The notification announcing the first asset settlement had sounded last night, Fog City time. As of today, Su Bai and the other players had spent exactly three months in Fog City. From that, it was easy to infer that each asset settlement cycle lasted three months-one quarter in Fog City time.
In other words, if fewer than ten players had a net worth exceeding a hundred thousand during this asset settlement, if fewer than ten players obtained the "Hero" status, and if the players could not learn the locations of all ten Eternal Lamps and how to light them tomorrow, then they would have absolutely no way to dispel the mist. They might even have to wait another three months for the next asset settlement!
If they waited another three months, all the players would still be ostracized by most of Fog City's residents throughout that time, and they would still have to rack their brains to make money. That was probably what Bull Slayer and the like-minded players around him found most intolerable.
But to Su Bai, being unable to leave Fog City was only one consequence, and not a particularly terrible one.
What worried Su Bai was that, when tomorrow's asset settlement came, other players besides him would certainly obtain the "Hero" status. Yet no one could guarantee whether those "Heroes," whom Su Bai did not know at all, would go and light the Eternal Lamps.
Any player who had listened carefully to the Administrator when entering the game should have realized that only by lighting all ten Eternal Lamps within the same period could they minimize the losses this game might inflict on the players!
What would happen if there were fewer than ten Heroes, but someone went off alone after the asset settlement and lit some