After handing the damaged Immovable shield to Old Man Ba, Yang Yi checked the time. There were still over ten minutes before his meeting with Shen Guanquan, so he sat down at Old Man Ba's place and contacted Zhao Tie, telling him he would come over a little later.
He opened the Forum again, mainly to see the players' reactions after the press conference, but unexpectedly found quite a few posts related to him, all concerning Dream Island.
The contents of the internal meeting had also been made public, since they concerned subsequent plans. Among them was footage of Yang Yi denying having Dream Island, and it was hard to say this had not been deliberate.
Surprisingly, however, the vast majority of players sided with Yang Yi, believing that One-Eye Boss must have had his reasons for doing so. It rather resembled learned scholars debating the classics.
The post with the most likes and replies came from an Archbishop of the One-Eye Cult. He believed... this was entirely a conspiracy and persecution by the system, and laid out his views and evidence.
At first, Yang Yi read with great interest, but when he saw the man's conclusion, he grew a little restless, his face feeling inexplicably hot.
The man believed... the system had secretly swallowed Dream Island and deliberately withheld the players' rewards. From beginning to end, it had all been an act by the system to smear One-Eye Boss.
Starting with Yang Yi's open, upright, gentlemanly bearing at the time and taking his usual conduct into account, the man made a well-reasoned, convincing argument and arrived at a terrifying conclusion.
"...The system's fundamental purpose in doing this... is to force all players to occupy the remaining three Special Class islands, including Sweet Island, and smear One-Eye Boss to divide