The Dou Shengnan incident seemed to have ended just like that. Of the three main parties at the center of the vortex, one had been randomly sent away by a spatial passage, one had been forced to use a Ticket to leave District 008, and the last had fled early after realizing something was wrong—the three of them all seemed to have escaped unharmed. Only, half a city in the Chongming Bird Administrative Region had collapsed. In addition to the loss of dozens of Players, the injured ordinary citizens had filled the hospitals. If the First Layer's lockdown barrier around the simulated non-game site had not bought them more than ten minutes, the Chongming Bird Administrative Region's losses would have been far worse.
That was what made attacks by Outer District Players so infuriating and frustrating. No matter how much trouble they caused, they would simply pat themselves on the behind and leave when it was over, while the locals had to clean up the mess.
Naturally, this incident had not truly ended. Its impact on District 008 was gradually expanding.
The Players in District 008 were not fools. How could they fail to see that Dou Shengnan had stayed behind to stall for time? So the other person who had once appeared alongside her, and who was not a Player from this district, came under intense investigation.
The investigation inevitably led to the Tian Family. The Chongming Bird Administrative Region had suffered heavy losses, and it was because of the Tian Family that all this trouble had been brought upon them. Under pressure from various sides, the Lichuan City government had no choice but to announce a public investigation into the Tian Family. Apart from the previously sealed-off parts of the Tian Family's businesses and the restrictions on the