Grotto Heaven.

Zhong Shenxiu watched the waves of foreign spies coming and going outside his villa and found it extremely amusing.

The villa he lived in was indeed where the "Game Official Website" server was located, yet to outsiders, it still appeared as vacant land, the kind you could dig three feet into and find nothing unusual.

He had previously removed the information interference from the game, but had no intention of exposing his residence to outsiders.

Faced with this kind of dimension-reducing attack, even the most skilled undercover agents and spies seemed almost idiotic.

Not only that, with a mere thought, he could also sense the dynamic activities of a large number of players.

Most players were desperately gaming, hoping to accumulate enough experience to buy superpowers in reality.

A very few top players were starting to make waves in the real world.

Of course, due to their low strength, their impact was minimal for now, and there were quite a few failures.

Among them, Lin Fan had gained increasing fame, and whispers of him being the top martial artist of Da Xia began to circulate.

He Zudao, however, had already failed.

"I knew this Spiritual Energy Revival big movie plan was unreliable."

Zhong Shenxiu commented.

The history of this world, of course, had no transcendent forces, and fabricating myths felt heavily contradictory.

Trying to make everyone believe felt akin to pointing at a deer and calling it a horse, a complete insult to everyone's intelligence.

Of course, an insult was an insult, but if real transcendent powers appeared, perhaps many would still believe.

After all, people are very realistic.

"The key to He's failure was being sabotaged by Xie Biqi early on. Once the Special Review Bureau was established and players' records were created, they were under surveillance. Coming out at that time was simply suicidal... and his own strength was too weak, just a few Special Review Bureau members with handguns could suppress him..."

Xie Biqi had been establishing files for a long time. Back then, players only treated it as a fun game and didn't have much consciousness about protecting their personal information; they might even have organized offline meetups.

Now, it was too late for regrets.

However, most would probably just be recruited by Daxia Special Review Bureau, which was a good thing.

The Special Review Bureau being able to control a group of Transcendents and old-game players could take an advantage both in Grotto Heaven and Xuanming Sky.

"Xie Biqi has control over the profiles of at least a hundred players, either with problematic personalities like Huang Tianyao and Jiang Shang, or those with mental issues like Liu Fang and Ning Yuan..."

He had known this for a long time but had not interfered.

Instead, there was a taste of pleasure seeing it happen.

After all, in this Grotto Heaven, the position and race of Da Xia gave him a hint of kinship.

But that was just a hint.

"We should prepare for public beta soon..."

Zhong Shenxiu murmured.

He indeed no longer planned to hide or distribute any more game equipment.

When the time came, simply announcing that revered name would be enough.

As long as someone recited the full name of the Lord of Order, they could establish contact with the 'Key of the Heart,' and with his nod, they could obtain the player panel and the qualification to project into the world.

This seemed convenient, but in reality...

In the Second Yan Han Empire, or other worlds that knew the terror of the True God, no one would dare to recite the name of an unknown being.

After all, once recited, one would fall into an endless abyss, targeted by the Evil God.

It was only Zhong Shenxiu who was free from such thoughts, otherwise, if he harbored any crooked ideas, every player would be a blood sacrifice.

And it would be the kind of sacrifice where they cleaned themselves up to be willingly devoured by the Evil God...

...

"He Zudao?!"

Inside the interrogation room.

He Zudao was utterly baffled.

He couldn't understand why his grand plan, which had just begun, was investigated the very next evening.

He thought he had been very careful…

Then, when he saw the interrogator, his eyes widened in shock, "It's you... the superheroine?"

Xie Biqi looked at the monitoring and recording devices, her face darkening, "My name is Xie Biqi, and I am from the Special Review Bureau!"

"You're an official, a police officer?"

The shock in He Zudao's heart was indescribable.

"I used to be, but not anymore!"

Xie Biqi said resentfully. She had read the regulations. The Special Game Review Bureau was a temporary unit, not military, not political, not police, yet its power was unimaginably vast.

Its members, though elite transferees from various departments, were supposed to play down their backgrounds.

She also found herself inexplicably detached from her original department, which irked her.

"I used to be? Wait… did you betray me this time?"

He Zudao finally understood where he had slipped up, feeling so upset he wanted to vomit blood.

He thought his plan had been perfect, but he hadn't expected that right at the game's launch, someone was already plotting against him.

Such a long con had to succeed.

He lost, and it wasn't unjust!

"He Zudao!"

Xie Biqi's expression grew stern, seizing the initiative, "You now have two choices—first, go to jail, perhaps even become a subject of research. Second, join the Special Review Bureau, work under me, and atone for your crimes. Choose one."

"Do I even have a choice?"

He Zudao sighed, "I'll join!"

"Good, sign this contract."

Xie Biqi threw a contract over to him, "Then follow me to meet Jiang Shang and Huang Tianyao."

"Ah…"

He Zudao glanced briefly at it and signed, mumbling under his breath, "So there was a traitor in our team of players, no wonder I lost so miserably… Jiang Shang and Huang Tianyao, you want to recruit them too?"

"Of course… Transcendent powers are even more dangerous than firearms, at least they need official guidance, they cannot be uncontrolled."

Xie Biqi replied with righteousness on her face.

As for Jiang Shang and Huang Tianyao, they were basically guaranteed captures.

These two tycoons liked to scatter money offline, catching one could pull out a lot of others—a very prime recruitment target.

Identifying their real identities was quite simple.

Xie Biqi had long created their profiles and entered them into a large database for matching.

Although these handmade profiles could be slightly inaccurate, finding a few suspected individuals was not hard.

With further information obtained from other guild players, identifying the target was nearly confirmed.

There might be thousands or even tens of thousands of people named 'Lin Fan' in Daxia, but those whose name was 'Lin Fan' and also looked quite similar to Lin Fan, might only number a few dozen in the whole world.

And among those fitting the above conditions and also associated with ancient martial arts circles, there could be only the real Lin Fan.

With such methods, as long as Xie Biqi had enough time, she was confident she could investigate all three hundred players.

Unfortunately, as players progressed to higher levels too fast and mastered some techniques of hiding their identities.

And with the third test adding a thousand new players, the workload surged, leaving both of them nearly exhausted and unable to finish.

After the latest patch was released and players became aware of the otherworldly realm, they became even more cunning.

Even so, the over a hundred old player profiles Xie Biqi had previously organized were immediately protected by Shen Mo, who also heavily praised her and credited her with a great achievement.

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