The Last Banquet

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Over those two days, Yin Kuang, Qian Qianqian, Leng Huaping, and Zeng Fei woke up one after another. With the benefits granted by the Headmaster and all sorts of miraculous medicines, even severed limbs, blinded eyes, and pierced abdomens were completely healed.

For everyone in Class 1237, those two days had not been pleasant. The matter Yin Kuang and the others had kept hidden was revealed: Qi Xiaoyun, Bai Xue, and Hong Zhong had all decided not to return to the academy, choosing instead to remain in this scenario and live here. The impact this had on everyone was anything but minor.

It caused many people to reflect: what exactly had they been struggling at the edge of life and death in the academy, constantly growing stronger, for?

At first, some might have said, "To return to the real world, to reunite with family and friends," or simply, "To grow stronger, so I won't be bullied." But now? How many still held fast to their original beliefs?

To reunite with family and friends? After experiencing the academy's brutality, traveling through one scenario after another, becoming accustomed to partings in life and death, betrayals, and schemes... those experiences were enough to completely reshape and utterly overturn a person's outlook on life, values, and worldview! Family? Friends? Familial love, romantic love? In a world like the academy, where "if you miss family, you can create one; if you want friends, you can create them too; if you want peerless beauties, you can have them anytime," how many people would still cling to that genuine affection?

To grow stronger, so as not to be bullied? The cruel reality was that no matter how strong you became, there would always be something standing above you.