Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

Just as Lin Yu had anticipated, one day was enough time for Fu Luo to investigate and confirm that ”Twenty” had died as a ”Player.”

And ever since receiving the order from that mysterious ”Hacker,” Fu Luo had been investigating ”Twenty.”

Although investigating a ”Third Tier” player on the leaderboard was terrifying, thinking about the ”Hacker” being behind him made him less afraid.

Because that lord was undoubtedly even more terrifying.

Spurred on by this unknown fear, Fu Luo had practically dug up every scrap of information on ”Twenty.”

While Fu Luo might be timid, he was absolutely not incompetent—even if he hadn’t been chosen by the ”Hacker,” he possessed the skills that made even the serious and massive organization ”Order” willing to make an exception for him.

Even the head of the East China Region, ”Gambler” Li Hua, had heard his name and was willing to have him specially come to Haicheng to assist with the investigation—back then, Li Hua didn’t even know he had already been ”Promoted.”

Although Fu Luo tended to struggle and appear weak in combat situations within dungeons, and he even owed his achievement of reaching ”First-Tier” to Lin Yu’s help...

If you let Fu Luo investigate something or solve some mystery...

If all Players were ranked based on this kind of ability, Fu Luo would absolutely be at the top.

Over the past two weeks, he had meticulously unraveled the threads, not only investigating Twenty’s identity and address but also uncovering why Twenty was investigating and targeting his good buddy ”May May.”

”Because ’May May’ ruined the ’Marauders’ plans several times, drawing the attention of their upper echelons. However, ’May May’ currently isn’t worth a true ’Marauders’ high-ranking member taking action personally, so they simply hired an outside expert they’d cooperated with before.”

”In other words, he was paid by the ’Marauders’ to do a job... It’s just that during this process, this guy probably also realized the extraordinary aspects of May, so it changed from a simple paid job to him wanting to investigate further on his own.”

Fu Luo analyzed all this and sent all this information to the ”Hacker”—of course, Fu Luo didn’t have the other party’s contact information.

But the clever Fu Luo had already figured out a way to quickly contact the ”Hacker.”

He just needed to type what he wanted to say into his phone’s memo app.

Sure enough, a line of text not typed by Fu Luo appeared in the phone memo.

”Well done.”

Although Fu Luo guessed that lord probably already knew this news, Fu Luo believed this information undoubtedly conveyed his serious and diligent attitude.

Moreover...

Fu Luo had a prepared trump card up his sleeve next.

Through his tireless, in-depth digging, investigation, and deduction, Fu Luo was very confident.

He had now found a ”secret” about Twenty that even the ”Hacker” lord might not know.

After all, while the ”Hacker” lord was very strong, he was still just an incredibly powerful Player!

Fu Luo picked up his phone and took a photo of the altar in front of him.

This altar was discovered under the bed in Twenty’s apartment—it had been disguised initially, but Fu Luo cracked it using his ”Detective” abilities.

Then, Fu Luo once again typed his most crucial discovery into the memo.

”During my investigation of Twenty, I discovered that most of his ability system relies on the ’Night Valley Realm,’ especially the Nightmare Demons of the ’Night Valley Realm.’ After my in-depth investigation and observation of his ability activation records, I found that he didn’t form a contract with a specific Nightmare, but rather transformed a part of his own soul ’into a Nightmare.’”

”Therefore, even if he dies inside a dungeon, he has a contingency plan to ’revive’ as a Nightmare within the ’Night Valley Realm’ and won’t be completely annihilated—furthermore, he left a contingency in the real world: a summoning altar related to himself.”

”This allows him, even after death, to not be forever trapped in the ’Night Valley Realm’ and instead have the ability to return to the real world.”

”He has already completed the ’summoning ritual’ on himself, likely achieved by having another Player use this altar-type item... Of course, based on my deduction, the Player who assisted him probably just did it for money and might not even know what they did, given Twenty’s aloof and arrogant personality; getting him to trust someone is almost impossible.”

”And very coincidentally,” Fu Luo couldn’t help but sigh as he typed this, it really was too much of a coincidence, ”he actually died in the dungeon that just ended. Although I don’t know what unexpected event occurred... but... now we can completely eliminate the possibility of him returning here by destroying this ’ritual’!”

After Fu Luo finished typing all these words, it took a long time before a new reply appeared in the memo.

”Alright, go ahead and do it.”

”Don’t worry... I won’t let you work for free. Get this done, and you’ll naturally get your reward.”

Having received that lord’s approval, Fu Luo felt even more motivated.

”Where’s the need for a reward,” Fu Luo quickly typed a reply, ”It’s my honor to work for you.”

”One thing at a time.”

Watching the characters dance onto the screen, Fu Luo couldn’t help but smile.

”That’s really too kind... but it wouldn’t be right for me to keep refusing... Would it be convenient to ask what the reward is?”

New strings of text quickly appeared on the screen.

”I will make your identity in Sleepless City more prominent, your reputation more significant.”

”As for the specific benefits, you’ll have to strive for them yourself.”

Looking at the text on the screen, Fu Luo was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly replied again.

”Thank you so much!”

After that, he happily put away his phone and pulled out an ancient-looking leather scroll from his chest.

”Worth spending a fortune to buy this Hunter’s Seal Scroll from the ’gathering’!”

Then, aiming at the altar, Fu Luo tore the scroll!

A white light suddenly flared. The two torn halves of the scroll ignited, then transformed into white chains that lunged at the altar!

The altar, which had been emitting an ominous blood-red glow, was instantly entangled by these chains, as if meeting its natural nemesis—afterwards, the entire altar began emitting wisps of white smoke, and faint, sharp shrieks could be heard.

The whole process lasted about ten minutes—Fu Luo couldn’t help but feel grateful that the apartment Twenty rented was high-end; otherwise, the neighbors would probably have complained.

Just as Fu Luo watched the light on the altar completely extinguish and prepared to leave...

The sound of a door opening suddenly came from below.

Fu Luo instantly felt a chill run down his spine.

”Who would come to Twenty’s apartment at this time?!”

He quickly tried to deduce, but before he could reach a conclusion...

A boisterous voice and the figure that appeared in his line of sight gave Fu Luo the answer.

”Hey—Twenty, the boss said he divined a major misfortune for you, and there are rumors outside that you’re dead... You’re not really dead, are you?”

A girl with brightly colored hair, hands in her pockets, walked into the room...

Fu Luo recognized her.

The ’Marauders’ Yanjing Deputy Chief, ’Fish’!