Chapter 69 The Singer, Oh, The Singer 2

Naturally, both sides started arguing.

At first, it was just the eccentric person who made the statement and their supporters being attacked. Later, whether that person enjoyed the verbal abuse or what, the attacks didn't make them back down. Instead, they went straight to the communication channel and established a gang—the Return to Position Gang.

The gang's core ideology was male supremacy and female inferiority, with men being strong and women being weak. They claimed their members were the truly awakened men with self-awareness. Men who didn't submit to them were brainwashed puppets, and women who didn't submit were idiots who turned the world upside down and overstepped their bounds. They claimed to be the hope for the continuation of China.

Clearly, the opposition to this gang included all women and all men who didn't support their moronic viewpoints.

Although Lin Xiangjun felt that with the world on the verge of destruction, the fact that people were still obsessing over whether they had that little bit of meat between their legs was ridiculous in itself, the world is full of wonders, and this gang was actually established just like that.

And after they formed, they didn't do anything else, specifically setting out to sabotage all female players in the instance, as well as male players who didn't join them in sabotaging the women.

They didn't act directly; instead, they would pretend to be good people in the instance to gain the trust of other players, even helping others out in minor challenges. Once other players trusted them completely, they would choose a death trap for the female players to fall into.

This kind of behavior could be called the stupidest form of revenge against society.

Just like in the last instance, where there were five participants; because Sun Tao was missing at the start, the difficulty of the instance increased significantly. If Lin Xiangjun hadn't had the Invisibility Cloak, that important clue would have rotted in 104 without anyone knowing.

The number of participants in an instance isn't without reason; if an instance can accept five players, it's because the weird world has determined that five people are the most appropriate for clearing it.

If someone dies, the difficulty of the instance increases for those remaining.

Therefore, most of those Return to Position Gang members who deliberately sabotaged others didn't make it out alive themselves.

According to statistics from some unknown expert, 6,548 members of the Return to Position Gang participated in instances within seven days, and only 1,186 returned alive, a survival rate of one-sixth.

This was far lower than the official estimated normal survival rate of one-half.

The members of the Return to Position Gang also happily received a nickname—'Swill Dynamite Barrels'.

Ugly and disgusting; they want to die, but they also drag everyone around them down with them.

Although this gang, from its name to its members to its actions, was ridiculous, the impact over time was truly vile. The number of female players who died after being sabotaged by them in the game reached the thousands.

Thousands of people is not a small number.

Not all female players who were sabotaged died. A small number of female players returned to the real world alive and exposed the matter.

For a time, the communication channel exploded.

It was the end of the world, a critical time for everyone to unite against the weird world, strive to survive, and rebuild order. Yet, the surviving humans weren't killed by the weird world or the rules, but ended up dying at the hands of their own kind—how ironic.

The key was that the world communication channel was public. When the news first broke, the authorities couldn't contain it, and it spread abroad.

This trivial mess was known to players all over the world.

It was already a critical time of life and death, and yet you were bogged down by gender conflict and couldn't clean up your own mess?

Foreign countries wouldn't care; usually, even if you didn't have any dirt on your back, they'd throw a lump of mud at you anyway, let alone now that there was real filth. They were practically itching to shout it through a megaphone.

China was ruthlessly mocked by other countries, losing a lot of face.

The authorities were furious and stepped in to investigate urgently.

Although it was still in the investigation stage, Lin Xiangjun, who had read the book, knew that the leader of the Return to Position Gang, who was fanning the flames and establishing the gang, was actually a foreign spy.

This group of foreign spies had existed before the weird world descended. Every day, they did nothing else but focus on everything that could trigger gender conflict, adding fuel to the fire and escalating tensions just to undermine domestic stability.

The problem was that, before the apocalypse, no matter how fierce the arguments were, they were just on the internet, with no major results.

This organization was going bald worrying about their performance, and when they looked up, the apocalypse had just descended.

The person thought about it and decided to pull off something big.

Lin Xiangjun remembered the book mentioning that this organization expanded to a point where it was difficult for the authorities to control in just three days.

It continued to expand, and it wasn't until a quarter of the way through the novel, when the male protagonist confronted the leader of the organization, that the organization was wiped out by the combined efforts of the male and female protagonists.

That item capable of bewitching people also fell into the hands of the male protagonist.

However, these were all things for later.

The current situation was that the authorities had ordered an investigation, but no results had been found yet. Those Return to Position Gang members were still shouting in the comment section every day, demanding that everything "return to its proper position."

Female players had no means of checks and balances; after all, before the other side revealed their malicious intent, no one knew if they were members of the Return to Position Gang.

The only clue known at present was that the Return to Position Gang only accepted male members.

Female players had no other choice but to stay as far away from all men as possible—who knew if they were from the Return to Position Gang?

These two... were obviously planning the same thing.

Lin Xiangjun had no intention of judging the right or wrong of this behavior; after all, everyone was just making the choice most favorable to their own survival.

It was just that the atmosphere inevitably became awkward.

For a moment, no one spoke, just standing there, warily sizing each other up.

Lin Xiangjun: ...

Lin Xiangjun rubbed her forehead in pain.

This was the reason she didn't want to participate in multiplayer instances!

Why was she standing there like a groundhog, looking stunned?

"Are you all just standing here stunned, waiting for the rules to run into your hands on their own?"

Lin Xiangjun was the first to start walking. She looked back at the other nine people and, for the sake of her own life, reminded them:

"This is a three-star instance, and a ten-person one at that. Everyone understands that the more people there are in an instance, the more difficult it becomes. Those with crooked thoughts should rein them in; don't end up dying in the instance yourself before you've managed to sabotage anyone else."

Her intention was to warn any possible brainless members of the Return to Position Gang. However, before she had even finished speaking, a young man in his twenties couldn't hold back.

"What do you mean? Are you discriminating against us?"

A question mark slowly appeared over Lin Xiangjun's head.

The man said with a righteous tone:

"Do you assume every man you see is a member of the Return to Position Gang? Don't even try to deny it! If you didn't think that, you wouldn't have said anything about reining in crooked thoughts! You are discriminating against us!"

Lin Xiangjun slowly widened her eyes.

What excellent language comprehension skills, not a bit inferior to an adult hyena.

She sized up this brainless man from head to toe.

His face was very dark, his lips were quite red, and because his frame was small and skinny, his head looked large. He was wearing a tight tank top and a loose jacket, which outlined a waist that could be held in one's palm. He looked like a Black-skinned Sugarcane.

He held his head high, looking as if he were ready for a fight.

As if he were waiting for Lin Xiangjun to start a shouting match with him.