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Comments: [...]

[Hello, hello, you're so trendy!]

[What's with "bro" and "sis"? Can't you call me little baby?]

Xie Ran ignored the comments and simply picked up a phone, saying matter-of-factly, "In that case, let's begin the Fight the Landlord competition."

The world was not yet able to accurately assess Meng Feixuan's value. After hitting several walls, Quest Technology had stopped making offers for Meng Feixuan. Xie Ran was not surprised, nor was he in any hurry. According to his original plan, he had intended to speak directly with Quest Technology's person in charge after finishing the work at hand.

Unexpectedly, during this period, Fang Huiwang and Black Star had remade Nangong Xu and had even gotten in touch with Quest's Heavenly Sound Idol Studio first.

Xie Ran had not taken it to heart. Meng Feixuan's core technology was fundamentally different from Nangong Xu's, so there was no point in competing at all.

By coincidence, when he was in Old West City without a phone, Xie Ran had Meng Feixuan play Fight the Landlord with him to pass the time. Meng Feixuan had wanted more afterward, so upon returning, he had gone to enter Quest Technology's online Fight the Landlord entertainment tournament.

With Meng Feixuan's computational power, his victory had naturally been crushing.

Meng Feixuan happily told Xie Ran about it. He had originally wanted Xie Ran to help him collect the prize, but Ambition Studio happened to release a publicity statement belittling Meng Feixuan to elevate Nangong Xu, making Meng Feixuan unhappy all at once.

His system's competitive spirit was extremely strong.

So after giving it some thought, Xie Ran had Meng Feixuan go collect the prize from Quest himself.

Whoever made his system unhappy, his system would make them unhappy too. That was only fair.

After Xie Ran finished speaking, he straightened up slightly and glanced toward another part of the conference room. Guan Shunan, temporarily acting as a junior assistant, hurried over and began explaining the rules to the livestream viewers.

If the viewers had looked closely, they would have noticed that her pupils were trembling slightly. She was not like the audience separated by their screens. At this point, many netizens still believed Meng Feixuan's speech and interactions had been designed in advance, merely made more flexible and natural. But Guan Shunan knew on-site that none of this had been prearranged—it was all Meng Feixuan's natural behavior.

The virtual idol at their studio had intelligence that was practically approaching that of a real person!

She did not know how Xie Ran had done it. She only knew that no one would believe her if she said it aloud. They would only think she was bragging to drive up Meng Feixuan's price.

Guan Shunan said, "To ensure the authenticity of the competition, we have decided to randomly select viewers to compete online against Xiao Ran and Meng Feixuan. Since no one can defeat Meng Feixuan and Xiao Ran, we will give every participant one thousand yuan in cash as encouragement... Viewers who wish to register, please type 1 in the comments."

After Guan Shunan finished speaking, however, the comments did not fill with 1s. Instead, rows of these appeared first: [...]

[Emmmm.]

[Impressive. Before the competition even starts, they've announced that no one can beat Meng Feixuan and Xie Ran...]

[Such a real and straightforward rigged game, and they're giving away a thousand yuan for free. Love it, I'm entering!!1111]

[1111111111]

Guan Shunan felt wronged. What could she do? She was only reading from the script.

At first, some people thought Xie Ran Studio was joking. But after Guan Shunan finished speaking, Xie Ran casually selected a registered account, pulled it into the Fight the Landlord room he and Meng Feixuan had opened, and displayed the game room on a split screen for the viewers. The audience could not only enlarge the room screen to watch, but also switch between the different players' perspectives.

In the livestream footage, an intensely futuristic virtual screen also appeared before Meng Feixuan, displaying the page of the account he controlled.

Guan Shunan solemnly announced, "The first Mark Cup Fight the Landlord Championship now begins."

Viewers: [???????]

They were really livestreaming Fight the Landlord on the spot? Wait, then who was controlling Meng Feixuan's account? It could not really be him himself, could it?

Everyone was in a daze. Before they could make sense of it, they heard Xie Ran say flatly, "Next."

Only then did everyone realize that the first round had somehow already ended, and the participating netizen had suffered a crushing defeat.

Looking at the time, less than two minutes had passed.

The comments once again: [???????]

Wasn't that way too fast?

Only then did they witness what true speed was. In the livestream footage, Meng Feixuan and Xie Ran played their cards with almost no pauses at all.

If anyone had initially suspected that someone was controlling Meng Feixuan's account, that suspicion was basically gone by now. Meng Feixuan played far too quickly for any human to achieve. Xie Ran was also fast, but he occasionally still paused to think. Meng Feixuan made every move instantly.

Humans could certainly make instant moves too, but they could not match Meng Feixuan's accuracy at the same time.

Some also suspected cheats, but someone immediately copied and pasted the explanation from the Quest Fight the Landlord Tournament.

The champion of Quest Technology's Fight the Landlord tournament had played cards exactly like this, and Quest had clearly stated that the other party had not used cheats.

If that person really was Meng Feixuan...

Everyone: pupil-shaking!!

Just as Guan Shunan had announced at the beginning, accounts entered the room one after another, then swiftly exited in total defeat.

No one could beat Meng Feixuan. Xie Ran could give Meng Feixuan some trouble, but no matter how fast his calculations were, they could not compare to a quantum-level computer. Therefore, when aiming for a quick victory, he was always unable to outcalculate Meng Feixuan.

That was one thing, but Meng Feixuan was also enthusiastically imitating the character voice effects from the Fight the Landlord game while playing.

Thus, the viewers saw the refined, bright young man rapidly playing cards while speaking in a snide tone, "Hurry up. I've waited so long the flowers have withered."

"Are you a GG or an MM?"

"Stop arguing, stop arguing. Just focus on playing the game."