plumnovel Chapter 68 : Dealing with the Situation
Chapter 68 : Dealing with the Situation
Dealing with the SituationDeleting post, confirming action...
With just a few gentle taps of her finger on the screen, a post that had garnered over ten thousand comments and replies vanished from the forum, as if it had sunk into the vastness of the deep sea, never to be found again.
After refreshing the page twice and confirming the post was permanently deleted, Cecilia finally let out a slight sigh of relief.
The power of admin privileges was truly terrifying.
However, she knew very well that simply deleting the post didn't mean the crisis was fully resolved. As long as those two candid photos existed, anyone could make another post at any time.
Not to mention, who knew if the original poster had only taken those two blurry shots? If he happened to have clearer ones on his phone, that would be real trouble.
Though the odds were slim, they couldn't be entirely ruled out.
Therefore, even though the immediate issue seemed dealt with, Cecilia made up her mind.
She might as well deal with the troublemaker as well.
She set the mute duration to the maximum—nine hundred ninety-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-nine minutes. With a click of confirmation, the original poster was officially sent into a pitch-black little black room by the admin named Cecilia.
If nothing unexpected happened, it wouldn't be until about two years and eight months later that he could post or comment in the forum again.
Cecilia didn't think she was being excessive. On the contrary, in her eyes, muting someone for just over two years was the lightest of punishments.
If she still remembered this person after two years, she could mute him for another two years without losing sleep over it.
If admins could check users' IP addresses, she'd have loved to drag out that sneaky photographer and teach him a basic lesson in decency.
She and Gu Yanxi had already made such major concessions, purposefully choosing to go out at the hottest time of noon and almost melting in the heat, only to still run into something like this.
Truly, it was so damn unlucky.
At this moment, Gu Yanxi had already noticed the abnormality on the forum. Holding her phone with a puzzled look, she said, "That post seems to be gone."
"Yeah, I deleted it."
Cecilia nodded, then reminded her after a moment's thought, "Let's try not to go out for the time being and stay home to play games. If you do need to go out, don't wear the outfit you wore today."
Gu Yanxi naturally understood how serious it would be if she were recognized and obediently replied, "Mm."
Of course, today's candid photo incident wouldn't just end so simply.
With that post deleted and the original poster muted for nine hundred ninety-nine days, it took only a few minutes for a flood of similar posts to shoot up like bamboo after the rain.
In addition, many sharp-eyed users quickly noticed that another admin, iD named [Cecilia], had been added to the already limited group of forum moderators. For a moment, the forum filled with jokes and schadenfreude, with many expressing their condolences for the unlucky poster who risked it all for that shot.
Unsurprisingly, the person who banned the original poster for nine hundred ninety-nine days was Cecilia herself.
Yet, this approach had an obvious drawback.
Cecilia's drastic actions unintentionally confirmed, by reverse, that the girl in the photo was indeed herself.
It was, in a way, an indirect admission.
Cecilia was at a loss when it came to these new posts.
No matter how many permissions she had, she was still alone. With the daily grind of leveling up and clearing dungeons in-game, there was no way she could delete every post of the same type.
As things stood, the only thing Cecilia could do was occasionally ban a few particularly excessive users, hoping to make an example out of them, and praying that the internet's memory would be shorter.
Adopting an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality, she closed the forum, tied on her apron, and walked into the kitchen to prepare dinner for the two of them.
After eating and washing up, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
Cecilia and Gu Yanxi discussed logging into the game together to check out the house Gu Yanxi owned in the eastern district of the Main City.
At noon in the Mutant Jungle, among the four of them, Cecilia, Dawn's Light, and Yuewu had all more or less killed Dragon Abyss's minions, but Gu Yanxi didn't get much of a red name—just slightly yellow. After a day, it had returned to normal, so there was no need to go grind monsters outside the city, nor did she need to worry about being attacked by NPC guards when walking in town.
As soon as they teleported to the bustling plaza, Cecilia and Gu Yanxi immediately drew the attention of many players.
No one knew who said it first, "Isn't that Cecilia in the maid outfit?"
In an instant, the entire central plaza fell silent. Countless eyes turned to Cecilia and Gu Yanxi.
Many of them had already seen the post and were now scrutinizing both from head to toe, examining whether they matched the girls in the photo.
"Ignore them. Let's go."
Cecilia's face darkened, and she grabbed Gu Yanxi's hand, quickly striding toward the eastern exit of the plaza.
In less than a few seconds, the two girls disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Quick! Let's follow and see what exactly they're up to!"
Seeing Cecilia and Gu Yanxi leaving, a player was the first to react, shouting while jogging after them.
However, just as he rounded the corner, the first thing he saw was a small, fair hand clenched into a fist, flying at his face at lightning speed!
Though the player instinctively tried to dodge, the punch was simply too fast. Coupled with the element of surprise, within half a second, he ended up taking the punch right in the face. A bright red damage number shot up above his head.
Bam!
-1947!
Currently, most casual players had only four or five hundred HP. Even though Cecilia wasn't using a weapon, with her overpowered panel stats, even a bare-fisted strike would deal a ridiculous amount of dmg.
Sure enough, the male player's HP instantly dropped to zero. Without even the chance to fall over, he exploded into shimmering blue bone ash, which quickly dispersed into the night of the Main City with the evening breeze.
The following players were all stunned by the ruthless scene and stopped in their tracks, petrified. No one dared take a step forward.
"System notification: You have harmed a player within the city area and are now in a wanted state!"
System Miss's cold voice echoed in Cecilia's mind, and at the same time, the bright red ID, ⑹扒久伍扒ling飼零武, slowly floated above her head.
"If anyone else dares to follow, this will be your fate."
With that cold warning, Cecilia took Gu Yanxi's hand and led her toward the end of the street.
The players who'd wanted to follow stared at each other, frozen in place—none of them dared take a single step further.