Brother Jiang also heard that some time ago, Notch almost called Rookie to the office every day, and stayed for more than half a day each time.
Brother Jiang knew Notch's sexual orientation. All those signs could only mean that Rookie was a very special person.
Notch should have already opened up his heart to him.
Thinking of this, Brother Jiang waved for Rookie to sit down, a kind and friendly expression on his face.
"Sorry for bothering you."
"What were you doing just now?"
Brother Jiang naturally couldn't just ask about Notch right away. No matter what, he had to start with some small talk first, chat about some this-and-that stuff before getting to the point.
Rookie, although sometimes not too sharp, was still in the workplace after all and roughly knew the workplace rules.
At this kind of moment, whatever Brother Jiang asked, he just needed to answer, no need to say more.
Thinking of this, Rookie scratched his head and said, "Slacking off."
Rookie was quite straightforward, but his words almost made Brother Jiang choke on his own phlegm.
Brother Jiang had already heard that Rookie was "a bit different," but this was his first time meeting someone whose brain worked in such a weird way.
'Looks like the usual methods won't work…'
Brother Jiang cleared his throat, also getting ready to go straight to the main point.
"Do you know what Notch has been doing lately?"
"I haven't been able to reach him recently. Seeing that he's busy, I didn't want to disturb."
"You know, forcefully cutting off the power does have some effect on the brain."
Hearing Brother Jiang's words, Rookie looked puzzled.
"Then why cut off mine?"
"Is my brain not a brain too?!"
Brother Jiang was instantly stumped by Rookie's question, looking awkward.
Just as he was about to explain something, Rookie suddenly leaned in close.
Brother Jiang instinctively stepped back two big steps when he saw that.
It was clear that Brother Jiang was genuinely scared, after all, with Rookie's brain logic, no one knew what he might suddenly do.
Rookie leaned in, looked Brother Jiang up and down, then seemed to suddenly remember something.
He raised his eyebrows, pointed at Brother Jiang, and said, "You… You you…"
Brother Jiang was instantly a bit stunned. He really couldn't follow Rookie's thought process.
But at least he could confirm that the information about "Mr. Jiang" Rookie mentioned matched himself very closely.
Except for that part about often crying over his girlfriend…
'Notch… What have you been telling him…'
Hearing Rookie talk about such personal info, Mr. Jiang was a bit helplessly amused.
He awkwardly rubbed his forehead.
"Yes yes yes… That's me, that's me…"
At this moment, Mr. Jiang was also glad that he had asked to talk to Rookie alone, otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable…
Mr. Jiang was still embarrassed when Rookie suddenly dashed in front of him, instantly opening the floodgates.
"You should've said it earlier, Mr. Jiang."
"Notch recently entered that Trial Ground. Let me tell you, that place wasn't made by us! It's naturally generated in the game!"
"That dungeon was really well made. There's even a holographic map, you can see the players' status inside from outside."
"Oh right, right, there's a test before entering the dungeon too, no idea what kind of test he passed."
"Speaking of tests, can you guess what the test tool was?!" ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ ɴo(v)elFɪre.ɴet
"Eh, you probably can't guess either. Let me tell you, it was a signboard!! A signboard, can you believe it!!"
"Such a high-end dungeon, yet they used signboards as test tools… what kind of brain logic is that?"
"You know what Notch's pass rates were in the past?!"
"Hahahahaha, didn't expect two results, right?!"
"I didn't expect it either back then…"
At this moment, Rookie's mouth was like a machine gun, "rat-a-tat-tat" and wouldn't stop talking.
Brother Jiang only felt his head buzzing. He had thought it would be hard to get anything out of Rookie, but the result surprised him.
Rookie did say a lot of information, but there was no focus, and the topic jumping was too wild.
Brother Jiang managed to catch a few key points after much effort. Then, seeing Rookie about to swallow, he quickly interrupted the torrent of words.
"Stop stop stop stop!!!!"
Just as Brother Jiang stopped Rookie, Old Wu happened to come in with tea.
Rookie saw this and, without any politeness to Old Wu, immediately got up, took the tea from his hands, and gulped it down in one shot.
After finishing the tea, he looked at Old Wu joyfully. "Old Wu, how did you know I was thirsty right now?"
"You're really quite nice!"
Old Wu was long used to Rookie's behavior. He knew Rookie didn't understand social etiquette, so he quickly brought the other cup of tea to Brother Jiang and smiled apologetically.
"Brother Jiang, this kid's brain doesn't work right. Don't mind him."
After spending some time with Rookie, Brother Jiang basically understood what kind of person he was. Naturally, he wouldn't take offense.
Brother Jiang took the tea, sipped it, thought for a moment, then asked Old Wu, "I heard from Rookie that something big has happened inside the game recently."
"Said his former colleague turned into some kind of Entity 303 who's especially good at using fire?"
"And something about the Void invading the main world, causing a Wither Storm or something."
"And that new thing, some kind of Trial Ground."
Rookie had talked for a long time. Even though it was in a stream-of-consciousness style, Brother Jiang still caught several things he cared about.
First was that former colleague becoming fire-wielding Entity 303.
Brother Jiang had also seen similar rumors before, but he never took them seriously.
After all, it's a game, marketing is necessary. Brother Jiang had also told Zero Point's higher-ups to use HIM as a marketing tactic before.
It was normal for Zero Point to follow that example.
So Brother Jiang hadn't believed those posts, most of them came from marketing accounts.
But now hearing it directly from Rookie made it different.
The reason Brother Jiang started getting interested in Entity 303 was because it related to the secret he kept from Notch.
According to Rookie, he had once been assigned to deal with Entity 303.
If Entity 303 was indeed a former programmer from Zero Point, then what form was he now taking inside the game?
If it was just as a hacker, Zero Point wouldn't tolerate him. The task Rookie got back then was probably to eliminate Entity 303.
Brother Jiang didn't know exactly what happened back then, but what he could confirm was, Entity 303 was still in the game now.
Which meant that Entity 303 most likely didn't exist through hacking methods.
Maybe, just like HIM, even the game admins had no authority to delete him.
If the truth behind Entity 303 could be uncovered, it would definitely help Brother Jiang piece together what happened ten years ago.
The second issue Brother Jiang raised was the same.
He had visited the Void before, and he searched for a long time but found nothing.
But after hearing Rookie say the Void invaded the main world and brought the Wither Storm, Brother Jiang immediately sensed something was off.
From that, Brother Jiang could confirm one thing.
There really was something inside the Void, and that something must be connected to Notch.
If the Void only sent out a regular Wither, Brother Jiang wouldn't think too much.
But what it sent was a Wither Storm.
After hearing all this, Brother Jiang immediately started searching for info on Wither Storm on his phone.
Unfortunately, there wasn't much.
But it wasn't a total loss, under the Wither Storm search entry, many related terms appeared, like "giant tumors," "octopus-shaped monster," etc.
All the pictures under those terms were of the Wither Storm.
That already revealed something,
This was the first time Wither Storm appeared in the game. Players didn't know its name, so they used its appearance to name it.
But Rookie knew the name "Wither Storm."
Clearly, the name was told to him by Notch.
Because the Wither Storm was a mod Notch made before the game became fully holographic.
Very few people knew about that mod, Brother Jiang was one of them.
So if the Void could create a Wither Storm, it proved that whatever existed in the Void must be related to Notch.
So Brother Jiang had to figure out what was inside the Void before Notch did.
And lastly, the Trial Ground.
According to Rookie, Notch had already entered the Trial Ground.
Brother Jiang didn't know whether this Trial Ground was related to the Void or not, but he had to find out.
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