The system dutifully sent the message:

[The next time point for delivery is two hours later]

【Countdown 2:00】

The last time someone stepped forward to lead the team at this time was Xu Xian, but this time she did not step forward. Instead, she stayed alone in her seat and stared at the opposite side.

After a few seconds, the girl she was staring at raised her head and smiled at her.

Xu Xian subconsciously looked away and clenched her palms.

It was quiet on this side of the round table, but the live comments on the other side were endless, and there was a trend of getting more and more dense:

[Five people are dead, so half of the group is wiped out. 】

[I always feel like a lot of things happened at this point, but it also feels like nothing happened. 】

[As expected, the differences between people can only be seen in a game instance with a large map like this. When I see some people in the main perspective, I want to cut the scene.]

[I think you can name the two male players who died. After the node was deployed, they did nothing but stayed in jail for a day and a night. The next day, they were dragged up and chopped off. The one with the surname Tang at least yelled at the jailer twice.]

[Isn't that female player even more shameless? She clearly got the script of a concubine in the cold palace who lived a peaceful life. After changing her husband, she had no judge or supervision, and was pushed down the stairs by a shameless ghost and fell to death. How did she survive until now with such vigilance? ]

[I have some impression of that player. It seems that he just joined at the beginning of this month. Don't be so malicious to newcomers. It's normal for him to not adapt to the rhythm of the game.]

[The person in front, you may have forgotten that there is a new person at this table who just joined this month. ]

【……】

[If I hadn’t seen the registration date of his game account, I really wouldn’t believe that he was a newcomer. Are you sure it’s not a pseudonym?]

[I have been following Shi Meiren since his first game. Why do people always ask this question? He is really a new player. He is not an alias and he is not starting over. I am tired of saying this.]

[There are so many people in this world. Isn't it normal that there are a few people who are gifted and have abilities far beyond the average person? Is it so difficult to admit that others are excellent? ]

[In fact, the comments are not bad. I secretly climbed over the wall to the player forum and took a look. You don’t know how those players evaluate Shi Yu. Some people even speculated that "he had been to the God's Realm before, but later left and is now back." Not only did they write a passionate essay of several thousand words, but there were nearly 30,000 likes below. I almost laughed to death when I saw it. Once you enter the God's Realm, you can't leave, okay. ]

[Hush, players don’t know the rule that you can only enter the God’s Domain but not leave. They thought that if you enter the Nine Heavens, you will have a chance to completely leave it as the God’s Domain administrator said. It’s enough for us to know this.]

[The Divine Realm has existed for more than ten years, and there must be people who have noticed it, but they just don't want to break the window paper. As for those who insist that Shi Yu is not an ordinary newcomer, if I don't say this, how can I reduce their anxiety as ordinary people facing geniuses, and how can I let them continue to have the illusion that they can do it. ]

[I'm off topic, guys. Why didn't they discuss the game plot during the intermission this time? I was confused from beginning to end and there was no player who understood it to come out as a commentator. It's ridiculous. 】

[You are talking nonsense. During the first launch, some people may not have understood the rules of the RPG mode, so when Xu Xian came out, some people followed her ideas. But now the second node launch is over. They basically didn't meet anyone else during the whole process, but when they came out, they found that four people were dead. Everyone would be afraid and want to maintain the information gap between their own experience and other players. How could they just share what they did in the past 24 hours? Wouldn't that be giving points to the opponent? ]

[Speaking of this, I thought that Concubine Shi would hold the emperor hostage and directly change the dynasty for the second time, but in the end he did nothing. I always feel it's a pity. ]

[When did changing dynasties become a matter of a single word? Even if he really wanted the throne, there was no way that so many ministers would obey him. Moreover, compared to this, Wu Er's attitude towards Shi Yu in the game this time was obviously even stranger. When did this female devil care about others so much? ]

[My goddess actually calls him brother, how ridiculous. ]

[Since the goddess has fallen in love with his eyes, it is normal for a hunter to be more patient with his prey. ]

[What's the point of giving something as a gift? The bleeding-stopping effect of the medicine is immediate. ]

[Good hunters often enter the scene as prey. ]

The heated discussion on this side lasted as long as the silence on the other side of the round table lasted, until the system countdown finally came to an end:

[This launch node: Xuanli three years]

[Delivery will start soon, please wait]

Yuanzen Temple.

In December, it snowed heavily.

When Shi Yu opened his eyes, he was in a courtyard on Chonglian Mountain in the northern border of the Great Xia Kingdom.

"Sir," someone called out in surprise, "Are you awake?"

Shi Yu turned his head and covered his eyes with his hands to adjust to the light: "Why am I here?"

"Sir, have you forgotten?" the little boy asked, "You caught a cold and fell ill after coming to Chonglian Mountain yesterday. You slept for a whole day and night and just woke up now."

Fever again?

What a coincidence.

Shi Yu was silent for a few seconds, then he propped himself up and sat up. However, his accumulated strength was not enough to keep him going for even a moment longer. When his vision was filled with darkness, he fell down.

"gentlemen!"

The little boy panicked, and quickly helped him lie down, then turned around and ran out: "Sir, wait a minute, I'll call a doctor for you!"

Shi Yu did not try to get up again. He waited until the vision became clear before he looked down at his wrist. He found that the bloody hole on his wrist left by the torture in the first year of the Xuanli period had disappeared, but the scar was still visible. This showed that the body they landed on after throwing the system into the node would indeed change with the passage of time in the world.

There was one thing in the system's precautions before: the damage received at a time node will not disappear. He actually thought at the time that since time would pass at the node, he had to find a way to maintain the damage received at the previous node without revealing it to the world's natives.

When he returned to the secret room at the end of the first node, his illness was indeed not cured. Later, in the second node, he had more wounds on his body due to torture, and they had not been bandaged yet. He subconsciously thought that his high fever symptoms at that time were caused by trauma infection.

But now it seems that if his high fever at that time actually had the damage bonus from the first node, then this time when he was deployed for the third time, the system didn't want him to bring over the injuries he suffered at the second node that he couldn't explain to the NPC, so it simply eliminated the external injuries and left the medical condition?

So this is what the precautions mean?

He was thinking about the meaning of the message released by the system when the little boy came running back, pulling the doctor's sleeve and saying, "Sir!"

The doctor had a goatee. After taking his pulse, his brows furrowed into knots. "Have you ever been injured in the past, sir?"

The child was at a loss: "What injury?"

The doctor stopped and said, "Ordinary fighting injuries don't count. They are serious enough to make one on the verge of death."

Shi Yu listened: "Bone-piercing punishment?"

The doctor was stunned: "Yes."

The essence of the criminal law in the palace was to force people to confess, and each one was more cruel than the other. In the first year of the Xuanli reign, he was nailed through the collarbone, and spent three years hiding from the new emperor's hatred, so his physical foundation was weaker than others.

What’s more, there are the rules of the Divine Realm system that interfere.

The doctor originally wanted to prescribe medicine, but unfortunately the patient refused. He couldn't force the patient to buy the medicine, and since his diagnosis and treatment mission had been completed, he could just retire.

Shi Yu is no longer a senior official of the previous dynasty who was serving a sentence. He is no longer under strict surveillance as he was in prison and could only figure things out on his own. The little boy beside him will answer all his questions.

Three years ago, after he held the emperor hostage in the palace, the emperor failed to catch him before the next day. Later, because of the imperial decree, he appeared openly in front of the people of the capital. After that, he settled down in the most prosperous and busy streets of the capital. Every day when he went out, countless ordinary people looked at him. The emperor was concerned about his reputation and did not dare to send anyone to do anything to him although he was angry.

He just lived on in such an ordinary way.

It happened to be the end of the year, and the new emperor organized palace ladies and officials to go to the Yuanchan Temple on Chonglian Mountain to offer sacrifices according to custom. Naturally, he, who was rumored to be a wise man favored by the previous emperor, was also included, just to keep up appearances.

After Shi Yu had learned the previous situation, he returned to the main topic: "Young Master Xiang is here too?"

The boy reacted and asked who "Young Master Xiang" was referring to: "Are you talking about the current Crown Prince? He is with His Majesty."

With the new emperor, it seems that the incident with the two jailers three years ago had nothing to do with him at all.

"What about General Sheng?"

"He's here too." The boy said, "The general just returned to the capital a few days ago. His Majesty has given him a lot of rewards. I wonder how much he values General Sheng."

As he spoke, he began to praise: "General Sheng is really better than his teacher. When he was sent to the border by the previous emperor, he drove back the barbarians several times and enhanced our country's prestige, and was named General Dingyuan. Now, there has been no barbarian invasion at the border for more than half a year. Which of the surrounding countries does not know the name of General Sheng? The Great Zhou used to bully our country so much, but now it has to hide in its own place..."

Shi Yu heard the word "Da Zhou" mentioned by him.

At this point, the two countries appear at the same time in the synopsis of this game.

Daxia is our country. After the prime minister usurped the throne, he changed the name of Dacheng Kingdom to Xia. Dazhou is one of the countries surrounding Daxia and is considered an enemy country.

Now it is the third year of the Xuanli period, which is still two years away from the fifth year of the Xuanli period.

——After the 24 hours of this node deployment are over, there will probably be a fourth one.

Shi Yu asked all the questions he needed to ask, but he didn't do anything else. He pulled the quilt up to cover his head, and said, "Don't bother me."

Little Child: “…Oh.”

The daytime hours passed quickly.

When Shi Yu fell asleep at night, the little boy was gone.

He stood up and sat for a while, regained his strength, put on his coat, and walked out of the yard carrying the lantern.

The snow on Chonglian Mountain was so deep and thick that there was a rustling sound when you stepped on it.

Someone walked into Yuanchan Temple, carrying the fine snow through the side door, and came all the way to the back courtyard.

A young monk who was passing by glanced at him, and stopped talking about stopping him, pretending not to see anything.

The man squatted down and sat on the bluestone steps, with an open wine jar beside him.

Snowflakes fell one by one, and soon covered his eyebrows and eyes, accumulated on the hem of his clothes, and froze the wine to the point that it lost its temperature.

After an unknown amount of time, someone holding a lantern stopped beside him.

He turned around and asked, "Sir, you don't bring an umbrella when you go out?"

"It hadn't snowed when I left." Shi Yu stood under the eaves and looked at him, "Long time no see, General Sheng."

Sheng Yuantang supported his chin with one hand, his back straight, his white robe covered with snow, and smiled: "Nice to meet you."