Chapter 2: Just a Million, That's All!

Zhou Yi realized that he had truly encountered something extraordinary; at the very least, the money in this so-called Virtual Account could really be used for top-ups!

He summoned the system again, and the familiar panel appeared; an event titled "Account Recovered, Counter-attack with a Million-Yuan Top-up" had already refreshed.

Event Name: Account Recovered, Counter-attack with a Million-Yuan Top-up!

Event Requirement: Purchase an account that is maliciously recovered, and by increasing the account's value, ensure the person who recovered it receives an education!

Current Event Completion: 5%

If it were anyone else, they might have already started frantically topping up by now, but clearly, Zhou Yi was not an ordinary person.

As a veteran gamer, Zhou Yi was very sensitive to the concept of completion percentages.

The moment he saw that requirement, he realized that simply topping up a million yuan to send that recovery guy to jail would basically be impossible to reach one hundred percent completion.

This was an intuition, an intuition honed after countless battles of wits with countless dog-like game developers!

Even if it was a system now, Zhou Yi firmly believed in one thing: as long as it was a completion percentage, neither the system nor a game developer would ever let him reach one hundred percent easily!

That requirement said to let the person who recovered it receive an education; this "person who recovered it" should not just refer to the guy who took back his account, but also the countless other recovery-dogs!

He had already seen quite a few recovery-takers posting on Tieba and game forums, and those recovery-takers were still clamoring, saying things like "go ahead and call the police, it's useless anyway."

Therefore, what he had to do was to ensure these unscrupulous recovery-dogs also received an education!

Thus, Zhou Yi quickly found a method.

This is the era of Self-Media; with just a mobile phone, everyone can become media, and as it happens, Zhou Yi himself is an Up Master.

It is just a pity that the game videos he filmed in the past were only watched by a mere handful of people.

But now, Zhou Yi believed that if he filmed this video, it would definitely go viral!

It just so happened that the money in the Virtual Account could not be withdrawn, so he would make money by filming videos, which would also serve as publicity—wouldn't that be killing two birds with one stone?

He took out the Sports Camera he used for filming videos daily, set it up, and Zhou Yi began his new shoot.

"Hello everyone, my little friends, I am your old friend A Yi. Today I'm not playing games, but I want to tell you all something: my account has been maliciously recovered."

"Many people might know recently that the Real-name Registration weight for the Origin Demon game has exceeded that of email, so many friends' accounts have been recovered. Originally, I was even mocking others, but today, my own account was recovered..."

In the middle of this sentence, he could add a few lines of text above his head: The clown is actually me.

After casually mentioning the current situation and doing a bit of a skit, Zhou Yi turned his head and said: "However, as a serious man, I believe we absolutely cannot indulge these recovery-dogs."

"So, taking advantage of the game account's safety period, I counter-attacked with a million-yuan top-up!"

"Not for anything else, I just want to see the look on the recovery-dog's face when they are crying and wailing."

After finishing, Zhou Yi pointed the camera at the computer screen, and then began topping up while talking.

The top-up process would be filmed, but it would be edited later, and soon Zhou Yi began to complain.

"Everyone, I really want to say one thing now: why is the maximum top-up only 648? Why can't it be more? This is so tiring to top up..."

Practice proved that a million yuan is really not a small amount. Fortunately, after clicking the mouse for a while, Zhou Yi discovered that the system could perform rapid top-ups directly, and it guaranteed that the top-up records would have no anomalies...

Damn! Almost got screwed. If he really had to keep topping up like this, he would probably be at it until the end of time.

Once the top-up was finished, Zhou Yi pointed the camera at himself and began to speak again: "Alright, it's all topped up. Next, I will perform card draws; I'll draw as much as I can."

"After the seller recovers it, I will go to the Police Station, and the entire process of seeking Legal Aid will be recorded."

After finishing, Zhou Yi started drawing cards. In the past, he had to save up for three months with great difficulty just to have one indulgent draw session.

But now? It was truly drawing cards to his heart's content.

It's just that now, those characters and weapons he used to crave so much had lost their appeal; it was like the "sage time" after intimacy, looking at them was just looking at piles of data.

Moreover, after drawing so many, Zhou Yi even felt a bit like vomiting... he really was sick of that golden light animation.

After drawing for quite a while, Zhou Yi estimated that the time was about right, so he logged out of the account directly. Sure enough, not long after, the account's password and such had already been changed, and he could no longer log in.

But it didn't matter; with this system, he no longer cared about any game account.

Today was a day off. After Zhou Yi got up, he hadn't even washed up yet. He casually splashed some water on his face, shoveled down a few bites of food, brought all the evidence—such as purchase records and top-up records—along with his identification documents, and headed straight out the door.

As for whether they would refuse to accept the case due to the timing, Zhou Yi wasn't worried at all.

Although topping up during the safety period seemed a bit like baiting, there had been many such cases before.

For example, a certain boss had already discovered he was being scammed, but in order to be taken seriously, he didn't hesitate at all when sending money. Even the scammer was stunned after being caught, because he never felt he could scam that much money.

In the end, they were still arrested and sentenced as appropriate; everything was based on the amount involved.

Not knowing if it was because of the system, Zhou Yi felt like he was floating as he walked down the street. For the first time ever, he splurged and took a taxi to the Police Station near his home.

Inside the Police Station, the veteran police officer Lao Zhou was busy with his work. Then he heard a sound, looked up, and saw a young man walk in.

Lao Zhou adjusted his glasses, a bit unsure why this young man had come in.

Zhou Yi was just a very ordinary person, a generic face, the kind of person who could walk down the street without anyone ever checking his ID. In short, extremely ordinary.

However, his current facial expression management was spot on, just like someone who had been swindled out of a huge sum of money by a scammer.

"Officer, I, I've been scammed. Oh no, I, I've lost something..."

A veteran police officer like Lao Zhou was well-experienced. Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "Young man, don't be anxious, tell me slowly."

"It's like this, I, I bought a game account online, and then I topped up some money into it. It's been a year, and now, because of the Real-name Registration, that account of mine was recovered by someone!"

Zhou Yi said very anxiously: "Uncle, our country protects Virtual Property too, right? Does what he did count as fraud!"

If this were a few years ago, things like game accounts and Virtual Property were still very unfamiliar, and even many grassroots personnel weren't quite sure how to define them.

But now it was different; just a few days ago, Lao Zhou had heard some colleagues talking about this kind of thing.

So he smiled and said: "That is natural. Our country indeed protects Virtual Property. This kind of behavior is definitely illegal. Currently, there have been cases classified as fraud, and others as theft, but how it is specifically handled depends on what you spent when you bought it, as well as its specific value."

As he spoke, Lao Zhou picked up the water cup by his side, and while drinking water, said: "But since you've looked up the laws, you should know that whether we initiate a Case Filing depends on the amount. By the way, how much did you buy it for, and how much did you top up?"

"Oh, I bought it for five hundred yuan, and topped up a million, I guess."

"Oh, bought for five hundred, topped up a milli... Pfft!"

The water in Lao Zhou's mouth sprayed out directly.

"Topped up how much? A million?"

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(End of this chapter)