At that moment.
The viewers in both the Nine Provinces and Prison Rock livestreams
were utterly baffled.
They had no idea why Lu Xiu had suddenly brought up Jian Ning.
The Nine Provinces players were a little better off. Quite a few remembered that Jian Ning seemed to be the ID of the second player to clear the Dark Souls dungeon.
But they still had no idea why Lu Xiu had mentioned her.
Soon, however,
some sharp-eyed players thought back to how Lu Xiu had taken a stance at the start, then blocked the blow head-on despite knowing how to Neutralize it.
They realized something.
Someone interfered?!
A Nine Provinces player interfered with Lu Xiu?!
Yan Fushou knew Jian Ning. Watching the livestream and hearing Lu Xiu's words, his expression turned grim.
The system seemed to sense the players' confusion. Like a master director who knew exactly how to work an audience,
it seamlessly inserted a second view into the lower-right corner of Lu Xiu's main feed.
The image showed
the ancient Bell Tower in Undead Parish.
At its highest point hung the dungeon's first Bells of Awakening.
And directly beneath the bell
stood a woman in a long dress, forced to remain there with her slender, fair-skinned arms raised high above her head.
In the livestream view, several transparent threads slowly emerged where the light caught them. They wound around her wrists as though another pair of invisible hands had seized the strings from across the void, forcibly stripping her of control over her body.
Beside her, a girl wearing cat-ear accessories stared at her boss, mouth agape, at a complete loss.
Everyone:
Wait.
Wasn't she supposed to be interfering with Lu Xiu?
Why does she look like the one being controlled?
What did Lu Xiu do?
Meanwhile, inside