He recalled the time when he was knocked unconscious by Lan Jianren’s female assassin with a brick, and his soul strangely entered the Virtual Heaven Illusion for the second time. Overwhelmed by the enthusiastic onlookers, he angrily threw away more than a million dollars he had swindled. That unintentional act, where the dollars turned into small mountains in the Virtual Heaven Illusion, led to a sudden burst of virtue, earning him a reward from the Niu Niu system, which transported him into the learning space of Virtual Heaven Illusion. That professional re-education was the most brutal he had ever experienced. After barely passing, he vowed never to return to that ghostly place, hence he consciously chose to forget that incident. This cowardly behavior directly led him to waste precious time in the learning space, missing out on numerous opportunities for growth, making it impossible to address these issues amidst the subsequent troubles.
“Virtue points, virtue points! The learning space isn’t so bad, after all. Whipping, electric shocks, so what? It’s still better than nearly getting shot tonight and almost losing my life!”
That night, in the hottest new zone of the game “Fantasy World,” Virtual Heaven Illusion, a player with the ID “Ruthless Ghost Hand” entered the game like a wandering ghost, provocatively causing trouble and challenging players with much higher levels for fun. Initially, this clown-like behavior of someone with the prefix “Ghost Hand Family” did not attract much attention from other players. After the super hacker Ruthless Ghost Hand played several pranks on the official “Fantasy World” team, many bored pranksters started to create similar fake IDs to cause trouble, spreading rumors about Ruthless Ghost Hand. After rounds of hype, players were already accustomed and indifferent to such antics. Moreover, recent news of Perfect World officials collaborating with the mysterious hacker Ruthless Ghost Hand, who had transformed into the young and successful CEO Lin of Wanmei Company, had reached its peak.
Thus, players subconsciously thought that Ruthless Ghost Hand, having achieved his goals, would no longer engage in such flamboyant antics in the game. Therefore, when this small account named Ruthless Ghost Hand caused trouble tonight, no one paid him any mind.
However, an unexpected event changed things. A small account player, annoyed by Ruthless Ghost Hand’s behavior, started to insult him on the public channel, vowing to kill him and even buying a large amount of ingots to lock down his ID. As soon as he logged in, he would be forced into a remote PK mode where he would be killed until he could no longer play and had to delete his account. This remote PK mode was another money-making scheme in “Fantasy World,” designed for wealthy players who had money to spend. By spending a certain amount of ingots, players could set up one-on-one PK mode, and regardless of whether they were online or offline, once set, the targeted player would be forced into PK mode upon logging in.
Some players had summarized on the forums that this was “Fantasy World” catering to the perverse tastes of rich players, allowing them to freely slaughter poor players. To balance the interests of the vast number of poor players, “Fantasy World” officials had made some adjustments to this forced combat mode. To prevent malicious attacks by small account players with money, and to encourage small account poor players, the strength of the challenged player would be increased by 1.5 times when forced into this mode, and regardless of win or loss, their experience points would be doubled, with slight adjustments based on the battle’s outcome. Clearly, the higher the level of the player, the more advantage they would have when forced into such a challenge.
