Quadruple split

No. 24 Ordinary

Real time PM17:39

City B, Dexin District, Motan's Apartment

"Okay, okay. I'll trouble you two then."

Standing on the balcony, Mo Tan was enjoying the sunset and the evening breeze while speaking to the person on the other end of the phone very sincerely, "I'm so sorry, but I do have some difficulties here. Um, budget is not a problem, then... oh, okay, let's discuss the details in the game later. I'll take some time to get the goods after it's finalized. Okay, okay, that's it for now. Bye."

Finally, after finalizing the specific ordering process, Mo Tan put down his phone and breathed a long sigh of relief.

The person on the other end of the phone was the only "under-the-table" contact of Mo Tan besides a certain young boy. And unlike the latter, this person was a serious businessman who could sell anything and dared to sell anything.

As far as Mo Tan knows, the twin brothers who run the shop "Strange and Weird", that is, the owners named Ferry Rice and Joe Rice, have an incredibly wide range of business.

Not to mention the various and varied products they sell, the brothers' customer base is also complex enough, such as ordinary people, "ordinary people" like Mo Tan, not-so-ordinary marginalized people, and players and NPCs in the game "Boundary of Innocence".

Besides, Mo Tan had enough reasons to believe that the brothers also had clients in the field of monsters and demons. After all, the [Rune Shroud] and [Hand-painted Leather] that didn't look like spoof products at all, and the [Sulfur-flavored Popping Candy] with sparks coming out from under the wrapping paper didn't look like they were for normal people.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that they are both businessmen. The kid who runs the [Chuuni Club] is too cunning and is a very difficult guy even for Mo Tan. As the boss of [Strange and Weird], although the brothers Ferry Rice and Joe Rice are also principled in some cases, but -

As long as their principles are not touched upon or they are not incorporated into another principle, these two people will become quite easy to talk to and their curiosity will almost approach zero.

In fact, for a long time before, the twin store managers were regarded as a huge hidden danger by Mo Tan. The reason was that although Mo Tan looked exactly like the "Hei Fan" in the game, he used the character "Tan Mo" and the name of "Mo Tan" to contact the two.

The operation that seemed to be no big deal less than a year ago, and could even be considered as multiple benefits, now seems hard not to be considered a failure.

It is true that whether it is 'Hei Fan' or 'Mo' in [Realm of Innocence], the probability of dealing with [Strange and Weird] is much lower than 'Tan Mo', but the problem is that Mo Tan, who was on the sidelines about this game, did not consider the image issue when creating his first character. Even when he realized that this game might be a big hit and planned to play it for a long time, he did not think that Hei Fan, a character with no ambitions, would be well-known.

In terms of popularity, professional players such as Xinglong, Guoshi Wushuang, Lusail, and Fangshi have strength, image, and fan base. In Mo Tan's opinion ten months ago, if these professional players entered [The Realm of Innocence], they would definitely become the big traffic users under the spotlight.

He guessed right about this.

In terms of strength, there are 200 people on each of the [Individual Combat Power Ranking] and [Comprehensive Strength Ranking], and those on the list will surely become the focus of the public. Even if 'Mo' makes it to the combat power ranking with his outstanding skills, even if 'Tan Mo' becomes a wealthy conspirator and makes it to the comprehensive ranking one day, Hei Fan will never be able to enter such a stage with explosive fashion value.

Considering that 'Mo' is currently around 120th on the battle power list, 'Tan Mo' is around 70th on the comprehensive list, and 'Hei Fan' did not make the list, we can assume that he guessed correctly.

Ten months ago, Mo Tan had made all kinds of calculations, but he never expected that the character 'Hei Fan' would become the most exposed, popular and influential character among the player community in just less than a year.

This is unscientific, unrealistic and illogical.

After all, leaving aside his personal abilities, judging from his personality alone, Black Brahma, who is dominated by an absolutely neutral side, would never like to show up in public!

It’s a pity that although many high-quality novels, animations or other similar works talk about science, reality, and logic, reality... never makes sense to you.

Therefore, although he should be the most insignificant character in Mo Tan, "Hei Fan" has become one of the most dazzling stars in the group in just ten months, and even became the first player to go viral because of the serialized documentary literature "Misha's Diary".

Note! Since all the major clubs and studios were still waiting and watching at that time, Hei Fan was literally the first player to break out of the circle, not the first "non-professional" player to break out of the circle!

After that, 'Hei Fan', who had no popularity base, did disappear from the public eye for a while. However, not long after, the [Battle to Defend the Holy Mountain] started in the Holy Mountain of Sumir. I will not go into details about the process. As for the result... Mo Tan once again welcomed a wave of popularity as the 'first player leader of the world quest in the first region after the explosion of the Realm of Innocence and the No. 1 contributor'. Although this incident did not go viral and Hei Fan, who had already turned off the friend switch, did not receive any harassment, the discussion on the Internet was not low at all.

Later, there was the [War League] which was relatively niche but directly demonstrated its strength. After all, the players who were qualified to stay in Academy City during the exchange meeting were basically rare, and those who paid attention to the exchange meeting basically belonged to the upper structure of the player group. Therefore, after that time, Heifan could be said to have given the "high-end player" circle a little bit of super RL (Raid Leader) shock.

Not only that... 'Hei Fan' became the first player on the stage to have a strong influence in the game and proved his strength.

You know, although top professional players such as Xinglong and Guoshi Wushuang did live up to their popularity, they only had high-level strength. No matter how special they were, once they left the player circle, they would immediately be wiped out by everyone in the [Realm of Innocence]. Even Cordova, with his epic peak strength, could only be regarded as a strong man in the NPC group, far from being able to cause a sensation.

However, 'Black Brahma' successfully made the whole world focus on him with his wonderful deduction with Foster Ward (?).

Perhaps it is difficult for ordinary players to understand what this means, but in the eyes of professional clubs and studios, the three words "influence" alone are enough to make the value of the character Heifan exceed that of the [Red Constellation], [Wind-Breaking Bird] and [Card Man] packaged together.

It may sound a bit exaggerated, but it is true.

After all, the three mercenary groups, which were not small in scale, had strong backgrounds and abundant resources, could not compare with the new darling of the Dawn Sect and the youngest northern commander of the Holy Church Union.

To put it bluntly, in the world view of [Realm of Innocence], Xinglong and his gang of super popular professional players combined are not as good as 'Hei Fan'.

Of course, this is only temporary. After all, with the increased investment from clubs and studios, as well as the terrifying growth potential of super professional players, perhaps within half a year, the top players will all enter the epic level, and then things will become different.

But now is now, and the future is the future. At least in the current year 9571 of the holy calendar, Hei Fan is an absolute superstar.

Under the premise of all the above, he led the [Haunted Church] as the absolute core and won the championship of [Guilt Battle·Team Battle].

Thus, we can draw a conclusion:

As long as Joe Rice and Ferry Rice are not primitive people, they will have a 100% one-sided understanding of Hei Fan and equate him with the real Mo Tan.

Then the formula of Hei Fan = Mo Tan = Tan Mo will be established, allowing the two brothers to capture more clues.

This also proves one thing, no matter how careful his mind is, without vision of the future, Mo Tan will still make such a serious mistake.

This is normal because he is only a human being after all, and as long as one is human, he will make mistakes.

Of course, although this level of error is serious in nature, the consequences... are actually nothing. From a result-oriented perspective, it can even be considered a good thing.

Here are the reasons:

First, the Rice brothers are professional businessmen who have seen the world and have good morals and qualities. So even though they know some things that seem to be very extraordinary, it will not have any negative impact on Mo Tan's life, and the two of them are obviously not the kind of people who like to cause trouble for others.

Second, after realizing that Mo Tan was not just an ordinary person (after all, it was impossible for an ordinary person to create two characters in [Realm of Innocence]), the brothers also made some adjustments to his sales threshold, such as deciding to sell him some things that ordinary people theoretically didn't need, as they did just now.

After all, when he revealed his real identity to the two of them as 'Tan Mo', Mo Tan had already considered the worst outcome, and having the Rice brothers know some things was obviously within his tolerance.

But the problem now is that he needs to worry about far more than just the two Rice brothers who he doesn't need to deal with at all!

"Han~ The bell rings at night, facing the shadow——"

"Xue Yin?"

Mo Tan glanced at the caller ID, answered the phone with a subtle expression, and asked with concern: "Did you get home safely? Did you encounter any trouble on the way?"

"Great, Brother Mo Tan is so warm!"

Xue Yin cheered in surprise from the other end of the line, and then her cheers turned into a wail: "She said she got home safely, but she did encounter some trouble on the way."

Mo Tan was immediately startled and asked hurriedly, "What's the trouble?"

"Oh, it's Miss Xiaole."

Xue Yin sniffed and said pitifully, "She had no intention of letting me go. She did something very terrible to Xue Yin before we even got out of the elevator!"

"Well, so, Sister Xiaole is indeed..."

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"Of course, Xue Yin has already confirmed it for you. Sister Xiao Le is also an Onmyoji outside the game. She's a damn powerful Onmyoji!"

"Huh, Sister Xiaole's words probably won't really hurt you."

"She's hurt! Xue Yin was beaten! If it wasn't for Shu Shu, she would definitely have a scar!"

"What's going on? Why!?"

"Because Xue Yin asked Shu Shu to fight with Sister Xiao Le! Shu Shu is very powerful, Sister Xiao Le said she couldn't hold back!"

"……ah?"

…

In the next ten minutes, Xue Yin briefly explained to Mo Tan what happened after the two left. The content in between was not repeated. In the end, Shu Shu and Gu Xiaole chose to stop after realizing that the other party was very difficult to deal with. They ignored Xue Yin's quarrel and decided to stop.

"Hey, then we'll go back to our homes."

Xue Yin gave a silly laugh that didn't sound very smart, and said cheerfully, "Sister Xiao Le agreed that I can come and play with you, Brother Mo Tan, whenever I have time. And I succeeded in making her think that you don't know about my 'specialness'. Although it was just an impromptu performance, it shouldn't have been seen through."

"That's good. I'm really sorry to bother you this time."

Mo Tan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled gratefully at the super idol on the other end of the phone: "By the way, congratulations on finally writing your first original lyrics."

"Thank you, Brother Mo Tan, but I will still release songs under your name."

Xue Yin seemed even happier to be praised, and said cheerfully, "I'll record a demo and send it to you later!"

"good."

Mo Tan nodded, then changed the subject and said softly: "Speaking of which, since your identity has been completely exposed to Sister Xiao Le, then..."

"Ahahaha, although I tried my best to cover it up--"

Xue Yin smiled awkwardly, and said in a subtle tone: "But I think the identity of 'Tan Mo' should be exposed. After all, Brother Mo Tan, your name is too careless. Who would use the reverse pronunciation for a pseudonym? It was fine before [Questioning the Crime], but after seeing my super sweet confession, it's hard for Sister Xiao Le not to guess something."

Mo Tan sighed, and did not explain that he was pretending to be named 'Tan Mo' on purpose so that Shuangye would know that he knew Shuangye knew Hei Fan's real name and therefore deliberately chose a similar name in an attempt to frame Mo Tan's fault on Mo Tan (? ). On the one hand, there was no need to tell such a lie to Xue Yin, and on the other hand, Xue Yin probably couldn't figure it out.

but--

"It doesn't matter."

Mo Tan simply comforted Xue Yin, who had no guilt at all, and said seriously, "Compared to these, let's focus on the [Realm of Innocence]."

"Haha, Brother Mo Tan, you really like this game!"

"If only I could love more simply..."

"Is there anything you can't tell me?"

"some."

"Is it troublesome?"

“It’s very troublesome.”

"More troublesome than these things in reality?"

"Of course, after all, I am just an ordinary person in reality."

"Eh? So in the game you..."

"In the game, 'I' is a little too unusual."

Chapter 2481: End