Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 538: The Reality Manifestation of the Game: A Dinner of Pain and Pleasure

Listening to Lu Ce's voice, Zhao Jiacheng's expression instantly stiffened, and he quickly laughed as he said:

"Haha, you're quite cautious."

"Actually, it's nothing, just a benefit for elite players. Generally speaking, nothing happens."

"Hmm?" Lu Ce originally didn't think much of it, but this response actually made him feel something was off.

"I think it's better to make everything clear."

"There's no need to be so evasive, right?"

Zhao Jiacheng sighed, looking genuinely somewhat troubled.

"Ah, there really aren't any specific requirements for this kind of thing. It's mainly voluntary."

"Like many of our gathering places were built with the assistance of players who possess earth attribute type spells - that counts as one of the obligations too..."

After rambling for a couple of sentences, probably knowing this person wasn't easy to fool, Zhao Jiacheng honestly said:"Alright, alright, since your strength seems decent, I'll tell you."

"Have you heard that games might descend into the real world and manifest?"

Lu Ce raised his eyebrows, not surprised at all.

Thinking to himself that Xie Antong had already told me something similar, and also...

"Is this hard to understand? Moreover, I remember games from long ago have already appeared in the real world."

Like the previous Tokyo Bloodbath.

"Hey, I know, but that was just a pilot program, and they isolated the game venues."

"What I'm talking about is different - it's that kind of large-scale crisis."

"Last time, the game already publicly revealed the existence of veteran players. Actually, I'm not afraid to tell you this secret - our country also has quite a few such powerful individuals."

Zhao Jiacheng lowered his voice as if sharing some classified information.

Making Lu Ce feel somewhat dazed, as if common knowledge he'd encountered was being presented as insider information.

"Please get to the point," Lu Ce couldn't help but interrupt.

"What's the hurry? I'm saying that our veteran players from back then experienced something similar to games for a long period." Zhao Jiacheng continued.

"They believe that as the game progresses, many things that have happened before will happen again, and things that haven't happened might also occur!"

"Maybe in the future, our entire planet will become the game venue!"

"If that really happens, it would be no different from an apocalypse."

Lu Ce frowned and asked:

"Is there any specific timeline speculation?"

Zhao Jiacheng shook his head:

"No, but it might really come soon! What do you think serves as the benchmark for the game's evolution and progression?"

Without waiting for an answer, he proactively said:

"They believe it's based on the strongest players as the benchmark!"

Lu Ce was immediately stunned.

"Did you see this round's game? The one with the strongest player, 'Sin'?"

"Oh, you just came out of the game, probably didn't have time to watch..."

"Their game screen went black halfway through, as if affected by intense divine energy fluctuations."

"One of them was Blank, the leader of your Divine Punishment organization, but she just appeared before you..."

"No one knows what happened, but they cleared the level."

"Anyway, the world's top players have likely entered a completely unknown game realm now, making even veteran players nervous."

"So, if we use their situation as the target, the speed of game changes might exceed our imagination, and that possible descent could come at any moment."

Lu Ce remained silent. The other party's information was far less core than what Xie Antong had, and even less than his own.

However, the two speculations - "the game's descent might come soon" and "the game's evolution might be targeting the strongest players" - still made him fall into deep thought.

Is that how it is?...

"So, the reason our country is spending so much effort is mainly to gather regular players in the same areas as much as possible."

"If it were possible, we'd even want to completely separate players from ordinary people!"

"This way, if the day really comes when the game descends on a large scale, players would be gathered together, preventing an apocalypse, and making it easier to assist each other."

"At that time, mutual help without causing trouble would become an obligation."

Hearing such comprehensive reasoning, Lu Ce also nodded. Reasonable.

He spoke.

"At the same time, it's also convenient for upper-level control, right?"

"Hey? How can you think that way..."

"It's fine, it's reasonable and good." Lu Ce waved his hand. "I agree, process the procedures, thank you."

Seeing this, Zhao Jiacheng immediately pulled him into the car and began going to various places to handle procedures.

Procedures are like this - if you want to handle them yourself, it's probably quite cumbersome.

But if someone is eager to handle them for you, the efficiency becomes much faster.

Within an afternoon, access control, identity registration, and other matters were completely settled. After dark fell, he could even move in directly!

Changed houses within a day? Although the property rights weren't his.

...

"So? Taking a taxi there? If you use me, it might not be too appropriate." Black Knight transformed into a metal sphere, speaking from his jacket pocket.

Just as Lu Ce was thinking about going directly, a message from Xie Antong came through on his phone.

"Said she'd contact later, and the timing is just perfect." Black Knight complained.

...

In an internal private room of the sixty-sixth floor revolving restaurant, Lu Ce naturally pulled out a chair and sat down.

Eating together again wasn't as unnatural anymore.

Looking at Xie Antong sitting opposite him with a somewhat eerie smile, staring at him, Lu Ce checked himself and said:

"What? Why are you smiling?"

"Nothing." Xie Antong now gave off a feeling of being in contact with Pleasure's power. "I just feel the scene of Agony and Pleasure sitting down to eat is quite interesting."

Lu Ce: ...

Those Divine Messengers don't dare call themselves Pleasure, but you have no psychological pressure at all.

"Sorry for troubling you today. My mental state couldn't recover and I needed long sleep."

"It's nothing, you should have moved to a better residence long ago." Xie Antong said calmly.

Actually, she had wanted to offer Lu Ce a place to live for a while, but she also knew the other party probably wouldn't accept it.

To elevate her mental strength to a higher level, she had indeed borrowed some of Pleasure's power, giving her the courage to stare recklessly at the person before her.

"Sin" might be terrifying, but Lu Ce wasn't scary at all.

Making Lu Ce start to feel somewhat awkward, he could only find a topic to say:

"Also, weren't you a bit too conspicuous today? Isn't that very likely to expose you?"