After Lu Xiu and Jian Li ate together, they parted ways.
Jian Li went back to the Coordination Bureau.
Lu Xiu, meanwhile, returned to her own apartment.
"An update?"
After Lu Xiu got back to her apartment, she collapsed straight onto the sofa and opened the window that had just popped up again. "Iron and Blood—"
Ever since the goddess intervention incident back then, Lu Xiu had already been mentally prepared. She understood that this gamified world was dynamic, that it changed, that it could be updated.
She just had not expected the update to come so soon.
Lu Xiu had only just decided that continuing to run large-scale instances was meaningless and had been planning to lie low for a while.
Besides, this update always felt like bad news.
Iron and Blood.
Just hearing those three words carried a thick smell of gunpowder and a meat-grinder sense of brutality.
So what exactly was being updated? Were the monster mechanics in the front-line defense zones about to undergo a qualitative change? Were dungeon death penalties and survival point costs going to intensify?
Or was it some other kind of update?
Was that short goddess going to flip over the chessboard that had originally been fairly stable and squeeze humanity's last living space dry?
She did not know.
Lu Xiu thought it over from every angle, then realized that with just a few words, she could not possibly guess what the update would contain—because there were too many possibilities. Even if she overclocked her brain until it started smoking, she still could not guess.
Forget it.
Lu Xiu quickly gave up.
She gave in.
Actually, if she thought about it carefully, what could she do even if she guessed right? It did not seem like she could do anything anyway.
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