The King of Black Fog

Li Changzhou and Yang Qinglan opened their eyes at the same time, only to find themselves alone in the bedroom; Li Qianxia had vanished.

"There should be no danger, don't worry," Yang Qinglan comforted Li Changzhou.

"I know." Li Changzhou closed his eyes.

In the broadcast studio, Li Qianxia repeatedly stated she had no interest in women and wasn't interested in being swayed, so Xiao Yue reluctantly let her off this time.

"Alright, since she's unwilling, we won't force her to prostitute herself this time, now onto the official interview… hmm, this is troubling." Xiao Yue fiddled around but still couldn't get rid of the velvet worm's glue.

She snapped her fingers, and the glue disappeared.

"I've said," she straightened her disheveled clothes, "spray it after I take off my clothes, seriously unbearable."

Li Qianxia: "..."

"By the way," Xiao Yue asked as she retied her scarf, "Miss, how should I address you?"

"Li… Mosquito."

"Miss Li," Xiao Yue looked her over, "your legs are so toned, healthy and beautiful, may I touch them?"

"Th-thank you, your legs are very toned too," Li Qianxia stepped back a little, but the studio seemed too small, and she didn't leave the screen.

Seeing her bunny-like behavior, Xiao Yue covered her mouth with her hand and chuckled "ho·ho·ho" three times in an affected manner.

"Alright, alright, enough with the romance, many players are already complaining in their hearts."

Xiao Yue instantly became serious, adopting the voice and demeanor of a female newscaster, she said to Li Qianxia, "Miss Li, there are a few questions I need you to answer."

Li Qianxia nodded without uttering a sound.

Xiao Yue faced the camera and said, "In this unprecedented upheaval, social systems, economic structures, customs, and ideologies are all shaken and all challenged…"

She turned to Li Qianxia, "What is your opinion on this, Miss Li?"

"... None."

"Then, do you think it is better to have this upheaval or not to have it?"

"... I haven't thought about it."

"Looks like Miss Li is very cautious, huh," Xiao Yue grinned at the camera like Dong Qing and asked Li Qianxia, "I've never seen Miss Li on the subway, which means you're still taking the bus. How do you feel about life on the bus? Is it tough? Any complaints?"

"..."

Xiao Yue waited for a while, but Li Qianxia still did not speak.

"Alright, since Miss Li doesn't want to be interviewed, let's start the official program, please look at the big screen."

The camera shot of Li Qianxia and Xiao Yue shrank to the lower right corner, and the main screen switched to a PowerPoint presentation.

[Full Moon Event Information Unveiled(^_-)!!!], the font was in Song typeface.

"By the way," Xiao Yue still spoke in Dong Qing's tone, with a hint of friendly jest, "I made this PPT myself, if it's not pretty, please don't laugh at me."

"Next, I will reveal some information to thirty hundred players."

Xiao Yue smiled, teasingly asking Li Qianxia, "Miss Li, care to guess what sort of news it might be?"

"... Can't guess."

"Then from a contestant's viewpoint, what information would you like to hear?" Xiao Yue asked again.

"... Rules."

"The rules have already been stated, but since Miss Li wants to know, I'll repeat them, and players with Identity Cards should also listen carefully.

"In Prague, three thousand players can do whatever they wish, there is no requirement from the game for the players to plunder points. When only five hundred players remain in Prague—of course, all the original inhabitants of Prague will be driven out—the game will end."

By this time, Li Qianxia had calmed down from the initial panic of arriving at this eerie broadcast studio.

She pondered seriously over Xiao Yue's words, taking the initiative to speak for the first time:

"If these three thousand players do not kill each other, does that mean they could live in Prague forever?"

"Yes." Xiao Yue smiled with a confirming answer.

Many players' hearts raced with this answer.

Players who weren't selected felt a mix of relief and regret; those selected mixed fear with anticipation.

Li Qianxia also thought excitedly, Prague was a foreign land, but as long as one could survive, living in a tourist city, even in the most remote and impoverished areas, was possible.

But could it really be achieved?

Could humans and animals coexist peacefully? What about within the human race itself? What about between the White Card and Black Card holders?

"It seems everyone has thought a lot, but now is not the time to ponder," Xiao Yue's voice brought everyone back to reality. "Miss Li, what other information do you want to know?"

Li Qianxia boldly asked, "What about the supplies in Prague? If it is not disturbed by the outside world, does this mean supplies cannot come in either?"

"The game will provide supplies, ensuring everything inside the city remains as it was before."

Everything too perfect tends to arouse suspicion.

"The game is that benevolent?" Li Qianxia voiced the doubt most people had.

"You all misunderstand the game,"

Xiao Yue suddenly switched to a girly tone.

"In the first five mass extinctions, the game didn't intentionally destroy any race or ruin any place. Whether the dinosaurs could survive was their own issue; the game didn't care.

"It merely threw a meteorite, which carried the seed of wisdom. About four million years ago, a group of monkeys found the seed. They are the ancestors of humans; they won that game.

"So, what happens to Prague, the game doesn't care, please rest assured."

Li Qianxia breathed heatedly, realizing that with ample supplies, it was more likely for everyone to coexist peacefully.

She hurried to ask another question, but Xiao Yue interrupted her.

"Okay, mosquito, seeing as you're prettier, I've answered enough of your questions. Next is the official intelligence."

The PPT changed, the text read: [Seed Player—Top three players most likely to earn points]

Li Qianxia stared at the title, stunned, and subconsciously asked, "Isn't the PPT made by you? Weren't the players just selected?"

Xiao Yue didn't answer, the corners of her mouth deepened slightly, but her smile became shallower, her delicate face like a mask.

"Okay," the mask came back to life, Xiao Yue smiled, "Please look at the third place!"

The PPT switched to the next slide, revealing an identity card with the photo of a blonde, blue-eyed little girl who looked around eleven or twelve years old.

[Nickname: It's Che uh]

[Name: Bi]

"Miss Li, about this player, I can answer two questions for you," (showing the scissors hand gesture), "but how I answer is up to me, Xiao Yue."

"...Is it that you must and can only disclose specific intelligence?" Without Li Changzhou, Li Qianxia's intelligence skyrocketed.

"Annoying." Xiao Yue's cheeks puffed up, discouraged, "I wanted to use the game's freely disclosed intelligence to win your favor."

Li Qianxia didn't engage.

"Fine." Xiao Yue lacked enthusiasm, "This cutie is the Czar Princess. As long as she is sucking on a lollipop, she can use Class A telekinesis."

"What? You don't know the power of Class A telekinesis? Please watch the video!"

The PPT disappeared, and a video started playing, the logo in the upper left corner showed QQ Video (the government watching immediately ordered the app to be removed from the market and to undergo a security inspection).

At night, under the bright moonlight, Bi, in a white Russian princess dress, with a lollipop in her mouth, skimmed low over a dirty slum, her blue eyes searching for something.

"Such a hassle," her voice was a bit muffled, speaking in Russian, with subtitles below.

"Destroy it all."

She stopped, hovered in the air, and raised her small hand, as white as Siberian snow, aiming at the slum.

With a crunch, she bit the lollipop.

A brief silence, then a loud boom, as if a huge beast burst from beneath the slum, biting off the piece of the ground like a cake.

Massive amounts of debris, tiles, wood planks whirled, spun, and fell from the sky.

The camera shot from above down; the slum's ground was invisible, leaving only bare land.

Bi opened her adorable little bag, took out another lollipop, and put it in her mouth; debris, rocks, wood planks, and bodies remained motionless in the air, causing viewers to wonder if the video had paused.

Bi flitted through, quickly spotting a black identity card in the still scene, swiped it with her own white card, and it turned to ashes.

"Done." Bi soared into the sky, disappearing into the moonlight.

The debris and stones rained down like a heavy rain in the video.

The video ended.

Li Qianxia's mouth hung open slightly, her expression horrified.

The area of the slum was about the size of Ming City University...destroying a Ming City University, over 9700 acres.

One square kilometer equals 1500 acres; Prague has 496 square kilometers, which is 744,000 acres. This Czar Princess, with about 77 lollipops, could destroy the entire Prague.

"Were you scared?" Xiao Yue asked with a grin.

"Us white card players are not something you black card trash can compare to, oh, and the black card trash that ride subways are very clear on this matter."

"Alright, next up is the second place."

Li Qianxia came to her senses, only then recalling that the Czar Princess was only in third place!

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ps: Don't fuss over why the Czar Princess's ID is [It's Che uh]; this is a character from a reader.