Forum Guide!

After the "Death game," Lin Yu realized that his acting skills had indeed undergone an almost "qualitative" improvement.

Not just in today's stage performance...

He was even becoming more and more adept at applying his "acting skills" to daily life.

No, rather than calling it an "improvement," it was more like...

The "Death game" had given him a wake-up call—reminding Lin Yu that he could also use his "acting skills" to do these things in real life.

For example, telling his sister a well-intentioned lie.

Faced with Lin Yu's sincere words, Lin Zhao naturally had not the slightest suspicion.

Her original anger had all turned into concern.

"Then go back and get some rest, Xiao Yu..."

"Don't take acting too seriously either... If you can't handle it, take a break for a while. Your sister has her own shop now and can afford to support you!"

In the past, although Lin Yu was a Method Acting actor, he had to immerse himself completely in his roles whenever he acted. He often found himself unable to come out of character, and Lin Zhao had witnessed that state before.

Especially after coming across several short videos online and hearing news about a "famous Film Emperor who committed suicide because he was unable to escape a role after becoming too deeply immersed," Lin Zhao was naturally terrified of such a thing.

Lin Zhao was Lin Yu's only family in this world, but was Lin Zhao not the same to Lin Yu?

Looking at his sister Lin Zhao's concerned eyes, Lin Yu returned to his room.

Although he felt relieved inside, he also felt somewhat guilty.

"People really are all hypocrites... Or perhaps everyone who can enter the 'Death game' is an outstanding 'egoist.'"

Lin Yu muttered sarcastically.

In the "Death game," he had committed "Fraud," using schemes to kill five living people, and had even personally killed two of them. Yet all he had felt was a little emotional impact.

But when he lied to a family member who cared about him and saw the other person's cautious expression...

Lin Yu felt somewhat uncomfortable inside.

Still, Lin Yu was not so hypocritical as to blame himself over it.

He was someone who did not waste energy tormenting himself.

"All things considered, this strange 'Death game' is to blame... And that person who killed me."

"At tomorrow's gathering, I have to catch her... And I'll also see whether I can really use that gathering to improve my life."

Lin Yu secretly made up his mind.

After Lin Yu came to this decision...

He did not hesitate. He locked the room door from the inside and opened the installation package sent by "Harmony brings wealth."

After Lin Yu tapped install, very soon...

A brand-new APP icon appeared on the desktop. It was completely pitch-black.

Its name was plain as well, consisting of only two characters—"Forum."

"It really is called 'Forum,'" Lin Yu could not help muttering. "I thought it was some sort of code name."

Though he was complaining, Lin Yu had to admit that the APP's name and icon were indeed mysterious and high-end.

He tapped the icon, and the same extremely minimalist style appeared—a pitch-black screen with nothing but an input box in the middle and no instructions whatsoever.

If not for the blinking white cursor indicating that Lin Yu was supposed to enter something, he would have suspected that his phone's screen had gone black.

He tapped the input box, and a keyboard floated into view.

Although no text told Lin Yu what he was supposed to enter, he recalled what the Harmony brings wealth uncle had said—"Enter the WeChat ID you were invited with."

He entered the Harmony brings wealth uncle's WeChat ID.

Sure enough...

The input box blinked twice, then changed into two characters.

"Welcome."

Next, another input box appeared—but this time, it came with a prompt.

"Enter your 'nickname' and 'account.'"

Lin Yu thought for a moment and did not choose to use his WeChat ID as his "account" like the Harmony brings wealth uncle had.

Lin Yu entered his account—"Stanislavski1938."

This was the English spelling of the name of his favorite playwright and theater theorist. The 1938 afterward was the year that this master of the theater world had suddenly passed away.

Lin Yu then agonized briefly over his nickname.

In the end, he entered two characters.

"Director."

He had originally wanted to enter "Actor," but Lin Yu felt that... it might reveal too much about him.

Although, from a rational perspective, it was nearly impossible to determine his identity or anything else based on those two characters alone...

Still, taking a few more detours would make Lin Yu feel more at ease. So why not do it?

After he finished, the input box blinked again.

Soon, new words appeared.

"Welcome to the 'Forum'!"

The words faded away, and an extremely simple forum interface appeared.

The Forum only had four major sections: "Announcements," "Discussion," "Guides," and "Bounties."

Lin Yu took a look. The "Announcements" section was like an ordinary forum, filled with posts about users being muted for various lengths of time.

Most of the posts were of little value. Only a small number of posts, such as "Permanently restricting members of Organization XX from logging into the Forum," piqued Lin Yu's interest.

"Looks like the organization running this 'Forum' isn't completely neutral either!"

Lin Yu muttered.

He also silently memorized the names of the organizations that had been restricted from logging in.

The pinned ones included the "Psychology Society," the "Freedom Alliance," and the "Marauders"...

The "Marauders" clearly gave off the air of not being good people, but the other two left Lin Yu unable to figure out the Forum's stance.

Moreover, the Forum's rules listed in the pinned announcement consisted of only three points: "No personal attacks, no spreading rumors, and no posting irrelevant information."

It did not even explain why members of those three organizations were prohibited from logging into the Forum.

"Could they have been engaging in massive flame wars on it?"

Lin Yu had no way of knowing.

But none of that was important...

Lin Yu continued browsing the "Forum."

In the "Discussion" section, quite a few posts were constantly being bumped, but Lin Yu only half understood some of their titles.

"Rational discussion: Can the strength gained after completing two Professional tasks really rival an Exclusive item?"

"Does the 'Hooligan,' a Rule-type profession, count as the most useless one among pure 'survival-type' professions?"

"Experts, I really want to know how long the 'Judge's' ability remains effective in reality?"

"Seeking to trade for a powerful offensive Item. Interested parties, DM me!"

"Between the 'General' and the 'Grandmaster,' who is stronger in a one-on-one fight?"

"Haicheng, female, newcomer, looking for someone to carry me! Video verification available!"

The various posts left Lin Yu only half understanding them.

He could vaguely sketch out the "profiles" of the other players, but he still could not fully understand them.

"I'd better look at the 'Guides' first!"

Lin Yu muttered as he opened the next section of the Forum.

But when he opened the "Guides" section...

Lin Yu was stunned.

"Holy crap!"