Improvement: Grim News, Adhesion Force, and a Player Gathering

The gentle firelight flickered across Xia Lun's face, casting it by turns in light and shadow.

If he hadn't read The Old Daoist's Reply at Wengxi, the appendix would probably have left him baffled. But he had finished that book only yesterday, and now he had an inkling of what lay behind the appendix.

The Old Daoist's Reply at Wengxi said that to "attain Infinity," one first had to gather six points of Knowledge. Beyond that, one needed to "rely on one another, thereby observing past, present, and future, and briefly transcending the labyrinth."

Xia Lun hadn't understood what "rely on one another" meant. Now, judging from the appendix to The Labyrinth of Ornes, he suspected it meant Secret Art Scholars with Knowledge had to communicate with each other.

The problem was that Knowledge could be stolen. Before any stable relationship was established, Secret Art Scholars lived in something close to a dark forest. Reaching out to another one without warning would be dangerous.

Maybe the safest way to solve that is to help people I know become Secret Art Scholars?

Xia Lun idly flipped through the book as his thoughts wandered. Then a flash of insight struck him.

He suddenly remembered something strange.

Before entering the last Scenario, he seemed to have skimmed the Chief of Security's version of The Labyrinth of Ornes. Back then, the book hadn't seemed to have an appendix!

Xia Lun frowned and tried to recall it clearly, but the previous Scenario had lasted so long that his memory was hazy. He turned toward White Line beside him.

He could just ask her!

He had spent over a year in the instance, but only a few hours had passed for White Line in the Real World. And since the book could improve mental resistance, she