After agreeing on a time for the exchange, Long Yin left Jiang Jian’s apartment with a strange look on his face.
Getting Jiang Jian Yue’s help wasn’t free—the Light Extinguishers also had to offer something in return.
And the condition Jiang Jian Yue wanted—either a Superpower User or a Tunjiti corpse.
Such a bizarre request.
At least within Long Yin’s understanding, no Tunjiti corpse could be reused.
Some Superpower User corpses, though, were useful, like the “Light Bug” currently used by major organizations.
A Light Bug could swiftly and covertly erase all traces of corpses related to the Mind Bug System, achieving a godlike disappearance effect, and wouldn’t damage the bodies of non-awakened humans.
It also had the characteristic of rapidly reproducing after devouring Mind Bug System corpses.
Because of this, it became a useful tool for organizations to clean up.
These Light Bugs were originally discovered within the corpse of a Cicada Shell Host during the early days of the Cold War, but such corpses were extremely rare.
Well… whatever, it’s better not to think about these things.
Since the Missy wants it, just get it for her——
Hiss… when did I start calling Jiang Jian “Missy”?
Terrace.
After watching Long Yin leave, Jiang Jian Yue returned indoors, took a soda from the fridge, and sat in front of the computer.
It was happy gaming time again.
But the moment she turned on her computer, her Penguin private messages exploded.
A message from a five-stack teammate struck like a bolt from the blue:
“J-chu, it’s over, your 5E account is banned!”
There’s such a thing?
Jiang Jian Yue hurriedly logged into 5E and saw it displayed as banned for cheating.
She immediately contacted 5E customer service to dispute it, but the final result was both laughable and frustrating—because 5E had found that the real-name ID used for authentication had been deregistered, and both manual and AI checks judged it as a cheat.
Even though no specific cheating software was detected, she was still banned.
If 5E can’t be played, then let’s go to Guanpi.
After all, the point isn’t about rank—it’s about having fun playing with friends.
But even before finishing a single Guanpi match, Jiang Jian Yue was hit with a VAC (Valve Corporation anti-cheat ban)—it was her first time seeing a ban happen mid-match.
Upon discovering Jiang Jian Yue had been banned, her five-stack teammate Waterpipe let out a miserable scream and seemed to faint.
The skins he lent Jiang Jian Yue were also frozen along with the ban.
The total value wasn’t much, just a bit over fifty thousand—but for the current Jiang Jian Yue, that was nothing.
But the problem was, how could she transfer money from this world over there?
Jiang Jian Yue had already experimented before—money from the anime world couldn’t be transferred to the real world by scanning a code.
Jiang Jian Yue was anxious too, swearing to her teammates that she’d repay four thousand if she was caught cheating.
“J-chu, I trust you—after all, you’ve got Superpowers now. But the problem is, people in our world won’t believe it.”
Another teammate, Bayeli, said.
“Do you have any way to come to the real world?”
I comforted Waterpipe for a bit, then asked casually.
“If I did… I would have gone back a long time ago.”
Jiang Jian Yue suppressed the irritation from being banned and spoke apologetically.
“I’ll pay you back.”
Waterpipe was just an office worker—the skins were all bought through scrimping and saving to fulfill his only hobby.
No matter how generous he was, he couldn’t say, “It’s okay.”
“Isn’t your money unusable?”
I asked.
“Uh… there are lots of ways… to make money online?”
Like writing novels, being a game companion, making videos with sponsors, doing livestreams, and so on.
The story of her being banned and owing money quickly spread in the group.
Everyone brainstormed a bunch of unreliable solutions.
[91 had a newcomer. Everyone knew it was only a matter of time before she was caught]
[Prioritize me for fruit chat, I’m easy to trick]
[HLTV: Stand like a shami with palms together, sit like a lotus in full bloom! Tomorrow’s Star Emi powerfully joins Blue Bird]
“Genius!”
Even though it was all borderline stuff, Jiang Jian Yue didn’t feel offended—the topics in the group, especially among the physical girls, were even wilder.
Everyone was used to it.
Autumn Moon Aitouli, who was a professional illustrator in the group, proposed an idea:
[Why not debut as a VTuber? I’ve even thought of the livestream title—B-Limited learns Chinese]
[First, Dongyang Xuelian rushes into China with Daiwa Soul, then Emi-chan pretends to be Japanese and learns Chinese]
[It even rhymes]
[I’ve been a single push Emi-chan fan since birth]
[With J-chu’s looks, it doesn’t seem necessary to use a vtuber avatar? Or rather, which of these vtuber girls are as good-looking anyway]
[My lord, I have another plan]
“Oh? You have a plan too?”
[Nowadays, vtuber avatars are everywhere—anyone not male can join in. Even basic lewd behaviors have flooded the scene. Remember, the most popular might not be the most fluent in Chinese, but the ones who best understand New Media]
[Only hype works!]
[There won’t be many viewers at first, so have group members go and troll you. All you need to do is insult them.]
[That’s it?]
[How is that a plan?]
[Are you a masochist who just wants to be flamed?]
[Then have a Cut Piece Editor post a clip with the title: Japanese little V gets trolled on Ruistation on their debut, Guonan is too much!]
[Now that’s got the vibe, but I’m not sure it’ll go viral]
[NONONO, the brilliance of the plan is yet to come]
[Next, we post you on Bar, and you can post another clip: Japanese little V livestreams in tears after being posted on Bar!]
[The real drama comes after. We spread hype on Bar, and soon, a real-life headshot of Emi-chan will appear under the post]
[Box!]
[Wow, box!]
[Of course, the headshot would be posted by one of our shill accounts. With Emi-chan’s looks, wouldn’t she crush all those vtuber avatars? Who in the Virtual Zone wouldn’t want their favorite to be attractive in real life?]
[Then, post another cut: Japanese little V gets exposed on Bar just days after starting, this is Celis speed!]
[Then crazily open small accounts to spread Emi-chan’s headshot on every platform, letting more people see Emi-chan’s beauty]
[With so many filters nowadays, high looks aren’t rare. But a vtuber who’s actually good-looking is still uncommon]
[As long as the livestream itself has no problems, maybe it won’t explode, but at least you can make some dirty money]
[Wonderful!]
[Are college students all trained by Fugou now? If Fugou had vtuber girls with this kind of appearance, they’d definitely hype them the same way]
“What you said makes sense, but as for hyping… let’s forget it!”
Jiang Jian Yue decided to repay the money with her own effort, not using such underhanded methods—if she couldn’t make money, then so be it.
After writing an electronic IOU for Waterpipe, Jiang Jian Yue also wrote one for Autumn Moon Aitouli as payment for drawing the vtuber avatar.
Although Autumn Moon Aitouli didn’t want to accept money, Jiang Jian Yue was firm, ultimately coding her own ID onto the IOU.
As for the account to be used for livestreaming, it was provided by Hao Hou Mi, Group Owner Renzu.
There would likely be all sorts of identity troubles in the future, but that was for later.
If nothing else worked, she could always write novels.
A Smelly Code Writer—nobody cared about their real identity, as long as they had an ID card.