[An open letter to all players:
Players who have fought tenaciously to survive, these five months have shown you the cruelty of this world and made you understand how vast the differences in strength between players can be.
In this world, players may survive independently or seek protection through freely formed arrangements such as family mode, cooperative mode, team mode, Player Faction mode, and others.
Our assessment shows that most players have grown. Survival challenges will now begin, with a randomly generated survival challenge mode for each region.
Players, the challenge of life and death officially begins now!]
That night, at the five-month mark, an announcement appeared just after midnight in Personal Information and every Chat Channel.
Besides displaying the text in each player's native language, it also delivered a voice announcement that forcibly switched the audio on at normal volume, no matter how they tried to turn it off.
Following this announcement, a new Disaster Phase officially began in the Snow Mountain Region.
[Snow Mountain disaster/challenge: please make your choice. Disaster? Challenge?]
Unlike the previous disaster displays, this time they were simply told to choose for themselves.
There was also a countdown: the choice had to be made within ten seconds.
Just after this notification appeared, Ye Fei also received a Friend Information message in his private chat.
[Iceberg/6666-6155-6999 (Jun Mo): don't choose disaster.]
Jun Mo had been busy cultivating these past few days and had not seen any unusual information.
Only after the new disaster announcement appeared did he see some vague things.
He could not choose disaster...
[{The One Who Dwells at the Mountain Peak} Snow Mountain/0099-5111-1111 (Ye Fei): don't choose disaster.]
Ye Fei quickly posted Jun Mo's message in the Faction Chat Channel.
Sending the message separately had taken up half of those ten seconds. For