CHAPTER 458: CHAPTER 345: SHOCKING!!! _2

But there was one piece of information that Wen Nan was one hundred percent certain of—practically speaking, female players couldn’t exist in this game.

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No female players exist, so what’s the situation with Yu Shujun?

The statistic of male players being more than 99.9999% convinced Wen Nan that Yu Shujun is a little feminine boy.

But why was it that when Wen Nan previously mentioned the topic, "Your niche group also has a tough time in this game," Yu Shujun was able to chat with him so easily about it?

Were they cross-server chatting at that time?

The niche group Wen Nan referred to is one protected by certain l.g.b.q, but Yu Shujun wasn’t part of that group at all.

So what group did Yu Shujun admit to being a part of back then?

Once this question emerged in Wen Nan’s mind, it immediately took root and quickly sprouted a fresh idea.

This idea allowed Wen Nan to effortlessly solve some issues that had previously perplexed him—

At the start of the game, on the trial map, when Yu Shujun and Wen Nan came into conflict over that "Soul of Reproduction" fragment, Yu Shujun went berserk.

At that time, Yu Shujun used a seemingly amazing skill to mobilize characters, items, equipment, and even some public facilities from half the map to simultaneously attack Wen Nan.

It was like a super invincible multiplied version of Ice Dragon.

Similar to Phoenix Woman’s abilities in X-Men, it was not an exaggeration to describe it as "Master of All Existence."

Wen Nan, at the time, was envious and wanted to use the "Soul of Reproduction" fragment to copy that skill, but all he got was a system message stating "Unable to detect a copyable target."

Why couldn’t the Soul of Reproduction fragment copy such a powerful skill when it was unleashed?

Because that wasn’t a skill.

If Wen Nan had used something like "Do Not Slyly" to steal others’ skills and received such a target selection failure system message, he would have had nothing to say.

But, the problem was, Wen Nan was using the Divine Staff Fragment to copy it at the time.

The Divine Staff Fragment is a priority that overrides other systems, the top-tier type of Divine Artifact in this world.

The Divine Staff Fragment can not only replicate skills but also items, equipment, attributes—it can replicate them all.

It even successfully replicated the Riding Glyph and permanently fixed it at the highest golden Riding Glyph level.

So why couldn’t such a powerful fragment copy the "Master of All Existence" Yu Shujun released at that time?

Because that "Master of All Existence" wasn’t a skill, wasn’t an item, wasn’t an attribute, wasn’t any kind of special effect a player could obtain.

What exactly was it?

Why could Yu Shujun get it?

Because Yu Shujun had connected her consciousness to the system embedded in that trial map.

The way she controlled various characters and objects there wasn’t through player skills, equipment, or attributes but by relying on the system in the map to mobilize everything controlled by the system’s network.

Why could she achieve this?

How did she execute such a bug even more than Wen Nan?

It wasn’t just the "Master of All Existence" in the trial map effect; Yu Shujun had done similar manipulations of the instance’s built-in systems countless times.

In the trial map, she disguised herself as an "academic dominator," created a fake identity, and even "polluted" the background introductions of other characters, forcefully modifying them.

In the subsequent faction warfare campus map, she donned Minmin’s role shell, standing in a faction players couldn’t play. When the instance system discovered a bug and intervened in the investigation, Yu Shujun, the player with the most suspicion, wasn’t interrogated or punished first; she even transformed and was appointed as the investigator by the system.

Even more egregious, before the previous incident’s results had been investigated, this "thief shouting to catch the thief" investigator brazenly committed another crime in this instance, once again donning a role identity, becoming a hidden character, and even turning the treasure chest keys acquired in the previous map into crucial items.

Indeed, in the player’s system store, there are special items that can help players transform into role identities, but those items have extremely strict conditions. For example, in the previous faction warfare instance, even if players bought items to change identity in advance, the system did not allow players to arbitrarily convert their identity card to any unreleased factions.

However, Yu Shujun accomplished this.

Beyond these issues of identity and skills, many of Yu Shujun’s behaviors and stances were also very peculiar—

So friendly to Qiqi, Erin, and other characters, yet showing coldness to most players and even being hot and cold to Wen Nan.

Clearly possessing such a clever mind, but in some matters, appearing foolish and lacking common knowledge, unable to understand "Shining Twins," not knowing "Divine Eagle Hero," not having heard of "Frankenstein," and even not recognizing "Sun Wukong," an iconic figure every native knows from childhood...

Holding a "Root Breaking Slash," capable of slicing through walls created by the Divine Staff Sheath that players couldn’t cross.

In the test space crafted for her by the Divine Staff Sheath, the memories she feared the most extracted from deep within her mind, in addition to the faceless woman, were all related to Guardians.

Why were her childhood fears related to herself, her memories so vague? Why was the impact of those Guardians dying in front of her so devastating?

Why did Yu Shoushier, corresponding to the fragment of Wen Nan, when faced with players’ malicious pursuit, first thought of seeking the shelter of Yu Shujun, a player who preferred to be alone? What made Yu Shoushier believe that Yu Shujun wouldn’t collude with Carl Milak and the others?

The trust those female characters had in Yu Shujun, Yu Shujun’s overly friendly attitude toward those female players...

Yu Shujun’s extremely lack of common sense behaviors and words...

Those strange skills and equipment she carried...

Adding it all up, if Wen Nan was considered a supermodel-level player, then Yu Shujun was wearing a "model" as an outfit!

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Realizing this, Wen Nan lifted his gaze from his palm and intently stared at Yu Shujun’s face.

Yu Shujun felt her heart clench under his gaze, and she came over to Wen Nan’s side, squatted down, and looked up at him, "What’s wrong?"

Wen Nan lifted his hand, gently stroking the other’s cheek.

The alabaster, delicate skin, the azure eyes, the exquisitely high-bridged nose, the rosy lips...

The full yet not overly magnificent breast, perfectly arced, made even mathematicians exclaim at the unimaginably perfect curve...

The slender yet not fragile waist, underneath the soft skin, covered with a thin layer of muscle, making the touch just right...

The plump and resilient thighs, the straight slender calves, and the well-crafted toes as if made of translucent pink crystals...

Even if Wen Nan were to sculpt a face himself, to form a body with his own hands now, he couldn’t make a face so attractive, couldn’t create such a perfect body.

How could there be a face, so perfectly aligned with Wen Nan’s aesthetic points?

Wen Nan suddenly understood the sentiments those strategy characters expressed, wondering how such a male appearance perfectly fit their aesthetic, phenomena that they had described.

Just like Wen Nan’s maxed-out charm attribute, the reason Yu Shujun possessed such a perfect face was because she had twenty-eight stars.

What Wen Nan made Yu Shujun admit earlier, by chance, was not that she was part of any l.g.b.q. feminine boy group.

Instead, she belonged to another special group existing in this game world—

Yu Shujun is a character.

Not a player-acted role, from the start to the end, she was just a character.

Jun Wuming’s player number was merely her disguise.

Yu Shujun’s character number was her true form.

She wasn’t a player disguised as a character.

She was a character, disguised as a player.