“Shadow, return!”

Of course, no matter how arrogant those people were, they wouldn't dare to do anything too excessive.

If a direct conflict were to actually break out, they would be no match for the Great Xia Government at all, not to mention that the number of Great Xia players crushed every other country…

Furthermore, 'Shadow' had only temporarily disappeared, not died.

As long as the name 'Shadow' still existed on the level leaderboard, no one would dare to act recklessly.

But this did not mean they couldn't do anything.

In Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and the New Gold Mountain region of the North American Empire, powerhouses gathered together and launched an operation almost simultaneously that shocked the world!

Since the God Forsaken Game descended, there had been quite a number of Great Xia players all over the world.

For example, in the capital of Japan, the 'Great Xia Dragon Sparrow' guild occupied the original Adachi Ward, gathering many Great Xia players who originally lived and worked in Japan.

When players from various places gradually challenged the High-Level Divine Authority Tower and were able to build their own teleportation array, many players returned to their motherland.

But there were also many players who still chose to remain in other countries.

The reason was…

The number of players in Great Xia now far exceeded other countries.

In the vast majority of cities in Great Xia, the popular leveling areas around the cities were always overcrowded; one simply couldn't snatch a spot in places where monsters spawned quickly, were numerous, and were easy to kill.

As for some difficult places, there weren't many people, but there were also very few players who could go there.

This resulted in the vast majority of players within Great Xia being unable to level up at full speed now.

The competition was too fierce!

There were even countless conflicts that occurred because of this, and the Great Xia Government had to set up regulatory departments in many popular leveling areas to avoid overly serious conflicts.

Under these circumstances…

Why would the players who were already abroad be willing to come back?

Take the Tokyo Ruins in Japan, for example. You could go to some popular leveling areas whenever you wanted and leave whenever you pleased; there was no need to occupy a spot in advance, lure a BOSS to drive people away, spend Lifespan to purchase a leveling spot… or use various other means.

Because the number of players in Tokyo, Japan, simply wasn't enough to occupy all the popular leveling areas around it.

It was the same size as the ruins of the Magic City, but the number of players in Tokyo was less than half that amount.

With such convenience in this regard, many Great Xia players did not return to Great Xia.

Precisely because of this, after Qin Feng 'disappeared', it gave certain people an idea for a plan, and they very quickly launched an action.

Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and the New Gold Mountain ruins in North America joined forces, each finding a Legendary-grade BOSS to cooperate with!

They directly lured the Legendary-grade BOSSes into reality and headed to the areas where their respective Great Xia players gathered to begin camping!

They began to threaten Great Xia using the lives of those Great Xia players!

"We have already cooperated with the BOSSes, and they will use the Great Xia players within our borders as hostages!"

"Five BOSS lords, no matter which one you want to kill, the other four will immediately launch a massacre against the Great Xia players within our borders!"

"Even if Shadow returns, you must still cooperate with us, otherwise millions of Great Xia players will face Death!"

"Now, we present our demands…"

"In addition to these five BOSS lords, Great Xia needs to prioritize helping us clear out other Epic-grade and Legendary-grade BOSSes within our borders, and hand over the loot completely to our 'Cooperation Society'!"

"If Shadow reappears, every time he kills a BOSS above Legendary-grade, he must share half of the loot with our 'Cooperation Society'!"

"These are the long-term cooperation conditions."

"As long as you violate this once, Great Xia people will die because of it!"

The organization calling itself the 'Cooperation Society' was a joint organization from five regions that directly launched a threat against Great Xia!

After this threat spread, the whole world was shocked…

Because this method seemed completely unsolvable!

For Great Xia, because of its large population, there had always been many Great Xia players developing and leveling up abroad. Now, this portion of players had unexpectedly become hostages and a weak point used for threats.

The Legendary-grade BOSSes joining forces with the 'Cooperation Society' was a matter of mutual benefit, striving for survival and interests together!

For those five Legendary-grade BOSSes, if things went smoothly, this could ensure their survival until the Ascension of Blue Star…

And for the players of the five countries in the 'Cooperation Society', they could rely on this to no longer be threatened by Shadow, and could even demand benefits from Great Xia and Shadow…

Once this news came out, everyone in the Great Xia Government frowned.

Although they had joined forces to kill one Legendary-grade BOSS, that was inside the game, and it had taken them two days.

Now, the Legendary-grade BOSSes from those five regions had all been dragged into reality; with their abilities, it was simply impossible to kill all five BOSSes at the same time!

In their view, even if 'Shadow' returned, he wouldn't be able to achieve this!

If one was killed, the BOSSes in the other four places would immediately take action and kill the local Great Xia players…

And if they waited until the Great Xia Government could deal with five Legendary-grade BOSSes simultaneously, during this period, according to the 'Cooperation Society' conditions, they would have already obtained many precious loot resources from the BOSSes.

This also meant that the member countries of the 'Cooperation Society' would rise up and would no longer be suppressed by Great Xia.

Actually, according to the normal development path, this situation would not be possible.

But firstly, it was because of these countries' fear of Qin Feng and the shadow of being constantly suppressed by Qin Feng that forced them to make such a decision.

Secondly, Qin Feng killing the World Spine in advance and triggering Desolation Spreads again and again had caused the number of Legendary-grade BOSSes across Blue Star to increase significantly, which also brought tremendous pressure to those countries.

They were not greedy.

Rather… they were forced to find a way to fight back!

Therefore, although this plan was very despicable, they had no other choice.

In their eyes, the Great Xia Government went without saying; it was absolutely impossible for them to sit idly by while Great Xia players abroad were killed.

As for 'Shadow', in their view, it was highly likely he would reappear, but once everything was settled, even 'Shadow' would be unable to break the deadlock, unless he truly ignored the lives of millions of Great Xia players.

The most critical point was that once they succeeded, many other countries would follow suit and launch the same strategy against Great Xia!

And so…

Under these circumstances.

Everyone in the Great Xia Government was at a loss; they discussed for a moment and could only think of one temporary solution, which was a hostage exchange, treating all foreign players in Great Xia as hostages as well…

But at this point, many people in the Great Xia Government believed that the so-called 'Cooperation Society' probably wouldn't care about the lives of these own citizens as much as they did.

It was at this moment that someone suddenly noticed that the name 'Shadow' in their friend list… suddenly lit up!

All Great Xia players saw it at the same time as well.

On the Great Xia level leaderboard, the name 'Shadow', ranked first, was finally no longer in a gray state.

Shadow, has returned!