I built a floating city in the game.

"call."

Mo Bai slowly withdrew his spiritual power and let out a long breath.

"Experience points +35".

"Now the experience points I gain each time are also increasing."

The stronger one's mental strength, the faster one grows—a positive cycle.

But what elemental fluctuation was that just now?

Are there magical beasts over there? Or have some rare and precious treasures appeared?

Wait, didn't the Aoba Guild go in this direction before?

Mo Bai pondered for a moment, a hint of curiosity in his heart.

The sudden elemental fluctuation was very weak. If his mental energy hadn't been deeply integrated into the wind element, he would never have been able to detect that slight elemental ripple.

"Let's go take a look."

Without hesitation, Mo Bai packed his things and appeared in the forest.

"Huh? Why are there so many players here?"

Before long, Mo Bai had already spotted several groups of players.

"Has anything major happened recently?"

Mo Bai, who was immersed in the spell model, hadn't been active on the forum for more than twenty days, not because he didn't have time.

The most important thing to deeply perceive the element of wind is to have a calm mind.

He's easily distracted by the slightest emotional fluctuation, so he rarely goes on forums, which makes him feel somewhat isolated from the world.

"Hey bro, what's going on? I see so many people walking that way!"

After thinking for a moment, Mo Bai quickly caught up with the player and asked.

"Hmm? Bro, haven't you been online lately?"

The two players immediately became alert when they saw someone approaching, but when they realized that it was only Mo Bai alone, they relaxed and spoke up.

"A player got arrested. It's causing quite a stir on the forums. Go check it out."

"Huh? The player got arrested?"

Mo Bai was stunned and didn't quite react.

One of the two, who was slightly overweight, saw that Mo Bai didn't look fierce and seemed like an honest person, and immediately spoke up.

"You really didn't know?"

"Let's go together then, so we can look out for each other. I'll tell you about it on the way."

My name is Zhou Lin, his name is Yang Hao, and yours is...?

"My name is Mo Bai."

"Oh, Brother Mo Bai, here's the gist of it."

Doesn't Oakwood have a law enforcement team? People who break the law there will be arrested by the law enforcement team.

After being caught, you'll either be killed on the spot or locked in a dark room, and then someone else will have to pay money to ransom you.

Cough cough, don't even think about redeeming yourself. When you were arrested, the things on you no longer belonged to you.

Of course, that's not the point. The point is that a player discovered that robbing someone in town will get you wanted and arrested, but fighting back after being robbed will not.

So he set his sights on the beggars in Oak Town, you know, the gangster beggars, who have been known to extort money from the town quite often.

So the player decided to double-cross the other player, and first disguised himself as a beggar in a certain place.

The slightly chubby Zhou Lin was quite eloquent, speaking vividly and engagingly, while Mo Bai blinked nervously upon hearing this.

He suddenly realized what was about to happen.

I almost laughed.

Zhou Lin described it vividly.

"Not long after he started pretending to be a beggar, the group of real beggars arrived. Three of them came and dragged the player into a hidden alley."

However, the player remained calm, as the five players he had invited beforehand immediately followed to prepare for the "rescue".

Do you know what happened next?

Zhou Lin asked, his eyebrows dancing.

Although Mo Bai already knew what was about to happen, he still took the initiative to play along and asked curiously.

"What's wrong?"

"Hey, as soon as these five people went in, they found that the player was frantically gesturing to them."

Before they could react, more than a dozen burly men surrounded them from behind, blocking their escape route.

Then the five players were tied up and taken away by the group of burly men.

If it were just that, it wouldn't be a big deal. Those players were just unlucky, they deserved it.

But these beggars, for some unknown reason, suddenly started kidnapping players in large numbers.

Furthermore, all the kidnapped players were secretly transported to the same coordinates.

That's the place we went to. I heard they were used directly for human experiments.

"Huh? What's that?"

Mo Bai was startled upon hearing this and looked at Zhou Lin in disbelief.

"It's definitely true; quite a few of these players stream it on the forums."

There are all sorts of things, from drug trials to organ harvesting. The most extreme cases include replacing players' bones and internal organs. I've even heard of implanting a kind of rhomboid magic crystal.

These players can only find relief by dying, but they are unable to move. They are essentially trapped in a cycle of wanting to live and wanting to die. Many players were kicked out of the game when they were subjected to human experiments because their emotional threshold was reached.

This immediately provoked public outrage.

Initially, the Aoba Guild launched a guild campaign to besiege the stronghold, but their base was heavily fortified, and the people inside were also very strong.

Unable to take it down, the Aoba Guild had no choice but to seek help from the forums.

Mo Bai couldn't help but scratch his head.

"This game is a bit outrageous; NPCs capture players and use them for human experiments."

"Who can argue with that?"

Zhou Lin shrugged.

"Someone asked the game's customer service, and their explanation was that once the game starts running, everything within it operates independently and in a closed system."

The NPCs are all individual AI agents that operate and grow on their own based on the existing situation and information.

The game developers will only guarantee the player's personal safety, ensuring that excessive emotional reactions will result in a dream mode and will not cause permanent damage.

"Is that so?"

Mo Bai nodded.

"Yeah, hey bro, what level are you? What attribute are you focusing on?"

Do you have a regular team?

Zhou Lin glanced at the spear in Mo Bai's hand and said casually.

Level 3.

"Level three, that's not a low level. It'll come up with practice. What about the main attribute you should focus on?"

"Spirit."

As soon as Mo Bai finished speaking, the two of them froze, then looked at him strangely before finally speaking after a long while.

"Brother, you're going for the mage, aren't you?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Hmm... this game might not have mages, or it might be difficult to switch to the mage class."

Brother Mo Bai, please don't mind my harsh words.

"Many people are like you, leveling up and increasing their spirit, thinking about playing a mage in the future."

But so far there has been no news of any mage, no trace of any mage, and all the hard work to level up to level four or five, with all the points in mental power maxed out, has left me with no combat power whatsoever.

Others add strength and agility; twelve or thirteen points of agility is equivalent to a mini-superman.

With all my strength, I'm completely powerless. I can't even find a team to join when I go out. I can't even drop a level to farm points again because this game doesn't have that feature, and I can't create a new account.

"Bro, I see you're only level three, you still have two attribute points left."

Zhou Lin patted Mo Bai on the shoulder and didn't continue speaking, but Mo Bai understood what he meant.

If you allocate all your points to Spirit, you'll be completely powerless. If you can switch to Strength sooner, you can save some attribute points.

Normally, if you can't become a mage, this would indeed be a wise move, but...

Mo Bai muttered to himself.

"But I am a mage."