126: Chapter 126 The brief tranquility is broken, and several strange people appear in the city.
Qin Yuan's fingers, which were holding a cigarette, suddenly paused, and ash fell onto the Persian rug.
"What did you say?"
His voice instantly dropped to freezing point, and the air in the entire room seemed to solidify.
"Elder Chu... was pinned to the city gate tower with a sword?"
How is this possible!
Military Titan Chu Kuangren is the backbone of the Huaxia military; not only does he have layers of guards around him, but he is also protected by the experts from the Shadow Guard that Qin Yuan sent secretly.
Who could do such a thing silently in the heart of the capital?
"B-Boss, don't get excited yet!"
On the other end of the phone, Gu Qianqian seemed to realize the ambiguity in her words and quickly took a big gulp of cola to calm her nerves.
"It's not that he was actually pinned up there!"
"It's... it's a video! A video that suddenly went viral all over the global network!"
Qin Yuan's tightly furrowed brows loosened slightly, but the murderous intent in his eyes did not diminish.
"Explain clearly."
"Just five minutes ago, the homepages of major video websites and the Dark Web were forcibly injected with this footage."
Gu Qianqian's fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard, transmitting a video in real-time to the holographic screen in front of Qin Yuan.
"In the video, a guy wearing white ancient-style clothes and a mask is stepping on a flying sword, hovering over the capital."
"He split the gate of the Forbidden City with one sword strike, and then pinned a holographic projection that looked very much like Elder Chu to the city wall with a qi sword."
"He also arrogantly shouted, saying some chuunibyou lines like 'Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, today I, the Sword God, have returned and will surely trample the Qin Family.'"
Looking at the "sword flying" video on the screen with its rough quality and special effects comparable to a five-cent web game.
The corner of Qin Yuan's eye couldn't help but twitch twice.
That's it?
Does he dare to show such a low-quality composite video to embarrass himself?
"Are you sure this isn't a prank by some bored hacker?"
Qin Yuan extinguished the cigarette butt, his tone revealing a hint of helplessness.
"Boss, it's not that simple."
Gu Qianqian's voice became serious.
"I just traced the source IP of the video and found that it wasn't uploaded through any known network protocol."
"It directly modified the underlying data of global network servers at the physical level!"
"This method is already beyond the scope of current human technology, and it's more like some... some unreasonable cheat!"
A cheat?
Hearing these two words, Qin Yuan's eyes finally became serious.
He gently pulled his arm out from under Su Qingxue, put on a silk robe, and walked into the study.
"Besides this 'Sword God in White', are there any other abnormal situations recently?"
Qin Yuan sat in his large boss chair and asked in a deep voice.
"Yes! And a lot!"
Gu Qianqian pulled up another intelligence summary, and the avatars and profiles of over a dozen people instantly popped up on the screen.
"Boss, ever since you took out that Crooked-Mouth Dragon King overseas, in the past few days, several extremely high-profile 'nouveau riche' have suddenly sprung up domestically like mushrooms after rain."
Gu Qianqian clicked on one of the avatars.
It was a young guy with dyed yellow hair who looked like a punk.
"This guy is named Li Si, and he used to be a food delivery driver. But last night, he suddenly started throwing money crazily in the livestream room of a female streamer in the beauty section."
"In less than half an hour, he spent over 100 million on gifts!"
"And I checked his bank statements; that money just seemed to appear out of thin air, with no transfer records at all!"
Next, Gu Qianqian clicked on another video surveillance feed.
In the footage, a greasy middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes was standing at the busiest intersection in Jiangzhong City.
Facing a utility pole, he shouted like a madman: "Sign in!"
Then, a shiny gold Porsche car key appeared in his hand out of thin air!
"And there's this guy named Wang Wu."
Gu Qianqian pointed to the middle-aged man in the footage who was grinning from ear to ear, her tone filled with disbelief.
"He just wanders around the streets every day, shouting 'Sign in' at trash cans and fire hydrants."
"As a result, in less than three days, he added over a dozen luxury mansions in Tomson Riviera and several limited-edition sports cars to his name!"
This wasn't the end; the footage on the screen switched again.
This time, it was surveillance from a large warehouse supermarket.
A bespectacled, gentle-looking college student was bringing several heavy trucks, frantically buying up rice, instant noodles, purified water, and even toilet paper!
"This college student named Zhao Liu is even more outrageous."
Gu Qianqian's voice carried a hint of speechlessness.
"He doesn't know where he got a huge sum of money, and he's frantically hoarding daily necessities. Furthermore, he's even hired people in the deep mountains and forests to secretly build some kind of 'doomsday underground shelter'."
"It's just like he knows the world is going to end tomorrow."
Divine Tycoon genre? Sign-in genre? Doomsday rebirth genre?
Qin Yuan looked at these ridiculous yet familiar surveillance videos on the screen and fell into a brief silence.
He rubbed his temples, and a cruel yet playful smile gradually curled at the corners of his mouth.
Tranquility is, after all, only temporary.
As he continues to plunder destiny and strengthen himself, the plane's laws of this world, also known as the "Heavenly Dao", have finally begun to reject him frantically.
It discovered that the Children of Destiny cultivated individually, like Ye Chen and Lin Tian, were simply not enough for Qin Yuan to even snack on.
Therefore, the Heavenly Dao panicked.
It simply threw away all decency and started "wholesale" mass-producing cheaters with all kinds of cheat systems, without any bottom line!
It attempted to use this human wave tactic to pile up and kill the greatest villain, Qin Yuan.
"Boss, this situation is a bit weird."
Gu Qianqian looked at the constantly increasing anomaly reports on the screen and swallowed hard.
"The things in these people's hands don't seem to be controlled by our existing rules. Should we send the Shadow Guard to capture them and slice them up for research?"
"No need for that much trouble."
Qin Yuan leaned back in his boss chair, toying with the black gold ring in his hand that represented the highest power of the Qin Family.
Dealing with these "little cheaters" who just bound their systems and are still in the beginner protection period—using the Shadow Guard is simply using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
"Don't they like to play with systems and use cheats?"
In Qin Yuan's eyes flickered the cold light of a capitalist harvesting leeks.
"Qianqian."
"Yes! Boss, please command!"
"Go, arrange a 'highest-spec' Tax Bureau audit package for that yellow-haired guy who was throwing money in the livestream room."
"And for that greasy man who was signing in on the street, put a 'suspected illegal fundraising' seal on all the properties and cars under his name."
"As for that college student hoarding instant noodles..."
Qin Yuan chuckled.
"Report him by name for suspected hoarding of strategic materials with the intent to commit terrorist attacks."
You want to flip the sky in this society woven by capital and power just by relying on a few crappy cheats? Too naive.
No matter how awesome your cheat is, you still have to eat, breathe, and survive within the human social system.
As long as you are still in this system, then I, Qin Yuan, have plenty of ways to play you to death.
"Let them experience."
Qin Yuan looked at the screen and coldly uttered a sentence.
"What a max-level anti-addiction system is."
"Got it! Boss, just watch! I guarantee I'll make them spit out everything they've eaten!"
Gu Qianqian rubbed her hands excitedly, her ten fingers tapping on the keyboard with a clatter.
A dimensionality-reduction strike against this batch of "bulk-produced Children of Destiny" unfolded silently.
Qin Yuan hung up the internal phone line.
He stood up and walked to the large floor-to-ceiling window of the study.
The first ray of morning sunlight pierced through the mist and spilled onto the towering skyscrapers of Jiangzhong City.
This city was still sleeping quietly at his feet.
"Heavenly Dao, oh Heavenly Dao."
Qin Yuan looked outside the window and muttered to himself.
"Do you think that sending a few more ants wearing cheats will be enough to bite an elephant to death?"
"The quality of your wholesale systems is a bit too poor."
Just as Qin Yuan was about to turn around to take a shower and clear his head.
The mahogany door of the study was suddenly pushed open violently from the outside.
"Bang!"
The door slammed heavily against the wall.
Su Qingxue, wearing a silk pajama set, her hair still a bit messy, ran in barefoot with a panicked look on her face.
Her face, usually as cold as frost, was now full of terror.
"Master!"
Su Qingxue couldn't even catch her breath; she grabbed Qin Yuan's arm, her voice trembling violently.
"No... it's not good!"
"That old grandpa in the ring you locked in the toilet sewer..."
"He... he suddenly ran out by himself just now!"