“Are you sure you don’t want to sign your name?”
Chen Ke’s finger hovered over the system panel’s virtual keyboard as he turned to look at Fu Songcheng.
His eyes carried incomprehension and admiration.
“Mm.”
Fu Songcheng tilted his head slightly, facing Yu Huaiting, avoiding the searching gazes in the plaza.
“I don’t want a personality cult, and I don’t want to be stared at by tens of millions of people. I only do what I want to do, save the people I want to save.”
“Alright, I understand.”
Chen Ke took a deep breath. Fu Songcheng had done all this—his desire to save people was indeed far smaller than his anger at Source Star. Not going public with his name was fine too; it saved him a lot of trouble.
Chen Ke’s gaze returned to the system panel.
As the player with the highest prestige present, he had to step forward at this chaotic moment to stabilize the situation.
He rapidly typed a long string of text into the public screen’s contact book.
[Chen Ke: I am former Dawn chief recruiter, Chen Ke.]
[Chen Ke: As everyone can see, the ‘version update’ has been thoroughly terminated. Source Star’s servers have been completely destroyed by a top player who wishes to remain anonymous. The system is paralyzed—everyone no longer needs to keep entering instances endlessly.]
[Chen Ke: Next, we will organize and send Blue Star players back to Earth in batches. The wounded and women first.]
[Chen Ke: Blue Star humanity—liberated.]
The instant the announcement was posted, the entire instance’s public screen seemed to freeze for a full three seconds.
Three seconds later, countless characters scrolled madly like a waterfall.
[Liu Yu: Going home?! We can really go home?!]
[Ding Weiqiu: Saved… wuwuwu… I thought I was dead for sure, I really thought I was dead for sure!]
[Lin Muyang: Who on earth is that anonymous deity! Accept my bow!]
The ecstasy after despair swept through every corner like a tsunami.
Some wailed loudly, some knelt and kissed the blood-stained ground, some madly embraced companions beside them, known or unknown.
And amid all this clamor, Fu Songcheng and Yu Huaiting still leaned tightly together.
The “Burning” negative effect was still in force under the system’s judgment. Every touch of skin was like pressing a red-hot branding iron to the nerves.
But Yu Huaiting’s arms only tightened, as if trying to cinch Fu Songcheng into his own flesh and blood.
“Does it hurt?”
Fu Songcheng asked in a low voice. A layer of cold sweat had already seeped onto his forehead, yet his voice was unbelievably gentle.
“It doesn’t hurt.”
Yu Huaiting’s chin rested on Fu Songcheng’s shoulder, greedily inhaling the scent on him.
Fu Songcheng let out a low laugh and backhanded him a slap. “Hug me lighter. You don’t mind the pain, but I do.”
“Oh…”
Yu Huaiting finally loosened the distance slightly, his hands somewhat at a loss—wanting to touch him yet afraid of hurting him. “What if you don’t come back from Source Star?”
“There’s no ‘what if.’”
Fu Songcheng raised his hand and gently rubbed the corner of Yu Huaiting’s eye with his dust-covered fingertip. “I won’t let myself die. I still have to come back to see you.”
The emotions flowing between them were so intense they nearly took physical form.
…
After sending the announcement, Chen Ke wasn’t idle either—he hurriedly organized personnel to arrange the repatriation work.
Before long, a batch of people was gathered in the plaza.
Fu Songcheng and Yu Huaiting had no time to rest at all.
“Mr. Fu, the first batch of players going back is ready.”
Chen Ke didn’t finish the sentence, but Fu Songcheng knew—this was asking him and Yu Huaiting to help send people back.
Fu Songcheng lifted his chin, signaling Yu Huaiting.
Yu Huaiting wasted no words. He walked over to Bai Mu and the players who needed teleporting—any player within a certain range of him would become targets for his area skill.
Bai Mu took a deep breath. “Leave it to me.”
Before the words faded, this batch of people was sent back to Blue Star.
The Blue Star side had also arranged for people to receive them.
The true dawn had arrived.
Just then, a burst of noisy arguing broke the brief tranquility around them.
“On what grounds?! On what grounds do you let us fend for ourselves?!”
A group of players in ragged clothes, bearing wounds of varying degrees, was shoved forward by the surrounding crowd.
Lu Xiao stood before them with a face full of disgust, looking at them coldly.
They were people from the “Dawn” guild.
Just a few hours ago, this group had been dead-set on encircling Chen Ke’s rebel camp.
The man leading them, his face flushed red, screamed hoarsely at Chen Ke: “Chen Ke! You just said in the announcement that you’d take everyone home—why won’t you let us into the teleport queue? We’re Blue Star people too!”
Chen Ke couldn’t even be bothered to look at him, continuing to collect the second batch of players’ data, preparing for the repatriation work.
“Chen Ke! Say something! This is settling personal scores! This is murder!”
Seeing Chen Ke ignore him, the man grew more frantic, trying to break through Lu Xiao’s block.
“Get back.”
Yu Huaiting’s voice was cold as ice.
He didn’t turn his head—only slightly turned his face, and those eyes that had just softened looking at Fu Songcheng instantly became an abyss of extreme cold.
The long sword in his hand carved a deep trench in the ground, sword qi surging, forcing the Dawn guild people back several steps.
The man’s voice trembled as he quibbled, “The system’s paralyzed now—we already know we were wrong! We’re all Earth compatriots, you can’t just watch us die!”
“Compatriots?”
Fu Songcheng finally spoke.
“I won’t save compatriots who swing their blades at their own people.”
He walked forward step by step, looking down at the man from above. “Not killing you is already the last bottom line of humanity. You can stay in the rest area and fend for yourselves.”
He actually wanted to kill these people—especially after returning to the instance and discovering how miserably his puppy had been ganged up on and beaten by them.
Completely ignoring the ground full of minced corpses his puppy had hacked apart.
But in front of Chen Ke, he still suppressed the killing intent.
“You—! May you all die horribly!”
The Dawn guild people cursed in despair.
“Shut up.”
Lu Xiao impatiently rapped the flat of her blade against the man’s face. “One more word and I’ll kill you right now.”
The law of human survival had long been washed crystal clear by blood.
Kindness must carry an edge, and stupidity and betrayal must pay the price.
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