If you have a cheat code, of course you should use it on yourself first.
This "Causality Control has no system interface, no usage details, and no side effect warnings—it's a completely unregulated product.
I wonder how the original Protagonist will use it, or what he will use it for!
However, this was no challenge for Ling Yi. If a Big Shot of the Laws (Sealed) couldn't handle a Xiaoxiao cheat ability, then he might as well give up.
This Causality Control must require the consumption of something. Ling Yi carefully studied the limited information available to his cheat system.
Then I decided... to test it out myself.
This cheat is easy to use. Just silently recite "Every cause has an effect" and a cause interface will pop up. Enter the content of "cause" in your mind and confirm. Then an effect interface will appear. Enter the content of "effect" in your mind and confirm. It will take effect automatically.
What are the most commonly used parameters for Protagonist in these kinds of novel worlds?
Ling Yi's first thought was popularity, reputation, or money.
Money is definitely out of the question. Given the scale of the Karma, it's impossible for the amount to be reduced by only 50 yuan; that would be too cheap. Besides, there was no notification of any deduction on his phone.
"No, we need to activate a support aura, otherwise we won't have any reference points, and what if we overdraw our limits?"
Although I don't know what will happen if I overspend, something bad will definitely happen.
After searching for a while, Ling Yi found a passive aura that perfectly suited the current situation.
Passive Reputation Aura Lv1 (Unlocked): The higher the reputation, the stronger the character. Every 10,000 reputation points automatically increases all attributes by 1 point. (Note: When reputation decreases, attributes will be automatically deducted. Reputation can be reduced to a minimum of 0, and attribute cap is the current world cap!)
Unfortunately, the "side effect" of increasing all attributes by 1 point is inherent to the aura.
But that's not important; what Ling Yi wants is the Subsystem interface of this halo.
Ling Yi currently has a reputation of 120,000, which is quite substantial.
The original owner of this body was a popular streamer with millions of followers, so it's understandable that she had such a high reputation.
Ling Yi thought for a moment, then typed in the interface. "Start a live stream, Zeno will apologize."
After confirming, I typed "forgiven" into the results screen, and my follower count skyrocketed.
After confirming, a number "-50" flashed before my eyes, and then... that was it.
As expected, it consumed reputation points. Ling Yi gave himself a thumbs up.
From this perspective, Causality Control doesn't consume much reputation.
Although it was an apology broadcast live, there's a pattern to how it was done.
Therefore, Ling Yi needs to prepare a copy in advance...
It's the weekend. In Dafeng City, Ke Ziheng, a top-tier rich second-generation, is currently leaning back on the sofa, scrolling through videos online on his phone.
Unlike other rich second-generation heirs, Ke Ziheng is a super-rich mansion whose home-loving attributes are almost maxed out.
I don't like luxury cars, going to bars, or organizing those messy parties.
That's why he had almost no friends.
Of course, for a rich kid, not having friends isn't necessarily a bad thing; at least in his parents' eyes, it's an advantage.
Although their son seems a bit useless, with assets approaching one trillion, they treat him like a lucky charm.
Look at those rich kids, how many of them have ruined their fathers' lives? They don't expect Ke Ziheng to achieve anything, they just want him to keep from messing around.
Ke Ziheng only likes two things: games and... showing off online.
However, during this period, Ke Ziheng was in a very bad mood, especially while playing an online game called " True II "...
Due to a game bug, the account was unable to log in, ultimately leading to his guild's defeat in the stronghold battle.
It wouldn't be enough to make him so angry if it were just because of a bug or a guild war defeat.
What game is without bugs? As a hardcore, high-spending gamer, I've played countless games, Central City almost every one of them.
What really angered him was the attitude of the game's official planners.
Discovering a bug naturally leads to reporting it to the game's official team, but the official response was...
His account was so disruptive to the game balance that the official team not only won't fix the bug, but will also strengthen the game based on his surname.
Damn, is there any real fairness in online games these days? Which game doesn't require spending real money?
What angered Ke Ziheng the most was that the official planners told him that the game account did not belong to the player, but to the game company.
Belongs to... a game company?
Game accounts are not a player's personal property?
This incident enraged Ke Ziheng. After entering the game, he began spamming the public chat with insults directed at the game developers.
Then... the game planner banned his game account... for a year.
He spent over ten million RMB on his game account, and the game company banned it for a year?
Can you believe it?
Before the enraged Ke Ziheng could cause any trouble...
The game's official team has come up with an even more shady tactic.
The game's official website first issued an announcement listing a series of "real" incidents in which a player named "King.Heng" bullied weaker players in the game.
She later posted a video online.
The video shows the game character "King.Heng" camping a level 10 newbie player's corpse for three hours, killing the newbie a hundred times.
" King.Heng " is Ke Ziheng's game account, and he uses this name in almost every game.
However, he wasn't the one who guarded the corpse a hundred times.
He is recognized as the leader in the game, which is very different from his real-life personality.
In the game, he is Haki and arrogant, full of Hot Blood, justice, righteousness, and loyalty. He has even spent money to help his brothers in the gang solve real-life difficulties on several occasions.
It has a very high reputation in the game.
In other words, the game planner used his account to do this and recorded it, then posted it online.
With the exposure of Ke Ziheng's identity as a top-tier rich second-generation,
The outcome was predictable: Ke Ziheng was cyberbullied. Regardless of whether he played the game or not, regardless of whether he was young or old, he was insulted by the entire internet.
The "bad" behavior, coupled with the "hatred of the rich" mentality, made the name " King.Heng " a viral sensation across the internet.
As more and more influential livestreamers try to ride the wave of popularity, " King.Heng " has been labeled with various dark tags such as psychologically twisted, violent, cruel, and ignorant.
Things have progressed to this point, Ke Ziheng has become someone everyone hates.
He gets insulted as soon as he logs into his game account, and as long as he uses the name "King.Heng" (Wangzhe. Heng), he'll be chased and attacked by all the players.
This incident not only had a significant impact on him, but also gradually began to affect his parents.
Some so-called public intellectuals' malicious interpretations and misleading analyses have not only portrayed Ke Ziheng as an uneducated and socially irresponsible rich kid, but also as someone who has been subjected to various distorted values such as poor upbringing, social status, and unfair resource allocation.
The angry retail investors have been successfully misled by these livestreamers and public intellectuals...
The direct consequence of this was that the market value of Ke Ziheng's parents' company evaporated by more than a billion yuan in just a few days.
However, Ke Ziheng's parents did not blame their son for this incident.
As business Big Shot, they have experienced far too much.
Not only did they refuse Ke Ziheng's request to hire a lawyer, they also told Ke Ziheng to do nothing for a while and disappear from the internet.
Not only were they not allowed to do anything by Ke Ziheng, they also couldn't do anything at all.
In the words of Ke Ziheng's father. "The more you argue with those who try to gain attention, the happier they become."
As for those leeks who lack sufficient knowledge, no amount of reasoning will work. Their limited understanding will make their views extremely stubborn. This is not the leeks' fault, because they only see a tiny fraction of the world.
Once brainwashed, they are hopeless victims, destined to be ruthlessly and bloodily exploited by capitalists, without even realizing it.
Ke Ziheng knew his father was right, but was he really going to just suffer like this? He felt suffocated, yet had nowhere to vent his frustration.
Everything has a cause and an effect; your retribution is me...
Just then, Ke Ziheng came across Ling Yi's video.
"What kind of retribution is this? If there really is Karma as karma, those bastards would have been struck by lightning countless times already," Ke Ziheng said, curling his lip.
But he didn't swipe it away. He knew Ling Yi; this guy was quite popular online recently, though he was the one being criticized the most.
Sure enough, the comments section was filled with insults.
He wanted to see what this guy would say.
"Why did I say that? Because I posted a video about the Old Man Bai's Cured Pork incident a while ago to try and get some attention. I was really immoral, and now I'm getting my comeuppance."
"Wrong is wrong, right is right. If you've done something wrong, you have to admit it; if you're going to be punished, you have to stand up straight."
Ke Ziheng sat up straight and couldn't help but chuckle. "Is this guy about to back down and apologize?"
Ling Yi completely ignored the abusive comments in the live stream and continued speaking...
"Through this incident, I realized a very serious problem: how much of what we see online is actually true?"
"Haven't you noticed? The internet is such a mess, a frightening and terrifying mess."
"When you're happily typing away on your keyboard, joining those streamers in denouncing 'bad guys,' have you ever considered that it's just a tactic they use, and you're nothing more than leeks being harvested by capitalists?"
"Don't think you're so smart that you can see through everything. In reality, what you see is just what those broadcasters, public intellectuals, and so-called experts show you."
"Without realizing it, you've become someone's traffic, someone's tool. Even if you're not the leeks (victims), you're still the sickle they use to harvest them."
Ling Yi's expression was very serious, and the number of comments on the screen gradually decreased, as many people began to ponder the issue Ling Yi had raised.
Ke Ziheng was also pondering this question, but what he was even more curious about was, what exactly was Ling Yi planning to do?
"I've been discussing this with my team over the past few days, and then we made a decision."
Many people may have noticed that the name of my live stream has changed.
Ling Yi's live stream title consists of only two words: The Truth.
The subtitle is the line Ling Yi said at the beginning: Everything has a cause and an effect, and your retribution is me.
"I want to make the internet more real. I know that doing so will affect many people's livelihoods, and I probably don't even know what I'll face next."
How to make the internet more authentic? In just two words: truth.