"Don't be so unaccommodating, Miss Investigator," Xu Xiaoyou said. "Ending tonight like this seems a bit unworthy of this moonlight, don't you think?"
Bai Youyou instinctively took the rose, the girl's words echoing in her ears. Her gaze seed deeply drawn by this bright rose, her thoughts wrapped in its soft petals.
She felt as if her entire being fell into these soft petals, her limbs entangled, her waist bound by the flower bud, being dragged down, her body sinking deeper into the rose's fragrance.
Sothing's wrong!
"Player 'Nakamura Yuri' used the artifact 'White Rose's Heart Language' on you, your spirit value is below 2500, making a determination."
"Determination failed, you are chard and have acquired the 'Withered White Rose' effect. You will temporarily lose control of your body, your resistance to charm-type skills has decreased, and you have entered a weakened spirit state."
The soft petals completely pulled her into the flower bud, the girl's soft whispers lingering by her ears, the entire world suddenly drifting away from her.
By the ti she reacted and looked up again, Xu Xiaoyou's figure was nowhere to be seen. The other had already taken this opportunity to leave the clock tower!
Bai Youyou's face twisted, and she ground her teeth as she snapped the rose in her hand in two.
"Xu Xiaoyou!"
...
The girl's anger echoed above the city for a long ti. Xu Xiaoyou, escorted by many guild players, successfully escaped the pursuit of the Oasis City law enforcent camp, arriving at the outskirts of Oasis City. Coincidentally, Bai Youyou chased after at this mont, stepping out of Oasis City.
"Don't run!" The black-haired girl panted with disarray, her face like an evil ghost.
After leaving the Oasis City area, her attributes visibly decreased, barely eting the Three Tier level standard, no longer possessing the absolute dominance she had in the city before.
Of course, the group of guild players did not want to beco enemies with this Harmonizer of the Order Court, so they quickly made way after completing their mission.
Seeing Bai Youyou picking up a Heavy Hamr and approaching, a silver-white lance suddenly shot from nowhere, whistling through the air, and in an instant, it arrived before the girl's eyes.
Even though Bai Youyou imdiately braced Osiris in front of her, cutting down most of the sharp spear intent, she could not avoid being suppressed and forced to retreat.
Bai Youyou forcefully deflected the lance, slamming the Heavy Hamr onto the ground to quickly stabilize her stance.
Angelina walked out amidst the astonished gazes of the players, kicking up the lance stuck in the ground and holding it in a reverse grip.
The lance tip brushed past the flower bushes, gently stirring, tracing an arc in the air. Angelina glanced at Xu Xiaoyou, then looked towards the familiar white figure not far away.
"It's you."
With a brief exchange of glances, the two spoke in unison.
The players blinked, their gazes shifting between the three, as the gossip radar beeped incessantly. Intuition told them there was surely a secret past hidden between these three.
"So, why did you call here?" Angelina asked, looking calmly at Xu Xiaoyou.
The latter shrugged: "Anya, do you want to watch get locked in a virtual Consciousness Prison and serve a sentence of hundreds of years?"
Angelina secretly clicked her tongue: "If I'd known it was such a good thing, I wouldn't have co."
Then she turned to Bai Youyou, her tone light and airy.
"You crazy woman, still not discharged by the association yet?"
"Abyssal White Flower, I shouldn't have let you go back then." Bai Youyou straightened up, wiping dust off her face, and as if recalling sothing, chuckled, "What, does a little wolf cub still need soone to pet its head after growing up?"
Upon hearing this, a vein bulged on Angelina's forehead, glaring viciously at Xu Xiaoyou behind her.
Xu Xiaoyou shrugged with an innocent expression.
"Fine, I'll arrest you and this guy now, so you won't cause trouble for reality."
"Try if you dare." Angelina raised her lance, pointing it straight at Bai Youyou.
The intangible gunpowder spread between the two, as another battle seed unavoidable when a red-font global announcent caught everyone's attention.
"Attention all players: the Three Tier Main City 'Pangard' has experienced a world event — the ergence of the 'Parasite Miracle,' and has entered a full-scale infested state. The main city's functions, NPC modules, and teleport permissions have been locked. Creatures from the Parasite series will refresh in the surrounding area, turning it into a PVP zone."
"The world instance 'Terminal Illness Patient' has been opened."
"Instance type: stronghold exploration."
"Instance player limit: unlimited."
"Proceed to Pangard City to participate in the instance. Defeating Parasite series enemy creatures will earn personal points, occupying strongholds will earn guild points, exploring the instance's world lore, reclaiming infested areas, completing instance storyline tasks, and defeating world bosses will earn Season 11 — Overreach Battle League points."
"Void Trader, Wastelands Quartermaster, and The End Singer have settled in the 'Plague-ridden Pangard City.' Registration for the instance is now open. Note: The highest attributes for players entering this instance will be locked at Three Tier."
"Please actively participate in the world instance. If the instance's clearance is deed a failure, the Three Tier Main City Pangard will remain permanently infested, directly affecting the season's ga progress!"
"World event?" soone frowned.
"Parasite Miracle?" soone showed curiosity.
"Wait, the infested city is Pangard City?" soone exclaid while covering their face, "I haven't changed my class this season yet!"
Suddenly, the players engaged in heated discussions.
Clearly, so newcors to the Oasis world were still puzzled, approaching a veteran player with a weathered look and cautiously asking:
"What is a world event?"
The veteran player lit a cigarette with a click, their eyes filled with weariness: "It ans many people in reality have t a disaster again."
"What does this have to do with reality?"
The veteran player shook their head, taking a long breath as the rolling smoke deepened the weariness in their eyes.
"Every city in Oasis can be found in reality, generated according to the Mourner's database. EVA and the Mourner are essentially the sa source. Before EVA appeared, the Mourner was responsible for monitoring global data, with her eyes sweeping every corner of reality."
"Whether a city is suddenly struck by disaster, a powerful supernatural event occurs, or a miracle breaks out, she knows before we do."
"At the sa ti, the corresponding city in Oasis will also experience the sa world event."
"In the past, the world events broke out in less critical civilization centers, not significant enough to prompt mass actions. People only realized after the event ended that a civilization had quietly disappeared from history."
"But this ti it's different."
"I never expected the world event would break out in this season's Three Tier main city, sothing unprecedented. Judging by its scale, it seems far beyond previous cases."
"The last ti there was such a grand announcent to the entire server was the previous season's 'Golden Mother Tree' event, those death-defying Golden Creatures left a deep impression on ."
"And it was precisely due to the failure of players during the previous season's world event that accelerated the progress of the S10 season Golden Era, causing it to end prematurely and be settled imdiately."
The veteran player's thoughts drifted further with the slowly rising smoke.
The previous season's main city prototypes were all well-known cities or Nest Cities in reality, such as Jiulong ssage's base, Jiulong Battleship, or Cosmic Heavy Industries' base R'lyeh.
However, he had never heard of this season's Three Tier main city, Pangard, nor could he find any information about this city in EVA's database.
Many speculate that Pangard isn't located in a habitable civilization area but is built upon the absolute life-forbidden zone, the Wastelands.
For what reason would such a city be chosen as a season's main city?
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