“He’s a major gaming content creator, considered a top player in the gaming world. He often discovers Easter eggs and hidden details in games, like teaching you how to find secret storylines, hidden legendary weapons, and hidden classes. He has quite a lot of fans,” David Carter explained, knowing that Brian Brooks doesn’t really play games, so he definitely wouldn’t have followed a streamer like Grace Howard.

David Carter continued, “A few hours ago, he posted a game walkthrough video, but no one had ever seen the game he was talking about. Yet he was seriously making a guide for it. Now that the whole time-travel thing has come out, everyone suddenly realized that the game guide he gave might be related to that world, and he’s one of the travelers too.”

The video had no visuals, just a black background with white subtitles.

A young male voice in the video said, “Because this game is rather special, I can’t show you any gameplay footage. I’ll call this game... the Inner World.”

“And the world we’re in now is called the Surface World.”

Then Grace Howard calmly continued, “As for this game, I’ve only just entered it myself, so the information I have is also very limited.”

“I haven’t found a way to obtain hidden legendary weapons yet.”

“Currently, there are three known career paths. The first is to use technology to modify yourself, which you can do directly at the mechanical hospital.”

“The price of mechanical limbs is relatively high, and since I haven’t found a money farming bug yet, I haven’t been able to try it. Here, selling your own organs seems to be the easiest way to get money, but I don’t recommend trying it.”

“The second way is to join the Taboo Tribunal. After injecting gene medicine, you can become a new human, but I haven’t found any NPCs from that organization yet. It’s quite mysterious.”

“The third known career path is in Prison No. 18. You’ll need to go in and look for an NPC named Emily Thompson. This is currently the career path with the highest known potential.”

“If I discover any other career paths in the future, I’ll continue to share them with you all.”

The more Brian Brooks watched the video, the more stunned he became.

He was certain that was a real world—he could even bring back injuries from pinching himself. If that wasn’t reality, what was?

But Grace Howard was acting like he was obsessed, treating that place as a game to grind!

He even treated Emily Thompson as an NPC for career quests!

No one knew what identity Grace Howard had in the Inner World. The only thing Brian Brooks could be sure of was that Emily Thompson was indeed very well-known there, to the point that Grace Howard had heard of him within 48 hours of entering.

Next to him, David Carter muttered after watching the video, “That’s basically saying nothing. You need money to buy mechanical limbs, can’t find the Taboo Tribunal, and maybe you can find something in Prison No. 18, but he didn’t say how to get in.”

The whole time-travel commotion lasted all afternoon.

Until a piece of news appeared: a young man abroad, confirmed to be a traveler, was found dead at home. The mechanical legs he had shown in his video had been cut off and were missing.

This news was like a dark cloud, suddenly casting a shadow over everyone’s excitement.

Chapter 16: You Only Have One Life

When something extraordinary happens in life, it’s actually a very romantic thing.

It’s like a fairy tale for adults.

The Hogwarts acceptance letter you never received as a child suddenly doesn’t seem so far away.

However, this bad news was like a bucket of cold water, dousing the enthusiasm in many people’s hearts.

Only at this moment did everyone realize that this world is far from perfect.

Future technology is incredibly valuable. Not to mention the materials and structure of those bionic mechanical limbs, just the technology to connect mechanical limbs to neurons is enough to drive many companies crazy.

This is real future tech. Instead of hoping for alien technology, it’s better to just snatch what’s right in front of you.

And most importantly, those ordinary people who traveled over have no experience dealing with violent organizations.

The deceased in the news died suddenly at home, the killer stabbing a knife into his heart from under his ribs.

Compared to mechanical limbs, this knife had no technological content at all.

This isn’t a fairy tale; it’s more like a satirical fable for adults.

For a while, many travelers who had revealed their identities for popularity began to feel afraid.

Some travelers who returned with mechanical limbs started to worry about being targeted.

At this moment, there were even people in Japanese media speculating: maybe if you kill a traveler, you can take their place and gain the qualification to travel.

This speculation was simply insane!

It was basically hinting to everyone: kill the traveler next to you, and you can become a traveler!

Previously, David Carter had been excited, but now he muttered quietly, “Finally got a chance to change my fate, and now it’s suddenly turned into a horror game.”

You could say that David Carter and Brian Brooks were in the same boat—they both had gambling fathers, making their families a mess.

So both of them actually really wanted to make money. David Carter had even tried writing novels and submitting them to magazines to earn some manuscript fees, but they just disappeared without a trace.