93: Chapter 92 The Great Gathering of Yanhuang
The debate on the Cause and Effect Fate Platform regarding the invisibility of the Fate Master finally died down after lasting for nearly an hour.
The reason was simple.
From the moment the two official posts from the Revival Society and the Little Life Society were released until now, the Cause and Effect Fate Platform had not intervened in any way. There was no post deletion, no censorship, and no official correction prompts.
And everyone knew that everything on this Cause and Effect Fate Platform was under the gaze of the Fate Master.
If the content of the posts were false, would the Fate Master allow them to remain on the platform he built?
Once this logic was established, all doubts lost their Foundation.
Consequently, the prevailing sentiment shifted completely.
Having recovered from the shock of the "invisibility," the survivors' emotions began to converge in another direction.
On the forum homepage, an ordinary post without any official tags silently climbed to the top of the popularity rankings.
The title had only six characters.
"They didn't come back."
The poster was an ordinary survivor named "Lin Xiaoyu." He had no organizational background, no talent, and his individual merit points were merely a few dozen.
The content of the post was also simple.
"The uncle on the boat next to mine, surnamed Zhou, was forty-seven years old. Every morning, he would practice Tai Chi on the deck, saying it was a habit he had kept for twenty years before his Transmigration. When the beast tide came last night, he threw the only bucket of beast repellent powder on his boat to me and told me that with the Numerical Panel of the Cause and Effect Fate Platform, he was enough, then he stood at the bow holding a wooden stick. He said, 'Xiaoyu, run east, there are fewer sea beasts there.' I watched his boat get capsized by the sea beasts..."
"I survived."
"Uncle Zhou didn't come back."
In the comment section below, there was no clamor, no arguing.
There were only silent names, one after another.
"Sister Zhang on the boat next to mine didn't come back either. She said she had two children, the older one is six."
"Old Man Li, sixty-three years old. He saved his own karma points and Life Spring water for us young people. He said he was too old to be useful and that we were more valuable alive than him."
"There were seven of us in our squad, five came back."
"In Sea Area No. 326, out of 1,200 people in our entire region, 1,081 survived. One hundred and nineteen names. I wrote them all down on paper."
The numbers under the post grew larger and larger, and the names became more and more numerous.
No one organized it deliberately, no one called for it.
But at this moment, the survivors of the Yanhuang Civilization on the entire Cause and Effect Fate Platform spontaneously sank into a quiet, heavy mourning.
Survivors in the foreign civilization visitor area also wanted to do something, but each person could only accumulate one posting opportunity every three days, with at most three, and they had basically used them up in the previous days, leaving them without even a chance to mourn.
A few people silently typed the names of their companions in the Symphony Realm, only to find they couldn't post—their posting opportunities had already been used on content thanking the Cause and Effect Fate Platform earlier.
They could only silently watch the mourning posts of the Yanhuang Civilization survivors, scrolling through them one by one.
This silent farewell lasted for about an hour.
Then, life went on.
On the trading platform of the Karmic Trading Realm, various Materials dropped during the beast tide began to be listed densely. Sea beast bones, scales, cores, blood—things that were worthless before the beast tide were now clearly priced and sold according to their quality grade.
The sunken sea treasure chest at the fishing spots were restocked as usual. At exactly twelve o'clock, countless survivors opened their chests on time, and the daily chest-showing segment began on the forum again.
Someone opened a Silver Grade combat boot and posted to show it off excitedly.
Someone opened a Rotten Wood Class broken fishing net and accompanied it with a crying face.
Life had to go on. Pain would be remembered, but one could not be trapped by it.
Amidst this subtle emotion where sadness and hope coexisted, the official post from the Revival Society appeared on the forum homepage again.
But this time, the permissions for the post were set to—visible exclusively to the Yanhuang Camp.
On the interface of foreign civilization visitor users, this post did not exist from beginning to end.
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Post Title:
"Revival Red Federation—A Letter to All Yanhuang Civilization Survivors"
Tags: [Official · Highest Priority] [Yanhuang Civilization Exclusive]
Body:
"To all Yanhuang Civilization compatriots:
Half a day ago, we experienced the second beast tide of the Magic Sea.
During the twelve hours of darkness, millions of Yanhuang Civilization survivor children remained on that sea surface forever. Their names will be engraved in the Revival Society's roster of heroes; as long as the Yanhuang Civilization does not perish, they will never be extinguished.
But right now, we do not have more time to grieve.
Because a new battlefield has arrived.
At 12:00 PM on the 13th day of the Magic Sea Calendar, less than twenty-four hours remain until the official start of the Faction Sequence Battle and the Individual Sequence Battle.
The rules of the war have been announced. Our assessment is as follows:
1. The core of the Faction Sequence Battle rules lies in—taking the ranking of the squad with the highest number of wins in the camp as the total camp ranking, rather than accumulating the number of matches. This means that an elite spearhead squad composed of the strongest survivors of the Yanhuang Civilization will be worth more than the total wins of ten thousand ordinary squads.
2. At the settlement on the 30th day, the camp with the highest total points can forcibly exchange all merit points and resource talents with lower-ranked camps. Compatriots, please recognize the weight of this statement—if we lose, everything that nearly 1.4 billion Yanhuang Civilization survivor compatriots have accumulated over thirteen days, including your talent, your Houseboat, and your Fate Platform, will no longer belong to you.
3. The top ten in the Individual Sequence Battle will receive rewards such as treasure chest quality improvement, lifespan leap, and talent advancement granted by the Magic Sea authorities. These rewards belong to the individual, but will also feed back into the entire Yanhuang Civilization camp through the camp contribution mechanism.
Based on the above assessment, the Revival Red Federation now releases the following resolution:
We will convene a Yanhuang Civilization Experts Conference tomorrow morning at 8:00 sharp, with the Gold Tier exotic item 'assembly order' as the core.
Conference topics: formulation of the Faction Sequence Battle participation strategy, formation plan for the elite spearhead squad, and coordination strategies for the Individual Sequence Battle.
Participation quota: 1,000 people.
Participation qualifications: The top 10,000 Yanhuang Civilization survivors on the individual merit points leaderboard can submit their Personal Information Panel application below this post before 24:00 today. The Revival Society will comprehensively evaluate factors such as talent adaptability, combat experience, and teamwork ability to select one thousand participants. The list will be announced tomorrow morning at 6:00.
We know that 10,000 auditing qualifications and 1,000 actual spots are too few for the existing billions of Yanhuang Civilization survivors.
This is not discrimination, not prejudice, and certainly not abandonment.
But time is too tight, the task is too urgent, and the goal is too heavy.
Yanhuang Civilization survivors are full of talented people, far more than those ten thousand, but we do not have that much time to choose slowly.
The remaining teleportation opportunities of the assembly order are too precious; it can only be recharged once every thirty days. We only have spots for over ten thousand people and have to compress every use to the extreme.
Time is pressing, we have no choice.
But please rest assured, all Yanhuang Civilization survivor compatriots who cannot attend—tomorrow's conference will not only be broadcast live across the entire Fate Platform. (Note: Only Yanhuang Civilization survivors have viewing permissions, full privacy mode throughout)
After the conference ends, the Revival Society will also hold a separate public briefing at noon for all Yanhuang Civilization survivors. At that time, we will provide a detailed interpretation of all strategies for the Sequence Battle, team formation suggestions for ordinary squads, and participation strategies for maximizing benefits; not a single detail will be missed.
Finally.
Those who come to attend this conference will be heroes of the Yanhuang Camp in the future.
But those who do not come are heroes as well.
Because the existence of every one of you, and that little bit of merit produced every day, when gathered together, amounts to nearly 1.4 billion.
This is a number that no civilization can reach.
This is our deepest moat.
Compatriots.
We are not fighting for ourselves.
We are fighting for the sea beneath our feet, for our parents, wives, and children, for the millions of heroic souls who could not return, and for the civilization of the Yanhuang Camp that has not been severed for thousands of years.
The Fate Master built the Fate Platform, becoming our most solid backing.
Now, we need to stand up ourselves.
The Yanhuang Civilization shall not perish, and the torch will be passed on.
Revival Red Federation
13th Day of the Magic Sea Calendar"
...
Less than thirty seconds after the post was released, the official post from the Little Life Society followed up.
President Shen Qing's statement was as concise as she was:
"The Little Life Society will fully support the pre-war joint military council of the Revival Society. I will organize and submit the information of all the top-ranked experts within the society uniformly. At the same time, the Little Life Society's medical resources will be fully opened to the participating experts.
Additionally: regarding the Individual Sequence Battle, I will also sign up to participate.
—President Shen Qing"
Immediately following.
The Iron Anchor Workshop posted a follow-up.
"Responding to the call of the Revival Society, all craftsmen in the workshop are on standby. Any equipment repair or Houseboat reinforcement needs for participating experts will be free of charge from now until the end of the battle."
The Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce posted a follow-up.
"Responding to the call of the Revival Society, the Chamber of Commerce will freeze all sea beast material prices starting today to prevent malicious hoarding and price gouging. All participating experts will receive a 20% discount when purchasing war supplies."
The Deep Sea Hunter Alliance posted a follow-up.
"Responding to the call of the Revival Society, all beast-hunting teams under the Alliance will suspend commercial hunting missions, and all personnel will enter a state of camp combat readiness."
Within just a minute, almost all famous organizations, large and small, and even the official posts of influential major universities followed up and seconded, as if they had all agreed beforehand.
A few dozen seconds later, the Fate Platform exploded again.