"Hearing you say that makes me feel like I've missed out on a lot..."

Mingmei opened a bottle of soda she had brought back from the convenience store, poured it into a glass, inserted a straw, and listened to Mu Chen talk about what happened at school that morning, feeling that there was a huge amount of information.

Even though they had heard Bai Xiao's news about Qihai Kui's role a couple of days ago, they vaguely felt that there was more to it than that.

However, because of Bai Xiao's role, she was destined not to get very accurate information, and they couldn't know the real situation.

Mainly, they hadn't seen anyone who knew about it.

Now, Mu Chen had seen them, but he had also gained an unexpected harvest.

"Did you hear anything from… Qihai Kui?"

"No." Speaking of this, Mu Chen's face became slightly serious, and he looked up at Mingmei. "Meimei."

"Hmm?"

"In this game, don't trust anyone in the end."

"Including you?"

Mingmei tilted her head. Although she didn't know what Mu Chen meant by this, she knew that Mu Chen must have discovered something extraordinary.

"No." When Mu Chen heard Mingmei ask if she could trust him, he chuckled, and then confidently said, "Don't trust anyone except me."

"Did something happen?" Mingmei nodded in agreement and finally asked what Mu Chen meant by saying this.

Mu Chen first asked, "Where's Yuan Fang?"

"Oh, he said he wasn't feeling well and went back after I came back from delivering takeout today."

"Okay."

To prevent anyone from coming in, Mu Chen turned around and closed the store door again, locking it tightly before daring to tell Mingmei what he had discovered.

"The Boss's mental will in this game is constantly eroding most of the NPCs, including some of the roles we play."

"How did you find out?"

Hearing Mu Chen's statement, Mingmei's expression also changed slightly. She remembered that when players exchanged information, they had said that some of the roles they played were somewhat uncontrollable.

Originally, she thought it was because the world was distorted and the role data's consciousness was stronger than in ordinary games, but if Mu Chen said so, then these abnormalities were actually from the Boss?

"Today, when I was helping out in the cafeteria, I clearly saw the interaction between Qihai Kui and Lu Xiaoyao. Although Lu Xiaoyao is sometimes a bit stupid, she is definitely good at hating evil."

"I don't think you should say the first half of that comment."

Mingmei thought of Mu Chen's disdainful look towards Lu Xiaoyao every time, and then thought of Lu Xiaoyao's smug little expression when she was praised by fans for playing games, and suddenly she couldn't help but feel like an old mother feeling, "My precious is so awesome!"

How could her precious always be stupid?

"Lu Xiaoyao probably knows what's going on, but her gaze was too straightforward and Qihai Kui saw through it."

Mu Chen said, sighing involuntarily. He still remembered the complicated look in Qihai Kui's eyes when he looked at Lu Xiaoyao in the end.

A look that wanted to destroy the other person.

"Are you serious?"

Mingmei's eyes widened. They were all classmates and didn't usually have any conflicts. If Qihai Kui really looked at Lu Xiaoyao with that kind of look, it could only be said that that look didn't belong to him, but to that Danny.

"Today, I later tried to find him discreetly, but he avoided me." Mu Chen finished speaking about the look, and then talked about another abnormality.

Qihai Kui had actually begun to avoid his classmates. He seemed unwilling to exchange information with everyone.

This was already very abnormal in itself. Combining it with what Mu Chen had said earlier, it was even worse.

"With Qihai Kui like this, do you think Li Yuan, who's helping Qihai Kui deal with this matter, will be far behind?"

Mingmei's heart was in a mess after being asked this by Mu Chen.

"Students can't come out when they live on campus, but the director of education can. Qihai Kui hasn't come here these past few days either."

If Mu Chen's observations and discoveries were all correct, then that was a very terrifying fact.

…

"Wow, this matter is really棘手 (jí shǒu, thorny, troublesome)~"

Because of his own reasons, the enforcer who couldn't get close to Mona could only become Mingmei and Mu Chen's information consultant.

Therefore, they looked for him whenever they had something to do.

With this frequency of looking for him, the enforcer really wanted to say—don't you have to eat spicy hot pot every night after taking a walk!

"What you said about the impact on the players… indeed, the Boss's will plays a big part." The enforcer said, "The more scenes a character has in her script, the greater the control and influence she has over them."

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Mingmei frowned, feeling that this enforcer was simply a big con artist. Why didn't he say such an important thing in advance?

"Could it be that all the NPCs in this world will be affected by her will?"

Mu Chen asked another question, which made the enforcer take another look at him, smiling and saying, "Of course not. She only wants to influence those she wants to influence. She only wants to see what she wants to see."

"So, after someone among us is influenced by the boss's will, will they turn against us and expose other players?" Mingmei already regretted it. If she had known this would happen, it would have been better if everyone didn't share information with each other!

"No."

The enforcer shook his head at Mingmei's worry about being stabbed in the back by her classmates, and said something that reassured them, "As long as everything that happens goes according to what Mona wants, she doesn't care who helps her do it.

In the end, it's also because of her personality that the Zerg, although cooperating with her, won't stay here."

After all, Mona didn't have much humanity to begin with. She just did whatever she wanted according to her own pleasure. It wasn't impossible for her to cooperate with the Zerg today and turn around and kill them tomorrow.

"But, it still let Mona know its whereabouts."

"Who said it told her its whereabouts voluntarily?" The enforcer laughed at Mingmei for not experiencing enough and seeing too few of these kinds of behaviors of cooperating and then secretly plotting against each other.

In response, Mu Chen expressed his dissatisfaction with the enforcer's insinuating behavior.

"No one needs to live in conspiracies all day long."

Mu Chen couldn't help but retort, looking at the enforcer, a trace of mockery appeared on the corner of his mouth.

If the enforcer hadn't done anything bad before, and had obviously failed, he wouldn't be here. To actually teach Mingmei to learn more about those conspiracies in front of him, was he really treating him as transparent?

"Yes, no one needs to live in conspiracies all day long…" The enforcer smiled, his gaze falling on Mu Chen and adding, "After all, someone is helping you live in these conspiracies…"

As he said this, Mingmei really followed the enforcer's gaze and looked at Mu Chen. Mu Chen still smiled warmly when facing Mingmei, but his eyes turned cold when he met the enforcer's eyes.

Watching the other person's lips move, silently expressing his ridicule: "The feeling is mutual~"