Yan Anqing opened his computer, logged into the Bilibili video site, and picked out several film and television works near the top of the rankings.
The appearance of the two new functions, "Copy" and "Paste," meant that Yan Anqing no longer needed to worry about money.
If he wanted to, he could mass-copy cash and send the dollar into a wild devaluation.
So long as Yan Anqing was willing, he could even use this function to instantly collapse a certain country's financial system and currency credit.
Doing something that harmed others without benefiting himself should probably earn him an achievement, too.
Although Yan Anqing did not consider himself a good person, he could still barely be counted as belonging to the orderly camp. After some thought, he temporarily set the idea aside.
Further exploring the new functions became one of the three most important items on his current action list.
After making sure he was positioned precisely in a surveillance blind spot, Yan Anqing stared intently at the screen.
First, he took screenshots and photos from movies, anime, and television dramas, storing them in his consciousness database.
Then, he used Copy Paste to retrieve props with miraculous powers.
For example, the "Tesseract," the "Dragon Ball," "Thor's Hammer," and the "Super Soldier Gene Serum"...
Similar items kept appearing in Yan Anqing's hands, only to be deleted one by one and vanish into the void.
"So it really is a Demon-Sealing Plane. Completely useless..."
Yan Anqing sighed.
What he extracted from the screenshots of those film and television works were merely props from the sets. They possessed no supernatural power and contained no Black Technology.
It was worth mentioning that props extracted from the 2D world had actually been given the tangible texture of the real three-dimensional world.
This made Yan Anqing unable to help thinking...
What if he copied and pasted people from film and television worlds into reality...
Anime would be fine; it was entirely fictional.
But what about movies?
Would the people who appeared believe themselves to be actors, or would they believe themselves to be the characters from the movies?
For example, if he copied and pasted Captain America from "The Avengers" into reality, would this person believe himself to be "Chris Evans," or "Steve Rogers"?
Yan Anqing recorded every one of these thoughts. Once the time was right, he would immediately begin the relevant experiments.
South Korea.
Over the past few days, a short video had spread like a virus across K-pop, wav, newspapers, major forums, and news sites.
The video featured many attractive entertainment industry trainees, but there were only two protagonists.
Choi Sang-hwan and Kim Soo-chan.
The video mainly showed a debate between the two.
Keywords such as national fortune, history, the sole Golden-Eyed One, pro-China, and Earth's favored child passed from mouth to mouth.
People everywhere, from streets to alleys, were discussing the matter.
Choi Sang-hwan was simply too much of a talking point.
He was an internet troll and a veteran keyboard warrior who had cursed countless patriots into exploding with rage, making them want to trace his connection and PK him in person.
He was a mindless China fan, a diehard supporter of the Yanhuang people, and a Korean traitor in spirit.
Yet he was South Korea's only Golden-Eyed One.
One advantage outweighed all his "flaws."
After learning that he had become a Golden-Eyed One, DSP Company immediately began packaging him, trying to shape him into an unprecedented, flawless superstar!
After all, the Crimson Moon Incident, a once-in-ten-million-years event, had only just passed. The extraordinary abilities of Golden-Eyed Ones were gradually emerging, and everyone knew the world was slowly entering a new era.
America's 12 Saints were an excellent precedent.
Aside from the unfortunate Jack Grimm, who had been shot to death by one of his own fans, the others had all gained large groups of diehard followers. Their commercial value was extremely high, and advertising endorsement fees came pouring in.
Objectively speaking, among America's 12 Saints, only the officially promoted Christian and "Gabriel" Aisteron could compare to Choi Sang-hwan in appearance.
DSP Company had placed immense expectations on Choi Sang-hwan, mobilizing all its manpower, resources, and online troll agencies to help scrub his dark history.
Unfortunately, one of Choi Sang-hwan's fellow trainees came down with red-eyed sickness. Unable to hold back, he posted the short video he had filmed online.
What sort of fate this jealous person would meet, and what price he would pay, could be set aside for now.
At the very least, the "pro-China" label could no longer be removed from Choi Sang-hwan.
However, everything had two sides.
The process by which Choi Sang-hwan became a Golden-Eyed One was simply too dramatic!
Just as Kim Soo-chan and he were discussing how "the reason Korea has no Golden-Eyed Ones is because all of its national fortune has gathered in a single person. That Golden-Eyed One who has not yet shown himself is Earth's favored child, the true Child of Destiny..." Choi Sang-hwan became a Golden-Eyed One.
It was simply too much of a coincidence!
In South Korea, some people even suspected that the Crimson Moon and Golden Pupil Syndrome incidents had both been caused by Choi Sang-hwan, the mastermind behind the scenes.
This guy had only become a Golden-Eyed One at the end to divert everyone's attention.
All Golden-Eyed Ones around the world had appeared during the Crimson Moon. The mutants who appeared afterward all had silver pupils!
Why should Choi Sang-hwan be the exception?!
Many people were willing to believe this theory, but it could not hold up logically. At the very least, the authorities had debunked the claim.
With the tacit approval of South Korea's upper echelons, DSP Company's online troll army went all out.
The direction of South Korean public opinion gradually began to shift, and the center of discussion moved from Choi Sang-hwan to China.
Was the theory of national fortune real?
Perhaps Choi Sang-hwan's transformation had merely happened because he sincerely revered China and wanted to grow closer to China?
For a time, the number of pro-China people in South Korea skyrocketed.
No matter what these people truly thought deep down, they at least displayed friendliness toward China and were willing to praise China in all kinds of public settings.
Deep within the Zhaofu Well Secret Base in China.
The Little Panda squeezed in from the edge of his vision, moved slowly to the center, and leisurely spat out a string of text bubbles.
"Congratulations, player, on obtaining the achievement—Poisonous Strategist."
"With an insignificant sweet bait, you toyed with an entire nation's public opinion and ideological trends in the palm of your hand. In ancient times, you would have been the likes of Jia Xu."
"Main Quest 3 current completion progress: 11/30."
Obtaining the new achievement did not surprise Yan Anqing.
He had transformed Choi Sang-hwan into a Golden-Eyed One for the sake of earning a new achievement in the first place.
However, the timing of Choi Sang-hwan and Kim Soo-chan's conversation video had been too perfect. All he could say was that his luck had truly been good. Recently, things had begun to go exactly as he wished.
"Poisonous Strategist?"
Yan Anqing raised an eyebrow slightly. He had thought the Little Panda would give him an achievement title that sounded a little better.
"Come to think of it, I prefer Guo Jia."
"Since there's an achievement for a Poisonous Strategist, there should be a corresponding positive title, right?"
"If, with my help, China conquered other countries..."
At that thought, Yan Anqing added the matter to the planning list in his memo.
He wrote the two words "National Scholar" on the paper, circled them, and added a question mark.
Meanwhile, in the Tangting Section conference room, a group of white-haired elders were eagerly discussing a certain topic...
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