Master of Ten Thousand Foxes-Chapter 59 - 58: Dark World

Bai Mo wrinkled his brow.

Are you really using a Luoyang Shovel to dig?

When will you ever finish digging?

He clicked into the post and saw someone expressing the same doubt.

[Is the original poster really using a Luoyang Shovel to dig? When will you ever finish digging?]

The original poster replied.

[I also don’t want to use a Luoyang Shovel]

[I really wish I could bring an excavator into my dreams]

[Unfortunately, my abilities don’t allow it]

A bunch of replies followed below.

[Hahahahaha]

[Hahahaha]

[Hahaha]

Bai Mo exited the post. He thought about bringing an excavator into his dreams; he could bring it in... but that thing is a bit too expensive.

He looked at other people’s posts and found that there were quite a few archaeology enthusiasts who brought a shovel into their dreams.

[Damn, my dead Ancient Immortal Master keeps forcing me to dig the earth every day, and I don’t dare to provoke him]

[Digging the earth every day is driving me crazy; I’m now just a laborer kidnapped by a dream, forced to work for the Ancient Immortal in the dream every day]

[Pure tech content, technical post, ten summarized earth-digging tips!]

[Rune Earth-Digging Shovel review]

Rune Earth-Digging Shovel? What is this?

Bai Mo clicked in and was surprised to see an image of a modern alloy shovel.

Runes were engraved on the shovel head, which Bai Mo didn’t recognize. Presumably, they were engraved by a Talisman Master.

The wooden handle of the shovel had laser-engraved characters... "Honorably Produced by the Immortal Technique Committee."

Huh?

Bai Mo learned for the first time that the Immortal Technique Committee had such a side business.

He took a quick look at the review and found that the shovel had rune enhancements, granting it a slight soil-melting effect, which makes digging less labor-intensive and easier.

After some searching, he discovered that on this forum, there was an official store of the Immortal Technique Committee. The store’s best-selling item was this shovel, which makes earth-digging easier. But it can’t be bought with money; it needs to be exchanged using Immortal Grass, literature, weapons, or other items in dreams after a point assessment by the Committee.

"Hey?

"That means, just by selling this shovel, the Immortal Technique Committee can get quite a few good items?"

Bai Mo naturally didn’t need the shovel, but he was a bit curious.

So he immediately sent a message to Fang Xiaoyu to inquire.

[Is there a discount if experts buy the Rune Shovel on the forum?]

Fang Xiaoyu replied instantly.

[There’s no such saying, eh]

[If you’re a committee member, you can apply directly]

[In principle, experts need to buy at full price]

[Do you need one? Let Zhang Shan help you apply for one!]

Bai Mo snickered.

[No need, just asking casually]

Fang Xiaoyu sent another message.

[Why, don’t want to take advantage of the Committee? Expert Bai Mo has strong principles?]

[But the Committee is gifting phones!]

[The latest flagship model from Da Mi phones, want one?]

Huh?

The phone Bai Mo had was a Da Mi phone; two years ago, he bought a youthful version with a scholarship.

Back then, Da Mi phones were still cheap, but recently it had aimed for high-end, and the prices had gone up. The flagship model cost five to six thousand yuan.

Bai Mo wrinkled his brow. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

[Really gifting phones? Not joking, right? Is it an expert benefit? Does every expert get one?]

...

Immortal Technique Committee, seventh floor, Network Technology Section.

Fang Xiaoyu, wearing a smart suit, accompanied Bai Mo along.

"Don’t worry, every expert gets one!

"But it’s not really a benefit.

"Giving you phones is mainly for data security."

Fang Xiaoyu explained... previously, there were incidents of wanted criminals hacking expert phones to steal key information, which caused significant losses to the Committee.

Shangjing decided to give all experts unified mobile phones!

In the office of the Network Technology Section, rows of computers were working, and programmers, in slippers, kept tapping on keyboards incessantly.

The staff took out three unopened phone boxes and placed them on the table.

"These are the latest flagship Da Mi models, all top-of-the-line.

"The phones come pre-installed with firewall software, which cannot be turned off or uninstalled and can help block hacker attacks.

"There are three colors: white, black, and blue. Which one would you like?"

Bai Mo glanced at the boxes and casually chose a white one.

Just as he was about to leave, he noticed that on the adjacent desk, a tech guy was handling a broken phone.

The one from inside the giant chameleon’s belly?

At that moment, Lu Yang and Zhang Shan walked in from outside, pulling Bai Mo to join them in watching.

"Today’s task is to handle the phone from inside the chameleon’s belly.

"Also, there’s the one from Third Senior Brother, let’s join in for the fun."

Bai Mo eagerly joined them.

He also wanted to know what exactly the "Dark World" mentioned by Third Senior Brother referred to.

Meanwhile, the tech guy, plump and bald, wasn’t bothered by the audience peeking from behind him, connected the phone to the computer, and opened the cracking software to begin inputting varying commands while tapping swiftly on the keyboard.

Not long after, the various deleted data from the phone were restored one by one.

The tech guy clicked to open it.

To everyone’s surprise, it was all sorts of photos and videos; the covers showed various scantily clad women.

Bai Mo furrowed his brow.

That guy spent all day inside a chameleon’s belly and still had the leisure for this?

Fang Xiaoyu flushed red.

She turned her head and spat lightly.

Lu Yang and Zhang Shan looked disdainful.

"Such a hillbilly, looking at this low-grade stuff. His taste is terrible."

"Yeah, even when I was in junior high, I’d had enough of these trashy online pics."

The tech guy frowned.

"This is bad; his phone’s capacity is too small, and all those photos and videos overwrote the key data. Valuable chat logs, search records, map data... all were overwritten."

Huh?

Everyone exchanged looks, feeling regret.

Then they saw the tech guy taking out a bent slate phone, trying to remove the shattered screen and disassemble its components.

Zhang Shan explained.

"This is Third Senior Brother’s phone.

"After tracing it back that day, no person was found, only this bent phone."

After some operations, the tech guy extracted the phone’s motherboard, found the storage module, and cautiously connected it to the computer using specialized equipment to start processing.

Not long after, a heap of data was extracted.

But like the previous one, most were tasteless photos and videos.

Everyone was feeling disappointed when they suddenly heard the tech guy say.

"Hey?

"There’s a deleted browsing record."

Zhang Shan and Lu Yang exchanged glances.

"Is it a website?"

"Not interested anymore."

Cautiously, the tech guy operated, restoring that website from the hard disk.

It was a string of scrambled letters, styled very much like those kinds of URLs — only longer and harder to remember.

He entered the URL into the browser, trying to access it.

Then they witnessed the browser page being redirected over and over.

Eventually, the webpage opened.

Very simplistic, a black page with four large white characters in the center.

"Dark World"