya had previously visited Lu Ban's world, so she had some understanding of players. However, she could not figure out what players had to do with their current mission.

Surely Lu Ban did not intend to bring those players to the Night Country.

"Yes. In fact, I developed a gaming device in my world. You can think of it as a play that a single person can watch and participate in. I think I can try to let them descend into this world."

Lu Ban explained.

He had already made some changes to the swamp. Now, it had become the players' spawn point.

"You mean letting them