Sage Time.
Xin Zhongze took out his phone and sent a message to Hou Xuan, telling him that he had come out of the game.
After sending the message, Xin Zhongze turned his head and found that Xu Muyan had already fallen asleep.
"Wife, wife!" Xin Zhongze shook Xu Muyan.
He wanted Xu Muyan to sleep in the master bedroom because the guest room was no longer usable.
However, perhaps Xu Muyan was too tired, as Xin Zhongze called her several times but couldn't wake her up.
Seeing this, Xin Zhongze could only get out of bed, get dressed, and then carry Xu Muyan back to the master bedroom.
Originally, Xin Zhongze still wanted to give Xu Muyan a bath, but seeing her sound asleep, he decided to let her wash herself when she woke up tomorrow.
After doing all this, Xin Zhongze returned to the guest room to clean up the battlefield inside and change the sheets.
Then, Xin Zhongze checked the time; it was already 5 AM.
After thinking for a moment, Xin Zhongze locked the guest room door and prepared to re-enter the game to see what was happening.
"Enter game!"
Xin Zhongze only felt the scene before his eyes change.
The next moment, he had already appeared in the Novice Village within the game.
Upon entering the game, Xin Zhongze found that, apart from NPCs, there was not a single person in Novice Village.
It seemed everyone had already exited the game.
Moreover, given that one loses memory upon leaving the game, it was likely that no one would enter the game again in the future.
With a death rate of no more than thirty percent remaining, probably no one dared to continue entering the game.
For example, his Mother-in-law Shen Xue, after coming out of the game for the first time, never entered the game again.
And according to the game's rules, if a person does not enter the game for more than a year, they automatically lose the qualification to enter the game.
"Oh no! I forgot all the copper coins were on Xu Muyan."
Upon entering the game, when Xin Zhongze was about to repair his equipment, he realized that there wasn't a single copper coin in his backpack.
"Never mind, I'll kill some Demonic Corpses first to get some copper coins."
Xin Zhongze quickly left Novice Village.
He found that after they had cleared out all the Demonic Corpses near Novice Village, the Demonic Corpses near Novice Village did not respawn.
A few minutes later, Xin Zhongze successfully entered the aggro range of a Demonic Corpse.
Roar!
The Demonic Corpse roared and lunged at Xin Zhongze.
However...
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It only took 5 sword strikes for the Demonic Corpse to be directly killed by Xin Zhongze.
The entire process, from the Demonic Corpse rushing towards Xin Zhongze to Xin Zhongze killing the Demonic Corpse, took less than thirty seconds.
Next, Xin Zhongze continued to lure Demonic Corpses and then quickly solo killed them.
Being proficient in combat techniques, almost every one of his sword strikes could hit the vital points of the Demonic Corpse, dealing maximum damage.
As Xin Zhongze continuously fought monsters, the number of Demonic Corpses he killed increased.
An hour later, Xin Zhongze calculated that he had killed a total of 76 Demonic Corpses, averaging approximately 47 seconds to kill one Demonic Corpse.
Two hours later, Xin Zhongze had already single-handedly killed over one hundred fifty Demonic Corpses.
Then he found that by killing so many Demonic Corpses, he had only gained 38 experience points in total.
At this rate, for his level to go from Level 3 to Level 4, he would need to kill over twelve hundred monsters, which would take nearly 17 hours, and if you include the time to return to Novice Village for equipment repairs, and other miscellaneous times, it would take nearly twenty hours.
After two hours of monster grinding outside the village, Xin Zhongze was ready to leave.
He entered the game at 5 AM, so it should be a little past seven now, right?
A little past seven, his Mother-in-law should be starting to make breakfast.
Exiting the game, Xin Zhongze reappeared in the guest room.
Opening the guest room door, Xin Zhongze heard sounds from the kitchen.
Sure enough, his Mother-in-law had already started cooking.
"Zhongze, you're up so early. You young people can sleep a little longer," Shen Xue said, turning her head to see him after hearing him open the door.
"Oh, I couldn't fall back asleep after waking up," Xin Zhongze explained.
"Then you go wash up. I still need to make breakfast."
"Okay, Mom, you do your thing, don't mind me."
Xin Zhongze went to the bathroom to wash up, then returned to the master bedroom.
At this time, both children and Xu Muyan were still sound asleep.
Xin Zhongze looked at them and did not disturb them, but instead returned to the living room to browse on his phone.
At this moment, the internet was filled with videos and messages of prayer.
Many people were praying online for their family members to return from the game to reality.
Generally, results could be determined within two days, because almost everyone who didn't leave the game within two days had died.
A day quickly passed.
Xin Zhongze sent several messages to Hou Xuan, but Hou Xuan never replied.
Around 8 PM, Xin Zhongze finally received a reply from Hou Xuan: 【Xin Zhongze, this is Chen Peipei. I'm back, but Hou Xuan isn't.】
Seeing this message, Xin Zhongze opened his mouth, unsure of what to feel for a moment.
Hou Xuan not returning meant that he had very likely died.
If Hou Xuan had entered the game with Chen Peipei, in the same Novice Village, then now that Chen Peipei was back and Hou Xuan wasn't, the probability of Hou Xuan still being alive was too small.
【Perhaps Hou Xuan was delayed in the game and will still come back.】
Xin Zhongze didn't know how to comfort her, so he just sent that one sentence.
【Thank you, I know. I will wait, wait for Hou Xuan to come back.】
Ending the chat with Chen Peipei, Xin Zhongze's mood was incredibly heavy.
If memory didn't disappear after leaving the game, that would be great. That way, everyone would know that the barrier would disappear after one day, and most people would use the barrier to desperately level up and finally leave alive.
The survival rate in the Novice Village where Xin Zhongze was located was at least eighty percent, or even ninety percent or more, this time.
All of this was because Xin Zhongze had told everyone about the barrier.
Everyone knew that the barrier would disappear after one day, so they naturally had to seize the opportunity to frantically kill monsters and level up before the barrier disappeared.
"Should I publicize the situation in the game? That way, when the next batch of newcomers gets pulled into the game, not too many people will die!"
Xin Zhongze considered whether to publicize the situation in the game.
If he publicized the situation, then people entering the game would only need to follow what he said, and the death rate would be greatly reduced.
After thinking for a long time, Xin Zhongze still decided not to publicize it yet.
Because this year's game trial had already begun, those who were supposed to die had already died, and those who survived would not continue to enter the game.
So, even if he were to publicize it, it would be next year, before the next batch of people entered the game.
Of course, Xin Zhongze had some doubts, even if he publicized the situation in the game online, people might not believe him.
Because there was too much information about the game online, most of it was speculation and did not align with the facts at all.
So even if he publicized the true situation in the game, others might not believe him.