[You closed the [Chat Group Light Screen].]
[All you could say was, out of sight, out of mind. What the hell was all this?!]
[Your current resolve was simple—stop talking to this pack of old schemers.]
[To put it in the blunt internet slang of your previous life, the likes of Ning Chen playing sweet, Wu Yong acting like a bot, and Wang Hao with his twisted personality ought to be dragged out and shot.]
[You could now say you had lost every last trump card.]
[In particular, you had also used up your greatest trump card, [Purple Talent: Wish Echo].]
[The next group mission would probably bode far more ill than well!]
[After all, this was the [Fourth Group Mission], and Wang Hao was extremely unwilling to let the [Fifth Group Mission] begin.]
[So, to prevent the [Fifth Group Mission] from beginning, he would probably arrange for one of the Chat Group members to perish.]
[That would leave the Chat Group unable to launch the [Fifth Group Mission] because it lacked enough members!]
[As for who exactly would die?]
[Oh, that was so hard to guess...]
[As the saying went, "Pick the soft persimmon to squeeze." With not a single trump card to your name, weren't you the softest "persimmon" of all?!]
[Goddamn it, if you didn't die then, who would?]
[There was nothing you could do about it, either. If you hadn't used it, Past Li Ping would probably have replaced you outright from a higher-dimensional level...]
[Still, you weren't entirely without options.]
[Your plan was]
[—once the [Fourth Group Mission] began, you would head to the mission world, meet the other Chat Group members, and immediately activate [Golden Talent: Investment] to receive its returns.]
[Then you would activate your chaos spiritual root, the [Hollow Willow], and come