Everyone held their breath, their hearts in their throats. The entire plan had been orchestrated by Ling Yun; if anything happened to him, their alliance would immediately fall apart like loose sand!
"Ling Yun! Ling Yun?!"
Some people shouted a few more times, unwilling to give up, but were interrupted by another, calmer voice.
"His avatar is already gray. He is dead."
As soon as the words fell, an announcement rang out across the partition at the perfect moment.
"Player Angry Crow Takes Flight has successfully killed Yunye leader Ling Yun! With the leader dead, Yunye has vanished into the long river of history!"
For the leaders of the Anti-Black Feather Alliance, this warning was more than enough.
The courage they possessed was as blind as their arrogance.
This announcement did not just declare Ling Yun's death; it was like a sharp steel needle, puncturing all of these people's unrealistic fantasies.
But... how could the gift Cheng Shuili sent be limited to just this one?
"Player Ailin has successfully killed Chentian leader Chen Bobo! With the leader dead, Chentian has vanished into the long river of history!"
Two consecutive announcements stunned everyone!
The regional channel was silent for half a minute before someone finally spoke again.
"Oh... well, who was it that said the tides were turning just a moment ago?"
"Hindsight is 20/20, isn't it?"
"Wait, what? What is actually going on?"
"Why did they die so quickly? This is giving me the feeling that everyone except Crow is just a noob! Hey! Are you guys really in the top ten of the leaderboard?"
"What exactly happened? Did they really start a war? Isn't a faction war supposed to be fought in the territory? How could it end so fast? Are Ling Yun and Chen Bobo both idiots? Did they just stand at the front and get shot dead by Crow in one hit?"
"How is that possible?! Big shots of their level all have defensive special items. Forget one shot; even if you sprayed a whole magazine with a rifle, they wouldn't necessarily die!"
"Isn't that a bit exaggerated? We are all made of flesh and blood; how could it be that magical?"
"Stop talking about this nonsense. The situation is clear now. Crow is invincible, Black Feather is badass, the undisputed number one, and the well-deserved Crown of the Cutting Edge!"
"So what? Crow is indeed strong and badass, but she really doesn't care about the lives of those following her. Who knows how many people in Black Feather have died?"
"I said it before the fight: as long as there is a war, there will definitely be casualties. It could have been avoided; I really don't understand why Crow insisted on fighting."
The discussion in the regional channel circled around and returned to the starting point.
The members of the Anti-Black Feather Alliance, who were constantly monitoring the wind direction, immediately realized that there was still a chance!
Although Crow currently had the upper hand, public opinion about her was plummeting.
Although the power of language was weak, if it came roaring like a tidal wave, it could still crush people!
The few remaining leaders immediately realized they could exploit this. They quickly edited a message and mobilized the members of their factions to steer the narrative in the regional channel.
【Chu Tian】: Everyone has seen it! Black Feather's brutality is obvious to all! Angry Crow Takes Flight relies on her high combat power to slaughter other players at will, and she doesn't even care if Black Feather's members survive! Today, our alliance united to stop this hegemonic behavior! We are doing this for balance, to give everyone a fair and harmonious environment!
【Miaomiao Quan】: That's right! We just wanted to negotiate, and Crow actually started killing people directly! She is nothing but an executioner! The same goes for the previous case with the Dark Star; the leader of the Anti-Black Feather Alliance didn't do anything, yet she still drove them to extinction! She is a bloodthirsty person, a scourge to the entire partition! And for those following her, you're lucky today that it was Ling Yun and Chen Bobo who died, but sooner or later, it will be you!
Their subordinates also immediately followed suit, attempting to muddy the waters.
"Exactly! Too brutal! Killing people over a disagreement!"
"We are all compatriots, why treat us like this? What problem couldn't be discussed properly?"
"The Anti-Black Feather Alliance cannot be disbanded! If it disbands, won't Partition 12 become Crow's personal playground? If someone like that gains the initiative, we're all doomed!"
"Boycott Black Feather! Boycott Angry Crow Takes Flight!"
Although these claims had a grain of truth, if you thought about it carefully, they didn't hold up at all. But the regional channel was full of people who were easily triggered; they became genuinely angry and willingly became knives in the hands of these people.
"It seems... that's the case? The leader of the Anti-Black Feather Alliance didn't really provoke her back then, right?"
"She wiped out the Dark Star just like that back then too..."
"This Crow person, she really is too ruthless..."
"Following someone like that really makes one's heart tremble..."
"Good thing I didn't join Black Feather. If I had, who knows how I would have died by now."
Cheng Shuili didn't see the messages until much later, but she still couldn't help but make a snide remark at the time: "Truly a straight-line connection from the rectum to the brain..."
And at this moment, she was still busy sending gifts to other factions.
She was busy, and Ailin was busy, but Xinxue and the others were quite idle.
Those rabble didn't have the courage to step foot in Black Feather's territory, so even though they were stationed there, they were actually bored enough to draw circles on the ground.
This was not the time to be looking at the regional channel, but just like being in a meeting with a boss, someone would always be unable to resist.
That person glanced at it and realized the situation was not right. After seeing what the regional channel was saying, they immediately shouted: "Holy crap! What kind of nonsense are those people in the regional channel spouting!"
This shout attracted everyone's attention.
Xinxue immediately opened the regional channel and quickly browsed through the remarks that distorted the truth, her brows knitting tighter and tighter.
She took a deep breath and @-ed all members in the group chat.
【Xinxue Chu Ji】: @All Members, have you all seen this? Someone is slandering the Boss and steering the narrative against our Black Feather! Can we tolerate this?
"Tolerate it my ass! My fists are already clenched!"
"Fight them! We must fight back!"
【Wanyi】: We don't look for trouble, but we won't let people bully us either. These people took the initiative to declare war, yet they don't dare to fight us openly, only engaging in these underhanded little tricks in the regional channel! Since that's the case, let's show them that when it comes to controlling public opinion, our Black Feather is also number one!
"Sister Wanyi is right! Our Black Feather is number one in everything!"
【Liang Shanbo vs. Pig】: It makes me so mad! Since they like playing dirty so much, let's slap the facts right in their faces! Let's see whose face hurts more!
【Xinxue Chu Ji】: Good! Everyone listen to my instructions! Sister Wanyi, you take a few people and organize the screenshots of what the Boss emphasized before about "safety being the most important," as well as the situation with the Tu Dou Bro incident, and send them to the group! As for the others...
【Xinxue Chu Ji】: If we don't speak up, they really think our Black Feather has no one!
Everyone responded one after another:
"I'm on it!"
"Clarification is too weak; we need to intimidate them first. Watch my performance."
"Same as before! For the Boss, for Black Feather, I, Iced Americano, will do anything!"
"Me too!"
Black Feather's members immediately went into action, their efficiency extremely high as they had been bottling up their anger.
The regional channel was swept by a neat, uniform row of black feather emojis. After the screen was cleared, Xinxue's message jumped out!
【Xinxue Chu Ji】: If you don't use your eyes, you can donate them; if you don't use your brain, you can throw it away. Slandering Black Feather and slandering Boss Crow? Ask these facts if they agree first!
【Xinxue Chu Ji】: (Image 1: Crow's statement in the group chat) Please tell me, is this called not caring about the lives of members? As for the Dark Star incident, I can only say that if you don't court death, you won't die! (Image 2: The entire process of the Tu Dou Bro incident). And as for you despicable villains in the Anti-Black Feather Alliance, it was you who declared war on us, demanded supplies, and even wanted our members! "Give an inch and take a mile" isn't even enough to describe you! And now you're trying to shift the blame? (Image 3: Anti-Black Feather Alliance declares war first) (Image 4: Alliance leader's persuasion message demanding supplies and members)
【Xinxue Chu Ji】: Tell me, who exactly is provoking trouble? Who is bullying the weak and greedy? Crow retaliates, and that's called brutality? Do you want us to offer our necks for the slaughter, hand over the supplies we worked hard to accumulate, and give up our comrades-in-arms, only for that to be called mercy? To be called considering the big picture? Heh, what kind of robber logic is that?
After this message was sent, Iced Americano immediately went into action.
"I have no manners, so I'll go first! Chu Tian, Miaomiao Quan... I **** your **** your whole family **** your ancestors ****"
Sending this wasn't enough; this person's typing speed and brain were exceptionally fast, and the insults were varied. One person could almost match the combat power of a dozen people.
Xinxue felt something was wrong the more she looked, and hurriedly said in the group: "Someone control her! We need to continue with the process!"
After a long while, someone finally replied: "We've got her pinned down, Sister Xinxue!"
Xinxue opened the regional channel and let out a sigh of relief when she saw that Iced Americano had stopped posting.
The other side also reacted quickly and immediately defended themselves: "We just wanted to negotiate with you! Who said we wanted to fight you? From start to finish, has any of our people stepped into your territory?"
【Wanyi】: Negotiate? You call bringing a large force to our doorstep and demanding half our supplies and members a "negotiation"? Isn't this blatant robbery? When the Boss refuses to be robbed, she becomes an "executioner"? Did you learn your logic from an octopus, with tentacles reaching out everywhere? (Image) (Image)
【Liang Shanbo vs. Pig】: (Image) Come, come, everyone take a look! This is the "fair and harmonious" environment they wanted! They wanted to carve us up like goods! If the Boss hadn't been strong enough, our brothers and sisters in Black Feather would have already been torn apart and devoured by them! Tell me, who is the real scourge?!
"Laughable! You play dirty when you can't win? Crying and steering the narrative in the channel? What about that righteous face you had when you declared war? Take it out and let's see it again? We in Black Feather treat friends with fine wine and wolves with hunting rifles! Don't blame the hunting rifle for being ruthless to the wolves who actively stick their necks out!"
"And you talk about balance? I think it's for your own selfish desire because you couldn't rule the roost yourselves! Ling Yun and Chen Bobo died because they were less skilled and sought their own destruction! Swords have no eyes on the battlefield, so you blame the other side for being too strong when your leader dies? Where do these giant babies come from!"
Black Feather's members stood united, their messages clear, logical, and evidence-based, accompanied by all sorts of mocking emojis. Like a well-trained army, they instantly tore the atmosphere that the Anti-Black Feather Alliance had worked so hard to create into shreds.
The onlookers who had previously been swayed and had hot heads gradually came to their senses.
"Uh... I actually forgot for a second, it really was the Anti-Black Feather Alliance that started it, right?"
"Demanding supplies and members is really too much; I'd turn hostile too."
"The spectacle Black Feather put on! And that black feather emoji, that's too cool!"
"Everyone just got one thing right: it's lively, really lively! And Xinxue's statement is reasonable, well-supported, and illustrated; she could almost make a PPT and spread it widely. It's like instantly returning to the gossip groups of my past life!"
"Although, that Iced Americano's combat power is really strong; it feels a bit intimidating."
"So Black Feather also has casualties, right? Although Crow cherishes her subordinates, it's unavoidable. It's better not to join a faction; then none of this would happen."
"Sigh, yeah. I wanted to join a faction purely to live a little better. If I have to risk my life, I'd rather not join one."
"Am I the only one curious about how Crow did it? Why did Ling Yun and Chen Bobo die so quickly? It's too strange!"
"I'm curious too. Black Feather must have some kind of big weapon!"
At this point, public opinion had completely reversed.
But Chu Tian still wouldn't give up. He roared in the faction channel, "Go to the regional channel and spam the screen! Hurry! Go post messages! Quickly bring back those fence-sitters!"
His voice was filled with anger and unwillingness, yet he held onto a last shred of hope.
At this very moment, the partition announcement rang out once more.
"Player Angry Crow Takes Flight has successfully killed Chi Bao He Bao Shui Jue Jue leader Wo Ai Shui Jue! With the leader dead, Chi Bao He Bao Shui Jue Jue has vanished into the long river of history!"
"Player Ailin has successfully killed Mao Zhua Rui Li leader Miaomiao Quan! With the leader dead, Mao Zhua Rui Li has vanished into the long river of history!"
These two announcements were like the final funeral bells, tolling in the hearts of the remnants of the Anti-Black Feather Alliance.
Chu Tian's voice was helpless and desperate: "Miaomiao Quan is also... finished... it's all over..."
Another small leader asked with a trembling voice: "Chu, Brother Chu Tian, what do we do now? Is it too late to surrender?"
"Surrender?" Chu Tian's voice suddenly turned shrill. "Do you think that if we surrender now, that lunatic Crow will let us go? Look at the fate of Ling Yun, Chen Bobo, and Miaomiao Quan! She intends to drive us all to extinction!"
Panic spread like a plague among the few remaining leaders.
In the regional channel, with Black Feather's total victory and the reversal of public opinion, some neutral players, and even those who had been secretly gloating, began to change their tune.
"Holy crap, even Wo Ai Shui Jue and Miaomiao Quan fell? This efficiency is too terrifying!"
"Black Feather doesn't act unless they have to, but once they do, they really intend to root these people out!"
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