No strange things are allowed to evolve!

"What's going on?!"

Chapter 251 Unexpected Gain and the Great Hermit in the City

What? What happened?

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound.

Then they discovered that several referees who were not in charge of the field at the time had somehow gathered around the same competition incubation area.

This battleground is none other than the [Warcraft Hunter] tournament, the one Jiang Bei and Jiang Shu just finished.

Every referee's face was filled with bewilderment.

They were like scientists who had witnessed some kind of supernatural phenomenon, or something new that was not in their knowledge, trying to figure out the cause and effect, but in the end they found themselves puzzled as to not even know what the thing in front of them was.

Normally, people wouldn't be too curious.

Although such incidents are rare, they do occur from time to time. Occasionally, there will be minor problems with the hatchery. After all, even amusement park rides can develop problems after years of operation, let alone something as inherently unstable as a hatchery that is forced to operate stably.

Generally speaking, it serves as a device connecting the incubator and the real world. In other words, if there's a problem with that table, it can usually be repaired and shut down for a few days before returning to normal.

However, the current situation is somewhat special, not only because this hatchery is the battlefield where Jiang Shu just fought, but also because the expressions of the referees surrounding the hatchery are truly fascinating.

This piqued their curiosity, and they all gathered around.

The referees had intended to downplay the incident, but unfortunately, they were caught off guard by the sudden turn of events and by the time they realized what had happened, it was too late. Someone had already gathered around and seen the reason for their outburst.

Immediately afterwards, the contestants were also stunned.

Because the description of the hatchery has been completely changed.

Not only has the difficulty level changed from "Cataclysmic" to "Cataclysmic+", but even the background story in the description has been altered.

Although everyone can understand each individual character, they become somewhat incomprehensible when put together.

What does it mean that "after the kingdom's first prime minister, the hero, disappeared, the kingdom underwent an unprecedented transformation under the leadership of the second prime minister, Henry. For the first time, the kingdom achieved a peaceful coexistence between humans and magical beasts, and obtained magical beast resources through artificial breeding, gradually abolishing the magical beast hunter system."

Because of the adoption of humanitarian euthanasia, the monsters do not feel pain before they die. Although there are still monster poachers, the rate at which the monsters' resentment accumulates is greatly reduced. This successfully prevents the resentment from coalescing into an aggregate that could give birth to a monster king in a sufficient amount of time. This eliminates the huge threat that the kingdom might have to face every few hundred years, allowing the kingdom to pass through several centuries peacefully.

However, this golden age didn't last long. As Warcraft gradually became commercialized and used by civilians, people forgot what the original Warcraft were like. Domesticated Warcraft even entered thousands of households as pets, and Warcraft protection organizations emerged as a result.

They oppose all harm to monsters and all monster-related products, even though these are necessities of life. They believe that monsters are kind little angels, and even if they sometimes hurt people, it can be forgiven because it is their innate nature and right.

With the growing strength of the Warcraft Protection Organization, the kingdom faces an unprecedented threat from within itself.

The entire kingdom is thrown into chaos by the monster protection organization, which even begins a secret plan to revert the monsters to their ancestral state and restore their wild nature in order to save the monsters they see as oppressed by humans in their own way.

Finally, they succeeded; no one could harm the monsters anymore.

But... there's no one left.

Now, you have arrived in this chaotic world dominated by monsters and where humanity is in decline. In this world where the skills of monster hunters have been lost and it is impossible to obtain everything you need directly by hunting monsters, you are trying to restore humanity's glory.

Rely on your own strength to rebuild a new order!

Everyone who experienced the incubation period of "Warcraft Hunter" fell silent upon seeing the "Warcraft Hunter 2.0" update.

Dark Souls was bad enough, but now it's even reached the end of the Dharma era?

Where's the Warcraft poacher? Help!

"If you ask me..." someone said quietly, "The only reason they had such a comfortable few years was because they were lacking 'Ai Shou TV' (a popular Chinese adult video platform)."

One person even remarked speechlessly, "This is the most villainous episode ever made by environmental organizations."

Although it seems that the hatchery did not shut down due to some accident as they had imagined, the actual situation appears to be more complicated.

And now it doesn't seem like an incubator that everyone has the ability to conquer anymore.

The reason for this outcome is invariably linked to Jiang Shu.

Only two people have entered this incubator recently, so Jiang Bei has no reason to doubt it. First of all, he has already explored this incubator many times, and he is a staunch traditionalist. The process is the same every time, the only difference being efficiency. So if it were his fault, something would have happened long ago.

But this was Jiang Shu's first time entering the area, and he was using an unprecedented method. In addition, this kind of thing happened on his first attempt at the mission. No one would believe that it had nothing to do with him.

But how did he do it?

"Could it be because of the hidden hero route? Is it possible that the reason why the Anti-Hatching Hatchery is different from other Hatcheries and can be repeatedly conquered is because it can change, or rather, evolve?"

Some people speculated.

This statement has gained the approval of many people.

After all, no one can say for sure that all the rules of the anti-incubator have been fully grasped. Since such a thing has happened, there must be some unknown reason, and this speculation is the most reasonable explanation at present.

Besides this guess, there are of course many other speculations.

For example, the hatchery has a durability limit, or a hidden mechanism that allows a certain number of attempts. Once that number is exceeded, things will change. And Jiang Shu and Jiang Bei just finished conquering it on their last attempt.

For example, this could be due to a malfunction in the communication equipment, or something happening at the boundary between the incubator and the real world, causing an anomaly in the incubator, which has nothing to do with people or the incubator itself.

and many more.

In short, any reason that is difficult to verify and study is possible in their view.

However, almost all the speculations have one thing in common: Jiang Shu triggered a pre-existing mechanism, which led to a series of chain reactions, rather than a mechanism created by Jiang Shu.

In other words, in everyone's view, Jiang Shu was just the fuse, not the instigator.

From God's perspective, they just missed the truth, but in fact, even if the truth were placed in front of them, they might not believe it.

It's like someone swimming on the beach and then a tsunami comes; no one would believe that he caused the tsunami.

This is because the power of nature is greater than that of an individual, at least in the absence of so-called superhuman beings with dimensional-breaking abilities.

Similarly, given the generally accepted premise that the hatchery is a natural entity worthy of awe for the evolved beings, it would be utterly ridiculous to say that Jiang Shu, an ordinary, unremarkable, sunny, and cheerful young man, could cause a mutation in the hatchery.

So even if Jiang Shu himself admits it, people will probably only ask those around him, "Do you believe him or do you believe I am Qin Shi Huang?"

Just as everyone began to unleash their imaginations and passionately fill in the blanks, the referees thought to themselves, "Oh no!"

Regardless of the reason, such an uncontrollable event has occurred, and the current situation is far beyond their ability to resolve.

In their view, this matter is far more complex than it appears at present; it could happen anywhere, but not in a sanctuary.

But now that so many people have seen it with their own eyes, it's impossible to hide it anymore.

This worried the referees, even though the main responsibility did not lie with them, and they didn't even know how this happened. They were completely innocent victims, and no matter how they investigated, it was impossible to trace the blame back to them.

However, it is well known that losing a job does not require a reason.

In the face of such an unexpected event, if the final outcome is good, they will not benefit, but if the outcome is bad, it is hard to say.

After exchanging glances, the referees all sighed helplessly.

Forget it, let it all end. I'm just a lowly employee anyway. I'll just report it and let them do whatever they want...

Meanwhile, in Jiang Shu's big house, he was also frowning.

He was worried about the same thing.

Actually, when he came out of the incubator, before he even had a heated debate with the scholars, he had already realized that things were going wrong.

Because he obtained something from the Confrontational Incubator, which claimed to produce no rewards itself.

Moreover, there was no settlement process; this thing just appeared on me out of nowhere.

[Pure resentment]

[Level: Catastrophe]

[Description: A crystallization of centuries of demonic resentment, containing immense malice and hatred...]

[How to use: After activation, it will enhance strength, speed, physical strength, and intelligence to a certain extent.]

[Warning: If you cannot control your evil thoughts and forcibly activate this, you will suffer a severe backlash, your intelligence will gradually decrease until it reaches zero, and the process will be irreversible.]

This was the first time Jiang Shu had seen a warning in an item's description, indicating that it was an extremely dangerous item.

Although this warning didn't matter to Jiang Shu, since his intelligence wasn't high anyway, so being reset to zero was fine, and with the Great Wilderness Heart as a safety net, he saw this warning as nothing more than something to add some fun.

It's like encountering a criminal and performing a weak, ineffective self-defense technique in front of them.

But what's amazing is that...

Jiang Shu couldn't turn it on because it showed as already enabled.

He has been enhanced.

After much thought, Jiang Shu could only conclude that although the resentment he named Venom had gone, the modifications and benefits it had brought to his body remained and had been successfully brought out.

Then, a conjecture that silenced him emerged.

Could it be that I accidentally changed the timeline again, causing the incubator to fall into evil?

Thinking about this, Jiang Shu suddenly realized that the impact of the sacrifice seemed to have little to do with how many people Jiang Shu had corrupted. It seemed that as long as it was used in the hatchery, it would be regarded as being used on the hatchery itself.

Otherwise, it's impossible to explain why the last time evil corrupted almost the entire world, but this time, despite being much more restrained and only corrupting Henry, the result was the same.

Considering that they even brought back goods from the incubator this time, the impact this time might be even greater than the last time.

This is troublesome...

I just promised the president of the sanctuary that I would restrain myself, but this time there were even more people who witnessed it than last time. What should I do?

He wasn't worried about causing trouble for the chairman; he was just worried about getting himself involved.

So, Jiang Shu waited anxiously until the confrontation incubation field ended, and then immediately asked Sebastian to gather information for him, to see if anything special had happened in the final arena after he left, in order to confirm his guess and then consider what to do next.

Then, Jiang Shu stopped feeling uneasy.

Because Sebastian brought back news that was unexpected.

As he predicted, the Warcraft Hunter game did indeed upgrade, and through word of mouth from those who experienced the final battles, it caused a stir and garnered widespread attention.

Everyone is curious about the reason, and even more curious about how those once-familiar battlefields will change after the upgrade.

It's like a group of long-time gamers who have been playing a game that never gets updated, and suddenly they hear that a game of the same age next door has been updated with a lot of new features. Their first reaction is surprise, and then they start to fantasize about when their own game will get an update.

It's like finding out that Jay Chou hasn't retired from the entertainment industry and is actually releasing new songs.

In short, there were many different opinions and rumors about the reasons that triggered this big news.

There are all sorts of things to say, but none of them mention Jiang Shu, the key figure.

Although he appears in the story, he doesn't even have a name in his scenes.

The rumor began simply with, "Have you heard? After two people emerged from the same incubation facility in the final round, the facility's difficulty increased. I heard it's because..."

No matter how varied the content that follows, the beginning is always the same.

This is actually a good thing, proving that no one has noticed him yet. As long as there aren't too many coincidences like this in the future, he will still be safe.

But if Jiang Shu were to actually become invisible, he wouldn't be happy.

"Not even a name? That's incredibly disrespectful!"

Hearing Jiang Shu's complaint, Sebastian finally realized what was going on, and then said with a pained expression, "So you were one of those two, young master! Why did you sneak off to the final arena without telling us?"

Over the past week, Jiang Shu has only been dominating the high-level players. Sebastian and Brother Bing accompanied him for the first few days, but they got tired of watching him play and Jiang Shu was already quite comfortable in the game, so they stopped accompanying him.

So today he thought the other party was just asking him to gather information so he could go back and fight again tonight.

But to my surprise, they had already killed them all.

This was undoubtedly a betrayal for Sebastian.

When confronted, Jiang Shu still argued righteously: "What do you mean by secretly not telling you? I only told you after the incident had already happened."

Just then, a series of urgent knocks sounded on the door.

When Xue Wang came in from outside, her hair was still wet, as if she had just taken a shower and had rushed over without having dried her hair.

Upon entering, she glanced at Sebastian first, then asked with a mixture of doubt, worry, and urgency, "Did you do something? Why does the president want you to go see him now?"

My tenosynovitis flared up again, waaaaaah!

My right hand hurts so much that I can't concentrate, and typing with only one hand makes the efficiency and quality ridiculously low. I had no choice but to take a day off. I guess the G502 is to blame. After this is fixed, I really need to get a lighter mouse...

Chapter 252 The Rebels Reappear

After spending these days together, Sebastian, who had already secretly figured things out, is now almost certain of the Snow King's identity.

Otherwise, an ordinary Paradise executor like her, who is at most a team leader, could not possibly have such freedom, spending all her time running around with Jiang Shu, and still getting to know so many important people.

However, he never revealed that he was aware of the situation and continued to cooperate with the Snow Queen, making her believe that his incognito visit was flawless.

This is the good manners of an excellent butler.