After Nan Li sent out the message, it was like a stone sinking into the sea.
He waited for a while but didn't receive a reply from the other party.
However, what Nan Li didn't expect was that Ilaina responded next.
[The Gray Witch: Mr. Nan Li, are you looking for Dark Elf Miss?]
Ilaina felt that traveling by flight would be boring without someone to chat with, even with beautiful scenery.
So, most of her attention was now on the Chat Group.
Although the purpose of someone's recent message was obvious, Ilaina still wanted to ask.
[Nan Li: Oh? You've chatted with her?]
[The Gray Witch: Yes, Fujiwara Chika, Dark Elf Miss, and I all joined the group together. She chatted with us back then.]
[Nan Li: Is it convenient to share any information she might have revealed?]
[The Gray Witch: There shouldn't be a problem. Dark Elf Miss said she is currently trapped in a space. Inside that space, there is nothing but darkness and void.]
Seeing some of the information Ilaina revealed, Nan Li compared and filtered it with the memories in his mind, feeling like he already knew who the other party was.
However, the known information was too scarce, and he still needed to gather more.
[Nan Li: Is there anything else?]
[The Gray Witch: Hmm, yes. Dark Elf Miss asked us if we had any way to help her escape.
[The Gray Witch: At that time, I was still an apprentice witch, and Fujiwara Chika was just an ordinary person. After Dark Elf Miss learned this, she stopped mentioning being rescued and only occasionally came out to chat with us to relieve boredom.]
After learning that Ilaina and Fujiwara Chika were not strong enough, she stopped mentioning the matter of helping her escape.
Was it because the other party looked down on the two girls, or was she afraid that Ilaina and Fujiwara Chika would encounter danger?
[Nan Li: Besides chatting with you, did Dark Elf Miss say what she usually does?]
[The Gray Witch: Probably sleeping, since there's nothing in the place where she's trapped.]
Ilaina answered everything she knew.
Then she thought that Nan Li's strength seemed quite good.
So an idea popped into her mind.
[The Gray Witch: Mr. Nan Li, can you help Dark Elf Miss?]
[Nan Li: Let's see first. I don't know what her character is like yet.]
First, Nan Li needed to gather information to confirm the other party's identity, otherwise, he couldn't judge her character.
If her character met his standards, Nan Li would still help if he could.
[The Gray Witch: Dark Elf Miss is a very good person. I could feel it when she chatted with us.]
[Nan Li: Just a feeling isn't enough, Ilaina. You'll suffer a great loss later if you're like this.]
[Ilaina: Alright.]
Although the current Ilaina, under the tutelage of her master, the Star Witch Fran, already carried a hint of "scumminess"...
However, not having experienced many trials of human nature, Ilaina's current "scumminess" was still insufficient.
In short, the purity of her scumminess was too low.
In fact, Nan Li didn't really care about the subsequent developments in the worlds of the group members.
He had no intention of actively changing them.
Of course, if a group member needed help and actively asked him for it, Nan Li would appropriately help if he could.
After all, after becoming the Jianmu, he spent most of his time as an observer on the Xianzhou Luofu, and he had grown accustomed to it.
For the current Nan Li, only after personally experiencing something would he act according to his own ideas to change some tragedies.
For example, the Third Abundance War.
Whether it was Yue Yu, the general of Yaoging, or Fu Xuan's master, and many Cloud Knights who should have died in that war...
Nan Li saved all those he could.
As for things he didn't personally participate in, Nan Li wouldn't actively change anything.
Because there was no topic to chat about for the time being, and a certain "Earth's cancer" was being forcibly controlled by an unknown force.
Other group members also had their own things to do.
Thus, the entire Chat Group quieted down... Nan Li shifted his attention away from the Chat Group.
Then he recalled the content of his recent chat with Ilaina.
"The Strongest Dark Elf, also trapped in a dark space where there's nothing. Is it her?"
Nan Li was someone who enjoyed watching anime.
He wasn't a hardcore otaku, but rather someone who simply liked watching anime.
In fact, he already had a pretty good idea of the identities of these group members through their names.
Ilaina, from the world of [The Journey of Elaina].
That is, The Gray Witch with ash-colored hair, who strongly topped the World Moe competition that year and won the championship.
Fujiwara Chika, from the world of [Kaguya-sama: Love Is War].
Dubbed the "Earth's cancer," her secretary dance was a hit across the internet, and some even jokingly suggested Fujiwara Chika be elected as the next prime minister of the land of the rising sun.
Bai Muzhen, from the world of [Feng Ling Yu Xiu].
She is the daughter of the Wuxiang City Lord and also the mother of the female protagonist of this wuxia anime.
At that time, this wuxia anime was updated only once a season or once a year.
And because of many plots within it, the audience jokingly called it "Immortals bullying martial artists."
Bai Muzhen had previously mentioned her age, two years younger than Ilaina.
This indicates that the current timeline over there is still more than twenty years before Bai Yuxiu's birth.
Strongest Dark Elf?
Filtering through the known information, if Nan Li wasn't mistaken, the other party should be from the world of [Blade Dance of Elementalers].
But was the one in the group the Dark Elf King—Ren Ashdoll?
Or the incarnation of the Dark Elf King—Lestia Ashdoll?
As for the Silent Witch who joined the group with Nan Li?
There was even less information about her.
And the other party clearly didn't want to talk to anyone in the group.
This made it impossible for Nan Li to determine her world.
"That mysterious Silent Witch, I'll ask her later if I get the chance."
Determining the identities of the various group members was just a whim for Nan Li.
He wasn't determined to find out everything.
Temporarily clearing his mind, Nan Li planned to go to the Dan Ding Division next, organize the things he had just had his medical officer bring back, and then return to his residence.
However, he had barely walked far when a commotion erupted nearby on the street.
He could even see an orange-haired girl not far away, holding a jade amulet and live-streaming.
Nan Li slowly walked over and saw a Xianzhou native, his face filled with terror, shouting into the jade amulet in his hand.
"Boss, don't deduct my salary!"
"I have three children to support at home, and I need to send them to school. Whatever happens, please don't deduct my salary!"
The person on the other end of the jade amulet seemed to say something that made the Xianzhou native's expression change again.
"Why?! I work from dawn to dusk every day, overtime at the company without overtime pay, why do you still want to deduct my salary?"
"Huh? Just because I didn't stay for overtime as required today?"
"Boss, you can't do this! Boss, I—"
The Xianzhou native's voice stopped abruptly because the other party directly hung up the call.
Facing the established fact, his hands fell limply to his sides.
The jade amulet in his hand also fell to the ground with a "thud."
Feeling the curious gazes of the surrounding people and the indistinct whispers.
The Xianzhou native clutched his head with both hands, as if he had fallen into some kind of trance.
"Why? Why are you doing this to me?"
"I don't even get overtime pay for working overtime, why are you still using this reason to deduct my salary?"
"Ah ah ah... Damn it! You deserve to die!"
"You deserve to die—"
With a roar, a violent aura erupted from his body.
His entire being began to transform into a monstrous form.
Seeing this, the people who were originally gathered around watching the excitement instantly scattered and fled.
"Run! It's Mara-Struck!"
"Run! Someone's Mara-Struck!"
"Where are the Cloud Knights? Go find the Cloud Knights quickly!"
Mara-Struck has always been a nightmare lingering in the hearts of the Xianzhou people, a synonym for terror.
They would run as far as possible, even without the Cloud Knights to disperse them.
Unlike the people scattering and fleeing, Nan Li walked against the flow of the crowd.
He flashed, and in the next second, he appeared in front of the Xianzhou native who had already succumbed to Mara-Struck.
He struck out with a palm, carrying a fierce momentum, and slammed it onto the other party's body.
Boom—
A wave of energy burst out from the person's body in all directions.
Along with it, his transformation and violent aura also exploded.
Immediately after, Nan Li turned his palm into a sword finger, pointing directly at the center of the other party's eyebrows, and poured in a gentle energy rich with life force.
In this way, the person who had originally fallen into Mara-Struck remained motionless as if forcibly controlled.
Moreover, as the gentle energy poured in, his face began to calm down, and the violent aura no longer emanated from his body.
"It's Si Ding, we're saved."
"Phew~ Si Ding personally took action, so we don't need to worry."
"Fortunately, Si Ding is here, it's a blessing in disguise."