On the afternoon of April 17, discussions on the Eerie Game forum continued to ferment, and the flames naturally spread to the Nine Provinces Guild and Fu Jue.
[What exactly are the Nine Provinces Guild's intentions in concealing such important information? Let me indulge in a little conspiracy theory here—could it be like how the Federation deliberately suppresses news of serious incidents? Maybe Nine Provinces wants to impose media control too, keeping the public ignorant so we'll stupidly serve as cannon fodder?]
[Now you've got me wide awake talking about Identity Cards! Which bastard said Identity Cards were useless? I was fooled too. Back when I got one, I didn't bind it immediately and instead sold it to a player who claimed to be a collector. Oh right, that player was from the Nine Provinces Guild.]
[I watched Fu Jue's livestream. I'm one hundred percent certain he bound an Identity Card before! It was only one frame, but I was still his fan at the time and edited the footage frame by frame, so I noticed it. The image on that card was of a person nailed upside down to a cross. It definitely didn't look simple!]
[I'm a theory-oriented player, and lately I've been planning to write a chronicle of the Eerie Game, so I specifically collected ranking data from the past thirty-six years. Have you noticed that Fu Jue entered the game twenty-two years ago, yet his appearance hasn't changed in the slightest... Is he even human?]
[I write novels, so I'll make a bold guess: the Eerie Game is similar to the "Candidate Game" from the novel Thriller Paradise, intended to select new gods from Players with potential. Identity Cards may be connected to the authority of gods, and anyone who binds one is qualified to become