Chapter 8 Bai Ye: No, I should have known not to waste that opportunity!
The basement of a burger shop.
Bai Ye was lying on the bed and called up the interface of the game simulator. He unexpectedly discovered that after stealing the Heart of Night, the interface of t173 had undergone magical changes.
Below his own file, a line of small words without any sense of existence lay there quietly.
[Please place the Ten Commandments Token to unlock the complete journey of destiny exploration. 】
Next to it was a very familiar jewel necklace icon, which at first glance looked like the Heart of Night that he had just stolen from the Neon Light Building.
Heart of Night...
Bai Ye sat up, and the boy's cobalt blue eyes swept over the "trophies" placed casually on the bedside table. He picked up the flashing red and blue sapphires on the bedside table and tentatively placed the Heart of Night in the position of the icon.
The next second, flashing pixels rushed out from the panel of T173, completely covering the simple, low-key but exquisite gem necklace. Bai Ye hurriedly reached out to take the necklace back. After all, he didn't want to really turn himself into an unforgivable prisoner who would be locked up in Yeshao Prison.
Unfortunately, t173 opposed him everywhere, and the Heart of Night quickly disappeared in the overlapping pixel blocks. Bai Ye watched the icon change from black and white to color, as if t173 had sucked the glittering gem directly into its panel.
【Event Summary:
The first chapter of the main storyline: the plot anchor of "The Night's Heart Theft" has been completed, and the Path of Destiny Exploration·Chapter 1·The Ten Commandments Token has been included! Collection progress: 10%
Popularity summary: 103! Players can use their popularity points to redeem "Moments of Reversing the Future", which is the right to make free choices at plot anchor points!
Congratulations to players for unlocking the new feature: Destiny Exploration Path! Players can steal various tokens from the surface world of the Demon Game during the plot to exchange for plot projections about their future destiny.
Opened: The destiny projection on the Destiny Exploration Road·Chapter 2·, players can view it in the lower right corner. 】
Bai Ye's mouth twitched, he checked up and down the illusory panel floating in the air, and after confirming that t173 would not return the Heart of Night to him, he fell into a strange contemplation.
But life must go on. Bai Ye tried to find the joy in suffering and thought optimistically: It's okay, at least t173 helped him solve the big problem of Night's Heart. If it weren't for t173's operation, he really didn't know how to hide the existence of Night's Heart from Fang Kuang, the former law enforcer.
Bai Ye thought silently.
He clicked on the new function pop-up window of the forum, ready to see what t173 had done.
The next second, red and blue pixel blocks combined into a new interface. On the text game panel with a black border, the game simulator from the higher-dimensional world easily leaked fragments of the future in an entertaining way.
Bai Ye's understanding that he is the protagonist of the villain line was successfully deepened after reading the first and second chapters of the plot presented in the form of word games.
Through the panel composed of red and blue pixels, Bai Ye learned more about the plot of the game "Wicked City". The world view of the game is the real world they live in. The "player" with Youyu as the protagonist will face various label owners and demons, collect the Ten Commandments tokens of the road of destiny exploration, and become the final winner in the most important [Reunion] season, and get the wish reward promised by the DM to the winner.
The role he plays is the mysterious thief Wonder, who stands on the opposite side of Youyu in the game, competes with the detective in both the devil game and in reality, and aims to steal the Ten Commandments token. His true identity is unknown.
In the original plot line of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, the Phantom Thief and the Detective had a complete feud after the official confrontation over the theft of the Heart of Night. In every subsequent incident involving the Ten Commandments and the Devil, the Phantom Thief confronted the Detective Team head-on, with both sides winning and losing, and even caused the deaths of Yu Yu's important people and companions.
Bai Ye quickly shook his head. He refused to believe that the bloodthirsty thief in the word game was himself.
How is that possible? Not to mention that You Yu has always been his idol. If he really has that kind of personality, he would not be so cowardly as to become a potential criminal who needs to be kept an eye on all the time just because of that law enforcer.
Even if he is really the thief, Bai Ye doesn't have to think too much about the villain's fate. He will either be brought to justice and thrown into Night Tide Prison, or be defeated by the protagonist in the Devil's Game and be erased by the DM system in the final event of [Reunion] on the grounds of game failure.
When t173 bound him at the beginning, he had seen the ending of his plot in this game, "The thief will be defeated by the detective." This is a beautiful and logical ending like in the comics.
But Bai Ye didn't want to agree. Are you kidding? He was only 17 years old. Who would want to die?
We must find a way as soon as possible to free him from the game simulator's control.
Bai Ye was thinking, and his gaze gradually shifted to the "Garden of Eden" App on his mobile phone.
T173's request is not entirely a bad thing. The Ten Commandments represented by the Heart of Night are the channel anchors left by demons trying to enter the surface world on a large scale. After being absorbed by the option simulator, some of the corresponding demons will completely lose the possibility of entering the surface world.
The option simulator requires him to find as many mimics as possible, which means that this is the main line of his role as a "Phantom Thief" in the game simulator setting.
In the game setting of "Wicked City", the Phantom Thief is obviously an accomplice of the inner world. His ultimate goal is to take away the Ten Commandments token, make a deal with the DM system, release all the demons in the inner world, become the master of the demons, and replace the DM system. If t173 collects the channels for the demons to come to the surface world - the purpose of the Ten Commandments token is to assist "wonder" in releasing all the demons in the inner world, then the positions of the two systems are naturally opposed.
Now the only thing that can help him fight against t173 is the DM system.
Bai Ye's gaze stayed on the three words "popularity value". He did not forget that these popularity values were obtained through the DM system's software "Garden of Eden". Perhaps the popularity value was not a popularity value at all, but a character's importance to t173 and the DM system... Only when the character is more important, can he get the authority from the DM system to fight against t173 and make his own free choice.
This is the real reason why popularity points can be exchanged for the right to choose options in t173's hands.
The boy's profile disappeared into the darkness after the light of the mobile phone went out. Bai Ye suddenly threw himself back onto the bed, rolled around a few times while hugging the soft pillow, before he barely calmed down.
Because he thought of a way to completely get rid of t173.
At the end of this year, the highest hall of the devil game, the battlefield of the decisive battle between humans and demons in a sense, a one-year special season, [Reunion], is about to begin. After the end of the Reunion, the team with the most accumulated points will get a chance to make a wish to the DM system and countless honors. This is also the main storyline of "The Evil City".
In other words... maybe he can use the DM system to break the shackles from t173 on his body.
Early morning, Solomon Gakuen subway station.
Bai Ye bit into the scallion pancake he had just bought at the subway station entrance, apologized vaguely, and squeezed out of the crowded subway car in a somewhat embarrassed manner. The dark circles under his eyes became more obvious because of last night's excitement.
The boy obediently wore a full set of dark blue school uniform. Fortunately, the uniform jacket was relatively large, more like a coat than a suit, and he could also wear a hoodie inside to keep warm.
As soon as I swiped my mobile subway card and walked out of the subway station, I heard the very familiar Westminster bell for school.
Bai Ye suddenly felt like he was still in Wheatfield Town and almost dropped his pancake: "...Is this the only piece of music in the world that can be used as a school bell?"
Solomon Academy, a public school founded by the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau, is no different from other public schools. It seems that during this one-year observation period, except for the troubles brought by the identities of T173 and Phantom Thief Wonder, he can probably lie down and remain invisible.
Bai Ye heaved a sigh of relief, swiped his student ID card, which had been sent to the Cube Hamburger Shop, in front of the magnificent gate, and walked into the school gate. He did not notice that behind the Solomon Academy, a cloud of smoke like a bomb explosion was slowly rising, and the surrounding residents were all walking by silently, doing their own things, as if they were used to it.
Solomon Academy is directly under the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau. Opposite the gate is the office building for handling transfer procedures. Bai Ye walked around the office building and saw many law enforcers working in the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau. They were wearing black short suit jackets, blue shirt lining, and the badges of the Thorn Birds and Black Sun were shining in the sun.
Bai Ye stared in amazement at the law enforcers with official police ranks on their belt badges as they hurried past him: "This is not a school at all, it's the base camp of the law enforcers..."
He closed his eyes and smiled bitterly: "...You really don't trust me at all. It's not enough to put me in the observation period. You actually threw me into the base camp of the law enforcers."
Bai Ye quickened his pace and rushed to the school's procedure window. The warning ring on his hand was too obvious, and he couldn't help but feel terrified among the law enforcement officers. However, the young lady who helped with the procedure was not surprised by this, and even kindly pointed him in a direction: "Go through the corridor of the office building to the teaching area. There is a statue of King, the founder of the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau, over there. When the time comes, a student here will take you to familiarize yourself with the environment."
Bai Ye took his ID and campus meal card, and nodded gratefully to the first person who showed him a good face: "I understand, thank you for bothering me, sister."
The young clerk at the window was almost stunned. She was a little confused as she looked at the pale, curly-haired boy in front of her, who looked as harmless as a lamb and seemed easy to bully.
Why on earth would such a well-behaved student, who is so polite that he can only be seen in key classes of key high schools, appear in Solomon Academy, which has a weird school atmosphere? ! He also wears a skill restriction bracelet that is only available to "high-risk" characters...
Judging from the appearance alone, what is the difference between this and a sheep falling into the mouth of a wolf? It looks like he will be eaten up by those weird students and teachers here!
The young employee remained calm on the surface. She pushed her glasses and reluctantly said, "It's okay. This is my duty... If you have any other questions, you can come to me."
Her voice became gentle, for she was afraid that Bai Ye would be swallowed up by those devilish game fighting maniacs in this school.
"Ah? Ok ok, thank you so much."
Although Bai Ye didn't know where this unwarranted kindness came from, he always kept other people's kindness in mind, so he bowed deeply to the staff and then walked in the direction the staff had just mentioned.
The clerk sitting at the window sighed, her gaze lingering for a long time in the direction where Bai Ye left. She remembered that this young man should be the one mentioned by her colleagues before, the guy who almost killed the youngest law enforcer Captain Faust in Wheatfield Town.
The young employee with a crimson ponytail muttered to herself, "It's true... you can't judge a person by his appearance, and I don't know who is the evil one this time."
On the other side, under a tall statue carved from white marble with a simple and elegant style, Bai Ye and a detective who was leaning lazily against the statue and yawning looked at each other in astonishment.
The brown-haired boy pointed at Bai Ye, not sure whether he was excited or surprised: "You, you are the one who got sick last night--"
"Okay, what a coincidence."
Bai Ye waved his hands awkwardly and laughed dryly: Who can tell him why You Yu, whose personal information is mysteriously protected, would appear in a public school run by law enforcers?
Also, if I had known not to ask for an autograph yesterday, I could have asked for ten copies today!
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