Chapter 542: Change is Not Frightening; What is Frightening is the Unknown

"Pfft~~~!!"

Lan Qingyou, who was drinking tea, choked on her breath and ungracefully spat out all the tea in her mouth.

"A scammer!?"

Taking the towel Catherine handed over to wipe her mouth, Lan Qingyou looked at Vivian and the others sitting opposite her with a face full of disbelief.

This was a liaison meeting, a small offline tea party among the members of the Manor.

The reason for this offline meeting mode was naturally to connect with each other emotionally on one hand, and to rest and get some fresh air on the other.

Although not everyone was busy, most people still had this or that to do.

Lan Qingyou was the same, just treating this offline tea party as a kind of pastime.

Alright...

For example, half an hour ago, she was still in her laboratory.

In the somewhat sarcastic words of Ruan Qingyi, Vivian, and the others, it was something like, 'We are all country bumpkins who have never seen a flying city, we beg the Witch Queen to open our eyes,' and so on.

And seeing these guys say such things, even Lan Qingyou, who consistently styled herself as venomous-tongued, didn't know what to say.

After all, having someone appreciate the things she had put great effort into creating was a very reasonable thing no matter how you looked at it.

Coupled with the fact that she indeed wanted to find someone to show off to, she agreed to these guys' request.

Apart from a few guys who really couldn't get away because of matters, the rest basically all received a [Eureka Return-to-City Scroll].

When they just received this thing, everyone still found it a bit unbelievable.

But after learning that the flying city could only be entered using this Return-to-City Scroll, apart from the portals that only witches could learn, they felt relieved.

After all, a war had just occurred, directly leading to a quarter reduction in population. The Witch Race doing this now was also a form of self-protection.

So no one said anything either.

Rather, compared to such cautious rules, everyone was more interested in the Return-to-City Scroll they had acquired.

So, even before coming to the flying city, these guys had already couldn't help but ask about the principles behind this thing.

However, because this thing involved magic arrays and some secret crafting techniques, it was absolutely impossible for others to learn or imitate it.

The only thing available was a paper Lan Qingyou had posted on the Manor's forum.

If anyone was interested, they could completely follow some of the arguments in the paper to attempt crafting it.

Of course.

If they were afraid of trouble, they could also find Diana to place a custom order.

Anyway, for the Black Witches, this thing wasn't very difficult to craft.

Even just by taking 'spare time', they could achieve mass production.

So to speak.

The main reason Alchemists weren't interested in money was that there were simply too many channels to make money.

Just by slightly revealing some strength, it could be turned into 'strength'.

The garden where the people of Tarot Manor gathered was one of the many city gardens in the flying city of Eureka.

It was originally a place for witches to rest and play, and at the same time, a research place for several owners of plant-type talents or Demon Eyes.

Because this liaison meeting was going to be held today, Diana and the others had slightly decorated this place in advance.

It looked a bit more 'magnificent' than usual.

But the several people sitting here now didn't care about this at all.

Including Lan Qingyou herself.

Her attention now was completely drawn by the 'scammer' mentioned by Vivian and the others.

The reason she was drawn was, on one hand, definitely because the other party was using the banner of their Black Witches.

But compared to this matter of misusing their name without paying copyright fees, she was more concerned about another aspect.

And that was how the other party managed to deceive the world channel.

One must know that whether it was the world channel or the magic desk, both could be considered things managed and interfered with by the world's will.

This point could be said to be the consensus of all researchers on the Karim Continent right now.

But such an existence was actually deceived by someone?

This was somewhat unjustifiable.

No... it should be said to be abnormal.

After all, everyone had personally experienced what kind of existence the world's will was.

That was why Lan Qingyou, who had always remained calm and composed in the face of extreme danger, had such a big reaction after hearing this news.

"How did she do it? No, when it comes down to it, it's not even clear whether that guy pretending to be a witch is a man or a woman, right?"

After wiping her mouth, Lan Qingyou put down the towel in her hand.

"Indeed. Based on the investigations of those who were scammed and the guys from the Supreme Council right now, it's still impossible to confirm exactly who the other party is."

Ingrid, holding a white porcelain teacup, nodded.

Although this matter hadn't caused much of a stir on the world channel—it was nothing more than a group of people slightly mocking the victims and then harshly cursing those scammers, and that was it.

It seemed like it wasn't a big deal, but if one really thought about it carefully, they would find that the implications within were extremely terrifying.

That was why everyone took this matter so seriously.

Of course, this 'terrifying' referred more to the unknown, a kind of unknown that might appear after previous common sense was broken.

This wasn't something that would be over just by scamming some money and materials.

Just like that forced transmigration a few years ago. The common sense originally in their minds was completely destroyed after the transmigration.

At that time, it could be said that everyone felt somewhat panicked in their hearts.

And now, not many years after finally adapting to everything in this world, the newly learned common sense was broken once again. How could this not make them pay attention?

Therefore.

After the incident fermented for a period of time, this so-called liaison meeting came to be.

"Although it's said like this, and the situation looks very serious, no one can clearly say whether this kind of thing is ultimately good or bad."

After chatting for a bit and understanding everyone's thoughts, Lan Qingyou made a statement on this matter.

Everyone naturally understood this as well.

After all, the word 'change' had always been neutral; not good, but not bad either.

What truly decided whether it was good or bad could only be judged after this 'change', and it was all judged from one's own perspective.

"The most important thing is still this kind of matter involving the world's will. Even if we rack our brains here, it seems we can't change anything, right?"

With one sentence, Lan Qingyou killed this topic.

That's right, no matter how they analyzed it here, the result still couldn't bypass the world's will.

After all, the matter of being able to change avatars and data appearing on the world channel was inherently something they were completely helpless against.

In fact, it wasn't that no one had thought of doing this before, nor was it that no one had researched those messages on the world channel.

But without exception, all ultimately ended in failure.

This point was very clear to a certain Magician who did not wish to reveal his name, who had created cards referencing the functions on the magic desk.