Chapter 103: Defying Heaven, Altering Fate (8)

The phone line fell silent for a moment, then a light, mocking young voice spoke up: “Hehehehahaha, are you one of the four players Feng Youyun hired? You disposed of the anomaly so easily and quickly—looks like he didn’t pick wrong.”

May I ask your name?”

“My humble name isn’t worth mentioning—call me God.”

Li Cheng smirked and interrupted: “Let me guess—the corpse in the coffin has fractured, shattered leg bones. It’s not Feng’s wife—it’s Zhao Xinglang’s father, the guy Feng ruined in a business rivalry and drove to suicide by jumping.”

“Correct.” The young man on the other end admitted without hesitation.

Li Cheng nodded: “Also, I don’t know who the wandering Daoist was ten years ago, but three months ago, the person who impersonated that Daoist to contact Feng—you were him.”

Then I appeared at the right moment to tell him everything—hahaha, I can’t wait to see the expression on his face then.

Everyone here is so talented, and they talk so well—I love this place.

Probably feared the “resurrection ritual” might go wrong and cost him both his wife and his investment.

In a guesthouse suite in Wudun Town, an ordinary-looking glasses-wearing youth—or rather, Cervantes—jolted upright as if electrocuted, swiftly tucked away his phone, and opened his player panel to log into the Killing Ground.

How many of you four survived? My blood corpses have roughly Lv8–Lv10 combat strength. They can even phase through walls inside the villa.”

The young man described his original meticulous plan with glee, as if he were playing a brilliant game of chess rather than manipulating human fates.

In the dusk, rain poured down in torrents, lightning struck, thunder rolled.

“No need,” Li Cheng sighed. “You really shouldn’t have picked up this call just for amusement.”

“Then what else? Hahahahaha.”

For his wife, he’d abandon his son, daughter-in-law, grandson, even his own life—what a truly obsessive fool.”

There are those who love surfing the web all day posting “classic, urgent, filial, funny, tense, stiff” memes and hellish jokes;

And there are those like me, who pursue spectacle and grand performances in the real world, personally crafting one tragicomedy after another.

Given his ten-billion-credit fortune, he probably couldn’t afford top-tier experts—but out of caution, I, disguised as the gardener, left the villa early—after all, Wudun Town is hosting the World Internet Conference, and plenty of high-level players have arrived.

A real fight would attract the Special Affairs Bureau.

The young man laughed loudly: “My ID is 【Cervantes】—I’m with the 【Laughing Troupe】. Unlike those miserable fools who struggle daily in the Killing Ground, the Laughing Troupe believes in seizing joy, turning every amusement into fuel for our own advancement.”

Feng’s entire family died with nothing gained, while Zhao Xinglang’s resurrected father, upon regaining faint consciousness, realized his revenge was complete—but he’d eaten his own son. The dramatic effect is perfect—just thinking about it makes me laugh.”

Would you be interested in joining our 【Laughing Troupe】? Every new member you recruit earns you 1,000 game coins—I’ll split the referral bonus with you.”

By the way, your ability to easily uncover the truth—and even call me—proves your competence.”

I even dosed Feng with a drug to alter his life form, so he could survive even if most of his body was destroyed, just to witness the final act.”

Both were stunned not only by the youth’s cruelty but also deeply chilled—Wang Beipo didn’t even know the truth before dying helplessly at the blood corpse’s hands. It made players feel the same dread as rabbits seeing their kin fall.

I dug open Feng’s wife’s grave, threw away her bones, and buried Zhao Xinglang’s father’s bones inside instead.”

The young man chuckled: “Originally, I planned to let Feng keep drowning in his fantasy, then release the blood corpse at the right moment to make it devour Zhao Xinglang first, then Xiao Feng’s family.”

How laughable—Feng actually believed the 【Supreme Cave Abyss Altering Fate Scripture】 worked, reveling in the joy of his wife’s resurrection while pretending to seek help from the Special Affairs Bureau.”

To make it more convincing, I used dark arts to grow partial flesh and tendons on Zhao Xinglang’s father’s bones, then cut off his genitals, nose, and facial skin, leaving the flesh bloody and unrecognizable.”

“Yes,” the young man sighed on the line. “I was too arrogant—I thought I had Feng completely under control. Didn’t expect this fool had weak willpower and secretly contacted a broker to hire four players as insurance.”

Li Cheng repeated verbatim the tour guide’s daytime description of Wudun Town: “The 3D lightning real-time positioning system reconstructs the three-dimensional spatiotemporal properties of lightning discharge channels through high-speed sampling, pulse matching, and 3D positioning techniques.”

There are also arms dealers who delight in setting the world ablaze.

After leaving the detention center, I impersonated him, tracked down Feng Youyun, the wealthy magnate of Sucheng—and I didn’t expect he was so gullible, falling for it easily.

Cervantes grinned: “The phone I used is a special model from the Killing Ground—even the Whale Song members skilled in cyber-intrusion couldn’t trace my location through the call signal.”

“No thanks. I prefer working alone,” Li Cheng declined, calm. “From the barrier we encountered when driving back to the mountain villa, you’re still in Wudun Town?”

I didn’t make this up—I borrowed that pure scam scripture, the 【Supreme Cave Abyss Altering Fate Scripture】, and studied it carefully.”

“One dead, three left.”

“Of course—I have to stay to see the ending of this drama. Like a murderer always returning to the crime scene. But don’t bother looking for me.”

“What does that mean?” Cervantes sensed something wrong; his mocking tone slightly faded.

Hmm… judging by when you called me, the Killing Ground probably assigned you an urgent task: to independently resolve the blood corpse without outside help.”

The youth remained oblivious, likely uncaring, continuing in his flippant tone: “Since you figured it out, I won’t play coy anymore.”

Right now, it’s raining and thundering—the thunder in our phone call is equivalent to a radar locator.”

Finally, I dosed the daily meals of Feng’s son and grandson—giving the former nightmares and the latter bruises.”

“Brilliant,” Li Cheng nodded, walked through the woods, drew his pistol, and fired in rage toward the brightly lit Wudun Town in the distance. “Too bad an accident happened.”

Hahahaha—that bunch of idiots actually came scanning with anomaly detection devices. The 【Supreme Cave Abyss Altering Fate Scripture】 is a scam scripture; the so-called fate patterns are useless—of course no anomaly readings showed up.”

For stability, the Special Affairs Bureau obviously couldn’t drag the entire Wudun Town into the Shadow Realm—that would cause too much damage. But under the radar’s effect, they can precisely lock onto your location.”

The guild embraces all, absorbing everything: there are geniuses who enjoy urinating in circles to trap ants;

One lie cost several lives. Feng’s eyes trembled, speechless; Xiao Feng’s eyes bulged with rage; Bai Zhi and You An, the two players, looked grim.

Miguel de Cervantes was the greatest writer in Spanish literature; his work Don Quixote stands as the pinnacle of Spanish classical art and European modern realistic fiction. Its absurdity, mockery, and tragic undertones mirror the Feng family’s tragedy.”

When Feng, having destroyed his entire family, watched with hope as the blood corpse grew skin, he was stunned to discover the resurrected figure wasn’t his wife—but his long-dead enemy.”

Li Cheng lowered his pistol, standing in the rain, paused, then asked: “You went through all this trouble to create such a tragedy—surely it wasn’t just for amusement?”

“Exactly right,” the young man grinned. “While experiencing life in detention, I heard an old man in my cell—the same wandering con artist—bragging about this.”

“Wudun Town is the first place in the nation to adopt cutting-edge internet tech: autonomous driving, drone food delivery, smart waste sorting, plus the most advanced meteorological system—including but not limited to radiation monitoring, wind energy observation, and 3D lightning real-time positioning.”

In other words, it can lock onto the shape of lightning and trace its sound source.”

Login failed

Clear text appeared in his vision.

It’s a barrier—the Special Affairs Bureau has come for you.”

(End of Chapter)