Jiahao snapped his fingers elegantly, his smile growing increasingly twisted.
"Once we finish this dungeon, put this photo set up in the trading section of the Ninth Art forums."
"An exclusive first release, fifty yuan for the whole set."
"I'm sure all those Cloud Gamers who've been holding it in for so long will happily pay for Wasteland White Moonlight's looks."
"This is what we call monetizing the attention economy! It's very... you know what I mean, right?"
Lu Ziye: "???"
Ma Lou: "???"
The tension between the two instantly froze.
They slowly turned their heads and stared at Jiahao, who was explaining away before them, as though he were a monster.
Well, well, Jiahao! You looked so honest and respectable!
Always acting cold and aloof, going on about short selling, leverage, and capital operations, when behind our backs you were a damn profiteer secretly taking screenshots of pretty NPCs to sell?
Worst of all, they had been so busy gawking at that beautiful, sacred, untouchable scene that neither of them had taken a single screenshot!
"Shameless! Absolutely shameless!"
Gritting his teeth, Lu Ziye conferred with Ma Lou.
"Ma Lou, truce for today!"
"Once we log off, we have to condemn him in the group chat!"
Ma Lou nodded in wholehearted agreement. "Exactly! He has to hand over the watermark-free originals to prove his innocence. Otherwise, we'll team up with Kuang Shao and the others and strip him bare!"
Just as the two secretly formed a united front to "extort the photo set," something else caught their attention.
Lu Ziye checked the time, then poked his head out to glance at the army of Cultists still furiously bombarding the barrier.
"All right, enough joking."
"The poison's in place, and we've got the Alchemical Bombs Ilyena gave us."
Lu Ziye tightened