“Who knows? Maybe it's just to trap you so they can stir up trouble outside.”
Vivian walked toward the spot where the others were gathering with her hands behind her head, showing no signs of panic.
The same went for Lan Qingyou.
Sitting on her flying magic broom, she drifted forward leisurely, clearly not taking the situation to heart.
With over ten billion people in this world, if someone was really coming for her, there wasn't much she could do about it. After all, she couldn't make everyone like her.
She had already mentally prepared herself for things like plots and assassinations back when she first appeared on the world broadcast.
If anything, it was impressive that it had taken this long for someone to finally cause trouble for her.
She just didn't know exactly what those people were planning.
Since the portal was gone and no one could get out, Vivian's theory was the most plausible.
It wasn't impossible that they were being trapped here while something else was being set in motion.
Indeed.
Although Lan Qingyou didn't say it out loud, she had already fully attributed this 'accident' to herself.
After all, Vivian hadn't been stirring up nearly as much trouble as she had.
Regardless, even if the scheme wasn't aimed at her, she had to think as if it were.
Only by doing so could she identify the dangers lurking around her.
As for Vivian... she had her own means of self-preservation, so there was no need to worry about her.
“Do you think it has something to do with the upcoming Racial Competition?”
“It's possible. After all, your Witch race took too much this time. Never mind everyone else—even I'm a bit jealous.”
And why wouldn't she be?
A one-rank increase in talent for the entire race, a one-rank increase in knowledge, and a full four hundred attribute points—anyone would be envious.
Even if it wasn't as ridiculous as the one thousand or four thousand points rumored on the world channel, four hundred points alone were enough to make anyone green with envy.
“Pfft, you two are so funny.”
As Lan Qingyou and Vivian approached the spot where the portal had been, Gu Xiaobei and the others came out to meet them.
They hadn't even reacted to what had happened in that split second.
By the time they realized what was going on, Lan Qingyou and Vivian had already dashed far away.
“What's happening?”
Li Huai walked over as well.
By now, the monsters at the entrance had been cleared out. Aside from a few witches and vampires who were busy processing monster corpses for materials and blood, everyone else with nothing to do had gathered around.
Most of them had seen what happened, but they didn't understand the situation and just wanted to know what was going on.
However, after Lan Qingyou shared her and Vivian's views on the matter, everyone fell silent.
Needless to say.
She was definitely right.
Someone was absolutely messing with them from the outside. It might even be that timid-looking guide.
“That bastard. I better not run into him again.”
The guide might have thought that simply changing his appearance and physique would be enough to evade the witches' pursuit, but unfortunately for him, Lan Qingyou had already seen his detailed attributes through her Magic Eye and committed them to memory.
To be honest...
“Should we try to contact the outside?”
One of the witches suggested.
In this group, Vivian definitely had the highest level of control.
The vampires basically wouldn't do anything extra, including offering suggestions, unless Vivian gave them the nod.
In contrast, the witches were much more casual.
Because she had considered the need for research, the philosophy Lan Qingyou established for the Witch race was one of freedom, boldness, and spontaneity, which made it easier for everyone to conduct their individual studies.
One didn't even need to look to know that the suggestion had come from a witch.
“It's no use. Unless it's a dungeon native to the Kalim continent, any dungeon entered through a portal is cut off from the outside world.”
The reason the witches asked was mainly because they usually went to dungeons to conduct experiments.
They had never actually gone through a dungeon properly before.
This was especially true since most of the people brought along this time were students who hadn't even graduated from the Witch Academy.
And quite a few of those students were older than Lan Qingyou herself.
Thus, Gu Xiaobei, the 'veteran' who had been through over a dozen dungeons, provided the answer.
They had known about this phenomenon since their first dungeon run. Because teleportation was involved, everyone felt that these places were essentially sub-spaces.
So, no one paid it much mind; they just went about their business.
After all, the current situation was the worst it could get, and even that wasn't so bad.
Compared to when they were just ordinary people from Blue Star transmigrating to a place like the Kalim continent, the current situation was more than just a little bit better.
In any case, they would just hang out for now. What else could they do?
Maybe the world consciousness would suddenly manifest a new portal or fix the old one like it had before.
Every single person who had entered the dungeon remained remarkably calm.
While Lan Qingyou and the others were leisurely grinding mobs in the Gloomy Forest dungeon, the tone on the world channel was gradually shifting.
Because Lan Qingyou and her group had gathered at the Adventurers' Guild in the Desolate Bone Basin, at least a hundred people had seen them at the time.
And in the safe zone outside the Adventurers' Guild, thousands more had witnessed the scene of them flying overhead.
So, while Lan Qingyou was trapped in the dungeon, a discussion about them was unfolding on the world channel.
“I'm telling you, I was scared to death just now. Swarms of vampires with their fleshy wings spread and witches on brooms flew right over my head. I have no idea what they're up to.”
“Tell me about it. I was at the Adventurers' Guild. When I saw the two races gathering, I didn't even dare to breathe, fearing they'd bash my skull in.”
“Tsk tsk, you have to admit, uniform clothing looks intimidating. Whether it's the vampires in their Gothic outfits or the witches in their standard robes and hats, you can tell who's center stage just by where they stand.”
“Oh, and there was the Forest Elf Clan Leader and a Wind Elf too. Those two didn't look like people you'd want to mess with either.”
“Right? Even though there were only a few hundred of them, those two races gave off the aura of ten thousand people.”
“Is this the power of evolved beings? Truly terrifying.”
“Wait, what are you guys talking about?”
“Are you speaking some kind of encrypted language on the world channel that nobody else can understand?”
“No, was your reading comprehension taught by a PE teacher? It's obvious the Vampire race and the Witch race are planning something big.”
“I'll tell you what, whether it's the Violent Zealot or the Witch, neither of those two is a walk in the park. Add in the Tyrant of Delight who likes researching how to eat bugs, and I can't even imagine what those three will do when they get together.”
“Violent Zealot? Tyrant of Delight? I get the Witch, but what do those other two mean?”
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