"Why make the game disappear completely?" The Fat Player had clearly never considered the question. "What good would it do if the game disappeared? I owe the good life I have now to Evolution. So many people turned their lives around thanks to Evolution. If the game disappeared, wouldn't we be out of a game?"
Xu Huo said nothing more. The Fat Player muttered to himself for a while, then decided it wasn't safe enough to stay near him and simply hid inside the auditorium.
Over the next two days, Xu Huo still didn't leave with the painted woman. He had left the old Holy Sword Society so on edge that even Lan Huai Xie had to risk coming to see him once, hoping to find out what he was planning.
Xu Huo repeated that he wanted to know the old Holy Sword Society's purpose—or, more precisely, its general plan of action. With so many people scattered across different Wormhole Points, they couldn't be acting blindly. Some belief must be driving their actions.
Lan Huai Xie met with him in private. After their negotiations came to nothing, he didn't go straight to the white-haired elder. Instead, he left and contacted him through a different, secret channel.
"He might be someone we can win over." Lan Huai Xie briefly mentioned what had happened at the Fish Feast Castle. "I didn't investigate what was stored in that space at the time, but I later looked into the name 'Feaster.' He wasn't actually a Super Player. Though he wasn't well known in the game, Fish Feast's records showed that he'd attacked them ten years ago and again five years ago. Each time, he made off with a large number of Fish Feast's items, even Dungeon sites. Fish Feast had a real headache over