Chapter 35: Everyday Wickedness (2/2)

However, there were also news reports like these that have reached to almost a thousand within the year, scattering from all around the world. It was such a surprise for these people to unexpectedly collapse in the middle of the day.

Due to the sudden rise of deaths from playing mobile games, all kinds of professors and experts from here and far have been calling and consulting with one another to talk about this mystery.

Yet, no matter what experts say on the value of health and the decrease of staying up late, it still didn’t stop people from playing on their cell phones all night long. Every day, there were always new articles regarding these deaths popping up on the Internet. Everyone proved that even in the face of death, they would still insist on playing mobile games, even at the risk of their lives.

In any case, this was quite abnormal.

Seeing these articles, Bai Yan already understood how the game would kill him off after his defeat.

“For the app’s players to have a higher chance to survive, they will surely browse through the forum’s posts non-stop and study other’s experiences on how they passed the level, and since we are incapable of telling others about the game, all we can do is vent our emotions out on the forum and inevitably stare at our phones the entire day. As for those who don’t know what’s happening internally, the situation looks like a case of phone addiction, and this kind of people’s deaths wouldn’t raise anyone’s suspicions.”

Bai Yan softly mumbled to himself, “That college student died as if he was playing a game. Moreover, it seemed that his phone was tampered with since nobody could see the app. Even if the player was scrolling through the forum, from other people’s perspective, that person would only look like he was browsing an ordinary web page.”

With this in mind, Bai Yan began to test his theory.

He whipped out his phone and quickly ordered some dessert for supper, and when the delivery guy had arrived, Bai Yan tried to open the app and show it to him.

As a result, the delivery guy’s reaction was “You’re crazy! You’re showing me your King X Glory game while your teammates are dying.”

Bai Yan was then only aware that the app’s icon usually displayed on his phone had been long gone and was replaced with an image of a King X Glory game. After the delivery boy was out of sight, the app had once again returned.

Once the delivery boy went away, Bai Yan discovered that the King X Glory page was still open. Without a doubt, he would never play this game. The first two people have already died early, and he didn’t want to stoop to playing this boring game.

Although it was a ranked game, wouldn’t it be better for his teammates to be left miserable?

Since the game already began, Bai Yan easily sent out a few kind words, ‘I’m leaving, you guys should quickly give up,’ ‘Just give up,’ ‘You guys can’t even come close to winning,’ so that his teammates that still want to top the board will completely explode out of anger.

After, he delightfully quit the game, regardless of whether the game will be left with a 4v5 match up and whether his teammates burst from rage from their struggles.

Bai Yan sat back on the chair and ate his midnight snack as he continued to read through the news.

When he opened the new web page, Bai Yan accidentally clicked on a banner ad. He then entered a live broadcasting website that had a bright and colorful cover on it.

With just a glance, Bai Yan immediately wanted to close it, but he stared at the bright.

“I think I’ve seen this person before, who is it?” He whispered as he opened the live broadcast, and appearing on the luminous screen was a made-over woman.

There was a large bowl in front of her and beside it was a large pile of instant noodle packs.

“Afu’s live broadcast.” Word per word, Bai Yan slowly read out loud the name of the broadcast, “Afu, Chu Fu, so it’s you.”

No wonder you showed that you loved eating food a lot, as it turned out, you’re a big mukbang(1) star.

T/N: The original translation here was an eating champion blogger, but I felt that mukbang would be a better fit since it’s been trending globally recently.

Based on her gifts and collection, Chu Fu was an upcoming mukbang star with only a thousand or so fans.

Generally speaking, these small-time influencers immensely cared about their rising popularity.

Bai Yan picked up the corners of his mouth and without saying anything else, he signed up for a new account, clicked follow, and favorited her video. Then, he deposited money into this new account, gave two sizable gifts to her, and contacted Chu Fu.

After that, he easily infiltrated Chu Fu’s open group and successfully upgraded himself to get into the live broadcast room. During the stream, Bai Yan continuously sent her a stream of unending gifts.

Bai Yan gave around 500 yen before trying his luck to ask for a live meetup for her.

He genuinely didn’t have much hope. He merely wanted to get more realistic information from Chu Fu, but unexpectedly, Chu Fu agreed for the meetup.

“You still dare accept huh.”

Chu Fu’s reply felt far too straightforward, leading Bai Yan to feel somewhat more alert, contrary to what one might initially feel, and worrying that this was just a trap that she had set up for him.

But, even considering Chu Fu’s hook and bait, he still had to go to this meeting.

He still remembered what happened in the forum.