"That's right." Huang Haoshan nodded, watching the two somewhat warily.
He'd never heard of a Sixth Special Operations Division or whatever. Although it sounded very powerful, why would the Federation's Bureau of Investigation care about a game he developed?
The man in the suit exchanged a glance with the other person, then turned to him again. "Are you the sole original creator of the game's backstory and content?"
Huang Haoshan's heart skipped a beat. Could the two before him be here to investigate intellectual property infringement? Was there really something wrong with the game's storyline?
"Y-Yes…" Huang Haoshan wiped the cold sweat that was about to drip from his forehead and answered tensely.
The stranger saw his response and suddenly smiled. He placed a hand on Huang Haoshan's shoulder and asked, "Then, can you please tell me why—starting from the seventh main chapter—the content is completely different from earlier storylines?"
It was as if a bomb instantly exploded inside Huang Haoshan's head, and he was finally certain that the other party did not just randomly find him. Rather, they actually had evidence.
The stranger's cold expression made Huang Haoshan imagine people in police uniforms arresting him and taking him away.
"I confess, I confess…" Huang Haoshan immediately admitted without any hesitation.
Under the Federation's law, intentional and unintentional intellectual property infringement were crimes of completely different severities. The sooner he confessed, the more likely he was to receive leniency.
"It might sound unbelievable, but…" Huang Haoshan looked at the two a little awkwardly and revealed, "information about this game just appeared in my head."
...
Huang Haoshan never doubted the two investigators' origins.
Perhaps they could lie about being from the Federation's Bureau of Investigation, but the other party knew about the differences between the seventh and eight main chapters and the rest of the earlier storyline—that could not be a lie.
The entire in-game background of"Myriad Gods"was written by Huang Haoshan himself. Naturally, he also wrote the last two chapters.
But very few people knew that the earlier storylines were copied directly from the information that appeared in his head, while the last two chapters were written by him based on previous information.
However, after so many years of game development, Huang Haoshan was confident that there were no problems with the last two chapters, and the connection with the previous ones was also seamless.
It had already been two years since the last two main chapters were released, and they still received glowing reviews from players. No one ever complained about a decline in quality, so what could be wrong with them?
But Huang Haoshan knew that someone really might be able to discover the problem, and that was the original author of the information that popped up in his head.
After Huang Haoshan confessed everything, Gu Nan and Daoist Yellow Springs stared at each other, feeling a little dismayed for a moment.
No one would have thought that this precious information about the future of the two outside worlds would just randomly appear in some normal person's head.
Gu Nan thought for a while and asked, "You mean, after the sixth main chapter, no new information appeared in your head?"
"Yes." Huang Haoshan nodded. "New information would automatically appear in my head every July, but I haven't seen anything in the past two years."
After saying this, Huang Haoshan anxiously said, "Gentlemen, I didn't mean to plagiarize. I thought these were…"
"It's fine." Gu Nan patted his shoulder with a smile. "Don't tell anyone about what happened today."
...
In a nearby teahouse, Gu Nan and Daoist Yellow Springs were sitting across from each other.
"Do you think this is manmade?" Daoist Yellow Springs thought for a long time and suddenly asked.
He never thought the truth would be so absurd. He subconsciously believed there was a mastermind behind it and tried to analyze the other party's goal.
Gu Nan, on the other hand, shook his head. "We can't be certain yet. And even if it was manmade, the mastermind actually has better methods to handle this."
Simply stuffing information into a random person's brain was too crude.
Besides, the idea of a mastermind pulling the strings was simply too ridiculous. Why would the mastermind take such a big detour when there were way more efficient methods?
Gu Nan was more inclined to believe that this was a yet-undiscovered natural phenomenon. It was similar to how Fu Cheng was taken away, which was clearly a spontaneous behavior of the dimensional wall.
"We've now confirmed how information about the future appears, but why is it Molag?" Gu Nan's thoughts quickly moved onto the next step.
Besides Lu Wen, who was brought out by Daoist Yellow Springs, why Gu Nan and the others were able to leave the Origin World was also a mystery in itself.
Daoist Yellow Springs came to his senses and stood up., "I'll stay here. We need more information to confirm Zhou Xuan's special nature."
...
The investigation into Zhou Xuan and Molag continued, but this matter was mainly left to Daoist Yellow Springs while Gu Nan came to the World of Gods alone.
He completely hid his whereabouts with shadows. Thanks to the Tier 14 law of shadows, not even the greater gods could easily detect him.
He stopped near Molag's Divine Kingdom and quietly watched the other party's movements. In passing, he saw Karina leave.
Gu Nan wasn't surprised that Molag wanted to become friends with Karina.
After all, Gu Nan already read the information from Tilvence and knew what Karina would accomplish in the future… Actually, he didn't even need to read that to know.
Karina's strength and special nature had already been revealed during Gu Nan's era.
But what truly piqued Gu Nan's interest was that since Molag transmigrated while playing a game, was it possible that he possessed a related golden finger?
Although he and Daoist Yellow Springs didn't find anything unusual when they investigated Molag's background before, it may be that the other party's abilities were more subtle.
After all, directly lighting one's divine fire in just two years was still a bit miraculous.
Anyhow, there are still three months until Song Fei finishes with weapon refining, so he can quietly observe Molag's actions in the meantime…
Of course, observation alone was not enough. Molag's current life was a little too comfortable, which could not force him to reveal his potential.
If hardships didn't exist, one could simply create hardships.
The opportunity quickly came.
...
On this day, Molag developed his Divine Kingdom as usual, recruiting believers from different planes while simultaneously conducting a treasure hunt.
For transmigrators familiar with history, building the Divine Kingdom step by step was simply a waste of their knowledge.
After Molag drew up plans for his Divine Kingdom, he quickly led his army out and arrived at Dylan, a dual elemental plane of fire and ice.
In the game, this place was a dungeon that could drop blueprints for dual-element Divine Servants, which would definitely be of great help to the Divine Kingdom Molag first established.
Before the army set off, Molag's deputy voiced some concerns, "My Lord, the Dylan plane is said to be protected by His Majesty Wolf. We…"
"No worries." Molag just waved his hand with a smile. "Wolf, the Two-Headed Wolf of Fire and Ice, is most likely facing a crisis right now. This is a great opportunity for us to attack Dylan."
The deputy stared at Molag in confusion, wondering where his lord received that information.
However, he'd seen them win all too many battles thanks to such mysterious information, so this time, he decisively chose to believe it.
'His Lordship's intelligence organization really is mysterious…' The deputy thought to himself.