"Bing Yu, you're so strong. How did you die back then?" Wu Shaozhen asked curiously.
The Ice and Snow Empress paused with her phone in her hands, then said casually, "A bunch of old bastards ganged up on me. I couldn't get away..."
"..."
"Don't you want revenge, then?"
The Ice and Snow Empress rolled her eyes. "It's been so long that those old bastards are all gone. Who am I supposed to take revenge on?"
"Fair enough..."
"Then do you know what things are like over in the first-tier main cities?"
"No. In my day, the Holy Light Continent was just the Holy Light Continent. There weren't any first-tier or second-tier main cities..."
"Oh..."
"Then..."
"Enough. You're awfully talkative today. If you've got so much time on your hands, come shopping with me..."
"..."
"I'll stop asking, all right?"
"Too late. I want to go shopping now..."
"..."
A few days after the two worlds merged, the world seemed to have settled back on track, and everyone was adapting to the changes.
For those who had once been rich, life was indeed rather hard without the city's glittering nightlife and the extravagant indulgences they had once enjoyed...
For those who had once been poor, however, life seemed pretty decent now that they no longer had car loans or mortgages weighing on them, or capitalists to deal with...
But rich or poor, all that was in the past. Compared with their previously peaceful lives, life now was countless times more dangerous. Every day, who knew how many people went out and never came back...
Although the distribution of monsters outside followed certain patterns, those patterns weren't absolute. High-level monsters often wandered into low-level areas.
And whenever that happened, the casualties were almost always devastating...
Two days earlier, a Diamond-tier giant