Chapter 294
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Chapter 294: Title
At the same time, certain people’s group chats were once again stirred awake by unexpected news.
[Lin Leshi (Group Member): Zhou Dongnan’s name has greyed out.]
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): Damn, I woke up to such big news?!]
Without a doubt, Zhao Nan was startled, immediately sending two more messages.
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): What’s going on?]
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): On second thought, something’s not right. Didn’t that guy Zhou Dongnan finish his war a while ago? I kept @-ing him, wanting to ask about the situation, but he kept playing dead and didn’t respond.]
[Zhang Yicheng (Group Member): It couldn’t be that idiot foolishly forgot to put up a Truce Token and got challenged, could it?]
[Shang Jun (Group Member): …]
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): Zhou Dongnan wouldn’t be that foolish, would he?]
[Lin Leshi (Group Member): Let’s be serious. He’s an old veteran in the Bronze rank, how could he make such a rookie mistake? If Wang Luzong’s death before could be attributed to momentary carelessness, then now that Zhou Dongnan is also dead, isn’t something seriously wrong here? And Wang Luzong died immediately after finishing a battle, which is indeed a problem.]
The people in this group were not fools and quickly understood Lin Leshi’s implication.
For a moment, the entire message window fell into a brief silence.
About a few minutes later, Zhao Nan was the first to break the silence.
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): Indeed, given Zhou Dongnan’s personality, after his archenemy Wang Luzong fell to that Luo Ji, he should have become fiercely determined, easily crushing Luo Ji to prove that his strength far exceeded Wang Luzong’s. There’s basically no possibility of him relaxing and being careless.]
[Lin Leshi (Group Member): I agree with Zhao Nan’s statement.]
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): As for the issue of dying shortly after finishing a battle, I can currently only think of three possibilities. The first possibility is that Zhou Dongnan adjusted his time zone, causing the time flow rate to accelerate, making a month pass quickly. His Truce Token protection expired, and then he was challenged by another player and subsequently defeated and died in battle.]
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): However, I personally feel that the first possibility is low because it makes no sense, and I can’t understand why he would adjust his time zone.]
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): The second possibility is that he was severely wounded in the invasion battle, barely managed to survive until the seventh day to retreat, and after retreating, failed to be rescued in his own world and died from his injuries.]
[Zhao Nan (Group Member): Finally, the third possibility is that a player activated a ‘Declaration of War’ against him and killed him in the battle.]
Lin Leshi and Zhao Nan were undoubtedly the knowledgeable veterans in this group.
Once they became serious, the others were quickly drawn into the solemn atmosphere.
[Zhang Yicheng (Group Member): I think the second possibility is higher. If you think about it carefully, when we @-ed him those first few days, he didn’t respond. He might have been severely wounded and comatose, undergoing emergency treatment.]
[Shang Jun (Group Member): This explanation is indeed reasonable.]
[Lin Leshi (Group Member): But if that’s the case, then that Luo Ji’s strength is quite formidable.]
The people in this group seemed to unilaterally accept the second possibility, while the first and third possibilities were selectively ignored.
The first possibility, as Zhao Nan said, made no sense to adjust the time difference at this critical juncture, and they couldn’t understand such a mysterious operation.
As for the third possibility, a Declaration of War was an ultra-rare item.
Even a silver-tier Declaration of War had a very low drop rate, and many of these veteran Bronze players had never even acquired one.
If a newcomer who hadn’t even fought many battles managed to obtain one, it would probably infuriate countless people.
After a simple analysis, the entire group chat suddenly fell silent, each person’s mind seemingly calculating something.
As the instigator of this matter, Liu Ye had clearly noticed the messages in his group but remained silent, observing discreetly throughout.
Two silver-tier items, offering a bounty for a Bronze-ranked player, was already a very high price and enough to tempt any Bronze-ranked player.
Adding more wouldn’t be as good as waiting for the opponent to ascend to the Black Iron rank and then personally dealing with them!
Moreover, he believed that the guys in the group wouldn’t give up so easily.
However, after two Bronze-ranked players were successively eliminated, these people would probably fight more cautiously from now on.
Meanwhile, on the other side, after Luo Ji put up his Truce Token, his daily work was so busy it felt like he was living in heaven and hell.
There was also one more matter to consider, the issue of his official title.
In public, his title was indeed becoming more and more inconsistent.
Although he personally didn’t care much, considering the long term, it would probably be better to standardize it.
He originally thought that setting a title was just a matter of his word, but upon thinking about it, Luo Ji surprisingly found himself in a dilemma.
Because, upon careful consideration, there have been countless titles for supreme rulers throughout history.
Just in modern and contemporary times, there were terms like Chairman, President, and Head of State.
In ancient times, there were even more, Emperor, Monarch, Your Majesty, King, Great Emperor, Lord, Master, Honored One, Son of Heaven, Emperor Your Majesty, a whole string of them!
Suddenly having to choose a title for himself, Luo Ji truly felt a headache coming on.
“Chief, what are you doing?”
Looking at Luo Ji, who had spread out a large pile of parchment papers on his desk, written two characters on each, crumpled them up, and then tossed them aside, the guard standing nearby couldn’t help but ask curiously.
Luo Ji himself wasn’t pretentious as a leader, and moreover, the guards by his side were all old comrades who had charged into battle with him years ago.
Facing this question, Luo Ji continued with his task, speaking with a serious and earnest expression.
“I am conducting an important ritual that embodies the accumulated wisdom of humanity over millions of years.”
Hearing this, the surrounding guards’ expressions became solemn and respectful.
Under the gaze of these serious eyes, Luo Ji quickly scrambled the large pile of crumpled paper balls in front of him.
After a moment of deliberation, he picked one up.
“Hmm, this one it is!”
With a slightly nervous feeling, Luo Ji opened the crumpled paper.
Seeing the characters written on it, he couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.
“Emperor Your Majesty? Vulgar, too vulgar. Let’s restart!”
With this thought, Luo Ji grabbed the second paper ball. Just as he was about to open it, he paused, as if something occurred to him.
“Wait, if I keep restarting, won’t this drawing of lots become meaningless?”
“Forget it, forget it…”
Tossing the paper ball in his hand, Luo Ji stretched, then said to his secretary, who had entered without him noticing.
“Go draft an announcement. From today on, my title shall be unified as ‘Emperor Your Majesty,’ or ‘Your Majesty’ for short.”
