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As she sat lost in thought, a pair of hands suddenly covered her eyes from behind!

The fingertips were soft and warm, carrying the faint gardenia scent of body wash. Fang Yishu jumped, but her tensed shoulders quickly relaxed.

In their four-person dorm room, she was only superficially close with the other two girls. But the only one who would teasingly bother her in such a childish way had to be Ning Yu.

"What are you looking at so intently?" A smiling voice sounded beside her ear. Warm breath brushed against her neck, making that patch of skin itch slightly.

Oh, so that's how you want to play it.

Knowing the other girl was doing it on purpose, Fang Yishu did not answer right away. Instead, she slowly raised her hand and lightly scratched the other girl's palm, with the gentle force of a kitten extending its paw.

She knew her Ah Yu's "weaknesses" far too well.

"Ah! That tickles!" Ning Yu immediately laughed, but she stubbornly refused to let go. Instead, she went even further, pressing her entire weight against Fang Yishu. Her chin affectionately rubbed against Fang Yishu's head, and several still-damp strands of hair fell onto her best friend's head. "Tell me! You little mutt Su Su! Were you secretly looking at some handsome guy's photo? Confess!"

"No!" Fang Yishu laughed as she twisted, trying to break free of those "demonic claws." The chair beneath her let out an obvious creak.

After much effort, she finally pried Ning Yu's hands away and turned around. What met her eyes were her best friend's crescent-shaped smiling eyes, along with the faint blush on her face from all that rubbing just now.

Why is she still like some little kitten or puppy?

She could not help sighing inwardly like an old mother.

But Ning Yu refused to let it go. Her hands naturally wrapped around Fang Yishu's neck again as she gently swayed. "Cut it out. Just now, you looked so serious, like you were about to defend your graduation thesis."

She paused, deliberately widening her eyes and drawing out her tone theatrically. "Oh~~~ You have a secret? The kind you can't even tell your big sister?"

"Give me a break!" Fang Yishu laughed at her antics and reached out to pinch Ning Yu's cheek. "You think you can become the big sister? I was just spacing out. What do you even think about all day?"

"You!" Ning Yu answered instantly. Grinning, she dodged Fang Yishu's "attack," then reached for Fang Yishu's ticklish waist instead, clearly intending to get revenge.

Fang Yishu cried out in startled laughter and shrank backward, nearly slipping off her chair. She hurriedly grabbed Ning Yu's arm, and the two of them dissolved into laughter.

After a round of horseplay, both of their hair had become somewhat messy. Ning Yu, who had showered not long ago, finally stopped, but she still clung to Fang Yishu. Hugging her arm, she gently swayed it and dragged out her voice in a soft whine. "Su Su~~~"

The moment Fang Yishu heard that tone, she narrowed her eyes warily. "What is it? You're suddenly acting all gross and sweet. This can't be anything good."

"How is it not something good?" Ning Yu smiled and poked Fang Yishu's arm with a fingertip. "It's just... last time, a few afternoons ago, when we walked to the store together, didn't you get the contact information of that guy on the street bench halfway through...?"

Fang Yishu froze slightly. The blush from their playfulness had not yet fully faded from her face, but her gaze drifted for a moment as if she had recalled something, and her cheeks quietly reddened again.

No! That was not right!

She pursed her lips instinctively, then immediately realized what her little fish was up to!

"Oh~~~" This time, it was Fang Yishu's turn to draw out the sound.

She deliberately tilted her head. A sly gleam flashed through her eyes as she carefully looked Ning Yu up and down. "Ah Yu, I was wondering why you were so enthusiastic today... So you were waiting for me here."

With a particularly "evil" smile curling on her lips, this college girl instantly evolved from "best friend" to "plastic sister" without missing a beat. She turned sideways and deliberately adjusted the collar Ning Yu had pulled crooked. "Which guy? Why don't I remember?"

Now that she had leverage in hand, she was clearly going to make her roommate squirm.

"The one named Li Yun... Um, the guy whose surname is Li!"

The moment the words left her mouth, Ning Yu realized something was wrong. She hurriedly tried to cover it up by switching back to his surname midway through, and her cheeks immediately flushed slightly. "The one whose glasses I accidentally knocked off... Didn't you add his WeChat afterward?"

Fang Yishu put on an expression of sudden realization. "Oh... that person."

She looked at Ning Yu leisurely. "What is it? Why are you suddenly asking about him again?"

Ning Yu's gaze drifted away as her fingers casually combed through her still-damp long hair. "Nothing. I just suddenly remembered... I felt pretty bad about it that day. I wonder whether his glasses were okay afterward?"

"Didn't he check them at the time?" Fang Yishu raised an eyebrow high, a teasing half-smile on her face. "Ah Yu, why are you suddenly so concerned about his glasses?"

"Or could it be that you have a secret too~~~"

Seeing that the boomerang she had thrown had finally come back to hit her, Ning Yu gave a light spit. Her face reddened even more, but her eyes shone brightly. "No, Su Su. I just noticed you didn't seem to chat with anyone when you got back, and when I remembered it, I asked in passing."

"Oh, right, right, right, right, right. So now you're the big sister, huh?" Fang Yishu's tone was full of teasing. "Just a moment ago, some little sister from who-knows-where was trying to trick me, sneak-attack me, and tickle me! Then this big sister has to tell her not to pull that act!"

"Fang! Yi! Shu!" Ning Yu finally flew into embarrassed rage and made as if to tickle her again. "Can we still be sisters or not? You promised to send me his contact!"

"Okay, okay, okay! I'll send it, I'll send it!"

Seeing that Ning Yu had finally cracked, Fang Yishu laughed as she dodged and reached for the phone on the desk.

"But jokes aside, I have to remind you of something, Ah Yu."

Her expression turned serious almost instantly, revealing the true nature of a bold woman from Shu. "That person we met that day probably isn't easy to get along with... You'd better not approach him casually."

As if recalling certain details, the college girl's expression cooled further. "You might not have noticed at the time, but the way he looked at us was actually not much different from the way he looked at those glasses on the ground."

"It was only after I asked for his contact information that he became a little gentler."

Fang Yishu casually rubbed her best friend's cheek, gently kneading it twice as if rolling dough, before sighing. "Ah Yu, if you just want to get to know him, it probably isn't a big deal. But if you've finally started feeling romantic and want to try dating or something..."

Her voice grew gentler, but every word was clear. "Then I'd advise you to choose another target..."

A "panda" lying on the sofa suddenly moved, his gaze lifting sharply from his phone.

"Main God, did something happen just now?"

His voice remained clear and calm, though it carried a trace of confusion.

"...Data from the past minute has been queried. No anomaly was found. Administrator, would you like to expand the search period or provide a more precise range of information?"

"Mm, nothing...?"

Li Yun's expression remained unchanged, though his words carried faint puzzlement. "...I think... I heard someone somewhere calling my name?"

An illusion?

It had not been actual hearing, but a hard-to-describe, subtle sensation, as though it were some vague intuition from the unseen.

Even he was not entirely sure what had happened.

"But Administrator, you did not sneeze."

The Main God delivered another deadpan joke.

It had to be said that, in this regard, its sense of "humor" was remarkably similar to Li Yun's.

"...Mm, perhaps it really was an illusion."

With that, seeing that there was nothing to notice, the lazy "panda" slowly sank back into the sofa and continued playing with his phone.

Along with the budding of a certain "potential," a subtle feeling of "weakness" had arisen in his body. At the moment, he was like a bear about to hibernate and did not want to move too much.

—More precisely, Li Yun was currently browsing the forum on the Main God Website as well.

This official Main God website had only opened after the second round of games yesterday. At present, there was barely any definite news in the announcements section. In comparison, the forum section where users could speak was much more interesting.

As Main God IDs were activated, quite a few relatively sharp-minded users from different countries and regions had poured in all at once. They registered accounts on the official website and were doing their utmost to make themselves heard everywhere—

Things like [Friends, good news! I actually got a Pan Gu Axe out of a blind box!]

[Confirmed that a major country in Asia opened a round of Main God Games early. It is suspected of possessing certain means related to the Main God Platform...]

[After users die in mission worlds, they experience obvious mental fatigue in reality. The Main God Game may not be as safe as advertised...]

[Looking to buy unused "Visitor Referral Slots" from first-round users!]

[An unknown number of newcomers joined the Main God Platform on a large scale yesterday. This is suspected to be related to the "Light Cluster" phenomenon before the second round of missions began...]...

Some posts were clearly careful deductions made by users. Others were nothing but emotional venting and declarations of position. Some could be classified as clear experience-sharing or requests for help, while others were nearly pure nonsense, meaningless content, or simply attempts to stir up trouble...

True and false mixed together. It was quite interesting.

For example, Li Yun had just finished reading a post clearly written by a first-round user, which briefly laid out some of his deductions.

—In the second-round mission worlds, judging from the reward mechanism for Guides, a small number of veteran users who received "Guide" missions would see their earnings increase by dozens to over a hundred points, provided they cleared the mission successfully. Most of them effectively received double the main mission reward.

Based on the fivefold Universal Point reward for the Newcomer Trial, every Visitor who normally earned around one or two hundred points upon clearing a mission would provide their corresponding Guide with a reward ranging roughly from a few points to twenty or thirty points.

And at present, when the Main God sent people into mission worlds, the groups generally ranged from several people to dozens.

That meant that if a lucky veteran could lead a large group of newcomers through a mission, they could theoretically earn an "extra income" of three to five hundred points in a single round!

This was itself an extremely obvious form of unfairness!

Especially now, when the Main God Game had clearly only just begun, this was enough to let a small number of "top users" with resources quickly widen the gap between themselves and users who had never received Guide missions...

It was obvious from the poster's words that he was filled with undisguised envy, jealousy, and resentment.

It was understandable. Once someone understood the importance of the Main God Game, probably no one could accept this kind of "unfairness," where they could only watch others steadily pull further and further ahead.

...Unless they themselves were beneficiaries of that unfairness!

But clearly, this user who had joined the Main God Game in the first round would naturally not consider what kind of "unfairness" he, as a veteran, represented to the newcomers who came later.

What was more, if a veteran truly wanted to drag dozens of newcomers through a mission, what they would have to face would be far from ordinary "difficulty"...

Shaking his head, Li Yun did not pay much attention to the post's claims and casually scrolled the page.

Clearly, in the face of this "official website" that had appeared less than two days ago yet was linked to the Main God User Mark, even though it was only a beginning that could barely be called a beginning, it had already become like a deep whirlpool in the ocean, drawing in vast undercurrents.

Countless people were actively participating in it day and night through all kinds of methods.

For one thing, the so-called "Kamerican Federation government" was already using individual users to make statements, attempting to contact the Main God Platform for "cooperation."

But according to the Main God's actual network information, those "official messages," which had quickly been drowned beneath the flood of user posts, had in fact been privately posted by a minor official employed by a municipal power agency in a single Deksasa State under the Kamerican Federation.

—In other words, it was that minor official's own side hustle.

After becoming a Main God user yesterday, the man quickly thought of certain methods based on his personal experience and attempted to seek benefits through this approach.

It had to be said that putting on the skin of a tiger was indeed the first choice many clever people considered.

People were creatures of habitual thinking.

But clearly, this man's understanding of the Main God was still far behind the times.

Li Yun did not even feel inclined to hold it against him. He merely smiled slightly.

That was right. Sometimes, fools could make the Administrator laugh.

When the Main God cleaned up useless information on the platform, he merely had it retain the posts from that Deksasa man full of bureaucratic jargon, so that more users in the future could see this "joke" when searching.

—Though in some people's eyes, this "joke" would surely not be funny at all. If their specific identity were ever traced, they might even have to pay a bloody price.

Beyond that, all kinds of overt and covert "tests" were fermenting and converging on this chaotic forum: various purchase requests, related resource trade requests, partial leaks of intelligence...

As expected, setting aside the relatively sluggish response of many national governments, certain private enterprises built around financial conglomerates, corporations, and family-based communities had unexpectedly displayed an extremely keen nose.

In less than two days, even those who had only recently obtained Main God user status were already frantically trying to pour real money and stacks of cash, using the resources they possessed in reality, into this forum to purchase and exchange for Main God resources...