63: Chapter 62 Dispute

[ " Visitor · Kim Min-jun (Taegeukgi): Why do we have to pay double the fees online? Why are our avatars grey? Why can we only say one sentence every three days? This is discrimination. " ]

" Why are the fees we have to pay online double theirs? Why are our avatars grey? Why can we only speak once every three days? This is discrimination. "

Immediately following was the second message, from the same camp.

[ " Visitor 9927461 (Taegeukgi): Is this fair, Yanhuang Civilization people? You had the platform. We only got it on the sixth day. Is this fair? " ]

" The survivors of the Yanhuang Civilization had this platform from the first day. We only got it on the sixth day; is this fair? "

Then came one from the Fusang Civilization camp.

[ " Visitor · Murata Denichi (Fusang): This is Yanhuang Civilization hegemony. Protest! Severe protest! " ]

Translation: " This is Yanhuang Civilization hegemony. Protest! Severe protest! "

The appearance of these few grey bullet comments was like throwing a bucket of cold water into a frying pan.

The reaction of the Yanhuang Civilization survivors in the bullet comments was nothing short of nuclear.

" ???? "

" Huh?? "

" Discrimination? Did you say discrimination? "

" I'm fucking laughing. This is the Yanhuang Civilization's own Fate Platform, built by the Fate Master himself using his own power! Why should outsiders get the same treatment as us the moment they arrive? "

" Just letting you through the door is a massive favor! And you're complaining that the ticket is expensive? "

" To put it bluntly—if the Fate Master hadn't opened the visitor system for you, you'd still be out at sea drinking seawater right now! "

" Taegeukgi, right? What's your merit ranking again? Ninth? Oh wait, didn't you almost drop out of the top twenty according to the ninth-day leaderboard? What right do you have to bark here? "

" And the one from Fusang—Yanhuang Civilization hegemony?? So we're being hegemonic to you, what of it? "

" Get lost! If you aren't convinced, get out! "

" Charge, charge, charge! Who's being arrogant on Yanhuang Civilization territory! "

The bullet comment section instantly turned into a battlefield. The density of Yanhuang Civilization bullet comments with red avatar frames surged, flooding in by the thousands every second, directly pushing those few grey bullet comments out of view.

But those few grey bullet comments had already been screenshotted and spread throughout the entire World Echo.

President Lu Xingye tried to control the situation: " Everyone, calm down—" No one listened to her.

Her livestream room was no longer just her livestream room at this moment; it was the main battlefield for the first head-on public opinion clash between the entire Yanhuang Camp and foreign civilizations.

Organized spamming even appeared in the comment section—

" Long live Yanhuang Civilization! Long live the Fate Master! "

" If you're not satisfied, you can get out! The Fate Platform does not welcome ingrates! "

" This is our platform! Our Fate Master! Our Cause and Effect Fate Platform! Love it or leave it! "

President Lu Xingye stood on the deck, watching the bullet comments go from "Welcome" to "Get out" in less than five minutes, and for a moment, she felt somewhat dazed.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something to ease the atmosphere, but the string in her brain labeled "This is a big deal" tightened even further.

She vaguely felt that this was not a simple online flame war.

This was the first collision of civilizations between over four billion people.

Her livestream room was just the first flashpoint.

Very soon, the Symphony Realm in the World Echo, all major official posts, and various livestream rooms would all turn into the same state.

Facts proved that her intuition was correct.

Fifteen minutes after the announcement was released.

World Echo · Symphony Realm.

The Symphony Realm was the only public channel on the Fate Platform that allowed visitor users to speak.

Because livestream channels were categorized openly and vertically across the entire platform, they were also places where comments and posts could be made.

Although everyone was limited to one message every three days, the base of over two billion people was right there.

Even if only one percent of people spoke at the first opportunity, that was still twenty million messages.

Of course, because the posting permissions had been temporarily closed and were just now unlocked, almost all visitors still had their first posting opportunity available.

The information stream in the Symphony Realm turned into the most chaotic state in history within fifteen minutes.

Yanhuang Civilization text, Fog City text, Gaul text, Teuton text, Hebrew text, Fusang text, Taegeukgi text, Kangaroo text, Tianzhu text, Stars and Stripes text...

Dozens of languages flooded in simultaneously, with automatic translations powered by the Myriad Worlds Text Book attached under every single one.

The content of the posts from foreign civilization visitors could be roughly divided into a few categories—

The first category, pure gratitude.

[ " Visitor · Sophie Tremblay (Maple Leaf): I don't know who built this. But I've been alone for nine days. This is the first time I've seen other humans. Thank you. Thank you so much. " ]

[ " Visitor 4481022 (Samba): Obrigado. I was dying. Now I know how to fish. " ]

The second category, shock and confusion.

[ " Visitor 6629174 (Polar Bear): Why do the survivors of the Yanhuang Civilization have all this, while we have nothing? " ]

[ " Visitor · David Reeves (Stars and Stripes): I have been eating the crab roe scraped off barnacles for three days in a row. You guys are trading grilled fish and medicine, just like members of the Yama-hon club. What the hell is going on. " ]

The third category—and the one that detonated the entire scene—was questioning and dissatisfaction.

[ " Visitor · Kim Min-jun (Taegeukgi): The System is clearly biased. The Yanhuang Civilization has had access rights since the first day. We were excluded. This violates the principle of fair competition in the Trial Convention. " ]

This post was screenshotted and spread throughout the entire Fate Platform within thirty seconds.

The reaction of the Yanhuang Civilization survivors was unified—

" Hilarious, fair? Article Two of the Convention is written clearly: the smaller the population, the higher the probability of initial treasure chests. Your Taegeukgi only has a few tens of millions of people; your probability of opening good items is countless times higher than ours. You're holding tilted resources and still complaining it's not fair? "

" And! The Fate Platform isn't something that came with the Magic Sea System! It was created by the Fate Master himself! You're asking the Magic Sea for fairness? You should be asking whether your own civilization has the ability to create a platform of the same Rank! "

" To put it simply—you don't have Big Brother Yang Hang. This is your problem, not ours. "

" The Fate Platform is an extension of Big Brother Yang Hang's innate ability and was originally something internal to Yanhuang Civilization. Opening it up for you to use now is already a favor. You're still asking why the avatars are grey? Because you're a guest, brother! If I go to your house as a guest, do I demand to use the same bowls and chopsticks as you, sleep in your bed, and open your fridge? "

This analogy was so precise it was applause-worthy; it was pushed to the first place in the reply section and received over ten million likes.

But the matter was far from over.

Some visitor users from the Taegeukgi and Fusang camps seemed to have reached some sort of tacit understanding, appearing almost simultaneously under different posts in the Symphony Realm, issuing similarly worded questions.

" Unfair. " " Discrimination. " " Yanhuang Civilization hegemony. "

Within ten minutes, these three words were translated into over a dozen languages and became the core argument for a portion of foreign civilization visitor users.

And the response from the Yanhuang Civilization survivors was even more direct and crude—

" Shut up. " " Get lost. " " If you're not convinced, why don't you go build one yourselves? "

" You're getting cocky, aren't you? Letting you through the door to take a look is already a massive favor, and you're still being picky! "

" Do you know that the two karma points you paid can only buy one salted fish on the Fate Platform? When you were about to die, it was these two karma points that let you see life-saving guides! And you're still complaining it's expensive? "

" To those talking about discrimination—before Transmigration, when you traveled to other countries, did visas cost money? Did hotel accommodations cost money? Do you call that discrimination? "

" One last time—the Cause and Effect Fate Platform was created by Big Brother Yang Hang and belongs to the Yanhuang Civilization. This isn't the Earth Star United Alliance; this is my living room. I let you sit on the sofa, and you're complaining that the sofa isn't soft enough? "

The intensity of the flame war continued to escalate.

But at the same time, a deeper voice quietly emerged among the Yanhuang Civilization survivors.

It was not anger. It was vigilance.

" Seriously speaking... why would the Fate Master want to set up this visitor system? "

" Isn't the Magic Sea a civilization hegemony struggle? Aren't those guys all our enemies? "

" Yeah, I want to ask that too. The Yanhuang Camp has such a huge advantage, why let people from foreign civilizations in? "

" Letting them see our posts is equivalent to exposing our survival strategies. Guides, hunting methods, organizational structure—they've seen it all! "

" Could it be that the Fate Master was hacked? Or forced? "

" Are you brainless? Who could hack the Fate Master? A man with over 25 billion merit points. "

" Then why would he do this? What benefit does it have for Yanhuang Civilization? No matter how I think about it, it feels like he's helping foreign civilizations..."