The Herta: A cuckold's bond? Do I really have to give Romanticus to Chen Li?! (10K, continued)

"What do you know? This is called using the mechanics. It's not cheating."

Silver Wolf argued, her face flushed.

"What I mean is, why aren't you cheating?"

Chen Li said tactfully.

"How could I cheat? Chen Li, I really need to keep you under control!"

"Then what was loading an ACE disk-scanning MOD into my controller supposed to be?"

Chen Li got worked up too.

"Uh, that's an outside-the-game tactic... It doesn't count as cheating."

Silver Wolf scratched her cheek with a finger.

"...All right, all right, you two, stop arguing."

Great Herta, who had originally been the victim, instead became the mediator between Silver Wolf and Chen Li.

Great Herta had probably figured out that, in Silver Wolf's logic, one could make good use of game mechanics, but could not directly cheat or use hacks.

Because Silver Wolf firmly believed that this universe was a game, she could push the effects of the Miraculous Item [Creative Workshop] to their limits.

But precisely because of that, her pride as a player kept Silver Wolf from choosing to use hacks.

At least... she would not let anyone else know she was using hacks.

Great Herta had every reason to suspect that Silver Wolf had secretly made some MODs that were practically outright hacks, but would absolutely never take them out.

"I'm very interested in the disk-scanning MOD you mentioned just now, Silver Wolf. Tell me more."

Great Herta asked with great interest.

"Oh, it's nothing much. It just scans the data in a computer at high frequency and intensity, violently overconsumes system resources, raises the computer's temperature, affects its smoothness, and drastically impacts its performance.

When the computer's disk is continuously attacked and damaged as a result, it can no longer read disk information and will determine that the disk is