“The airdrop has someone! Someone, someone! 270 direction! A full squad of four!”

“I’m smoking, I’m smoking! Flank, flank!”

“Charge, charge, charge! Two down! They’re running to the left!”

“I’ve got a machine gun, I’m aiming! They’re all dead, squad wipe!”

“Nice!”

The ear-splitting voices came through his headset. The streamer “Long Ge” on the Huya live-streaming platform looked at the kill notifications, and the chat flooded with messages like “666,” “Long Ge, Long Ge, singing for you,” “Welcome the return of the Dragon King,” “You are the Dragon!”

He couldn’t help but smile, striking a cool, domineering pose.

*PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds* had been out for several years, and its popularity had declined significantly compared to its peak.

However, it recently received a major version update, adding new maps, weapons, and actions, and optimizing the game's graphics and operation. The monitoring and blocking of cheats was also unprecedentedly strengthened, no longer the terrible situation of the past where "immortals walked everywhere, and cheaters were as common as dogs."

This attracted old players to return, and the category's streaming popularity temporarily returned to the top of the live-streaming platform charts.

Long Ge, an old streamer who had been in the *PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds* category for several years, had neither come for fame during the game's peak nor left during its decline to stream other games.

Therefore, he could be said to have benefited from this resurgence of the game.

In addition, some inexplicable memes about a "crooked-mouth war god Dragon King" had become popular on the internet recently, and many new viewers had flooded into the stream.

The three teammates he matched with this time were a male streamer from the same platform and two *tuhao* (local tyrant/rich players) from the stream with a girl they brought along.

The *tuhao* and the girl he brought were terrible at shooting and had poor awareness, but Long Ge and the other male streamer were decent at FPS games. Taking advantage of the absence of cheats, they wiped out three squads in the first safe zone and even gave a few kills to the *tuhao* to make them happy and heat up the atmosphere in the stream.

“7 personal kills without being downed once. The first bet is settled, a 5 million fish ball tragedy!”

Long Ge let the *tuhao* loot the airdrop first, then turned around and operated the streaming interface on the secondary monitor.

He shook his head and said in a sarcastic tone, “Really good, it’s so good to see these water friends who couldn’t win crying.”

[Wuwuwu, brothers, the wind on the roof is so cold]

[Damn, three years of loneliness and forbearance have resulted in today's explosion... Dragon King is terrifying!]

[Long Ge is so handsome and cute, I want to keep one at home and smash his glasses with my fists all day long]

Dense and chaotic comments floated across the webpage. The feeling of water friends gathering together made Long Ge feel as if he had returned to the day his neighbor complained about his loud streaming and kicked his door with a kitchen knife.

It had been a long time since there had been such lively comments.

Long Ge felt a surge of emotion in his heart, but his face remained calm, and he said with a smile, "Brothers, next I'm going to start the bet for 12 personal kills without being downed once, everyone hurry..."

"Long Ge, Long Ge."

The other male streamer's doubtful voice came through the headset, "Look at the mountains to the west, what is that thing?"

"Hmm?"

Long Ge moved the mouse and looked towards the western hillside, seeing a faint white dot on the mountain peak.

That was...

He switched to a four-times scope assault rifle and looked through the scope, vaguely seeing a figure wearing a dragon head mask and a white coat, standing on the top of the mountain.

Next to him was a Western-style coffin, red and gray, with a goat skull pattern painted on the surface.

"Huh?"

Long Ge was also stunned, and muttered, "Isn't that Reaper's coffin from *Overwatch*? When did *PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds* collaborate with *Overwatch*?"

The new version of *PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds* did update a lot of things, but Long Ge, who had carefully read the update logs three times, was very sure that it didn't mention anything about coffins.

Could it be a cheat?

"Hey, that's not right?"

The *tuhao* in the team had already finished looting the airdrop and said in the team voice chat, "I've already bought all the skins in the new version, I haven't seen this kind of dragon head mask?

Where did this person get the accessories?"

"Could it be made by a cheat? I heard that some people specialize in selling cheat accessories. This kind of cheat is faster to make than aimbots, wallhacks, or speed hacks."

The girl brought by the *tuhao* said in a delicate voice, "Long Ge, aren't you going to kill him and snatch the dragon head accessory? You're the Dragon King."

The male streamer from the same platform teased in the same tone, "That's right, Long Ge, you're the Dragon King."

[Xuan Long, Xuan Long, the True Dragon Reborn!]

[Kill the cheat! Snatch the accessories! Kill the cheat! Snatch the accessories!]

[Trample Hao Long, punch Chun Long, cut Jin Long with a knife, cut Ya Long with a sword. Long Ge, you are the only Dragon God of Huya!]

[Long Ge, if you don't go, you're a crooked-mouth worm ^^√]

The comments provoking him swiped across like a horizontal rainstorm.

Long Ge in front of the camera couldn't help but smooth his bangs. Actually, he wanted to stream properly on the third day of the new version and not provoke cheaters.

But there were *tuhao* and girls in the team, and so many water friends watching in the stream. It would be meaningless to back down.

Besides... the dragon head mask on that person's head was really handsome. It would be nice to snatch it and wear it.

It would fit Long Ge's identity as the True Dragon Reborn.

"Alright, the bullet drop is too severe at this distance. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, brothers, let's drive over and wipe that person out!"

Long Ge straightened his posture and said into the microphone, "But I'll say it first, the other side might be a cheater. I'm canceling the bet in the stream first. Don't blame me if we get sanctioned by the immortal."

The stream immediately filled with comments saying [We don't blame you].

The water friends were quite curious about a cheater with strange accessories appearing in a match on the third day of the new version.

"Get in the car! Ruozi Ge, you're with me, Boss, you're in another car. If we get wiped out, we can at least preserve some spark."

Long Ge calmly commanded into the microphone. The four got into two jeeps and drove at full speed towards the top of the mountain.

[Charge, charge, charge!]

[Becoming an immortal through eliminating evil, starting today]

[Wow, I'm so nervous, I feel like ants are crawling on me]

Lines of comments floated by. As the distance shortened, the figure in the dragon head mask and white coat became clearer and clearer.

Long Ge in front of the camera and the water friends in the stream also noticed something was wrong.

That person's graphics... were too clear.

*PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds*'s production quality, graphics, and optimization were actually very poor. Some places couldn't be looked at closely at all. But that person's graphics were so clear that it was outrageous, as if a real photo had been photoshopped on.

It was even more realistic than games like *Red Dead Redemption 2* and *God of War*, even the corners of the white coat could flutter, swaying with incredibly realistic fabric textures.

The overall style was incompatible with the entire game world.

"This, this, this, can a cheat achieve this level?"

Long Ge was stunned, and his finger twitched, pulling the trigger towards the dragon head and white coat.

The assault rifle fired fiercely, and three bullets formed a straight line in the air, instantly crossing a hundred meters.

However, something that no one expected happened.

The dragon head and white coat took out a four-meter-long cold weapon spear from the void and casually twirled it.

There were three clanging sounds of metal colliding, and the three-round burst bullets were easily split in half by the other party, falling to the ground.

Splitting bullets?!

What kind of immortal cheat was this?!