Guan Ce was slightly stunned by the question, then immediately explained:

"The Guan Gong Eyes I placed on those two cannon fodder are just a Glyph Pattern effect; they aren't real eyes in essence."

"Even if they are annihilated, it's just the Glyph Pattern effect being annihilated along with them. Naturally, it can't implicate me."

He spoke as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, even looking somewhat puzzled as to why Jiang Ye would have such an absurd idea.

Including Li Ku and the other players present, they all felt Jiang Ye's question was rather baffling.

However, Li Ku automatically attributed his bizarre train of thought to "amnesia" and casually helped explain:

"A Glyph Pattern effect is actually equivalent to a skill effect. Once a skill has been released, it naturally won't affect the caster anymore."

His tone was also one of stating the obvious.

This made Jiang Ye start to doubt himself...

Could he really have misunderstood?

Had he subconsciously amplified the annihilating effect of the Taboo, leading him to think that when the Guan Gong Eyes were annihilated, it would implicate Guan Ce?

It was strange, though. Why did he have such a subconscious thought?

After all, Jiang Ye was amnesiac. Seeing that everyone else naturally accepted Guan Ce's explanation, he stopped pressing the issue, even frowning and nodding: "Alright, then I probably misunderstood."

It was during these few exchanges.

The two cannon fodder were thrown into the white light.

Li Ku was still very vigilant. The black threads wrapped around the two cannon fodder did not follow them into the white light.

Instead, after placing the two into the white light, the threads quietly retracted.

Even from this distance, he keenly sensed that the eerie space enveloped by that white light carried an aura that instinctively frightened him.

After the two cannon fodder fell into the white light, the image on the recording orbs became a dense, uniform white.

This bizarre, almost void-like white didn't look like a normal field of vision at all.

Therefore, from Li Ku's perspective, he instinctively thought the connection between the two recording orbs had been severed, resulting in this "no signal" white.

Jiang Ye stared at the white on the recording orb, feeling an indescribable, inexplicable sensation in his heart.

He asked Guan Ce again: "This image, did the recording orb lose connection? Or is the world within that white light actually like this?"

This question once again made everyone present think his train of thought was peculiar.

Li Hongbin directly frowned and said: "This is obviously a lost connection screen. Have you ever seen a real scene with this kind of dense, grainy white noise?"

Jiang Ye was rebutted into frowning, his gaze directly shifting to Guan Ce.

Guan Ce's state was clearly distracted, as if he hadn't heard a word.

It wasn't until Li Hongbin waved his hand in front of his face a few times that he seemed to snap out of his stunned, dazed state.

Yet, even after recovering, his overall state still carried a sense of bewilderment.

As if reacting half a beat slower, he asked the group: "What? What did you all just say?"

Jiang Ye didn't repeat the question. Instead, Li Ku directly asked him:

"Did those Guan Gong Eyes of yours see something?"

"I..." Guan Ce started to say something, but the voice that came out was as hoarse as if his vocal cords had been scorched by fire.

Even he himself seemed to suddenly feel the pain in his throat the moment he spoke.

He subconsciously raised his hand to touch his throat.

However, his hand was just reaching out, before it could touch his throat, when Li Ku raised his hand to intercept the motion.

Li Ku tightly grasped Guan Ce's wrist, his scar-like eyes inexplicably emitting an unusual black light.

His voice was serious: "Don't move. This Guan Gong tattoo of yours seems... to have mutated?"

Guan Ce's eyes widened abruptly, his expression shocked and strange once more.

However, after just a moment of strangeness, he became inexplicably distracted again!

His eyes were empty, devoid of focus, as if his spirit had wandered off to the heavens, leaving behind only this empty shell.

Yet, those present were no longer paying as much attention to the strangeness of his expression.

Instead, pairs of eyes were fixed, with shock, on the Guan Gong tattoo on his neck.

The Guan Gong tattoo on his neck depicted Guan Gong's head.

Those Guan Gong Eyes, originally under Guan Ce's control, had transitioned from an "open-eyed" state to a "closed-eyed" state.

But now...

The area of those tightly closed eyes was noticeably turning red!

The closed eye line seemed to have become a red blood vessel.

And then...

While Guan Ce remained in his distracted state, that red blood vessel seemed to break through some kind of restraint and suddenly opened!

This scene looked as if the closed-eyed Guan Gong had suddenly opened his eyes.

Moreover, the pair of eyes that suddenly opened were an exceptionally strange red.

It was clearly just a tattoo, yet it actually seemed like a pair of living eyes, as if they were scanning everyone present at that moment.

Every player present who witnessed this scene felt an inexplicable palpitation the instant they met the gaze of the open-eyed Guan Gong.

Especially Li Ku.

After his body mutated, he had become like a cold-blooded creature.

Although he still had normal human emotional fluctuations, these emotions seemed to exist only on a conscious level and didn't affect his body.

But precisely this time, the moment he met the gaze of the red-eyed Guan Gong, Li Ku genuinely felt a palpitation.

As if his mutated body, which no longer had a heart, was experiencing a loss of heartbeat control once more.

Apart from this distinct physical sensation, his soul also felt a peculiar sensation of being struck by something.

Not fatal, yet difficult to ignore...

Almost instinctively, Li Ku didn't dare to continue meeting the gaze of those fiery red tattooed eyes.

Not just Li Ku, none of the players present dared to meet its gaze again.

Except for Jiang Ye.

Or, to be more precise...

The red-eyed "Ji Zixuan" version of Jiang Ye.

After the Ji Zixuan clone lost control, his eyes also took on a bizarre, uncontrolled red.

Now, meeting the red eyes of Guan Gong, he inexplicably felt a sense of mutual understanding.

He couldn't quite describe this feeling...

It was somewhat similar to the connection between clones.

But the connection between clones is very clear and thorough.

The connection between these two pairs of red eyes, however, was vague, awkward, faint and elusive...

Whatever the reason, the red-eyed Ji Zixuan clone still focused intently on those strange red eyes.

Until this intense focus made him forget everything around him.

In that instant, in the red-eyed clone's field of vision, everything around him seemed to weather away at a visible speed.

All the colors that constituted the world seemed to be effortlessly erased by an invisible force.

Like the most realistic colored painting suddenly being covered inch by inch with white paint...

At that moment, Jiang Ye personally witnessed the world disappearing before his eyes, leaving only an endless expanse of pure white.

However, this was only the Guan Gong's field of vision synchronized to the Ji Zixuan clone.

The other Jiang Ye, who appeared as Administrator 4444, still saw everything around him normally without any abnormality.

All the players hadn't disappeared; they had all tacitly avoided meeting the gaze of the red-eyed Guan Gong.

Just as Jiang Ye was inwardly puzzled about why there were two different fields of vision...

His peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of a white light abruptly shooting out from the red eyes of Guan Gong.

Jiang Ye was immediately startled, thinking he was about to be annihilated by the white light.

However, that white light appeared to be just ordinary white light.

It shone towards the boundary of the tombstone area about ten meters away, forming a pure white light screen.

Players like Li Ku and Li Hongbin, who didn't dare to meet the red-eyed Guan Gong's gaze, naturally noticed this white light screen immediately.

And when their gazes fell upon the light screen, what they saw was—

On a surface resembling white paper, a few crude lines formed a strange stick figure drawing.

At the very center of the "white paper" was a straight-lined rectangular frame.

Inside the frame, lines sketched a stick figure.

A circle, with three strokes below it outlining arms and a torso.

Two more strokes below the torso, outlining legs.

This frame and stick figure were in a static state.

At the edges of the "white paper," there were two other stick figures that were eerily in motion.

"They" wandered aimlessly across the "white paper."

What was even more bizarre...

The direction "they" wandered was from the edge of the "white paper," heading towards the direction of stepping out of the "white paper's" boundary.

However, "they" did not step out of the "white paper."

Instead, this "white paper" extended outward along with "their" exploration, expanding the area of the paper...

A very eerie scene.

It left everyone present somewhat dumbfounded.

Only Jiang Ye, who possessed two fields of vision, realized with a jolt...

Those two "stick figures" wandering on the "white paper"...

Could they be the two cannon fodder who fell into the "white light"?!

So what... did this mean?

Had the actions of those two cannon fodder within the white light been transformed into this stick figure drawing by an invisible force?

Or was everything within the white light, from the perspective of the Guan Gong Eyes, presented in this manner?

Or perhaps...

Those two cannon fodder who fell into the white light had truly undergone some dimensional fall, transforming from three-dimensional beings into two-dimensional stick figures?

Then, would the pure white shared in the red-eyed Ji Zixuan clone's field of vision be the world as seen by those two cannon fodder?

Jiang Ye's mind raced, quickly simplifying this problem into a more understandable question—

Assuming human eyes and Guan Gong Eyes see two different worlds within the white light...

Human eyes see a field of pure white;

Guan Gong Eyes see white paper and lines on it.

Then...

Which of these two fields of vision is closer to the truth?

Do those two people exist within the white light as they understand themselves...

Or do they exist as the "flat lines" in the Guan Gong's field of vision?

Although he had no memory, Jiang Ye instinctively knew—

Different creatures' fields of vision do not see the world exactly the same.

Humans often interpret the world they see as the most authentic version of the world.

But in reality, this understanding is very subjective.

Unless humanity is the most special existence in the entire universe.

Otherwise, the human field of vision is just one among countless presentations of the world.

And the real world...

Can it be accurately presented by any single "field of vision"?

Jiang Ye's Ji Zixuan clone tried to shift his gaze.

From meeting the red-eyed Guan Gong's gaze, to looking at the image presented by the "white paper."

And what he "saw" was still a field of pure white.

Under this unique sensation, Jiang Ye even began to wonder...

Could this pure white field of vision be another unique form of "reverse blindness"?

Normal blindness is the inability to see light anymore, resulting in a field of vision of void-like darkness.

This Ji Zixuan clone's "reverse blindness" was a field of vision of void-like white light? An inability to see any other normal scenes?

While Jiang Ye was pondering and feeling shocked inwardly.

Li Ku and the others, staring at the "white paper" projected by the light screen, were also stunned for a long time.

They didn't think about dimensional falls or the two transforming into two-dimensional stick figures like Jiang Ye did. Instead, they instinctively thought—

"Is this the Guan Gong's field of vision? It looks... quite simplistic..."

As he said this, Li Ku looked towards Li Hongbin and Gong Cheng, wanting to confirm if this image was indeed a unique aspect of the Guan Gong's field of vision.

However, Li Hongbin and Gong Cheng both shook their heads: "We haven't seen the Boss use Guan Gong's eyes..."

As they spoke, they cautiously glanced towards Guan Ce's direction, strenuously avoiding meeting the gaze of those red Guan Gong eyes.

Li Hongbin waved his hand in front of Guan Ce's face and hesitantly called out: "Boss? What's really wrong with you?"

This time, Guan Ce showed no reaction at all.

His entire distracted state was as if his soul had left his body.

This abnormal phenomenon made Li Hongbin and Gong Cheng feel inexplicably tense and worried.

Gong Cheng couldn't help but mutter: "Could it be that the white light from deep within the underground palace really affected the Boss through the Glyph Pattern effect he placed on those two cannon fodder?"

Hearing this, Jiang Ye belatedly realized...

Was the Administrator 4444 he sensed really within that "white light world"?

According to the presentation on the "white paper," the entire "white light world" deep within the underground palace seemed to have only 3 people.

The two wandering stick figures corresponded to the two cannon fodder.

The stick figure enclosed in the central frame seemed motionless, lying quietly within the frame.

So, could the stick figure in the frame be Administrator 4444?

Even without memory, Jiang Ye instinctively felt... probably not.

He had a premonition—

If Administrator 4444 was truly within the white light, then given the special nature of that white light, he most likely wouldn't be able to sense the administrator.

Therefore...

Since he could sense the administrator, then most likely, the administrator was not within the white light!

So, in this underground palace, besides the straight path leading down to the white light, were there other hidden passages?

Was the administrator deliberately trying to lure them into that white light world?

While Jiang Ye was pondering this, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the eyes of his Ji Zixuan clone.

Then, the void-like white light before him suddenly turned blood red, as if a balloon had burst.

Immediately after, the Ji Zixuan clone's field of vision slowly returned to normal.

And the normal Jiang Ye's field of vision, along with Li Ku and the others, all witnessed—

On the "white paper" image projected by the light screen, those two stick figures that seemed to wander around like headless flies gradually dissipated within that "white paper," as if their existence was being erased by an eraser.

This scene was simple and clear.

Li Hongbin said with sudden realization: "Those two cannon fodder... were they Erased?"

"Will anyone who stays in that white light for a certain amount of time be Erased?"

"When did the stick figure in the central frame exist within the white light world? And why hasn't it been Erased all this time?"