The News from Outside

Inside the rented apartment, a young college student named Du Qifeng carefully watched the most eye-catching hot video at the top of the current feed.

-It had been posted eight or nine hours earlier and came from a recording of a press conference at the White House in the United States.

Some "truths" that could be described as stones thrown into a calm lake had stirred up enormous waves. After just a few hours, the replies below had already surpassed three hundred thousand! The crazily surging popularity had clearly triggered some internal recommendation mechanism, allowing it to be rapidly pinned to the prime position on the app's homepage!

This young man, who had become a Main God user during the very first round and had since gone through four missions, could now be described as utterly changed from before. He carefully watched the video once, pondered for a moment, then rewound it and watched it again.

At that very moment, no one knew how many people were studying the details revealed within it, word by word, just as he was.

Unlike He Qiu, who had already persuaded his parents to move together into a base outside the urban area, Du Qifeng was, relatively speaking, not one of the clearly exposed "minority."

That was because, when the first round of missions began, he had been curled up on the upper bunk in his dormitory that afternoon, playing games. In the eyes of outsiders, he had merely fallen into a temporary, dead sleep.

Including his teammate at the time, Zheng Defa, and He Qiu now, although both had joined the authorities one after another, for some reason neither seemed inclined to reveal much information about this college student.

Perhaps it was because Du Qifeng had looked young and naive back then, carrying