Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

"Are you a player of the 'Death Game'?"

Shen Bingmiao's words were like an ice cube suddenly placed on the back of his neck, causing Lin Yu to tremble uncontrollably.

Is she a player?

No... I have tried it before, but I couldn't talk about those things with Shen Bingmiao before.

Could it be that the senior sister has only recently become a gamer?

When was it, yesterday? The day before yesterday? Last week? The week before last?

Did the Psychological Society do that?

That’s not right… I even had the thought of testing the president again a few minutes ago!

But until Shen Bingmiao spoke, he still couldn't confirm that the other party was a player.

Looking at Shen Bingmiao in front of him, Lin Yu's thoughts were extremely messy.

He subconsciously took a step back and leaned his back against the glass of the hotel's floor-to-ceiling window, which made him a little more sober.

"Senior...you, when?"

Lin Yu suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart and asked calmly.

"About last week. Seeing you seemed a little absent-minded, I started to get suspicious."

"Those guys you asked me to help investigate later also made me suspicious."

Shen Bingmiao took a step back and sighed: "I just can't believe it - you are really a player."

Lin Yu looked at Shen Bingmiao with a look of regret, was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head.

"No, Senior, you misunderstood."

"I mean... when did you become a gamer?"

Shen Bingmiao chuckled, and her tone suddenly became extremely gentle: "Ayu, do you know that asking a girl's age is very rude?"

"I didn't ask your age."

Lin Yu said seriously.

Shen Bingmiao pursed her lips. "'Death Game' is a game that allows people to be reborn. If you ask when I became a player, you're actually asking about my age after my rebirth."

Lin Yu was helpless: "What a twisted theory, Mr. President, if you don't want to talk about it, forget it... But I'm quite puzzled why I couldn't succeed in my previous attempts to talk to you about the "Death Game"."

"So before this, I didn't even think you were a player."

Lin Yu said with emotion.

"Oh, you read the guide on the 'forum' that taught you how to identify players, right?"

Shen Bingmiao said suddenly.

Lin Yu nodded.

"That's right, Senior."

Shen Bingmiao sat down on the bed and stretched her limbs lazily like a cat.

"Don't believe everything on the forum. The operators of this thing are consciously screening the content. Some of it is suitable for ordinary players, but for 'high-level' players... it's not the case."

"After all, the forum's stance is not absolutely neutral—it leans towards 'order'."

"The method you just mentioned for quickly identifying players is not applicable to high-level players."

After hearing Shen Bingmiao's words, Lin Yu seemed to be thinking about something.

"Do high-level players have a way to 'circumvent' this simple test of whether someone is a player?"

"So, President, you're a high-level player... In other words, you've at least experienced..."

"Hey, if you keep counting weeks to try to figure out the approximate time I joined the game, I'm going to throw you off the building right now."

Shen Bingmiao said bluntly.

Although Lin Yu knew that his president was joking, he saw that the other party seemed to really care about this matter, so he simply stopped worrying about it.

after all……

The time to join the "Death Game" is the moment when everyone "dies once".

It is normal to have some shadows that you don’t want to recall.

"Let's not talk about time for now. Senior... what level are you at? Which organization have you joined?"

When Shen Bingmiao heard Lin Yu ask this, she did not hide it.

"I'm a level three organization... you could call it 'order'. I'm not a formal member, I'm an outsourced one."

she said lightly.

"Level 3?!"

Lin Yu was a little surprised.

Although I knew that Shen Bingmiao might be very strong, I didn't expect that the other party was actually at the third level!

Originally, Lin Yu thought that the senior sister would only be a more senior second-level one.

In other words, she was even on the same level as those high-end players he met in the previous dungeon!

and……

She is actually a member of "Order"!

Although Shen Bingmiao calls himself "outsourced", he is still very impressive.

You can even become an informal member of the "Order", which may be more valuable than a formal member!

But Lin Yu thought it was reasonable.

With Shen Bingmiao's talent and drive, he is definitely not an ordinary player in the "Death Game".

"So, what's the way high-level players avoid the 'gamer' conversation?"

As Lin Yu spoke, Shen Bingmiao spoke vaguely.

"This involves the issue of 'leveling up'... Honestly, I agree more with the forum's approach."

"It's not good for new players to be exposed to too much information about 'leveling up' and 'high-level players'."

Shen Bingmiao said this and then changed the subject.

"But since you're my junior who knows me well, it's okay to reveal a little to you."

"The question you just asked involves the nature of 'ascension'."

Lin Yu was a little surprised when he heard Shen Bingmiao's words: "Essence?"

"Yes...How many dungeons have you been through? Have you leveled up?"

When asked this by Shen Bingmiao, Lin Yu was confused for a moment.

He was struggling over whether to lie to the president about the number of copies or whether to lie to the president about whether he had upgraded or not.

However, considering that the identity of "Lin Yu" should be considered by many people as a "new soldier who has experienced four copies", Lin Yu decided to keep the character setting consistent.

"I've been through four dungeons and haven't leveled up yet."

As he spoke, Shen Bingmiao nodded: "No wonder you are such a bad cook, it turns out you are a real newbie."

"Seriously."

Shen Bingmiao continued, "In short, if you go through a few more dungeons and see the 'First Level' upgrade mission, you'll find..."

"The quest for upgrading to the first level is different from all the dungeon clearance quests you've ever experienced."

"The quests to clear a dungeon are often just things like 'survive for a certain time', 'complete certain requirements', or 'investigate certain truths'."

“It rarely allows you to have too strong an ‘interaction’ with the dungeon world you are in.”

"But 'Upgrade' quests are different—you can tell from a first-level 'Upgrade' quest that it very specifically points to something very important within the dungeon."

"In other words, excluding those who actively cause trouble, a player who clears a dozen or even dozens of dungeons will likely have minimal impact on the worlds where those dungeons are located."

"But... as long as you complete a 'level-up' mission—"

"That would leave an unprecedentedly vivid and colorful mark in the other world, enough to make that world remember that player forever!"

Having said that, Shen Bingmiao paused.

"This is the essence of 'Ascension'. Honestly, it has something in common with your favorite show—"

"Upgrading is the process of allowing another world to remember you firmly."