Quadruple Schism
Chapter 17

Game

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wtf??

That was the three letters plus two punctuation marks that the orc brother in front of Mo Tan conveyed with his rich facial expressions. If it weren't for the fact that people with mental disorders are hardly in any condition to play games, this brother would probably be wondering which hospital this kid had escaped from.

That mosaic-covered face, sneaky expression, and underground-liaison-esque tone, just didn't look like a sane guy.

Besides, he shouldn't know him at all, right?!

Unfortunately, the guy in front of him was indeed a fish that slipped through the net, whether it was the hospital or the police station...

"Alright, stop pretending~" Mo Tan chuckled mischievously, nudging the orc player's arm with his elbow, and whispered, "I saw through you a long time ago. As expected, your appearance is pretty close to what I imagined. By the way, about adding Erguotou to plain water..."

This handsome orc (no mistake) with fiery red hair didn't even wait for him to finish speaking, and immediately turned around and walked away, muttering something under his breath, the content of which seemed to contain some homophobic remarks.

"Uh, is it not him?" Mo Tan scratched his head, then glanced around slightly, and suddenly laughed out loud: "Ha! So it was you!? I was wondering why that kid's aura was so different from what I expected, I really got the wrong person!!"

He excitedly muttered to himself as he rushed towards an ogre player not far away. That guy was built like an iron tower, and for some unknown reason, he had made his face particularly strange, like a stitched-up monster who had just stirred up a hornet's nest. Even his own kind would be startled by him.

Shuangye, who had been squinting and glaring at Mo Tan from a distance, finally couldn't bear it any longer. She ran two steps quickly, grabbed his collar, and pulled him back, rolling her eyes and coldly snorting, "It's me!"

"What 'you'?" Mo Tan glanced at her with disdain, waving his hand impatiently, "I'm meeting my buddy here, didn't you see he's waiting for me to go over and say hello?"

He raised his chin towards the stitched-up... uh, ogre in the distance, waving his hand and shouting, "Buddy! I'm over here! By the way, about adding Erguotou to plain water..."

"It's me! Me! Me!" Shuangye grabbed Mo Tan's collar and pulled him in front of her, her eyes almost spitting fire, jumping up and down and shouting in a low voice, "I'm the one who found out about that fake liquor company! It's called Imperial Jade Nectar Company. That bunch of geniuses sells water mixed with Erguotou, which costs less than 1.5 yuan to make, for 1,888 yuan a glass. I implanted the crash program! You stole the internal data! We exposed the information together! You even blew up the monitor of their skinny old boss! So, understand?!"

This girl was almost collapsing just now. Standing not far away, Shuangye had heard almost the entire process of Mo Tan mistaking some orc for her. She was originally furious that this guy had imagined her as that kind of existence, but after Mo Tan realized he had found the wrong person, he immediately stared at an even uglier one!

Who could stand that!!

If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't use force in a public space, she would have smashed a big fireball directly into this guy's face!

"Ah..." Mo Tan looked at Shuangye with a rather helpless expression after hearing this, then glanced at the ogre brother who was only wearing a pair of pants, and curled his lips: "So that's how it is, tsk, that's really disappointing..."

Shuangye gritted her teeth and looked at him: "What kind of rude expectations did you have of me before!?"

"At least~" Mo Tan suddenly changed his somewhat neurotic appearance, and said with a light smile, "I expected you to be calmer than this child-like girl in front of me."

"Who are you calling..." Shuangye subconsciously retorted, but suddenly froze after noticing the teasing look in his eyes.

Although Mo Tan's face had become severely distorted in the eyes of others after being blurred, Shuangye could still feel his slightly sarcastic smile and the other meaning behind his words.

Not calm enough...

She's not calm enough...

Where exactly is she not calm enough...

Wait!

Shuangye looked up in shock at the guy in front of her who she had worked with for many years but had never met, her face suddenly turning gloomy: "You knew it was me all along?!"

"What makes you say that?" Mo Tan didn't answer the girl's question, but asked instead.

"I've been observing the people in this area." Shuangye regained her composure at an extremely fast speed, and gently pushed her glasses with her index finger, and said in a deep voice: "At least within two minutes, you shouldn't have been among the people around me, but when I noticed, you were already standing in a position where even if you lowered your voice, I could still hear you talking to that burly orc man."

Mo Tan gave a dry laugh: "Could you please not use the word 'chatting up', it's so ambiguous..."

"Whether it's the timing of your appearance or the distance between us, it's all too coincidental." Shuangye ignored him and said to herself: "Even if these two points can be explained by chance, your slightly exaggerated behavior is too targeted."

"Okay, I'll praise you for a moment." Mo Tan clapped his hands: "Although this kind of belated sharpness is really not worth praising, as a gentleman, I should always be more tolerant of beautiful girls, shouldn't I?"

Shuangye pursed her lips and remained silent for a long time before looking up at the blurred face in front of her and asking: "How did you know?"

"Do you find it incredible?" Mo Tan's eyes at this time were as if he was looking at an idiot.

Shuangye couldn't help but feel a burst of anger again, but this time she quickly calmed down again, and said lightly: "I do have a guess, but I still need to hear your answer before I can make a judgment."

Mo Tan's gaze towards her became even stranger, and he said suspiciously: "Are you really sun?"

Shuangye chuckled: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe me, why don't you reveal some information and give me a chance to prove myself?"

"Forget it." Mo Tan spread his hands: "I just noticed that a large number of false information with very similar conditions suddenly appeared before, I just investigated it a bit, found that it was all meaningless stuff and didn't bother with it anymore, and then..."

He snapped his fingers, half of the life in the universe instantly disappeared... sorry, wrong script...

He snapped his fingers, raised his eyebrows at Shuangye: "As a result, I didn't expect that someone would directly follow the traces left behind, and both the tracking methods and some habits were very similar to someone I know, which undoubtedly proves that those false information must have something to do with you..."

"I understand." Shuangye lowered her little head helplessly before he could finish speaking: "Then just now you found that only I in the entire area matched the description of countless false information, so you came over to test me with a blind cat mentality, and as a result..."

"You jumped out yourself." Mo Tan smiled: "Like a pure little girl who was wrongly accused of being in a relationship by the teacher, you were so exasperated."

Shuangye rolled her eyes: "Why didn't I realize that you were this kind of character before?"

"Because we often unconsciously beautify formidable opponents we've never met in our minds." Mo Tan extended his right hand to Shuangye: "And if there's no distance, the originally non-existent beautiful brainwashing is gone, so, nice to meet you~sun~"

Shuangye casually slapped Mo Tan's hand and hummed: "Listening to what you said just now, it seems that I'm quite different from the sun in your impression."

"Let's not dwell on the hardships of life~" Mo Tan shrugged: "I have no intention of continuing to attack your self-esteem, buddy... no, should I call you 'madam' now? Or something else?"

Shuangye curled her lips: "Call me whatever you want, let's start the next topic, have you also tried to attack Innocent World's system?"

"Okay, Little Pudding."

"What did you say?!" Shuangye's originally cloudy face immediately became even gloomier.

Mo Tan looked at him innocently: "Didn't you tell me to call you whatever I wanted?"

"Just keep calling me 'buddy'." Shuangye said coldly: "So you've also suffered a loss at Innocent World like me?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Mo Tan suddenly said in a very gloomy tone, the sound of barely contained anger and mania intertwined with his indescribable complex temperament made Shuangye shudder.

In the girl's eyes, the answer was already obvious...

He must have run into a wall like I did, and seems to have taken a big hit. And maybe because of that unreasonable 'pride' of men, this guy seems even more frustrated than I am...

[Hmph, serves you right! Who told you to tease this lady just now? I wonder if Mr. CK will be even more upset when he finds out that Sun, who has always been your formidable rival, is a girl like me~]

Shuangye thought with no small amount of malice.

But in fact, the more she believed that the messy guy in front of her was not the same person as that clever priest named Hei Fan, the further Shuangye strayed from the truth under Mo Tan's misleading...

From this point on, the rhythm changed hands.

Mo Tan was certainly not as angry as he appeared to be. His slightly anxious appearance at this time was more to cover up his own urge to laugh wildly. All the emotions and expressions that Shuangye saw were all disguised, all acted out.

Ever since he left that message for Sun during the day, Mo Tan's performance had already begun.

Including that interaction he had with her when he was in the [Absolute Neutral] persona, the constant provocations just now, and even the anger he was now showing as if a proud genius had been hit in his own field, were all fake.

All of this was to clear Shuangye's suspicion of the two entities 'Hei Fan' and 'Mo Tan', and to lead her further and further into wrong judgments...

Now, only the last step remained.

"Speaking of which," Mo Tan changed the subject rather stiffly, "I really didn't expect you to be playing this game. It seems that I was a little too presumptuous in my previous difficulties with the game pod."

Shuangye didn't want to stimulate him too much, not because of the 'soft-heartedness' that applies to most girls, but because she didn't want to waste precious probing time on meaningless mutual mockery. After all, who knew when this unpredictable guy would suddenly go offline and disappear, so she followed his words and continued, "Me too~ I didn't expect you to have time to play games, instead of spending all day with tissues and restricted video materials like the average person of your kind."

Crap! It seems I accidentally made a mockery after all!!!

But Mo Tan didn't care much this time, and smiled wryly, "I think you must have some very subjective misunderstandings about male hackers..."

"No, I just thought you were a deadbeat." Shuangye laughed.

The atmosphere suddenly became a lot more harmonious~~

"Haha, I occasionally go out to feed stray cats and do public welfare."

"That's nice~ I heard that boys who like to take care of animals are very reassuring~"

Of course, this was just a superficial phenomenon. After all, these two were not easy to deal with. Don't look at them as if they get along fairly well, but as long as they have a slight chance, they can unhesitatingly smash each other into the bottom of the well with a stone, and by the way, cause a few mudslides...

However, Shuangye has always been determined to screw Mo Tan over.

The latter, on the other hand, only has this kind of thought when he is in the state of the [Chaotic Neutral] persona, so he can't avoid suffering losses. The previous lesson of being found a flaw first is a lesson.

If it weren't for the system bug caused by his personality split, Mo Tan, who might have made a wrong move first and revealed his flaws at some point, would have lost this game first.

When his personality is in the [Absolute Neutral] state, Mo Tan feels a little scared every time he thinks of this...

But the current him...

Only feels pure pleasure and excitement~

As long as he can get pleasure, he doesn't care whether he is shoveling dirt next to Onizuka or dancing on the tip of a knife...

Having fun is good!

As a pop-up window floated in front of Shuangye, the last trace of doubt in her heart was completely dispelled.

Player Tan Mo (Chaotic Neutral) has requested to add you as a friend

"I feel like an idiot." Shuangye muttered in a low voice, then readily accepted Mo Tan's friend request, and then looked at another name in the friend bar.

Friend: Hei Fan (Absolute Neutral)

Even if this guy may have some problems, or even be a pretty good hacker, it doesn't matter anymore...

Shuangye raised her head and looked at the guy in front of her, a smile appeared on her cute baby face.

[Because the biggest, most troublesome, and most difficult prey has already appeared~]

She suddenly felt motivated!

"Even if you're a little flattered because I took the initiative to add you as a friend, don't be in a daze." Mo Tan's somewhat annoying voice at this time quickly woke Shuangye from her thoughts.

Looking at the somewhat petite orange-haired mage in front of him, he leaned over and whispered in the girl's ear...

"I want to play a game with you."

Chapter 16: End

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