Chapter 1288: News

Zhang Heng threw away his phone and went to a clothing store on the street. He used [ pet wire ] to open the door, took a set of clothes from the shelf, changed out of his wet clothes, and put some change on the cashier, then, he found a hotel and opened a guest room. After eating, he had a good night’s rest.

Perhaps it was because he was far away from Greenland, or perhaps the old mark on his body was working, but that night, he did not have any nightmares.

After recovering his strength and energy, Zhang Heng climbed out of bed and sat at his desk in the hotel room. He started to think about his next move.

The sudden crash of the charge 8-300 was not an accident. However, Zhang Heng did not know who the culprit was for the time being. As his personal information was leaked on a large scale, the relationship between the players had become increasingly tense, although the three major guilds immediately issued a stern joint announcement to warn everyone who was about to make a move, with silver wing’s Guild leader Pegasus openly betraying them, the joint announcement had become a joke.

After that, Silver Wing issued a new announcement, claiming that Pegasus had been hacked. All the previous overheated comments were not his intention, but that was half a day later, the speed of public relations was too slow, and hacking was the standard answer of the PR world. It could be found anywhere, so it was easy to imagine how many people would believe it.

Although Zhang Heng had been dealing with the issue of his background, he had been keeping an eye on the situation on the forums. However, many of the old accounts that had been active on the forums had disappeared, and a large number of new accounts had flooded in, most of these new accounts, like Zhang Heng, only browsed the forums and did not comment.

The number of posts and replies on the forums had dropped drastically. Even the gossipy parties from before had disappeared without a trace. Without their tireless efforts to dig up and spread all sorts of rumors, whether real or fake, the people on the forums felt as if they had been blindfolded.

Now, everyone relied on news reports instead. Recently, there had been an obvious increase in disappearances and accidental deaths in various places. There were also all kinds of strange weather and natural phenomena mixed in, for example, a large patch of dark clouds and lightning suddenly appeared above the hua yuan residential area, and a couple was unfortunately struck by lightning and died.

The reporter also interviewed the security guard of the residential area who was almost struck by lightning. The latter had a look of lingering fear as he described vividly how he had escaped death in the small lightning incident. Subsequently, the television station invited a weather expert, he explained the cause of the formation of thunderstorms as if it was a matter of fact, and how ordinary citizens could protect themselves on rainy days, reducing the probability of being hit by lightning to end the news.

However, there was another version of the incident on the players’forums. There was a rumor that Thor, the god of Thunder, had a fierce battle with another unknown God here. The outcome was unknown. Other than that.., there were also news reports of missing or accidental deaths. The deceased had also been found to have the identity of a player.

There were also some experienced criminal police officers in the public security department who sniffed out something, but they did not know why the follow-up investigations were all to no avail, these mysterious deaths and disappearances were originally the favorite of all kinds of junk marketing accounts. However, there seemed to be a mysterious force that had been suppressing the heat of the related incidents, when the relevant videos and public accounts saw that they could not gain any traffic, they turned to gossip about celebrities. Only the players’forums were still quietly paying attention to these news.

Now, a difficult decision was placed in front of all the players.

That was whether they should give up their current identity and life and turn from light to dark. This was because no one knew if their name would appear in the next news article. Doing so would undoubtedly increase their own safety, however, to many people, it was no different from death.

Furthermore, this kind of thing was not a joke. After losing his job, how was he going to survive, how was he going to hide in the city, and how was he going to explain this to his family.

Perhaps the only good news for Zhang Heng was the recent collapse in the exchange rate. Many players were planning to convert their points into money for the future. On the one hand, they were preparing to hide in the future, on the other hand, they wanted to leave enough capital for their families before they left.

According to the latest exchange rate table that Dasi had sent him, the exchange rate between points and RMB had already dropped from 40,000 to 24,000. Han Lu’s first funds had also been in place, and she was starting to buy in large amounts, she had even slightly raised the exchange rate.

Zhang Heng had considered whether he had been targeted by hunting-type players this time, but this kind of player killing people was secondary. Their primary goal was to seek money. If they were targeting him, then they would really be targeting the items on his body, this was especially true for B-grade items. There was no reason for them to let him die in the vast ocean.

As for personal grudges, Zhang Heng had always been single-file. He rarely met other players, and most of the enemies had been dealt with by him in the dungeon. The only exception was the conflict between him and light arc, if it was light arc, they might have the ability to do so. However, from the previous joint announcement, it could be seen that light arc was leaning toward maintaining the original order. This was also the best choice for them, there was no reason for them to slap themselves in the face so quickly.

Zhang Heng then recalled the words that Nara TOTIPP had once said. Most gods did not wish for the Master of the city under the ice to escape successfully, and the simplest method seemed to be to kill him as a vessel.

So… could this be an attack from a God?

Indeed, from the information about his location being received out of nowhere, and the method that the other party had chosen to kill him, there were too many parts that could not be inferred from common sense. However, if it was a god, then it could be explained.., and it was very likely that it wasn’t just one God involved.

How did it feel to be targeted by a God?

There was probably only endless despair left. In most of the legends and poems, the gods were described as incredibly powerful, filled with power, possessing endless lifespan, eternal youth, and undefeatable.

However, Zhang Heng had already fought with gods countless times, and he had personally killed more than one God. He had already proved that these creatures could be killed, and they also had weaknesses. They didn’t even need humans to kill them, a large portion of them had aged beyond recognition in the long river of time, and they were struggling to survive in modern society.

Other than a few unpredictable existences, most of them had a fixed path of behavior and personality traits. They were imprisoned by the poems and literary works that depicted them, and that was where their power came from, but they were also trapped by this.