Days passed one by one, and Yang Ge and I met on schedule.

Every morning I would go see him, and after chatting idly with him, I would begin my day’s schedule.

After all, I didn’t need to participate in games—I only needed to develop the power of “Extreme Path.” This wasn’t difficult for me, especially since I had Jiang Ruoxue’s “karmic cause and effect” helping me.

I must say everything went more smoothly than I imagined. Communication with Yang Ge also became increasingly smooth, except he still seemed very strange—his eyes were very confused. And starting from a long time ago, he had stopped asking me about “Extreme Path” matters, as if he had completely handed over the decision-making power for this matter to me.

Later, I gradually discovered that searching for people willing to join “Extreme Path” on the streets was no longer very feasible. Most of the strong people now preferred to enter games to hone their abilities.

So in order to make “Extreme Path’s” strength stronger, I began to participate in games one after another. I must say… the “Earth-level” games now seemed to have changed a bit.

It had been like this since two years ago… The games here seemed to have become harder.

But first, I was doing this to make connections with the strong, and second, to train myself, so “Earth-level” games were a must. After all, I had a stable “Echo”—as long as I didn’t gamble with my life, I would remain safe.

I remained careful and cautious, usually disguising myself very well. To this day, no one had seen my “Echo.”

After I began participating in games, I started hearing about the various organizations here again.

It turned out that after the leader of that massive organization from a few years ago disappeared, the organization’s second and third leaders took over, but unfortunately neither of these two was an intellectual-type leader. When they participated in games, they basically relied on brute force, which led to consecutive failures. Now the organization had basically fallen apart.

There were also rumors that those two leaders had once fought each other in the streets, then parted ways.

Some said they separated to opposite sides of the city and each established their own organizations. Others said they both became natives and disappeared.

The streets were full of rumors, but no one knew which were true. I only knew that after those two leaders disappeared, new leaders took over the organizations.

Thinking about it this way, “Extreme Path” was truly stable. Every strong person I recruited didn’t know who the leader of “Extreme Path” actually was, so even if they wanted to usurp power, they couldn’t.

About two years passed, which was five years ago from now, on a certain day.

I originally remembered I was walking on the road. I just felt that the sky seemed to change somehow, but when I opened my eyes, I found myself sitting with a strange man in an unfamiliar building.

I seemed to have zoned out again… This feeling hadn’t appeared for a long time.

I stared at the strange man in front of me for quite a while, not knowing whether to speak or not.

“Little sister… what’s wrong with you?” the man asked me.

The man in front of me looked about thirty-seven or thirty-eight years old, with decent features and a heavy Northeastern accent.

Seeing him suddenly ask me a question, I didn’t know what to do—I didn’t recognize him at all, nor did I remember why I was here. My mind was completely blank at this moment, and even my thoughts were about to stop.

Seeing that I didn’t speak, he asked again, “Why are you spacing out here? Little sister, didn’t you have something to tell me?”

Within just a few seconds, some scattered memories began drifting into my mind. I remembered who he was.

“Are you… Old Sun?” I asked.

“It’s me… little sister… we just participated in the Earth-level Pig game together. Did you forget me already?” Old Sun looked at me with a puzzled expression. “Girl, what’s really wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?”

“No, no,” I shook my head, but a question couldn’t help but surface in my heart—was I about to go crazy too?

“Whatever you have to say, just say it…” Old Sun stared at me. “You’re really making me anxious.”

“I…” I quickly reached up to rub my forehead. I knew that if I wasn’t suffering from madness, then I had contracted amnesia.

In any case, I needed to hurry. It seemed that everyone who maintained their memories long-term would fall into a mental crisis. Even someone with such firm resolve as myself couldn’t escape it.

If I didn’t rapidly expand the team’s scale, I would be completely lost.

“Old Sun… I called you here because I really do have something to tell you.”

I raised my head and said once more the words I had said countless times.

“What the…?” Old Sun blinked after hearing this. “Little sister, you’re with ‘Extreme Path’?”

This was the first time I heard this question phrased this way, and I couldn’t help but raise my eyebrows. “You’ve heard of ‘Extreme Path’?”

“How could I not have heard of it?” Old Sun raised his eyebrows with an exaggerated expression. “Quite a few people have already come to tell me about it, saying how this broken place is going to be destroyed and how we need to protect this place… Little sister, it seems your organization isn’t small.”

“Oh…?”

Only then did I realize that there were already quite a few of our own people on this land, and they were also persuading others everywhere to join “Extreme Path.”

When had this organization become so massive?

If I persuaded one person every day, excluding those who didn’t believe me because my “future prediction” failed on them, that would be five or six hundred people over two years, right?

Now these five or six hundred people had scattered everywhere, mobilizing others… If we subtract some who didn’t maintain their memories long-term…

Would there be a hundred people?

“But somehow I just never believed them!” Old Sun gave a simple smile. “Maybe I feel we’re kindred spirits, little sister. Now that you’ve told me, I’m actually starting to believe…”

Yes, he had to believe, because under “karmic cause and effect,” these were all true words.

“Old Sun, I’m not deceiving you,” I said. “This place really needs ‘Extreme Path’ to protect it. We need to protect not only the ‘Participants’ but also the ‘Zodiacs.'”

“Ai, little sister, so what can we do…” Old Sun scratched his head with some distress. “It’s no problem for me to join ‘Extreme Path,’ but when will these days end? How long do we have to protect this place?”

“This…”

I knew that whenever this situation arose, it was very suitable for “predicting the future.”

“Old Sun, we must keep protecting this place until a person who can change it appears.”

“What? A person who can change this place?” Old Sun blinked. “So what are we now? The ‘vanguard’? Or the ‘Embroidered Uniform Guard’?”

“Both could apply,” I said. “Do you believe me?”

“How could I not believe you?” Old Sun said. “The things ‘Extreme Path’ is doing now are pretty much what you’re saying. If we’re talking about a ‘vanguard’ or ‘Embroidered Uniform Guard,’ that would make perfect sense.”

Excellent, he really believed me.

This meant that our organization’s function was pretty much what I thought… It would play a crucial role for the future ruler.

“But who exactly is this person who can change this place?” Old Sun asked again. “After I join ‘Extreme Path,’ will I get to meet him?”

I pondered for a while… made a bold decision, then spoke, “Of course you will. You might even become friends.”

“Oh, that’s good then.” Old Sun nodded with a relieved expression.