Data Seal

Blood Lockers were truly unbeatable. No matter how you fought them, they never died and were always at full status. The AFK victories mentioned in earlier discussions, and charging around with countless crossbow bolt craters over their heads while using only a frying pan to hunt people down, all described the terror of Blood Lockers.

But if there was a cheat that could kick other players out, then it was undoubtedly the Blood Locker's nemesis.

You couldn't kill them, but you could banish them. You couldn't murder them, so you simply wouldn't let them play the game.

Against that, even Blood Lockers were helpless.

Everyone could understand that logic, but cheat developers could think of it too.

The reason two Blood Lockers could end up unable to do anything to each other was that both cheats came from the same person and both had anti-kick functions.

"I'd like to see how you kick me out," the cheater said, completely unconvinced.

Although the bystanders did not really understand either, they still said, "He's a god who develops cheats himself. What's so hard about kicking you out?"

The cheater directly pointed his gun at the bystanders. "What does this have to do with you? I'll clear you out first, then negotiate with him."

Clearly, he no longer wanted to listen to the bystanders mocking him. He intended to kill every player, leaving only himself and Mo Qiong behind so they could talk privately. Maybe then he could buy the cheat.

"Fuck!" Everyone knew what he intended to do, but there was nothing they could do about it.

However, at that moment, a heroic voice rang out loudly across the entire field.

"Justice from Above!"

That was Pharah's ultimate activation line. Without a doubt, after so much time had passed, Pharah's ultimate charge had already refilled automatically.

Mo Qiong did not waste any words. With one click, he activated the ultimate.

A dense barrage of rockets poured down, all of them blasting straight into the character who was about to open fire.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

The gorgeous barrage instantly swallowed the target.

Watching Pharah's relentless bombardment, every bystander who witnessed it was dumbstruck.

"Holy shit, it really is Justice from Above."

"It was recreated perfectly!"

"This cheat is insane. How did he do it?"

"It's basically the original version."

Everyone was drawn in by the rocket barrage of Justice from Above, failing to notice that the instant the ultimate ended, Mo Qiong seamlessly followed it with a Rocket Jump.

The instant the cheater's character was launched into the air, it vanished.

But no one had seen it get launched at all. It looked as though it had simply been blown away.

During that operation, Mo Qiong had closed his eyes and imagined his computer's Recycle Bin.

To make locking onto the target easier, he had specifically placed a folder named Data Seal Land into the Recycle Bin, using it as an auxiliary target for locking on.

The Landing Point was inside that folder. As for whether the folder could contain a game character, or what form that containment would take, Mo Qiong did not care.

In any case, the cheater's character data had already disappeared. At the very least, he had been kicked out of the current map.

"Is he dead?"

"There isn't even a loot box."

"Did he really get kicked out of the game?"

Seeing the cheater vanish, everyone first felt relieved, then began speculating.

Some of the bolder ones even walked directly into the circle. Sure enough, they took no damage. The Absolute Domain was gone. Had the cheater really left the game?

Everyone had their own theories and wanted Mo Qiong to confirm them.

But then they saw Mo Qiong spray some graffiti at his feet. Afterward, he performed one of Pharah's signature movements and launched himself away in a single burst.

Seeing this, everyone realized that what Mo Qiong had said earlier was true.

Once he dealt with that person, he would leave, and he would never play again.

"He really left."

"Is he really never going to play again?"

As they spoke, everyone gathered around the graffiti.

Graffiti was also a feature PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds did not have, though it was common in other shooting games.

The mark Mo Qiong had left was an image of a cool-looking Pharah unleashing Justice from Above.

"He even made graffiti. This cheat has way more features than the game itself."

"What a shame. We might really never see this cheat again..."

After sighing over it for a while, many people suddenly quit the game directly.

Clearly, they no longer cared about the outcome of the match. Some were probably in a hurry to upload videos.

Others may have found the normal game that followed dull and tasteless after experiencing all this.

Inside a luxurious residence in some city, a Man stared at his computer screen in shock.

His character was in a bizarre white world. Above him was a bizarre exit shaped like a folder icon.

And written on it were six words that made him tremble: Data Seal Land.

"Holy shit, what kind of cheat is this?"

He was completely bewildered. A kicking cheat was just a kicking cheat. Shouldn't it send someone straight back to the game lobby?

Where the fuck was this? Another server?

If it had merely been a white screen with a few extra words, he would not have been so shocked.

But his PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds game interface was still there. If he looked carefully, he could see that the health bar at the bottom differed slightly from the white background.

What was more, when he clicked the left mouse button, he could still fire his gun.

Just as he wanted to study it further, an invisible force suddenly tore his character apart.

A ripping sound came through his headphones, and the interface returned to the game lobby.

"So it really works." After shooting the cheater's character into the Recycle Bin, Mo Qiong immediately checked it.

Inside the Data Seal Land folder, there was actually a 3D character standing stupidly inside the folder.

Its appearance was unmistakably that of the cheater's character. It was somewhat like a desktop pet, except this desktop pet was confined to that folder and merely repeated the idle movements of a PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds character, swaying, looking left and right, and so on.

Then, without warning, it fired a shot!

Mo Qiong reacted swiftly and right-clicked to delete the target without hesitation.

With another ripping sound, the character was deleted, and the Recycle Bin was emptied.

"So that's how it is. Adaptation goes both ways, and the Landing Point's rules must be respected to some extent. That is why Pharah can be harmed by cheats, and his character can be deleted by me."

"Interesting. If I send a character I control into someone else's computer, could I 'see' the contents of their hard drive?"

"Hack someone else's computer by 'playing a game'?"

He only briefly entertained those ideas. Mo Qiong had no intention of becoming a hacker for the moment, and casually emptied the Recycle Bin several more times.

"What banishment? What were you playing just now?" Han Dang walked over and asked.

Mo Qiong stood up and said, "Just messing around. It's about time. Let's go."

He had already gained a deep understanding of his ability.

Although he could not understand its principles at all, knowing how it worked was enough.

Mo Qiong could no longer think about the deeper reasons behind it.

For him, being able to summarize the various manifestations of his ability was all he could do.

Blindly pursuing the why was meaningless. It was enough to arrive at an answer he could understand and accept.

Perhaps what he thought was not the real reason at all. Perhaps his analysis was complete nonsense.

But so what? Once he had summarized the basics of his ability and knew how to use it, that was enough.

"Regarding shooting, the judgment in a virtual world differs from reality because the degree of interference is far greater than in reality."

"In a virtual world, I can use rules such as skills, or even software functions, to shoot out characters."

"A virtual world seems to truly be a world. Something like a character is like a macroscopic whole, shot into another virtual world."

Mo Qiong pondered the difference between virtuality and reality.

Of course, shooting virtual things into reality was impossible. He had tried shooting virtual items from a game to right in front of himself.

But it had not worked. Perhaps it had worked, but he simply could not see them. In any case, virtual data would not materialize in reality.

Conversely, he had also tried shooting real objects into a game, but that failed as well. The object he fired suddenly vanished, then instantly reappeared.

As for the single-player game used for the test, it crashed outright. Its program was completely corrupted and could not be launched.

If a virtual object entered a virtual data world, then the Landing Point would adapt to the arrow.

It could make it possible to play one game inside another.

That raised a problem. In an online game, every action had to synchronize data with the server. If the game character had run into a USB drive, how was the server synchronizing the data?

Forced adaptation. It was as though the program of the virtual world containing the Landing Point had been updated with functions capable of processing another game. The two sides would exchange data normally to maintain game operations.

This was on the software level rather than the hardware level. Perhaps something like data had entered a quantum superposition state.

So if it entered a data carrier with no networking function, then even if the game existed through adaptation, the screen would remain frozen until the connection failed and it disconnected.

Had such updates and optimization truly been made? No. Rather, it existed in a superposition of being optimized and not being optimized.

To destroy this unbelievable adaptation, an observer was needed.

"Even in reality, though I don't have as much control as I do over virtual worlds, the invincibility of this ability is still quite Hegemonic Way."

As he headed toward the seaside with Han Dang, Mo Qiong looked at the crowd and thought of a terrifying use for his ability.

"No matter where I shoot, there will always be some place in this world corresponding to the Landing Point I imagine..."

"Banishment... whether it is banishment into darkness, banishment to the sun, or some imagined place. When a person is treated as an arrow, as long as the Landing Point is somewhere beyond Earth, or imagined magma at the Earth's core, there will always be a corresponding place... and that person will fly there at a certain speed, irresistibly banished. Whether they crash to death, starve to death, freeze to death on the way... death will only be a matter of time."

In his mind, Mo Qiong slightly replaced Arrow Chasing the Sun with a human being.

He immediately realized that as long as he could touch and push someone away, his ability could actually kill them. If the Landing Point was far enough away, death would come sooner or later.

If he wanted someone dead, he could throw them onto the sun or into some other extreme environment in an unknown place. It was an utterly unavoidable form of banishment.

"I have no need to think of using it that way... and I won't need it."

"Even if I'm forced into it, I won't use banishment. It's too slow. Before dying, they could even make a dozen calls in midair and say goodbye to all their relatives... Tch, that would expose me directly. In theory, it seems like a one-hit kill, but it's actually worse than an arrow through the head. That would be much more direct."

"Mo Qiong, Mo Qiong, finding a way to make money is what matters."

P.S. I didn't upload a cover. Where did this cover come from? Was it automatically provided?