Chapter 370
Feng Ling took the watch. Li Qing had sent two long voice messages. When she tapped to play them, she heard that familiar, solemn, reserved tone—
"Under normal circumstances, a Maze has only one Labyrinth Master, and Cards can only be produced within the Labyrinth Master's body. The situation you encountered was most likely caused by the Labyrinth Master being killed, which caused the Labyrinth System's Card-retrieval function to fail. In that case, once Players or humans die inside the Maze, the Cards produced within their bodies remain where they are and cannot be retrieved by the system. Over time, they may be claimed by Labyrinth creatures. Different Cards have different effects on Labyrinth creatures, and may even allow them to break through their biological growth limits and become something akin to a Labyrinth Master."
Feng Ling gave it some thought and more or less understood.
In other words, the Cards produced by the Forest Demon had actually belonged to Players or humans. The thing had merely stumbled upon them by accident.
Given the current circumstances, it had most likely picked up human Cards, since she had heard that quite a few Lorias Soldiers and Hunters had died in the Maze.
Although the authorities would do everything possible to bring back the Cards of the fallen, a few could always be left behind.
Feng Ling recalled playing games in the past. If a game character died in an instance, they would drop equipment and money all over the ground. By the time they revived and entered the instance again, the equipment and money would already be gone. Where had they gone? That could be understood as what Li Qing had said: they had been retrieved by the system.
So Cards worked the same way.
If the system did