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Chapter 1386 Information Hazard (Don’t Like to Eat Greasy Food)

"You, you, what are you?!"

Being held in Duanmu Huai's hand, the Nine Clan leader could no longer calm down. He stared at Duanmu Huai in fear and trepidation, seemingly unable to comprehend what kind of existence was before his eyes. In other words, his brain simply could not process the information of "why a guy wearing sci-fi armor suddenly appeared in his home".

However, Duanmu Huai was not interested in this at all. He just stared at the Nine Clan Patriarch and asked.

"Answer my question, old man, what do you want to do? Why do you want to infect humans with Shoggoths? Answer me! What is your ultimate plan?!"

"Plan? Plan? Plan?!"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, the Nine Gates Patriarch seemed to come back to his senses. He stared at Duanmu Huai and grinned.

"There is no plan! This is all just a performance dedicated to it! You, me, and everyone in this city are just actors on the stage! We are all actors! There are no exceptions!"

"I've had enough of your bullshit."

Duanmu Huai was too lazy to listen to this idiot's nonsense. He raised his left hand and pointed it at the Nine Gates Patriarch, intending to scan him - why waste time on his real body when he could get the answer directly from the shadow?

However, even so, the Nine Clan leader did not stop struggling. Although his body was held tightly by Duanmu Huai, he still shook his head back and forth desperately, as if he wanted to shake his head off his body. At the same time, his screams did not stop.

"Did you hear it? I heard it! The music and cheers at the end of that scene! Cheers! Cheers! Did you see it? The light coming from the Yellow Seal..."

"!?"

Duanmu Huai was shocked when he heard the words of the Nine Gates Clan Leader. He threw the Nine Gates Clan Leader out as if it was hot. The latter flew out like a tattered rag doll, hit the bookcase, and then collapsed to the ground. His limbs and spine were smashed to pieces by the huge impact, but even so, the Nine Gates Clan Leader still raised his head, staring at Duanmu Huai with his crazy eyes.

"Do you see it? The Yellow Seal is right here, and it has seen you! And you will become its actor! Just like me! This drama is not over yet! Everything is going on for the coming of the great Nameless King......!"

Duanmu Huai didn't let it continue. He just raised his foot and stepped on the pathetic, twisted figure, stepping it deep into the ruins of the bookcase. The scream of the Nine Clan Clan leader also stopped abruptly, and soon, the whole room returned to its original silence.

But it wasn't that quiet.

Duanmu Huai heard the melodious singing coming from behind him with the wind.

"I dance in a bright garden, surrounded by vines, flowers and weeds! The youngest son is lost, the second son dies, the eldest son seeks for power! I dance where the fire falls, and the unknown king is coming, bringing what we think we need, taking away the common ways of the world--!"

"roll!"

Duanmu Huai roared angrily, and with him as the center, shadows roared in all directions like a tide. Along with the loud shouts of thousands of roars, the singing was completely covered by the roaring sound waves and disappeared without a trace.

"Depend on…………!"

Duanmu Huai gritted his teeth as he looked at the Nine Clan Chieftain who had merged into the bookcase fragments. Of course, he was not interested in the bloody corpse, but the book with a yellow cover that looked like a script that the Nine Clan Chieftain was holding in his arms!

Duanmu Huai knew what it was.

The King in Yellow!

  If we were to rank the most troublesome Old Ones besides the Outer Gods, the King in Yellow would definitely be in the top three. Strictly speaking, the King in Yellow is not stronger than the other Outer Gods, but the problem is that the damn thing, the King in Yellow, is an information hazard!

In the game, the harm of the Yellow King is that once someone has read, seen, or even heard the script of the "Yellow King", a DEBUFF called "The Gaze of the Nameless Lord" will appear on the player. It will slightly weaken the player's attributes, and will occasionally pull the player into a dungeon-like environment (including but not limited to PK, dungeon, gathering, or even completing tasks), and the player will experience a broken adventure in that dungeon.

The entire instance is fragmented, it can be said that there is no cause and effect, and it is not coherent at all. No player can experience the entire instance plot smoothly at one time. According to the players who have seen this script, the content of this script is a court drama, and its content itself is also fragmented and quite complicated. The general meaning is that the court queen is about to be born, and a series of court conspiracies are unfolding around all this, but in the end, the existence who calls himself the King in Yellow comes here and seizes the queen's throne and the country.

At that time, this task made many players very angry. The reason was very simple. The triggering of the Yellow King task was a kind of information pollution. You didn't even need to find any props. As long as you sent a message to someone in the game and mentioned "Yellow King", the other party would automatically be infected with this DEBUFF. The last thing the game lacked was people who were having fun, so many people inexplicably received messages from their friends, and then inexplicably fell into the trap, and then began a miserable life of being tortured by the Yellow King.

Especially think about it, when you are in a dungeon and fighting a BOSS, at the most critical moment, the scene suddenly changes to a palace drama, and the players will want to spit blood and kill people. And there is no way to get out after entering, even if you force quit the game. Unless you finish this plot, you can only stay in it.

Just thinking about this scene is enough to drive people crazy.

So much so that many players are going crazy outside the game.

With the idea that "I can't be the only one suffering", many players immediately began to spread the information pollution of "The King in Yellow", which resulted in all game players having to suspend their actions, especially those large guilds, which put their plans and strategies on hold. After all, if you participate in a guild war and are suddenly pulled into a fantasy world, it would be fine if it is just a passing interlude, but if it is a passing interlude that lasts for several hours, you will be so angry that you will die.

Duanmu Huai and other part-time workers were also naturally affected. After all, customers don't care about whether he is the King of Yellow or not, they just want the result. Therefore, many players including Duanmu Huai had to bite the bullet and spend longer time than before to place orders.

Players have protested to the game company, but the company still maintains their style of "play if you want to play or not", that is, playing dead and not saying anything. So in desperation, players have to rack their brains to complete this task. After all, since this is a task, there must be a way to complete it.

Otherwise, players will really attack the game company.

As for how it was done… Duanmu Huai was not very clear. He only remembered that one day when he was browsing the Internet, he suddenly saw someone saying that the Yellow King had been solved and the DEBUFF disappeared. Duanmu Huai went online and saw that it was indeed the case. As for how it was solved, the whistleblower was also vague. He only said that someone found the Yellow King who was imprisoned and sealed on a planet based on the clues in the drama, and then directly PKed with it offline and killed it.

The DEBUFFs that had troubled countless players for a long time also disappeared.

Whether the Yellow King is really powerful or not is not mentioned for now, but for Duanmu Huai, the most terrifying thing about it is the information pollution. As long as you hear the name of the Yellow King or the Yellow Seal, you will be polluted, which is much more difficult.

Moreover, the shadow part of Duanmu Huai's Old One ability is about information, so the information pollution of the Yellow King will restrain him.

  After all, think about it carefully, if you copy a game like "Pregnant Lady" from your hard drive and play it, what if it turns out to be infected with a virus?

Then if you click it, everything will be over?

  No wonder Duanmu Huai exploded after scanning the director’s copy—after all this time, it turned out to be information contaminated!

“Damn it…”

Duanmu Huai frowned and complained in a low voice, then walked to the torn corpse and picked up the script that he was holding tightly in his arms. The words "The King in Yellow" were clearly visible on the cover.

As Duanmu Huai stared at the script, the singing around him seemed to be making a comeback, but was soon dispersed by the roaring waves. Fortunately, Duanmu Huai was also an Old One, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with this information pollution.

The entire script is not very long. Duanmu Huai briefly read through it. In short, it is a drama of court conspiracy in a country. The queen believes that a church in the country that believes in the King in Yellow is trying to steal power from her, and even her children believe the nonsense of that church.

Then at the banquet, a masked man in a yellow robe appears and announces his arrival to take over the city. The queen imprisons him, whips him, and kills him.

However, right after this, the army of the dead came outside the city walls, they captured the city, and the King in Yellow appeared and took over the country.

It's that simple.

A fragmented, crazy drama story that doesn't seem to have anything special.

"It's really troublesome."

Duanmu Huai frowned as he looked at the vague descriptions and script lines. He couldn't even discuss this with others. Whether it was the lines, the content, or even a single sentence, it could cause the other party to feel information pollution and thus be targeted by the King in Yellow.

With the power Duanmu Huai currently possesses, he obviously does not have time to find the planet where the King in Yellow is sealed.

So, what should we do to deal with this tricky problem?