Re-entry

Inn.

Aaron opened his eyes and saw the phone in his hand.

By his reckoning, not much time had even passed.

"But I'd already spent nearly a month playing that game... Interesting!"

Aaron rubbed his chin, sensing the 'qi' within his body, identical to the qi in the game, and roughly understood why he had been unable to defeat Old Vegetable Gang.

With a time cheat like that, who knew how many years the other man had spent cultivating bitterly in the game!

"But... the outcome should be different now."

"Though... I probably shouldn't be picking a fight with the president of the Folk Customs Enthusiasts Association..."

He opened his phone. Rather than continuing to play, he began searching for information on Great Liang.

After digging through an ocean of trash information, he finally managed to find a few articles that had some substance to them.

"The existence of Great Liang..."

"The transcendence of ancient civilization..."

After reading several articles in a row, Aaron noticed the author's name.

"Zhou Dunlin... a professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at Forest City University?"

He nodded and committed the name to memory.

The next day.

Aaron rose early, washed up, left the hotel, and took a taxi to Forest City University.

While he was in the taxi, Chen Ci called. "Did you see it? Check the news... Xu Feng is dead!"

"Oh?"

Aaron sounded surprised. "How did she die?"

"She died because of the game, I guess... However a player's game character dies in the game, they die the same way in reality. I checked the surveillance footage. That kind of scene where nobody harms them and they just die on their own is the most common way players die."

Chen Ci replied quickly. "Where are you heading now?"

"Forest City