An instinctive response?
That was enough!
Lin Bai liked to mend the roof before the rain came. He might not need every precaution, but he had to have a countermeasure ready. Waiting until the critical moment to find a solution would leave him on the back foot at every turn, just like when he had been dragged into the tribulation lightning last time. Suffering that loss once was enough.
They had successfully extracted the player without damaging the Game Pod. Cheng Xunyun was rather excited. This meant their odds against the players had improved yet again.
Like Lin Bai, the Real World was also buffeted by wind and rain, with enemies everywhere. At the highest level were the Game Company and Lin Bai; in the middle were the players and other worlds, as well as their old rival, the West Continent...
Among those enemies, the Game Company and Lin Bai stood far too high above them—so high they were beyond reach, so high that compromise and submission were their only choices;
The West Continent had made contact with Lin Bai too late, and its attention had been drawn away by the Gods and Devils Continent. It would not be able to free itself anytime soon. In fact, its rash advances might leave it mired in the Gods and Devils Continent, so it posed little concern for now;
The only ones who could actually threaten the Real World were the players. Cracking the Game Pods meant they had taken another step toward being able to deal with them.
Cheng Xunyun looked around at everyone in the laboratory and instructed, "Everyone must sign a confidentiality agreement regarding the Alliance Leader's success in cracking the Game Pod."
"Yes," everyone hurriedly replied.
"Lie back down. I want to run another experiment." Lin Bai glanced