[Challenger Prompt: Friend request failed. The other party has enabled blocking for strangers.]
Yang Xiu received the response the moment he sent the message.
He was not surprised.
As the villainous ringleader universally acknowledged on the Forum, Evil Little Mage, Fellow Villager Backstabber, Spirit-Breath Capitalist-Little Mage had been denounced by countless players and saddled with all sorts of negative labels. He surely received frequent private-message harassment from strangers.
This phenomenon had even attracted large numbers of players to join in mocking him, generating countless popular memes.
There were many Evil Little Mage reaction memes on the Forum.
For example, there was one widely circulated animated meme.
In it, a chibi Little Mage wore pitch-black mage robes and clutched a player's collar with one hand, dragging the player like a little chick toward a wooden hut billowing black smoke.
The player flailed wildly, his face full of terror, while Little Mage kept walking. The caption read: "Come on home, fellow villager. Brother Emperor Zhao came to me in a dream and said he missed you."
Another meme was set in a place piled high with rare materials.
Holding a faintly gleaming dagger, Little Mage silently approached a player counting materials from behind. He hooked an arm around the player's neck, and the dagger instantly pierced the player's back.
Little Mage leaned forward, pressing close to the player's ear, and snickered sinisterly. "Fellow villager, this treasure is destined for me. Let me borrow it."
There were also plenty of memes drawn from everyday life.
One showed Little Mage sitting beside a production line, expressionlessly controlling a Mechanical Arm to manufacture fishing rods. A mountain of rods stood beside him, while a handicraft player crouched in a corner, silently weeping. The caption read: Capitalists don't believe in tears.
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