Chapter 550: Fake News
Chapter 550: Fake News
After using 78 drops of Tina's Blood, Little Tian successfully gilded both items. Su Yu still had 603 drops of Tina's Blood left.
Little Tian's luck was as good as ever. With a 1% success rate, she managed to gild each item in less than 40 attempts, saving Su Yu a significant amount of the precious blood.
With both items successfully gilded, Little Tian let out a soft sigh of relief.
She looked at Su Yu and smiled, "Are you planning to head to Skrul Planet tonight?"
"Yeah, no time to waste. I'll leave tonight," Su Yu nodded seriously. "But I need to prepare some gold and other items for trading after I log out."
"Safe travels!" Little Tian took a sip of her juice, stood up from her seat, and walked slowly toward Su Yu.
Su Yu's safety would be well-protected by leaving tonight, and it would also avoid any further romantic entanglements with Tina (Su Yu had originally planned to go to Skrul Planet with Tina), making it a win-win situation.
"I'm such a genius!" she thought smugly.
Su Yu put away the two gilded artifacts.
Seeing Little Tian approach, he looked at her warily, "What are you up to?"
"Nothing!" Little Tian laughed.
She walked straight up to Su Yu, leaned in, and pointed to her lips, "I gave you such a great idea, aren't you going to show your appreciation?"
Seeing her like this, Su Yu's lips twitched involuntarily, "Maybe in four years, let's talk about it then."
"Hmph!" Seeing that Su Yu was unmoved, Little Tian rolled her eyes.
She performed a back jump followed by a backflip and flew out of the window near the street.
Before jumping out, she shouted to Su Yu, "I'm off! I need to hatch my panda. Oh, and don't forget to pay the bill!"
Little Tian's figure disappeared from the window.
Seeing her finally leave, Su Yu let out a long sigh of relief.
Little Tian seemed to be using her age to tease him relentlessly.
"I'll have to teach her a lesson when she turns 18," Su Yu thought to himself.
He had about 5 minutes left of his 12-hour online session and was about to log out.
But then Su Yu had an idea. Should he make the act more convincing?
The players didn't know about his original plan to go to Skrul Planet after Tina broke through. If he switched to his avatar now, and there were any differences, the players would notice.
But if he revealed his original plan, would it make the deception more effective?
Who should he confide in?
The revelation had to seem casual, or it might backfire.
Suddenly, a light bulb went off in his head. He thought of the perfect person, whose in-game nickname was "All Roads Lead to Rome."
"All Roads Lead to Rome" was a guild leader in the President's Chat Room, running a guild called "Golden Arch," which ranked 83rd among the top 100 guilds in China.
Unlike other guild leaders, Rome had a habit of posting news from the chat room to the forums.
And he had quick fingers. As soon as a big news item appeared in the chat room, it would be posted on the forum the next second.
So he was often jokingly called "Big Mouth."
As long as Rome was online, Su Yu was confident he could "casually" spread the news.
He checked the guild leader list, and Rome was indeed online.
And by coincidence, True Red-Eyed Black Dragon had just @-mentioned him in the guild chat, asking about his future plans and whether he intended to take on more scenario campaign missions.
True Red had leveled up four times in a row during the recent campaigns, even faster than players who leveled up by burning materials. Having tasted the benefits, he was eager for Su Yu to take on more scenario campaigns and give him another boost.
So Su Yu replied in the guild chat: “@True Red-Eyed Black Dragon, I don’t plan to take on any more scenario missions for now.”
True Red: “(；へ：) Really?”
Su Yu: “The main reward from scenario missions is experience (cat food), and since I don’t lack cat food, I don’t want to waste my time.”
Su Yu: “After Tina breaks through, I plan to visit Skrulon, so I’ll focus on hidden quests to get some useful equipment and items.”
Cloud Shepherd: “Wait! Are you really planning to go to Skrulon, Chief?”
True Red: “Chief, you shouldn’t announce this in advance! (!)/ What if there’s a mole in the chat room? Your plans will be exposed to the Skrulons!”
True Red: “Take Cloud, for example. He looks trustworthy, but what if he’s a traitor?”
Cloud Shepherd: “.”
Su Yu: “My bad, my bad. I didn’t think that far. Let’s keep this between us and not spread it around.”
All Roads Lead to Rome: “【Crying in Shock】Oh no! I already took a screenshot and posted it on the forum! I’ll go delete it right away.”
Su Yu: “This...”
True Red: “All Roads posted it? It’s probably too late. By the time we finished chatting, your post has been shared countless times. We need to think of a way to mitigate this.”
True Red was right. In the brief time they were chatting, All Roads’ post had already received over a hundred replies and three hundred shares.
Su Yu’s plan had been executed perfectly, with the news “accidentally” spreading out.
...
News about Su Yu always made the biggest waves on the forums.
So in the following few minutes, the information spread like wildfire, and almost every player who logged into the forum knew that Su Yu planned to visit Skrulon after Tina’s breakthrough.
After the initial excitement, the players became worried.
One player asked on the forum: “With such a wide-ranging discussion, the Skrulons must know about this, right?”
Another player responded: “Uh, they probably do. The Skrulons are bound to have spies in our networks.”
“Then... @Chief, you should reschedule! It’s too dangerous if the Skrulons know you’re coming and prepare in advance!”
“Yeah, @Chief, we suggest you reschedule!”
The online discussions continued non-stop.
The players’ concerns were not unfounded.
As soon as the news spread, in the Skrulon base at Mount Elbert in the Rocky Mountains, the base commander, Monk, received the intelligence.
The Skrulons’ network technology was far superior to that of Earth. Except for countries like China, which used isolated local networks, most government secrets were virtually unprotected from them.
Of course, they were helpless against the game "Evolution." Their network technology couldn’t penetrate the game’s defenses.
However, they had agents monitoring the official forums and the core discussion groups of major guilds 24/7.
So now, Monk had received the intelligence from China.
(End of Chapter)
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