The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 173 - 126 Reality Distortion

Chapter 173: Chapter 126 Reality Distortion

"This is ridiculous."

Chen Guangxi blurted out that she had seen a ghost, as this thing seemed too bizarre in every way.

"’Loner’... I feel like I’ve seen this book title somewhere before..."

A certain investigator pinched his chin and pondered for a long time without coming up with anything, so he opened a webpage to search.

The crowd gathered around the computer to check. Searching the book title brought up a bunch of web links, but none of them were by an author named "Aio."

"Hmm..."

At this moment, Chen Guangxi seemed to have thought of something. Her expression changed slightly, but she did not say it out loud.

Zhou Yuan keenly caught her micro-expression, and at the same time, Guangxi noticed him.

"Can’t find it through the search engine, I’ll use the internal database to check." The investigator started typing rapidly on the keyboard.

The Control Bureau’s database was extremely vast. As long as there were some keywords, it could open the box directly. It could even simulate the personality of the person being investigated through social media posts, music listening records, input methods, and favorite videos, even nailing down their XP.

"Given that the note is in East Continent language, I’ll search within East Continent first. It’ll be faster this way."

Two or three minutes later, the database search yielded results.

The first link was:

"Loner," by Aio. Posted on: Windflower Romance...

"Huh?" Everyone was dumbfounded.

"Windflower Romance... isn’t that a site for smut?"

Someone muttered, and the next second, felt all eyes on him. He immediately blushed and protested loudly, "I heard it from a friend!"

"That friend of yours, is it you?"

"Of course not!"

"Then why are you blushing?"

"Feeling refreshed!"

Everyone burst into laughter. After laughing for a while, they urged the investigator to click on the link.

After reading the first Chapter of "Loner," the crowd fell into silence.

As expected, it was smut, and excellently written too, with delicate emotions and incredibly explicit parts.

"Are there any other search results?"

"After removing duplicates, no. This is the only one."

The investigator scratched his head, somewhat troubled. "I’ll expand the search range globally and try again."

"Could it be a prank?"

"It’s possible... Lao Zhou, ask your church." Jiang Wuming said.

Zhou Yuan: "..."

"Damn." He was annoyed, "Whenever something bad happens, you think of the Holy Crow Church, huh?"

"Who else then?" Everyone retorted in unison.

At this moment, Zhou Yuan’s phone rang. It was an unknown number.

"Saint Heir, something terrible has happened!"

As soon as he answered, a panicked female high school student’s voice came through, "All the gold and silver treasures we brought back from the Ghost Ship are gone!

Just, just in an instant, all gone! Gone!

Boo hoo hoo... my gold..."

The high schooler couldn’t control herself and began to cry loudly.

It was clear that she was genuinely heartbroken, crying miserably.

Zhou Yuan couldn’t help but hold the phone away and hung up.

Upon hearing the content of the call, the investigators present all began to think deeply. They then took out their phones and contacted their own networks for confirmation.

More than ten minutes later, everyone finished confirming, and the Transcendent forum was already exploding.

All the posters had taken things from the Ghost Ship. Some were in despair, some were breaking down, and some were gloating.

"I managed to snatch a batch of gold from the Ghost Ship, and it turned to dust just now. Does anyone know what’s going on?"

"Victim complaint post from the Ghost Ship incident."

"No way, bro, I ate the Devil Fruit and got its abilities, but now it’s just gone? Are you kidding me!"

"Hahahahaha, I exchanged the gold for money a long time ago, hahaha!"

"Judging by this, everything brought out from that Ghost Ship has vanished, even abilities gained from eating the Devil Fruit."

Chen Guangxi pondered for a moment and looked at the others in the office, "What do you think?"

Everyone uttered the same word simultaneously: "Reality distortion!"

Only reality distortion could cause such a large-scale abnormal event.

Reality distortion... distress signals... Was it a reality distortion making a call for help this way? But couldn’t they have written it more clearly on the note? Couldn’t they use a more straightforward method? Or is it that they can’t? Their status is terrible?

Zhou Yuan’s mind was racing, and suddenly, upon seeing Chen Guangxi, he inexplicably thought of something that interrupted his thoughts.

"Didn’t you remember seeing this book on a smut site?" He signaled with his eyes.

Chen Guangxi glared at him viciously.

At this moment, the Eyes of Identification suddenly changed the prompt.

"Golden Dragon has a penchant for romanticism and generally loves literary works. Dache was no exception; after watching many literary works, she began to create her own—albeit smut."

Damn it...

Zhou Yuan was stunned. He didn’t expect her to be secretly doing this under such thick brows and big eyes.

He immediately panicked a bit. Eyes of Identification, give me the book title quickly!

But unfortunately, the Eyes of Identification did not provide this crucial information.

Ugh, what good are you!

"Global search complete, no other results, still just this one."

The investigator sighed and resumed typing, "Let me see if I can find any personal information about Aio."

After several minutes, the expected happened.

The super database of the Control Bureau contained no information about Aio, not even the IP address from which he posted the article. It seemed to have been erased by a mysterious force.

"Involving reality distortion traits, classified as a level-4 anomaly event. I’ll report it and let the headquarters handle it." The investigator said.

·

Back at the hotel, Zhou Yuan took a shower, washing off the lingering smell of blood and changing into clean clothes.

He pulled out the Paru Ball, summoned Fang Qing, and immediately put her back in after she whispered, "Chen Guangxi is here."

A few moments later, there was a knock on the door.

"What’s up?"

"Elbow, come to my room." Chen Guangxi said bluntly.

"Huh?" Zhou Yuan was taken aback, then followed her out.

They arrived at Chen Guangxi’s room.

On the table was a laptop, displaying the first Chapter of "Loner."

Zhou Yuan couldn’t help but swallow. It was late at night, and they were alone in a room reading smut?

This... this felt too right!

"I think there must be some clues hidden in this book. Help me find them." Chen Guangxi seemed to hint.

Zhou Yuan pretended ignorance, knowing she was referring to Wang Zhen’s miraculous tools.

He pulled up a chair and sat next to her, looked at the screen, and then pointed to the top right corner:

"Why do you even have an account?"

Then he read out the account name, "CarryMasterJie?"

The next second, he felt a murderous intent, as if plunged into an ice cave!