Feng Ling stood frozen for a full five seconds.
The amount of information packed into Li Qing's words was too overwhelming for her to process at once.
Huangfu Miaomiao, standing beside her, exclaimed in shock, "You said the Administrators have all been killed?! Why? Who would do something like that?!"
Huangfu Miaomiao was genuinely frightened. In her understanding, Labyrinth Administrators were practically the most harmless beings imaginable. They neither interfered with human life nor affected Players completing tasks. They even provided game guidance when necessary. Why would anyone kill them?
"I told you before, this game is heading toward collapse," Li Qing answered quietly. "Of the 122 Administrators, including myself, at least one-third have already been killed by Players. Of the remaining Administrators, some went offline because their Mazes were breached, while others, like me, went into hiding."
Feng Ling frowned. "Why would Players kill Administrators?"
"I don't know." Li Qing spoke sincerely. "I can only speculate. Maybe the repetitive tasks bored them, and the Points awarded by those tasks were no longer enough to entice them. They craved the double Points inside Mazes but didn't want to painstakingly collect Maze riddles with such low drop rates. So they thought of an easier way: kill the Labyrinth Administrators and let the Mazes gradually merge with this world. That way, they wouldn't need to solve riddles to get endless Maze Contaminants and earn endless Points."
Feng Ling couldn't understand it. "Such a huge bug, and the system isn't doing anything about it?"
Instead of punishing the Players randomly slaughtering Administrators, it had its eye on her, a Hidden Boss. Was the game system malfunctioning?
"These are only my guesses. They may not be right," Li Qing said. "The reasons may be far more complicated than I imagine, because their actions were