Chapter : 67

Help, so embarrassing.

I just wanted to show off for a bit to fulfill my agreement with Cornelia. I didn't expect it to be recorded and made into an in-game recording...

No, what on earth does your game company want to do?

Yan Yunqing's scalp went numb. He didn't even dare to continue looking at the post. He buried his entire head in the pillow and fell into a brief period of self-isolation.

"Knock knock—" There was a knock on the door.

"Sir, the meal you ordered has arrived. Please open the door."

Yan Yunqing: ...

Yan Yunqing silently got up, conveniently grabbed the quilt to cover Lilian, and opened the door.

The attendant pushed in a dining cart and filled the table with food, while curiously sizing up Yan Yunqing who had opened the door.

This person eats so much in one meal, he can really eat.

After seeing off the attendant, Yan Yunqing buried himself in the pillow again. Lilian, who was sleeping soundly, seemed to have smelled the fragrance of the food. She struggled a few times under the quilt, flew out in a daze, and stopped by the table, taking a deep breath.

"It smells so good."

When she said this, Lilian's eyes were still closed, looking as if she were talking in her sleep.

"Aren't you hungry?" Lilian opened her eyes, yawned, and was still a little sleepy. She grabbed a piece of roasted lamb chop and stuffed it into her mouth. When she turned her head, she saw Yan Yunqing lying there, pale, like a corpse.

Yan Yunqing's muffled voice came from the pillow, "Not hungry."

Lilian looked at Yan Yunqing curiously for a few more moments, but the hunger in her stomach made her start a mode of frantic intake.

Yan Yunqing lay with his eyes closed for a while. At first, he was self-isolating, but later he was really tired and fell asleep. What woke him up again was the rumbling of his stomach.

The sound had already drowned out Lilian's small snores and directly woke Yan Yunqing himself up.

He rubbed his stomach, which was a little pained from hunger, and fumbled to get up.

The room was pitch black, and the curtains were not drawn. He should have slept until night.

Lilian was still sleeping soundly. Yan Yunqing rubbed his face, sobered up a bit, and walked to the table to find that the food he had ordered in the morning had been almost completely wiped out by Lilian. There was still a portion of roasted lamb chop left on the plate, probably left for him by Lilian.

Looking at the roasted lamb chop that had long since gone cold and looked a bit greasy, Yan Yunqing felt that he had no appetite.

But his stomach was uncomfortably hungry at the moment. Yan Yunqing simply took out a few small cakes he had made after starting cooking from his backpack, stuffed one into his mouth, and the sweet and dense cream immediately filled his entire mouth.

Mmm...

The sufficient amount of sugar made his sleepy brain start to work. He pressed his glabella and recalled what he wanted to do before he fell asleep.

Hmm, it seems he was planning to take a bath.

But he had already slept, so going back to take a bath now seemed useless.

After hesitating for ten minutes.

Yan Yunqing was soaking in the wooden tub in the inn's washroom. The hot water covered his chest, reached his jaw, and gently washed his tired body.

Comfortable...

Yan Yunqing squinted his eyes, let out a long sigh of enjoyment, and casually opened the game panel.

He reopened the forum and carefully checked the post he had found in the morning. After fermenting for so long, the post had successfully become a hot post and was even featured. Yan Yunqing saw it as soon as he opened the forum.

The post was still full of dangerous comments about Joker, but besides Joker, some fleeting scenes were also found by netizens with magnifying glasses.

Not only did Joker become popular, but people like Cornelia standing in the crowd, the little princess Alice, and a few beautiful-looking passersby were also individually screenshotted.

Yan Yunqing even saw an extremely familiar person among them.

...The woman with a natural charm skill that he had run into once at the black inn.

Looking at her attire, she was obviously also a person of status, and she was even invited to this banquet. Why did she stay in a black inn back then? Comparing just the price and service, that black inn was really not as good as the one opened by the Augreer family.

Yan Yunqing paid more attention and remembered this woman's appearance. He had to be more vigilant if he met her again in the future.

This was a terrifying woman of unknown identity with a natural charm skill. He couldn't be caught off guard.

The post also analyzed a lot of content. Yan Yunqing read them one by one and found that these people had actually guessed his past Demon King storyline seventy to eighty percent right.

Lore enthusiasts are really scary. They can dig up so many details from just one in-game recording.

After getting over that awkward period, Yan Yunqing could also look at these terrifying comments from strangers with a calm mind. He browsed through them and confirmed that no one had mentioned the game "Demon King."

So the game notification I received back then, saying that "Demon King" was about to launch a multiplayer version, was indeed sent to me alone.

After all, it seems I'm the only player of "Demon King" at the moment...

Yan Yunqing couldn't figure out what about him was worth coveting. If this was a conspiracy, there was no need to target him, right?

The only thing he could think of was his parents' side. Maybe they had offended someone in the past, and those people were coming to retaliate against him...

To be honest, Yan Yunqing wasn't sure if this was retaliation, but could two ordinary criminal police officers really provoke such a mysterious existence?

However, one thing could be confirmed for now: this game company could not control his actions in this other world.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be just a matter of recording an in-game video and sending it to the players. It couldn't just be to make him socially dead, right?

They even let the players imagine that there was a huge force behind Joker, related to the future main storyline.

Believe it or not, there was indeed a huge force behind the Demon King, and if the future main storyline was related to these retainers of his, then it was indeed related to the Demon King.

Hmm...

Actually, this in-game recording doesn't seem to be a bad thing. Although the feeling that everything he does might be recorded and released, leading to social death, isn't good, if used well, he could indeed create the identity of the story's protagonist in the players' minds.

This way, when the players go online, he, who has a natural identity and background, would more easily gain the players' trust and could instantly get a large number of helpers.

For example, this time, he wanted to assassinate Feu. It would be difficult for him to get news of the banquet on his own, but with Cornelia's information exchange, he could arrange his plan more smoothly. After sneaking in, he received Alice's help, and thus successfully killed Feu.

What if Cornelia and Alice were replaced by players? Even if one player couldn't do it, could dozens, hundreds, or thousands of players not do it?

He could even let the players form a team and directly treat Feu as a boss to farm. After all, Feu was naturally red-named, and farming him would give experience. Yan Yunqing could then take some junk from his backpack and give it to the players—

Putting everything else aside, even the junk in the Demon King's backpack would be divine artifacts for the players in the early stages of the game!

When Yan Yunqing thought of this, his eyes lit up. Although the players were uncontrollable, players who were not afraid of death were really useful! This was even more slavish than a black slave!

Yan Yunqing rubbed his fists, starting to consider whether he should do a few more big things, let that mysterious game company record them and release them, and continue to pave the way for his image as the protagonist in the players' minds.

***

Blue Star, Huaguo Network Security Department.

"Have you found the person behind this webpage?" a man in his forties with a serious and resolute face asked.

A woman with glasses, typing on the computer, turned her head upon hearing this, with a helpless expression, "We still can't find anything at all. We've tried many methods, but in the end, all we found were some useless bots. This guy is too good at hiding."

Another young man sitting next to her also turned his chair, "Sister Qin is right. This guy is too good at hiding. I even suspect that the other party is not a human at all."

The middle-aged man's brows furrowed tightly, "Not a human? Xiao Wen, do you have any basis for that?"

Gao Wen spread his hands, "No basis, just my feeling. Before I was recruited, I was considered one of the more famous hackers in the world. I've fought against the top hackers on the rankings, and none of them were like this guy..."

"Pure junk data stream. If you want to find its location, not only do you have to analyze the real one from a pile of false data, but you also have to prevent the huge data stream it throws at you in an instant." Gao Wen shook his head, "If I hadn't pulled the network cable quickly these few times, the computers in our department would have been wrecked."

In a hacker battle, the most effective way to cease fire is not to surrender, nor to attack as a form of defense, but to directly pull the network cable.

Gao Wen was conflicted, "Pure junk data stream. Even beginner hackers don't use this method anymore. And that data stream is terrifyingly huge. To put it bluntly, to be able to handle these data streams well, you'd at least need a supercomputer, right?"

But how could a hacker get a supercomputer?

It couldn't be that another country was provoking their network security department, right?

No, this task was initially just for them to find out who was behind that webpage. They were only attacked after they went to investigate.

The middle-aged man's face tensed up even more. He pondered for a moment, "You all put aside your previous tasks for now and focus on this one. Let me know immediately if you have any news."

"Yes!" xN

Everyone in the department responded in unison. The middle-aged man turned and left. Gao Wen couldn't help but poke Sister Qin, "Sister Qin, what's the situation? Why is the higher-up paying so much attention to this webpage? But to me, it just looks like an ordinary game company, right?"

"Quietly complete your task." Sister Qin gave him a sideways glance, "Besides, what kind of game company have you seen with this kind of hacking technology? An ordinary game company that almost wrecked the computer of you, the former no. 1?"

Gao Wen said sheepishly, "I was just curious..."

Sister Qin sighed and looked at the video playing on her computer screen. Her position was relatively high, so she knew a little about the higher-ups' movements. Based on the tasks issued from above, she had vaguely guessed something.

It was just that this news was too bizarre for any normal person to believe, and it was also a secret. So Sister Qin still kept her mouth shut to Gao Wen.

Gao Wen pouted. With a kick, the special gaming chair's wheels rolled, sending him back to his computer. The same video was playing on his computer.

Except for the slightly impressive special effects, this video looked like an ordinary game video with nothing special about it.

Gao Wen puffed his cheeks, his eyes falling on the video title, and he muttered, "A full-dive game... really?"