Death God Elementary School Student

"I feel like a lot has happened today... Players?"

Returning to his rental apartment next to the snack street, Bai Zhi immediately sat down at his desk and opened his laptop to search for information about players online.

Unfortunately, perhaps due to the official protection of such matters, the information he found online consisted of various web novels. He couldn't find any of the data he wanted to collect; it was all managed very cleanly.

After a moment of thought, as if struck by an idea, Bai Zhi changed his search method and, with practiced ease, logged into the Dark Web.

The internet is a multi-layered structure. The "Surface Web" is at the top, accessible through standard search engines. Beneath the Surface Web lies the "Deep Web," whose content cannot be accessed through conventional search engines.

The so-called "Dark Web" is generally considered a subset of the Deep Web. Its distinguishing feature is the deliberate concealment of internet information using special encryption technologies, encrypted transmission, P2P networks, and multi-point relay obfuscation to provide users with anonymous internet access. Its most prominent characteristic is anonymity.

While the Dark Web might be unfamiliar to others, it's something Bai Zhi has been familiar with since he was ten years old, searching for all sorts of information on it.

Although the two worlds differ slightly in their details, there's not much difference in matters like this.

However, even on the Dark Web, information about players seems to be accessible only to those who possess player qualifications. After a series of tedious decryption and Q&A sessions, Bai Zhi finally managed to log into a forum with a purely black interface.

The interface was simple, but the forum had many sub-sections. If he hadn't learned about the concept of players beforehand, he wouldn't have been able to enter this forum.

After spending about two hours browsing the forum, Bai Zhi leaned back in his chair and rubbed his forehead, feeling a bit tired.

He had obtained a considerable amount of information from that forum.

The changes in this world began about three months ago, and players appeared around the same time. The entire world had turned into a game arena since then, but it was a dangerous game where people could actually die.

Only magic could fight magic, and only players could fight the various anomalies and strange occurrences that were continuously appearing in the world. Ordinary people might be able to escape with their lives from these anomalies or strange occurrences, but they definitely couldn't fight them.

If they were purely physical anomalies, it would be manageable. But the non-physical, spiritual anomalies were the truly deadly ones. For example, in a very popular thread on the forum, there was a detailed account of an unsolvable spiritual anomaly that appeared in Japan.

That anomaly erupted in an ordinary Japanese courtyard. Anyone who entered or exited that courtyard would die within three days, their bodies randomly scattered within a hundred-mile radius, their deaths incredibly gruesome.

The Japanese authorities had organized high-level players to resolve the anomaly, but after losing over ten high-level players, Japan had no choice but to compromise and seal off the courtyard securely.

And this was merely one of the safer examples among the hundreds of unsolvable anomaly incidents reported on the forum. At least that courtyard didn't move on its own. Some anomalies, however, moved periodically. The most insane and widely known anomaly even affected over ten countries.

This anomaly, which roamed the world, centered around a young boy wearing glasses. Depending on the situation, he was usually accompanied by a middle-aged man and a young girl who could break a dagger with a single kick. Wherever they appeared, a murder was bound to occur.

As of now, this anomaly, known as the Death God Elementary School Student, was unsolvable because the Death God Elementary School Student could not be attacked. Once he entered his case-solving mode, if you were lucky enough not to be killed as a victim, you could only pray that he wouldn't identify you as the culprit.

If he identified you as the culprit, a stout police officer would escort you into a police car. You would be powerless to resist during this process. According to current statistics, a total of 126 people have been taken away in police cars, including 24 players. Since these individuals were taken away by that stout police officer, they have never reappeared in this world; they have completely vanished from existence.

To be honest, Bai Zhi's expression became quite strange upon reading the description of this unsolvable anomaly, and he went to search for additional information on the matter.

Clearly, in this world, the manga Detective Conan did not exist, let alone its related anime.

"...Has fantasy become reality? I feel like there are so many mysteries involved..."

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

"But speaking of which, when I encounter Conan, how can I survive? I seem to remember seeing discussions about this on Zhihu before... Hmm?"

Bai Zhi noticed that his QQ, which was hanging on his desktop, lit up.

[Infinite Divine Wings]

--Online, online, online, online, online, what's wrong with you? You haven't been online for almost two days!!

"Hmm? 'Bai Zhi' is a game friend from when I used to play games?"

After a moment of thought, Bai Zhi typed two lines of text on the keyboard and replied.

[Black&White]

--Yesterday, I was riding my bike on the street and met a young lady in her early twenties. We hit it off immediately, so I paid to rent a room and we spent the day together.

[Infinite Divine Wings]

--Holy crap!! When did you become interested in women?! Isn't the game more fun than women?!!!

[Black&White]

--After we slept in that room, the young lady called her friend, and her friend also slept with us for a day.

[Infinite Divine Wings]

--Traitors who betray the revolution are not qualified to speak to me!!!

[Black&White]

--To this day, I still remember that room, Orthopedic Inpatient Department, Beds 10-12.

[Infinite Divine Wings]

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[Infinite Divine Wings]

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