To ascend, I had no choice but to create games-Chapter 647 - 368 The Despicable Players (Part 1)_2
Chapter 647 -368 The Despicable Players (Part 1)_2
Chapter 647 -368 The Despicable Players (Part 1)_2
The Goddess of Art began producing bubbles in midair, and these bubbles formed a string of text: “Yes.”
“You’re not good at much else, but your performance art is pretty impressive. So, what’s my ranking now?”
The Goddess of Art spat out a large number of bubbles again, quickly assembling them into a leaderboard.
On today’s leaderboard, Liuzi found his rank within the top one hundred; it seemed he’d done quite well, having exposed quite a few problematic individuals.
However, his heart skipped a beat when he saw who was in first place.
Liuzi had played hard for two hours, and his final score was twelve points.
Xiemen Waidao, on the other hand, had played for only one hour, and his score had incredibly reached one hundred and twenty points, making Liuzi suspect the other might have cheated.
But knowing Xiemen Waidao as he did, it would be more surprising if he hadn’t done something fishy.
He began to suspect that Xiemen Waidao had sent all the ghosts to the black channel, but seeing his accuracy rate closing in on 99%, Liuzi felt that the other might genuinely know some tricks.
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Realizing the top spot was occupied by someone he knew, the Goddess of Art stopped pretending to be a jellyfish.
She floated over to Liuzi, curiously looking at Xiemen Waidao’s points, then said to Liuzi, “Looks like Xiemen Waidao did pretty well.”
Afterward, she went for a look around Game Inn and then said to Liuzi, “I saw his strategy, do you want to know about it?”
“…No, I want to do it myself.”
“What are you trying to prove?”
“You don’t understand,” Liuzi said, covering his head, “based on what I know about him, he was trounced by me in ‘Immortal Road,’ so he’d definitely try to turn the tables. Now that ‘Not Immortal Road’ gives him an edge, he’d surely taunt me in his post. If I looked, he would definitely say, ‘So-called hardcore players, how hardcore are you really? Probably not even as much as me.’ So, I absolutely won’t look; if I did, I would have lost.”
The Goddess of Art couldn’t believe it, glanced at Liuzi, then went back to look at the post, only to find Xiemen Waidao’s comment to be exactly as Liuzi had described.
Although these two didn’t get along normally, they seemed to understand each other so well, each able to predict the other’s reaction.
If their genders were different, she and Mukuai 1234 probably wouldn’t stand a chance.
Meanwhile, Liuzi, still holding his head, continued to ponder.
If Xiemen Waidao could finish quickly and well, it meant there were definitely shortcuts in the game, and Liuzi needed to find them fast; otherwise, he would lose.
Looking at the ghosts still waiting for inspection, an idea suddenly struck Liuzi, and he asked, “How’s the memory of ghosts?”
“As you’ve seen, their memory is extraordinarily bad. Even the things written in the Soul Manual are easily forgotten, let alone other things.”
“But the memory of the aberrant ones is excellent.”
“Right.”
“Hmm, I’ve got it. The solution is so simple.”
Liuzi temporarily closed the checkpoint, went over to swap the labels of the black channel and the red channel, then reopened the post.
As the ghosts streamed in, he shouted through the checkpoint’s megaphone, “To save time, please could everyone go to the black channel, thank you for cooperating!”
Most of the ghosts didn’t react at all.
Just as the Goddess of Art had said, their memory was terrible; they could hardly remember what the black channel signified, and they cheerfully headed towards the red channel marked as the “black channel.”
However, not every ghost was so nonchalant.
A few of the ghosts looked fearfully at the signpost, then approached the checkpoint and whispered to Liuzi, “Sir, we’re rather afraid of black, and if possible, we’d like to go to the green channel. If that’s not possible, the red channel is also fine.”
“Then what can you offer me?” Liuzi asked with a smile.
Seeing Liuzi’s expression, the ghosts visibly relaxed and handed over their treasured items.
These items were of little consequence to Liuzi, but there was no harm in collecting them, so he happily accepted.
After taking the items, Liuzi pointed to the red channel and said, “I can’t let you into the green channel, but I can let you into the red one. After you enter, don’t say I let you in, okay?”
The ghosts granted passage by Liuzi immediately said with gratitude, “Don’t worry, sir, we definitely won’t tell anyone.”
“Alright then, take care.”
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The Ghosts stepped onto the “red carpet” and their footsteps became noticeably lighter.
They straightened their backs, whispering to each other from time to time, as if mocking the travelers on the other road for heading down a path of no return, laughing at Liuzi for having let them go.
It wasn’t until they saw the black threshold at the end and heard the roaring flames inside that they realized they had been duped.
Curses filled the air, and even from a distance, Liuzi could tell they were quite filthy.
But it didn’t matter how they cursed; the points were in hand, and all that was left was to repeat the process and push his ranking higher.
At this point, whether the game was fun or not no longer mattered to Liuzi.
He just wanted to quickly increase his points, to surpass Xiemen Waidao and secure the first place in the rankings.
So he spent every moment of his rest time grinding in the game, increasing his points continuously.
In order not to give Xiemen Waidao a chance to catch up while he wasn’t paying attention, he dared not log off and just kept grinding nonstop.
Finally, when he had accumulated enough of an advantage and was sure that Xiemen Waidao could no longer catch up, he opened Game Inn, exhausted, and located Xiemen Waidao’s post.
Just as he was about to unleash a barrage of righteous mockery on Xiemen Waidao, he discovered that Xiemen Waidao’s published method was the same as his, with similar results.
However, just two hours before, Xiemen Waidao had added a sentence to his post: “Liuzi, was it worth the trouble to fight to be number one?”
Seeing this sentence, Liuzi felt as if he had been doused with a bucket of cold water, leaving him completely chilled.
Yeah, was it worth it?
For a meaningless title, he had been fighting this pointless battle against Xiemen Waidao for so long, exhausting himself without any of the relaxation and joy that came with playing games.
Was it worth it?
But upon further thought, he realized that this was all because of Xiemen Waidao!
If it wasn’t for your provocation, would I have done such a thing?
So, it’s all Xiemen Waidao’s fault!
What right do you have to say such things!
In another scene, Xiemen Waidao was checking on the prisoners in the jail.
“Not Immortal Road” has many scenarios, and depending on the player’s race ascension, they would enter different scenes.
In this scene, players become prison guards, checking on the prisoners’ conditions and making judgments to send them to different areas.
As he was doing this, Xiemen Waidao suddenly couldn’t help it and snickered behind his hand.
Mukuai1234 moved aside discreetly and asked, “What’s with you, forget to take your medicine?”
“No, just thinking of something delightful.”
“Your wife had a baby?”
“Kind of… not exactly. I was thinking of the look on Liuzi’s face after he read my post. He must be raging impotently right now, blaming everything on me. Just thinking about his expression makes me think I could eat three bowls of rice.”
Mukuai1234 moved even further away and then continued, “He hasn’t replied to your post, how do you know?”
“Seeing how his points keep going up, I knew he must have been provoked by my ranking. But I had already anticipated this and had set a trap for him in advance. He must have stepped on it by now. It’s a shame I can’t put a camera on him; his expression would be priceless.”
“…What kind of grudge do you guys have?”
“A grudge of humiliation, irreconcilable! It’s all because he bullied me in ‘Immortal Road’.”
“…You two really know each other well, even without communicating, you can tell what the other is thinking.”
“That’s the tacit understanding between arch-enemies, heh heh heh.”
Watching Xiemen Waidao laugh like a true villain, Mukuai1234 felt that the cunning and deceit between players was utterly despicable.
And Zhiyi Heavenly Lord, who was monitoring the scene, also felt these players were truly despicable.
