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Chapter 236 Hey? How did you know I lost a 30-jin fish? (Seeking monthly votes)

Shengge Network's care for all the "upgraders" is reflected in all aspects, is meticulous and subtle.

One of the more detailed points is the switching between "nickname" and "real name".

It is almost equivalent to two different accounts, but not completely two unrelated accounts. Rather, relative to the user, as long as the user switches to a "nickname" and puts on a vest, others will have no idea of ​​the relationship between this person and the original "real name".

For example, Xu Shu and Gu Yueming are friends with each other, and Xu Shu used her real name "Gu Pan" to add her.

When Xu Shu switched to the nickname "Taichu", he could still see the original friend list; but on Gu Yueming's side, there was still only "Gu Pan" in her friend list, and "Taichu" was nowhere to be seen.

And if Xu Shu used "Taichu" to talk to her, Gu Yueming would see that she had a new friend, and "Gu Pan" and "Taichu" existed in her friend list at the same time.

In other words, unless Xu Shu brought it up himself, Gu Yueming would never have dreamed that "Taichu" was "Gu Pan".

That is why the wanted criminal "Lu Bingwei" of the Astronomical Society could brazenly use the nickname "Ba Wang Qiang" and continue to act cool without fear of being discovered.

Under the protection of Lie Zhenzi, unless he exposed himself, it would be harder than climbing to the sky for others to guess the relationship between Overlord Spear and Lu Bingwei.

Fortunately, it is worth being thankful that, perhaps because of such an outrageous "confidentiality" procedure, each account can only activate a nickname once.

This can avoid horror stories like "This forum is actually full of my smurf accounts. If you don't believe me, I'll change my account and say the same thing to you again."

And this moment is just like that moment.

When Xu Shu completed the switch between the real name and nickname of the account, he now had a completely new account.

"Create a new topic"

——Xu Shu clicked on a “+” sign and was about to type, but he couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

How should I put it?

The current "Taichu" is quite famous on the Internet. It is an account followed by many bigwigs. He is a master who is "suspected to be at the fifth level, or at least has the ability to kill a fourth level in seconds" and has a slightly weird temperament.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the popularity after posting. There will definitely be some newbies coming over and saying things like “Hello, big boss. Please give me some feedback. Big boss, I want to make myself known to you.”

Moreover, the words "The poster is Taichu" are enough to attract some powerful human transcendents to come in and take a look at the content of the post.

There is no need to worry about the information not being disseminated.

But this statement is worth studying.

Xu Shu didn't want his hard-earned image as an expert to be exposed just because of one or two wrong words.

Otherwise, why do so many fourth-level bosses add me, but never accept my application?
Isn’t it the same old saying, the more you talk the more mistakes you make, the less you talk the fewer mistakes you make, and if you don’t talk the less mistakes you make.

Silence is golden!
Just say that you injured a fifth-level monster, but it ran away and happened to be hiding in a double-hole canyon more than ten miles north of the border of D8B3 area?
By doing this, relying on the credit he had accumulated from "accidentally dropping a fourth-level plastic surgery monster" last time, he should be able to attract a lot of people to believe it.

However, this also comes with great risks.

It was different from the "fourth-level plastic monster". The plastic monster at that time was free and was madly stabbing several third-level pioneer team extraordinary people. It is conceivable that no one knew about the existence of this thing before that.

Its appearance was purely accidental, so Xu Shu could install it casually without any risk of being exposed.

But this time, that [Aphelios the Dread Corrupter] was injured and hid here to heal.

Who knows if it was injured while fighting for territory with other monsters, or if it was beaten by some powerful human?

If it's the former, that's fine.

But if it is the latter, Xu Shu's claim of credit would cause great harm to the "Taichu" pseudonym.

Even if the other party doesn't say it out loud and only spreads it in a small circle, in the eyes of the real human leaders, they will see that he is just a paper tiger.

And if it goes further and is exposed, it will completely lose its credibility and become a clown character like a "bar pet", who can be stepped on by anyone.

After thinking it over again and again, Xu Shu felt that it was not worth it to destroy the image of a great man that he had worked so hard to establish just for this matter. Therefore, the plan of claiming credit for something else could be discarded.

What to say?

And you have to reveal the location to prevent others from finding it;
At the same time, you must maintain your own demeanor and not let others see through your real weakness;

You even have to consider basic logical issues. For example, if someone questions why you didn't just kill it yourself, how would you answer?
This is a fifth-level super-powerful monster with at least multiple epic golden seals in its body. It is definitely not something that can be ignored.

The last fourth-order plastic surgery monster could be said to be an old monster who looked down on this thing and just gave it to someone else as a favor.

What do you say this time?
Oh, you don't even want the corpse of a fifth-level monster that's within your reach? Are you really so selfless and selfless?
This will obviously put oneself in a dilemma and be unable to justify oneself.

But if he had to just give up and pretend nothing happened, Xu Shu would feel a little unhappy.

The devastating and unstoppable slap in the face during the journey just now has almost left me with a psychological trauma. I will not be at peace until I take revenge!
Ugh!
I want this and that, in this world, it is really hard to have both, it is hard to choose~
Xu Shu's fingers paused again and again on the input interface.

After thinking it over and hesitating for more than ten minutes.

He finally decided on a plan and typed in silently:
"Outside area D8B3, there is an injured Aphelios the Frightened Corruptor. It is hiding very deeply and is difficult to find. I have important matters to attend to and cannot spare any time to care about other things. If anyone has any news about Arthas, you can exchange the specific location of Aphelios with me! Any information is fine." - Taichu.

……

"This should be enough. It can guarantee my status as the original master, and it won't be discovered by others. It also gives me a suitable excuse to prove myself. The most important thing is, these four words, Arthas, are definitely enough to fish!"

Xu Shu clapped his hands, feeling slightly satisfied.

Arthas is the name of the Pale God of Death and the King of Infinity. This is a secret that ordinary people cannot access at all.

However, historical records show that the Pale Death destroyed many human cities in the early days of the Cataclysm, causing a tragic scene of "mountains of bones covering the vast land". Afterwards, he disappeared mysteriously like other evil gods that descended from the sky.

Therefore, the real masters among the human race would definitely not be completely ignorant of Him, and would know something about Him.

What's more, for example, the Star Society that Wuxin belongs to even knows a little about the news of "Ksitigarbha with the Tail", and she is just a third-level extraordinary person.

It can be seen that "Arthas" is not an original character created by himself from the Taichu Volume, but also exists in the real world. In his own legend, it is probably just a fragment of history that is captured and displayed.

Xu Shu has always known that some things that exist in the current real world will appear in legends.

He also discovered that in all stories involving "real history", most of the forces were extremely powerful, to the point of being untouchable, which made it impossible for him to interfere too much with his operations in the legend. It seemed that there was a mysterious force preventing him from changing history, causing the events in the "ancient ruins" to deviate from reality.

Therefore, the "dispute between Ksitigarbha and the God of Death" that I saw in the legend is likely to exist in reality. The historical fragments were excerpted in the Taichu volume and included in the legend.

After all, in that incident, Xu Shu felt that he did not cause any interference.

The part that can be interfered with should only be reflected in the "ancient ruins" that will descend later. Xu Shu has already verified this through Wang Teng's copy and the ruins copy that Wang Teng's mother experienced.

But even so, Xu Shu deliberately said "Arthas" instead of "His current identity as the Ksitigarbha" in reality, which naturally had some thoughts in mind.

After completing the input, Xu Shu carefully reviewed it several times, and only after making sure there were no major problems did he solemnly click "Send".

A brief wait of a few minutes.

Xu Shu looked at the comment section with a little anticipation.

The first thing that came into view was, as Xu Shu had expected, a group of posts from netizens ranging from level one to level three.

"Our D8B3 area again? What the hell is this? I'm going back to the city now!"

"Greetings to the Taichu boss in the front row, to make yourself familiar to him."

"It's well known that I've been a fan of Taichu since I was born. I'm Taichu's most loyal dog."

"What is Aphelios the Dread Corrupter? Can someone give me some advice? And who is Arthas?"

"Boss, are you still in the Eastern Theater? When will you come to our Southern Theater to clean up the wasteland~"

And so on and so forth. And most of them are "anonymous", including the one who claims to be the most loyal dog in the beginning, so people have no idea who they are.

Xu Shu simply ignored these meaningless replies.

The role of these people is nothing more than to keep their posts popular.

This time, his target was no match for even the ordinary fourth-rank masters.

At least they have to be at the peak of the fourth level. If there are a large number of them, they can form a group and perhaps have hope of hunting down the seriously injured fifth level?
This cannot be guaranteed. The best target is naturally the heroes on the Heavenly Ranking, the fifth-level bosses!

"I wonder how long it will take for a Level 5 to see this post~"

"It is said that there are only 20 to 30 fifth-level humans. Not everyone may be browsing the forum at this point, so it is normal that you can't see it..."

"Hehe, I just posted a complaint. I didn't specify any names and required that only Level 5 people could come. It doesn't count as issuing a mission. And I pretended to exchange information, so anyone can come. This fits my personality and the attitude of Taichu, a newly emerged strong man who doesn't want other Level 5 people to know who he is. They won't suspect me because I didn't post in the small circle of Level 5, but came to post in the world channel. On the contrary, they might guess about each other and even think that I was just promoted..."

Xu Shu waited for a long time, and the number of replies had already reached 999+.

Among them, in addition to the majority of players who posted spam messages, there were also some fourth-level players who carefully asked in their replies whether Arthas was the one they were thinking of.

There were even a few third-level ones who tried to play the edge ball, implicitly stating that they seemed to have some news about "Alsace", but it was not real-time, but past rumors.

Obviously, those who have reached the third and fourth levels of transcendence have more or less some background and know a lot of secrets.

Xu Shu ignored him and waited for a while.

Finally saw an acquaintance in the comment section.

"The Fearful Corrupter, Aphelios, the legendary alien king, first appeared near the Immortal Mountain in the southern border and caused great damage and threats to our pioneering team at the time. Finally, the Lord of the Immortal Mountain took action and temporarily repelled this guy's harassment. Senior Taichu, are you sure it is this?" - Melanie, a fourth-level Dongxuan Zhenjun.

There is an unwritten rule in the upgraded network.

Whenever Melanie, the head of the Astronomy Society, joins in the chat, the atmosphere of the entire forum will instantly become serious, and all the teasing, gossip, and jokes will spontaneously subside.

Moreover, those who join the chat next will become the ones who seriously participate in the matter.

People who like to meddle in other people’s affairs call it the “True Lord Effect”.

This is the respect that the Astronomical Society deserves for its years of hard work and dedication to humanity.

The same is true now.

As soon as the True Lord opened his mouth, everyone became serious, and at the same time, he brought in a wave of relatively high-quality "netizens".

Xu Shu also knew this.

He knew that if he continued to play dumb, the heat would soon pass, so he immediately typed a reply:
"Of course, it has a face full of earthworm-like features, but unfortunately, I am not well-trained, and after a quick glance, it hid itself away again. I only know its approximate location." - Taichu.

"It's true..." -Melanie.

"Senior Taichu is indeed modest. According to what the Lord of the Undying Mountain said himself, Aphelios is good at stealth. It was with this ability that he escaped from the siege of the Undying Mountain." - Dianjiangchun, a fourth-rank soldier.

"Hehe, Senior Taichu should be a master on the Heavenly Ranking, but I don't know which one he is? Hehe, it seems like none of them. Could it be a super powerful fourth-level one? No way, no way? My sister, I intend to follow the example of the predecessors and form a team. We will go together to eliminate the seriously injured fifth-level alien king. We will defeat the strong with the weak. Wouldn't it become a good story in the history of human struggle in the future!" - Yun Zishan, the fourth-level evil fairy.

"Well said. You go first." - Marshal Pei, a fourth-level giant.

"Master, are you still in the Eastern Theater? If you are interested, you can come to the Eastern Theater front for a gathering (D9B4)! My master Jian Tianxing is preparing to defeat the sea monster Liuketeia that is entrenched near the ruins of Takamagahara." - Nine-headed Dragon, fourth-level Shura.

Xu Shu took a few glances and found that the fourth-level speakers were speaking more frequently.

But there is no fifth level yet...

Moreover, the remarks made by this group of fourth-order creatures are very bold. They actually want to overthrow the powerful... It seems that since the Cataclysm, there has really been a precedent of fourth-order creatures joining forces to kill fifth-order monsters?
Xu Shu suddenly felt hesitant.

There was a sudden silence at the front of the comment section.

A big “草” (grass) appeared at the very front of the reply list, instantly overwhelming all those who wanted to reply.

“Fuck!”——Mu Xifeng, the fifth-level disaster emperor.

Level five, two words, one horizontal and one vertical.

The top of the human race.

It immediately quieted the entire comment section.

Xu Shu also looked serious.

Disaster Emperor?

Which profession is this?

Information about the fourth level is relatively public on the upgraded network, but information about the fifth level is relatively secretive, rarely disseminated, and not widely known.

And Xu Shu, naturally, didn't know how to bring disaster to the emperor.

This was the first time he saw a speech from a fifth-level master on the upgraded network.

Of course, the most important thing is the "Disaster Emperor" named Mu Xifeng. His remarks seemed a bit extreme.

This caused the "Zhenjun Effect" to partially fail.

Many people who were having fun immediately started to make a noise.

But, it was in the chat in the outside world.

[Shock! Taichu is a fifth-rank Heavenly Ranking expert! He seems to have a grudge against the ninth-ranked 'Lord of Natural Disasters' on the Heavenly Ranking. The two have already started to curse at each other! ]

It was a standard clickbait title, but it instantly received hundreds of comments and gained a lot of popularity.

Xu Shu ignored the several hot topics about himself that appeared in the outside world channel, but felt a little confused.

Why is this disastrous emperor so extreme?
Could it be...

He suddenly had an idea and replied in the post:
"Oh, so it was you who injured it? No wonder it ran to the border to heal its wounds." - Taichu.

"What do you think? Damn! I worked so hard for nothing. After you posted this, I guess several bad guys who were lurking here have come to pick the peaches. Damn it~ Why did you say it out loud! I don't know who you are, this guy who is hiding his head and showing his tail... I spent two months ambushing it! How about you delete the post and join forces with me, and I will give you 30% of the profit if the deal is successful. How about it? I'll take you." - Mu Xifeng.

[System message: Mu Xifeng (Level 5 Disaster Emperor) has sent you a team invitation, do you accept it? ]

Xu Shu's eyebrows twitched grimly.

"It was just a casual shot. I'm no longer here and can't help you. And I only want news about Arthas." - Taichu.

This Mu Xifeng's speaking style doesn't seem too serious. He doesn't seem to have the airs of a powerful person. He is even a little too down-to-earth, giving people a very approachable feeling.

Without him.

This guy talks a lot.

Someone who can type so many words naturally gives people the impression that he has no temper and that one can be more unrestrained in front of him.

But even so, Xu Shu certainly couldn't agree to the other party's request to form a team.

"Wasn't Arthas killed by that person a long time ago? Why are you researching his information? Who are you chasing after? You are not chasing after that crazy Pope of Death? I am an experienced person, and I kindly advise you not to ask about such things. I have a brother who was obsessed with studying the truth about the disappearance of the gods, but what happened? He went crazy!" - Mu Xifeng.

Hey, is there something interesting?

(End of this chapter)