Death God Elementary School Student

"It felt like a lot happened today... Players?"

After returning to his Rental Apartment beside Snack Street, Bai Zhi immediately sat down at his desk, opened his laptop, and began searching online for information related to Players.

Unfortunately, perhaps because the authorities had protected such information, all he found were web novels. Not a single piece of the material he wanted turned up; the cleanup had been thorough.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi seemed to remember something. He switched search methods and, with practiced ease, logged into the Dark Web.

The internet was a multi-layered structure. The "Surface Web" lay at its outermost layer and could be accessed through standard search engines, while what lay beneath it was known as the "Deep Web," whose contents could not be accessed through ordinary search engines.

The so-called "Dark Web" was generally considered a subset of the "Deep Web." Its defining feature was the deliberate concealment of internet information through specialized encryption technologies, using encrypted transmissions, P2P networks, multi-node relay obfuscation, and similar methods to provide anonymous internet access. Its most prominent characteristic was anonymity.

The Dark Web might have been unfamiliar to others, but to Bai Zhi, who had been searching for all kinds of information on it since he was ten, it could not have been more familiar.

Although the two worlds differed slightly in certain details, there was not much difference in matters like this.

Still, even on the Dark Web, information about Players seemed to be available only to those with Player Qualification. After a lengthy process of decryption and answering questions, Bai Zhi finally logged into a forum with a completely black interface.

Although the interface looked quite simple, the forum had a considerable number of sections. If he had not already learned about the concept of Players, he would never have been able to enter this forum.

After staying on the forum and browsing for over two hours, Bai Zhi leaned back against his chair and rubbed his forehead wearily.

He had learned quite a lot from that forum.

The changes in this world had begun roughly three months ago, and Players had appeared at that time as well. Since then, the entire world had become a Game Arena—except this was a dangerous Game where people truly died.

Only magic could fight magic. Only Players could combat the various Anomalies and mutations that kept appearing around the world. Ordinary people might escape with their lives from those strange entities or Anomalies, but they could never fight them.

Physical strange entities were one thing; the truly lethal ones were paranormal entities without physical forms. For example, one particularly active thread on the forum gave a detailed account of an unsolvable paranormal Anomaly that had appeared in Japan.

The Anomaly had erupted in an ordinary Japanese courtyard. Anyone who had entered or left that courtyard would definitely die an unnatural death within three days. Their corpses would be randomly scattered in pieces within a hundred-mile radius, their deaths unimaginably gruesome.

It was not as if the Japanese authorities had never organized high-Level Players to deal with that Anomaly. But after losing more than ten high-Level Players in succession, Japan had no choice but to compromise and seal off the courtyard completely.

And that was merely one of the safer cases among the hundreds of Anomaly Incidents labeled unsolvable that had been exposed on the forum, because that courtyard did not move on its own. Some Anomalies wandered periodically, and the most notorious and insane one had affected more than ten countries.

The core of this Anomaly, which ran rampant all over the world, was an elementary school student wearing Glasses. Depending on the circumstances, he was usually accompanied by a middle-aged man and a Young Girl capable of snapping a dagger with a single kick. Wherever they appeared, a murder case would inevitably occur.

For the time being, this Anomaly known as the Death God Elementary School Student was unsolvable, because the Death God Elementary School Student could not be attacked at all. Once he entered deduction mode, if you were lucky enough not to be killed as the victim, all you could do was pray that he would not identify you as the culprit.

If he identified you as the culprit, a fat police officer would appear and take you away in a police car. During this process, you would have no power to resist. According to the statistics so far, 126 people had been taken away in police cars, including 24 Players. Since being taken away by that fat police officer, none of them had ever appeared in this world again. They had completely vanished from the world.

To be honest, when Bai Zhi read the description of this unsolvable Anomaly, his expression became rather strange. Then he searched for additional information on the subject.

Obviously, there was no manga called Detective Conan in this world, much less any related anime.

"...Has fantasy entered reality? It feels like there are quite a few mysteries here..."

Bai Zhi patted his forehead and suddenly felt a slight headache.

"But then again, if I ran into Conan, how exactly was I supposed to stay alive? I seem to remember seeing a discussion about that on Zhihu before... Hmm?"

Bai Zhi noticed that the QQ window he had left open on his desktop had lit up.

[Infinite Divine Wings]

--Get online, get online, get online, get online, get online! What the hell happened to you? You haven't been online for nearly two days, okay?!

"Hmm? A Game Friend 'Bai Zhi' had added while playing games before?"

After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi typed out two lines in reply.

[Black&White]

--Yesterday, I rode into town and met a pretty girl in her twenties. We hit it off at first sight, so I paid for a room and we slept together for a whole day.

[Infinite Divine Wings]

--Holy shit!! Since when were you interested in women!? Isn't gaming more fun than women?!!!

[Black&White]

--After we slept in that room, she called over her Friend, and her Friend slept with us for a whole day too.

[Infinite Divine Wings]

--A traitor who betrayed the revolution has no right to talk to me!!!

[Black&White]

--Even now, I still remember that room: Orthopedic Inpatient Department, beds 10 through 12.

[Infinite Divine Wings]

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[Infinite Divine Wings]

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