Chapter 1437: True and False, One Another
"Minister pp, how many humanoid monsters do we have to grind for this mission?"
After who knew how many "Season Sister clones" he had killed, Little J finally couldn't hold back the question.
Grinding monsters normally would've been fine. They had to level up anyway.
But the problem was that PvP didn't grant experience in this game. After fighting for so long without getting anything out of it, how could he not feel miserable?
The pp leader remained silent, simply waiting for the next clone to arrive.
With no other choice, Little J opened several Star Network channels to kill time and began slacking off. He first browsed the latest news: "Memory Engineering a Huge Success—Virtual-Stream Players Now Have a Second Life," "Cross-Dimensional Consciousness Transfer Machine Succeeds—Virtual-Stream Players Gain a New Weapon for Exploring the Stars," "Major Discovery—Virtual Life Resonates with Underlying Code and Can Briefly Enter a Quantum State"...
Those were the relatively normal headlines. Some of the abnormal ones were obviously made by players, such as bizarre "Account-Switching Services," "Pirated Weapon Rentals," "9999 Damage in One Hit—No, 9999 at Level One," and "How to Bypass the Mother City System and Choose a Second Faction."
They were all about showing off their tricks.
Little J's scalp prickled as he read them. Did these people really think NPCs never read the news?
They'd even come up with pirated accounts. How had they managed that? Temporary consciousness transfers?
What high-level player would willingly let someone freeload on their "account"? Well, no, they were probably paying for it.
Luckily, the game's XP system had been locked down. Otherwise, who knew what tricks this bunch would come up with?
For example, they could virtually hack into an "electronic companion system" and, while another player was flirting