I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 131 - 131 130. Theres a conjecture may not be correct (Extra

Chapter 131: 130. There’s a conjecture, may not be correct (Extra updates for recommendations!)_1 Chapter 131: 130. There’s a conjecture, may not be correct (Extra updates for recommendations!)_1 The video has tens of thousands of views, and it’s clear that the uploader is running a personal account, with less than two hundred followers, just as pitiful as Lu Ban before he made it big.

Oh, not quite, Lu Ban at least had his cat videos.

The video, shot on a mobile phone, is a bit shaky but soon stabilizes. It shows a room with the phone placed on a table, capturing most of the room.

It looks like a bedroom.

“We’re going to try this ‘One Hundred Poets’ ritual, um, we don’t understand poems and songs, so we’ll just recite ancient poetry instead. The candles were bought from the supermarket, so there shouldn’t be any problems.”

It seems the uploader says a couple of things and then leaves the phone, standing in the corner with a candle in hand.

From this angle, three people can be seen, and there must be another person standing next to the phone.

There are a lot of bullet screen comments, mostly people checking in or saying they came from ‘One Hundred Poets’, the usual meaningless remarks, but there’s a comment in yellow that’s seriously explaining something.

“This is a variation of a supernatural game where, in the original version, an extra person appears as the game progresses. There’s always one person reciting poetry, and candles are lit in every corner of the room, with the unsettling part being that no one knows who the extra person is.”

They speak as if they’re an expert, as if it’s the real deal.

“Isn’t this just what I talked about in my movie…”

After carefully reading through, Lu Ban realizes late.

But he’s quite thankful for the upload nonetheless.

In the video, the game starts normally, just like when Lu Ban played it on Song Island; two people recite poetry in turns and start moving.

The room isn’t absolutely dark to begin with. Being small, the candlelight is actually enough to see the person opposite.

Once the third person moves and arrives by the phone, one round of the game is considered complete.

The fourth person will then move forward, filling the spot where the first person originally stood, and with that, the game concludes.

Because the fourth person doesn’t have a lit candle, there are only three candles left burning at the end.

However, as the fourth person starts to move and appears in the video, the room lights inexplicably dim a little.

Shortly after, Lu Ban quickly notices that, in the direction where the fourth person is heading, where the first person was supposed to have left an empty space, there is now an additional person.

This person is holding a lit candle, waiting for the fourth to come over.

In other words, there are now people in all four corners of the room, and the last person, after reciting their poem, will join the extra one and light their candle from theirs.

A very eerie situation.

[Damn, when did the extra person show up?]

[It seems they appeared when it switched from the third to the fourth person]

[Don’t worry, if UP uploaded the video then everything at the end definitely turned out fine!]

[How do you know the person who uploaded is actually the uploader?]

[Maybe that’s not even a human anymore]

[Got it, so this is how you meet Red Leaf, huh? Goodbye everyone, I’m off to the 2D world!]

At this point, the bullet screen comments reach a climax.

But Lu Ban frowns.

He notices that the group went from four people to five during the second round when the third person was walking toward the fourth.

Suddenly, a face appears in the center of the screen, deathly pale and emitting a greenish glow, prompting exclamations of shock.

Lu Ban raises his eyebrows, looking at the flood of profanity in the comments.

[UP, you’re making this too damn ghostly]

[Get lost, blocked!]

“So they’re all just pretending, right? How could a supernatural event actually happen?”

“Red Leaf, my Red Leaf, can’t I see you anymore?”

“Will the patient in heat please not go into the hallway?”

“Turns out it’s just a little brat chasing clout, get lost!”

Comments like these were accusing the UP of messing around.

Lu Ban had also realized this, the key issue was that at the beginning, the viewers didn’t even know how many people were in the room.

In fact, there had always been a fifth person, who took advantage of the moment when the third person walked over to the fourth person, blocking the phone camera, to slip into a corner, pretending to have been there the whole time, and the final ghastly face that scared everyone was also his doing—in the end, it was just a prank by a bunch of kids who wanted to scare others.

However, Lu Ban thought to himself.

When the fourth person was walking towards the fifth person just now, the candlelight in the room did indeed dim a little bit.

Under the circumstances where Lu Ban had already understood the true nature of the game, “True Sight” had an effect.

He could see that some kind of secret door was gently trembling in the center of the room.

But the game was too crude, and the participants too common, so the door was suppressed by reality, unable to open.

Even if another hundred people joined in, it might not be enough to complete the ritual.

But perhaps… one day in the future, in this world that was already mysterious, that door might be completely opened?

Lu Ban felt something was not quite right.

He immediately set to work, cutting out part of the content from the game “One Hundred Poets” so that it couldn’t be replicated by ordinary people. Although there was nothing wrong for the time being, what if one day someone with extraordinary talents managed to successfully tempt fate?

Afterward, Lu Ban contacted the operations of a few websites to replace the video, and then he posted a status update.

“Motionless”: Regarding the game “One Hundred Poets” in the video, please do not attempt it lightly, as it may cause serious consequences beyond imagination.

But barely a minute after Lu Ban’s status was posted, it exploded with hundreds of replies.

“This UP is quite professional, still acting to maintain the authenticity of the video.”

“No way, are there really people afraid of this game?”

“I’ve seen videos of this game being played, it’s all nonsense, there’s nothing there!”

“This UP is pretty good, very immersive. I’m a fan!”

And so on, no one took it to heart.

However, two hours later, when people who rewatched it noticed that the entire movie was a bit shorter, Lu Ban’s seemingly humorous status was dug up again.

“No way, did they actually change the content of the movie? Does that mean there’s something wrong with this game?”

“I feel like there’s been no alteration; it’s always been like this, you must be remembering it wrong.”

“You can’t download the movie, and now it seems there’s no way to confirm if this was the version from this morning.”

“This is called the Mandela Effect, which is when there hasn’t actually been any change to the movie, but everyone believes they saw another version before, a kind of collective illusion.”

“I have a theory, not sure if it’s correct, but could it be that there’s something wrong with this movie?”

“My classmate and I tried playing this game, it felt a little oppressive when closing our eyes, but there were no other problems.”

“Stop speculating, my uncle teaches folklore at university, he says there’s no such thing as a supernatural game, it’s all made up for the movie!”

“No, I have to watch it again.”

As a result, in an unforeseen turn of events for Lu Ban, his view count started to skyrocket again.

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