Monsters Are Coming

"It’s just a temporary defeat, not an annihilation."

"Indeed." Earth Thought Evil Spirit agreed with the Divine King, as it never thought that this victory would completely rid them of the Player Clan’s entanglement.

At this moment, on the screen, the attack rhythm of the Player Corps had become extremely chaotic.

It had already leaned towards a free war mode.

Other commanders could only offer small-scale command, having never experienced battlefield-level command, far from capable of fulfilling the Divine King’s role.

Facing a one-sided rout, the Divine King suddenly thought of a question.

Earth Thought Bully had no good intentions.

After setting the stage for so long, it suddenly shared his command perspective, ostensibly to witness the fall of the Player Clan.

But more likely, it was conducting some kind of test.

For instance, Earth Thought Bully wanted to know his effective command distance, testing whether he could still influence the distant Player Corps after sharing his perspective.

What the Divine King didn’t know was, his thought was precisely what the Earth Thought Evil Spirit was thinking.

This was indeed probing whether the Player Clan commanders could still influence the battlefield after distancing.

But more importantly, it wasn’t about observing the effect distance but about detecting the frequency of spiritual fluctuations generated during the Player Clan’s internal communication.

On the battlefield, spiritual perception was layered, completely impossible to detect which spiritual fluctuation belonged to the Player Clan commander.

But on the Evil Eye Tower Platform, there was no external interference.

As long as the Player Clan commander tried to establish a connection via spiritual connection, it might be able to find the spiritual connection frequency.

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With a clear record of spiritual frequency, later on, during confrontations with the Player Clan, it could even tap into this spiritual connection frequency and eavesdrop on the Player Clan’s next actions.

Though it enjoyed the victory joy brought by the Player Clan’s defeat, it wasn’t about sublimating the joy through this means.

At this moment, the Divine King clearly had not realized this and continued to communicate with the players in the warband.

But this process had no trace of spiritual fluctuation being transmitted.

In fact, the spiritual fluctuations perceived by the Earth Thought Evil Spirit on the battlefield came from the perception waves released by the Eagle-headed Demon Player, rather than internal communication via spiritual connection.

After waiting for a long time and finding no spiritual power fluctuation from the Player Clan commander, Earth Thought Evil Spirit still chose to wait patiently.

Searching for possible flaws in the Player Clan.

Just then, the Divine King spoke proactively.

He looked up at the Earth Thought Evil Spirit hovering before him:

"Bully, I know you’re certainly up to no good."

"Why do you say that?"

"From what I know of you, you would have been satisfied long ago, there’s no need to share my battlefield perspective unless you wanted something from me."

Upon hearing this, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit nodded without hiding its thoughts:

"That’s right, it seems the test failed."

After saying so, its tone suddenly shifted:

"Before it ends, I have one last question."

"Ask, but I might not answer." The Divine King nodded cooperatively.

"I’m very curious, what kind of ability your players actually have. According to the war information I’ve recorded, there are a lot of repeated faces in your Player Clan, indicating whether a resurrection ability exists?"

"Not to mention you said just now, from what you know of me, proves you’ve had prior contact with me, quite familiar with my actions. This is our first confrontation, but several times, I’ve wiped out the attacking Player Warbands, leaving no survivors, which seems to substantiate that you have a resurrection ability."

"Of course, having a resurrection ability is quite normal, there are numerous clans in the Monster World with similar abilities. I’m just curious which kind of ability you possess."

"Another possibility is that before every attacking Player Warband is wiped out, they transmit the war situation to the rear. You learned about me through intelligence."

"But I still lean towards, you possess some special kind of resurrection ability."

"What’s your guess?" asked the Divine King in return.

"I have three guesses."

"The first guess is a clone-like resurrection, where every warrior who dies in battle is reborn as a Clone Soldier, and returns to the battlefield, albeit the original having truly died."

"The second guess is, you are merely a force-generated unit like the Black Tide Demonic Spirits I created, which are the same model unit, but the Spirits don’t have the high independent intelligence of your Player Clan."

"The third guess is, your consciousness might have been uploaded into a shared consciousness network, and your body is just a temporary vessel for the consciousness. When the body dies, the consciousness transfers immediately to a new vessel or temporarily stores in the network awaiting reassignment, allowing you to ’eternally exist’ in different bodies and continuously join the battle. The soul returning clan recorded in the node archives has a similar ability."

"So, what is the answer?"

When Earth Thought Evil Spirit asked, it did not expect the Player Clan commander to provide an answer but was instead scrutinizing his facial expressions.

With every point raised, observing the subtle facial changes on the Player Clan commander.

When a secret is hit, perhaps there would be a corresponding subtle reaction.

But what Earth Thought Evil Spirit couldn’t possibly know was that even the players didn’t know the secret’s answer.

In the players’ eyes, this was a game.

The player’s ability to resurrect is a game mechanic, just like the foundational code that constructs the world: since players exist, so too must the resurrection mechanics.

So, when observing the situation, the Divine King’s expression showed no change at all.

Nor when the secret was hit, would there be the nervousness, caution, and even fear that should have been present, among other emotions.

At this moment, facing Earth Thought Bully’s inquiry, the Divine King responded calmly:

"The answer is, I am a Player Clan."

Without getting confirmation, Earth Thought Evil Spirit smiled and nodded:

"It’s okay if you don’t say. I will personally unveil the answer to this question in the future."

Having said that, Black Tide Energy gathered in the palm of Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s right hand.

Realizing the conversation had ended, Earth Thought Bully prepared to get hands-on, the Divine King decisively raised his middle finger:

"Is that it?"

Earth Thought Evil Spirit, knowing exactly what the middle finger meant.

Having interacted with the Player Clan for a long time, it had learned quite a bit of taunting phrases and gestures.

The other party was obviously insulting it.

Just then, a voice from Evil Eye resounded in its mind.

"Earth Thought, let me help you."

In the mind of Earth Thought Evil Spirit emerged a wealth of information from the players’ vocabulary, and then it raised its left hand, directing the middle finger at the Divine King with a derisive expression:

"Your mom’s dead, you stupid bastard."

Divine King: ...

Before he could voice a retort, Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s right arm suddenly descended, unleashing the energy that brewed in its palm.

As the Divine King’s blood pressure soared, his vision was instantly engulfed by darkness, transitioning to the Little Black Room.

"Damn it, I haven’t even cursed back yet!"