From Stiller's statement, Lin Yu also unlocked new information related to the Sleepless City dungeon.

That world seemed to have no ocean.

Although he didn't know what use this information from Stiller would have for now, Lin Yu remembered it.

Afterwards, after temporarily establishing a subtle "cooperative" relationship with Stiller...

Lin Yu put him back into his item space.

This guy followed orders but not declarations—even though he seemed submissive now, Lin Yu didn't dare gamble that he wouldn't have second thoughts in the middle of the night.

As a mere mortal with a physical body, he still needed to sleep.

This artificial human had also undergone strange modifications—what if he slipped out to kill and set fires in the middle of the night?

Putting aside everything else...

Even if Lin Zhao in the next room saw him, it wouldn't be easy to handle.

How would Lin Yu explain to his sister why there was suddenly a murderous-looking foreigner in the room?

As for whether Stiller himself liked being stored in the item space...

That was a different matter entirely.

After putting Stiller away, Hannah leaned on the table and spoke.

"So he's an artificial human, no wonder his energy and soul felt so strange..."

Lin Yu looked at Hannah, quite surprised. "You can see human souls too?"

"No, but I can sense them," Hannah gestured with her tentacles in front of her. "Anyway, if Uncle Ka saw him, he'd be overjoyed—this is premium ingredients!"

Hannah casually uttered some rather terrifying words.

Lin Yu instantly thought of that deeply memorable dish—"A Victor's Blood Runs Ever Sweet."

He rubbed his temples.

"Although I had some expectations, formally knowing that your diet includes intelligent beings still makes me feel a bit uncomfortable..."

Hannah scratched her head. "Sorry, Director..."

"No, it's not your fault, just a difference in perspective."

Lin Yu sighed.

If possible, he still hoped that eating "humanoid creatures" wouldn't happen again.

What he ate in that dungeon didn't cross the bottom line—at least that monster seemed to have no intelligence and couldn't speak.

"Enough, no more thinking about this nonsense. Next, I need to start checking messages."

Lin Yu muttered and began another important activity he did every time he returned, besides taking stock of gains.

Handling the messages accumulated across various identities.

He first took out "Zhu Ming's" phone.

Since he had been active as Zhu Ming this time, of course he needed to check if there were any messages on Zhu Ming's side.

Four minutes ago, there was a text message from Li Nian.

"Made it home safely!"

Looking at Li Nian's text, before Lin Yu could reply, another new message popped in.

"About what you mentioned, Sister Pan agreed. Don't forget what I arranged for you either."

Seeing this message, Lin Yu nodded slightly.

Although his contact with Pan Yuqiang had been brief, Lin Yu intuitively felt she was trustworthy.

Afterwards, he put down Zhu Ming's phone and picked up Old Yao's.

He checked the Jiang'an Hall APP—no activity there either, only a private message from Tycoon telling him they planned to promote him to team leader the day after tomorrow.

Lin Yu replied in an extremely flattered tone with "I'm deeply honored and will definitely live up to expectations," adding two cupped fist emojis.

After replying, Lin Yu also set aside this phone.

He picked up the one belonging to "May"—preparing to contact Fu Luo.

On one hand, to fulfill Li Nian's request and arrange a time to deliver the items to Fu Luo.

On the other hand...

Lin Yu also remembered there was another new suspicious point about Fu Luo.

Something he couldn't investigate using Zhu Ming's identity, but that really bothered Lin Yu.

"Who exactly is investigating 'Fluoxetine'?"

"Is he unwilling to expose this matter in front of 'Citalopram,' or... was his forum account hacked?"

"It can't be multiple personality disorder, right?"

As Lin Yu pondered, he finally opened the forum intending to send Fu Luo another private message to contact him.

But the moment he opened the forum...

Lin Yu suddenly saw a prompt pop up on his phone.

A prompt from the forum.

"Detected that you have unlocked [Social] privileges. Would you like to link them to your forum account?"

"Please complete the linking confirmation as soon as possible. Otherwise, after 72 hours you will be unable to use the forum's advanced functions normally."

Lin Yu was stunned.

And if it were just a prompt popping up on his phone, that would be one thing.

But besides this prompt appearing on his phone...

Lin Yu also saw blood-red text popping up before his eyes.

A prompt from the Death Game itself—the [Social] privileges were actually being affected by the forum at this moment and automatically activating!

A message popped up.

["Forum Assistant" has been added to your social list.]

Lin Yu watched as a account named "Forum Assistant" appeared in the [Social] friends list. Focusing his attention on it, Lin Yu discovered that the menu that popped up wasn't the normal chat, trade, team-up functions.

The available options were Visit, Search, and Settings!

Through the "Visit" function, he could actually directly access and browse the forum from there.

However, since Lin Yu hadn't bound his account yet, he couldn't post for now.

At this moment, Lin Yu finally understood why Tycoon had said that after unlocking "privileges," he would hold the forum in even greater awe.

This was just too unbelievable!

Lin Yu now somewhat suspected that the forum's creator might be some deity, like some "God of Watering and Trolling" or something!

"This is just too ridiculous!"

After collecting himself, Lin Yu sent a message to Fu Luo.

"Your stuff got stolen, I already retrieved it for you—find some time to arrange a location, I'll deliver it to you."

After sending the message, the distracted Lin Yu had no patience to wait for Fu Luo's reply. He hurriedly picked up his original phone.

After some contemplation and internal struggle, Lin Yu made a decision—while keeping the May phone still on and in his hand, he also opened the forum interface on his original phone!

Then...

"Detected that you have unlocked [Social] privileges. Would you like to link them to your forum account?"

"Please complete the linking confirmation as soon as possible. Otherwise, after 72 hours you will be unable to use the forum's advanced functions normally."

The same prompt popped up again.

Only this time, Lin Yu's [Social] privileges seemed to have glitched out!

His [Social] template first gained an identical "Forum Assistant" account.

But the blood-red prompt had just appeared when it immediately vanished.

Then, a second "Forum Assistant" account kept popping in and out of existence.

Finally...

Under Lin Yu's tense observation, he felt that this [Social] privilege that originally existed in his mind seemed to have malfunctioned, and then...

It split into two.

Looking at the two [Social] panels, one on the left and one on the right, Lin Yu was completely shocked.

The forum was absolutely several times more mysterious and powerful than Tycoon or any other player could imagine.

Because from what just happened, Lin Yu felt he had discovered a fact that probably only he could verify.

The authority of this forum APP that existed in reality seemed to be even higher than the blood-red prompts of the Death Game itself!