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She was deep in thought when a pair of hands suddenly covered her eyes from behind!

The fingertips were soft and warm, carrying the faint gardenia scent of shower gel. Fang Yishu jumped, but her tense shoulders immediately relaxed.

In a four-person dorm room, strictly speaking, she and the other two could only be considered superficially friendly. The only person who would act so childishly and come tease her like this was Ning Yu, that little girl.

"What are you looking at so intently?" a voice said beside her ear with a smile. Warm breath brushed against her neck, making that patch of skin itch.

Oh, so this is 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 strength of a tiny kitten extending its claws.

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

"Ah! That tickles!" Ning Yu immediately laughed, but stubbornly refused to let go. Instead, she pressed her full weight against Fang Yishu, affectionately rubbing her chin against the top of her head. A few strands of still-damp hair fell onto her best friend's head. "Tell me! Goosusu! Were you secretly looking at some handsome guy's picture? Confess!"

"No way!" Fang Yishu laughed as she twisted around, trying to escape those "devilish claws." The chair beneath her squeaked loudly in response.

After considerable effort, she pried Ning Yu's hands away and turned around. What met her eyes was her best friend's pair of crescent-shaped, laughing eyes, along with a faint blush left behind by all that rubbing when she had pounced over.

Why is she still like a little kitten or puppy?

She could not help sighing inwardly like an old mother hen.

Ning Yu, however, refused to let up. She continued to wrap both arms around Fang Yishu's neck, her body swaying gently. "Susu~~~"

The moment Fang Yishu heard that tone, she narrowed her eyes warily. "What do you want? You're suddenly being all disgustingly sweet. It definitely means trouble."

"Oh, how can you call it trouble?" Ning Yu said with a giggle, poking her arm with a fingertip. "It's just... it's about last time. A few afternoons ago, when we walked to the store together, didn't you get the contact information of that guy sitting on the roadside chair..."

Fang Yishu paused slightly. The blush brought on by their horseplay had not completely faded, but her eyes drifted for an instant as if she had remembered something, and her face quietly reddened again.

No! That's not it!

She subconsciously pressed her lips together, then immediately realized what her little fish was planning!

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

She deliberately tilted her head, a sly glimmer flashing through her eyes as she carefully looked Ning Yu up and down several times. "A-Yu, I was wondering why you were being so enthusiastic today... So you were waiting for me here."

With an especially "wicked" smile curling at her lips, the female university student seamlessly transformed from a "best friend" into a "fair-weather sister." She turned sideways and deliberately straightened the collar Ning Yu had tugged askew. "Which guy? How come I don't remember him?"

Now that she had leverage, she clearly intended to toy with her roommate a little.

"It was that guy named Li Yun... um, the guy whose surname is Li!"

Only after the words left her mouth did she realize something was wrong. Halfway through, Ning Yu hurriedly and transparently switched back to referring to him by his surname, her cheeks turning faintly red. "The one whose glasses I accidentally knocked off? Didn't you add him on WeChat afterward?"

Fang Yishu pretended to suddenly understand. "Oh... that guy."

She looked at Ning Yu at her leisure. "What's wrong? Why are you suddenly asking about him?"

Ning Yu's gaze wavered. She casually combed through her not-yet-dry long hair with her fingers. "Nothing. I just suddenly remembered... I felt pretty bad about it that day, and I didn't know whether his glasses ended up being all right."

"Didn't he check them himself at the time?" Fang Yishu raised her eyebrows high, wearing a half-smile as she deliberately teased her. "A-Yu, why are you suddenly so concerned about his glasses?"

"Or is it that you have a secret~~~?"

Seeing the boomerang she had thrown finally hit her, Ning Yu gave a soft little scoff. Her face grew even redder, but her eyes shone astonishingly brightly. "Not at all, Sis Susu. I just noticed you didn't seem to chat with anyone after you came back, so I remembered this and asked while I was at it."

"Oh, right, right, right. So I'm your sister now, am I?" Fang Yishu's voice was full of mockery. "A moment ago, some little girl from who-knows-where was trying to trick me, ambush me, and tickle me! Then I'll have to tell her too: don't try that with me!"

"Fang! Yi! Shu!" Ning Yu finally became angry from embarrassment and made as if to tickle her again. "Can we still be sisters or not? You promised to pass me his number!"

"Fine, fine, I will!"

Seeing that the other girl had finally "broken through her defenses," Fang Yishu laughed as she dodged and reached for the phone on the table.

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

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

As if she had recalled some details, the female university student's expression grew colder. "You might not have noticed, but the way that person looked at the two of us was actually not much different from the way he looked at the glasses lying on the ground."

"He only became a little gentler after I asked him for his contact information."

She casually rubbed her best friend's cheek, lightly pinching it twice as if kneading dough. Only then did Fang Yishu sigh. "A-Yu, if you simply want to get to know him, then it probably won't be a major problem. But if you've finally developed romantic feelings and want to try dating or something like that..."

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

The "panda" lying on the sofa suddenly moved, its gaze abruptly shifting away from the phone.

"Main God, was there some situation just now?"

His voice remained clear and calm, but now carried a hint of confusion.

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

"Hmm, there wasn't?"

Li Yun's expression remained unchanged, but his words carried a trace of puzzlement. "...I feel like... I heard someone calling my name somewhere."

An illusion?

It had not been a genuine sound, but rather some indescribable, faint sensation hidden somewhere in the depths of his awareness.

Even he was not entirely sure what had happened.

"But Administrator, you did not sneeze."

Main God still delivered its cold joke in an icy voice.

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

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

After saying that, and seeing that nothing had come of it, the lazy "panda" slowly burrowed back into the sofa and continued playing with his phone.

Along with the sprouting of a certain "potential," a subtle sense of "weakness" that came with it made him feel like a bear about to enter hibernation. He did not feel like moving around too much.

More precisely, Li Yun was browsing the forum on the Main God Website.

This official Main God website, which had only opened after yesterday's second round of the game, currently had almost no definite news in its announcement section. By comparison, the forum section, where users could speak freely, was far more interesting.

As the process of activating Main God IDs continued, quite a few relatively perceptive users from different countries and regions had already rushed in. They registered their own website accounts and were doing their utmost to make their voices heard everywhere—

Posts included things like: [Friends, good news! I actually got a Pan Gu Axe from a blind box!]

[Confirmed that a certain major Asian country activated a round of the Main God Game ahead of time. Suspect it has control over certain factors of the Main God Platform...]

[After users die in a mission world, they experience obvious mental exhaustion in reality. The Main God Game is probably not as safe as advertised...]

[Buying unused "visitor introduction slots" from first-round users!]

[An unknown number of newcomers joined the game on the Main God Platform yesterday. Suspected to be related to the "Light Cluster" phenomenon before the second round of missions began...]...

Some posts were clearly the result of rigorous deductions by users. Others were nothing more than emotional venting and declarations of stance. Some could be categorized as clear experience-sharing or requests for help, while others were nearly pure nonsense and meaningless content—or simply attempts to stir up trouble.

Truth and falsehood were all mixed together, making it very interesting.

For example, Li Yun had just finished reading a post that was obviously written by a first-round user. It briefly introduced one of his deductions.

In the second-round mission worlds, judging from the guide's reward mechanism, the small number of veteran users who received "guide" missions would, as long as they cleared the mission successfully, earn anywhere from several dozen to over a hundred extra points. In most cases, this was equivalent to receiving double the main mission reward.

Judging from the fivefold Universal Points reward of the Newcomer Trial, every visitor who cleared a mission—normally earning only one or two hundred points—would provide the corresponding guide with a reward ranging from a few points to twenty or thirty points.

At present, when Main God sends people into mission worlds, the group size generally ranges from several people to several dozen.

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

This was, in itself, an extremely obvious form of unfairness!

Especially now, when the Main God Game had only just begun. It was enough to let a small number of "top users" with access to resources rapidly take shape and easily widen the gap between themselves and users who had never received guide missions...

It was easy to see the undisguised envy, jealousy, and resentment in the poster's words. He was clearly deeply aggrieved.

That was understandable. After all, once people realized the immense significance of the "Main God Game," probably no one could accept watching others steadily widen the distance between them and themselves because of such "unfairness."

Unless they themselves were beneficiaries of that unfairness!

But obviously, this user, who had joined the Main God Game in its very first round, naturally would not consider what sort of "unfairness" he represented as a veteran compared with these later newcomers.

Moreover, if a veteran really wanted to drag dozens of newcomers through a mission, what they would have to face was anything but ordinary "difficulty"...

Li Yun shook his head and did not pay much attention to the post's arguments. He casually swiped the page.

Clearly, this "official website," which had existed for less than two days yet was already connected to the Main God User Mark, was like a deep whirlpool in the ocean. Even though it was only the beginning of a beginning, it was already drawing in countless undercurrents.

Large numbers of people were actively participating through every possible means, working without sleep or rest.

For example, there was already something calling itself the "official Kamerican Federation" using individual users to speak on its behalf, attempting to contact the Main God Platform and negotiate "cooperation."

However, according to Main God's actual network information, these few "official messages," which were quickly submerged in the tide of user posts, had actually been sent privately by a minor official working for a power institution in a city in Deksasa State, one of the states under the Kamerican Federation.

In other words, they were this minor official's own "side hustle."

After becoming a Main God User yesterday, the man had quickly thought of a few ways to seek profit based on his personal experience and had attempted to use this method to gain benefits.

It had to be said that putting on a tiger's skin really was the first choice considered by many clever people.

Human beings were creatures of habit.

Clearly, however, this fellow's understanding of "Main God" had fallen far behind the tide of the times.

Li Yun did not even feel the need to argue with him. He merely smiled faintly.

Indeed, sometimes a fool could make an administrator smile.

He simply had Main God preserve this Deksasa man's post, written in an unmistakably official tone, while clearing out some useless information from the platform. That way, future users searching through the site would be able to see this "joke."

Though in the eyes of certain people, this "joke" was probably not funny at all. Once his exact identity was investigated, he might even have to pay a bloody price.

Aside from that, all sorts of overt and covert "probes" were brewing and converging in this chaotic forum. There were purchase requests, requests to trade relevant resources, leaked intelligence, and more...

As expected, quite apart from the relatively "sluggish" reactions of many countries' official institutions, certain private industries based on conglomerates, corporations, and family alliances had displayed astonishingly keen "smells."

In less than two days, those "clever people"—many of whom had only recently gained Main God User status—were already frantically trying to use the real-world resources they controlled to pour large amounts of actual cash into this forum, buying and exchanging it for all sorts of Main God resources...