"How am I supposed to know..." Gu Shanhai actually did know because he was considered a temporary worker among players, but he was still categorized as one of the players.
Huang Yanshan's rebirth this time was actually not the same as his initial rebirth; Gu Shanhai's rebirth was a rollback, while Huang Yanshan's was an update.
Because of this, during the process of coming back, Huang Yanshan did not encounter any players, since the players had already left and it was impossible for them to appear again, which was akin to saying that the pages of the Time History Book affected this world, not the "First Epoch."
