Exile

For a moment, everyone hoped Pharah could deal with the hacker who was slaughtering everyone.

Mo Qiong was deeply shaken. They were clearly both hackers, both exploiting cheats. What was the essential difference between him and the Absolute Domain user?

Just moments ago, he had used head-locking to kill many players and been cursed as a damn hacker.

Now, after taking on Pharah's gorgeous appearance, he had instantly become an embodiment of justice?

"Was it because of the image packaging? Or because of the stance behind my actions?"

If there was any difference, perhaps it was that this experiment of his had not killed any players.

When he used Pharah, he had not truly harmed any player's interests.

Combined with this gorgeous, exquisite appearance, he had done practically nothing, yet he had naturally been positioned as someone capable of bringing everyone benefits.

"Is everything really so black and white...?"

The bystanders' thinking was simple. Someone capable of doing evil who chose not to do evil was a good thing.

Mo Qiong now had superpowers. Would he go wild and abuse them? No. He believed he merely wanted to make a lot of money and live happily.

That might have been an extremely Salted Fish mindset, but he truly had no special ambitions. Whether becoming the richest man or gaining royal power, neither interested him.

As an Esper, simply having no plans to stir up trouble or lord himself over ordinary people perhaps already made him exceptionally kind.

What was more, this was only a game. Even if his ability gave him such powerful influence over the game that he could practically do whatever he wanted, he had no intention of causing trouble in it.

Of course, if he could conveniently help them slay an immortal, Mo Qiong did not mind. Why not?

But thinking it over carefully, he might not necessarily be able to beat that Absolute Domain hacker.

The moment he entered the circle, he had been reduced to critical health. Still, it seemed this vehicle collision had only registered once. After all, that cheat user had never expected a player to survive being hit once.

But in his current state, a few shots from the other side—or the cheat being turned off and on again—and Pharah would die too.

Of course, killing the other side would take only one rocket. But he did not know who the other person was, where they were, or what they looked like.

"Where am I supposed to shoot? Do I have to use exhaustive elimination murder again?"

"I might not be able to kill him, and I could even get killed in return. Why bother?"

Mo Qiong shook his head. Seeing that Han Dang had finished showering and was drying his hair, he prepared to exit the game.

"I'm just a hacker too."

He controlled Pharah as she landed on the ground, ready to say that there was nothing he could do.

But just then, Pharah suddenly spoke a line.

"I will protect the innocent." Pharah's voice was brimming with heroic spirit.

"Hm?" Mo Qiong froze.

Caught off guard by a line automatically spoken by the game character, Mo Qiong swallowed the refusal he had been about to say.

Although it was just a random line from Pharah, at this moment, it had automatically come to represent Mo Qiong's attitude.

He could not very well say, "I will protect the innocent," and then follow it with, "Uh, I can't do anything about it. I'm out," could he?

Mo Qiong smiled. Fine. Since it was a game, he might as well play more freely.

There was actually still a way to kill this cheater who was hiding somewhere unknown.

Aside from shooting every possible character appearance, there was also blanket bombardment.

He was not obsessive-compulsive; he did not have to lock every shot onto a head. He could have rockets bombard every place someone might be hiding, including indoors.

After all, one thing about Absolute Domain was certain: aside from the cheater himself, there were absolutely no other living players inside the circle. In that case, if blanket bombardment hit someone, it could not kill the wrong person.

There were only a few houses in front of him. He could just bombard them all. Pharah had unlimited ammunition anyway!

"Air superiority secured..."

"Clearing the area..."

As Pharah spoke, she flew onto the roof of a house, the Rocket Launcher in her hands continuously firing rockets outward.

Some of the rockets flew toward the grass, some struck vehicles, and others blasted open doors or windows before shooting into the various furnishings inside the houses.

Of course, some rockets simply drifted away, tearing through the void to destinations unknown.

After the bombardment continued for a while, someone suddenly climbed out through the window of a small house.

"Don't shoot! Don't shoot yet!"

"Brother! Brother! What kind of cheat is that?"

The cheater could no longer sit still. He had actually been hiding in a house near the edge of the circle. After all, cheats like his did not kill enemies in any visually satisfying way, so even getting Chicken Dinner did not feel particularly enjoyable.

So whenever he played, he deliberately stayed near the circle's edge and watched those entering the circle rage after being instantly killed.

Since people would definitely be coming from the airport direction, the spot he was guarding happened to give him a clear view of Pharah and the huge convoy.

Honestly, when he saw Pharah, he had been utterly dumbfounded.

When immortals met immortals, they naturally had to compare themselves. He had always thought the cheat he bought was the strongest, yet he had not expected there to be someone even stronger.

If he had to choose between the two cheats, he would definitely prefer Mo Qiong's.

People who bought cheats like Absolute Domain were not short on money and were not afraid of bans. They were after the experience.

Without question, choosing a hero in a game where characters could not be selected, using skills in a game without skills, and flying in a game where flying was impossible—

That experience was who knew how much better than his own cheat.

So when Pharah fired rockets, he decisively activated health lock and revealed himself amid the rockets streaking past him.

He wanted Mo Qiong's kind of cheat. He wanted to control Pharah in this game too, or even other, more popular game characters.

Seeing him reveal himself voluntarily, Mo Qiong smiled, knowing this guy no longer posed any threat to him.

This guy's only chance to kill him had been to fire shots from the shadows.

Once he exposed his appearance, no matter where he hid his character, he could not escape a single shot from Mo Qiong.

Mo Qiong stared at him and firmly memorized his character model.

Countless bystanders cursed in his ears. Someone even said, "So it was you, you damn hacker. Dare reveal your ID?"

The guy raised his hand and fired a shot. Without even opening his scope, he directly sniped a bystander.

"Now you know? Go report me!"

His calm voice came through the voice channel. People who used this kind of cheat did not care about getting banned at all. He had deliberately killed someone himself so that his ID would appear directly in the kill feed, showing that he simply did not care.

The crowd of bystanders fell silent, furious beyond measure but helpless. In China, cheating was not illegal. If someone had money and felt like being reckless, there was nothing anyone could do.

Boom! A rocket splattered precisely across the other man's face. Naturally, Mo Qiong had made his move.

As though that rocket had issued an order, every player watching immediately began attacking as well. Those with guns fired, and those with grenades threw them.

Under such a barrage, the guy did not move at all. Bloody blossoms burst across his body, yet it was as though nothing had happened to him.

He truly seemed like an immortal descended into the world, able to do whatever he pleased.

Everyone became discouraged.

His eyes seemed to contain only Mo Qiong. Looking up at Pharah, he said, "Man, we can both lock our health, so stop shooting. Tell me where you bought that cheat..."

"Mm, I know all the companies that make cheats. Whenever something new comes out, I hear about it. Don't tell me you made this yourself? That's impressive. Name your price and let me have some fun with it."

Mo Qiong could not help laughing. This guy also thought he had not died because his health was locked. How could he know that Mo Qiong had not activated any cheat at all?

"Health lock? Then I really can't kill you." Mo Qiong said.

At once, the bystanders around the circle's edge sighed. They had wanted to watch immortals fight, hoping that this Pharah, who seemed to have merely flown around the game a few times, would execute that hacker.

Emotionally, they were on Pharah's side. But now that both immortals had health lock, what was there left to fight over?

Although Mo Qiong's cheat looked powerful too, the other side had health lock. No matter how powerful he was, it was useless. No matter how powerful he was, he could not kill him.

"If his health is locked, there's no way around it. He's straight-up invincible," a bystander sighed.

"I've run into a health-lock hacker in this trash game before. It was truly impossible to deal with. I searched all over the final circle and couldn't find him. In the end, I could only die to the poison. That hacker probably went AFK right after parachuting down and just stood in the poison until everyone else died!"

"Yeah, if you lock your health, you can win even while AFK. There's no way around it, really no way."

"What's that compared to mine? The one I met last time was infuriating. That hacker took off all his clothes, had over twenty crossbow bolts stuck in his head, and was completely fine. He just held a frying pan and mindlessly chased people around whacking them, like some spoon-wielding killer. I was nearly driven insane being chased by him, like an Evil Ghost demanding my life. He turned it into a horror game. In the end, I Pull Opened the pin on a grenade and charged at him..."

"Damn, brother, you've got guts!"

Everyone talked over one another, but there was nothing they could do.

For ordinary players, aside from cursing when they encountered cheaters, there were only two ways to fight back. Either they slew the immortal, or they failed and reported him.

Now that they had met an immortal who could not be killed and was not afraid of reports, there was nothing left but anger.

"Wait, Pharah seems to have health lock too. She withstood the damage from entering the circle."

"If both of them have health lock, what do we do? The game only ends after the final survivor is decided."

A bystander said this, and immediately some older guy who seemed to have seen it all replied, "This has actually happened before. Someone in our group used a health-lock cheat and ran into another health-lock cheater. Neither could do anything to the other."

"Oh? How did they solve it in the end?"

That older guy said, "Ha, they cursed each other out in the poison for a full ten minutes. In the end, one of them got cursed into quitting, and the other got Chicken Dinner."

Finally, the older guy sighed. "A true battle between masters does not involve fighting. It is a contest of mental cultivation."

Hearing the bystanders' conversation, even Mo Qiong had to laugh. Everyone here is fucking talented.

The cheater heard it too and said disdainfully, "Cheating is just for fun, brother. If you want Chicken Dinner, I'll quit right now. But you have to sell me that cheat. Yours is seriously interesting. Say, can you customize other characters too?"

Mo Qiong smiled. "Any character is fine."

"Really? That's great!" The cheater became incredibly excited.

At this moment, the bystander who had previously tried to buy Mo Qiong's cheat said, "Dream on. I offered ten thousand and he still wouldn't sell it to me, and you think you can get it? This cheat isn't meant for Chicken Dinner. How could he sell it to someone like you?"

"What's ten thousand?" The guy turned to Mo Qiong. "Sell it to me. Fifty thousand, and another fifty thousand for custom work."

"Holy shit..." The bystanders were stunned.

Mo Qiong also thought this Local Tyrant was reckless enough, but he merely said calmly, "Not for sale."

"What? Didn't you make cheats to sell them? Hmm... then one hundred thousand." The guy said.

Yet Mo Qiong said in a tone that left no room for negotiation, "Not for sale."

The guy paused, then smiled. "You're really greedy. No choice, I truly like this cheat. If you've got me over a barrel, I'll accept it... Two hundred thousand. You'll sell it this time, right?"

"..." No one interrupted anymore. Everyone could tell this hacker was serious. For something he liked, he was willing to spend lavishly.

Was Pharah rare? Not at all. He could just go play Overwatch. Were cheats expensive? Not really. A little over a hundred yuan could get an experience, while a few thousand could buy premium cheats.

Spending two hundred thousand to buy Mo Qiong's cheat was truly just to experience playing a character from another game inside an online game.

And from the looks of it, someone willing to spend two hundred thousand on a cheat probably would not mind spending several hundred thousand more. If he liked something, he threw money at it. With money, he could get anything he wanted.

He looked as though he were saying, "No matter how greedy you are, I'm getting it."

Yet Mo Qiong still replied without hesitation, "Not for sale. I wouldn't sell it even if you offered one hundred million."

"Holy shit, this one's even more arrogant!" a bystander exclaimed.

They had thought that Local Tyrant was reckless enough, but they had not expected Pharah's player to be even more reckless.

He would not sell even for one hundred million, and he did not hesitate at all when refusing. He looked as though he were saying, "No matter how rich you are, I'm not selling."

So had he really made such an exquisite cheat just to fly around a couple times and have fun by himself?

The cheater was dumbfounded too. "You don't even want money? Why? Are you rich?"

Mo Qiong said calmly, "I'm not rich, but I'm not selling. There's no reason."

The cheater had nothing left to say. He stood there stiffly, encountering someone this stubborn for the first time.

The bystanders had not expected Mo Qiong to be so resolute, but they quickly came around and chimed in, "That's right, don't sell it to him!"

"So what if it's two hundred thousand? Does he really think he can do whatever he wants just because he has money?"

The cheater was furious. "Is there any point in being this stubborn? Fine, let's talk privately. We'll definitely be the last ones left in this match."

He still thought Mo Qiong was simply too stubborn. Little did he know that Mo Qiong had been tempted once when a bystander previously offered twenty thousand. But since he had already decided not to help people travel between game characters, no later offer, no matter how high, would tempt him again.

Mo Qiong truly lacked money, but with superpowers, he could think of many legal and reasonable ways to earn it. Being poor did not mean he would grab at money with both hands. Once he made a decision, he would not change it just because he saw a bigger sum.

"Who said we'll be the last ones left in this match? I only used this cheat to test the effect. Once I deal with you, I'll quit too, and I won't play again." Mo Qiong said.

"What? Deal with me? I'd like to see what you can use to deal with me. This isn't ordinary health lock. This cheat directly invaded the server. No matter what damage I take, my health won't decrease when the data syncs." The cheater laughed.

But Mo Qiong smiled. "No matter how you lock your health, I'll just exile you."

"What the hell? Exile? A kick cheat? Hahaha, useless. My cheat has dedicated protection against that. Even if you squeeze everyone in the game out, you still won't be able to squeeze me out." The cheater said confidently.

Mo Qiong said nothing. He directly tabbed out, created a new folder on his hard drive called Data Seal Land, then right-clicked it and deleted it, sending it to the Recycle Bin.

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