Chapter 17

Chapter 17 You Really Are Something. (Second Update)

On the rankings of One Thousand and One Nightmares, besides the player’s real name or nickname, there was also the number of cleared games, as well as symbols showing whether their ranking had risen, fallen, or remained stable.

At this moment, the number displayed beside the name Moonlight for cleared games was—

In other words, this was a super newcomer who had only cleared one game!

And this kind of super newcomer had directly parachuted into ninth place on the newcomer rankings!

Beside the number 1 was an orange-yellow rising symbol. It looked as if it were about to burn, especially eye-catching.

More than half the player forum exploded!

[Holy crap!!! Lu Wen actually didn’t lie!!! A big shot really parachuted in!!!]

[Big shot, can I ask how you did it?]

[How did Lu Wen know? Could it be that you happened to enter the same game as the big shot?]

[Lu Wen, I’m sorry! The previous me was too arrogant. The current me willingly calls you father! I only beg you to help build a bridge so I can get to know the big shot too!]

After seeing the name in ninth place on the rankings, Lu Wen scratched his head in confusion. This should be his older sister, right?

He cautiously sent the other party a friend request, with the note:

Sis? It’s me, Lu Wen.

Very quickly, the request was accepted.

Lu Wen: !!!

It really was his older sister!

As expected of his older sister—she used a Rename Sticker immediately after arriving! He had already cleared three games and still could not afford that thing.

[Sis, you parachuted into the rankings!]

At this moment, Ning Rong had only watched half of [In-Game Highlights]. Somewhat tired, she pinched the bridge of her nose. Her mind was filled with chaotic information, and after seeing this message, she did not even feel the urge to go look at the rankings. She only replied to Lu Wen:

[Mm.]

[Sis, Tired Tired is tenth.]

After the data refreshed, the one ranked tenth happened to be Tired Tired.

Looking at these two rankings stacked one above the other, Lu Wen did not know why, but he just wanted to laugh.

Moonlight steadily suppressed Tired Tired by one place. They were clearly only two simple nicknames, yet for some reason he could sense a trace of mockery from it.

So satisfying.

[Sis, I made a thread before saying you might parachute into the rankings. You won’t be angry, right? I didn’t say specifically who it was. That day I was just... too angry.]

Ning Rong split her attention and read those words twice.

Angry?

Under normal circumstances, Lu Wen definitely would not deliberately mention that point. Since he did mention it, it could only mean the thing that angered him was related to her.

Was it because of Zhou Yujing? Or because of Tired Tired?

She replied:

[It’s fine.]

Lu Wen quickly sent another message.

[Sis, then I’m your little brother, right?]

Even though Ning Rong could not see Lu Wen in person, she could guess that he must be extremely cautious right now.

She gave an affirmative answer.

[You are.]

Lu Wen immediately became delighted.

[Sis, you should be busy, right? Then I won’t disturb you for now.]

After Ning Rong replied with an ok, she continued thinking about the information she had gained from [In-Game Highlights].

After clearing the game and watching [In-Game Highlights], it was now known that every game in One Thousand and One Nightmares would be livestreamed in real time.

However, the livestream platform and the audience in the livestream rooms... were unknown.

The only thing certain was that those viewers were not people from this world.

They possessed a god’s-eye perspective, appreciating from the viewpoint of spectators how these players desperately tried every possible way to flee pursuit in disgrace.

They took pleasure in this, and from their lofty positions, freely judged and commented on the players.

Although learning that she had unintentionally become other people’s dinner entertainment, Ning Rong did not care too much about that point.

After all, the existence of the audience had indeed provided her with quite a lot of useful information.

That previous additional income probably came from this group of viewers, right?

Ning Rong suspected that additional income was related to the popularity of the livestream room. She just did not know whether her 113 game coins counted as much or little.

It could only be said that the 6666 game coins had been well spent. It let her know many things ordinary players did not know. While she continued watching the second half of [In-Game Highlights], many new threads appeared on the player forum.

[Some thoughts about the strongest newcomer who parachuted in.]

[@Moonlight, big shot, please let me know you, please give me a friend slot.]

[Calling for the big shot. Is the big shot on the forum at this hour?]

When Ning Rong finished watching all of [In-Game Highlights] and came to the player forum, this was the homepage scene she saw.

Out of ten threads, eight were related to her.

She directly skipped over the threads related to Moonlight and slowly scrolled further back.

After not long, she saw what she wanted to see.

“Junyu CP?”

Good, very good. Truly excellent.

Zhou Yujing, you’ve really grown capable. You even have CP fans now?

The anger in Ning Rong’s heart not only failed to lessen, it increased.

And this anger reached its peak when she saw the thread titled [Congratulations to the National Team for Gaining Another Fierce General].

Another fierce general?

Referring to her?

She opened the thread and directly checked its contents.

Sure enough, the contents really were related to her.

[Main Text: Newcomer Moonlight’s starting point is super high. Being able to parachute directly into ninth place proves they have that strength. The national team should love this kind of high-potential talent most, right?]

The replies below were all agreeing.

[Yeah, with this kind of potential talent, the overall strength of the national team is going to rise again.]

[This person is actually even stronger than Tired Tired, who has cleared five games. What kind of skill do they have? It should be a skill even stronger than Rollback, right?]

[Can’t wait to see the newcomer join the national team!]

Seeing this, Ning Rong directly entered personally and replied.

[National team? Sorry, not interested.]

What kind of national team was this supposed to be?

Knowing full well the man already had a girlfriend, yet still playing the forced-pairing game?

Knowing full well the man was not single, yet still allowing players to wave banners for “Junyu CP”?

Ning Rong took a deep breath.

Zhou Yujing, you really are something.

Suppressing her anger, she continued scrolling back, and only on the fourth page did she see the clarification thread Zhou Yujing had posted under his real name.

The thread had been posted three weeks ago.

In the clarification thread, he said he already had a girlfriend and asked players not to casually pair him with other people. But the thread had no traffic and almost no replies. He had bumped the thread several times himself, but it was still useless. He bumped it almost every few days, yet clearly no one cared about the content of the thread.

She glanced at the latest newcomer rankings.

After entering one more instance, Zhou Yujing’s ranking had neither risen nor fallen. He still remained at fourteenth place. A somewhat famous potential player should not have absolutely no popularity, right?

Unless someone had interfered.

It just so happened that she had looked through all the shop items and knew there was one kind of item that could lock a thread, making it impossible for anyone except the original poster to reply.

Although this was only a useless item, it still sold for 999.

Spending 999 game coins on something like this—should she say the other party truly thought highly of Zhou Yujing, being willing to spend that much money for him?

Then again, Zhou Yujing’s face really was top-tier, and it was easy for it to confuse people. In the beginning, had she not also taken a liking to his face?

While Ning Rong was still browsing threads, her friend list suddenly received a group of friend requests.

She had originally intended to ignore them directly, but by chance she saw one named [General Secretary of the National Main Team — Yan An].

The note this person sent was sincere in wording, and the attitude seemed very gentle.

“Hello. I just saw your reply in the thread. I feel you may have a slight misunderstanding about the national team. May we discuss it in detail?”

Ning Rong first searched for this Yan An on the forum. After confirming that this person’s identity was real, she accepted the friend request.

[Yan An: Hello.]

Compared with the other side, Ning Rong’s attitude was nowhere near as good.

[There is no misunderstanding.]

[Yan An: Did the national team do something poorly somewhere? If you have opinions, you may raise them. If appropriate, we will humbly accept them.]

Ning Rong typed coldly.

[No need. I will handle this matter myself.]

Seeing this sentence, the chief secretary on the other side pushed up the glasses on his face, his expression grave.

It seemed that some member of the national team had offended this Moonlight without others knowing, causing them to lose goodwill toward the entire national team.

This was not a good thing.

After all, the national team was currently lacking talent, and the country would not easily miss any top-tier elite talent.

Strictly speaking, the national team was only a collective title.

The most outstanding talents were all in the main team, receiving the best care and training.

But besides the main team, there were also thousands of sub-teams domestically—or more precisely, nearly ten thousand sub-teams. Each sub-team had between thirty and fifty members.

One small leader would manage around three teams, and naturally above the small leader were other leaders.

It was just that upper management mostly focused their attention on the main team. Of course, that did not mean upper management completely ignored the sub-teams, but some information indeed might not be transmitted to the main team in time.

Recently, the main team also intended to change this situation. Unfortunately, change could not be completed overnight and required time.

But he believed the overall direction would certainly be positive and keep improving.

[Yan An: Sorry, I do not know what matter you are referring to. However, if you need my help, you may come to me at any time.]

Ask him for help?

That would not be necessary.

She had said she would handle it herself, so she would definitely personally solve this matter.

Ning Rong planned to go find something to eat first.

After watching [In-Game Highlights] for so long, she was hungry too.

During this time, Zhou Yujing had sent many messages asking whether she had eaten and what she was doing.

She directly read them and replied carelessly.

After organizing the information, she could roughly guess that after resting at most one day, Zhou Yujing would enter the game again.

Although she did not know the purpose of him entering games so frequently, that did not stop her from being able to see him in the game very soon.