The news related to the Stodd Island incident, under the deliberate guidance of the Governor Mansion, had already been hyped up in Suo Yu Bay long before Xia Nan and the others returned.
Now that the people who experienced it on the island had come back, they naturally couldn't avoid being pestered and interrogated in detail by curious adventurers.
"Seriously? Dodd turned the entire island into his promotion ritual?!"
"Why would I lie to you? Just grab any adventurer who came back from the island and they can confirm it!"
"I heard people say that when some adventurers got dragged into the ritual, they couldn't even control their bodies—their souls turned into beasts, like they'd entered another world, and they had to fight each other in animal form."
"He's telling the truth. And dying in the ritual will affect your body in the real world—you end up like you've caught some disease, weak and powerless."
