Everyone fell into silence.

If Cai Zhiyuan successfully shattered Lin Sizhi’s Dao Heart, they would eventually converge and become similar. The two of them could then cooperate seamlessly, just as they did in the ’Wealthy Dynasty’.

There’s no issue of interest distribution, because as analyzed before, for players like these, belief is higher than life and death, and naturally, higher than interests.

They have already proven their unity of belief, and other players cannot pose a threat in terms of winning, let alone endanger their lives.

Interest distribution is basically irrelevant, especially since in the Walkway, constant winning allows for the greatest interest.

But for Community 17 and even the entire New World, this is likely extremely bad news.

Finally, Lin Sizhi looked at the large screen: "It’s about time to see what specific rewards the Walkway offers."

[Due to special circumstances, the New World and the Walkway will update the rules, and Community 17 will receive special rewards.]

From the very beginning, this prompt was available, and anyone in the community could view it.

But everyone refrained from looking, choosing instead to wait for Lin Sizhi to make this decision.

Now, new information appeared on the large screen.

[In one week, the New World will enter the ’next phase’.]

[During this period, the Walkway will not issue any more game invitations.]

[Communities 1~20 will connect with ’other areas’ in the New World, the boundaries of the Walkway will expand, allowing for new player matches.]

[The numbering of Communities 1~20 may change, and the personnel structure of the communities may also change.]

[Based on the ’overall performance’ of the community in this phase (including ’game earnings’ and ’community construction achievements’), communities with better performance can retain their ’core members’ and retain certain ’community construction achievements’. Communities with poorer performance may be completely disbanded.] 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Upon seeing this ’rule update’, everyone showed varying degrees of surprise on their faces.

Clearly, this ’rule update’ is directly related to Cai Zhiyuan’s death, because this information appeared after the completion of the ’Simple Roulette’ and ’Hermit Judgment’ games.

It can also be said that the death of any S-Class Imitator will trigger a massive upheaval in the entire Walkway and even the New World.

Wei Yinzhang thoughtfully said, "It seems the New World is not limited to just communities 1 to 20.

"We could only match with these communities because our area counts as the ’Newbie Area’, isolated from other areas of the Walkway.

"But as time goes on, as the ecosystem solidifies and players grow, our area will enter the next phase and match with new players.

"Perhaps there’s another area where they also have communities 1 to 20, with over two hundred players competing to find the strongest, just like us?"

Lin Sizhi added, "There’s another possibility:

"We might match with some ’old players’ who have survived in the New World for years, or even longer.

"We may not be the first batch of players in the New World."

Li Renshu’s expression became somewhat relieved, "Thankfully, our community should be able to retain the core members, and the community construction achievements we’ve made so far should also be maintained."

According to the rules, the community numbering will likely change, as it will no longer be limited to communities 1 to 20, but the personnel composition of the community may not change.

This depends on the ’overall performance’, which is based on how much visa time the community earns in games and how well community construction has been.

In the case of Community 17, it will certainly retain its ’core members’.

Although it didn’t specify what exactly ’core members’ are, it’s deduced from common sense that during reshuffling, some members will remain unchanged.

In other words, those weaker communities that are already scattered and lacking new blood will be directly disbanded and cease to exist when entering the next phase.

Stronger communities, according to their overall performance, will retain a few players.

It could be retaining 5 members, 8 members, or even all 12 members?

The exact rules and numbers haven’t been detailed, but based on standards, Community 17 is certainly the community that retains most of its original members.

This is good news.

After all, everyone has been in the community for so long; despite some friction, they’ve developed a decent emotional foundation.

Suddenly being completely reshuffled, matched, and having to blend with strangers, is something difficult to accept.

But soon, new information appeared on the large screen once more.

[Community 17 will receive special rewards.]

[This information is only visible to the current community and must be collected by the ’player who contributed the most to the New World entering the next phase’.]

[Reward 1: Ask a ’special question beyond authority’.]

[Reward 2: Choose one of three different reward options for other players in the same community, and display it on the large screen.]

Although the large screen displayed this information, what the ’three different reward options’ specifically were, wasn’t revealed.

The corresponding information is only audible to Lin Sizhi, and he is not necessarily obliged to tell the truth to other players.

—The reward he chooses will be displayed on the large screen directly, but the two unchosen options do not need to be disclosed to others, or he could convey false information.

Lin Sizhi didn’t ponder for long and quickly made a decision.

"I choose the third reward option."

[All surviving players can decide within 7 days whether to return to the real world.]

[If any player leaves, they must forgo all current community construction achievements, and the community will be disbanded and reshuffled.]

...

Everyone was astir.

Though called a reward, it completely disrupted all previous expectations.

"Return to the real world? Everyone? Can everyone choose?"

Everyone stared at the rules on the large screen, confirming word by word.

Some even instinctively stood up and moved closer to the screen.

After reading it several times, they confirmed: it really is ’all surviving players’, and there indeed isn’t a corresponding time limit.

In other words, it’s not about returning to the real world for a week or a month for a brief holiday and being pulled back again, but about leaving here forever and returning to reality.

Just like Fu Chen in the ’Lifting Game’.

But before this, the only way to leave the New World was through the extremely demanding condition of ’Super Authority Player’s suicide’, so in the cognition of almost all players, the possibility of returning to the real world was very low, almost equal to zero.

And a group of people all returning to the real world is something even more unimaginable.

Though this option was chosen by Lin Sizhi, it had to be something offered by the Walkway in the first place.

How could the Walkway be so kind? How could the little mice it captured be released so easily?

But now it seems, everyone had some misunderstandings about the Walkway.

When the desired result is achieved, the Walkway doesn’t mind some players’ death or departure and isn’t stingy with rewards.

Lin Sizhi chose to tell the truth: "The first option is to receive a total of 2 million minutes of visa time, which I can distribute as I wish.

"The second option is for the community to receive 5 Immunity Coupons.

"The third option is for all surviving players to decide for themselves whether to return to the real world."