Annie had already quietly left the base in the crater lake at Shengyu Village, leaving behind only a clone to guard the place. Under the pretext of "going into seclusion," she stopped paying any attention to what was happening in that world.
As for the nine inexplicable disciples she'd taken in—Li Xiaoyao, Wang Xiaohu, Ding Xianglan, Ding Xiulan, Zhao Ling'er, A'nu, Su Mei, Lin Yueru, and Jiang Wan'er—and what they might think, she certainly wasn't going to concern herself with that, much less give it a second thought.
She'd always cared only about enjoying herself. Why would she care what happened to those people she'd tricked into getting on board her pirate ship?
In fact, this time, she'd even left her little bear Tibbers with her main body. She hadn't brought him along at all.
"Huh?"
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"This is..."
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Having just arrived in the vast square of some unknown city, little Annie was startled by the scene before her.
She saw countless people of all kinds suddenly teleporting in around her. There were thousands upon thousands of them, packing the square until it was completely full.
Her first thought was that everyone in this world must be a high-ranking mage, and that they all knew how to use teleportation—a technique ordinary low-level mages couldn't master. That had to be why they could all teleport here at once with such precision, despite the risk of causing spatial turbulence and chaos!
"Hmm..."
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But as more and more people continued to arrive, Annie gradually sensed that something was off. She began to look around more carefully.
Before long, she figured out what was wrong.
As it turned out, this world wasn't a real world at all. It was a virtual game world built on the basis of another ordinary world.
Normally,