Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1188: Chapter 1082: Can the System Panel be snatched too!?_1 Chapter 1188: Chapter 1082: Can the System Panel be snatched too!?_1 Although Chasing Wind was “reflecting upon his actions” in confinement, being on the moon meant that he was always on guard.

Despite the lack of air on the moon preventing sound from traveling, causing him not to notice the happenings on the other side of the stone slab.

The first time another Chasing Wind and his four teammates walked around the stone slab, he noticed immediately.

Initially, he was both shocked and delighted:

“Are there people here?

A new plotline triggered!?

”

But as soon as he saw the face of the person in front, his joy was instantly frozen on his face—

It was a face identical to his own!

The first feeling that flooded his mind was not familiarity, but a strong and absurd sense of unfamiliarity!

It was like looking in the mirror and the person inside suddenly doing something different from yourself.

Even a minor and brief difference will instantly make one’s hair stand on end.

And the scene that Chasing Wind was confronting was far more terrifying than that!

Because the person in the mirror…

stepped out!

Chilling to the bone!

He broke out into a cold sweat in an instant, and his entire back began to feel cold.

“What…are you?”

Unexpectedly, his reaction was big, but the reaction from the other side was even bigger—

The other Chasing Wind, upon seeing the Chasing Wind seated cross-legged on the ground, immediately retreated three steps and almost fell.

The teammates following him were also shocked.

Nick, even more so, shouted in surprise on the spot: “Two Dr.

Qians!?”

—Chasing Wind’s real name was Qian.

He chose the surname [Qian] in the game “Chang’an” and continued to use it in “Gravity”.

Chasing Wind immediately got up from the ground and carefully maintained a distance with them.

His two fingers were first together and then bent, activating the [Out of Body] mode, wanting to communicate with his viewers:

“I’m a bit creeped out, guys.”

“But I have a few guesses: one might be that this black slab generates illusions.

The five people I see might all be fake.”

“Or, this slab could be high-tech alien technology, capable of replicating characters that have appeared in the plot, regardless of whether they are players or NPCs.”

Chasing Wind tried hard to stay calm.

By explaining the situation to his viewers, he was reorganizing his thoughts.

But soon, something that caught him off guard happened—

“Damn, this NPC can live-stream too?

And knows about NPCs and players?”

“Guys, we’ve encountered a special NPC!”

—Their equipment, communicators, and communication channels were all the same, already interconnected.

Naturally, Chasing Wind heard the words from the other side.

He immediately widened his eyes in shock, looking at the sudden appearance of his double—

That guy was also making the [Out of Body] gesture, looking like he was interacting with his viewers!

“What an imitation!”

He blurted out without thinking.

But just as he finished speaking, he felt like he had overlooked something.

Overlooked what?

It seemed—

The comments had stopped for a long time already!!

He confirmed it again that for a long while, no comments had popped out of the corner of his vision.

“System malfunction?”

Chasing Wind put his fingers together and pulled down, about to open the panel and check the live-streaming plug-in.

The current situation indeed left him feeling thrilled, confused, and hair-raising, but for this exact reason, he needed his viewers to help brainstorm strategies.

But the next moment, he froze in place as an even more terrifying incident occurred—

The panel…

didn’t appear.

A strong sense of unease washed over him, and Chasing Wind tried to pull down again, and again…

But no matter how many times he tried, the panel, which had never been problematic before, simply wouldn’t open this time!

Chasing Wind was completely at a loss, and he quickly switched to voice commands:

“Open panel!”

“Exit game!!”

“Escape from lock-down!!!”

“System help!!!!!”

His shouts grew louder each time, but all these attempts were like stones sinking into the ocean—there was no response at all.

Chasing Wind was at a loss about what to do and even started shouting Lincoln’s name: “Lincoln!

Cloud Dream!

Customer service!!”

He was panicking.

The astronauts on the other side, witnessing him “losing his head”, also became uneasy and instinctively distanced themselves from him.

The other Chasing Wind also continuously retreated, appearing frightened, and kept talking in the live broadcast:

“My god, this is way too scary.”

“Has this NPC gone crazy?”

“I say, we better get out of here.”

While speaking, he swiped on his panel as if to confirm something.

After making sure the panel was fine, he really led his teammates back the way they came, intending to leave this bizarre place.

Chasing Wind, who lost his panel, of course, would not let the person who had “stolen” his panel, live broadcast, and even his identity leave.

“Come back here!!” he yelled and pounced on the five-man squad, wrestling with the counterfeit!

*

In reality, the audience in Chasing Wind’s live broadcast room had become completely bewildered.

Worried people had already started calling Cloud Dream’s customer service.

This situation was really too absurd!

In the beginning, they did not even notice that the anchor had been replaced—

Because after Chasing Wind sat cross-legged in front of the stone slab, the live streaming lens gradually zoomed in, in the end, Chasing Wind’s figure completely vanished from the lens, leaving only an all-black stone slab in the live streaming screen.

A barrage of question-mark comments was sent by the audience, baffled by this inexplicable camera movement.

However, this “black screen” phenomenon only lasted a few seconds.

The lens slowly zoomed out again, revealing the back of Chasing Wind.

But at this point, Chasing Wind was now standing and started to repeat his previous actions:

Touching and tapping the stone slab, kicking the lunar soil to inspect the underside, circling the slab looking for clues.

At this point, the viewers were very puzzled: Hadn’t he already done this once?

Why was he doing it again?

But before everyone could ask questions, Chasing Wind once again walked around the slab and saw—

The another Chasing Wind sitting cross-legged!

At this moment, everyone still hadn’t realized that the anchor had been replaced.

They thought this was the beginning of a new story plot.

However, with the appearance of the anchor’s four teammates, and the series of reactions from the Chasing Wind on the other side of the lens, they finally confirmed:

The Chasing Wind on the other side is the real one!

Now, the one who has taken over the live broadcast room and is live streaming is actually a fake!

He not only hijacked Chasing Wind’s live broadcast room but also stole his system panel!

Now, the two Chasing Winds are wrestling with each other.

The other four astronauts wanted to help their teammate, but the two Chasing Winds looked exactly the same.

Not to mention that the audience watching the live stream couldn’t tell them apart; even the four teammates on the scene couldn’t tell them apart, and there was no way they could intervene.

Chasing Wind, who had lost his panel, was very aggressive.

He feared that if he lost, the impostor would leave in the spaceship and take the system with him.

——Not only was his panel missing, but all prompts, all UI…

all game systems had disappeared without a trace!

It’s just like time traveling!

“My system panel can be stolen as well!?”

“If the panel is transferred, will you still be resurrected when you die?”

“Holy shit, don’t scare me!

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I’m most afraid of this!”

“Fighting, anchor!”

“Oops, wrong, it’s not cheering for the anchor, it’s cheering for the real Chasing Wind!”

“You must win!”

“Quickly contact Cloud Dream!

Call for Super Administrator to get in touch!”

“That’s too slow!

Go directly to Yi’s and Victoria’s live stream and spam comments, let them contact Lincoln!”

…

The audience was very anxious; some were even calling the police.

However, the situation quickly took another turn—

The battle had decided a winner.

With his four teammates unable to intervene, Chasing Wind successfully won this 1v1 duel.

He used the stone he had previously tapped the slab with and smashed the imposter’s facemask!

Exposed to the vacuum environment, the imposter Chasing Wind quickly suffocated and stiffened, becoming a corpse.

“I won!” Chasing Wind couldn’t help but raise his arm and shout.

But as soon as his words just echoed, the body on the ground turned into a glow and disappeared—in the same way as when players died and respawned.

At the same time, the other four astronauts disappeared.

As a result, the desolate moon was left with only Chasing Wind.

The Think Tank and the live streamer community also disappeared with them.

Left with the arm raised, it remained frozen mid-air.