Chapter 261

Due to a large number of players experiencing sudden and significant mental fluctuations, the game pod's protection mechanism was triggered, and they were forcibly ejected from the game.

The game's mastermind immediately sounded the alarm, activated the player protection system, kicked all online players out of the game, and temporarily shut down the servers.

Less than five minutes later, the hashtag #A Dream of Jianghu Server Crashes# trended on social media, and everyone, whether they played games or not, knew about it.

The topic of unstable servers for "A Dream of Jianghu" also became a trending topic.

Holographic online games connect people's five senses. If they are unstable and prone to crashing, how terrible would that be?

People can't help but wonder: Will a server crash damage my brain? Will it harm my nerves? Will it leave me in a vegetative state? Is such an unstable and unsafe game still safe to play?

Countless netizens flooded the official website of "A Dream of Jianghu" with questions and demands for an explanation.

Behind the scenes, "A Dream of Jianghu"'s competitors are frantically hiring online trolls in an attempt to dethrone it from its position as the most popular full-immersion online game. They are stirring up trouble and creating a negative narrative.

Shang Lianfeng, who was in a meeting, received an urgent notification from his assistant. He immediately stopped the meeting and mobilized the public relations department to handle the matter.

At the same time, the topic of a stunningly beautiful woman appearing in "A Dream of Jianghu" also became a trending topic.

However, Shang Lianfeng didn't have time to pay attention to this at the moment. He needed to quickly find out the cause and effect of the "A Dream of Jianghu" server crash, suppress the negative trending topics, protect the reputation of "A Dream of Jianghu", and stabilize the players of "A Dream of Jianghu".

The phone was back in his hands. He went straight to the trending topics, ignoring the private messages from high-level administrators of the Aoshi Alliance, such as Riding Tiger Stroll, as well as the 99+ messages in the Aoshi Alliance guild group.

In fact, the "A Dream of Jianghu" server was only shut down for less than 10 minutes. The employees of Chuangmeng Era were very reliable and quickly troubleshooted the problem and manually restarted the server.

In an instant, countless players flooded online, almost crashing the servers of "A Dream of Jianghu" again!

Ignoring everything else, the players rushed frantically toward the cliff where Rong Rong was trapped.

Those who were not at home and unable to log in to the game could only anxiously crowd into the live stream room to ask about the situation and want to see Xue Rongrong again.

Was what happened real or fake? Was that beautiful woman really Xue Rongrong?

【&^%\#@!*&^%#@!&^%$#@!&^%$#@!*&^%$#@!*】

[Oh my god! Oh my god! Aaaaaaaahhhhhh~]

[If the live stream wasn't faked, then it must be!]

[How could it be fake? I was there! I'm from Seven Star Pavilion, and I guarantee it's all true! Who would have thought? Xue Rongrong is actually a top-tier beauty?!]

【&^%\#@!*&^%#@!&^%$#@!&^%$】

Wake me up! Wake me up! Wake me up!

Is a face like that even possible for a human to grow? I can't even imagine it!

You'd never guess!

Wake me up! Wake me up! Wake me up!

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......

The viewers in the live stream were going crazy, saying all sorts of things. Many people just typed out a string of gibberish. It's hard to imagine what kind of mental state these people were in when they typed that. But without a doubt, everyone was incredibly excited!

However, after a long period of excitement, someone finally noticed something was wrong.

[Hey streamer! I want to see the beautiful woman! Let me see the beautiful woman! Why are you filming just random passersby? Where's the beautiful woman?]

[Yeah! Where's Snowflake? Why haven't we seen her yet? Is the streamer crazy? Why aren't they filming Snowflake?]

The legendary figures of the Seven Star Pavilion and other prominent guilds, once revered by players, are now just ordinary passersby in everyone's eyes.

People only care about Snowflake; no matter how famous, handsome, or beautiful others are, they don't catch their eye at this moment.

With no sign of Xue Rongrong, people were extremely anxious, and some irritable netizens were already cursing the streamer.

Then a comment suddenly popped up, and everyone was stunned, as if they had been hit hard by something.

[If you all want to gang up on Snowball, why is Snowball even online? She's not a masochist; it would be strange for her to log back in after finally logging out.]

Yeah, why do they think Snowflake will be online?

If they knew that someone was waiting in the game to gang up on them, they certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to log in and let themselves be killed!

Therefore, Xue Rongrong will not go online. Xue Rongrong was scared by the Seven Star Pavilion and all of them and dared not go online!

[Ugh... Damn Seven Star Pavilion! Look what you've done! You've scared my goddess!]

[I can't let Xue Rongrong misunderstand, I'll post this right now to reassure her and let her know how I feel!]

Once someone takes the lead, the others are immediately enlightened.

Soon, a lot of new posts appeared on the forum, either offering to be Xue Rongrong's bodyguard or inviting Xue Rongrong to join their guild.

In short, countless players swore to the heavens that they would never harm Snowflake; they would provide her with shelter, comfort her, and assure her that they would protect her.

Just as many players were rushing to confess their love to Rong Rong on the forum.

Pei Xingren, who was sitting at home watching the live stream, had become so stiff that he had turned into a piece of wood.

The projection in front of him remained fixed on one image: the moment when Snowflake was exposed and stood in surprise on the edge of the cliff.

The enormous screen magnified Snowflake's face infinitely, but even so, it did not diminish Snowflake's beauty in the slightest. On the contrary, it amplified her beauty a hundredfold, giving the viewer a powerful visual impact.

Pei Xingren instantly forgot to breathe, and his heart stopped.

On the big screen, this ultimate beauty appears even more domineering and unreasonable.

In a daze, Pei Xingren slowly got up as if bewitched, and walked obsessively toward the beauty in front of him.

He only woke up when he reached the beauty, reached out to embrace her but missed and almost fell.

Then came a mix of emotions: regret, joy, excitement, heartache, and more.

Moreover, every sensation was so intense that he almost fainted from the pain!

It took Pei Xingren a long time to calm down before he regained his composure. He immediately took out his phone, found Xue Rongrong's number in the blacklist, added it back, and then sent her a message.

His hands trembled, as if he had Parkinson's disease.

But he couldn't care less about that. What he regretted most now was that he had forced a divorce from Xue Rongrong in the game as soon as her identity was exposed.

He should have calmed down, listened to Xue Rongrong's explanation, and been more polite.

In the end, will his gentleness be enough to win over Xue Rongrong and make her choose him?

Even if it wasn't him, he could accept that Xue Rongrong had other people in her heart, as long as Xue Rongrong would even glance at him.

Yes! Take a look at him!

He wrote and deleted the message repeatedly until Pei Xingren finally managed to send what he wanted to say.

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