anovelconsole Chapter 88 is trending.
Chapter 88 is trending.
Not only was the small streamer stunned, but the viewers in the live stream were also collectively shocked.
"Brothers... what these NPCs are saying, could it be something else entirely?"
"What you're thinking, could it be what I'm thinking?"
"At this point, stop playing with memes and being a riddle-maker!"
"I'm really starting to break down... At first, I just thought the 'reunion' food setting was a deliberate design by the woman in red to make it harder for players to complete the game, and I even scolded her for not letting players have a peaceful meal. Now I know I was wrong—it's actually just a way to make it harder for players to complete the game!"
"I can't take it anymore, I need to go throw up for a bit!"
"Me too! Just thinking about the first time I played 'Reunion,' not only did I eat it when I was young and ignorant, but I also praised how good it tasted, makes my stomach churn right now!"
"Aaaaaah! I even posted online asking if the girl in red could make a separate food game just for me to eat these foods. I wish I could turn back time!"
"...From what I understand, it seems that many people genuinely enjoy the taste of the food in 'Reunion' and actually treat it like a food-themed game."
"I can't imagine how devastated these people must be... I feel sorry for them for a second."
"Oh my god! Luckily I'm a coward and never dared to play, I only dared to watch in the live stream! My courage saved my life! Now let's see who dares to laugh at me for being a coward!"
"I'm going crazy! I saw Aunt Wang going out to buy groceries every day in Chronicler's livestream, but I never saw her come back with meat, which was quite strange. I just thought it was a minor logical flaw in the design of the character in red, and it didn't seem to affect the plot or the game much, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Now that I think about it, the character in red had actually given us hints about this a long time ago in the game!"
……
The intense discussion among the viewers in the chat generated buzz, which propelled the live stream to the top of the trending topics. As a result, even more viewers saw the streamer's channel and flocked to it.
Soon after, the topic "#Reunion Food Ingredients#" appeared on the trending search list.
The bewildered netizens clicked on this topic.
Then, looking at the content being discussed in the topic, I was stunned and stood there speechless—
"Am I seeing things? What are they discussing here? A gathering of cannibals?"
"It's a game! We're talking about games! We're not perverts!"
"Seriously?! The food in this game is made from human flesh?! What kind of game is this?! Is it that wild?!"
"Holy crap, is it really that exciting?! I'm suddenly interested in 'reunion'! I'm going to download it right now!"
"As expected of the woman in red! I thought designing food to be addictive was disgusting enough, but I never imagined there could be something even more disgusting!"
"It's just hype, you guys actually believed it? These past two days, there's been a deluge of news about 'reunion' and 'New World,' probably just to generate buzz for that competition they're going to hold..."
"Those who watched the entire live stream have come forward to testify. The streamer really got it by accident. His decision to go out at night was purely a bad idea suggested by the viewers. He also won the task through a public lottery, so it can't be faked. Besides, the streamer didn't have many followers at all (although they've increased now), so he's probably not a game streamer hired by 'New World' for promotional purposes..."
"I was in the live stream too! But I only watched the second half, and it was absolutely terrifying! It's the kind of thing where they don't actually show you directly on camera, but just imagining it is enough to scare you to death!"
"That's the kind of thing about games like 'The Girl in Red.' What's so sophisticated about it is that it never shows you horror directly through gory or violent scenes. Instead, it lets you gradually discover something's wrong through language and the environment, and then—it becomes terrifying upon closer inspection!"
"It's truly terrifying to think about! And after knowing the ingredients of these foods, the plot that I previously thought had some problems suddenly makes perfect sense! So the woman in red was waiting here!"
……
The topic sparked heated discussions, but fortunately, the vast majority of them were positive. It also brought a lot of attention to their match by talking about "reunion" and "new world," so neither the Crimson Robe nor the First Legion paid much attention to it.
As a result, after one night, Jiang Yi woke up lazily the next day and found that there were more than a dozen missed calls on her personal computer.
All the calls were from Li Xingzhuo and the rest of the First Legion. Eventually, they probably realized Jiang Yi was asleep, so the calls stopped coming in and they switched to sending messages.
Jiang Yi finished reading all the messages, her brows furrowing slightly. She logged onto the StarNet and found that it really was as the messages described—
She only took a nap, or maybe a little extra time, and public opinion completely changed:
"Is the woman in red crazy?! How could she include this kind of setting in a game? Was she doing this on purpose?!"
"Is the creator of this game an antisocial personality? Otherwise, how could a normal person come up with such a disgusting and inhumane setting?"
"Such a disgusting game design, and people actually praised it before? Are you all crazy?!"
"The red outfit was definitely intentional! Have you forgotten? When 'Reunion' first came out in its promotional video, it used food and games as its selling point!"
"This is disgusting! They deliberately lure players into playing a food-themed game, make them eat the food in the game, and then tell them at the end that all the food they ate was made of human flesh. That's incredibly malicious!"
"I knew the girl in red had an antisocial personality a long time ago! Her previous '囍' game was a similar one, but she withdrew from the competition and can't play anymore, so it wasn't exposed!"
"Holy crap, I figured it out! My friend told me before that Red Dress's games are amazing. All the spoiler videos and walkthroughs posted online either end up with a black screen or no one can see them... Now it seems Red Dress designed this from the beginning! After all, such an anti-human game, if it were recorded and exposed, it would have been torn to shreds by everyone. How could Red Dress have been able to sell so many copies until now!"
"She even deliberately started tournaments, using money to attract more players! My God! I simply can't imagine how someone could be so malicious towards players!"
"How could someone come up with such a terrifying premise?! Is the woman in red even human?!"
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A large number of negative comments flooded the internet, but some players who had "reunited" with their friends helped to explain.
For example, "'Reunion' was never advertised as a food game. Do you guys have an extra memory, or am I suffering from amnesia? Isn't this just player speculation?! Neither 'Red Robe' nor 'New World' has ever acknowledged it!" And, "Isn't this just a game? Is it really worth making such a fuss about? I thought we players were actually eating people! It's just data, isn't it?"...
However, such words, once uttered, are either drowned out by a vast ocean of condemnation or besieged by those who condemn "reunion".
Soon, the StarNet was filled with nothing but insults and accusations that "Reunion" was inhumane, and even strong demands to ban "Reunion".
Many people weren't satisfied with just cursing online, so they went to the game livestream room where the "reunion" was being broadcast to curse the game streamer, either accusing them of taking money from the woman in red or accusing them of being just as inhumane as the woman in red.
The live stream chat room became chaotic, with many small streamers who were just playing the game seriously being scolded to the point of not daring to stream anymore; while some big streamers who valued their reputation also posted announcements in their live stream rooms that they would no longer stream "Reunion".
The popularity of "reunion" in the game live streaming community has begun to decline sharply.
……
"How's 'Reunion' going?"
In the conference room of "Play World", Xu Zhang flipped through the documents and asked his secretary questions.
"As you predicted, the game's popularity has dropped, but thanks to the efforts of the online trolls we hired, its online popularity is still rising..."
"good……"
Xu Zhang nodded, satisfied, and tossed the documents aside: "Then we can slip that thing I mentioned before into it and leak it..."