Inside the Universal Guild,
every player received a message.
【System Alert: Your guild crystal is under attack!!!】
【System Alert: Your guild crystal is under attack!!!】
Wan Huanyu had already yelled himself hoarse.
"Feng Huimin? Where are you? Think of something, quick!"
Feng Huimin was lying by the broken walls and debris of the warehouse!
Her vision was a grayish white, her gaze fixed on one spot beside her, but she couldn’t see anything at all.
Strangely, there was a kind of satisfaction in just giving up and doing nothing.
"Master Wan, I’m dead too. Why don’t you send someone over with a resurrection scroll? Oh, and whatever you do, don’t let Holy Healing Angel come—I’m afraid she’ll get killed too."
Wan Huanyu had never felt this hopeless.
Back when he was on server 001, getting killed by that assassin had just left him stunned, followed by a burst of impotent rage.
After all, this was a game, not reality. Even if he claimed to be the young master of Wantu Real Estate, so what? If someone wanted to kill you, they killed you.
But now, he was the leader of a major guild.
How was he still this pathetic?
Killed right on his own doorstep.
Completely wiped out.
He knew there was nothing he could do now.
He could have fled earlier.
But the guild couldn’t be moved!
The enemy was dead set on wreaking havoc inside the guild grounds, and Wan Huanyu had no way to stop it.
He gave up!
Let it all burn!
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Inside the Universal Guild.
The guild crystal was built inside the guild hall.
This was where guild quests were accepted and was the most fortified structure.
Not only that, the hall was necessarily built at the very center.
Because the guild crystal had a special effect.
It wasn’t just about whether the territory could be dismantled or conquered.
The guild crystal was an item only village chiefs or town heads could sell. Once placed, the wild area around it would stop spawning monsters, making it a true “safe zone.”
When the crystal shattered, monsters would spawn there again, so it could no longer be called a safe zone, and the territory would be open to attacks at any time.
Chu Fu had already used up all the watermelon bombs in her pockets. She was chugging mana potions while hurrying to ripen more watermelon bombs.
Fortunately, after ripening so many watermelon bombs, she had plenty of bomb sprites, so she simply sent them out to bombard the rooms.
Not only that—
the entire Universal Guild was littered with corpses. Even if anyone was still alive, they had all run away.
Shen Chi had landed earlier, and the eight-meter-tall mech’s fist smashed into the window, tore down the door, and ripped off the roof.
It was like the ultimate demolition crew.
After tearing down the outer walls, they walked up to the crystal.
Electric saw dandelions spun around the crystal as Shen Chi hammered it with the mech.
"Let me deliver the killing blow!" Xie Lin raised the King’s Sword high.
Piercing Rainbow Strike!
Holy Light Judgment!
With the terrifying holy light falling, the crystal shattered with a crash.
【System Alert: You have destroyed the Universal Guild’s territory crystal. You may now plunder the territory’s structures.】
【System Alert: You have obtained structures: Chimney (white), Medicine Furnace (white), Herbal Grinding Stone (green), Blacksmith’s Forge (green).】
They got a reward too?
They sucked everything up with the vacuum extractor!
After the full demolition, the three of them felt no lingering attachment and pulled out their return scrolls!
Yes—coming here took three hours, but going back only required a return scroll to teleport straight to Wangxi Town.
No one came to interrupt them.
In fact, the survivors practically hoped they would leave quickly.
Finally they’re gone.
Ten seconds later, the three figures vanished.
Holy Healing Angel timidly returned from the wild, first reviving Feng Huimin.
Feng Huimin felt exhausted.
She looked at her messages and thought, “You could have at least left me a phone number!”
Just then, Wan Huanyu walked into the guild grounds.
Seeing his life’s work destroyed in an instant, he erupted.
“Useless! Useless! A bunch of useless trash!”
Feng Huimin was long used to being yelled at, but this time she felt a sting of defeat too.
Her dividends! Gone.
She didn’t want to listen to Wan Huanyu rage impotently anymore, so she chose to log off.
Actually, she rarely bothered logging in unless necessary, because Wan Huanyu had been acting strange lately—he was always on the game. Before, he would hit the bars and chase women, but now he devoted himself entirely to the game.
The problem was, even so, his level rose painfully slowly. He relied entirely on others to carry him, and his actual strength barely improved.
And soon, Feng Huimin found out why!
After logging off, Feng Huimin stepped out of the game pod and suddenly remembered the message Plantman had left her in-game.
The message told her to investigate whether Wan Huanyu, or the higher-ups, were hiding anything from her.
How to investigate?
The simplest way was to get her hands on Wan Huanyu’s phone.
And that wasn’t hard for her.
She went to his office and picked it up without issue.
After all, the phone was just sitting there.
She opened his messaging app and saw his latest contact.
It wasn’t some woman—it was Guan Youlong.
The exchange between them stunned Feng Huimin.
Game invasion, reality sync, cash-out cards, Plantman.
And even a video!
In the video, Plantman controlled ivy to build ladders and rescue others.
If not for the fact that everything in the footage looked too modern, Feng Huimin would have thought it was a deepfake.
So, this game wasn’t just a game?
It was humanity’s last ark?
Feng Huimin suddenly let out a mocking laugh.
Then what had she been struggling for all this time?
The money she earned would eventually become worthless paper. And her talent was poor, her game experience lacking.
Not only that—she rarely logged in, so she hardly had any gear.
Wan Huanyu also kept her from having too much power, so she never handled the finances.
Oh, right—Wan Huanyu had gold coins on him. 400 gold, equivalent to a liquidity of 400 million, and now it had all been looted and blown away.
At that moment,
Feng Huimin felt nothing but regret.
Just which fool had she hitched herself to?
At the same time, she admitted to being a fool herself—
one of the duped.
Just then, Wan Huanyu called her again.
“Feng Huimin, what tantrum are you pulling? Get back online right now! Solve the guild crisis immediately! Otherwise, I’ll fire you!”
Fire me?
Good riddance.
Feng Huimin’s face turned cold, and she snapped, “I’m done. I work my ass off for pocket change, and I still get cursed at every single day.
Do you realize how much you’ve humiliated me?
I’m suing you for the severe emotional distress you’ve caused.
Since you’re firing me, you’ll pay me severance N+1, or I’ll take you to court.
Expect my lawyer’s letter!”
Luckily, she had kept evidence of everything. She had recorded every single time Wan Huanyu yelled at her.
She immediately packed her personal belongings and took the elevator straight to the chairman’s office.
She was going to file a report right away.
To tell Wan Huanyu’s father, Wan Runian, chairman of Wantu Real Estate, everything.
Meanwhile, Wan Huanyu was even angrier.
But he didn’t dare log off to yell at Feng Huimin in person, because he was afraid—
afraid that the assassin who took down Laurent would come for him and put him out of commission.
He kept calling Feng Huimin, but she had blocked him.
And soon, Wan Huanyu would learn just how disastrous it could be when a talent like Feng Huimin truly went on the warpath.
