Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“F*ck!”
“What the f*ck is going on?”
“Hound 0033, why is the system messaging us that there’s a cut in half the points because of an unauthorized joint operation in the mission?”
In a luxurious detached villa hotel room, a Wind Manipulator fully clad in quality equipment had an extremely sour face as he threw a teacup down heavily onto the floor.
“Half the points! I’ve now fallen straight down through 20 places!”
Another Scout player fully clad in rare equipment was even more pale-faced with anger, glaring at the Light Armor Warrior.
“Didn’t you Hounds guarantee that we wouldn’t get penalized by the system and guarantee that we’d all enter the top five! What’s going on now? Already six days of the mission duration had passed now. How do you catch up with this gap in points? And yesterday night, didn’t you also guarantee that the ‘luring’ plan you arranged would absolutely succeed? That the Sniper continuously spoiling our mission would definitely be discovered and finished? And what happened in the end?!
“F*ck this! Lure, my ass! We’ve waited for a whole afternoon and half the night. That Sniper didn’t even reveal his shadow. The mission news used as ‘bait’ was, in the end, actually snatched away by a 10-year-old little girl!”
(Feng Luo probably would have also been speechless if he had known the situation. His energy yesterday had all been spent on the hidden mission and the second profession. The rest of his time was all used on familiarizing himself with the Scout profession skills. Who would have thought that there was actually a group of people in another corner of the city that had set up a “ground-covering net” and had foolishly waited for him an entire night…)
“Not just this!” The Scout player had spit flying all over, pointing at the Light Armor Warrior in front of him and scolding nonstop. “Now. You’d better see who the first on the leaderboard is!”
At that moment, on the leaderboard, which could be seen by all of the competitive players, four of the five names originally at the top had already been changed, and “Number 99,” originally in fourth, had already leaped to first place.
N01, No.99, Points: 1464.
N02, No.37, Points: 986.
N03, No.205, Points: 874.
“Number 99. Humph! F*ck it! It’s that Sniper player!”
To the competitive players, although they would not have been able to know others’ numbers at all, other than themselves, they could determine most of the players’ corresponding identities based on the movement of points at the moment of mission completion.
Thus, even though they did not know that Feng Luo was Number 99, they had already learned much earlier that the “mysterious Sniper” was Number 99. (Was this easy to understand?)
The face of the Scout player was now completely grim with rage. After all, regardless of who it was, it was impossible not to be infuriated after spending an entire 8,000,000 to purchase a hidden profession, yet getting absolutely nothing out of it in the end!
Even though 8,000,000 star coins might not have been a big loss to wealthy top-grade second-generation players, whereby what was lost on a normal day would just simply be lost, the key was that what he had lost now was not only money but also his prestige!
This Scout player, “Gou Shao,” was so utterly exasperated because, other than the money, he had, more importantly, bragged to his group of toxic friends earlier on, saying that he could immediately transfer to the hidden profession!
With the emergence of this situation in the end and his boasted hidden profession going down in flames, he would surely be indefinitely mocked by his toxic friends!
“F*ck this! How do y’all get paid to do things?!”
Thinking of things up until, the Scout player fiercely pointed at the Light Armor Warrior once more.
In contrast to the Scout player, who was completely fuming with rage, the Wind Manipulator nicknamed “Xiao Shao” had calmed down after smashing the teacup. Turning his head, he said with his eyes staring coldly at the Light Armor Warrior, Hound 0033, “Tell me, what solution is there?”
“Xiao Shao, please calm down!” The Light Armor Warrior’s face, no longer with the smile from before, was very grave and similarly grim. “Regarding yesterday night’s plan… Honestly speaking, the plan was my formulation, and the mastermind of the team carefully supplemented the team. It could be said that the plan in the end was completely perfect—technically, it would have been impossible for the opponent to discover it!”
“Impossible to discover?” A mocking smile appeared on Xiao Shao’s face as he asked coldly, “So paying for the mission, plus losing the manpower yesterday, has just been the two of us dreaming?”
“Xiao Shao, stop joking.” The Light Armor Warrior lowered his head with a face of self-blame, but a tinge of jest appeared in his eyes. “Even though the failure of yesterday’s mission was due to someone undercover, I admit that I should shoulder a large part of the responsibility!”
“Undercover?” Hearing the word, the Scout player’s face stoned.
The Light Armor Warrior looked at his stern expression and said with a serious face, “Yes, there’s a mole among us! There’s a player. He has taken our money but has privately also taken the opponent’s money, acting as a double agent and hiding within us, revealing our information to some solo players, including that Sniper and the little girl from yesterday night!”
“Undercover?” Xiao Shao stared coldly at him but clearly had not noticed the tinge of jest in the Light Armor Warrior’s tone. Xiao Shao’s voice was extremely frigid, hiding viciousness as he asked, “What’s the identity of this person? I mean his real-life identity… Aren’t you Hounds omnipotent? You wouldn’t be unable to do such a small thing, would you?”
“Xiao Shao, don’t put me in a difficult situation. You know our Hound rules—we absolutely do not investigate players’ information in real life. Also, under the omnidirectional surveillance controlled by the Galaxy Intelligence and the Skynet system monitor, illegally investigating others’ private information would be very easily locked on by the supercomputer. When it becomes extremely serious, it’ll be quite possible to be penalized with lifetime surveillance and a position-lock!”
A bitter smile appeared on the Light Armor Warrior’s face, but there was once more a bit of contempt in his eyes, clearly because of his own fluke success and his feeling of scorn toward their methods.
These two conceited, rich second-generation rich players made the Light Armor Warrior, who was from an impoverished background, unhappy and scornful deep down inside! But he knew how to control and how to bury these emotions deep in his heart.
“Forget it!” Xiao Shao said with a grave face after meeting his eyes for a moment. “Enough talk about this. The problem now is, what about our points?”
“Don’t worry, Xiao Shao. The system has set a restriction, but the higher-ups are already finding a way around the system restriction,” The Light Armor Warrior said, his eyes bursting with sparks. “Although catching up with the points of the people at the top may seem hard, it is actually very easy, because y’all can do the ‘Hidden Mission!’”
“What? Hidden mission!”
Hearing that, the two second-generation rich players instantly stared at him.
“There’s such a hidden mission? Why haven’t you said it before?” Xiao Shao asked, staring at his face.
“Because this hidden mission is too great, and it involves the true secret of the hidden profession of Agent!”
The Light Armor Warrior’s face revealed his signature smile once again.
“Too great!”
“The true secret!”
The two rich second-generation wealthy players both repeated a phrase each.
Thereafter, the Scout player Gou Shao’s tone was even more anxious as he exclaimed, “Hurry up and say it. Stop keeping me in suspense!”
“Yes, Gou Shao. The true secret is that besides being able to obtain all sorts of specialized, powerful equipment and tools, this Agent hidden profession can also gain a second profession!”
“What!”
“A second profession!”
Hearing that, the Scout Gou Shao’s eyes lit up, and Xiao Shao’s voice was uncontrollably excited.
“Xiao Shao, you would definitely know,” said the Light Armor Warrior. “With the level of corruption in these normal players, if they knew that this Agent hidden profession could obtain the second profession everyone dreams of, it would likely be impossible for many people to give up this mission. By then, there might be all sorts of concerns and troubles arising. So, we know about this information and have delegated someone to act on it. Although it did not go through, it did not give everyone full disclosure.” The Light Armor Warrior smiled slightly.
“Right,” the Scout Gou Shao said, seemingly making some sense of it as he said, “With such a level of virality in War, one who obtains the Hidden Profession could 100 percent become a star player, and, after becoming a star player, one would naturally not be short of these few tens of thousands. Anyone with half a brain might go for it…” But after that, his face appeared scornful once more as he said, “Humph! Star player… What can those people mean before me? Even if it’s Light Dancing Sparrow, my Bro Xiao—”
“Gou!”
Gou Shao was cut off. Xiao Shao was suddenly glaring at him.
“Yes… yes, Brother Xiao, I’ll stop!” Gou Shao smiled sheepishly, immediately shutting up.
War’s first female star player, Light Dancing Sparrow, is connected with these two people… the Light Armor Warrior said in his heart, but he certainly would not say it aloud. Indeed, an impoverished goddess. Rich…
“How to do this Hidden Mission? Since you’ve already said it, hurry up and finish speaking!” Shao Xiao said as he turned to look at the Light Armor Warrior.
“This… The higher-ups told us that we must be even more careful in the game, some things would be better discussed…”
The Light Armor Warrior lightened his tone and nodded his head toward the sky.
“There’s still a follow-up for the hidden mission?”
Having already abandoned the Kudo Shinichi identity and changed into new, similarly urban, white-collared attire, Feng Luo was walking out from a highrise business building.
In his vision, he was looking at a message that had just flashed past on the Agent Glasses, requesting an assembly once again at Seduction Night Bar tonight at 8:00 p.m.
“Assembly? So, this mission doesn’t only involve me? I’m rather interested…”
The side of Feng Luo’s mouth quivered. He raised his hand to insert a mini message chip in his hand into the Agent Glasses.
Earned Sanryo Group bribery evidence. Rewarded points: 100. Current points: 1564. Placing: N01.