"Who are you!? What are you doing grabbing me?"
A flash of surprise crossed Seth's eyes.
The Xianzhou extensively uses cavern heaven technology, and each cavern heaven can accommodate billions of people; the area is much larger than in the game.
Seth never expected that he had already avoided the area where the card hall was, and Exalting Sanctum was so vast, yet he still ran into Qingque by sheer coincidence.
What rotten luck!?
Yesterday in the simulation, he had subjected Qingque to all sorts of 'inhuman' training and humiliation, so Qingque hated him to the bone.
Knowing Qingque retained the memories, he had deliberately avoided areas where Qingque might appear, but they still bumped into each other—what a cursed fate!
Fortunately, Qingque only had memories, no substantial evidence, so she probably couldn't do anything to him... probably...
"You... you've done that to me! And you pretend not to know me!?"
Qingque was furious, her emotions out of control, shaking Seth by the collar forcefully.
Despite Qingque being shorter and petite compared to Seth, she was a genuine Pathstrider, her body strengthened by imaginary energy, far surpassing ordinary Xianzhou people in physical fitness.
She lifted Seth like he was a toy.
"You can eat recklessly, but you can't speak recklessly! I don't even know you, so what did I do to you?"
Seth exclaimed.
At this point, the surrounding pedestrians noticed the abnormality and gathered around. After all, watching drama is human nature, regardless of race, nation, or gender.
Seeing this, Seth immediately had an idea.
"Everyone, judge for yourselves! I don't even know this woman, and she's grabbing me and won't let go!"
Qingque, seeing Seth playing dumb, became even angrier.
"You actually pretend not to know me!? You've done that to me! And you say you don't know me?"
A glint of triumphant scheming flashed in Seth's eyes.
"Fine! Since you say you know me, what's my name? My home address? My birth date? My birthplace?"
Qingque blurted out.
"Your name is Seth!..."
Then she immediately got stuck.
The nightmare memories only revealed Seth's name to her; other information was completely unclear.
Seth's face showed a look of assured victory.
Even if Qingque's memories revealed other information, he wasn't afraid. Except for the name, each simulation gave him a different identity, and that identity was a false one that only appeared in the simulation.
"You don't even know where I live, and you say you know me? You must have known me in a dream!"
"And! You say I did something to you, so what exactly did I do? Say it!"
Seth shouted loudly.
He didn't know about other places, but in street arguments, whoever shouts louder has the advantage and is right.
Seth's words were like a bucket of cold water poured over Qingque's head, instantly calming her down.
Besides the memories from the nightmare, she had no evidence at all to prove that the other party had harmed her. No matter where she reported it, she wouldn't have a case.
She couldn't say she was... by this guy in a dream...
The onlookers saw Seth speaking logically and reasonably, while Qingque seemed at a loss for words and didn't refute much. The tide gradually turned toward Seth.
Many people started pointing at Qingque, and some even took out their jade abacus to secretly record videos.
Seeing this, Seth shouted even more vigorously.
"I think you're just trying to extort money from me!"
Looking at Seth's shameless face, Qingque really wanted to stuff Celestial Jade into his mouth.
Unfortunately, reason told her that if she dared to harm him in public, things would only get worse.
"Sorry, I mistook you for someone else."
Seeing the situation becoming increasingly unfavorable, Qingque quickly let go of Seth, lowered her head, and squeezed out of the crowd.
"Trying to extort me? As if you're worthy!"
Seth triumphantly waved his fist vigorously at Qingque's back.
The onlookers, seeing the drama was over, dispersed one by one.
Seth blended into the crowd, and once no one was paying attention to him, his expression changed immediately. He quickened his pace and hurried home.
When he got home and closed the door, Seth patted his chest hard, calming his wildly beating heart.
Today was really close.
He never expected to run into the victim and be recognized—what bad luck.
Luckily, today it was Qingque.
Qingque had a good temper and was relatively rational, so he managed to repel her with verbal tactics.
If it had been Jingliu, that crazy woman, she would have come at him with a sword, and his 100+ pounds wouldn't be enough for her to chop.
It seemed that until his strength improved, he should go out as little as possible.
And when choosing scripts, it was best to pick characters not on Luofu.
Seth pondered this as he threw himself onto the bed.
The bed, suddenly bearing weight, let out a slight unusual sound.
…
Qingque, who had just lain down, suddenly sat up.
Unable to bear the onlookers' discussions and stares, she had fled the scene in a hurry and returned home.
Once she calmed down, recalling Seth's behavior earlier, a strange sense of familiarity arose in her heart.
Such despicable, unscrupulous methods—weren't they one of that bastard's characteristics?
"And you say you don't know? You're really good at playing dumb..."
After realizing this, Qingque's disgust for Seth skyrocketed.
"This matter absolutely can't end like this!"
Qingque punched the bed hard, then got up from it and went to the computer.
After turning on the computer, Qingque immediately accessed the Divination Commission's database to search for all of Seth's information.
Don't be fooled by the ancient-sounding name of the Divination Commission, which seems like mystical fortune-telling or feng shui.
In reality, the divination techniques used by the Divination Commission are purely scientific, based on massive data for computational analysis to derive the most probable results—essentially big data algorithms.
Due to immense computational power and precise data, it creates seemingly prophetic accuracy.
Soon, Qingque easily obtained all of Seth's information through the Divination Commission's internal network—even more detailed than what he himself knew. Some memories he couldn't even recall were dug up by Qingque from the depths.
"Just you wait, I absolutely won't let you go, Seth!"
Qingque's eyes seemed to blaze with fire as she stared intently at Seth's photo on the screen…
…
"Ah-choo!"
Seth couldn't help but sneeze.
"Who's talking about me this late at night?"
"Forget it, doesn't matter. Simulation is more important."
After resting on the bed for a while, Seth prepared to start a new round of simulation.
Today's encounter with Qingque had sounded an alarm for him.
With insufficient strength, if he encountered persecuted victims in the future, he could only be at their mercy.
However, Seth's current actions were no different from drinking poison to quench thirst.
Continuing simulations would definitely offend more people.
But without simulations, he couldn't get stronger. Luofu was a major stage in the universe later on, with a series of major events occurring, and many ordinary Xianzhou people would die or be injured.
He didn't want to become an unlucky ghost on the death list due to insufficient strength.
If a person doesn't look out for themselves, heaven and earth will punish them. He didn't want to die, so he would continue simulating, even if it meant offending more people.