On May 11, the post Si Qi had made on the Eerie Game forum continued to spread.
Players made up only a tiny fraction of all humanity, but they were scattered across every social class and profession. Among them were high-ranking Federation government officials and directors of monopoly conglomerates, enough to exert an extraordinary influence on the world.
The global unrest that had swept through the past week still haunted them. Though they had survived by relying on what they had accumulated in the past, if another Eerie Invasion of similar scale came, even if they had ways to barely preserve their own lives, they would no longer have the capacity to protect their familiar relatives, friends, and assets.
Moreover, Si Qi had made it clear that the Eerie entities under his control would kill indiscriminately once they went out of control. That meant the coming crisis would be impossible to predict, difficult to avert, and impossible to end. It might even develop into a man-made disaster like nuclear contamination, causing massive economic losses and casualties.
No one wanted to see such a future come to pass.
Influential players had already begun mobilizing their remaining forces in reality, pressuring Fu Jue through multiple channels.
A Federation Council chairman called the Jiang City branch of the Eerie Investigation Bureau, demanding to speak with Fu Jue. Upon learning that Fu Jue was still en route, he declared that Fu Jue must halt all operations at once, or he would be charged with crimes against humanity.
Financial conglomerates with close ties to the underworld spent enormous sums hiring all manner of people to track down Fu Jue's whereabouts. If they could control him and reach an agreement with him, all the better. If he refused to cooperate, killing him on the spot was