After Beating the Game, I Became the Villain BOSS

Edge Mansion, 88th floor, Su Mo's room.

Su Mo, Dongdong, and Future sat at the table, their faces full of seriousness, the atmosphere so tense that it's suffocating.

Su Mo: "How many cards?"

Dongdong: "One card."

Su Mo: "Only one card left, right? Pair eight! Pair ten! One three! Stick it on~"

He played all his cards and reversed to stick the punishment note on Dongdong's forehead.

"Ugh, ahhhh!" Dongdong slapped his cards on the table angrily, flopped onto the bed, "Not playing anymore, not playing anymore, losing every round, pointless!"

Future yawned sitting next to Su Mo, lazily saying: "Dongdong, you don't even know how to count cards, don't fight to be the landlord each round, I feel bad for you losing."

Dongdong tore off the note from his face, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window overlooking New Moon City's night view, and sighed, "KK would be great here, he's super good at cards and always leads me to win."

"Honestly, seeing him every day before didn't feel special, but suddenly not seeing him, I kinda miss him."

Future smiled and said, "He's a super double agent now, juggling between the Edge and the Tooth Tiger, busy bee."

Dongdong turned his head back, worriedly asking: "Boss, what's with the bomb KK mentioned?"

Su Mo organized the cards and placed them aside, saying, "During lunch today, I felt KK seemed off, and wanted to find him to ask; coincidentally, he came to me too and said a bomb was planted inside his stomach."

Dongdong gasped: "That Ou Chenyu is truly vicious!"

Su Mo: "I was also shocked. I know Ou Chenyu is suspicious in nature and wouldn't easily trust KK, but didn't expect him to distrust even the truth serum results, using such a backup tactic."

At this point, he couldn't help shaking his head.

Even though he'd manipulated this "protagonist" to clear games dozens of times before crossing over, considering himself knowing Ou Chenyu thoroughly.

But when the program-controlled game transformed into unpredictable reality, Ou Chenyu's ruthlessness still was unexpected.

This "protagonist" unlike any past enemy, his growth speed, keen intuition, and sharp tactics bring a strong sense of oppression.

Future nodded and said: "Luckily KK was sent, he trusts the boss enough. If it was someone less bonded, carrying a bomb, they might have been inversely recruited by Ou Chenyu."

Dongdong looked at Future and asked: "What about the bomb? Is it safe now?"

Future: "The bomb's main body remains in KK's stomach to prevent Ou Chenyu's later inspections. But I've already extracted the detonating device, there's no danger anymore."

Dongdong curiously asked: "Didn't KK say Ou Chenyu claimed the bomb had the world's most advanced anti-removal system, detonating if removed. How did you manage to extract the detonating device?"

Future: "Is there a chance this 'world's most advanced' anti-removal system was what I researched during my spare time back then?"

Dongdong: "... That's truly impressive."

Future: "I laughed to death, what detonation upon removal. A bunch of rookies couldn't remove it, spreading absurd rumors."

She crossed her hands behind her head, sighed and said: "Honestly, current hardware tech levels are exasperating, still using my invention after so many years, can't they have something new..."

After finishing, she rubbed her still slightly swollen eyes, with some tears flowing down: "Tch, my eyes still hurt..."

Su Mo poked her forehead, chuckling: "I see it now, everyone at Edge is quite the Drama King! Your earlier rolling on the ground wailing was such a tragic sight, you should compete with KK for the Best Actor title."

Future laughed angrily: "What acting, it's not acting, it's my genuine reaction okay! Next time let Dongdong spray pepper spray on your face and see!"

Dongdong clapped his hands seriously, saying: "See, I told you this trick works~"

Su Mo laughed with tears in his eyes.

Dongdong truly has a knack for bad ideas.

To help Future cooperate with KK for a spy thriller, worried her acting wasn't convincing, Dongdong and she gauged they'd just spray pepper spray on her face directly.

The crying, shouting, flailing legs and rolling around, snot and tears, looked more real than real, even the Yueska Best Actor would hurriedly hand over the golden statue seeing it.

At this point, Dongdong thought of something: "By the way, our computer got wrecked by the virus, are those experiment data safe?"

Future: "Already backed up and transferred long ago. No matter how powerful a computer virus is, it can't run outside of a computer system, it can't magically ruin hard drives in storage, right."

Saying this, she became serious: "But I do want to ask, boss, what virus did Ou Chenyu give KK?"

"Though I specialize in hardware applications, not so much in software, our lab's computer firewall is from a top network security company, theoretically can defend against all mainstream viruses."

"Initially, I worried, maybe the firewall was too strong that it blocked KK's virus, but all computers instantly crashed, I was really startled by its power."

Su Mo revealed a mysterious smile.

Not surprising, it's the 'Black Extinction Virus,' one of the seven clearing items in 'Dawn' game.

Forget what top network security company-designed firewalls, even the internal firewalls of the big three corporations are powerless against the Black Extinction Virus.

Sadly, the USB KK brought this time is just an infection source, not the virus code, can't copy it over.

But there's good news, which is the Black Extinction Virus is confirmed not destroyed.

This crucial clearing item is still in Ou Chenyu's hands.

This time, as long as we defeat Ou Chenyu, we can seize this powerful weapon!

Regarding the Black Extinction Virus, Su Mo didn't elaborate much, just patted Future's shoulder: "Rest assured, it won't be long before I get the virus, it'll become a weapon just for us."

Dongdong stretched lazily: "Boss, KK has gained Ou Chenyu's trust, what's our next move?"

Su Mo walked to the table, picked up the poker cards the three were playing earlier, and shuffled them in his hand.

While shuffling, he watched the vibrant nightlife through the floor-to-ceiling window and said slowly: "Ou Chenyu must be feeling awesome these days, thinking everything is under his control."

"He doesn't know yet that all his achievements during this time are just bait we've set for him."

"Our most trusted companion is firmly planted within the Tooth Tiger. If this operation succeeds, KK will be the biggest hero."

He shuffled the cards round after round, placed his fingers on the top card: "We've been maneuvering with Ou Chenyu for so long, it's time to make our move."

"Ring ring ring——" At this exact moment, the phone on the table rang.

The screen displayed a message from Chu Nanyi.

[Boss, the people are set up, just waiting for her to walk into the trap tomorrow]

Su Mo's face revealed a profound smile, swiftly drew the card and slapped it onto the table.

In his eyes reflected the imposing ace of cards, his voice filled with battle spirit and intensity.

"The counterattack begins!"