Livestreaming: I am retarded, but selected to join the analoghorror game?!

Xiao Yi also delivered the final blow.

"You are the type who believes that having read a few books makes your life more noble than those old ladies playing cards, a happiness filled with foreign sense of meaning, right?

Charming logic, attractive appearance—it is easy to be exploited by one's own arrogance, thus ignoring your own faults and becoming hypocritical yet refined.

A tendency of the self is to affirm its uniqueness through negating others, getting a good hallucination, hence the rhetoric of living out one's true self is always exploited, falling into traps of political stance and consumption... And you, you are no different."

"..." Rule Zero was left speechless.

He had actually recognized Xiao Yi a long time ago, realizing his own problems. Now, clearly acknowledging that he could never be Xiao Yi's match, he had to admit his defeat.

"Did I... do something wrong?" Rule Zero scoffed, "Now that it comes down to this, I can't think of any rebuttal, seems... I'm no longer fit to be Rule Zero of Blue Sky Appearance."

"Oh? Finally recognized your own issues, huh?" Xiao Yi nodded with relief, "Good, so now, can I punch you? You've caused me so much trouble after all; a fair exchange is necessary, right?"

"...Okay." Rule Zero could only respond with a resigned laugh.

But then, he thought of something and revealed a smirk as if he had regained some advantage.

"But... I have a condition, and that is, to transfer my authority of decision, and thereafter, you should become Rule Zero!"

"...Ah?" Xiao Yi was taken aback.

"I believe you would do a better job than I did, right?"

"This…" Xiao Yi pondered for a moment before replying, "I guess I have no choice..."

...

"Xu Yingguang, open your eyes. Wake up, you still have work to finish!"

"...Hmm? Who is it?"

Xu Yingguang slightly opened his eyes, but his body was not under his control, overly numb and hard to move... He felt as though he had slept for a very long time.

Then, Xu Yingguang could only see a blurry figure, nothing else was clear.

Yet, Xu Yingguang felt an inexplicably familiar feeling about that figure.

"You're awake," said the person. "You've woken too late; Analog Horror has already ended."

Xu Yingguang: "...Ah?"

Analog Horror has ended?

Xu Yingguang, stunned, hurriedly asked, "What happened? What's going on?"

"Err... how should I put it? Shh... anyway, don't worry, it's over now. However, just because it's over doesn't mean there's nothing to be done. On the contrary, the world needs to make a whole new step—troubles are bound to come, and now, only you can handle this."

"I see... that's fine." Xu Yingguang nodded, "Anyway, I feel like I've rested for quite a long time, and my body feels uncomfortable. But..."

As Xu Yingguang spoke, his expression darkened.

"Although from now on people don't have to die for those silly reasons anymore, those who have already died before... are still gone..."

"Uh? Don't worry, everyone has come back."

"...Ah?" Xu Yingguang was stunned again.

"Err... since it was a flawed system that caused the deaths, corrections had to be made, and actually, those people never died, they were just preserved... Remember the messages at the start of each instance, right?"

"Each time?" Xu Yingguang was stunned and exclaimed, "Could it be!?"

Without deliberately recalling, for Xu Yingguang those contents were already deeply etched in his memory; however, upon the reminder from the other, he suddenly realized something he had never noticed before.

[Analog Horror game is about to descend...]

"That's right," the other person said. "It was just a game anyway, how could anyone really die in a game? Everyone from the last instance has returned, but accordingly, troubles have multiplied, because humans are indeed troublesome beings, are you... prepared for this?"

"...Yes!" Xu Yingguang nodded firmly, "For me, there's no better job than this."

"So it is... good."

Their conversation ended there; no more idle talk was needed, because in the future... they would be dealing with each other for a long time.

...

"So, let's talk about how we can make everyone on Blue Star change for the better, come on! Stop playing dead, if you don't get to work soon, I might mute you or even ban your account!"

Ever since taking on this job, Xiao Yi felt a sense of responsibility budding within him; he had to make his homeland a better place! For this, he exerted his acquired authorities to the utmost!

"Uh..."

Conversely, several of the Blue Sky Appearances looked miserable—they were experiencing firsthand what it felt like to be supervised.

"Damn... thought a newcomer might make things interesting, didn't expect such a tyrant!"

"Ugh... I don't want to work."

"I must admit, I miss the previous Rule Zero; at least he wasn't this torturous... No, wait, he was the type who wouldn't do much most of the time, but when he did, it was big, uh... that's actually hard to judge."

"But come to think of it, still calling it Rule Zero feels a bit unlucky, right! How about renaming it Rule Eleven? Boss, what do you think?"

"I have no objections," said Xiao Yi. "But, don't think you can change the topic, okay? Get to work!"

"...Ah!" Screams erupted immediately, "Why has it turned out this way!"

"Alright, no more whining..." Xiao Yi said with a smile, "Blame yourselves, I'm only here because of a series of issues with you folks. If we trace the origin... I am such a fool; who among you was it that got me involved in Analog Horror?"