“Meow!”
The angry cry of the little ragdoll cat rang in Wen Fengyu’s ear. Wen Fengyu snapped back to his senses, and the pretty, arrogant kitten was sharpening its claws threateningly at him, a pair of claws reflecting sharp light under the light.
Damn it, where is Lu Xincheng!!
Used to it and very agilely, Wen Fengyu dodged the little ragdoll’s attack and turned around stylishly after standing firm. He raised an eyebrow and looked triumphantly at the cat that pounced on empty air: “Want to catch me? Impossible!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the door behind him was suddenly pushed inward.
“!!” Wen Fengyu’s expression did a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn. He turned back in a panic, wanting to run away, but it was already too late. His body had an intimate contact with the heavy door, and Wen Fengyu let out an “ouch” of pain, face-planting onto the floor in a very ungraceful fall.
“Ah, ah, ah!” Wen Fengyu scrambled up with his fur bristling, wanting to teach the newcomer a lesson. But the moment he saw that the newcomer was none other than Lu Xincheng, who had been missing somewhere just moments ago, the fire on top of his head was instantly extinguished. He looked at the man with bitter resentment: “Brother, can you please check if anyone is standing at the door before coming in?”
After finishing his humble complaint, he added: “Where did you go just now? Would you believe that that ‘Bored’ guy actually rolled a golden source stone?! I’ve played for so long and never even seen a golden flash, yet he just rolled one out like that??”
The true African chieftain expressed his dissatisfaction with bitter complaints, and continued muttering: “However, he ran out of any energy after beating the king worm. If not for the golden source stone, he definitely wouldn’t have been able to go explore the twenty-fourth planet. It’s so weird. Once he arrived on the planet, it was as if he knew where the key clue was, and he charged straight for it. Damn it, was he using hacks?”
Having said that, Wen Fengyu actually knew very well in his heart that “Bored” definitely wasn’t using hacks. However, this only made him even more curious about the true identity of “Bored”.
But he called his teammates to cash out right after finding the key clue to the twenty-fourth planet.” Wen Fengyu stroked his chin: “If he kept playing, I feel like he could have cleared at least two or three more planets. If he upgraded his gear a bit more, clearing seven or eight more planets wouldn’t be a problem…”
This evaluation was already quite high. You must know that even with his max-level and top-tier equipped account, if he called over a few people of the same level, they wouldn’t necessarily be able to explore thirty planets. However, the moment he finished saying this, the man who had entered the study and remained silent the whole time suddenly spoke up, interrupting his muttering: “No.”
Wen Fengyu: No what? Can you stop refuting his words every single time!
At this moment, the man raised his head slightly. The golden-yellow pupils, which were always cold and ruthless, softened at this moment. His lips parted slightly, and his tone hid a trace of hard-to-detect nostalgia: “If it were under the same equipment, the planets he could explore might be even higher than what I can.”
With that, ignoring Wen Fengyu’s expression, which could only be described as terrified, Lu Xincheng picked up the little ragdoll and pushed the door open to leave once again, leaving Wen Fengyu to start doubting his life.
What did he just hear? The man hailed as the strongest in the entire interstellar era was saying that someone could be even stronger than him?!
How on earth is this possible?!
But is it really impossible…
In his distant memory, a long, long time ago, there really seemed to be someone who could rival their General.
However, leaving that aside for a moment, Wen Fengyu refused to give up. He logged back into his own game account and once again requested to add “Bored” as a friend.
As a result, the moment the request was sent out, the opponent’s account avatar… turned gray.
The moment he stepped out of the dungeon, Lin Xiansheng received the reminder for the ranking settlement. For their team to rush to second place, it was somewhat beyond expectations.
The dungeon had just opened, and many capable experts hadn’t played it yet. He didn’t want to deal with Wind And Fire dropping out of the top ten percent later and having to run it again, so if it could be resolved in one go, he would resolve it in one go.
Inside the dungeon, only the longworm stage posed a bit of difficulty. He originally thought that during the time from entering the dungeon to coming out, quite a few people would have exceeded twenty-three planets. He was even worried that when the dungeon ended and the settlement happened, clearing the twenty-fourth planet might not securely land him in the top ten percent.
Yet unexpectedly, apart from his group, only one other team had exceeded it.
The speed was a bit slow, but it wasn’t a big problem. Estimating a short while later, his second-place spot would probably be pushed down, so it wouldn’t have any particularly huge impact.
He was just curious about who current first place was. Thinking of this, Lin Xiansheng opened the leaderboard.
The leaderboard popped up shortly after. Seeing the fifty planets behind the first-place entry, the tips of his brows twitched slightly.
This quantity was definitely something he couldn’t explore with his current account.
Sure enough, he had underestimated the game; there really were quite a few hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the game.
Shifting his gaze to the right, the young man’s pretty eyes widened for a split second. Behind the golden little crown symbolizing first place, he saw a familiar ID.
However, right at this moment, the helmet flickered a few times and automatically shut down due to a dead battery.
The scenery before his eyes faded rapidly, quickly turning into pitch-black darkness. Lin Xiansheng silently took off the helmet and lowered his head, staring at the helmet cradled in his hands.
At this very moment, he finally understood what “Star” had invited him for.
Ordinary people basically had no chance of clearing fifty planets.
So, was the person who invited him just now the General himself?
Then what he rejected…
Meanwhile, the other two people in the party hadn’t noticed that Lin Xiansheng had already dropped offline.
Listening to the broadcasted rankings in his ear, Wind And Fire was in a complete trance, even pinching himself because he suspected he was dreaming.
Although he hadn’t counted the exact number of planets explored during the process, he estimated it was at most around eighteen or nineteen. Clearing eighteen or nineteen planets wasn’t just making the top ten percent anymore; making the top five percent was even possible.
Yet who would have thought it was a full twenty-four planets…
The ranking surged straight to second place!
Is… is this a ranking he could get by spending 30,000 Star Points?
Even spending 100,000 Star Points probably wouldn’t make this possible!! With so many players in Virtual Life, they aren’t pushovers. Even the most badass studios wouldn’t dare guarantee they could secure second place.
At this point, Wind And Fire finally understood why they hadn’t fought monsters for half a day, and when they finally fought, they couldn’t handle them at all. Those were monsters between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth planets; how could accounts with ordinary equipment like theirs possibly be opponents?
Wind And Fire said in a daze: “Little Wooden Boat, am I dreaming?”
Zhouzhou’s Little Wooden Boat: “You are not.”
Little Wooden Boat’s voice was very calm, but his tone still carried a trace of trembling. Clearly, beneath the calm exterior, his heart was anything but calm.
Remembering that he hadn’t paid up yet, Wind And Fire immediately transferred the remaining money to Bored. He wanted to say something else, but upon looking, Bored had actually gone offline.
“He’ll probably claim it when he logs back on,” Wind And Fire muttered under his breath, then asked: “Little Wooden Boat, I want to watch the combat playback. Are you watching?” He was dying of curiosity about what Bored did when the two of them were beaten to the point of having zero ability to fight back.
“You watch it first. After watching, save the video and send it to my terminal account.”
“Alright.”
Half an hour later, after watching the combat playback of their party member, Wind And Fire—still acting like a sleepwalker—saved a short video clip and then shared it out.
Also because of his “sleepwalking,” he didn’t notice that when he shared it, he accidentally clicked on a game group he had joined… and an active, thousand-member large group at that.
By the time his terminal account was flooded with messages, Wind And Fire realized what he had done. However, by then it was long past the point of recalling it. The video was continuously shared and forwarded by people, and before long, it had spread across almost all Virtual Life-related forums and game groups…
Today’s Virtual Life was truly rather lively.
First, the General suddenly came online and teamed up to clear the Mystical Galaxy dungeon, firmly occupying first place.
Then someone rolled a golden source stone, which was rarely seen across the entire server.
Finally, an account with a character level of only 65 and a mecha display page of only Level 70 actually led two accounts to charge into second place on the Mystical Galaxy dungeon leaderboard.
Moreover, the person who rolled the golden source stone and the person who rushed to second place in the Mystical Galaxy dungeon at just Level 65 were the exact same person.
Just as the game public channel fell silent, someone else felt this account looked quite familiar. After checking the Contaminated Star leaderboard, they finally confirmed that this was precisely the “Bored” who had caused a sensation last week and broken the Contaminated Star leaderboard, which had been monopolized by three people year-round!
“Bored”
Prior to last week, among veteran players who had frequented the Virtual Life game for years, very few people had heard of this ID.
And this account truly looked completely unremarkable, with nothing worth paying attention to. In fact, because of its leveling progress, it looked like a small alt account that wasn’t logged into very often.
Yet an account like this managed to climb into the top few positions on the leaderboard, overpowering a crowd of max-level accounts with fairly decent gear—it was simply unbelievable.
If it were only reaching the top few positions once, it could be brushed off with reasons like a game bug. But twice in a row could not be explained by such reasons.
After a brief period of silence, once the vast majority of players regained their wits, the discussion volume hit maximum capacity directly.
Because truth be told, wanting to pull off stellar results with a low-level account wasn’t completely impossible.
However, the sole possibility was that the owner of the account had to be special personnel who had undergone special training and possessed rich experience in piloting mechas!
Furthermore, their spiritual power and even physical constitution had to far exceed ordinary people.
This “far exceeding ordinary people”… wasn’t just an ordinary level of exceeding. Both the spiritual power and physical constitution ratings probably had to reach Grade A, or even higher.
And above Grade A was only S.
Having either physical constitution or spiritual power reach Grade S was a rare existence. For both to reach Grade S, one could basically say they were few and far between—you could count them on one hand. They were either holding high positions in the military or ranked among the top spots on the interstellar wanted list.
So, who on earth was this “Bored”?
#Has anyone noticed that the top two places on the Mystical Galaxy dungeon leaderboard changed? The one who contributed the most in the second-place team turns out to be a Level 65 account!# hot
#”Bored”? Has anyone seen this ID before?#
#What are you guys talking about? Who is “Bored”?#
#A brief chat on my views regarding “Bored”#
#I heard someone rolled a golden source stone today. I’m here fishing for them, offering big money to buy it!#
#Let’s Talk: Did the second place in the Mystical Galaxy dungeon use hacks?#
While fierce discussions broke out on the game forums, some gaming information channels and related bloggers naturally wouldn’t let go of this traffic and quickly moved it over to Starnet. Under their reposting, a full-scale discussion surrounding “Bored” unfolded.
Before long, the trending search entry #Who is Bored# surged straight to the number one spot on Starnet amidst the discussions of countless players.
The traffic of Starnet was no joke. After the search entry hit number one, countless onlookers curiously clicked in to eat melons (observe the drama).
Furthermore, Virtual Life was a national-level game where even if people hadn’t played it, they had more or less heard of it. Upon learning about the deeds of “Bored,” the onlookers’ desire to eat melons reached maximum capacity.
Just as the heat of the search entry reached its peak, another relatively short combat video leaked out…
If earlier the onlookers were merely curious to join the fun, after watching the video, it was no longer a simple matter of joining the fun.
People universally possessed a mentality of admiring strength. Even people who didn’t play games knew just how absurd the operations were after watching the video.
A Level 70 mecha fighting monsters thirty levels higher than itself, pulling off two consecutive super-light-speed movements and completing a counter-kill within moments!
The series of operations flowed like moving clouds and flowing water, with every step seemingly treading on the edge of a cliff and dancing with the Grim Reaper.
During the first super-light-speed movement, if the reaction or operation had been delayed by even a few seconds, allowing the king worm to seize the initiative, given the level gap between the two, the cockpit would have been pierced through in an instant, resulting in character death and mission failure.
Meanwhile, during the second movement, if there had been an error of 0.001 in the control over the mecha’s endurance value and energy, before the skill ended, the mecha would have been reduced to ashes in the middle of the movement.
Every single step could be described as one misstep leading to total collapse.
Yet if it weren’t for such an extreme performance, winning this battle would have been utterly impossible.
Could this really be an operation that a human could pull off?
As soon as the video came out, the already booming Starnet real-time square exploded even further, with a refresh practically yielding hundreds or even thousands of related Starnet posts.
And within just five or six minutes of posting the video to Starnet, the account had already garnered hundreds of thousands of likes, tens of thousands of comments, and hundreds of thousands of reposts.
Flying Heart: Holy crap, is this the combat video of that “Bored” guy who’s number one on the trending searches?
Little White Rabbit Who Loves Eating Roast Rabbit Meat: Video watched. Oh god, this is way too strong!!
Suki: Sob sob so handsome, I love these operations.
Yesterday’s Stars o: @NeverEatCorianderInThisLife, come watch the immortals fight.
Please Call Me To Sleep When You See Me: Total fake. Does anyone actually believe this? Surely not, surely not? This video looks CG-generated at first glance. Even someone like me who doesn’t pay much attention to mecha combat knows that you can only use super-light-speed movement once within three hours. If you’re going to fake it, at least make it look a bit more realistic.
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My CP Is Real: Replying to @PleaseCallMeToSleepWhenYouSeeMe: There are also people in reality who can pull off super-light-speed movement twice in a short time frame. Operating a mecha in a game is much simpler. If you’re strong enough, it’s not impossible.
@PleaseCallMeToSleepWhenYouSeeMe replying to @MyCPIsReal: Sweating soy sauce emoji.jpg, hilarious. How many people in reality can pull that off? Only three or four in the entire interstellar era, right? Even if the game difficulty is lower, this account is trash too. If this were real, how insanely overpowered would he be in reality.
Among the numerous discussions, naturally, there were differing voices. The arguments sparked by conflicting viewpoints caused the heat to continue climbing.
At 11:00 PM, the search entry #Who is Bored# reached its absolute peak in popularity.
In addition, several other search terms surged into the top ten.
#Bored combat video leaked#
#Bored#
#Can someone really pull off multiple super-light-speed movements in a short time?#
As for the video whose source was unknown, it broke a hundred million views, attracting the attention of countless people.
A luxurious and magnificent top-floor flat.
A dark figure sat facing away from the floor-to-ceiling windows. The room had no lights on, and the terminal in their hand emitted a faint blue glow in the darkness.
After a long while, the figure let out an “Oh?” with great interest.
Within a galaxy of bizarre coordinates, a silver-white giant starship hovered slowly in the starry sky. Its sheer size could be described as blocking out the sky and sun. The starship was brightly lit, resembling a mobile empire.
On its hull was a pirate emblem of a gold-based white skull.
If someone from the empire were here, they would definitely recognize that the emblem belonged to the primary fleet of the Interstellar Pirate Alliance—a faction that gave the empire endless headaches and was one of the unstable factors in the current interstellar era…!
Inside the main navigation room of the starship, people were arguing.
“Ah, ah, ah! It pisses me off to death! Brother, why did you cut my internet cable?! I haven’t finished chewing out that stinky white goose yet!”
Following that, a cold voice rang out: “Until you learn to control your mouth, gaming is prohibited.”
“But what I said is the truth! If he were still around, mere Lu Xincheng—what is he even?”
“It’s already been ten years, hasn’t it?”
The main navigation room fell silent.
After a long while, a deafening exclamation suddenly rang out.
Brother, come look at this video???”
Tonight, for quite a few people, was destined to be a sleepless night.
There is a saying: pull the internet cable, and grievances can go screw themselves.
In an era where Starnet was as developed as it was now, once the internet was cut off, without anyone notifying you, it was still very easy to remain completely oblivious even when major events occurred.
Lin Xiansheng did not have the habit of logging onto Starnet every single moment, so naturally, he didn’t know how lively Starnet was on the other end.
At this moment, the young man sat by the bed, realizing that he had rejected Lu Xincheng’s invitation, fell into deep contemplation, and inexplicably felt a bit guilty.
However, Lu Xincheng shouldn’t be the type of person to hold a grudge after being rejected and then dig deep to find out who dared to reject him.
He should… probably not have to worry about Lu Xincheng remembering his ID and then investigating him, right?
Another stabbing pain pulsed from his heart. Lin Xiansheng coughed softly, supporting his still somewhat fatigued body, took a simple shower, changed into soft pajamas, and chose to get a good night’s rest.
After all, he had only taken one day off. Students could start their summer vacation after finishing exams and rallies. But as a working professional, he still needed to go to work during this period.
Yet before he could sleep for long, “Ring, ring, ring!!” A hurried telephone ring sounded abruptly in the room, like an unceasing life-summoning talisman, ringing one after another.
Amidst the rings, the lump of quilt piled on the bed moved.
Then the silver-haired young man sat up, a foggy white mist seemingly hidden within his pretty eyes. He rubbed his eyes, and after a moment, his gaze cleared up slightly.
Yesterday’s fever hadn’t fully cleared yet, and his head was still a bit dizzy.
Lin Xiansheng glanced out the window. The scenery outside was somewhat gloomy, making it impossible to tell the time. Above a wasteland of broken walls and ruins, heavy dark clouds pressed down, and a pungent, earthy stench permeated the air, inevitably bringing a sense of oppression.
He answered the call and incidentally checked the time on his terminal. The sky outside was dusky; he hadn’t expected it to already be five in the morning.
The caller was Li Cheng. Under normal circumstances, unless there was something important, he rarely called him, especially not this early.
The young man lowered his double eyelids and spoke to inquire: “What’s wrong?”
It would have been fine if he hadn’t spoken, but the moment he spoke, he found that his throat felt like it was blocked by something. Every word he forced out felt like scraping against a knife, hoarse to a frightening degree.
A burst of static and noise rang out from the terminal, mixed with Li Cheng’s intermittent voice amidst the static: “Lin… make sure to pay attention…! Over at the school…”
Before he could finish speaking, the sound cut out entirely, replaced by a busy tone. After a few “beep, beep, beep” sounds, with a click, the terminal display screen showed that the other party had hung up.
An inexplicable reminder and a strange phone call.
Yet for some reason, Lin Xiansheng’s right eyelid twitched gently.
A howling gale suddenly whipped up outside the house, and the trees outside the window were whipped about wildly by the strong wind, making the leaves rustle noisily. The sky grew increasingly gloomy, thick dark clouds covered the expanse, and the entire vault of heaven felt as though it were about to collapse.
The air before a torrential downpour is always stiflingly hot.
Lin Xiansheng got up, changed into his clothes, and turned his head to look out the window.
There was a feeling that a storm was about to arrive and engulf the city.
And his intuition had always been very accurate.
However, as long as it didn’t delay him living a low-profile life, anything was fine.
When heading downstairs to eat, Lin Xiansheng finally confirmed that Lu Jing hadn’t come back last night. He casually fried an egg for breakfast and managed to swallow down the herbal soup specially brewed by Dr. White, feeling the lingering bitterness fill his mouth. The young man licked his lips, momentarily feeling a rare wave of nostalgia for Lu Jing’s good points—at least the food the boy cooked was pretty decent.
Finally, Lin Xiansheng grabbed an umbrella and went off to work.
The ground at the academy gates still had celebratory ribbons that hadn’t been swept clean. However, compared to yesterday’s grand carnival, today’s Mecha Academy was much more deserted.
The strong wind whipped up the tattered ribbons on the ground, adding a touch of autumnal desolation and making it look rather bleak.
The summer vacation arrived right after the carnival, and many students had already left yesterday. Early in the morning, there were only sparse figures scattered across the academy.
“Teacher Lin!!” A male voice cheered from behind. Lin Xiansheng turned around and saw Zhang Zhou rushing over with his terminal in hand, his eyes filled with undisguised excitement.
Lin Xiansheng smiled and casually asked: “Aren’t you going back for the summer break?”
“Hehe.” Zhang Zhou trotted over: “My home is too far from the Imperial Capital, so I’m not going back this semester’s break.”
As he spoke, Zhang Zhou stealthily glanced at the silver-haired young man beside him, his mind filled entirely with the video that had gone viral last night.
Look at that textbook-perfect counter-kill and operation—as expected, he just knew Teacher Lin was extraordinary!! Furthermore, he was probably not just an ordinary high-level expert.
After a night had passed, the heat surrounding #Who is Bored# still hadn’t diminished, and it was still hanging on the Starnet trending searches. Meanwhile, on his terminal, quite a few netizens were still messaging him to interrogate him.
The one interrogating the most fiercely was probably Zhouzhou’s Little Wooden Boat. He really hadn’t expected that this old fan of his would accidentally and mistakenly cross paths with Lin Xiansheng, and even play the Mystical Galaxy dungeon together, to the point that his ID was still hanging in the second-place spot on the leaderboard.
However, since Teacher Lin chose to remain anonymous, no matter how fiercely people interrogated him, he wouldn’t let anyone know who the true owner of the account was.
Zhang Zhou silently resolved this in his mind, and then he thought of the real purpose of coming to find Lin Xiansheng today, casting a headache-inducing glance at his terminal.
On the contact list of the first page was a message he had just received: Did you ask? Did you ask? Is the owner of that account interested in coming?
The person sending the message was none other than Tang Tang, a game scene designer at the Virtual Life gaming company. After tracking down Lin Xiansheng’s Starnet account for unknown reasons, she insisted that he ask Lin Xiansheng whether he was willing to take on the job of Virtual Life scene design consultant.
Who has the nerve to be this bold, trying to poach the Imperial Academy teacher’s walls!!
Zhang Zhou opened his mouth with difficulty, taking a long time before speaking: “Right, Teacher… do you have any plans for a part-time job?”
Lin Xiansheng looked at Zhang Zhou curiously, “Why do you ask?”
“Hey, actually I didn’t want to either.” The boy let out a heavy sigh and said in self-abandonment: “Actually, I have a friend who is an employee of the Virtual Life game. After looking at the photos Teacher posted on Starnet, she suddenly told me to ask if you’re willing to go work at their company.”
“I refused many times. After all, a teacher at the Imperial Mecha Academy has high social status and great welfare benefits. But she just wouldn’t give up, insisting I ask, and even said something about not needing to sign an employment contract—just joining as a consultant, only needing to drop by for half a day every week, and the salary and benefits would be the same as full-time company employees.”
The employee welfare benefits of the Virtual Life gaming company were also notoriously good. To put it simply, if the conditions Tang Tang offered didn’t benefit Lin Xiansheng immensely, no matter how hard she bugged him, he wouldn’t have come to ask.
“I heard the base salary alone is 10,000 a month. Plus performance benefits and project shares, making 300k a year isn’t a problem at all.” As he spoke, even Zhang Zhou himself grew tempted: “Teacher Lin, I think you can really consider it.”
One to speak the truth, this annual income was indeed higher than Lin Xiansheng’s current income, and given that he basically couldn’t save money due to his health condition, it was quite necessary.
Lin Xiansheng was very tempted. Having extra income meant he could pay off Dr. White’s debt!
However, if Dr. White were to find out about this, to prevent him from secretly using the money to buy desserts, he strongly suspected Dr. White would force him to hand over his salary card.
Lin Xiansheng sighed inwardly, smiled gently on the outside, and said softly: “I’ll consider it and give you an answer later.”
“Alright!” Zhang Zhou cheerfully agreed, “I have some things to do, so I’m heading out first, Teacher!” With that, he waved his hand and scurried off in a flash.
Watching the boy distance himself, just as he was about to leave, Lin Xiansheng remembered that he had forgotten to ask Zhang Zhou where Lu Jing had gone.
In the inner district of the Imperial Capital stood a towering skyscraper. The building was about a hundred meters high, looking from afar like a ship’s sail—one of the popular tourist spots in the Imperial Capital, and precisely the headquarters of the virtual gaming corporate group.
At this moment, inside an office on the twenty-third floor piled high with manuscripts, the young woman saw the message on her terminal, and her eyes lit up.
“Considering means there’s a chance!”
Tang Tang: Alright, please be sure to follow up for me. Thanks!
Finally putting one worry to rest, Tang Tang adjusted her glasses, the lenses reflecting the interface of her optical-brain Starnet.
The young woman glanced at the search entry still hanging at number one on the trending searches and blinked her eyes.
Naturally, she also knew that the account “Bored” used to be Zhang Zhou’s small alt account.
And eating melons late last night, she could be considered one of the lurkers in the group who watched netizens interrogate Zhang Zhou about what was going on.
However, whether it was due to a woman’s intuition or not, she always had a sort of premonition…
Tang Tang: Right, little bro Zhou, I have a question. The current owner of the Bored account couldn’t happen to be the owner of that Starnet account you secretly follow, right?
However, this time, “Boat Settled” never replied to her again.
If he doesn’t reply, he doesn’t reply.
The young woman fiddled with her bangs, touched up her makeup, marched straight to the elevator holding her folder, and pressed the button to head to the top floor.
And right there was the office of their group’s CEO.
Although the meeting earlier had agreed to make a special exception to recruit a consultant, and things had progressed to some extent now, she definitely had to report to the CEO first.
“Knock, knock,” Tang Tang lightly tapped on the heavy carved rosewood door. A moment later, a slightly amused male voice sounded from inside: “Come in.”
Even though Tang Tang was considered a middle-level manager within the company, facing this CEO who was only a little older than her, she still felt some pressure. She took two deep breaths and pushed the door open.
Just like every time she came before, the lights weren’t on inside the room, and behind the desk near the floor-to-ceiling window sat a dark silhouette against the light.
The silhouette sat leisurely, hands crossed and lightly propping up his chin. He seemed to curve the corners of his lips: “What is it?”
Tang Tang licked her lips: “Regarding the matter of recruiting a consultant discussed at the meeting a few days ago, I have already contacted the other party, and there should be a result in a few days.”
Hearing the young woman’s words, the dark silhouette seemed somewhat listless, uttering an unenthusiastic “Mhm.” “Is there anything else?”
Tang Tang thought for a moment before saying: “Um… President Hua, I wonder if you’ve heard that under our company’s Virtual Life game project, a gaming account with a level of only 65 successfully captured the second place on the Mystical Galaxy tactical dungeon leaderboard.”
The silhouette seemed to narrow his eyes: “Continue.”
“I suspect that the consultant candidate I recommended last person is precisely the owner of this gaming account.”
The man let out a chuckle. He leaned back slightly, curling his fingers and tapping lightly against the wooden desk, producing a dull sound. After a long while, he suddenly stood up: “Tang Tang, I trust your work ability. Be sure to… get him to join our company.”
Although she didn’t know why President Hua’s attitude had suddenly changed so drastically, Tang Tang nodded: “Thank you for your trust, President Hua. I will do my utmost and will not let you down.”
Just as she was about to leave, the man suddenly spoke again: “Oh, right, have the head of the Technology and Security Department come over in a bit.”
Though feeling puzzled inside, the young woman still said: “Alright.”
“Never mind, just pass the message directly to him.” The man yawned and said with a smile: “Tell him to encrypt all personal information of the Virtual Life account named ‘Bored’ completely. Absolutely no one must be allowed to steal his information.”
The young woman’s eyes widened for a split second. She felt as though something wasn’t quite right, but she didn’t dare to dwell on it, and nodded.
With a soft click, the heavy doors of the CEO’s office slowly closed.
Meanwhile, the man sat by the floor-to-ceiling window, suddenly opening Starnet as the smile on his lips widened.
At the same time, Best Actor Wen—who had waited all night without waiting for Lin Xiansheng to log into the game and accept his friend request—was itching with anger.
“Don’t blame me, you brought this on yourself!!!”
Half an hour later, Best Actor Wen’s account on Starnet abruptly posted a Starnet post: Does anyone know Bored? Help me contact him, thanks!
As soon as the Starnet post dropped, Starnet was shocked. Netizens who had been eating melons all night never expected that the wildly popular Best Actor Wen across the interstellar era would actually also be interested in “Bored,” who had dominated the number one spot on the trending searches last night!!
Then shortly after, someone discovered that the Starnet account of the CEO of Virtual Life also gained a new Starnet post:
I am also very interested in Bored.
Well, I wonder if Your Excellency is willing to join my company?
Meanwhile, the young man who had returned to his office after parting ways with Zhang Zhou just opened Starnet during his waiting time for a meeting, only to see these two extremely high-traffic Weibo posts glaringly displayed right on his homepage.
Lin Xiansheng: “……”
Lin Xiansheng: “……?”
This Bored… couldn’t possibly be him, could it??