367: Chapter 367 Do you have some serious illness?

Chen You opened his friend list, his gaze lingering on Arrow of the Moon's avatar.

He took a deep breath and sent over a message.

[Chen You: You there?]

The moment the message was sent, a reply popped up in the chat box immediately, the speed so fast it made one wonder if the other party was staring at the screen the whole time.

[Arrow of the Moon: Is the bus starting? I'll set up the group right now!]

Chen You looked at the exclamation mark on the screen and was momentarily stunned.

He originally only wanted to fish for some information, but on second thought, perhaps it would be better to call those other two blockheads along.

[Chen You: Yeah, the bus is starting.]

[Arrow of the Moon: Understood!]

In less than a minute, the party was formed and they entered the dungeon.

As the light of teleportation dissipated, Chen You stood at the entrance of the interactive dungeon, "Colorful Land."

Strange plants emitting fluorescence grew all around, colored spores floated in the air, and the grass beneath his feet was soft and spongy.

White light flickered in succession, and three tall figures appeared before Chen You.

Salos of the Titan God Clan carried a giant axe, Oro of the Roman God Clan held a staff, and Arrow of the Moon of the Elf God Clan carried a longbow.

As soon as the three landed, they immediately put away their weapons and stood up straight, looking exactly like three security guards waiting for a leader's inspection.

"Brother Chen!" Salos's voice was like a booming bell, his face covered in smiles, the circular protrusions on his forehead almost squeezing together.

Oro bowed slightly, hands folded over his chest, performing an extremely standard ancient Roman salute: "May the stars guide your path, Great Pioneer."

Arrow of the Moon, meanwhile, had an expectant look: "Guild Leader Chen, has your luck depletion finally recovered?"

Looking at these three top-tier powerhouses who called the shots on the leaderboards, Chen You felt a wave of awkwardness in his heart.

Did I carry these people so hard they developed Stockholm Syndrome?

"No rush for now." Chen You walked under a giant glowing mushroom and turned to look at the three. "I want to ask about something."

The three looked at each other, their expressions immediately becoming serious.

Chen You weighed his words: "Do you feel like... something has changed?"

The air suddenly went silent.

Colored spores slowly drifted down between the four of them.

Salos and Oro exchanged a glance.

This look contained an extremely complex amount of information.

What does this mean?

Asking us what's different? This is definitely a test!

The Great One's realm has already exceeded our scope of understanding; asking this means he must be testing our vision and comprehension!

Salos took a deep breath, stepped forward, and slapped his thigh hard: "Brother Chen! This question of yours is truly enlightening!"

Chen You was stunned: "Huh?"

"The moment I saw you just now, I felt that you'd changed!" Salos's eyes shone, his tone impassioned.

"The aura on your body is even more profound than when we last met!"

"If you were an insurmountable mountain last time, then now, you are a boundless ocean!"

"Unfathomable, truly unfathomable!"

Chen You opened his mouth but no sound came out.

Not to be outdone, Oro immediately chimed in, waving his staff with a charlatan-like yet pious tone: "Salos speaks too shallowly."

"In my Eye of Truth, the lines of law around you have already undergone reconstruction! You haven't just become stronger, you have ascended!"

"Standing here, you are the center of this world; even the light elements of the Colorful Land are surrendering to you!"

Arrow of the Moon listened from the side, dumbfounded.

These two old foxes—their flattery skills had actually escalated to this level?

As a member of the Elf God Clan, was her vocabulary actually losing to two brutes?

"Guild Leader Chen, your sword intent..." Arrow of the Moon squeezed out a sentence after a long pause.

"It has already reached the realm of returning to simplicity. Even if you're just standing there, I feel an invisible edge cutting into my soul."

Chen You looked expressionlessly at these three top-tier players whose combined levels were nearly three hundred.

He really wanted to log off right now and send the recording of these three to Professor Pan Yu, letting her analyze if the brain structures of these three alien species had been assimilated by the Yuanjie System into some kind of serious illness.

"Stop." Chen You raised his hand, interrupting this bottomless flattery session.

The three immediately shut up and stood up straight.

"I'm not asking about what's different about me." Chen You rubbed his temples.

"I'm asking if anything abnormal happened to this game, or rather, the system, just now?"

"System abnormality?" Salos scratched his scalp. "No, I didn't disconnect, there was no lag, and my axe's durability is normal."

Oro closed his eyes, muttered a few incantations, and then opened them.

"The Oracle's perception network didn't capture any server-wide announcements or data fluctuations."

Arrow of the Moon also shook her head.

Chen You's brows locked tight.

Could that pillar of light really have just been a cutscene?

Did that 'Invincible Beautiful Girl' go through all that trouble, even going so far as to call him daddy, just to set off a firework in the real world?

Impossible.

The other party must have taken something, or changed something.

"Think harder." Chen You's tone grew a bit heavier.

"Don't limit yourselves to superficial things. For example, your guild territories, or the gods you believe in—have there been any extremely subtle, abnormal phenomena?"

Hearing the words 'extremely subtle' and 'abnormal,' the three's expressions finally shifted from fawning to solemn.

Arrow of the Moon frowned, her slender elven ears twitching slightly: "Now that you mention it, I do recall something."

"Speak."

"Just about ten minutes ago," Arrow of the Moon recalled, "the World Tree in our guild residence suddenly dropped a leaf."

"Dropped a leaf?" Chen You raised an eyebrow.

"Yes." Arrow of the Moon nodded. "The World Tree is a mythological-grade building; its state is constant and it never sheds leaves. But just now, it dropped one."

"However, it was only one leaf, and the tree's attributes didn't change at all. I thought it was just a small bug in the system's textures, so I didn't pay it any mind."

Chen You's heart skipped a beat.

Ten minutes ago was exactly when that colored pillar of light appeared.

"If you put it that way, something weird happened on our side too." Salos rubbed his chin.

"The Ancestral Stone Statues in the Titan Temple suddenly flashed with a red light just now. It was very brief, maybe only a fraction of a second. The guards thought their eyes were playing tricks on them, and I didn't take it seriously when they reported it to me."

Oro's face changed: "The Astrolabe of the Shadow of Roman also froze for a frame just now; I thought I was lagging."

After listening, Chen You took a deep breath.

Just as he thought.

Strange phenomena had appeared in the territories of all the major guilds!

This was definitely no coincidence!

"Guild Leader Chen." Arrow of the Moon looked at Chen You's solemn face and asked tentatively, "Is... something big about to happen?"

These three were able to climb to the positions of major guild leaders, so they were naturally no fools.

Connecting these three seemingly unrelated minor anomalies, plus the fact that an unfathomable powerhouse like Chen You had personally come to confirm them...

They immediately caught the scent of danger.