The system's betrayal had interrupted... no, shattered the players' plans. It was like falling from heaven into hell, something no ordinary disaster or emergency could compare to. The contrast was so extreme that many players lost even the most basic ability to manage their emotions, and some even began questioning reality, leading to all sorts of incidents.
Had Su Na not intervened in time, bolstered by the image she and Yang Yi had built up over so long, things would probably have been even more chaotic.
Even so, it had taken them nearly three days just to restore the most basic order.
The reality they now faced was... this world was on the brink of destruction. They had lost the system's bonuses, and more than half of them had even fallen from Legendary back to Extraordinary, because they had relied on advancement paths provided by the system all along.
Without those bonuses and the bonuses from various special items, their strength had plummeted. They were essentially holding on through base attributes alone.
If the delicacies from Sweet Island had not provided substantial attribute bonuses, the situation would probably have been even worse.
Then there were the few things they still had on hand.
After losing the system, their supply lines had also been cut off, and they had completely lost contact with Garbage Island. Every bit of supplies they used was one bit less they had left. Fortunately, the Finite Miracle Factory still worked, but it needed a new interface system built from scratch, a task they had assigned to Istil.
Of the other two Player Islands, Burning Island and Corpse Island, the former's overall functionality was almost unaffected. The latter, however, had essentially lost the ability to modify species and hatch Limb Spider Soldiers without the assistance of system-related