There's a skeleton dungeon connected to my basement.

Chapter 613, Open and Honest Announcement

This is not an ordinary wooden stick.

When it was held in someone's hand, some special changes occurred, and it transformed into a strange object.

"A wooden stick that you can't take your eyes off!"

The reasons for the creation of strange objects are varied and the process is unpredictable, but one thing is certain: the creation of this wooden stick is due to the undisguised perverse sense of humor of some guy.

One of the guys watching this scene grinned; he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

I'll be showing my face again later, so I need to tone down the smile on my face.

Four lucky players reappeared in front of Xiao Yang. Three of them had satisfied smiles on their faces, but only one was in a daze.

Xiao Yang put on his helmet, although it only covered half of his face.

He straightened his expression.

"Alright, now that you've made your choice, let's go."

With that, he waved goodbye to three of them.

Before being taken away, the guy holding the straight wooden stick still had that blank expression. He came to his senses a little and kept trying to look up at Xiao Yang, but he couldn't. His gaze was constantly drawn to the straight wooden stick in his hand.

What happened today will probably be remembered for a long time.

"It can't really be considered a loss, this is a rare item!"

Of course, Xiao Yang isn't really a demon. As compensation for winning the hidden reward, this poor guy will receive a random gift pack.

A gift pack that, according to the label, can contain rewards ranging from epic to mythical tiers.

In theory, even those powerful artifacts could be obtained from the gift pack, but in reality, it's not possible. What's that saying again?

"You did buy a blind box, but the contents were put in right in front of me."

Xiao Yang wouldn't let him suffer too much of a loss, so he put in a material of legendary quality.

Thinking of this, a sense of curiosity suddenly arose in Xiao Yang, and he began to ponder a question.

"Will he see this unlucky guy's warning post on the Tide Games player forum soon?"

Alright, enough with the daydreaming, it's time to get down to business.

My gaze fell on Li Jun in front of me. As the first legendary player of the Tide game, he was quite special in some ways.

Although Xiao Yang had already laid the groundwork for what would happen next, he still decided to ask this guy in person.

Every individual who achieves legendary status through self-reliance is not someone who is overly shaky or has a superficial mind; finding their own ideals is a necessary condition.

Li Jun wasn't the most talented player among the many players who had faded into obscurity; even Xiao Yang was somewhat surprised that he would be the first to advance to Legendary status.

Strictly speaking, Xiao Yang hadn't expected a player legend to emerge so quickly. In fact, from the time he was forced to build the framework of the Tidefall game until now, it hadn't been that long. Moreover, the separation of the soul and body brought considerable additional resistance to advancing to the legendary level.

In his mind, the first legendary player to fall behind should be one who, after stagnating for too long at the Epic Perfection stage, focuses their main efforts on the Real Dungeon and pushes their physical body to its limits in the real world, and only then can they successfully complete the advancement.

But it turns out.

"He underestimated these players."

The miscalculation meant that Xiao Yang had to make arrangements ahead of time. This wasn't a difficult task, since he had already prepared the framework for the path to ascension long ago.

The simplest solution would be to initiate the path to ascension sooner, allowing Li Jun to be naturally drawn to the Land of Decay.

After careful consideration, Xiao Yang abandoned the idea. He wasn't the mastermind behind it all, nor was he a schemer, a manipulator of the world, or the kind of guy who plotted unknowable conspiracies, controlled the players of the Ebb Tide game, and tried to achieve some unknown secret.

Even the creation of the Tidefall Game was a means for Xiao Yang to prevent the Rotten Land from anchoring itself to the real world and to stop more pitiful people from witnessing this truly insane world.

To his fellow villagers, he felt that he was more like a "pioneer".

When he first stepped into the Rotten Land, he complained more than once that he was a really unlucky guy.

"So there's nothing too much to hide."

"Let's be open and honest!"

His gaze fell on the resolute-looking man in front of him; this was a decision made after careful consideration.

"Legend is a very special point in time, and the game of receding tide is not an ordinary game."

Let's start this conversation with this sentence.

Do you remember the introductory line you heard when you first entered the game "Tidefall"?

The dark tide is rising; even for the sake of this world, for the sake of myself, let me become a reef.

At this moment, Xiao Yang stared at Li Jun.

This will be an important dialogue that will determine the future of a newly born legend, and to some extent, the future of all subsequent new legends in the 33214 plane.

To become a legend, Li Jun was clearly no fool. As the leader of the official players, he knew more than the average player.

This was not their first conversation with Xiao Yang, the Crimson Knight. Earlier, Li Jun had already spent considerable effort reviewing the record file that was classified as top secret.

That document had a great impact on him and brought him a lot of confusion.

Looking up at the crimson knight in front of him, no matter from any angle, it was impossible to overlap him with the figure sitting in the night market, eating mutated giant squid and chatting casually with the stall owner.

The aura Xiao Yang exudes in the two different environments is completely different.

"In the real world, he suppresses his power and is just a miserable, unlucky guy who hasn't been home for a long time."

Casual, unpretentious, likes to drink Coke.

In the land of decay.

"The Scarlet Savior".

Xiao Yang stopped talking and waited for Li Jun to ask a question.

He is very patient.

The atmosphere was so heavy it was suffocating.

Li Jun felt that in many ways he was no match for those clever people in the strategy department who could even figure out the nuances of a person's pauses in speech.

But he knew what he wanted.

In this situation, facing the crimson savior who has stopped moving and is looking down at him, perhaps this is more important.

"What do I need to do?"

He asked Xiao Yang this question earnestly.

It wasn't for her own sake, nor was it a question about what she would encounter next; she simply asked Xiao Yang this question calmly and quietly.

(End of this chapter)