Chapter 178
The players of Land of Gods & Demons had the fortune to witness a full demonstration of the game’s trolling tools today.
And the “lucky recipient”, GM66, was currently writing his resignation letter in tears. ‘These lunatics! Not only are they torturing me in body, they’re also torturing me in spirit! I want to resign!’
‘They fucking toyed with me for the whole day.’
4Seas showed up with a group of people all of a sudden. Seeing Shi Sheng’s group surrounding someone, he asked her out of curiosity.
4Seas had turned off his world chat earlier. The Camp War was due to start at the end of the month. Therefore, as the alliance leader, he had been levelling his troops without rest so he didn’t have time to check the world chat for gossip.
They were currently in a peaceful zone, so players aiming to level wouldn’t come here.
Hidden dungeons were like the “Dream Of A Thousand Years” Secret Realm that Shi Sheng opened up. Though of course, the latter could only be opened by two people, so it should belong to a special class of hidden dungeons.
‘There’s no way she entered the wrong characters!’
4Seas pretended to not see GM66’s message.
‘That’s a battle with more than a thousand players ah! Definitely more impressive than a City War.’
4Seas invited her because he felt her skills were good—though of course, some part of the reason was because of their friendship. She wasn’t like other girl gamers (in this game)—she was much more straightforward; to her, one was one, and two was two[2]. This was the type of girl he liked {not in the romantic sense… at least… I don’t think so?}.
There were two Alliances in the Deity Camp, and there was no way the developers could allow only one Alliance to participate, so both Alliances would be participating in the upcoming Camp War.
As Drunkflower Den was the guild of one of the Alliance Heads, the number of participating members would naturally be higher.
‘Forgot about her enmity with Drunkflower Den…’
4Seas was in a rush to get to the hidden dungeon, so he hurriedly led his party away.
‘Deities falling to demonhood should only come out in the next update, so how come she knows?’
Compared to the two earnest responses above, this one was…
‘Too arrogant! Boss, I can’t handle her alone!’
‘What’s with that prickly tone?! Can’t you speak nicely?’
‘I(bbb) knew she’d start playing underhanded tricks knowing she couldn’t beat me(bbb) head-on! Activating “scum-killer” mode!’
True to her word, Shi Sheng didn’t continue tormenting GM66, instead popping on and offline erratically. Her supposed watcher, GM66, couldn’t find her most of the time.
GM66 felt like Ink Seeker was much tamer than Shi Sheng. The only things he did all day were kill bosses and get chased around by people from Countless Generations. Which in his opinion, was much better than a certain Dashen who’s location had been hard to pin down ever since he’d told her who reported her.
‘Destroy the company? This joke isn’t funny at all!’
The company behind Land of Gods & Demons was an influential entity in the national gaming industry.
Ink Seeker ignored GM and continued running the boss. GM66 felt conflicted for a while. ‘Ink Seeker Dashen was joking… right?
I mean, you can’t destroy a company just by using cheats…
He must’ve just been scaring me.’
GM66 comforted himself inwardly.
……
One fine beautiful morning, people found that there was something off about the game.
Li Suo had disappeared from the leaderboards.
When they searched his name, the result that came up was: “This player does not exist.”
‘WTF! What happened? Li Suo Dashen deleted his character? That’s illogical!’
[1] She called him “萌主”, which is sort of like “cutie” but without the romantic connotation. And bunnies are cute (when they’re not gnawing your fingers off)… so, Mr. Bunny. He’s supposed to be “Alliance Head”/ “盟主”, which is pronounced the same pronunciation as “萌主” so it’s easy to mis-type.
[2] Meaning she doesn’t hide what she thinks or feels behind pretty words. Her words are basically what she’s thinking/feeling.