After revealing the truth about the Immortal Realm, Lin Bai stopped concerning himself with the matter.
The players could believe it or not, investigate it or not. He had nothing to lose either way.
He put himself in their shoes.
From the players' perspective, losing their memories was not actually such a terrible thing.
In most worlds, ordinary people made up the majority. Birth, aging, illness, and death filled their short decades, with hardship and exhaustion running throughout and little happiness to speak of.
The Game Company gave them new bodies, allowing them to live for hundreds or even thousands of years without worries, disasters, illness, or exploitation.
Even if they lost their memories afterward, they still came out ahead when they did the math...
When their own interests were at stake, the players would not care about dignity or freedom...
However,
The Game Company likewise turned a blind eye to the players' various protests, simply distributing Game Pods to everyone according to plan.
Elderly people with one foot in the grave and infants crying to be fed all received Game Pods of their own...
As for how to deal with Lin Bai, the Game Company offered no solution. As before, it vanished without a trace, leaving the problem to the players.
But with the game in such a dire state, few newcomers entered it. Most people waited and watched.
After all.
The predicament Lin Bai had created for the players was simply too difficult to break out of.
Over those three days, the players trapped in Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix had been tormented to the point of hovering between heaven and hell.
The talent performances never ended. They could not even log out or delete their accounts, and every one of them suffered agonizingly, their minds exhausted to