However, the shock only lasted for a moment before Brian Clark calmed down. To him, there was no difference between nine hundred million and ninety trillion—he couldn’t pay it back anyway.

“It was just following the clues, nothing impressive,” Brian Clark snorted.

They had found out his real name, then cross-referenced all sorts of living habits to trace him back. With The Brain’s computational power, this wasn’t difficult.

The Brain also admitted this: “In the virtual world, you are a peerless genius. But you left a huge mess in ‘Earth’ that you must clean up.”

Brian Clark was at a loss for words, because he was indeed in the wrong here.

Not long after Earth launched, he started a lecture at the Zixiao Palace, spreading hacks on a large scale, allowing many players to prolong their lives, and even a few outstanding ones to achieve immortality.

Not only did the game company lose out on their credit points, but they also couldn’t kick these players out, because no one could defeat them.

This was indeed rather unscrupulous. It was said that Earth lost a huge amount of credit points and nearly collapsed. During one conflict, even the sky was shattered, many players died, and the operator almost went bankrupt. It took a tremendous effort to fix everything.

Because of this, the Earth operator hated Brian Clark to the core, but Brian Clark’s methods were mysterious and unpredictable. The operator deployed massive manpower but still couldn’t uncover his identity, and in the end, he slipped away.

That’s right, Brian Clark was the master of the illustrious Zixiao Palace, Benjamin Franklin, the Grandmaster of Creation, the origin of all Daoist arts in the world!

Seeing that Brian Clark didn’t deny it, The Brain slowly said, “You have many disciples, and the most outstanding among them all claim to be saints, each with their own strengths, but all possess world-shaking abilities. Due to the strong intervention of the Earth operator, their recent actions have been restrained, but internal conflicts have arisen among them. It’s like a powder keg that could explode at any moment and destroy the world of Earth!”

At this point, The Brain’s face also showed a grave expression: “There are nearly ten billion players in Earth now. If the world of Earth is overturned, the real world will also be thrown into chaos. You are the instigator of all this and cannot stand by and do nothing!”

Brian Clark shrugged helplessly and said, “You know, I’ve given away all my artifacts, left Zixiao Palace to the Earth operator, and relinquished all the privileges I once held. Even if I enter Earth, I can’t do much.”

In virtual games, the methods you can use are ever-changing, but the core never changes—it’s all about control over game data resources.

To put it bluntly, it’s a battle for privileges!

Brian Clark is the Grandmaster of Creation, a master of all Daoist arts. Master one, master all. Besides Daoist techniques, he could quickly master any game hack.

But if he didn’t have enough privileges to access data resources, then he couldn’t use a single hack!

“Are you sure?” The Brain narrowed his eyes, his tone threatening: “I also guessed what you were thinking in the room just now. You want to make money, to give your woman a good life, right?”

Brian Clark nodded, not surprised that The Brain had guessed his thoughts. If it were him, he could do the same—just compare expressions and actions, and reason a little.

“I’ll give you two choices: One, you give up, and I’ll immediately activate the Finger of God to destroy the bodies of you and Helen Parker; two, cooperate and help us eliminate the saints and maintain the stable operation of the Earth world. If the saints die, all your compensation debts will be canceled, and there will be a place for you in the Zenith District.”

“You have no right to destroy our bodies!” Brian Clark was furious. He didn’t care if he died—he could still survive—but why drag Helen Parker into this?

The “Finger of God” was a super military satellite set up in space. Its emitted rays had directional teleportation capabilities, able to bypass obstacles and strike directly at the target. Once locked on, even hiding ten thousand meters underground was useless.

“Is this guy trying to force me to turn hostile and go down fighting?” Brian Clark was a bit uncertain.

“I don’t have the authority. This is authorized by the Earth Federation Committee. Your crimes are enough to be defined as terrorism. Helen Parker’s crime is assisting a terrorist to re-enter the virtual world, which is extremely serious. The committee has also authorized that she can be killed as the situation requires. You should know, the law does not protect the rights of terrorists. To avoid future trouble, of course I have to eliminate all potential threats at once.” The Brain threatened with a smile.

Brian Clark immediately wilted. Now that the committee was involved, it looked like he had no choice but to cooperate.

To go up against the entire Solar System Federation, he could go guerrilla and find a place to hide, but Helen Parker would be doomed. He had just decided to repay her kindness, and now he’d be selling her out in the blink of an eye. That was just too despicable—he couldn’t do it.

So he could only cooperate.

“Fine. I’ll give it a try,” Brian Clark said weakly.

“To prevent accidents, the flow of time in Earth has already been slowed down. You now have one year to prepare, which corresponds to a hundred years in the Earth virtual world.” The Brain stood up and added, “Your real identity has been classified as the highest-level secret by the Federation and completely erased. Your current record is clean.”

“I understand,” Brian Clark nodded. This was his mess, and he had to clean it up himself.

Back then, he was just too young, too impulsive, too eager to show off.