The Truth Comes Out. The Shadow Puppet Sanctum Must Die!

Su Yi stared thoughtfully at the Players who had suddenly gone offline.

"The Players all went offline at once. Something urgent must have happened, and they probably went to discuss it outside the game."

Su Yi sorted through what he knew, rubbing his chin.

Could the Shadow Puppet Sanctum have made contact with the Players already?

A faint smile tugged at his lips.

"Isn't it a little late for that? Who do you think these Players will trust more, me or you?"

As Su Yi pondered, Winter sent another message. "Guild Leader, we're done here. Where should we meet?"

"Where's convenient for you?" Su Yi asked. "I'll come find you."

Winter thought for a moment. "Let's meet at Border Warriors' Square."

The square was a memorial landmark built to commemorate the Application Defense War.

At this stage, though, it was little more than a rough outline. Its concrete ground had only just been laid.

Even so, it had already become an important gathering place in the border residents' daily lives.

Before this, all they had underfoot was muddy earth and filthy drainage ditches.

At 10:30 a.m., nine Players gathered in the square.

There were few people around. It was midmorning, and most border residents had gone to work.

Their jobs were hardly proper employment. They carried construction materials for the company, cleared rubbish from the ditches, and pulled up great swathes of weeds.

It was temporary labor at best, paying each person just one Void Abyss Coin every two days.

But!

As long as they worked hard and put in ten hours a day, they could eat their fill of Nutrient Beans.

And these Nutrient Beans were nothing like the rubbish they usually ate, which tasted and felt like candles.

The company's Nutrient Beans came in more than twenty flavors,