novelraw Chapter 651 483: Cyberspace, The Day of the Duel (Part 2)
Chapter 651 483: Cyberspace, The Day of the Duel (Part 2)
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The news of the big situation updates almost every day.
Below that, various gossip news.
Then, the young man frowned.
Because he saw a few headlines in the hot search news in Coastal City.
[Tickets for Dragon Soaring Arena are booming, is this the first appearance of the four paragons watched by the four departments in Yue Shui Province?]
[Two-time Fenghai Province championship duel! Could it be a teacher-student romance causing a fight?]
"..."
He forcefully ignored those related headlines that shamelessly sought popularity, looking at the praise, adulation, and seemingly fair but actually degrading analysis of Huai Shoucheng in the news...
Something felt off.
Lin Guang admitted that he and his group did indeed have some popularity.
After all, he had long become a national idol in Zhen Sheng City, and his family wouldn't dare to go out shopping without a Disguise Spiritual Artifact or having Lisa use her disguise skills.
But after all, this is Coastal City in Yue Shui Province, not his home base.
Counting the Sky Arena, the population of Coastal City is several times that of Zhen Sheng City, with various forces intertwined in the inner circle. He currently has no plans to make a showy appearance like a crossing dragon and can be considered to be low-key.
The duel information just came out a few days ago, and it was only three days since he contacted Director Lu Pa and confirmed she could arrange a battle at her venue, a completely hasty action — yet not only did it make it to the hot searches, but the scene tickets were already sold out, and the broadcast rights were sold too?
Is it truly spontaneous popularity for the paragons, or is there deliberate hype, internet trolling, or even a calculated killing?
But if someone really is deliberately hyping, what's the purpose, and who did it?
Does the Huai Family have such influence in Coastal City?
To the extent of risking Huai Shoucheng's own reputation just to create an upset by stepping on him a few times?
That's just too perverse, even a win would be a Pyrrhic victory.
Recalling Jing Ning's speculation, Lin Guang fell into thought.
These clues are not easy to discern.
But if it's about someone with the Heart of Terra, who has extremely strong information processing and transmission ability like him, it's not that he can't think of a way…
Yet he hadn't thought for long when a very familiar sound suddenly came from behind.
Tap, tap, tap.
It was the sound of bare delicate feet coming in contact with the floor, walking step by step.
"…"
A fragrant breeze came.
He suddenly felt the back of his head enveloped by something extremely soft yet elastic, grand in scale, and then a pair of pale hands painted with bright red nail polish covered his eyes from behind.
That intoxicating touch, no matter how many times he experienced it, was still clear to perceive even without Spiritual Power. There was no fabric separating them, and the water droplets and warmth from the recent bath were transmitted over, along with that familiar sweet fragrance.
A voice from behind, carrying a hint of banter and expectation, spoke.
"Today's class made my brain numb, you gotta make me feel good."
And the next moment, another set of footsteps sounded, only slightly different with a faint rustling of nylon stockings.
Another indifferent voice spoke up: "Then the master's stress... leave it to me as always."
The bantering voice retorted with a bit of disdain: "It sounds righteous, but you just want it."
The indifferent voice didn't answer.
Just the buttons of the young man's shirt started to be undone by a pair of hands, one by one, all the way downwards.
Perhaps this was the response.
With his eyes covered, Lin Guang's mouth slightly curved, he licked his lips, letting them do as they pleased.
——Now his pelvis was like made of Source Stone, unbreakable, and even if it truly broke, it could easily self-heal...
Besides, he wasn't that passive either.
The master of the house maintains his own dignity.
It didn't take long before the three of them quickly ended up collapsing onto the bed, with Vishdair not forgetting to hook the door with her toes painted with bright red nail polish.
The door was gently closed and locked.
Subsequently, the Spiritual Pattern Array within the villa began to work, keeping all the flushed sounds contained within the room.
And on that painting facing the bed as always, the stars moved and the bamboo grove swayed gently, just as it had for the past half month.
On the surface, there seemed to be no abnormality.
And for someone who had been alone for who knows how long, immersed in their own painting vision...
Today, like the past hundred years, was another sleepless night for her, all too familiar.
Only this time, the reason for insomnia quietly changed to another.
...
Late night.
Coastal City.
[Cyber Space]
Or rather [Ether Network Space].
It is a world entirely composed of data, not relying on the rules of reality, but having its own unique rules.
This is a concept transmitted from the Federation Country.
The so-called Ether Network refers to various nodes connecting with each other, constructing connections through communication links, and then interacting through protocols.
Information in reality affects the Ether Network, and people have become accustomed to drawing information from the Ether Network.
Imagine how vast it has become today, like another layer of the virtual world attached to the real world, an endless tide of data and information surging inside the Ether Network.