Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 122: Isolation, Alliance, Trap

As soon as those words came out, the entire room fell silent. This was already who-knows-how-many times that everyone’s eyes turned to the center of the room, staring at the two people there.

Tiandihui.....

During this whole game period, the name of this organization had grown from somewhat known to thunderously famous.

But fame doesn’t necessarily mean a good reputation.

From the very first game, the name Tiandihui appeared out of nowhere—no one knew which rock it had crawled out from.

The organization was massive, seemingly Huaguo’s largest civilian group. Even the viewers were familiar with it, because as long as they were watching the game footage, Tiandihui members were constantly popping up in the comment feed.

And that’s just the viewers—in the real world, Tiandihui had also been constantly showing up and stealing the spotlight across the country.

Just like with Lu Ce back then, during that incident at the campus.

It wasn’t exactly a terrorist attack; they didn’t go around actively hurting people, but they were always doing crazy stuff in busy city areas, shouting slogans like maniacs.

Stuff like “The world belongs to Tiandihui,” and so on.Then charging through the streets, destroying public property, or dancing like lunatics, streaking naked.

You could say their tactics were completely disgraceful and undignified, but the result was that from the very first day this game began until now, Tiandihui had become the number one organization to emerge from the game!

Maybe only when the official organization goes public in the future will there be a chance to surpass its notoriety.

And now, Yan Hong, who had originally planned to leave, turned back when he heard the name Tiandihui.

His brows furrowed tightly, staring at Li Wei in front of him.

“Tiandihui......”

Actually, the official organization had been aware of the chaos Tiandihui stirred up for a while now.

But everyone had already mentally prepared themselves. A game that involved the entire population was bound to bring massive social unrest.

Although Tiandihui operated flamboyantly, they hadn’t committed any real large-scale terrorist attacks or murdered anyone in the real world.

And after the Peak Ranking was released, that self-proclaimed Tiandihui leader turned out to be a top-ten player......

So considering the influence and all the follow-up complications, no one had figured out how to officially define Tiandihui yet.

But in Yan Hong’s eyes, Tiandihui was far from positive—labeling them a terrorist group wouldn’t even be an exaggeration!

“A Tiandihui guy? What are you trying to pull?”

“I’m just representing the organization to show respect to the strongest player and to offer him an invitation. What’s the problem?” Li Wei shrugged, looking playfully at Yan Hong.

“I’m warning you—and your organization—don’t try anything stupid.”

“Ohoho~ The long arm of the police, huh? What do you mean, ‘stupid’? Do you want to comment on whether this game counts as ‘stupid’?”

Yan Hong: .....

No response.

“The world has changed. The traditionalists will only realize after countless failures that reform is meaningless—it’s revolution that’s needed.......”

Li Wei continued speaking, and just then, Lu Ce finally opened his mouth.

Looking at Li Wei, he said:

“Join you?”

“Why would I join some ragtag bunch full of inferior creatures? What is this, the underachievers’ support group?”

“Your boss? What’s his rank?”

“Eighth place,” Li Wei replied calmly.

“Barely acceptable....” Lu Ce rinsed his mouth, turned, and walked away. “If he challenges me, I’ll accept.”

Li Wei watched Lu Ce’s back as he walked away, lips curling into a smile, then turned and left as well, not lingering any longer.

Jiu Tian also rushed over, grabbed the irritated Yan Hong, and pulled him back.

He whispered:

“Don’t go around making enemies. That guy Li Wei isn’t simple. Besides, the organization still hasn’t figured out how to define Tiandihui yet.”

Yan Hong swallowed his anger and replied:

“Good thing the strongest player didn’t actually join them.”

“You were worried about that?” Jiu Tian looked genuinely shocked, turning his head to stare at Yan Hong.

“With that guy’s personality, there’s no way he’d join anyone. You’re overthinking it.”

“You mean even our attempts to recruit him are pointless?” Yan Hong’s mouth twitched.

Jiu Tian: ......

In the distance, Xie Antong, who had been recording everything with the All-Seeing Eye, also turned away with a frown.

Tiandihui.....

She might’ve been among the very first people in the world to come into contact with them. The danger back at school was still vivid in her mind.

By now, she was pretty sure that those crazed people screaming “Tiandihui” were being influenced by in-game power or some kind of drug.

And then there was Lu Ce, her desk mate back then—when that giant rushed in, he spun out of sight and pretended to be unconscious against the wall.

She had thought he wasn’t simple even back then, but didn’t have time to investigate further.

In the last game, after her emotional defenses were shattered by “Sin” exposing her feelings, she had been avoiding thoughts of Lu Ce.

But now, remembering all this made the world feel strangely small—like everything was strung together—and it left her feeling kinda emo.

Whatever. Gotta win some Stars first!

Lu Ce felt the same way. Hearing the name Tiandihui again deepened his impression of the group.

After that little interruption, everyone resumed doing their own thing around the main hall.

But observant players would notice—no one stood near Lu Ce anymore.

Thanks to Yan Hong’s reaction and Li Wei fanning the flames, people who were already scared of Lu Ce now avoided him even more.

Lu Ce, on the other hand, seemed totally chill. Too lazy to find someone to bet with, he just walked over to a game machine and started playing solo.

And he went straight for the highest-payout options—the ones with the lowest odds of winning—just for the thrill.

The two Stars he won from Yan Hong were gone in a flash, making Yan Hong grit his teeth in pain.

And Xie Antong, who had kept an eye on everything, now seemed to understand what Li Wei was doing.

On the surface, it looked like praise and flattery.

But in reality, it created isolation!

That isolation ensured no one would gamble with Lu Ce, forcing him to use the site’s machines.

And even a fool could see—the site’s facilities were way too “fair,” fully protected by the game’s core rules. Winning or losing came down to pure luck.

Which meant——“Sin” would have a hard time gaining more Stars!

Xie Antong was starting to get Li Wei’s angle.

——Even though we know you’re strong, even though we know this game probably can’t kill you, even though beating you may be impossible.

But—you can’t be the best.

What Li Wei was doing... was breaking “Sin’s” streak of Perfect Completion runs!

Perfection might not matter to others, but for someone like “Sin,” how could he not pursue perfection?

“What a sneaky move... what a soft stab....”