Chapter 30 (1/2)

Chapter 30: Solving The Mystery (1)

Yue Qiang had always thought that his psychological resilience was very good.

The fact that the Game’s system gave him 14 points of Wisdom was a proof of this point.

But right now, he felt like he was going insane.

On the monitor, the short but impactful cutscene had already ended, and the screen had returned to the t.i.tle screen. The interface looked as clean as ever. The red, green and blue tricolored bars sat quietly at the corner. The red was at zero, the green was filled only a bit, and the blue progress bar that was originally at 30% progress rate had advanced until just at 50%.

The two big words ‘Enter Game’ was right beside the blue progress bar.

Watching the familiar interface, Yue Qiang felt absolutely awful.

Should he click that ‘Enter Game’ b.u.t.ton? He didn’t know.

He didn’t know what was going on when a cutscene had appeared out of nowhere while he was fighting against the Boss. He didn’t know why his heart would race inexplicably every time he was about to die in game. He didn’t even know if he would return to that battlefield and be killed right away by the horse riding, spear wielding storyline Boss if he pressed that ‘Enter Game’ b.u.t.ton!

He didn’t know anything.

Right now, Yue Qiang was feeling so uncomfortable, extremely irritated that he even felt like smas.h.i.+ng the PC apart.

In truth, this feeling wasn’t borne just now. From the moment he was forced into contact with this game, this feeling of being kept in the dark had always been there. When he realized that the cla.s.s beauty he knew Rao Xiao Ting might be an NPC, this feeling had once reached its maximum limit.

It was Luqiu Duanyi’s explanation that helped him forget those jumbled thoughts forcefully, and returned back into the game.

She remember her saying: Only by increasing your own power, will you be able to solve everything.

But there had always been a voice in his heart asking himself a most simple question, but he didn’t know how to answer it at all:

When you have learned that the people in the real world are slowly turning into rigid NPCs, how can you still be playing games so calmly?

At the time, Yue Qiang’s answer was: A woman who held no ill intentions towards me had told me that, by increasing my power, I would eventually understand everything. But he really could not hold in that unbearable feeling any longer. As a normal person, he had the most basic common sense and judgment. However, everything that had happened up to this point had long exceeded the realm of common sense.

Perhaps what I need right now is a ‘Game Manual’? Or maybe I need to register at ‘The Game’s’ official website and get a real grasp of the game’s context?

Yue Qiang’s thoughts boiled as he sat in front of the computer desk. Suddenly, the words ‘official website’ sparked a forgotten memory.

A long time ago, he once posted a thread on a famous single player game forum and consulted the users very obscurely for some information. Too many things had happened since then that he had forgotten about this matter.

He hurriedly took out his mobile phone in attempt to seek out that thread. While searching, he made up his mind: If he couldn’t figure out what the h.e.l.l was going on, he would rather smash the entire PC and stay away from this game forever.

After logging into the forum, he flipped through pages for a long time before he finally found the thread he had sent three months ago. With a s.h.i.+vering finger, he tapped inside.

“Rich guy at the second post, any plans to donate us some money?”

“The poster below me has no d.”

“The fifth poster will definitely know the answer.”

“You s.h.i.+tty spammers, I will @moderator to ban all of your spammer IDs.”

“You s.h.i.+tty spammers, I will @moderator to ban all of your spammer IDs + 1.”

…

There were tens of replies in the thread, and they were all spams, copypastas or raffle posts. When he glanced all the way to the bottom, he actually couldn’t find any valid information at all.

Suddenly, Yue Qiang realized something, and he clicked ‘Go Back’ to check out the other forum threads. The usual quality threads such as new game reviews, 100% saves, walkthrough summaries, bug reports and so on had completely vanished. The forum was pretty lively, it’s just that all of them were spam threads.

They were all forum spams!