The Secret Realm Set in the Real World
"What? They flew out of the Residential Area? Weren't they told they didn't have enough flight time to fly out of the residential area?"
Upon hearing the report from below, Salted Fish suddenly stood up from his seat and glared at Jasmine beside him.
"It flew out? Impossible! That's absolutely impossible!"
Jasmine shook her head in disbelief.
The Shadow Realm only has two residential areas. Xiao Fan and his group flew into the largest residential area, which occupies almost one-sixth of the Shadow Realm. In addition, the residential buildings inside are intricate and complex. Even by flying, it would be impossible to fly out in less than fifteen minutes, and that's assuming they are familiar with the route.
She had calculated that Xiao Fan had been flying for almost half an hour, and unless his wings could fly for an hour, it would be impossible for him to fly out of the Residential Area.
"Vice President, many people saw it. That alien player with Golden Wings did indeed lead those alien players from the prison out of the residential area. You can ask others if you don't believe me."
The player who reported this quickly tried to explain when Jasmine didn't believe him.
Jasmine: You talk too much???
"President!"
Jasmine had no choice but to tell Salted Fish about the flight time.
She didn't tell him before because she knew Salted Fish very well. Once she told him about the flight time, Salted Fish would definitely take a liking to that alien player's wings, since she was the one who had her eye on them first!
Players on the same planet are both natural allies and rivals.
Therefore, Jasmine suspected that she should keep this a secret.
But she didn't expect that the alien player's Golden Wings were even more powerful than she had imagined; they could even fly for more than an hour, almost half as long as their Profession mechanical wings!
"What level of wings are those?!" Jasmine was shocked.
Sure enough, after hearing Jasmine's words, the Salted Fish not only didn't get angry, but its eyes shone brightly, clearly fixed on those Golden Wings.
"Issue a province-wide arrest warrant. A reward of ten million Evolution Fragment will be given to anyone who captures those alien players, and a reward of one hundred thousand Evolution Fragment will be given to anyone with clues about them."
Upon hearing this, everyone gasped.
What a generous gesture! Are these alien players really that valuable?
The Salted Fish seemed to realize that he had exaggerated a bit, and quickly explained.
"Only one Ranked Match remains in this season for the Cloud Sea. Our planet's Points are low, so we must go all out in this Ranked Match. I'm worried that these players might be sent by their planet to weaken us and prevent us from participating in ranked matches."
Jasmine rolled her eyes inwardly. Who would weaken a bunch of level 40 or 50 newbies to send in?
"They might have destructive items given to them by high-level players from their planet."
As the Salted Fish talked, he started to believe it himself.
Upon hearing this, the others were startled.
What this Salted Fish said... makes a lot of sense!
High-level players in the game do indeed have a lot of items, and what Salted Fish said isn't unheard of.
They remembered that the season before last, a planet called Spirit Star, in order to compete for the last Ranked Match, sent several low-level players with two Destruction-level items to invade the planets of two rivals.
Although those low-level players didn't return alive, they still used that devastating item to kill many players on the two planets, causing the two planets to weaken and fail to qualify for the final Ranked Match.
Finally, at the end of the season, the two invaded planets failed to advance and were eventually swallowed up by the Cloud Sea, disappearing completely.
Many players knew about this incident back then, and hearing Salted Fish mention it now reminded everyone of it.
What a similar scene!
Same end of the season, same final match, same low-level player invasion.
A conspiracy! A complete conspiracy!
"I'll issue the arrest warrant right away!"
One player ran away without looking back.
"Guild Master, do you think these alien players might try to escape outside the Shadow Realm to avoid being hunted down?"
Jasmine frowned as she spoke.
"That's possible!" Salted Fish suddenly realized this.
"Shut down the Shadow Realm immediately! We cannot allow them to escape!"
"Yes!"
On the other side, Xiao Fan knew that the players in the Shadow Realm would definitely close the entrance to the Shadow Realm, so he immediately led Fatty and the others away from there and back to the desert outside.
He flew for a while longer before stopping.
"Phew, so tired."
Xiao Fan plopped down on the ground, panting heavily.
Although his strength attribute was decent, he was exhausted after carrying nine people all the way, and his stamina was down to only 30 points.
Fortunately, Xiao Fan had been healing him all the way, and his health had been restored to 80%. He summoned Big Iron Pot, drank wine, and recovered his strength.
When--
A loud noise came from the cage behind me.
The white broadsword, Blade Shadow, snapped in two.
"Holy crap! What kind of prison is this?! It's so hard!"
Seeing his White Blade, which had been with him for many years, broken in two, Blade Shadow cried out in despair, "My sword! I'm so sorry! I didn't know this cage was so hard!"
Previously, they were suspended high in the air, and dared not attempt to cut down the prison.
Now that they've landed, they originally planned to use their skills to easily cut through the prison and get out.
As a result, well, it was a waste of a knife.
The Blade Shadow almost broke my heart!
"Old Dao, this isn't good enough either!" Han the Person with a look of disgust.
"If you're so good, you do it!" Blade Shadow raised an eyebrow.
"I'll go, bro! Take a good look at the strength of the Omnipotent Summoner Profession!"
The Omnipotent Summoner Profession has two skills: one is a summoned creature combat skill, and the other is a ranged damage skill; both are Heaven-Tier Skill.
This Profession's weapon is very special; it's a Blue Gem that spins when summoning creatures and flies out when used for ranged attacks—it's both beautiful and cool.
Han the Person such a treasure!
"Baby, get on!"
A golden light enveloped the Blue Gem, Han the Person confidently tossed it out.
However...
The gem made a sound when it hit the edge of the prison, and then shattered in the middle into Gem Fragment.
"My darling!"
Han the Person let out a scream that sounded like a ghost wailing.
"That's it?" Blade Shadow rolled his eyes.
"This prison is something else," commented Wind Snow Traveler.
Even Han the Person, who has Profession, failed, so no one else dared to try it with their own weapons.
"Brother Chen, help! Can you let us out?"
The fat man looked at Xiao Fan ahead.
Xiao Fan heard the noise behind him, but he was exhausted and was sitting in front of his Big Iron Pot drinking to recover his strength.
With his strength restored to 60%, Xiao Fan finally felt less weak and stood up.
"Don't panic, I'll let you out now."
It's normal that the fat guy and his group couldn't open the prison. The prisons in the Shadow Realm aren't made with ordinary alloys from the Real World, but with a type of ore called Sink Iron from the game.
This type of ore can be used to imprison players below level 200. Since the Ranked Match update, players from different planets can now invade each other's planets.
Many planets will manifest these mineral-based prisons to imprison invading players.
Sink Iron also has another function: it can isolate the system chat between players.
This feature isn't very useful in the Real World, but for Xiao Fan, they are currently in a game instance, so the friend chat function is blocked by the prison.
Xiao Fan felt that this secret realm was completely fragmented, and that they had entered a Real World that had been invaded by the <Cloud Sea> in the game.
These are on completely different levels.
Will "Cloud Sea" use its invasion of the Real World as a backdrop to create a secret game realm?
Xiao Fan silently noted this down.