From that string of colorful greetings just now, it wasn't hard to tell that the "Steve Husband (Old)" in Rookie's contacts was Grayfist.
Old Wu's words just now also caused Grayfist's brain, which hadn't been active for long, to stop working again.
"Wait… who are you?…"
"And also… what lover and new husband???? What the hell? Does that kid Steve have that kind of hobby??!!"
Before Grayfist could even finish speaking, the call was hung up from the other end. Not long after, he received the number Old Wu had sent him.
Although Old Wu had already sent the number, Grayfist didn't immediately create the group chat.
Naturally he wanted to know how things were progressing, but at the very least he needed to figure out who this "new husband" and "lover" of Steve mentioned by that person actually were.
After thinking about it, Grayfist opened the Chat group and posted the content of the call into the group.
[Grayfist: @Steve, who are your lover and new husband? Also, who's the old husband? Since when did you start having that kind of hobby?]
[Blade: ?]
[BUG: You got through? Any progress?]
[Steve: ? Did you forget to take your meds again?]
[Grayfist: @Steve? Watch how you talk.]
[Grayfist: That guy told me to make a group and add your lover and your new husband? @Steve.]
[Grayfist: Just to be clear, I'm not interested in your business, but at least I need to know who they are so I can add them, right? @Steve.]
[Steve: …? What the hell???…]
[Blade: Were you all calling Rookie just now?]
[BUG: Yeah, his phone is off now.]
[Steve: 1]
[Grayfist: ? Wait, so you all have his number???]
[Grayfist: No wonder I couldn't get through! Turns out we were all calling at the same time! Guess we really are on the same wavelength, hahaha.]
[Grayfist: Now that someone answered the phone I finally feel a lot better. I was stressed to death just now! Rookie must be busy right now, but he should have a solution, right??]
[Grayfist: The game is shut down now, and Notch should be out too, right? We don't have to worry about him betraying us anymore. If he and Rookie work together, it shouldn't be too big of a problem, right??]
[Grayfist: Anyway, back to the point, @Steve, hurry up and say who they are so I can make the group! I'm dying of anxiety here!]
[Blade: Just add the person who answered the phone into this group.]
[Grayfist: ??????]
[BUG: ?!! Uh… how did I get dragged into this too?…]
[Steve: ?!!! That bastard Rookie!!!!!]
[Grayfist: ??????????????????? What the hell?! Why add them to this group??]
[Grayfist: … holy crap?!!! @Blade @BUG, you two… don't tell me…!!!!!!!!!!!!]
[Grayfist: No way? @BUG Pengpeng when did you hook up with him?!!]
[Grayfist: Wait, when did this even happen?!! How could you guys do this behind my back?!!!!!!!!!]
[Grayfist: So which one of you is the lover and which one is the new husband, huh?]
[Blade: Add him!]
Grayfist invited [Being an ordinary person is fine] into [Make It Bigger and Stronger].
———
After being pulled into the group, Old Wu asked a few questions and finally figured out everyone's identities.
After thinking it over quietly for a moment, he finally let down his guard and began explaining the current situation to them one by one.
[Being an ordinary person is fine: You're all people who have come into contact with the core of this incident, so I won't hide it from you.]
[I'm Old Wu, Rookie's master.]
[The timing of the server shutdown was decided by Rookie, but he didn't tell me why he chose that specific time.]
[What I can tell you is that nothing unexpected happened on Rookie's side. All of this was intentional.]
[Grayfist: Can you confirm he wasn't possessed?!]
[Grayfist: His mental state is so unstable, getting possessed seems possible, right?!]
[Grayfist: So what exactly is his plan? Can you reveal a bit more?!]
[Grayfist: How old are you, sir? Why do you type so slowly?!]
['Grayfist' has been muted by the group owner for ten minutes.]
[Blade: Please continue.]
[Being an ordinary person is fine: I believe you've already noticed this game world isn't that simple.]
[Rookie realized that this game world is actually divided into the surface world and the inner world.]
[The surface world is the game world our server operates in. The inner world is a deeper layer that doesn't rely on the server to function.]
[Right now Rookie and Notch are trying to start from the inner world to save Xu Yuan.]
[Blade: How exactly? Can we help in any way?]
[Being an ordinary person is fine: I'm not sure exactly how they plan to do it. But before they acted, Rookie told Notch to try hard to recall how he felt when he made the Blade of the God of War and when he first created the game.]
[Being an ordinary person is fine: That's all I know.]
[Being an ordinary person is fine has left the group chat.]
After Old Wu left, the group fell into a long silence. Only after Grayfist's mute ended did new messages finally appear again.
[Grayfist: Black Blade why did you mute me?! Don't I have any dignity?!]
[Grayfist: Why is nobody talking? What do we do now?… Just sit here and wait like idiots?]
[Blade: This seems to involve the subconscious, right? @BUG]
[BUG: Yeah. Logically speaking… their subconscious probably has to form a spiritual link with that inner world to enter it.]
[BUG: @Steve, Rookie mentioned the Blade of the God of War. You already formed a spiritual link with it long ago, right? Maybe you could try?]
[Blade: If he can enter the inner world, would it be possible for us to try forming a spiritual link with him to enter as well?]
[Grayfist: You two, one lover and one new husband, you must've already formed some spiritual link, right?! Just excluding me, huh?]
[BUG: @Grayfist, take a guess who the old husband is?]
[Grayfist: ????????????????!!!! Wait?! Why me?! Why did I become the old one?]
[Grayfist: No, wait! What do you mean why! I'm not anyone's old husband! I don't have that kind of hobby!!]
[Steve: Before the server shut down, I called Rookie. At that time he told me to think about one question.]
[What does this game mean to you?]
[Although I'm not sure if what he said was hinting at something…]
[But we might as well enter the game pods and try to calm our minds and think about this question.]
[Maybe we can also form some kind of connection with the inner world…]