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Chapter 201 Reality and Illusion, Indistinguishable

Starting to watch rock music is a lady's hobby. A new girl band, still updating every Thursday, is incredibly crazy. A band that will last a lifetime, oh my god, let me forget about Muji!

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"...At first, it's like the Monkey King possessing you, leading you through the movements; later, it's about teaching you how to do it."

"Teacher Gu also said that if the next generation of stealth technology emerges, he will try his best to make it so that players can learn combat skills in games and not forget them in real life."

Momoka's voice wasn't loud at the exhibition, and not many people heard it, but it caused a sensation in the live stream.

'So, does that mean if you become a top player in a game, you'll become stronger in real life?'

'You're overthinking it; the body is different.'

"Besides combat, are other life skills, like cooking and blacksmithing, interchangeable?"

Why are blacksmithing and cooking skills mentioned together? Cooking skills are extremely practical and most people can use them. In modern society, there are probably only one in ten thousand people who can forge blacksmiths by hand. With a population of over one billion in China, can we even find 100,000 blacksmiths specializing in handcraftsmanship?

'Handmade Geng: Are you mentioning me?'

"It's because the sword-forging competition and top chef are crossover works in 'Yu Xuan II,' and selling them as a package is practically free, which is why they're linked together."

'Top chef? Elements detected, I'm going to make Nine-Turned Intestines.'

"It might be possible, it might not. Only President Gu knows for sure... I guess it's highly likely, because I have a subtle feeling about the second generation of Youxuan. I'm a chef in real life, and cooking in such a highly realistic game, although I can only experiment with some basic ingredients, and the final taste isn't actually very consistent, many of the experiences can be applied to reality."

'In the future, I estimate that many skills will be available to learn in games and then use in real life... It feels like people will really be able to spend most of their lives in games.'

'However, extraordinary skills can't be shared in real life, right? They can only be experienced in games. What would that be like?'

'Maybe it's like in the movie "Magic Phone," where playing a game and combining with the silly girl makes you stronger?'

'That's impressive. If their physical abilities improve and they get used to it, those athletes might be able to use combat skills that ordinary people can also use.'

'Those who have seen "Magic Phone" now are all old-timers, right?'

'We Gen Z kids have watched it too.'

'I was born in 2015, and I'm a Gen Z, so why am I still considered an old hand?'

'Elementary school students watching live streams during the day instead of attending classes?'

"Winter break has started!"

The Toyokawa family was also gathering more information about Yu Xuan. After their setback, they were terrified and eventually handed over their Guo Jia (a type of official document).

Of course, I wasn't that honest. How could I possibly say that my family might have an evil god? But too many people have played with the Mother Chicken Card, so I couldn't hide it. In the end, I adopted a subtle strategic intimidation attitude, as if I might have something in my possession.

Moreover, in Japan, these large conglomerates are practically daimyo back home. Japan is currently a semi-feudal, semi-capitalist society, and is also colonized by military forces. Coincidentally, the Toyokawa family is not only a noble family but also a capitalist family. They were rendered speechless by Yu Xuan's inhuman extraordinary workers and high-tech robots, and they are not very afraid of other dark forces.

Meanwhile, because their trump card is suspected to be an evil god, which is no good thing. It is known that the Toyokawa family has a dark side and is not a good person in itself. In addition, they are backed by an evil god. Japan will not take any strong action against them for the time being. While helping the Toyokawa family fight against the world, this news was also leaked to the dark side in the United States.

The entire northwestern Shanxi region was in chaos. The Fengchuan family was simultaneously attacked by multiple agents of Guo Jia, while their evil god remained unresponsive.

They thought it made sense; the method for summoning the evil god was already in the scrapped plan. It required the direct descendant, Master Da Xiang, who was placed by Gu Meng in the Dongying Youxuan branch to debut as a band member for life. Unexpectedly, members of the Fengchuan family were also recruited to work for Youxuan.

The girls' band is a den of wolves and tigers. Their activities are all online programs hosted by the Yuxuan headquarters, and they are heavily guarded by Yuxuan security personnel when they go out. There's no way to deal with them unless you break ties completely.

They're still arguing.

Just as the Toyokawa family in Japan and the United States were hesitant to forcefully coerce the forces of terrifying evil gods, the Toyokawa family was even more terrified of beings like Gu Meng and You Xuan who truly possessed extraordinary abilities.

The reason why everyone, including Gu Meng, hasn't directly attacked the Toyokawa family is because they suspect the existence of an evil god.

The Toyokawa family knew that their esoteric knowledge might have been lost, or that the rituals from the Showa era might have been flawed and lost the favor of the evil god (as mentioned in the abandoned case of the Hen Card), and therefore they no longer possessed supernatural powers.

Gu Meng, this powerful figure whose level is unknown, clearly possesses extraordinary power.

The Toyokawa family had already realized when the mysterious ritual that broke the rationalization of the global Gu Meng phenomenon was performed that the Dragon King was an openly known superhuman, superpowered individual, or alien—in short, an existence that no human could contend with.

His disclosure of the Toyokawa family's rituals in the discarded case might be a test of the Toyokawa family's evil god, or perhaps... he himself is an evil god? Or is he just playing a game? Observing the ants' reactions, or perhaps he simply doesn't care, everything is just a chaotic and casual act.

This is because Gu Meng avoided interference from supernatural forces and loosened his mental control over the Toyokawa family, so only members of the Toyokawa family could detect the anomaly.

Gu Meng's abilities are entirely based on idealism and metaphysics. The secrecy is composed of both Tongzi Ge and Gu Meng himself. Initially, the harmonious meme armor formed upon landing, and the power integrated into this world was Tongzi Ge. It was also Tongzi Ge who helped Gu Meng avoid those less noticeable inconspicuous aspects, so that people wouldn't find it strange that Gu Meng's work ethic, plagiarism ability, and technological prowess were abnormal.

Later, Gu Meng mainly used this ability himself. The initiative was transferred from Brother Tongzi. With the power freed up, Gu Meng let himself go and acted recklessly, becoming even more unruly.

Even if Marathon is actually incredibly eccentric and unreasonable, if he intervenes with strong willpower, people will only see him as an ordinary person who has had an occasional outburst.

It's only because Gu Meng didn't think so strongly about the intervention that some people slightly felt that Gu Meng was moving too fast, but they didn't think it needed to be investigated. The idea of ​​dissecting him was just a joke.

After Gu Meng took the initiative to withdraw the interference from people related to the Toyokawa family (using metaphysical connections to select targets), the Toyokawa family naturally understood that it wasn't them who were abnormal.

It's as if everyone on Earth has been distorted—of course, from their perspective, it could also be that only the Toyokawa family or only they themselves have mental illness.

The Toyokawa family is under immense pressure right now. At times, they all question whether they've already gone mad, realizing that the world is the normal one, and it's they who have been distorted. They can't tell the difference at all.

Ultimately, stealth into games is normal. Parallel worlds have long had this research direction, it's just a little faster, skipping the process from initial research to finished product.

It skips the typical stealth game and fast-forwards to a 99% realism level... no, no, no, it sounds like alien technology.

And Gu Meng used to be able to grind out a game every day a few years ago, handling everything by himself. At the time, it seemed perfectly normal, and people marveled at how he was a genius, a savior of the gaming world... This is simply impossible!
This is fake, this is an illusion, he's not normal.

Even if this is normal, and he is a super genius, why does everyone so naturally accept that our world has an all-around gaming master? It is the strange thing that Gu Meng doesn't find this event strange.

Our world is just a bit more popular with games, but it's usually pretty normal. Why can we suddenly accept a new setting where skilled players' abilities can increase infinitely?

Everyone accepted this setting and thought it was all reasonable.

Ugh—Because the various people associated with the Toyokawa family, who had regained their normal understanding of life, felt inexplicably disgusted, they were faced with a reality that was uneventful, mundane, and devoid of gaming experts. The world felt distorted.

Besides the Toyokawa family, the ten special sacrificial girls, namely Mother Chicken and Mygo, and especially Toyokawa Shoko, were also removed from the interference list as a precaution since they were related to the evil god.

However, Youxuan also arranged for some professional doctors to provide psychological counseling to prevent them from experiencing excessive stress.

These doctors were ordinary psychologists who had not had their cognitive shield removed by Gu Meng, nor had they joined You Xuan's development program.

They would only think that the two girl bands were mentally unstable and treat them as teenagers with severe chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).

Of course, there are a few issues as well. Chu Hua and the like are just examples of aunts who like their nieces, which is malicious. iwant and dog crawling are actually quite normal.

Chu Hua is a really nice person... Oh, I mean Hatsune Miku, the sister who was brought in to work in the game is actually Chu Hua...

Teacher Da Xiang has a dual personality, White Xiang and Black Xiang. Now, due to the influence of the Toyokawa family, he has also developed a weak God-like Xiang personality. He is just a triple war god and nothing to be afraid of.

Because she is the only direct descendant of the Fengchuan family, Gu Meng pays special attention to her. Psychologists cannot have close contact with her. Multiple people must diagnose her, and they must be rotated regularly. Otherwise, if there is any contact, Gu Meng will remove the superpower of cognitive shielding, and then the psychologist may become a new mental patient.

It's probably a low-probability event. It's just that there are superpowered individuals on Earth who are simultaneously changing the worldview of all humanity. Professional psychologists are rigorously trained, and even if they saw this reality, they should be able to easily accept it and become new humans (not really).

As for why so many girls in the band have mental illnesses... that's because of their own problems, not Gu Meng's fault.

Gu Meng sorted through all the discarded cases, and most of them naturally described the mental distortion of the women, as if they had been restrained by some higher-dimensional force.

There was no reason.

Gu Meng had to admit that, apart from game masters who could do the work of a dozen people and had innate high mental strength, there really were some special elements in this world.

Yes, and there's also Wakaba Mutsu.

I sensed the girl's mental abnormality the first time I met her.

The existence that stands above countless spiritual entities is only described in this way for the time being.

The darkness hidden within her spiritual sea was so profound that Gu Meng dared not venture into her subconscious ocean.

I took one last peek with my clone that day, and it was outrageous, bottomless, a monster.

Indescribable...

She doesn't know how to use it yet, so she doesn't have superpowers.

It has nothing to do with SSR; it's from another dimension.

Ordinary people have multiple spiritual bodies, and there are also people like Xiao Zhi with extremely large spiritual power, with a hundred times the spiritual power and innate full soul power, which is already akin to the extraordinary. It's just that the world view doesn't have magic, so it's not easy for them to exert their power. If they were to manifest in a physical body, it would be equivalent to an uncultivated human easily lifting a car... uh, like the Ancient Sacred Body.

Schizophrenia is even stranger, like having dual or triple personality disorder, somewhat like having multiple martial spirits. But let's not use that as an example. Teacher Da Xiang's is a triple war god, but the wooden man is an endless war god.

Gu Meng was a little intimidated by him; he was a true monster.

Why would someone who has never been developed become like this? Is it innate? Gu Meng didn't understand, only feeling that Ruo Ye Mu was probably not human, but possibly a reincarnation of a true evil god, and that evil god must be a monster with many heads and a thousand faces.

Gu Meng didn't believe she was a normal person.

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Gu Meng no longer wanted to get involved with the Toyokawa family, but because of the Mother Chicken Card, he suspected that he had already gotten involved. He had gotten involved when Subaru started the girl band and got the Mother Chicken Card. If they didn't cause any more trouble, he would try to stop here.

The Toyokawa family knew nothing; they experienced all sorts of human emotions: greed, fear, curiosity, shock... but they absolutely could not do nothing.

Even in the worst-case scenario, if it's all just a game played by evil gods, then these great beings should at least put up a fight to have some fun.

Normal operation.

Engaging in a conflict with Yugen in the underworld in Japan is pointless, and other methods are unlikely to succeed. The Toyokawa family has never been involved in games before, and their first attempt resulted in a huge loss.

They decided to come to China to investigate and gather intelligence when the second generation of You Xuan came out.

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(End of this chapter)