novelhk Chapter 361 Honey Trap? I've already downloaded an anti-fraud app!
Chapter 361 Honey Trap? I've already downloaded an anti-fraud app!
On the obsidian platform, the heatwave continued to swelter.
Chen You stood there, holding the red glass plate in one hand, his brows furrowed in a frown.
He stared at the heart-shaped emoji on the screen, which was wildly wiggling its butt, and fell into deep thought.
A hundred meters behind him, the fifteen surviving players stood like fifteen ice sculptures, not daring to move.
The berserker swallowed hard, his gaze darting back and forth between Chen You's back and the five dazzling orbs of light where Ragnar had fallen.
"Brother..." the thief whispered, "You Shen seems to be spacing out, and that equipment..."
"Shut up!" The berserker glared at him fiercely and replied in a similarly husky voice.
"Are you courting death? That's loot dropped by a mythical lord! Without the God of War's permission, who dares to touch it?"
The pastor girl clasped her hands together and muttered softly.
"You Shen must be comprehending the laws of heaven and earth. That sword strike just now was too profound. He must have entered a state of enlightenment."
"We absolutely mustn't disturb him!"
Everyone agreed.
After all, how could someone who can instantly kill a mythical boss with tens of millions of HP possibly slack off at this moment?
But the allure of the equipment was simply too great.
Those were five mythical-level spoils of war, radiating an alluring seven-colored halo, like five stunning beauties waving naked.
The berserker stared at the ball of light, his eyes practically bleeding from their sockets.
He gritted his teeth and gestured for the others to come closer.
He said in the lowest possible voice, "Brothers, the wandering god might look down on this junk, but it's too important to us."
"Everyone, listen to my instructions, line up and come forward. Only touch the corpse, don't speak!"
"Roll the ball quietly! Anyone who dares to make the slightest sound and disturb the wandering god's enlightenment will be hunted down to the ends of the earth!"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Then, an extremely bizarre scene appeared on the obsidian platform.
Fifteen fully armed high-level players, like thieves, tiptoed and crouched, forming a single file and carefully moving toward the wreckage of Ragnar.
The berserker walked at the front, and the moment his hand touched the first ball of light, a system notification appeared in the team chat.
[Team Notification: We have obtained the Epic weapon "Wrath of the Flame Demon"!]
The berserker shuddered, his face instantly turning a deep liver color.
He covered his mouth tightly, tears streaming down his face, and swallowed the "Holy shit!" back down his throat.
The thieves behind them reacted quickly and immediately started rolling for the winnings.
For a moment, the team channel was flooded with dice-rolling icons, but in reality, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Meanwhile, Chen You, who was revered like a god by everyone, was stamping words on the glass plate with a black line on his face.
[Chen You: Speak like a human, or I'll throw you into the lava.]
The other party replied instantly, along with a "sad and wronged" emoji.
[Invincible beautiful girl: Hey, don't be so fierce.]
[Invincible Beauty: I really came here because of your reputation! The three sword strikes you used to cut down that big oaf were absolutely stunning! The sword intent, the movement, the cold eyes—my heart melted~]
Chen You's eyelids twitched.
[Chen You: You saw it?]
[Invincible Beauty: Of course! I am omniscient and omnipotent! How could a mere low-dimensional instance possibly block my view?]
Chen You narrowed his eyes.
This tone and vocabulary don't seem like those of a native NPC from the Origin Realm at all.
She's more like a teenage girl addicted to the internet.
[Chen You: Are you the GM of the Origin Realm? Or a projection of some god?]
[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Gods? Those data garbage that run according to predetermined programs dare to be compared to me?]
[Invincible Beauty: Let me formally introduce myself. I am a super observer wandering the multiverse, a senior partner of the Interstellar Consortium. You can call me—the most beautiful girl under the stars!]
Chen You stared at the string of super-criticistic prefixes and typed expressionlessly.
[Chen You: Oh, international scalpers.]
[Invincible beautiful girl: ...]
[Invincible beautiful girl: [flips table.gif]]
[Invincible Beauty: Do you even know what the value of a higher-dimensional being is?! Believe me or not, I'll go down the internet cable and beat you up!]
Chen You sneered.
[Chen You: Then come over here.]
[Invincible beautiful girl: ...]
[Invincible Beauty: Ahem, I'm incredibly busy these days, so I won't bother with you today. Let's get down to business: I've taken a liking to you.]
Chen You's heart tightened.
This is a standard scam involving defrauding people.
First, they use their beauty and mystery to package themselves, then they build rapport, and finally they start selling tea or enticing people to invest.
But who is Chen You?
Backed by the Chinese national apparatus, with dozens of expert teams at the Qinling base on standby 24 hours a day, and a man who even has the national anti-fraud app installed on his phone!
Trying to outsmart me? Go talk to the expert team!
Chen You put away the red glass plate and looked around.
On the obsidian platform behind, fifteen surviving players lined up in a single file, crouching low, frantically rolling for five Mythic-level loot orbs.
The berserker, clutching a red-glowing battle axe, knelt down and kowtowed three times to Chen You's retreating figure.
Chen You ignored them.
He opened the system panel, selected to leave the team, and then entered the guild territory.
A flash of white light.
Chen You appeared directly in the central square of the Baiyujing Guild territory.
He waved to the drone that was monitoring the situation in real time from the air.
"Director Li, let's have a meeting. It would be best to invite the colleagues from the Anti-Fraud Center as well."
……
Ten minutes later, in the guild hall.
All the experts sat around the long table.
Chen You displayed the red glass panel and then projected it onto the large screen via the camera.
The entire room fell silent.
On the screen, the ID "Invincible Beauty" was spamming the chat.
[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Where is everyone? Why are you ignoring me?]
[Invincible Beauty: Did she go to take a shower? Don't you take your phone to the shower?]
[Invincible Beauty: Brother, your abs are so hard! I took a screenshot when you were taking that hit from Ragnar's hammer! [wink][wink]]
Li Guoan's lips twitched twice.
Sun Feng pushed up his glasses and began typing rapidly on the keyboard.
A few seconds later, he looked up, his tone grave: "Reporting to Director Li. No abnormal energy fluctuations were detected, nor were any communication signals found."
Professor Pan Yu stood up and walked to the large screen.
"When dealing with such highly intelligent and high-dimensional unknown entities, we must adopt negotiation techniques of 'vulnerability guidance' and 'value stripping'."
"We need to use seemingly casual conversation to elicit information about the other party's level of civilization, technological level, and true purpose in contacting us."
Chen You nodded: "Professor Pan, please tell me, I'll type it out."
Pan Yu stared at the pink bubble on the screen and said in a deep voice, "Reply: I just finished dealing with some copy cleanup. You seem to have a good understanding of the source world's data structures?"
Chen You did as instructed and tapped the screen to send.
The other party replied almost instantly.
[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Ugh, what's so interesting about a sandbox game like Source World?]
[Invincible Beauty: Never mind that! What color burlap sack do you like, brother? I'll send a starship over right now to put it on you!]
Pan Yu frowned and turned to look at Li Guoan: "Director Li, she is avoiding the core issues and using exaggerated language as a psychological defense."
She turned back. "Reply to her: Starship? Your consortium's warp technology is advanced enough for precise teleportation?"
Chen You sent it.
[Invincible Beauty: Why are you asking this? You want to learn? If you want to learn, I'll teach you!]
[Invincible Beauty: As long as you sign the marriage agreement, the entire interstellar conglomerate's warp drive technology library will be your dowry! [shy]]
In the conference room, a group of top scientists looked at each other in bewilderment.
Materials expert Academician Qian Zhonghua suddenly stood up, slamming his hands on the table in excitement.
"Say yes! Chen You, say yes quickly! With jump technology, our Chinese aerospace engineering can avoid a thousand years of detours!"
"Mr. Qian, calm down." Li Guoan pressed Qian Zhonghua back into his seat. "How could a higher-dimensional being so hasty in handing over its core technology?"
Pan Yu took a deep breath and adjusted her tactics: "The other party's disguise is extremely perfect. She is trying to lower our guard by using the persona of a 'love-obsessed' woman."
"We need to get straight to the point and test her limits."
Reply: Marriage is fine, but I don't accept long-distance relationships. Can you come over?