WTYTIAAN Chapter 67

Chapter 67

Help, so embarrassing.

I originally just wanted to put on a show to fulfill my promise with Cornelia, but I didn’t expect it to be recorded and turned into in-game footage…

Seriously, what exactly does your game company want to do?

Yan Yunqing’s scalp tingled. He didn’t dare continue reading the post. He buried his entire head in the pillow and fell into a brief period of self-imposed isolation.

“Knock knock—” A knock came from the door.

“Sir, your order has arrived. Please open the door.”

Yan Yunqing: …

Yan Yunqing silently got up, grabbed the blanket and covered Lillian, then opened the door.

The waiter pushed the food cart in and filled the table with food, taking the opportunity to curiously size up Yan Yunqing who had opened the door.

This person eats so much in one sitting, he must have a big appetite.

After sending away the waiter, Yan Yunqing buried himself back in the pillow. Lillian, who was sleeping soundly, seemed to smell the aroma of the food. She struggled a few times under the blanket and flew out in a daze, stopping next to the table and taking a deep breath.

“So fragrant.”

As she said this, Lillian’s eyes were still closed, as if she was talking in her sleep.

“Aren’t you hungry?” Lillian 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 looked back, she saw Yan Yunqing lying there, looking pale and lifeless, like a corpse.

Yan Yunqing’s muffled voice came from the pillow, “Not hungry.”

Lillian curiously glanced at Yan Yunqing a few more times, but the hunger in her stomach drove her into a mode of frantic eating.

Yan Yunqing lay with his eyes closed for a while. At first, he was just feeling withdrawn, but later he really fell asleep from exhaustion. What woke him up again was the rumbling sound of his stomach.

That sound had drowned out Lillian’s little snores and directly woke Yan Yunqing himself.

He rubbed his aching stomach and groped to get up.

The room was pitch black. The curtains hadn’t been drawn, so he must have slept through the day and into the night.

Lillian was still sound asleep. Yan Yunqing rubbed his face to wake himself up and walked to the table. He discovered that the food he had ordered in the morning had been mostly devoured by Lillian, but a piece of roasted lamb chop was left on the plate, probably Lillian had saved it for him.

Looking at the already cold and greasy roasted lamb chop, Yan Yunqing didn’t feel much of an appetite.

But his stomach was now painfully hungry, so Yan Yunqing simply found a few small cakes he had made after unlocking cooking skills from his backpack, stuffed one into his mouth, and the sweet and dense cream instantly filled his entire mouth.

Mmm…

The abundant sugar caused his slightly drowsy brain to start working. He pressed his brow and recalled what he had wanted to do before falling asleep.

Hmm, he seemed to be planning to take a bath.

But since he had already slept, going back to take a bath now didn’t seem very useful.

After hesitating for ten minutes.

Yan Yunqing soaked in the wooden tub in the hotel washroom. The hot water covered his chest and reached his jaw, gently washing away his tired body.

Comfortable…

Yan Yunqing narrowed his eyes and sighed contentedly, then casually opened the game panel.

He reopened the forum and carefully checked the post he had found that morning. After so much time, the post had successfully become a hot topic and had even been marked as essential reading. Yan Yunqing saw it as soon as he opened the forum.

The post was still full of dangerous comments about Joker, but in addition to Joker, some fleeting scenes had also been found and magnified by netizens with a magnifying glass.

Not only had Joker gained popularity, but Cornelia standing in the crowd, Princess Alice, and several beautiful passersby had all been extracted separately.

Yan Yunqing even saw an extremely familiar person among them.

… The woman with the charm skill that he had bumped into once at the Black Inn.

Judging by her attire, she was clearly someone with status, and she was even invited to attend this banquet. How could she have been staying in the Black Inn? Comparing the prices and services, the Black Inn was really inferior to the hotel run by the Augreir Family.

Yan Yunqing paid more attention to it, remembering the woman’s appearance, and decided to be more vigilant if he ever met her again.

This was a terrifying woman of unknown identity who also possessed a charm skill. He couldn’t let his guard down.

The post also analyzed a lot of content. Yan Yunqing read it all and discovered that these people had guessed most of his Demon King storyline.

The research enthusiasts were really scary. They could dig out so many details from just an in-game recording.

Having passed that awkward phase, Yan Yunqing could maintain a normal attitude towards these terrible remarks from strangers. He browsed through it and confirmed that no one had mentioned the game “Demon King.”

So, the game notification he had received saying that “Demon King” was about to launch a multiplayer version was indeed sent to him alone.

After all, it seemed that he was the only player of “Demon King” at the moment…

Yan Yunqing couldn’t figure out what he had that would be targeted. If this was a conspiracy, it shouldn’t be necessary to target him, right?

The only thing he could think of was his parents. Maybe they had provoked someone in the past, and those people were coming to take revenge on him…

To be honest, Yan Yunqing wasn’t sure if this was revenge, but could two ordinary criminal police officers really provoke such mysterious entities?

However, what could be confirmed for the time being was that this game company could not control his actions in the other world.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have just been recording in-game footage and sending it to the players to watch. They couldn’t just want to make him socially awkward, right?

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

You know what, the Demon King did have a huge force behind him, and if the future main storyline was related to his dependents, then it was indeed related to the Demon King.

Hmm…

Actually, this in-game recording might not be such a bad thing. Although the feeling of doing anything and potentially having it recorded and released to make him socially awkward wasn’t great, if he used it well, he could indeed create the image of the protagonist in the players’ minds.

This way, when the players came online, he, with his innate identity and background, would be more likely to gain the players’ trust and could instantly gain a large number of helpers.

For example, this time, he wanted to assassinate Fei Wu. It would have been difficult for him to get news about the banquet on his own, but with Cornelia’s information exchange, he could plan and sneak in more smoothly. He then received Alice’s help, so he successfully killed Fei Wu.

What if Cornelia and Alice were replaced with players? Even if one player couldn’t do it, couldn’t dozens, hundreds, or thousands of players do it?

He could even have the players form a team to directly defeat Fei Wu as a boss. After all, Fei Wu was born with a red name, so defeating him would give experience. Yan Yunqing could then find some trash from his backpack to give to the players—

Putting everything else aside, even the trash in the Demon King’s backpack would be artifacts for the players in the early game!

Thinking this, Yan Yunqing’s eyes lit up. Although the players were uncontrollable, fearless players were really useful! They were even more useful than black slaves!

Yan Yunqing rubbed his hands together, starting to think about whether he should do a few more big things to have that mysterious game company record and release them, continuing to build his protagonist image in the players’ minds.

*

Blue Star, Flower Country Network Security Department.

“Have you found the person behind this website?” a stern, resolute-looking man in his forties asked.

A woman with glasses, who was tapping away at a computer, turned her head and replied helplessly, “We still can’t find them at all. We’ve tried many methods, and all we’ve found are some useless botnets. This guy is too good at hiding.”

Another young man sitting next to her also turned his chair around. “Sister Qin is right. This guy is too good at hiding. I even suspect that the other party isn’t even human.”

The middle-aged man frowned deeply. “Not human? Xiao Wen, what’s your basis for that?”

Gao Wen spread his hands. “I don’t have any basis. It’s just my feeling. Before I was recruited, I was considered one of the more famous hackers in the world. I’ve fought with the top hackers in the rankings, and none of them were like this guy…”

“Pure garbage data flow. To find its location, you not only have to analyze the real one from a pile of fake data, but you also have to prevent the massive data flow from being thrown at you in an instant.” Gao Wen shook his head. “If I hadn’t been quick to pull the network cable these few times, our department’s computers would have been ruined.”

In hacker battles, the most effective way to stop the war isn’t surrender, and it’s not attacking to defend, but directly pulling the network cable.

Gao Wen hesitated, “Pure garbage data flow, even beginner hackers don’t use this method anymore, and the data flow is terrifyingly large. To put it bluntly, you’d need a supercomputer to handle these data flows well, right?”

But what hacker could come up with a supercomputer?

Could it be that another country was launching a provocation against their network security department?

That’s not right. This task initially only required them to find out who was behind the website. They were only attacked after they went to investigate.

The middle-aged man’s face tightened even more. He pondered for a moment. “You all put aside your previous tasks and focus on investigating this. Notify me immediately when you have news.”

“Yes!” (xN)

The people 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 going on? Why does the higher-up value this website so much? It just looks like an ordinary game company to me, right?”

“Quietly complete your task.” Sister Qin glared at him. “Besides, have you ever seen a game company with this kind of hacking technology? A regular game company that almost destroyed your computer, the former No. 1?”

Gao Wen chuckled sheepishly: “I was just curious…”

Sister Qin sighed, looking at the video playing on the computer screen. Her position was relatively high, so she knew a little about the higher-ups’ movements. Based on the tasks issued by the higher-ups, she vaguely guessed something.

It was just that this news was too bizarre, and normal people would find it hard to believe. Since it concerned classified information, Sister Qin remained tight-lipped with Gao Wen.

Gao Wen curled his lips, pushed off with his feet, and the sliding wheels under the special gaming chair rolled, sending him back in front of the computer. The same video was playing on his computer.

Apart from the special effects being a little impressive, the video looked like an ordinary game video and there was nothing special about it.

Gao Wen propped his cheek up with his hand, his gaze falling on the video title, and muttered: “Holographic game… really?”