The video was forcibly paused!
Ma Lou panted heavily, cold sweat running down his forehead.
He stared at the still pitch-black screen and the question marks streaming wildly across it, his scalp practically exploding!
This BGM...
Wasn't this the exact track that had automatically played in his head today while the warhorse bounced him half to death?
"Huff... huff..."
Ma Lou sprang straight out of his chair and paced like a headless chicken, even hopping twice on the spot in agitation.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"How could those bastard devs possibly know what BGM I was thinking of back then?"
"Coincidence! This is absolutely a fucking coincidence!"
Ma Lou rubbed his face desperately, trying to brainwash himself:
"Maybe the devs just thought this song suited the heroic atmosphere of us galloping across the Wasteland!"
"Right! That has to be it!"
Ma Lou paced around his room for a full five minutes, thoroughly bracing himself.
Finally, he gritted his teeth and inched back to his computer like a condemned prisoner approaching the execution grounds.
"Fine, let me die! Let's see what the hell you bastard devs are up to!"
Ma Lou reached out with his trembling right hand and pressed the space bar again.
The video resumed.
As that soaring "Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh" ended.
The image finally lit up.
But to everyone's surprise, it wasn't a grim, blood-soaked wasteland at all!
The entire screen had actually been covered in a pink soft-focus filter!
Then the classic musical climax burst forth:
"Let us journey through this world together! Living free and unrestrained..."
As those lyrics rang out.
A warhorse traveling through the wilderness appeared on-screen.
And on its back.
[I'm Not Jiahao]'s pale, aloof face looked like that of a romantic drama's male lead under the soft-focus filter.
His signature tuft of bangs