Amidst the rising and falling shouts, they could faintly hear a voice: "All right, don't worry, the king has sent me here to solve your problem. Please wait a moment."
"Calm down, we've brought a lot of experts here, please don't worry!"
The shouting outside became smaller again, and finally became quiet.
——But none of them left.
Liu Sun's ears moved. He knew that it must be someone sent by the empire.
Sure enough, a moment later, a middle-aged man walked in with a dark face, staring at them with his sharp eyes, as if he wanted to cut them into pieces.
Prime Minister.
The highest authority in the empire besides the king.
Liu Sun's body shook.
The commotion caused by this storm was far greater than he had imagined!
Prime Minister Wu Yan frowned, pointed at all of them, and said in a cold voice, "Arrest them all."
In an instant, the soldiers behind him rushed forward and arrested everyone.
No one expected the Prime Minister to act so decisively!
I didn't expect that he was ready to kill no one!
Liu Sun was horrified and immediately pleaded, "Prime Minister! Please let me go. I am also implicated!"
The technicians were even more panicked. They hadn't expected to be pulled from their operating positions. Didn't the Prime Minister care about the technicians managing the Hunting World?!
If they're all caught, who's going to take care of Hunting World?!
Shouldn't they be given a chance to make amends?
"Prime Minister, we are just following orders! Prime Minister, you still need us now!"
"Let me go, it has nothing to do with me, I don't know anything."
"Master Prime Minister! I am innocent."
"The hunting world is out of control. I must stay in the control position. Prime Minister, please give me a chance to make amends."
…
When Wu Yan heard this, his brows furrowed tightly. "What did you say? The hunting world is out of control?!"
His expression was so ugly that the technician he was staring at was so frightened that he couldn't speak and stammered, "Yes, yes..."
Wu Yan didn't ask for an answer. His gaze immediately shifted to Liu Sun, and he asked with a sullen face, "The hunting world is out of control? How come you didn't report it?"
Liu Sun opened his mouth, but he shrank his neck when he saw Wu Yan's murderous gaze.
Wu Yan took a deep breath, glared at them, and then turned around and ordered—
"Deploy all the experts I brought with me to take over the hunting world immediately. Summon all the experts and consciousness researchers in the empire. Use helicopters to pick up those who are far away, and report the situation truthfully to the king."
"Yes——" the subordinate responded immediately.
Wu Yan looked at the experts who were brought in again, and forced a respectful smile.
"Luckily, I was thinking of keeping Liu Sun and the others under guard, and I might be short of manpower, so I invited you here. The situation is urgent now, so you should take over their work first! Let's see if the hunting world is out of control and if there is any way to solve it."
"Okay." The experts agreed and sat in the operating seats.
Wu Yan withdrew his gaze and stared straight at Liu Sun and others, his eyes seemed to be spitting fire.
Seeing the experts working with frowns on their faces, he waved his hand and said, "Push them to the corner over there. I'll interrogate them myself!"
So, the soldiers took Zhou Ming and all the other staff members of the Hunting World and interrogated them in the corner of the office.
The reason why he didn't go out for the interrogation was that, on the one hand, the experts could also listen to the interrogation process to help find problems and important clues; on the other hand, he was also very concerned about the progress of the experts and didn't want to leave the office.
After everyone reached the corner, Wu Yan asked with a dark face—
"Do you know how big a mess you've made? There are still ten million people in the hunting world. Now not only is your consciousness department surrounded, but even the royal palace is surrounded. The king is furious."
Everyone turned pale with fright.
Wu Yan looked at them and felt that he really didn't know how to scold them. Deep down, he wanted to cut them into pieces!
Next year will be another year of change of government. The king is striving for re-election as the next leader. These years are the time when he needs to win over the hearts of the people. This year is particularly critical. But such a thing happened at this juncture!
If Liu Sun was not the king's man, they would have thought that he was sent by political enemies to trick them!
Wu Yan clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and looked at them coldly: "Go ahead, tell me everything! From beginning to end, don't leave anything out."
Liu Sun was being grabbed. He struggled a bit and said in a hurried voice, "Assistant Wu, this really has nothing to do with me. It's all Zhou Ming's fault. He's the person in charge of the hunting world. There are many things I don't know!"
He suddenly looked at Zhou Ming again: "Zhou Ming, why don't you tell the truth!"
Those eyes seemed to want to eat Zhou Ming.
He also tried to divert Wu Yan's attention to Zhou Ming.
Zhou Ming knew that Liu Sun was shirking responsibility and he was gritting his teeth in hatred, but he was indeed the one who was most responsible for this matter!
Thinking about the cause and effect of this incident...
If the Prime Minister knew, he would kill him!
Zhou Ming's pupils shrank. "The Hunting World is out of control. It's been out of control before. NPC names were put on the rankings, and then the Hunting World got out of control. We can't control the Hunting World."
He swallowed and continued, "Later, I contacted Minister Liu. After Minister Liu came with several experts, I reported everything to him. Minister Liu also invited many more experts to come, but... at this time, control of the hunting world returned to us."
"We thought it was no big deal and were afraid that the players and citizens would be frightened, so we didn't say anything." Zhou Ming's lips trembled slightly.
He seemed to have thought of something and suddenly looked at Wu Yan: "Prime Minister Wu, this is caused by the Hunting World getting out of control. It's all a system bug! I don't know what to do. I can only try my best to protect the Awareness Department, the Hunting World, and the reputation of the Empire!"
——So everything he did, although wrong, was actually for the good of the Empire and the Consciousness Department!
Zhou Ming was trying hard to convey this meaning.
Liu Sun pushed the responsibility onto Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming subconsciously pushed the responsibility onto the technology...
They are all shirking responsibility.
"So what you mean is that this time only those technical personnel who manage the hunting world should be held accountable? And not only are you not wrong, you actually have made a contribution?" Wu Yan looked at Zhou Ming with a faint voice.
"No, that's not what I meant!" Zhou Ming was stunned.
Wu Yan's eyes were cold: "What do you mean?"
Before Zhou Ming could speak, Chen Gang immediately raised his voice -
"Nonsense, Zhou Ming! We did everything according to your instructions. You are our superior, and we did whatever you said. It's clearly your fault, so why are you putting the blame on us?!"
Technical personnel are not there to just stand there and take the blame.
Anyway, at this point, if you don't want to die, you have to try your best to shirk responsibility.
"I didn't say it was all your fault. I said the current situation is caused by the hunting world getting out of control!" Zhou Ming frowned and tried his best to stay calm.
He winked at a few people.
Although they are all responsibilities, the responsibilities are different, so the results are different.
Chen Gang understood what Zhou Ming meant. His pupils shrank. He couldn't believe that Zhou Ming was so brave!
Was he still trying to hide the fact that Bei Baizhi was a player at this time? Wasn't he afraid that Wu Yan would kill him directly?
Just blame everything on system problems?
Zhao Ping'an didn't notice the look. He was furious: "Zhou Ming, after all you've said, aren't you still trying to say it's a technical problem, a problem for us? Don't try to put the blame on us just to get rid of the responsibility!"
Chen Gang pulled him.
However, Zhao Ping'an was afraid of death, otherwise he would not have reminded Zhou Ming to let the player kill Bei Baizhi.
At this moment, in order to shirk responsibility, he, who had always been timid, said without hesitation: "We are just the people who maintain and manage the hunting world. Putting Bei Baizhi as an NPC was a problem from the beginning of the hunting world! Later, it was your idea to kill Bei Baizhi, and -"
The sound stopped abruptly.
Because Zhao Ping'an saw Wu Yan's throbbing veins and a look of impending rage.
He reached out, pulled out his gun, and pointed it at Zhou Ming's head: "Speak! Tell me everything clearly. Anyone who hides anything will be killed without mercy!"
Zhou Ming and others froze.
Wu Yan knew everything.
The whole cause and effect has been clarified.
There was a bug in Hunting World. An NPC was behaving strangely, but they didn't investigate further and simply changed the NPC's plot line and didn't pay any more attention to it.
Later, the ranking list was updated and this NPC appeared on the list. At the same time, the hunting world went out of control.
In order to reassure people, they said that NPCs would also participate in the war.
It was also at this time that they discovered that Bei Baizhi was actually a player, but for some reason she was placed on an NPC, so they contacted Bei Baizhi.
Afterwards, they received the provocative video and Hunting World resumed management rights.
Zhou Ming wanted to kill Bei Baizhi to avoid any bad influence.
Unfortunately, she was a bug and could not be killed at all. Even when all the players went to encircle and hunt her, they still failed. So he came up with a bad idea - to increase the points for hunting players by twenty times.
Maybe in the past, this wouldn't have been such a bad idea.
But at this moment, Bei Baizhi had already granted eternal life to all those who surrounded her.
That twenty times is an absolutely bad idea.
Players are trapped in a cycle.
Then, Zhou Ming discovered that something was wrong and the hunting world was out of control again.
Zhou Ming had been pressed down to his knees. He rushed over and hugged Wu Yan's legs.
"Prime Minister Wu, it was Liu Sun who suggested I do this! I don't want to die, so I'm obsessed with this. This is the method I can think of that will have the least impact on the Empire and the Consciousness Department!"
"You're talking nonsense! What does it have to do with me? I just asked you to find a solution, not to kill Bei Baizhi!" Liu Sun immediately roared in rebuttal.
Zhou Ming wanted to say something, but Wu Yan kicked him away and gritted his teeth: "None of you can escape!"
He looked at Zhou Ming: "You said this is the method with the least impact on the empire and the consciousness department? The impact is small?! There are crowds of people outside now, and the palace is still surrounded. You say the impact is small?"
He endured it and didn't shoot him, but said in a cold voice: "You just don't want to take responsibility, so you would rather kill Bei Baizhi!"
Zhou Ming covered the place where he was kicked and shrank his neck.
"Look for them all, don't let any one escape!" Wu Yan roared.
He thought of everything, but he never imagined that there was another player serving as an NPC in the hunting world!
He suddenly looked at the experts and asked, "Everyone, how is it?"
The experts all frowned, their faces unhappy. One of them shook his head.
"No, there's really no way to change it. No matter what method we use, it's useless. It's like... the entire hunting world's management method has changed. Even if we use the backup method or the emergency method, we can't touch the door."
Wu Yan frowned and pursed his lips. "Then let's wait until all the relevant experts arrive before discussing this together. Thank you all for your hard work. There are tens of millions of people in here. If we delay for even a day, the citizens of the Empire will resent us even more!"
Hunting the world.
Zhuo Yi has died several times.
Yi Chen's team no longer looked for him because killing him would not earn them many points. They were now accumulating points like crazy and had no time to care about him, but others would still kill him.
Zhuo Yi killed many people and was also killed by many people.
He had just been resurrected at this moment, but instead of engaging in the killing again, he ran in one direction.
Perhaps he was lucky, as he didn't meet many people along the way, and the people he met were not particularly strong and did not kill him.
So Zhuo Yi arrived safely outside the familiar wooden house.
"Bei Baizhi!" He rushed directly into the wooden fence.
Bai Zhi was sitting there drinking tea. When she saw him come in, she simply said, "Don't you know how to knock on the door?"
After saying that, Zhuo Yi was pushed out by a gust of wind.
He stood outside with a dark face. After a while, he knocked on the wooden fence and came in again.
Bai Zhi: "Did I say you could come in?"
After saying that, Zhuo Yi was pushed outside again!
He took a deep breath, barely holding his breath, raised his hand, knocked on the door, and then stood at the door waiting.
He waited until he could no longer wait before a voice came from inside: "Come in."
Zhuo Yi rushed in, his hands clenched into fists, his voice hoarse: "Bei Baizhi! Let me out!"
Bai Zhi raised an eyebrow: "Hmm?"
She held the teacup and looked at him.
Zhuo Yi gritted his teeth: "Let me leave this world, I don't want to stay here anymore, I want to return to reality!"
"What reality?" She tilted her head, her gold-rimmed glasses shining slightly, and the emotions in her eyes were unclear.
Zhuo Yi: "..."
As an NPC, what reality can she know?
At this moment, Zhuo Yi suddenly felt a strange sense of superiority. So what if she was powerful? So what if they couldn't kill her?
She is just an NPC. When the hunting world ends, she will disappear along with this world!
——It’s just a fake NPC.
"I don't want endless reincarnation anymore, I don't want eternal life!" Zhuo Yi looked at her.
Although he knew that this world would end sooner or later, he didn't want to stay here for another day!
Killing is very satisfying, but being killed is not a pleasant feeling.
Bai Zhi chuckled and slowly stood up.
Zhuo Yi subconsciously took a step back.
Seeing this, Bai Zhi's eyes became more meaningful.
Zhuo Yi secretly resented her, but didn't dare to say anything in front of her.
Bai Zhi: "I can't take back what I give, but..."
Zhuo Yi's eyes lit up: "But what?"
Bai Zhi smiled: "I can give you other things, such as two pieces of divine equipment."
Zhuo Yi was stunned.
Bai Zhi's voice was full of temptation: "Do you want it?"
Zhuo Yi: “Yes!”
Bai Zhi raised her hand, and the two pieces of magical equipment that Zhuo Yi had dropped from her appeared before her.
Zhuo Yi: "..."
He accepted it with gritted teeth.
So, although he did not get what he wanted, "leaving this world", he got two pieces of magical equipment.
After walking away, Zhuo Yi was wearing two pieces of magical equipment and had sharp eyes.
With the divine equipment, as long as he doesn't provoke powerful enemies for the time being, he will be the only one who can kill others.
Before this world ends, he will definitely be the most powerful existence!
Killing others is really exciting.
Zhuo Yi licked the corner of his mouth.
At this time, the system notifies——
[Congratulations to Zhuo Yi for receiving "Bei Baizhi's Gift"—two pieces of divine equipment. Once killed, all will drop.]
Zhuo Yi: "!!!"
However, before he could curse, he felt countless powerful forces approaching him!
Zhuo Yi turned and ran.
However, the more you run, the more people will chase you!
——That damn NPC really doesn’t give good things!!
——She tricked him!!
It was not until the afternoon that all the experts arrived.
After the experts arrived, they all sat together to discuss the problems of the hunting world.
Zhou Ming and others were detained and squatted in the corner. No one paid any attention to them now. Only the experts occasionally asked some questions. The soldiers' guns were always pointed at them. They all had pale faces.
Wu Yan hadn't eaten all day, but he wasn't in the mood to eat.
He started by looking at the situation in the hunting world.
The more he looked, the more his brows furrowed.
——He saw a player slaughtering another player.
However, that player was resurrected after his death, and contacted several of his friends to kill the player who had abused the other players.
"I'll treat you the way you treat me!"
"Just wait, I'll come back for revenge!"
"Then I'll wait. When you're resurrected, we'll find you and kill you again!"
With one strike of the knife, another person was killed.
Wu Yan couldn't bear to watch it anymore and changed the location.
"Why are you trying to kill me?!"
"I can't help it. I don't want to die. Your points are high. With your points, I won't be killed so easily!"
He frowned again, then changed another one.
"Hahaha, it's you! Weren't you quite powerful back then? What happened? Did you lose, so after being resurrected, you're so weak now?"
"Kill me if you want!"
Wu Yan took a deep breath and continued switching.
However, no matter who it switched to, it was killing.
Either you kill or you are killed.
He was also watching the barrage, which was full of anger and insults. The targets of anger were of course the Consciousness Department and the Empire, and the targets of insults were also the Hunting World and the Empire.
He kept cutting scenes, and there was killing in almost every place. No wonder the citizens surrounded the palace and the consciousness department.
In the end, Wu Yan chose that name - Bei Baizhi.
When she arrived here, it was like arriving in another world, extremely peaceful, in stark contrast to the killing in other places.
Wu Yan didn't expect that this person was actually a player, and a player who was deployed on an NPC...
On his way here, he had learned about the hunting world in detail. He also took a look at the powerful and invincible NPC, but he didn't pay attention at the time and didn't see anything unusual.
Is this person so peaceful?
A player invests money in an NPC. Isn’t she worried that she will never get out?
Wu Yan thought about it and opened the provocative video she sent him.
Those eyes looked at him, as if they were looking into each other's eyes. When she raised her hand and wiped her neck, he actually felt a little cold.
This video...
Is this a foreshadowing?
The bright red blood that was wiped across the neck, is it a hint of the current killing?
——For some reason, this thought flashed through Wu Yan’s mind.
Looking at the screen again, she was lying leisurely on a recliner, looking as comfortable as she could be. She was completely different from the woman in the other video with an evil smile on her lips!
As she watched, the woman on the recliner suddenly opened her eyes!
The direction of her gaze was exactly the perspective that Wu Yan chose at this moment!
Even though we are separated by a screen, it feels like we are looking into each other's eyes.
Wu Yan stared without blinking, and then he saw a scene that shocked him -
The woman seemed to be looking into his eyes. Because she was lying down, her gold-rimmed glasses rested lightly on the wings of her nose. Her dark eyes stared at him from above the gold-rimmed glasses.
She slowly curled her lips into a half-smile.
Then, she gently raised her hand, palm facing down, and stroked it across her neck.
The screen went black instantly!
Wu Yan turned it off himself!
“Bang, bang, bang—”
He felt his heart beating with a hint of fear.
She seemed to know what he was doing!!
He was clearly the one spying on her, so why did it seem like she was spying on him too?!
Otherwise, why did she suddenly open her eyes and make that movement?
Wu Yan looked at Zhou Ming and the others, and was about to ask questions when he saw the experts looking at him. The oldest one among them said in a calm voice -
"Prime Minister Wu, I'm sorry, but we have to admit that we are completely powerless against the Hunting World right now. It has indeed been taken over by a manager who is more powerful than us. Moreover, according to analysis, this manager should be inside the Hunting World!"
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