Exploding God

Inside the guard post, Tian He, who was temporarily filling in for the G71 defense zone monitor who had taken leave, slumped lazily and listlessly in a chair in an unbelievable posture, his entire weight supported by his neck. A straw connected to a sugary drink dangled from his mouth, his eyes glued to the screen, his fingers flying across the keyboard.

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"The car owner was trapped inside and died. Why didn't they break the window to escape?"

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"The fighter mech didn't even have eagle wings for cushioning; it jumped off a mountainside and died. So weak!"

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"To lose a game like this, I might as well be the coach!"

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"Everyone on this battlefield is a coward. Are there any men left? Disgusting!"

The screen images kept switching in front of him. Tian He's strong dynamic vision, developed over many years as a monitoring engineer, allowed him to accurately capture the content on each screen and then express his views passionately.

However, to Tian He's dissatisfaction, her views were refuted time and again.

Upon seeing someone on the forum say that Xinghua Company's products were bad, he immediately responded with a sneer and hurled insults.

"Not only do you not use Xinghua Company's products, but you're also suppressing them online. Have you lost your mind?!"

"You think I have ulterior motives? Then I'd guess you're a banana (yellow on the outside, white on the inside)."

"What did I use? Am I a shill?"

"Hehe, even though your father doesn't use Xinghua Company's products, I can still curse you with complete confidence."

"I use Tifa products from Japan, I support backward companies to promote the flourishing of the technology industry, I support Tifa in preventing their adult education business from going bankrupt, I'm benefiting all mankind, am I proud?"

"I don't!!"

"You trash, aren't you ashamed? Think about all the toilet paper you wasted. Do you have the right, the face, or the confidence to talk to me?"

"One key costs three yuan, three keys cost ten yuan. Do you deserve that? No, you don't."

"You wrote eight typos in a sentence of twenty characters! Do your parents know how bad you are?"

I would very much like to meet your parents.

Once a viewpoint is refuted, Tian He immediately launches a targeted attack on the refutator with his terrifying typing speed of 500 words per minute. Even players who are so angry that they are trembling while typing are almost developing Parkinson's disease are within his attack range.

Lines of text poured down like a waterfall, and the faint voices of the dissenters were quickly drowned out by Tian He's overwhelming offensive. In the end, the entire post was almost entirely Tian He's voice.

This terrifying carpet bombing blew many viewers out of their lurking circles, prompting them to reply to the first comment on Tian He's official account, 【Aston Rice Field】.

"Is this 'Aston Rice Paddy' sprayer some kind of ancient, legendary sprayer? Is it like the Chicago Typewriter?"

"A traitor to the Shimada family!"

"Holy crap!! 12 pages of cursing in 3 minutes, and not a single paragraph is repeated?"

"I'm bowing down in awe, you're amazing!"

"Impressive. Perhaps this is... the legendary keyboard master."

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Seeing the number of worshipful replies increasing by ten per second, Tian He smiled faintly. He was so happy and relaxed that he almost hummed out loud. After this trip, he finally got rid of the depression he had been feeling for the past two days.

"In ancient times, Zhuge Liang debated with a multitude of heroes; today, I, Tian He, unleash dragons from my three-foot keyboard!"

"The end times are coming, what do we cultivators have to fear in a battle?"

As he was talking to himself, there was a knock on the window of the guard post.

Swish.

The dazzling array of screens stopped abruptly, replaced by a 36-grid surveillance camera view; the dozens or even hundreds of pages that had just appeared vanished.

What are you doing?

Tian He's face twitched slightly, suppressing the excitement that had just welled up inside him. He didn't turn his head, maintaining his corpse-like posture, only turning his eyes horizontally by 30 degrees to look at the side glass.

The meaning conveyed in his eyes was quite clear.

【What is it?】

The guard's lips twitched slightly. He gestured to the side with his thumb and then pointed upwards.

Tian He understood; it turned out that the camera next to the guard post wasn't in the view and needed to be adjusted.

"understood."

Waving his hand dismissively, Tian He listlessly raised his left hand and twisted the control panel next to him.

Camera number 9 immediately adjusted its orientation.

Upon seeing this, the guards turned and left, not wanting to say another word to Tian He.

However, Tian He clearly didn't mind at all, and simply complained casually, "Honestly, what's there to monitor here?"

The traffic at the G71 defense zone's wilderness checkpoint is the complete opposite of that at the scouting tower. They came to help just to take a break, and now they're bothering me.

Annoying~~

With a slight smirk, Tian He swept his thumb and ring finger across the keyboard, preparing to switch to a trending news topic and continue battling the endless enemy.

But when his peripheral vision inadvertently caught a glimpse of the afterimage left from the switch, Tian He jolted awake and his neck snapped straight up.

No, is it a hallucination?

Having nightmares at night isn't enough; am I starting to dream during the day too?

He squinted, staring at the trending news that had already switched over, but didn't absorb a single word.

After thinking for a moment, he lowered his head, looked at the keyboard, and repeated the combination he had just pressed.

Alt+Tab.

The 36-grid surveillance footage reappeared.

"It must be a hallucination."

Tian He smiled and muttered something to herself, then looked to the lower left.

A figure sits leisurely, flipping through a book at a leisurely pace. The angular profile appears three-dimensional under the morning sunlight.

Haha, he's kind of handsome.

But he's not as handsome as me.

The figure in the surveillance video slightly tilted its head to look at another page of the book, revealing a pair of calm eyes and a peaceful, slightly upturned mouth.

Tian He was startled.

He clutched his heart suddenly!

Grass!

That face!

His nightmare!

It's happened again, and the direction this surveillance camera is facing seems to be...

Tian He cautiously propped herself up and glanced to her left.

Lu Ze, who was half a meter away, seemed to sense something and turned his head to look back.

A pair of bewildered eyes appeared before me, filled with a moment of confusion, then seemed to... glisten with tears?

Lu Ze frowned slightly, and within a tenth of a second, he captured the highly overlapping facial contours in his memory.

Is this person a staff member who tried to stop him when he realized he was jumping off the tower?

What a great employee!

So, Lu Ze smiled and nodded in a friendly manner.

Tian He shuddered, her hands, which had nowhere to go, instinctively gripped the keyboard.

That smile.

It was that familiar yet sinister smile again.

Damn it, that smile that's been keeping me up at night for almost a week has reappeared.

Tian He forced a smile that looked more like a grimace, then stiffly and slowly sat back down, curling up and trying to lower her head below the window of the guard post.

squeak~~

Outside the guard post, the sound of a car screeching to a halt rang out. In front of the vehicle access barrier, the military green car door slammed open, and before anyone could be seen, a long leg clad in black boots stepped out.

Then, indescribable waves gently rippled, finally revealing short black hair with purple highlights and a bright, fair face.

"This is the G71 defense zone. Anyone leaving the city, please identify yourself and cooperate with the qualification verification." The city guards conducted a routine check.

With a beep, a mechanical, electronic female voice sounded.

[Identification successful. Two-star installation engineer, Wang Jun.]

"Please keep your bracelet safe and be careful," the city guard said, saluting.

"Thank you." Wang Jun gave a gesture of thanks and prepared to return to her car. At this moment, she suddenly noticed a familiar figure sitting next to her in the aisle. She frowned, then raised the corner of her mouth.

He slammed the car door shut, strode over to Lu Ze, stood with his arms crossed, and looked down at him, saying:

"Using tactics to pique a girl's curiosity to gain her attention is such an old trick. Yunxue is too naive to see through these tricks, but I know them perfectly well."

"You were the center of attention at school, setting a bad example for the whole school, and now you're reading in the gatehouse? Lu Ze, don't you think that's incredibly hypocritical?"

Lu Ze stopped his left hand, which was about to turn the page, raised his head, and slowly looked up along the breathtaking curve until their eyes met.