Chu Feng scrolled and roughly understood the situation. The posts were all full of insults aimed at one another, though the main idea was that they wanted to return the 10 thousand to him.
He honestly didnât care about that much money. Xie Shiyu had left him billions and billions after he passed, and even if he wanted to spend it all, he couldnât.
As for God whatever X, he didnât know who the hell they were talking about.
But Xâs fans were incredibly tenacious and soon, Chu Feng received a few private messages from the user, Yao Yao loves playing with string.
[Sorry to disturb you, boss, but could you pass me your card number? Due to some unforeseen circumstances, Iâll be returning the 10 thousand to you!]
It didnât take much longer before Chu Feng received the money. He turned to Lin Lan and asked again, âDid you find a way to unfreeze them yet?â
âGive me a second, ge. Ten more minutes! I may not be crazy about X, Iâm still his fan. Iâll screw them over first!â
Chu Feng: âŠ
âItâs fine, ge. You donât know this but the second Xâs fans start calling people out, the post will end up exposing something insane.â Lin Lan continued, âTrust me, this is what Iâve learned after years of watching the drama unfold. You should come watch it too. Interacting in the community will help you in the long run.â
ââŠâŠâŠâ
Chu Feng lowered his head and refreshed his page. After Yao Yao loves playing with string refunded the money, they brought a new wave of Aâs fans to counterattack.
[Iâm Yao Yaoâs close friend. Her phone got taken by her parents so she canât go online now. I never wouldâve imagined that an agreed-upon reward would be bashed by you fan of X like this. She has depression. She canât handle it if all of you attack her like this, please stop!]
[Weâve already returned the money, so will you X fans apologize?]
And thenâŠ
Floor 520:
Player ID: Angel AAâs Global Support
[Xâs fans are all so disgusting, theyâre even accusing someone of selling their face. Iâm sorry our AA is good-looking? What about your X? âTo maintain secrecyâ my ass, heâs just ugly.]
[Stanning an ugly bastard and causing trouble everywhere. He was asking to get his account deleted!]
âWhat theâOkay, thatâs the last straw!â
Before he even finished typing, there were already 578 Floors.
Reply to Floor 520:
Player ID: X is forever my God
[I didnât want to get involved in a fight like this but youâve taken it too far.]
[Back when he wasnât popular, I invited him to my Dream City. Heâs a really good person and even helped me redesign the roads. He thought it was pretty in fashion so he took a picture.]
[God X.jpg]
âHoly shit!!!â Lin Lan was in disbelief. âThey actually posted a picture! I told you thereâs going to be shit going down when Xâs fans are involved!â
He immediately opened the picture. The picture wasnât compressed so it was a whole 6.8MB. Lin Lan waited excitedly.
When the progress bar reached 100%, Lin Lan completely froze.
There stood a man under the treeâs shade, a Dream Cityâs pavement under his feet.
A silver coat flying in the wind, a face wrapped tight in bandages, and one eye exposed, shining like ambers.
âHoly! Shit! Ge! Ge!â
Lin Lanâs hand trembled as he passed the phone to Chu Feng.
âDo you see this?! Isnât that the Guardian from just now? Wait a second! Holy shit, does this mean X actually got hired by the company and became a high-ranked Guardian??? Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit! I actually met God X in the flesh! IâŠâ
âCan you calm down?â
Chu Feng calmly took the phone from Lin Lan.
âYeah, this is him.â
He heard that Guardians were referred to by alphabets, so the Guardian from just now must have been Guardian X.
âHoly shit, no wonder he was so good at defusing the bomb just now! As expected for God X! Heâs forever our God!â Lin Lan flapped his hand around excitedly.
After that picture was exposed, the entire community exploded in discussions. Chu Feng scrolled below for the replies.
Floor 580:
[Oh my god! Oh my god! What did I just see?!]
Floor 581:
[Xâs style is so cool! I can now pass away happy.]
Floor 582:
[I zoomed in on Xâs eyes in the picture. Wuwuwuwu, heâs clearly a guy, but his lower lashes are so long. Iâm dyingâŠ]
[eyes.jpg]
Floor 583:
[Itâs so pretty! His eyes are so pretty! This is so worth it! Xâs fans always reveal something big, thereâs no doubt! I canât believe someone straight-up sent his picture.]
Floor 584:
[Did no one cross-reference him to the tree next to him? How is he so tall? Heâs at least 190cm. As a dwarf, Iâm fucking envious!]
ââŠâŠâ
Chu Feng quietly saved the picture of Xâs eyes and turned his phone off.
âIs there any way of contacting X?â He asks Lin Lan.
âUhâŠâ Lin Lan was in a tough spot. âX is really lowkey. He used to go online just to post guides so now that his account is deleted, thereâs basically no way of finding anything about him anymore. âŠWait! That A!â
Guardian A was the publicity ambassador of the Guardian Center. His main job was to interact with players. Because he didnât look too bad and his smile was sweet, he was constantly asked to do marketing, thus his high popularity.
âI remember he followed 25 people on his Weibo!â1
According to the 26 letters of the alphabet, one of them has to be Guardian X!
âFind it.â
Two hours laterâŠ
Lin Lan pinpointed three suspects in the end.
All high-ranked Guardians were referred to by alphabets. A, B, and Z have exposed their faces to the public. C, D, and E have a yellow verification tick on Weibo. The rest of the Guardians have kept their information secret. They didnât even use their letters as their IDs so it was hard to distinguish. Lin Lan could only open each one and check through them manually, cross-referencing them with the tone that X would use when he posted guides and finally narrowed it down to three people.
âGe, you check too. Iâm going to search more in-depth.â
Lin Lan searched all three of the Weibo IDs and checked if any of his friends had tagged him before. He managed to get rough information on all three of them through his information circle and IP.
âI found it!! Ge!â
Last year, Guardian D tagged @Unsolvable Equation.
[Take a look at this, how do I defuse the bomb if the wires are like this?]
[@Unsolvable Equation replied: Iâll tell you on WeChat.]2
[@Guardian D: You blocked me there!!]
[@Unsolvable Equation replied: Sorry, I changed my number. Add me again.]
[VQRCode.jpg]
Lin Lan waved his phone around proudly. âI found it!â
The QR Code had long since stopped working, but the WeChat code on it can still be found. Chu Feng opened WeChat and clicked âAdd Friendâ.
âWait a second, are you actually planning on adding him?â
âWhat else would I be doing?â
âNo, itâs just thatâyou just blasted him into the air just now and yet youâre adding him on WeChat right afterward, begging him to sign a form for youâŠâ
Chu Feng pat Lin Lan on the shoulder.
âYouâve already graduated. Once you get into society, youâll have to learn to put down your pride.â
On the WeChat search for âAdd Friendsâ, Guardian Xâs profile picture was clear for all to see. A white background and the black letter, X.
Chu Fengâs verification message was this:
[Good to see you!3Â Iâm the player you just saved in the game, thank you so much for that! I donât know how I wouldâve survived that without you (crying emoji)]
Lin Lan: âŠIâm in awe. Is this what the people of society are like?
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Ding!
Xâs phone vibrated.
On his WeChat Contacts, there was suddenly a red â where there hadnât been before.
Clicking it open, he found that someone had added him.
WeChatt ID: CF4088
His profile picture was a huge black cat plushie.
Verification message:
[âŠI donât know how I wouldâve survived that without you.]
Xâs brows raised.
He didnât immediately accept the friend request, instead choosing to search for the memorized number of the little beauty.
He found that the profile picture of the one he searched was the same as the one who had added himâa black cat plushie.
X clicked [Accept].
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âHoly shit! He instantly responded! He was really online?!â
âDo you have any cute stickers? Send some to me.â
ââŠâ Lin Lan sent a few stickers of little kittens meowing to his ge and asked, âWhat are you going to do?â
âThereâs an old saying called, âYou donât hit kittens.â
Chu Feng picked the cutest kitten out of everything and sent it to Guardian X.
âHoly shit! Youâre literally the bravest person Iâve ever met. If I were X and I saved someone out of the goodness of my heart only to be sent flying without any goodwill being reciprocated and then sent a friend request on WeChat and pretended like nothing happened by sending a kitten acting coy⊠I wouldnât even hesitate before twisting their neck off!â
Chu Feng turned his gaze onto Lin Lan, cold and unfeeling.
Lin Lan quickly snapped his mouth shut, making a zipping gesture across his lips.
In the chat, Chu Feng sent a kitten with its head hung low, leaning on the table with their ears flat.
[Iâm sorry]
Lin Lan sighed disappointingly and said, âGe, you really think an apology will do anything when you sent them flying? If I were him, Iâd send you a three thousand-word essay just cursing you and then block your ass! Look⊠Look! Heâs typing!â
Chu Feng also had a feeling that he was going to send him a few curse words. The things he did were honestly pretty infuriating. So he turned off his phone and decided to wait a bit. He prepared a few more stickers of kittens, apologizing so he could send them later. That way he wouldnât be able to curse him out.
Five minutes laterâŠ
Chu Feng turned on his phone again and found one unread message in his notifications.