The Gap Between Ordinary People and Players, Breaking Through the Ice Wall
And at this time...
Chang Yu then took out another photo; it was of a rooftop terrace in a residential building.
The ground was covered in ice and snow, and on it grew a small tree with a bright, icy fruit hanging from it—it was clearly something extraordinary.
When everyone heard that the Ice Snow Sacred Fruit could actually increase physical fitness, they were all slightly shocked.
"Can eating this Ice Snow Sacred Fruit really directly increase one's physique?"
"That's unlikely, isn't it? I remember these kinds of things are very rare. Bosses might drop them, but the odds are about the same as winning the lottery!"
"It's true. Our Longevity Society already knows that many companies are making large-scale acquisitions."
"Each of these Ice Snow Sacred Fruit is worth at least 50 kilograms of gold!"
"That's 50 kilograms of gold. Everyone knows that gold is practically unavailable for purchase these days; it's a strategic resource. Only those who have made special contributions can exchange for some within their own organizations."
Everyone was startled again.
If it's something that can increase physical constitution, then the price isn't actually that expensive.
Of course, the fact that it can be measured in gold indicates that its true value is indeed very high.
After all, most things that can be bought with money are replaceable.
For example, some works of art are priceless, and so are some cutting-edge technologies.
No matter how much money you offer, no one will sell it.
Unless you find the right channels to steal or rob.
"No, we have to find this fruit right away."
"That's right, this is a rare opportunity to improve one's physique!"
"Yes, that's right."
Gao Linzhi nodded.
He felt the same way.
This kind of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure is worth more than a piece of Gold Nugget.
So everyone in the group said, "Let's go together!"
"We have to go check it out."
Everyone agreed that this place was indeed quite nice.
Although there are dangers, if this Ice Snow Sacred Fruit is real, then they certainly cannot let it go.
Immortality is an advantage that is accumulated little by little.
Upon seeing this, the members of the Longevity Society were immediately relieved.
Their initial goals have been achieved.
They will release this information in order to use the Longevity Society's platform and drain the energy of these Longevity Being.
They intend to use one mission after another to tightly bind these players together.
Let them develop a habit of completing tasks, and keep them constantly busy.
Because if these people have nothing to do, they will definitely think about seizing the company's existing benefits.
However, if they are tied down by a series of tasks, their impact on the existing order can be greatly reduced.
It has to be said that this is a win-win situation for the Company Executive.
They can be used to quell the disasters caused by the strange invasion, or they can be used as cannon fodder to weaken their power.
Of course, nobody's a fool.
They were well aware of this and naturally wouldn't be easily fooled.
However, in order to achieve Immortality, they had no choice but to go.
Northern Bear City.
At this moment, an astonishing and wondrous sight unfolds here.
Gao Linzhi, along with the group from the Longevity Society, had already arrived here.
Everyone logged off, returned to the real world, boarded a plane, and it only took a little over ten hours.
This Bear City is very peculiar.
The city center was covered in ice and snow.
A group of people stood outside the city, looking down at the distant city from mid-air.
In the city center, heavy snow was falling, but apart from that, the air was filled with birdsong, fragrant flowers, and bright Sunshine.
The two are separated by a boundary between life and death.
Bear City is very large, one of the largest cities in the north, with an urban area of several hundred square kilometers.
At this very moment.
The city center was freezing cold, but in the suburbs, although the temperature wasn't high either, it was at least 18 or 19 degrees Celsius.
At the very least, wearing a regular thermal undershirt will keep you from freezing to death.
However, in the city center, the temperature appears to be as low as -30 degrees Celsius to the naked eye.
Standing in mid-air, the group looked down for a while and then discovered that the heavy snow had finally stopped.
Before long, they saw many people trembling as they walked out of the apartment buildings and office buildings.
They rushed into the shops along the street, clearly looking for food or fuel.
In this kind of weather, without fuel, survival is impossible.
Body temperature alone cannot withstand it.
And at this time...
Some of the survivors in the high-rise buildings quickly spotted the players standing in mid-air.
They stared in disbelief, then someone exclaimed in delight:
"Whoever you are, please come in and save us!"
"Help me! I have lots of money, and I can give you all of it!"
However, the players simply watched them indifferently; no one moved an inch, and no one went in to rescue them.
This is a perfectly normal choice.
In such an unknown situation, who would be willing to inexplicably venture into the area to rescue people?
If things go wrong, you could even lose your life.
Therefore, everyone simply watched patiently.
However, someone used a puppet, which landed on the ground and began to walk forward.
Just as the puppet reached the edge of the icy land, an Ice Wall suddenly appeared.
The Ice Wall was completely transparent.
But it couldn't escape the players' eyes.
The puppet stopped in front of the Ice Wall and tentatively struck it twice.
It was found to be very sturdy; it couldn't be broken with ordinary force.
As for using weapons, gunpowder, or even fire, players can easily tell that it's useless.
Because these things can be found in the city, and if they were useful, people would have already run away.
Seeing something strange approaching, some people were suddenly filled with hope.
They quickly ran towards the border.
Some people even drove cars.
No one reminded them.
These people clearly didn't notice the existence of the Ice Wall.
Most people live in buildings near the border, presumably to facilitate the fastest possible rescue.
Even if they didn't live there before, they live there now.
Some people ran too fast and crashed headfirst into the transparent Ice Wall, staggering from the impact!
Only then did they discover the existence of the Ice Wall.
Some people immediately broke down, and they fiercely pounded on the Ice Wall.
"It's that again!"
"It's that again!"
"Smash it open!"
"Help us!"
They were only a foot away from their place of survival.
These people were isolated in the cold by the icy walls.
Cold is humanity's greatest enemy.
They were crying and shouting there.
"Please, please, save us!"
"We can give you all our property."
Gao Linzhi didn't say much.
He knew these people were now trapped in this situation.
Without external help, they would never have been able to leave this place.
This is a typical example of Domain Anomaly.
It is also common in the Skyfall World.
It can trap a group of people within its own territory and slowly hunt them down.
To be precise, Wolf Snake Island is also located in a strange realm.
Those monsters periodically come to kill a portion of the people.
Just like humans raising sheep, they keep the breeding sheep and lambs, and kill the old, weak, sick and disabled ones in advance.
Judging from their behavior patterns, it's hard to say that these strange occurrences aren't being manipulated by a dark force.
"Sigh, they're so pitiful." Some people couldn't help but shake their heads as they watched this scene.
"Sigh, they probably hesitated when the anomaly erupted. If they had escaped sooner, none of this would have happened."
"There's nothing we can do; they were just unlucky."
"But they should know where the Ice Snow Sacred Fruit is, right?"
"So how do we establish contact with them?"
"We can hear people shouting and yelling inside. Since we can hear them talking, we can just talk to them directly."
Someone quickly used a puppet to probe, shouting, "I'm asking you, have you seen a kind of fruit?"
"Its entire body is icy and translucent, and it is called the Ice Snow Sacred Fruit."
They then took out the photos Longevity Society and pasted them directly onto the Ice Wall.
Some people even used magic to project and enlarge it in mid-air.
The people inside the Ice Wall watched this scene in astonishment.
Soon, some people became excited.
"They are indeed extraordinary people."
"Nonsense, can an ordinary person stand in mid-air?"
"Hey, gentlemen, I saw that thing! You need to get me out of here quickly, and I'll take you to find it," a young man said urgently.
The players burst into laughter.
You think you can fool them with such a simple scam?
Upon hearing this, they knew that the other party simply did not have the ability.
"Do you think we're stupid?"
"If I rescue you, will you go back?"
"Heh, he's the idiot. He forgot that we can rescue him, and we can throw him back in."
The young man was immediately filled with shame and felt utterly humiliated.
The players shook their heads in mid-air.
One player immediately asked, "Is anyone else here?"
At that moment, an old man looked timidly into the air and said hesitantly, "I really know."
"One of you come in, and I'll take you to get it."
"After you get it, you can take me and my grandson's family away, right?"
"This old man actually has some sincerity," one player nodded. "He's different from that scammer from before."
"However, we need to see evidence."
The young man, who had been a conman, looked remorseful.
He thought to himself that he should have said a few more words to fool the other party, at least to get them in.
In his darkest of thoughts, even if the other party couldn't save him, at least he could take a few more people down with him.
That's just how reality is.
If we can't live together, then we'll die together.
Few people will allow someone else to leave alive.
Gao Linzhi remained silent, also observing the details of this strange place.
The power level in this icy and snowy region doesn't seem to be very high at the moment.
But it will get stronger over time.
How exactly did it get enhanced?
The more people die, the larger its territory becomes, and the stronger its power grows?
At this moment, more and more people came out of the building.
They gathered outside the Ice Wall, gazing longingly at the strange figures in the distance.
They started banging on the walls and shouting.
They wanted these people to rescue them.
But these people came here not to save anyone.
Rather, it was to obtain the Ice Snow Sacred Fruit.
At this moment, the players shouted again, "If anyone inside sees this fruit, please lead us there and we'll rescue you!"
"If not, then forget it."
"Don't lie. If you lie, even if we risk going in, we won't bring you out."
At this moment, someone suddenly said angrily:
Why didn't you come to rescue them?
"Isn't saving people what you strong people are supposed to do?"
"Exactly, we're all human!"
The Longevity Being burst into laughter.
"Heh, when have you ever seen a strong person's duty be to save people?"
"Unless that powerful being's growth was nurtured by your offerings, and our rise has nothing to do with you, then we have no obligation to go in and save you." One player, still possessing some moral compass, offered a few words of explanation.
This explanation immediately drew wild shouts from many survivors.
Many people kowtowed on the ground, trying various means to hope that these Longevity Being would save them.
However, as players know, getting out once you're inside is no easy feat.
After all, that's strange.
No weirdness is simple.
Even the lowest-ranking, White Tier monster, if its rules happen to counter the player, then the player will die.
It's similar to the game of Animal Chess, where the smallest mouse can defeat the strongest elephant.
At this moment, the old man finally took out a basic mobile phone and swiped it open with great difficulty.
In this cold weather, many mobile phones are actually unusable.
Fortunately, the phone could still be turned on, and the players could see the image on it from afar.
It was in a park, and a lake there was covered with layers of ice and snow.
In the center of the park's lake, the same small trees grow prominently, bearing identical Ice Snow Sacred Fruit.
"Great, we'll come pick you up right away."
And at this time...
The dozen or so survivors had already gone mad; they rushed forward and took the old man hostage!
"Take us with you, or we'll kill him."
However, those players naturally didn't care about that.
They didn't say anything, but someone started controlling the puppets to break through the Ice Wall.
The puppet then began smashing against the Ice Wall with a loud "bang".
It's just too inefficient.
Several more players couldn't resist and landed first, heading towards the Ice Wall.
This is to get closer to the puppet, making it easier to control and transmit Mysterious Energy.
Suddenly, a flash of cold light appeared on the Ice Wall.
It attacked directly at the puppet that was destroying it.
That cold light was clearly extraordinary.
One player immediately activated a protective amulet, shielding the puppet's body.
Meanwhile, the others also began to take out some special equipment to assist the puppet in attacking the Ice Wall.
In Gao Linzhi's view, these people's fighting style has not yet formed a routine.
They have not yet developed a systematic fighting approach.
It's still very basic.
They fight using only some props, equipment, and some low- to mid-level skills they've learned.
They cannot yet complement each other, and cannot create synergy between skills.
Of course, some players have already reached very high levels.
However, most of them are Company Executive Players, so naturally they wouldn't attend this Longevity Society, much less get involved in such troublesome matters.
They'll just sit back and reap the benefits.
After the Ice Wall put up an initial resistance, it was quickly breached by the golem.
Some survivors had already sneaked into the vicinity.
Although it's called a gap, it's actually more than a meter wide, enough for a person to get in and out.
As soon as they saw the gap, they rushed towards it.
The other players didn't stop them either.
Because the Ice Wall isn't so easy to get over.
The players didn't say anything when these people rushed into the gap.
The first person was very fast, rushing through the gap with an excited expression.
But the next moment, the same cold light appeared.
The survivor, who had just rushed through the crevice, began to feel a chill emanating from his body in horror.
Then he was frozen solid, trapped outside the Ice Wall.
The others, however, slammed on the brakes!