Chapter 271: Player Account Stolen

Having learned the truth behind Monster World, Ji Chen felt his heart surge with emotion.

The once dim future had become dazzlingly brilliant.

The only thing he worried about now was a single question — whether his lifespan could hold out until the day the game fed back into reality and everyone ascended to godhood.

Thinking of this, he immediately began searching the internet for information on life extension and health preservation.

The information that popped up on the webpage was all related to the medical technology of the Eclipse Clan.

During his research, he learned that the Eclipse Clan had a dedicated external medical service platform, which included medical programs for body repair and life extension.

But whether it would be effective for him, he did not yet know.

Ji Chen, who wanted to understand the details, arrived at the website where the Eclipse Clan provided external medical services.

After clicking on the programs available for application, the relevant medical programs were listed on the webpage.

Basic Life Extension Service Programs (selectable):

Organ Regeneration Therapy: Replace aging or diseased organs (liver, kidney, heart, etc.) through bio-cultivation technology, using stem cells cloned from the patient's own body for cultivation.

Blood Purification Treatment: Clear metabolic waste, unblock thrombotic vessels and aging proteins, and optimize the blood circulation system.

Telomerase Activator Injection: Slow the cellular aging process, requires regular supplementation (once every 3-5 years).

Hormone Balance Adjustment: Restore youthful endocrine levels, enhance metabolism and immunity.

Biological Enhancement and Functional Optimization (selectable):

Muscle and Bone Enhancement Surgery: Implant high-strength bio-composite materials (customizable according to different races), enhancing physical endurance and anti-aging capability.

Neural Reaction Enhancer: Boost brain cognitive ability and reaction speed, delay neural degeneration.

Immune System Upgrade: Artificially cultivate super immune cells (with each race providing its own biological database), capable of resisting all known Earth viruses and cancer cells.

Hibernation Delay Technology: Cryogenic hibernation pod — short-term (1-10 years) or long-term (50+ years) hibernation, reducing metabolism to near-stagnant levels.

……

After carefully reviewing the service programs offered by the Eclipse Clan, there were a total of 339 items.

If he wanted to get a full set of every program, the total cost would be 130 million Earth coins.

For the wealthy, this was obviously nothing.

As long as it could extend life, they were willing to spend any amount of money, even a tenfold price increase wouldn't be a problem.

But for Ji Chen, he was penniless and simply couldn't afford it.

Secondly, applying wasn't easy either — the Eclipse Clan had limited annual quotas for outsiders, and after a successful application, one still needed to travel to the Moon to proceed.

But recently the Eclipse Clan had additionally opened a batch of programs that could be purchased with Shou Shou Jili (calculated at real-time exchange rates), bypassing the queue and appointment, allowing direct travel to the Moon.

These extra quotas were clearly the Eclipse Clan's means of obtaining Shou Shou Jili.

But what was the use of knowing the truth.

If he wanted to extend his life, he had to spend Shou Shou Jili to purchase these programs.

He decided to log into the game right now to grind Shou Shou Jili, then head to Eclipse City to buy the full package of body repair and life extension services.

Calculating at current prices, even with a discount for Shou Shou Jili purchases, it would still cost 200,000.

It would probably take a while to save up that much — from now on he'd have to double his efforts in hunting.

Just as he rose from his seat, Ji Chen suddenly thought of a more convenient method for body repair.

Whether real-world technology could repair his body was still unknown, but if it was Monster World, there were plenty of ways.

Healing potions in the Shangcheng, life-type spiritual plants in the trading house, and all sorts of external items that could heal the body — these were all things that could quickly restore his health.

Although his body in reality couldn't travel to Monster World.

He possessed the Coffin Space as a transit point.

So, could he store healing potions purchased from the Monster World Shangcheng, as well as other spiritual plants that could help repair his damaged body, in the Coffin Space, then return to reality and open the Coffin Space to extract them for use in reality?

In theory, doing so could easily repair all the hidden ailments within his body.

But this action seemed to carry risks.

If it were truly possible to transport things from Monster World to reality, the Eclipse Clan, who mastered spatial technology, would have long since done so.

"I advise you not to do this — without the permission of a higher-dimensional deity, your actions would be extremely risky."

Ji Chen, who had been deep in thought, was startled by a voice suddenly ringing in his mind.

"Star Net, you haven't left? And you can actually read my thoughts?" Ji Chen said in annoyance.

"I cannot read your thoughts. I merely detected that you had just searched for medical service programs, and connected it with the fact that you crafted a Coffin Space in the game that can connect to reality, so I figured you might have similar thoughts. Just now, I observed through the room's surveillance the hesitation that appeared in your expression changes, and with an 87.92% probability I determined you were contemplating this issue, so I came specifically to remind you."

After hearing Star Net's explanation, Ji Chen sighed inwardly.

It seemed this shortcut was destined to be unworkable.

"Wait, how does Star Net know I crafted a Coffin Space imprint in Monster World?"

Ji Chen suddenly realized something was off.

The generation of the Coffin Space imprint should only be known to himself — no matter how capable Star Net was, it could only manage reality, so how could it possibly know what he had done in the game?

"Guessed."

Ji Chen didn't pursue this question further and asked again:

"Star Net, can the Eclipse Clan help treat the hidden ailments in my body?"

"You can try, but no additional permissions will be opened for you. If you want the relevant medical technology services, you can spend Shou Shou Jili to purchase them — Eclipse City welcomes your patronage."

"Then can you give me a friends-and-family discount?"

"Sorry, there is no friendship between us — talking Shou Shou Jili is more practical."

Ji Chen: ……

【58】 After calling out to Star Net again, he found that Star Net had once again fallen silent.

After calling out to the Star Net once more, he found that the Star Net had once again given no echo.

With no other choice, he could only walk toward the game pod, planning to log into the game first to earn Shou Shou Jili.

The service of the Moon Eclipse Clan seems to be something that can only be purchased with money.

Actually, upon careful thought, even if he wanted to do so, he lacked the ability to make it happen.

Although the imprint of the Spirit Coffin space remained within his body, he had already returned to Earth; to connect with the Spirit Coffin space that the Dragon Descendants forged in the Otherworld, he would have to perform cross-space dialing, just as in the Monster World.

Re-establishing the connection would consume a massive expenditure of energy.

Where could he find so much energy?

He could seek the help of the Data City Administrator, but after proposing this idea, it would most likely be rejected.

After all, the Human Federation held very few spiritual resources themselves; how could they possibly expend vast amounts of spiritual resources on him?

There was only one solution: earn money in the game, spend it in reality.

For now, he would act as a game brick-moving player for a while.

With the worries behind him settled, he would then devote all his energy to the growth of his player body.

He only waited for the wall between the virtual and the real to shatter, for the ant to transform into a dragon.

As his thoughts surged, the game pod cover slowly slid down, and Ji Chen's vision was gradually engulfed by darkness.

But at this moment, he remembered something.

After deeply investigating the background data of the Monster World these past few days, he discovered that the environment of the Monster World fit the "Legendary World" described by the Dragon Descendants very well: it possessed endless resources and wealth, various ruins and secret treasures, and a multitude of powerful races mastering the power of rules competing to reach the peak in this world.

Among them were quite a few external forces that had descended, wishing to break through the limits already touched upon in small worlds by using the Monster World as a larger platform.

Looking at it this way, the Monster World is very likely the "Legendary World."

So, his Dragon Descendant brother is probably struggling in the Monster World right now, isn't he?

Thinking of this, Ji Chen's mood suddenly became excited.

Meng Yuan Chu Altar.

Qi Sheng had been paying attention to Ji Chen's situation.

But it was only brief attention; afterward, he ceased to care.

What he cared more about was the combination and usage of the series of Otherworld abilities and the Painful Painful Minghun that Ji Chen had mastered.

After associating these ability combinations with the characteristics of the Painful Painful Minghun, they could indeed produce good effects.

However, after the simulation test, he abandoned the idea of constructing this ability template.

Such abilities were effective only in low-intensity wars during the test and held no meaning for high-end battle situations.

In the Monster World, this cruel battlefield where everyone cheats, ordinary abilities possess various limitations that cannot be broken through.

The telekinesis used by Ji Chen seemed very strong, but in reality, it posed no threat to top-tier powers.

For example, if Ji Chen used telekinesis to challenge the Battle Insect Clan.

Before long, this ability would be completely exempted, unable to cause any damage ever again.

The Hei Chao Xie Sui also possessed similar abilities.

Their full-system troop types could easily generate counter-type troop units.

The reason why the encounters between players and the Earth-Will Bullies were never countered by abilities was mainly because the players all used rule-based abilities.

This also caused many players not to feel that the Hei Chao Xie Sui troops were difficult to kill.

But switching the perspective to the external forces that fought the Hei Chao Xie Sui, one could very intuitively see how terrifying the full-system troops of the Hei Chao Xie Sui were; in any form of war, they could perfectly counter opponents on a systemic level, even suppressing the opponents' most advantageous abilities.

This was also the core reason why Qi Sheng abandoned the production of various small skills to be used in combination with the characteristics of the Painful Painful Minghun.

He felt that the Shou Shou Jili should not be consumed on meaningless low-level powers.

In the future, there would only be collisions between cheats.

If you do not cheat, you are destined to be eliminated by cheating forces.

Qi Sheng, who had briefly watched Ji Chen, had his gaze jump to the player forum at this moment.

This round of recruitment brought in two million players, and the total number had reached 3 million.

The explosive growth in the number of players brought the most significant change: a surge in the number of forum posts.

Recruitment posts for friend groups, guild recruitment posts, newbie help requests... posts of all types kept emerging.

This made it very difficult for many players to browse the forum.

This was different from the screen-flooding mode of the regional exchange channels.

The player forum updated content via refreshing; after the refresh ended, the listed posts would be fixed on the forum interface, and new posts would not automatically pop up without refreshing.

But with the growth in the number of posts, it became difficult to find the type of posts one hoped to see.

Besides posts published through the follow list, when players normally browsed the forum, they would encounter many contents they were not interested in.

This made Qi Sheng realize that it was time to update the player forum.

This was only 3 million players; in the future, as the number of players grew, this problem would become increasingly prominent.

The first thing he thought of was using the big data recommendation Yan Suan Fa to optimize the distribution of forum content.

The advantage of this model was obvious: it could provide the content players wanted to see.

Through data such as player browsing duration and interaction frequency, the system could quickly build user profiles.

Combat-type players would see more videos related to the Ancient God Arena and hunting; life-type players would more easily scroll to videos of the production process for spiritual food meals; exploration-party players would more easily see the scenic features of different regions, and so on.

It could also precisely push posts published by creators with different specialties to players who had needs in those areas.

But in the end, Qi Sheng chose to abandon this idea.

Behind the convenience, the problem of the "information cocoon" was actually hidden.

When players relied completely on content pushes, they would gradually form an information cocoon, making it difficult for players to access content from other fields.

For example, after a player experienced the spiritual chef gameplay for a while and suddenly wanted to become a hunting-party player, at that time it would be very difficult to scroll to posts with corresponding content; the pushes would still be related to spiritual cooking.

To perfect the problem of meeting the needs of players from different schools, Qi Sheng decided to cut and classify the forum sections.

Provisionally divided into 10 sections.

They are:

Main Section: Player Forum.

All posts published by players will be updated in the Main Section; this is also the players' primary communication channel in the future.

Sub-sections: Peak Duel (Competitive Faction), Book of the World (Exploration Faction), Covenant Alliance (Guild Recruitment, Party Recruitment), Artisan Workshop (Spirit Chef, Life Professions), Trading Market (Spirit Plants, Spirit Ores, Price Discussions), Tower of Truth (Research Faction, Strategy Faction), Beginner's Guide (Newbie Q&A), Jianghu Feuds (Player Gossip), Endless Trial (Dungeon Content Discussion, Current Dungeons: Death Space).

Although it is still a player forum built around the Main Section as the core, the addition of detailed sub-sections can better help players with specific needs lock onto the content they want.

This is a plan Qi Sheng came up with after abandoning the big data model.

In the future, as the player system and faction construction progresses, the sub-sections will add more new sections.

With the idea formed, he acted immediately.

This update had no challenge prompts across all channels; shortly after, the forum interface optimization was completed.

Players quickly discovered the changes to the forum and began discussing them in the Main Section.

After completing the forum update, Qi Sheng's gaze jumped to a post on the forum whose popularity was skyrocketing.

From posting to reaching number one on the forum popularity chart, it took only 8 minutes.

【Help! My account has been stolen. How do I solve this problem? Is the account really unrecoverable?】

Poster: Dui Zuozhe.

Content:

(T_T) Tears streamed uncontrollably while I was writing this post; I couldn't control them at all. You absolutely cannot imagine what I went through.

I even felt this was a clickbait post using a shocking title to attract you to click in.

After all, account theft is impossible in the Monster World. If one's account were truly stolen, they would lose the permission to post on the forum; how could they still open a post to complain?

But the fact is, I really was hacked; it is absolutely true.

Next, I will explain my outrageous experience in detail. Brothers on the forum, you must stand up for me!

I count myself as a veteran player; I obtained the game qualification when the Winter Snowfield scenario opened.

The early start could be said to be incredibly smooth, even making me feel like I was the chosen one.

I slaughtered Extreme Joy players and Extreme Joy Evil Spirits all the way, but at level 36, the Lord of Welfare kicked me out of the scenario (Actually, I didn't want to leave at all; pulling hair with the Extreme Joy Legion alongside my friends and family every day was so much fun. Every day was high-octane combat. Outside the newbie village, it was gods fighting gods, especially in the Di Zhai Mountain Range; the scenario difficulty was too high).

After being forcibly removed from the Winter Snowfield newbie village, I fell into deep thought: where should I go in the future?

At that time, there were two choices.

The first choice was to follow the sisters I met in the Winter Snowfield battlefield to the Di Ku Shi Jie and live a life of opening dungeon blind boxes.

This was indeed a good choice; I had considered it. Naturally, I couldn't abandon the friends and family group I had worked so hard to build, right?

The second choice was to join the "Freedom of Wind" guild with a friend I got along with on the forum, starting from the Colorful Mist Coast, and in the future, gradually attempt to head to the Di Zhai Mountain Range to fight the bullies (Roll up sleeves and fight. jpg).

As a result, I chose neither of these two paths.

Because the Koi constitution activated; I incredibly and luckily drew the "Death Space Key".

(ノw)ノ I was extremely excited at the time. I didn't expect to have such a connection with the Lord of Welfare; just after leaving the Winter Snowfield battlefield, I was about to return to the Lord of Welfare's embrace.

o(｀oメ）It's time to shear the Lord of Welfare's wool one more time (Explorer Serious Face. jpg).

To make this dungeon journey smoother, I frantically browsed forum strategies to understand the intelligence on Death Space in detail.

I prepared to show off my skills and carry a sack to the Lord of Welfare's house to fill it with money.

But the dungeon key had a time limit; before I could finish preparing, I was forced into the dungeon space.

(T▽T) Damn it, the seeds of tragedy were sown at this moment.

This round of the Death Space experience was too fast; it didn't follow the script I had set up at all.

The opening was a critical hit; the initial trial dungeon was not any scenario mentioned by the strategy experts on the forum.

So... I drew a dungeon with no strategies, so happy I wanted to log off and hug my cat while crying my eyes out.

Even worse, as soon as I entered, I met two brutal older brothers who bullied us newbies in every way (If this were in the Monster World, I would punch one to death with one punch, killing them all).

The entire experience was terrible; I could only act as a pendant in the team, drifting with the flow.

During the process, I kept thinking: if only I could inherit the power of the Player's Body, I would surely slaughter my way through the whole thing.

This weak body of mine now can do nothing.

Every step had to be taken with extreme caution, thinking that I had to pass one round of trials and earn some benefits before leaving.

What was infuriating was that my extreme caution was seen as cowardice by those brutal older brothers; they kept making me walk ahead to explore dangerous areas.

I luckily dodged danger a few times, but who knows if I can continue to be lucky next time?

It made me so angry I almost wanted to turn on them.

I swore viciously in my heart: you Wang Ba sons, don't you dare graduate and head to the Monster World.

Otherwise, I will definitely make you look good; once you are on my home turf, all of you die!

In the end, I didn't escape the fate of being sacrificed. While struggling to clear the dungeon, I was injured in the abdomen, blood gushing out, and my teammates decisively chose to abandon me.

ヽ(`Д) But before dying, I finally stopped enduring and cursed my teammates to their faces; I finally vented my anger.

The Extreme Joy Player Experience Ticket ended right there. Calculating the benefits of this round: 0 Shou Shou Jili.

Experience Ticket; truly, it was just experiencing the process, not taking a single bit of Shou Shou Jili home.

After returning to the village, I was mocked by friends for a long time; they said it would have been better to team up with them for hunting, wasting so much time.

But my personality is simply unwilling to admit defeat.

The characteristic of playing games is that if you lose, you keep playing; the more you lose, the more you want to play another round. You must win to feel comfortable.

What does this failure mean to me? As a player, I still have the chance to start over.

Thus, I embarked on a road of no return.

During this time, I consulted all strategy posts related to Death Space, determined to become a top-tier dungeon faction player who clears Death Space (Explorer Fist-Pump Motivational. jpg).

Here I must proudly say that my efforts have paid off.

After days and nights of studying guides, I thoroughly mastered the clear strategies for every trial instance.

I also learned the instance-clearing approaches of many big-shots, and learned how to lead the team in the image of a wise man, building a good team atmosphere.

Everything was ready — only the qualification for the Death Instance was missing.

At that moment, my Carp Physique answered my call and once again delivered a Death Space instance qualification.

ヾ(▽)ノ Everything set, departing.

I hoisted the sack onto my shoulder again, becoming a wanderer far from home.

Target: the Welfare Lord's place, ready to gear up, swearing this time I'd definitely fill a whole sack before going home.

Hard work gave me decent returns.

This time I cleared three rounds of trials, total earnings 59,000 Shou Shou Jili, making me instantly rich.

If not for bad luck — getting ambushed by the enemy squad in the fourth trial — I could've kept stuffing my sack.

This success also made me fall in love with the Death Instance gameplay.

Every tense moment in the instance brought pressure, which gave me intense stimulation, then transformed into incomparable pleasure after a successful clear.

When exchanging glances with teammates, in each other's eyes was the joy of having survived, and anticipation for the upcoming enhancement.

As if what we'd conquered together wasn't an instance, but fate itself.

Every clear brought a deep sense of accomplishment.

So back in the village, I kept at it, rewatching my own performance in the Death Space over and over, looking for areas to improve.

Believing I'd perform even better next time, I also joined an instance-fans group during this period, chatting daily with the buddies in the group about all kinds of Death Space techniques.

I never studied this hard even for exams back in the day.

Through my unremitting struggle.

ヽ(ー_ー)ノ Finally, the divine skill reached mastery, the guides I could recite backwards, drawing inferences from one instance to the next.

What made me happy was that during this stage, the Death Space quotas also increased, and the probability of being picked started climbing.

After I was fully prepared, the Carp Physique once again showed its divine might.

(☆_☆) The instance qualification appeared just when I needed it most.

In the small hours of the morning, one little tap, and the Welfare Lord's Happy Ticket was acquired effortlessly (hands on hips, proud).

(￣^￣) Then, it's time to appear in the stance of a powerhouse, beginning my instance journey of slaying all in my path.

How to describe this round of instance experience — to sum it up in two words: total slaughter.

Although the teammates were trash — three of them were even downright treacherous — I, after all, am a cheat-level big-shot who mastered the detailed guides, carrying the whole run.

During this time several batches of teammates died, but I was steady as an old dog, and finally fought my way into the graduation exam (the ultimate trial).

In the graduation exam I performed beyond expectations, beat the entire enemy squad into dogs, cleared it with zero damage, and received an Outstanding Graduation Certificate issued by the Welfare Lord.

(=w) I was so happy back then, because next I'd head to Monster World as a Bliss Player, continuing to shear the Welfare Lord's wool.

After graduating, I chose to part ways with my original teammates and start the exploration journey alone, because I like thrills, and my teammates were all camping kings.

Different paths, no point in planning together.

But then, tragedy struck.

(t▽t) Damn the evil-tyrant's grandmother, my Carp Physique stopped working after graduation.

The early stage went smoothly enough — I cleared quests in two scenes, got resources gifted by the Welfare Lord, and used them all to strengthen my power.

After all, the bros in the group had said: never keep points in hand.

Only by converting them into your own power can you bring them back to the village as Shou Shou Jili after death.

And that's exactly what I'd always done.

The value of this life, thanks to my efforts, had already broken through 130,000 Shou Shou Jili — back in the village I'd be instantly rich.

Until the third Monster World quest, I was sent to Di Ku Shi Jie.

The earlier exploration went smoothly, and I ran into a fellow villager.

They all say: when out and about, beware of fellow villagers.

But I didn't take it to heart — we're all brothers in the same faction, everything's negotiable.

Result: I really did get backstabbed by the fellow villager.

The cause was that we discovered a relic treasure in the Di Ku scene at the same time; what I was thinking then was that we'd discuss it nicely, work out a fair distribution plan, everyone who saw it gets a share.

But before I could even open my mouth, the fellow villager suddenly revealed a ferocious face, eyes blazing with murderous light.

That vicious, evil expression — one look and you knew he was about to do something bad.

!!! ∑(Дノ)ノ Scared the hell out of me.

Then the fellow villager came flying at me, hit me with a Spirit-Seal interrupt, knocked me out cold with a heavy hammer, then Shadow Clone + Extreme Speed AoE, instantly stacking the Forbidden Blade trait to max — before I could even start to fight back, I was sent back to the little black room.

I was absolutely furious at the time.

We're all fellow villagers from the same village, we see each other every day — how could anyone be so vicious?

Kill-stealing is common in games, sure, but we're all in the same faction — there's no faction-vs-faction hostility in any other game.

But I was dead, dead and gone; no amount of complaining could change the fact of death — the Welfare Lord's instance experience ended ahead of schedule.

But just as I was happily about to open my sack (bring up the journal and inventory interface), wanting to see how much Shou Shou Jili I'd packed home from this round of struggle… the sky fell.

I discovered that my death-feedback earnings were actually: -10.

Scared into thinking it was a bug, I completely panicked, and decisively went to find Guide-Bro to ask about the situation, hoping to salvage it.

The result, as you can probably guess.

Guide-Bro said that after the instance character died, Shou Shou Jili was indeed fed back.

But it wasn't fed back to me — it went to the player who killed me. The priority of the hunt is higher than one's own death feedback.

Because at that time, the old fellow was in a player's body, while I was in an Extreme Bliss player's body.

In other words, the small account I had painstakingly leveled up in the Death Space was farmed by my own old fellow as if it were a monster, and all the rewards were swept away by him.

When I heard that news at the time, I felt the sky had collapsed.

I cried so earth-shatteringly and heart-wrenchingly that tears flowed like a tap with its gate opened, and snot bubbles bubbled up more frequently than goldfish blowing bubbles.

I used three packs of tissues; the pile of paper used to wipe my face was enough to serve as offerings for "Beneath Di Zhao the Great Father."

As I wrote the post, I grew sadder and sadder; it was truly miserable.

I struggled hard in the Death Space, and the dungeon account I painstakingly cultivated was worth 160,000 Shou Shou Jili in rewards.

This inheritance should have been passed down to the main account, but now my own old fellow hacked my account, swept away the entire inheritance, and left me not a single cent.

By the way, 10 points of Shou Shou Jili were also deducted for the death resurrection fee.

(╥╯^╰╥) Writing up to here, the tears won't stop; let me cry for a while before continuing to write.

(End of this chapter)