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Wade looked at his aunt's scumbag boyfriend with contempt, and said angrily: "You can't win the competition even if you don't have any battleships. My friends also participated. Your skills are too inferior!"

"What did you say?" The scumbag suddenly became angry and rushed towards Wade with his fists waving.

Alice subconsciously rushed forward and hugged the scumbag's waist. She shouted at the top of her lungs: "Get away! I don't want to see you now!"

The scumbag knew that he was in the wrong, so he did not resist and allowed Alice to push him out of the room.

"Alice!"

"I will definitely be able to complain about the equipment and get it back!"

The scumbag shouted twice outside the door and then left.

"Aunt, if I were you, I would call the police and ask that guy to spit out your money!" Wade felt sorry for his aunt.

This is a slum with poor environment, poor order, poor economy, and people of all religions and styles. Living here is neither comfortable nor safe.

He knew how hard Aunt Alice worked to save money to move out of the slums. She would get up early every day and work late at night, and make smiles to various people. She was about to save enough money to move out.
As a result, that scumbag squandered all the money, and my aunt's hope was suddenly dashed.

"No, don't call the police." Aunt Alice knelt down against the wall and cried bitterly, "Wade, please go out for a while and leave me alone."

Wade pursed his lips. He knew that his aunt couldn't hear anything at this time, so he whispered: "Okay."

Wade sighed, opened the door and left.

After going around and around, he returned to his own little world - a modified car located in an abandoned car dump.

The car can no longer be moved, but it has been modified to have electricity inside and a set of "Oasis" game equipment. He hangs out here during the day.

It's not that he doesn't want to study hard, but the real world is too bad. Studying can't change his destiny at all, so he might as well stay in the game.

If he finds some good equipment or cracks Halliday's riddle, he can soar into the sky!

However, it’s quite scary to spend the night here.

The slums are inherently dangerous places. Many criminals who have not been caught by the government are hiding here. At night, there are even more demons dancing outdoors!

What if he's unlucky and bumps into some murderous maniac?
Wade shook his head and shook off this terrifying thought.

He started the device and entered "Oasis".

Night has fallen in reality, but the sun is still shining in the game.

Of course, it's not that there's no night in the game, it's that there's no night on the game planet he's on.

"Wade! Why don't you go to bed so late?"

"Wade! I'll go first!"

"Wade? Why are you online suddenly?"

Wade's friends noticed Wade's online reminder. This was an unusual time, and they sent messages to Wade one after another.

The game made Wade forget the boredom of reality.

He smiled and replied to all his friends' greetings, and then prepared to go to the archives for a while to continue solving Halliday's first riddle.

Suddenly, he received a special message.

[Wade, hello]

[You can call me Little Moss, I have something to ask you for help]

The font of the message was bright gold and surrounded by colorful broken lights. This was a new special effect he had never seen on a ship before.

[This matter is not difficult, and I will pay you an extremely generous reward to help you resolve the troubles in real life]

Wade read the last three sentences quickly.

He was very confused because he had never revealed his real name to anyone in the game.

After all, a game is a game and reality is reality. The happiest thing is to be completely separated. "Little Moss?" Wade racked his brains to think about the name, trying to dig out the player with this nickname from his memory, but he failed.

He didn't remember any players named Moss at all.

"Changed the name?" He was a little confused.

【who are you? 】

he asked in the dialogue box.

Almost as soon as he sent the message, he received a response.

[I am a person who is inconvenient to do things in person. I plan to register a company in Columbus. I hope you will serve as the legal person of the company]

Wade was stunned.

"Not only does he know my real name, but he knows I live in Columbus?"

[You can think of me as a powerful hacker]

[As long as you agree to do things for me, I will transfer $[-] to your account right now, and you can spend it however you want]

[You who live in the slums]

[You should really want to change your destiny, right? 】

Wade fell silent.

He knew that there were some powerful hackers in the world, but he had never heard of any hacker who could hack into the Oasis network.

But, one hundred thousand dollars?
Wade swallowed. If he had one hundred thousand dollars, he could immediately move Aunt Alice out of the slum and stay away from that scumbag!
Although there will be no pie in the sky, if you do nothing and just verbally agree, you can get $[-] for free.
Who can resist such a temptation?

Moreover, this little moss just asked him to register a company in Columbus. If he was asked to do anything dangerous later, such as buying and selling "flour", he would find a place to hide.

"I do." Wade entered in the dialog box, "But aren't you afraid that I will betray you?"

[I will give a hundred thousand dollars to anyone who betrays me. Do I need to tell you what will happen to someone who works for me steadfastly? 】

Looking at this line of words, Wade's mind became hot.

He can get 100 US dollars for free with a verbal promise. If he works for this little moss in a down-to-earth manner, wouldn't he get 200 million or even [-] million US dollars?
He was very excited.

However, it is also possible that someone is deliberately playing tricks on him and everything is fake.
[The money has arrived]

[You can check your account]

Wade was stunned for two seconds.

He hurriedly took off his headset and checked his bank account.

"One zero, two zeros, three zeros"

"Five zeros!"

His account originally had no money at all, but now there is one plus five zeros, which is exactly one hundred thousand!
"It's true!" Wade was overwhelmed by the surprise. He swung his fist hard and accidentally hit the iron pipe next to him. He grinned in pain after a loud "bang".

"Hahahaha!" He laughed wildly, then put on the device and entered in the dialog box, "Dad, what can my son do for you?"

The think tanks of the coalition government are discussing MOSS.

"Wade is the protagonist of the "Ready Player One" universe and has an extremely in-depth understanding of Halliday's puzzles. As long as we control him, we can buy time for us to find the Easter eggs."

While there are many Easter egg hunters in the Ready Player One universe, none of them are as good as Wade.

Wade can always keenly capture the key to the puzzle, and he is well aware of some easily overlooked but crucial details. Only he can find the easter eggs in a short time.

With the Coalition Government controlling him, no one in the "Ready Player One" universe can find the easter egg, only the Coalition Government who know the plot well. (End of chapter)