Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?
Chapter 620 - 622: The Optimized Programmer

Chapter 620 -622: The Optimized Programmer

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‘Now, there is no difference between them and us.’

‘They later became people with double pupils and large ears that droop over their shoulders.’

‘In history, they learned to hide and became a part of us.’

‘Initially, they had human heads on snake bodies, with three heads and six arms.’

“There’s actually some sense in that,” Qin Muye was about to say how ridiculous that was—a bunch of powerful monsters hiding among the weak? Then he remembered the formidable All World Protector Organization and came to a realization—how could anything be more powerful than that?

“It’s just unclear whether this poster is wildly imaginative or actually knows something.”

“Just don’t come up with some jade syndrome…”

“With that look, if he hadn’t experienced something, how could he have such a spirit?” Qin Muye noticed the other’s condition at a glance.

“There are some blank areas; from what I can see, it seems that Sun Zhen really encountered something.” Qin Muye planned to get in touch with this Sun Zhen.

“It’s a bit far, not within our state,” Qin Muye located the other person’s position.

“Tch, it’s been ten years, and I don’t know if there’s been any major movement on the main body’s side— are they still preparing to endure until the world collapses?”

“The question is, what exactly did the other party encounter, or was it simply a problem of their own making?” Qin Muye sensed around but didn’t detect any issues.

Despite Sun Zhen working a 996 schedule as a programmer every day, he actually didn’t have much money. After paying off his mortgage, car loan, rent, utilities, and some other expenses, his salary without overtime pay was just enough for him to survive.

It wasn’t that the Spirit Monsters’ mimicry had failed in the eighth-level instance world, but rather that the All World Protector Organization was too bizarre, causing the issue. In a more normal server or instance world, they could still blend in.

Attempted to control some of the network-connected electronic devices around him for remote viewing.

Besides the birth of eighth-level Spirit Monsters, there were also a large number of scientific research achievements, like the second territory trait made from a Mythical Treasure.

Of course, one could also see a psychologist—but typically, the chilling realization that comes after seeing the fee schedule and bank balance would cure most psychological problems without medication.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Spirit Monsters had high defense and excelled at fleeing, and that Qin Muye had the protection of the Abyss Will, there might really have been casualties.

After that, he naturally strode in confidently; with his current level of presence, not to mention security guards, even the machines at the door could ignore him—his presence had become incredibly low.

Moreover, Qin Muye had also initially cracked the troop construction code and was currently attempting to adapt it to his territory—escaping from “Lord Era” was a significant step forward.

Fortunately, time wasn’t an issue right now—after all, the server had crashed, and he was in an instance.

Avatar Qin Muye relaxed with his leg crossed, scrolling through his phone, considering what amusing things he could watch. At that moment, he stumbled upon an interesting post.

Severe depletion of spirit, not due to someone draining it, but because of psychological pressure.

Looking through a series of data, Qin Muye felt it was somewhat akin to playing a prank, but judging from the other’s online speech patterns, it didn’t quite fit that—rather, it seemed more like subtle hints about knowing something.

But once it involves some fundamental issues and full firepower is unleashed, it could really reach the level of a ninth-level force. Although not every member would be a ninth-level, those technological marvels formed by Causality Law, lack of logic, and various other Abnormality types are enough to make a ninth-level flee in panic.

His plan to return to his hometown and start a business was just in preparation and hadn’t actually been implemented yet.

Qin Muye checked the recent situation of the other person. The reason Sun Zhen was optimized was simple: lack of overtime pay while working 996 was one thing, but the real reason was that the supervisor intentionally ousted him, transferring the project from Sun Zhen to his nephew. It was a pity Sun Zhen didn’t see it.

Qin Muye immediately hacked into the network and managed to obtain the IP address and various details of the poster.

Qin Muye quickly used the Prayer Technique to reach the city where Sun Zhen was located, even arriving at the gate of his community.

Qin Muye complained, originally intending to also bring up postgraduate recommendations, but then he thought about Sun Zhen’s gender not matching, and realized it would be tough, let alone exploding for Gold Coin.

The research projects he was working on now all related to the core of “Lord Era,” meaning the research couldn’t just take three or five months; instead, it would take at least years, or even decades or centuries to make substantial progress.

Sometimes, while chatting with people, they would subconsciously forget about him in the middle of the conversation and then stare blankly, wondering what they were doing and who they were talking to, before ignoring Qin Muye sitting in front of them and standing up to leave.

Ten years, whether for this avatar or the original self, was indeed just a moment, even with his fast-paced life.

Time flew, and after ten years, this Wise Man’s Book Shadow Costume of Qin Muye had roamed the world for a long time, encountering over five hundred unexplained AOE incidents, including containment breaches of Abnormalities and some direct confrontations with newly born or recently unsealed Abnormalities.

Although he was not the main character, and could not expect to be surrounded by hidden top-notch experts or ancient powerhouses, one does run into ghosts when walking in the night often enough.

Though it sounded somewhat sensible, in reality…

Even with the Abyss of Corruption formed by the Death Realm as a precondition, it only allowed Qin Muye to cross-reference; Mythical Treasures are not the same and therefore cannot be applied interchangeably.

Thus, the infiltration of the All World Protector Organization naturally failed, and in the aftermath, he gave up on the plan to infiltrate it.

So, such methods should definitely be used as sparingly as possible.

He didn’t have the Main Character Identity, so it wasn’t possible for him to randomly encounter someone who could be in the same city or, more extremely, on the same street.

There were no clues to discern through remote video.

Otherwise, what could be done? Everyone knew it wouldn’t work, so there was no point stubbornly pressing forward.

To know that when Emperor began to tell him, one would see imperial phenomena on the body of the person whose Nascent Soul was reincarnated, such as double pupils, long earlobes reaching the shoulders, and other extraordinary traits, which are considered signs of imperial countenance. In ancient times, emperors often needed to have something special to prove themselves.

Everything appeared very normal, more like the mental issues resulting from not being able to accept being optimized by the company which usually, if not wealthy enough, could be resolved.

Therefore, it was quite normal for the two sides to be located at opposite ends of the earth.

Because as long as it was normal, there would be a corresponding social structure; the All World Protector Organization was quite similar to Qin Muye’s Endless Abyss, and that was why infiltration failed.

In the distance, Qin Muye saw Sun Zhen descend the building looking disheveled, with unkempt beard stubble that seemed not to have been touched for quite a while, seeming to have been muddling along since being optimized.

This was rather easy for him, as long as he didn’t confront the network Abnormalities guarding the All World Protector Organization’s data repository, the modern network could barely stop him.

This incident also caused the All World Protector Organization to conduct an extremely rigorous self-inspection that caused a significant stir, and afterwards, they launched a full-scale crackdown on the Spirit Monsters.

The man named Sun Zhen was a programmer living the so-called “blessed” 996 work schedule, who was recently optimized out of his job due to conflicts with management over unpaid overtime and planned to leave the bustling metropolis for the countryside to start a business.

In these ten years, the 8th tier Spirit Monsters were successfully developed, after which a large number of spies were deployed. The infiltration plan was supposed to go smoothly, but it encountered its first setback against the All World Protector Organization, as the mimicking Spirit Monster spies successfully blended in but were detected.

He encountered many such situations; after all, when inquiring information, one couldn’t just start with Soul Searching or Mind Reading. He would dare to in another world, but in this peculiar one, he had to be extra cautious—what if he ran into some sort of powerhouse hiding among the populace?

Since the Spirit Monsters were 8th tier in strength, naturally not one was captured. The All World Protector Organization activated various advanced technologies against them, which also widened Qin Muye’s horizons. If he were to rate the strength of the All World Protector Organization without going all out, it would probably be that of an 8th tier power.

The content was not in abundance, nor was it lengthy, making Qin Muye feel that the person who wrote it really had a wild imagination to come up with such things.

In any case, he encountered various bizarre and inexplicable AOE incidents, which made his presence so low that even if he ran at full speed, no one would notice him.