Under the blinding light, Fang He playfully hooked Xiao Cheng's finger around his own, said nothing, and disappeared into the white halo first.

Xiao Cheng looked down at her fingertips and felt that they were slightly hot.

She suddenly remembered a very serious question.

Her contact with Fang He was limited to the game, so while other people have an online romance, theirs is... a romance within the game?

Before she could figure it out, she was back in her resting place in a flash.

The suspended electronic screen, which was originally black, suddenly turned colorful the moment her feet touched the ground, and the bouncing eye patterns exploded like fireworks for her.

Then a window with exaggerated font popped up above.

[Welcome back to the Fragment World, Xiao Cheng, the high-energy player! The system extends its warmest greetings to you!]

Its eyes darted around cutely, as if it wanted to jump out and pounce on Xiao Cheng.

"No need for greetings." The flashy display was too much for Xiao Cheng's eyes, so she turned her face away, unable to bear looking at it. "It's time to return what I left with you back then, my backup plan?"

My eyes suddenly seemed to freeze, stuck in a difficult position, and remained stiff in place for a long time before the points mall interface slowly popped up.

As Xiao Cheng scrolled down the screen, her face grew increasingly gloomy. Just as she was about to explode, a huge option was thrust in front of her.

"Please choose carefully whether to purchase the item [Mysterious Single Invitation] x1."

Xiao Cheng glanced at the price.

The numbers look somewhat familiar.

Then I glanced at my points balance.

Xiao Cheng: "..." So this is where I've seen this before.

She gave a sinister laugh: "Refuse to buy."

His eyes widened instantly, and he pleaded with her in a particularly obsequious tone, "Think it through! This is a golden opportunity to save the world! This price is already incredibly low! After all, the system also needs energy to maintain the instance!"

"I'll save you." Thanks to the dungeon, Xiao Cheng's logic was particularly clear. "And then I have to give you points? You're giving me a pretty good discount. You really came in naked and left spotless?"

Eyeball lowered his voice, sounding somewhat guilty: "Anyway, the points will be useless after the world is repaired..."

"Is the problem with the points? The problem is with your attitude!" Xiao Chengyi rebuked righteously.

Eyeballs finally understood, and asked listlessly, "So what are your conditions?"

"What's with all this talk about conditions? It sounds awful." Xiao Cheng's smile returned. "A single invitation letter, and I'm bringing an extra family member, that shouldn't be too much to ask, right?"

Her eyes tilted back as expected, which was taken as rolling her eyes at Xiao Cheng.

"Sure, of course you can. You're afraid I'll extort him, and you're also afraid I'll use an old, invalid agreement to restrict him."

A blood-red invitation card with gold lettering fell from the sky and landed lightly in Xiao Cheng's hands.

Inside, there was a passage written in neat handwriting.

"We cordially invite [Xiao Cheng] and his companions to stay in the City of Gods. Here you will find the most... (unspeakable)... (unspeakable)... (unspeakable)... (unspeakable)... (unspeakable)... (unspeakable)..."

"The City of Gods awaits your arrival."

Xiao Cheng frowned deeply. What kind of stupid invitation was this, with its own built-in censorship system? There was practically no usable information at all. Could this really be considered a last resort?

"I did my best." Eyeball, afraid of being extorted again, said before she could speak, "But I can assure you that this copy is the vulnerability we detected at the very end of the timeline collapse."

As if worried that Xiao Cheng wouldn't believe her, it quickly added, "It's us, me and Fang He."

"The fragmented world will collapse because of the existence of the loophole, so this thing..." Xiao Cheng raised an eyebrow slightly, waving the thin invitation in his hand, "This thing is the loophole within the loophole?"

Her words made him a little dizzy, and after a moment of silence, he replied, "You could say that."

"Clearing the dungeon means that the loopholes in the fragmented world have been catastrophically fixed, and the timeline can continue normally, right?"

"Similarly, once the bug is fixed, all the dungeons will become unnecessary, and players will be sent back to their original parallel timeline. Is that a fair understanding?"

Xiao Cheng analyzed slowly.

His eyes looked at her with a slight panic, and he stammered in response to her question, "Yes...that's correct in theory. And...are there any other questions?"

"Memory." Xiao Cheng thought for a moment and asked calmly, "With the world line repaired and on the normal track, the dungeon world is as if it never existed, so will the players' memories also disappear?"

His eyes widened in panic, trembling violently on the screen: "I...I can't guarantee it...but if it's you, you..."

"Alright," Xiao Cheng suddenly interrupted it, smiling innocently. "It was just a casual question, why are you panicking?"

Eyeball's tone suddenly became extremely serious: "I need your promise! I need you to draw up a new contract!"

"Once you enter the instance, you cannot disobey under any circumstances! You must save the world! You must fix the loopholes in the timeline! You must lead all the players out of here!"

"Ah, there's no need for a contract, is there? It's putting a lot of pressure on me," Xiao Cheng said half-heartedly. "But I can swear an oath to you, Mr. System from some unknown timeline."

"Even if Fang He and I lose our memories, even if we originally came from different parallel world lines, even if we never see each other again after we leave."

A smile played at the corners of her lips, but there was no hint of amusement in her eyes.

"I will never give up on something as interesting as finding vulnerabilities and bugs."

"So let's start the dungeon, no need to wait 24 hours. The so-called City of Gods... I can't wait to see what it's like."