Deceitful Game

Chapter 295 The First Corporate War

That can't be called wrong.

Because everyone's fate can be changed in the process of time reversing time again and again.

Perhaps a person is a tycoon in this life, but went bankrupt in the previous life, and became the richest person in the life before that.

The first industries to be affected are welfare lottery, horse racing, and sports betting.

People began to question whether con artists might travel back in time to profit from this scheme, thus taking away their money in this "unfair" way.

This hatred then extended to the legitimate award winners.

They are considered charlatans or associated with charlatans.

"The discussion officially began when a middle-aged woman in the United States who won two million dollars in the lottery was robbed and murdered on her way home, and the murderer claimed after being arrested, 'She was a con artist, she stole my life.'"

Ai Shiping said in a low voice, "Then the conflict suddenly escalated."

"When everyone realizes that there are charlatans, everyone begins to doubt whether they might have a better fate or a happier life."

"So people started discussing... whether altering someone's memory counts as murder."

"This question has been circulating online, and opinions are divided. Some say it definitely counts, since you've killed someone I know, which is no different from murder, especially for me... Others say it doesn't count, since he's not really dead."

"The conflict then escalated further... Some con artists started appearing on television programs. He originally wanted to dispel some misunderstandings people had about con artists, but when people heard that 'con artists can indeed go back to the past at will,' they became even more frantic."

"...Ineffective PR, right?"

Mingbo's lips curled into a slight sneer. "He thinks he can bring people closer to the truth."

"The problem is that people never care about the truth."

Ai Shiping sighed again: "People don't care about anything else he said. That part of his speech was cut out and spread virally online... So everyone knows that charlatans really exist."

"...Sometimes, I think the rule of the main god that 'do not reveal the main god space' is quite right."

"That's exactly what I'm saying. The problem is that deceivers are actually quite vulnerable; most deceivers can be easily killed by snipers as soon as they reveal themselves. We wield divine authority on one hand, yet on the other hand, all it takes is a single stone to kill us..."

"About three months have passed since then. An offline attack targeting a suspected con artist has occurred."

"...Wow."

Hearing this, Mingpo roughly knew what happened next.

"Initially, a group of young men in Britain who were having a lot of bad luck and called themselves 'destined ones' found the home address of a suspected fraudster based on a list circulating online."

"They kept watch here for two days and two nights in shifts, and then they actually saw a charlatan appear out of nowhere."

"While generally speaking, Deceivers can see what's happening in the material world through a black-and-white perspective, there is one exception. That is, in the real space that overlaps with the base, people can only see their own base, but not the people in that real room."

"That charlatan was ambushed and beaten to death. He didn't even have time to use his time-based chips... and the chips he took out to use were even taken away."

"They didn't even run away; instead, they were on TV. The chip proved they did kill a conman, and some people think they should be arrested, but the problem is..."

"The conman they killed had already been killed two years ago."

How can a person who has been killed be killed a second time?

"The deceiver gained a brief respite from the material world through the game of deception, but he is truly dead, and his body even exists. Is killing such a deceiver illegal?"

The court engaged in a heated debate.

Ultimately, the UK law requires the victim to be a living person; the deceased is not considered a "person" in the legal sense, therefore violence against the deceased does not constitute murder.

Ultimately, the young men were convicted of robbery for taking a token of time from the conman, but not murder. "That group said something very impactful."

Gao Fan slowly began, "They say... there is no law in this world that can punish someone who can arbitrarily change the past and future. Because the law itself is built on memory and records; being able to modify the past means being able to modify all crimes."

"But death is possible. Even a deceiver can be killed."

"Then people went even crazier."

"Someone kidnapped the charlatan's wife and daughters, claiming that 'he had been randomly feeding them slow-acting poisons over a period of time,' and threatened the charlatan to use his own resources to go back in time and help the kidnapper save his wife who was killed in a car accident."

"If he simply goes back in time and kills the kidnapper, he cannot be certain that his wife and daughters are safe. But if he can directly erase the fact that the other party suffered a tragedy, then he naturally wouldn't kidnap his wife and daughters."

"So the deceiver had no choice but to comply. And he did change everything, thus resolving the crisis."

"Ordinary people certainly wouldn't know about this... but a charlatan leaked it, and ordinary people became even more insane."

"Some people pressured their partners to go back and help them save their parents, others pressured their partners to help them save their children, and some even pressured their partners to tell them the lottery numbers for the next draw..."

"Later, the deceivers finally couldn't take it anymore, and someone went back in time to kill those young men ahead of time."

"But a traitor revealed all of this in detail..."

In an instant, the whole world went into chaos.

The altered version reappeared; some people were killed and then revived. This was because a new reality had overwritten it.

Some witnessed a charlatan remain unmoved in the face of kidnappers' threats, allowing his wife and daughters to be murdered. He had no idea how many kidnappings this man had experienced.

Some people even witnessed someone suddenly appear and wipe out an entire family, without them even knowing why.

Everyone dissatisfied with the status quo has found an excuse, and the conflict between ordinary people and charlatans has reached its highest point in history. In some places, the "tradition" of witch hunts has even been revived.

The hatred between the deceivers and ordinary people intensified, eventually leading to a full-scale war.

Radical charlatans formed the "New World Alliance," aiming to create a new world without oppression, suffering, or heroes. A new world belonging solely to the charlatans!

Ai Shiping turned around, not looking at Mingpo, and said in a low voice, "We only found out later. That traitor..."

"...It's Shen Yiqi."

"Oh, I think I guessed it."

"But until then, we still believed he was on our side."

"Actually," Gao Fan said softly, "at least at this time... I think Shen Yiqi is still fine."

"And then what?" Mingpo asked.

"After that... we won, as expected. It's basically the same world we had before, except the rulers have become charlatans, and ordinary people still exist. There was no nuclear war, the sky is still blue, and the water is still green."

"...The water doesn't necessarily have to be green," Mingpo retorted.

He was supposed to be the most aloof of the three, but now that Gao Fan and Ai Shiping are both sighing and complaining, Mingpo has become the one who makes the sarcastic remarks.

In short

Ai Shiping shrugged: "The only problem is that we're not eliminating the root of the problem."

"So in 2070, the Second Corporate War broke out. Ordinary people seized most of the technology and power, using advanced paradoxical technology to control the con artists. But the main war... was not actually between ordinary people and con artists, but between conservative con artists who 'wanted society to continue to function smoothly' and 'continue to coexist with ordinary people,' and radical con artists who 'wanted radical reform' and 'completely exclude or enslave ordinary people.'"

"The future forces were insufficient, so they came to the past to conscript men. Thus, we were forced to travel to the future."

"More and more charlatans are dying, and more and more ordinary people are turning into charlatans. And while this war drags on, the next war has already begun since the distant year of 2003."

"This is no longer a question of 'conservatives' and 'radicals.' The Noble Blood, together with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, has decided to eliminate all other charlatans."

"We were traveling back and forth between thirty-three years in the future and thirty-four years in the past. My mind was completely blank at that point, and by the end, I had no idea who was hitting whom, who I was hitting, or who was hitting me..."

"It was at that moment that Shen Yiqi ascended to godhood."