Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
As a new day began, the news that had been urgently reported the night before, was all over the Internet, practically all the media reported it!
This was definitely huge news.
For a time, everybody who woke up in the morning was overwhelmed by the news.
“People’s Daily”, “Northern Monday”, “Reference Express Paper” and several other large mainstream newspapers all reported on this incident, and it made the headlines right off the bat!
Not only that, but there was a huge commotion online because of this news!
On a well-known forum:
1st level -“F*ck! Is there really such a daring idiot who would dare to fork out money to foolishly buy a national treasure?”
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7th level – “Has it ever crossed that idiot’s mind that even if they manage to buy it, they still wouldn’t be able to summon the mystical dragon if they can’t gather all twelve statues?”
8th level – “The person upstairs is right. In this case, it is completely useless to have only one of the twelve golden zodiacs.”
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57th level -“Σ(⊙▽⊙” I feel like you guys are talking about other things.”
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97th level – “You can even do that?”
98th level-“You can do exactly that!”
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102nd level-“Renown homosexual dating website. All are welcome to join, URL ******.”
103rd level-“This is also a capable person.”
104th level-“The person upstairs, did you not notice that something strange had slipped in above you…”
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At that moment, in the building of the mysterious relevant department that everyone was talking about, on a certain floor of an office building, an astonishingly beautiful figure was sitting on the sofa. Right now, this extremely beautiful woman had her sunglasses on while sitting there waiting for someone.
Not long after, an imposing middle-aged man walked in with large strides. He glanced over at her before sitting down behind the enormous office desk. Looking at the beauty in sunglasses, who was Ye Sheng, his brows knitted together as he questioned exasperatedly,
“Are you sure this will really help?”
Ye Sheng glanced at him before slowly opening her mouth,
“The public opinion is useless against those people who participated in the Night Battle. However, this is a warning!”
Ye Sheng’s delicate eyebrows furrowed. Anger spread out from the bottom of her heart as she said,
“To remind those people! They are going against the Night Bureau!”
“This was clearly a reward that we had redeemed. The Night Bureau had clearly made an announcement on the Darknet, yet so many people disregarded it and forcefully meddled in the process of the scenario, and to think that there was even someone…”
Talking about this, she felt a strong sense of indignance. Ye Sheng gritted her teeth slightly, recalling the figure that stood in front of her at the end!
“Enough! No matter how angry you are, it’s of no use.”
Having been in a high-ranking position for a long time, the middle-aged man was quite experienced handling his anger as he quickly calmed down. He shook his head and said,
“As for the pair of pants you obtained, it is too badly damaged that we can’t gather any relevant information at all.”
“Not even the slightest bit?”
“There are a lot of fingerprints, but putting aside which set of prints belong to the owner of the pants,” the middle-aged man looked at Ye Sheng and continued, “Are you able to find him in the world?”
Ye Sheng was silent. Then, seeming to recall something, she got up and said,
“I’ll ask Aunt Shui. If Aunt Shui doesn’t know as well, then I will go to the Angel of the Darknet.”
“The Night Roaming Angel?”
Although he was just an ordinary person, the middle-aged man, who had some knowledge of the world of Night Battles, felt a headache coming on and sighed.
“Do you think she will help us?”
Ye Sheng was at a loss for words. As a legend in the Darknet, the Night Roaming Angel has always been elusive. To add on to that, she had mysteriously disappeared for a long time…
Seeing Ye Sheng’s silence, the middle-aged man massaged the place between his eyebrows and said in a serious voice,
“The Night Battle System is highly mysterious, and the only channel to acquire information about it is the Darknet, where only the Night Roaming Angel can freely track any information that comes and goes. If even the Mistress from the Shui Family doesn’t have any clues, then just let this matter go.”
“No!”
Ye Sheng suddenly sprung up. With an aura of oppression around her tall figure, she marched out.
“I will never give up. I must protect what belongs to the Night Bureau.”
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Darknet.
Although the name sounded very mediocre, and even gave people the impression of a late-night Internet cafe, in actuality, it was a special Internet network and the only channel in which participants of the Night Battle System, that hid under the cloak of night, could obtain information, resources, et cetera.
That’s the Darknet!
Moreover, it was a place that only Night Battle participants could access through the system interface.
At this very moment, participants hidden in all parts of the world were connected to the Darknet and obtaining information and resources from there.
Hence, it was only natural that the news of the official department’s failure appeared on the Darknet.
“Oh? The reward from the previous scenario did not actually get taken away by the authorities?”
At a certain location, the unruly young man with a dancing flame in his hand suddenly smiled, before unleashing a ruthless punch. Many burly men in black with guns in their hands were immediately sent flying.
Somewhere on a campus, the dean of an institution was banging on the lectern, as he recited the classic line with a face filled with fury.
“You are the worst batch of students I have ever had!”
In the first row below the lectern, the girl with the ponytail, who was studying seriously, suddenly froze. Her eyes looked downwards and lightning flashed in her hands. She was the only one who could see the light blue interface that appeared before her.
In a manor somewhere in the middle of the mountains, in the gloriously classically-decorated hall, the middle-aged gentleman’s brows furrowed as he said,
“To think that someone else got it?!”
In a manor somewhere, a young man wearing large headphones slowly ambled towards the door.
All kinds of similar responses were taking place all over the world. Just like how no one knew when the Night Battle first appeared, no one knew how many Night Battle participants there were in the world.
The Darknet simply existed on the surface of the Night Battle, staying only as an observer.
However, there were exceptions to everything.
Once upon a time, there was someone who happened to extract a mysterious and technology-related special power, and became the only existence that could be a hacker on the Darknet.
On the light blue interface, countless heterogeneous data circulated around, among which, there would inevitably be some imperceptible branches that would branch and flow out towards an unknown direction.
In a huge room somewhere, a fully sealed black metal box that was well over ten-meter tall stood in the corner of the room. Complex and precise cables extended from various places and converged towards the center of the room. If it were just these, it would probably only be considered an enormous data computer room.
However…
“Buzz… buzz…”
A deep and steady rotating sound was emitted from the inside of the machine. With streamlined slides, an external form that emulated life forms, a gothic-maid outfit, and icy blue light flickering in its skull, an artificial intelligence was silently operating everything.
In this room brimming with science fiction, this artificial intelligence was probably the most recognisable thing.
A curved projection screen that was more than one-meter wide, a stomata-like hole that kept opening and closing and metal patterned buttons that were so complex it made one dizzy with unrecognisable patterns on them that were radiating a futuristic sci-fi blue glow. In fact, besides this, all the other “furniture” were also beaming with the futuristic blue glow.
At the ceiling of the room, a brilliant blue core was floating. Only a single glowing wire connected it to the entire room, and the power needed to sustain the entire room was generated from this tiny core.
In this room that was like a scene from a science-fiction novel, there was only one living creature, uh, or rather it was a…
Little girl.
In front of the curved projection screen that was more than one-meter wide, nestled on a huge chair, the little girl in a black and white gothic dress saw a stream of data suddenly appearing in front of her and her brows raised slightly.
“Oh? The final winner is neither the government nor Wales?”
The little girl frowned slightly, her expression completely unlike that of a little girl. A weird blue glow flowed around her pupils and a calmness and maturity that was not fitting of her age appeared on her at the same time, completely bereft of the tone of voice, expression and mannerisms of her age. Nothing about her resembled a little girl at all.
Looking at the data in front of her, she suddenly reached out her hands instinctively, pressing on the mysterious symbols and started searching for a specific someone’s information.
Suddenly! A vague encryption appeared before her eyes. Her light golden pupils stilled, and all the sci-fi creations in the room froze for a second.
“Huh!? This is…”
Her light golden pupils widened, and the next second, she suddenly burst into laughter. With her light golden eyes twinkling, she expressed her interest in a tone that was uniquely hers,
“Oh, that’s really interesting. Let me see it for myself…”