[System Announcement] [Nine Provinces player Jian Ning has cleared the Dark Souls instance.]
Coordination Bureau.
Yan Fushou came back to his senses and finally remembered to ask about the rewards.
But at the same time—
The system announcement rang out.
Yan Fushou's voice abruptly cut off. The instant he heard that name, he frowned, and his expression visibly darkened.
Jian Li's clear black-and-white eyes suddenly contracted as well, and the hands hanging naturally at her sides clenched tightly.
"Forget the instance ending."
Very quickly.
Yan Fushou noticed Jian Li's expression, and the gloom on his face instantly vanished.
He smiled and patted Jian Li on the shoulder. "Let's continue talking about the instance."
Jian Ning.
Jian Li's biological older sister. She also possessed Chosen skills and talents that stood above all of Nine Provinces. But unlike Jian Li's reserved self-restraint, her sister had been a passionate, outgoing girl. The two sisters had been like opposites—one warm, one cold.
Yet in the end, they had failed to complement each other.
Instead, an accident had ultimately driven them apart.
In truth.
Yan Fushou bore some responsibility for it too—he should have noticed sooner instead of believing the girl's display of magnanimity.
The Coordination Bureau was responsible as well. In the early days, in order to keep the monsters pinned to the front lines, they had recruited without any screening whatsoever. The frontline players had been a complete mixed bag.
Perhaps if they had offered resource compensation when Jian Ning's Chosen skill was stripped away.
Perhaps if they had refused her request to go to the front lines after she lost her innate skill.
Perhaps if they had paid closer attention to the two sisters' relatives.
None of this would have happened.
Jian Ning would not have defected from the Coordination