"...That could work too."

Lin Ye seriously considered Little Ye's proposal, feeling it didn't seem to have any major issues.

"Then let's start making preparations."

Unlike Lin Ye, who preferred to formulate plans first, Little Ye leaned more towards being a person of action.

"Actually, I'm pretty much ready. To handle various different situations, I made a lot of preparations in advance. If you hadn't come over, I would have already activated the contingency plan."

Lin Ye suddenly looked up at the sky. Just moments ago, he had lost his control over the area outside Alienation Park. Someone from the outside had severed his connection to the city district.

'This is indeed a vulnerability. I didn't expect it to be discovered so quickly...'

Previously, when Mia took her subordinate mascots to participate in those activities, Lin Ye had relied on those parasitic stuffed toys to infect the entire district, which was how he gained a certain degree of control over it.

Now, someone from the outside used some kind of attack to eliminate most of the parasitic creatures, causing Lin Ye to lose his control over the district.

The function of those flesh pillars was to restrict the abilities of the anomalous creatures within the ritual. Before lifting these restrictions, neither Little Ye nor the flesh pillars could provide Lin Ye with support in other aspects.

However, this wasn't a big deal. The opponent's attack hadn't completely cleared out the parasitic creatures. After some time, the parasitic creatures would return to their previous state.

'That means the other side wants to use this period of lost control to do something... But will it really be that simple?'

Lin Ye sensed the smell of conspiracy.

Lin Ye: Sorry, someone cut off my control over the district. Your cheat is disabled. I suggest you return inside Alienation Park as soon as possible.

Chess: What do you need us to do? We're teammates too, we can't just rely on you alone.

Caris: That's right. Although we can't compare to you, we are among the strongest group of Survivors. You really don't need to worry about our safety.

Amy: Need information gathering? That's what I'm best at.

Lin Ye: Then I'll count on you.

Lin Ye hadn't expected these teammates to be quite reliable at a critical moment.

"The situation is a bit off. I can sense those anomalous creatures are decreasing, but none are approaching the Building. Someone must be doing something to those anomalous creatures."

Little Ye currently couldn't perceive the situation beneath those flesh structures either; she needed to concentrate her mental energy to suppress the anomalous creatures.

"It's fine. I have informants below providing me with information."

Lin Ye could understand the ritual's progress through the chat room, an advantage unique to being a system Survivor.

"We have a guest."

Little Ye suddenly spoke up.

Lin Ye focused his senses on the surroundings and quickly discovered the guest. The other party was standing outside the park's large door, smiling at him.

This was also an acquaintance of Lin Ye's.

"What brings you here? I thought you'd need some time to deal with the issues over at the Abyss."

Lin Ye looked at the man who had suddenly appeared in the room. Some ashes flickering with sparks drifted within the room.

"With something like this happening, how could I not come take a look?"

The man revealed a malicious smile.

"What can you do even if you're here? Use this vessel that doesn't even count as a clone to influence the festival parade?"

Lin Ye wasn't affected by the man's appearance. He felt the man just wanted to annoy him a bit.

"I really can't have any impact on this ritual, but I can pass the information from your side to the outside."

The man said with a smile.

"Since when did you become an errand boy? Do you need me to give you a tip?"

Lin Ye wanted to deal with the man but found his form of existence resembled some kind of flesh projection. As long as flesh existed nearby, the man wouldn't disappear.

"Sure. Thanks to someone, I've been quite short on money lately. This way, I can collect money from both sides."

The man completely disregarded what Lin Ye said. He just wanted to collect information on Lin Ye now, to trap Lin Ye here.

Even if he couldn't trap him to death, he could still cause Lin Ye some trouble.

After the man entered the room, Little Ye disappeared. She seemed unwilling to let the man discover she was here. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Is your true body really not here? It wouldn't be waiting up above for the ritual to end, would it?"

Lin Ye felt the man wouldn't specifically come here just to provide information to the merchant guilds.

"If my true body were here, this Alienation ritual would have collapsed long ago, and you wouldn't have the qualification to stand here talking to me."

The man said disdainfully.

"That's true too."

Lin Ye stopped wasting words with the man. He could feel the ritual was proceeding very smoothly. No matter what the other side did, they were helping Lin Ye complete the ritual.

'What exactly is going on? What is the opponent's goal? I didn't plant any moles on their side either...'

Lin Ye completely couldn't understand what the other side wanted to do. Even if they wanted to gather the power of those anomalous creatures, they wouldn't advance the ritual process. Unless those anomalous creatures inside were killing each other, the current situation wouldn't occur.

'Could it be Mia is helping me kill those anomalous creatures? Has she finally become reliable once?'

Lin Ye felt this thought was itself quite unreliable.

As the anomalous creatures within the ritual area gradually decreased, the ritual area returned to Lin Ye's control. The three teammates gathered some information for him, but they hadn't discovered the whereabouts of those anomalous creatures.

Not long after, the man disappeared from the room. Lin Ye wasn't sure if he had really gone to the merchant guilds' side or was hiding somewhere in the surrounding flesh environment, ready to deliver a fatal blow to Lin Ye at any moment.

Little Ye never reappeared. This point might serve as evidence that the man wasn't just here to collect information as he claimed.

After some more time passed, Lin Ye's control over the district returned to normal levels. He began checking the status of the remaining anomalous creatures in the district. Many of the previous anomalous creatures had disappeared, and he had no idea where they had gone.

'...Forget it. Complete the ritual first, then consider the whereabouts of those anomalous creatures.'

Lin Ye dispatched a large number of anomalous creatures to deal with the remaining anomalous creatures in the district. When all the remaining anomalous creatures were resolved, the ritual could end.

But the remaining anomalous creatures were no weaklings. The anomalous creatures Lin Ye casually created were only slightly stronger than cannon fodder, making it difficult to resolve them.

Moreover, these anomalous creatures didn't approach Alienation Park either, so Lin Ye couldn't leave the Building to personally deal with them.

In the end, Lin Ye could only ask Mia for help. Mia wasn't much weaker than those remaining anomalous creatures. Combined with Lin Ye's assistance, resolving the remaining anomalous creatures shouldn't be too difficult.

Mia set off soon after, with a large number of anomalous creatures following behind her.