Chapter 4 Bai Ye: I didn’t expect that I could become a little famous before I died. Thanks for the self-promotion!
Since the DN system came to the surface world, the demon game has existed for nearly a hundred years. As the demon game continues, the related supporting services are becoming more and more complete. Except for the demon-level games, the demon game that will not cause large-scale real disasters has almost become a part of people's daily life entertainment.
For example, the Demon Game live broadcast software "Eden" is projected into the entire game field through the DM system for other players and ordinary people to watch and learn game skills, and there is also a forum AD (AD) that specializes in discussing Demon Game-related topics.
The real-time data network composed of the former and the latter can update the total points rankings of various types of players and the team points rankings in real time, making people feel that the mysterious DM system is really operating the Demon Game as a listed game.
At this moment, in the corner of the latest live broadcast room on the homepage of Eden, one of the largest video websites in Night City, a live broadcast room with the Heart of Night as its cover quietly appeared.
[What's going on?] Damn it! I just randomly joined a live broadcast of the latest Demon Game, but I didn’t expect to see Shuise, the boss who was ranked 13th on the A-list of Auxiliary? ! 】
Is there something wrong with my eyes? Wasn't Boss Shuise invited by the Law Enforcers to perform at the Neon Heart jewelry exhibition tonight? 】
[Have you watched the news upstairs? Kuaikan Forum and other websites are now the top search terms! "Shocking! The Phantom Thief Wonder appears, and the Heart of Night at the jewelry exhibition disappears!"】
[Oh my god, why is there a thief coming to steal the Heart of Night? ! This person is too bold - he looks like a devil's apostle and must be punished immediately! He must be locked up in a prison deep in the Night Tide Abyss and made to suffer! 】
[I give up, these disgusting demon apostles - hiss, damn, was this demon game also deliberately triggered by these demon apostles like the previous ones? The frequency of demon games in the place where they appear is abnormally high! 】
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The barrage of comments quickly flashed through a long series of accusations against the devil's apostle. The newly debuted phantom thief had not yet completed his first mission, but he had already been labeled an unforgivable criminal. However, the two people who were playing the game in the devil's realm in the other world knew nothing about the live barrage of comments at this moment. They were concentrating on the game information given by the DM after each copy began.
[Game initiator: Gem Hunter Shan Karabi (Level: Demon God)]
【Game Information:
Dungeon Name: Nesting Gemstone Mansion
Instance type: Escape
The demon Dankarabbi from the other world loves to collect shiny gems. This time, he has set his eyes on the Heart of Night and hopes to take it for himself. Dear players, please quickly find a way to leave this building, open the escape door on the first floor of the building, and escape from here before Dankarabbi eats the Heart of Night. 】
The black and white pixel blocks quickly dissipated, and Shuise's face became very ugly. The demons in the inner world are divided into three levels: demons, devils, and the devil king who commands all demons. The devil king is already a distant legend, and the appearance of the devil level must be accompanied by disasters and bloodshed in the surface world. This time the master of the game is not only a demon, but also a projection of the devil "Single Karabi".
He took a deep breath, but at least, if he could protect the game token represented by the Heart of Night here, Dan Karabi and his followers would never have any chance to come to the real world. If they won, they would not lose.
But if you lose... Unlike other ordinary demon games where you can redeem lives by consuming points, the Demon God's game will make everyone truly die here.
And his teammates... Shuise looked at the black-clothed thief with a complicated expression, who seemed to not take the demon seriously at all, and didn't know what attitude he should take towards the enemy who had just fought a life-and-death battle with him.
Being able to lure the real demon here, this demon apostle clearly wants to make him lose the game and release the real demon from the other world, right? !
Anyway, no matter what, during the duration of the game, after the inner and outer worlds overlap, the demon servants can also cause serious chaos in the neon buildings after the inner and outer worlds overlap.
Bai Ye was calm and did not show any strange expression, as if he was used to meeting the devil, which would mean death for ordinary people.
But he had actually killed that damn option simulator eight hundred times in his mind.
Option simulator t173 was completely oblivious to the host's silence and was still trying to add fuel to the fire.
[It has been detected that the player's online discussion has reached the minimum limit, popularity value: 21. Completed the first story anchor mission! 】
[Next, dear host, please make a choice:]
[1. Excitedly holding Shuise’s hand, shouting: You are my idol! I have posters of your detective agency all over my bedside, and I have also written a lot of fan fiction for you! 】
[2. Pretend to be the villain, pretend that everything is under your control: "Yes, that's right, you all fell into my trap.]
[3. Keep walking forward in silence, no one knows where to go, and then find the time to pretend to ask a question: "Do you dare to trust me?"]
Bai Ye: ...Or I might as well just kill myself here, and at the same time help boss Shuise to gain some benefits.
To be honest, he was just an ordinary high school student who hadn't finished his homework tonight and had to report to Solomon Academy tomorrow. His only hobby was watching the exquisite and passionate cooperation of his own Wall Squid Detective Agency in the devil's game. Why did he have to be cursed by such a cruel fate!
The countdown for t173's options is proceeding ruthlessly. If Bai Ye still does not make any choice when the countdown ends, t173 will randomly choose one of the three options.
A member of the senior fan club of the True Squid Detective Agency, a well-known Squid Detective Agency fan fiction producer on the forum, and a writer and painter who writes in both CP and CB directions, Mrs. Square Root of Three hesitated for a moment and finally chose the third option.
Even though he looks very much like Riddler, at least he has a B-level personality and won't OOC his character as a phantom thief. As a fan fiction writer, he would never OOC even if he killed himself!
With such belief in mind, Bai Ye gritted his teeth and looked at Shuise, then said nothing and walked away.
"Hey! We haven't figured out the surrounding environment yet. Isn't it too dangerous for us to act so carelessly?!"
Shuise was so scared that his eyes opened. He looked in the direction where wonder disappeared, hesitated for a moment, and followed him.
"Where are we going?" Shuise followed behind Wonder and asked cautiously. Try not to go alone in the dungeon. He was just a supporting player and did not have strong self-preservation skills like the containment and observant types. He could only choose to follow the thief.
Bai Ye was silent and thought to himself: ...I told you I don't know either. Do you believe me?
Unfortunately, he was speechless and could only keep moving forward along the road ahead.
I have a miserable life and no worries. Just do it.
The basic rules of the demon game are somewhat like an asymmetric competition between demons and players in a 1vs. Players are responsible for collecting tokens that support the superposition of the inner and outer worlds in the inner world copy marked out by the demons, purifying the tokens to open the safety door, and taking them out of the game space. Then the game copy will successfully disappear and will never descend in the real world again. If only the player escapes from the copy, then the copies created by the devil will descend into this world many times. The fewer players escape, the frequency of descent will gradually become higher.
The dungeon scene of this demon game is the Neon Heart Building after superposition. The token that needs to be protected is the Heart of Night. The exit security door of the dungeon area is at the main door on the bottom floor of the building, and their current location is...
Bai Ye did not stop. He jumped down from the fire escape that led to the real top floor and landed steadily. Even the arc of the hem of his windbreaker was just right. Thanks to the [Miracle Magician], at least now he can use his skills to turn himself into a veteran of the devil game who is so skilled that he doesn't look like a high school student.
“This is too…”
Shuise was startled and also went down the fire escape. The moment he saw the room clearly, even though his teacher, the great musician Bruce was a famous jewel merchant, he couldn't help but sigh.
The decoration of the corridors and rooms inside the building had been completely stripped away, leaving only the most essential cement walls. In some places, the steel frames were even exposed. However, on the cement walls, countless dazzling gems grew like fungi. Red agate, sapphire, corundum, various crystals, jade... Minerals that would never appear in the same mine at the same time were illogically piled up in every corner of the room.
"This place is really..."
Bai Ye looked at the clusters of crystals and muttered to himself, "Oh, heaven...how much does this cost in total..."
Shuise immediately listened attentively to what the other party was about to say, but he didn't expect to hear a sentence that was completely out of character with the Phantom Thief's personality. He staggered and almost fell forward, the weird and helpless feeling he had when facing the out-of-line president of the Squid Detective Agency surged into his heart.
"It seems that you don't care at all that we are entering a game of the Devil God level this time... Do you Devil Apostles really start the game with the intention of committing suicide every time?"
Bai Ye suddenly came back to his senses from the temptation of money. He shrugged his shoulders and looked nonchalant: "Yeah, that's right."
Shuise: "... Take your eyes off those gems first! Did you hear me? Demon level! Demon level!"
Bai Ye's eyes were darting around, trying to maintain his will by not looking at the gems, but he soon found a way to make himself look less insane - in a room that looked like an office in a company in a corridor, a red and blue glow similar to the Heart of Night was slowly flashing in the crystal clusters in the corner of the wall - those were exactly the fragments of the replica token they needed to collect.
Shuise looked at Bai Ye with a half-believing and complicated expression as he and he began to use the power of the soul tag to melt the crystal wrapping the fragments.
The fragments of the copy token can be sold at a very high price at an auction outside. It is a powerful item that can increase the power of the tag and transfer the tag host. Even the devil apostle will not say no to such a precious thing.
"Well, at least before leaving the game copy, my only choice now is to cooperate with you."
It was a two-player game copy, or a two-player game copy facing the devil. As an auxiliary player, Shuise had no choice at all.
He stretched out his hand and was about to melt the crystal with Bai Ye when he heard a strange, violent sound of huge bird and beast feathers blowing in the wind.
"No!" Shuise yelled, "Get out of there!"
A huge roar of a bird or beast sounded near the window. Ink-colored feathers covered the interior of the gem room like the night. The entire window and the wall were completely shattered due to the impact of the bird or beast.
Bai Ye had great confidence in Shuise's skills. Almost the moment the other party opened his mouth, he quickly flew back, using the airflow brought by the birds and beasts to quickly move to the corridor outside the office, and by the way, looked at the broken gem fragments with heartache.
"Is that... the Devil?"
Shuise has never closed his eyes since entering the game copy.
The giant bird was several meters tall, with a strange head and a human-like neck emitting terrifying black mist. It was a translucent black shadow, and even its wings were blurred by the flickering light of the gems. The oppressive feeling of the game copy owner spread throughout the entire corridor, and the entire building where the gems grew was like its nest.
"Perhaps."
Bai Ye was still worrying about how much the gems on the wall that were smashed by birds and beasts would be enough for him to pay the rent, when the DM system's in-game notification sounded.
[Ding Dong!] In view of your unlucky start, congratulations on getting the new popularity vote bonus! 】
[Number of people in the live broadcast room: 2140…8944…12000…98874…]
[It is detected that it meets the requirements! You have been recommended to the Eden Masters Watch Zone, please keep up the good work! 】
[Damn, is the DM crazy?] Draw the otherworld pioneer Shuise and the mysterious thief who suddenly appears into the game! 】
[But I have to say that this setting is very suitable as the beginning of some light novels! 】
[Don’t have any filters for criminals! All the demon apostles, die! 】
【support! 】
Bai Ye: ...Thanks to Big Brother Shuise for leading me. I didn’t expect that he would become a little famous before he died.
It would be better if the comments didn't unanimously call for him to die.
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