The cold wave is just two hours away. People in this world are stockpiling food and waiting for the ice and snow to melt and the cold wave to recede by tomorrow afternoon before going out.

There seems to be no time limit for this competition, but those who get high scores first will definitely have an advantage.

For now, she just needs to make sure she can pass the level, and doesn't need to pursue any rankings.

Since so many people want to kill her, and given that she's in an opposing faction to all the other players, it's impossible for her to receive any more points as a reward.

After pondering for a moment, Su Deng decided to first see what kind of cold wave it was.

She found a high, stable building and climbed to the rooftop to stay there.

Other players are looking for materials, and those looking for her are looking for her.

"Su Deng".

Not long after, Zi Xiang appeared here, with two lifelike fox ears and a fluffy fox tail. Her legs were fair and long, and she was dressed in a sexy and alluring way.

Su Deng turned her head. "You're here to kill me too?"

Zi Xiang chuckled, "I don't have that many greedy desires."

Su Deng scoffed, "Then what do you want?"

Zi Xiang walked to her side, gently turning the bamboo-like pipe in her hand, her red lips moving as if she wanted to say something but didn't know how.

Su Deng glanced at her, "This isn't your usual persona, is it?"

Zi Xiang didn't pay attention to her teasing and became somewhat silent compared to usual. After a while, she finally spoke, "Su Deng, when the game world live stream screen went black, which was the last game instance before you returned to the game lobby, was it called 'Witch God Sacrifice'?"

“Yes.” Su Deng leaned lazily against the stone railing.

Zi Xiang pursed her lips, "You met Tsunomiya Riki there, didn't you?"

Su Deng raised an eyebrow, "You've played this before?"

“That world…” Zi Xiang exhaled a deep breath and said, “It is my hometown.”

Su Deng was taken aback.

Zi Xiang said, "Because of my fox ears and tail, many people say I am a fox spirit, but most of the time I tell others that these are accessories I bought from the system store."

After all, they're available in stores.

"But actually, I'm a monster, or you could say I'm a fox spirit."

"The people of that world believe in everything and build shrines to worship everything. The Wushan Shrine is the most sacred shrine in that world and is the main deity."

"And I am a celestial fox demon, the previous divine child of the Wushan Shrine."

"Huh?" Su Deng hadn't paid much attention at first, but after hearing her words, she suddenly looked up, her face full of astonishment.

"Incredible, shocking, isn't it?" Zi Xiang smiled and sighed, "Each generation of the Divine Child of Wushan Shrine is appointed by the Great Priestess. Becoming the Divine Child means becoming the true bride of the gods and the Divine Child who conveys the gods' will to the world."

"Actually, at that time, my world collapsed..."

It was supposed to be a peaceful day, but then, suddenly one day, disasters struck all over the world, and she, as the goddess, prayed to the gods on behalf of the world.

On that day, the gods appeared.

On that same day, the god... died.

“A divine court descended, and that man claimed to be the God Lord, the true god of the world. He replaced our gods and took over the Wushan Shrine, wanting to make a deal with me, the son of the gods. I refused, but I couldn't resist…”

On that day, her world was destroyed, and countless people were forced into this game world. In the initial instance of a new player, less than a thousand people died.

“I survived, but I’m permanently trapped in this game world,” Zi Xiang said. “When I found the ‘Witch God Ritual’ game instance in the game pool, my first thought was of my hometown. But when I went in, I found that it really was…”

Zi Xiang chuckled self-deprecatingly, “My hometown remains the same as always. There is a new high priestess in Wushan Shrine, but no one knows that the deity has become the chief priest of the divine court.”

"It was around that time that I discovered the game's biggest secret."

"Eighty percent of the game instances are based on real-world evolutions. My destroyed homeland was restored by the God, and he receives offerings from people there. These offerings are for the newly created divine embryo of the divine court."

Gods are beings that require human faith and worship.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many shrines in her hometown.

"The god-making project was too massive and required too many test subjects, so the Divine Court created this game world, extracted all of humanity into it, and turned the real world into a recurring game instance, allowing these people to experience death, and using their corpses and greedy desires to nourish the new god."

"The game world is too vast, and there are too many humans who become players. The Divine Court's overall technology system is lagging behind and often has bugs. So the God Lord summoned the Executor to maintain it."

"But I never expected that another Riki Tsunomiya would appear in my hometown. She was marked by the God from the day she was born, and eventually she became an executor of the Divine Court."

In a way, she was a senior to Riki Tsunomiya.

Zi Xiang asked Su Deng, "Do you know what god-level materials are?"

Su Deng didn't speak, just looked at her.

Zi Xiang said, "It is said that those god-level materials are really the remnants of the gods, the relics of the true gods before the appearance of the divine court. They are conceived in this game world and become part of the game world. They can only become rewards. The God Lord wants to obtain them but has no way to do so. He uses them as bait to lure players to farm them."

Su Deng was silent for a moment, "You know about these things too, Liu Sangua?"

“He knows about god-level materials and god-making, but not about anything else,” Zi Xiang said, shaking her head. “Otherwise, if he knew, he would have told you everything already.”

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