Realized Game: I Hoarded 10 Billion Defense Towers

「Songhai City」

After exiting the Secret Realm, Zhao Li looked at the three Secret Realm Teleportation Gates in his hands. He compared them to the displayed top-ten rewards for the individual competition in the Great Chaos Secret Realm and realized he had placed second.

Moreover, although his related memories were gone, Zhao Li quickly filled in the blanks. He figured Brother Chongtian must have gotten first place, and after all sorts of hard-fought matches, his own strength had earned him second place.

Yes, that must be it!

Convinced his guess was correct, Zhao Li muttered to himself and then immediately sent a call request to Shen Fei.

Although he had received the reward, the item strangely displayed the words "Temporarily Unavailable," which completely baffled him. Previously, when he had acquired items that others got from the game or saw people trading items in the same city on the Forum, they were always fully usable. He never expected that an item he received himself would be temporarily unavailable.

With Version 4.4, everyone knew—thanks to the Great Chaos Secret Realm—that this update marked the arrival of Secret Realms. As gamers, they were all incredibly familiar with the concept of running dungeons. His newly acquired Secret Realm Teleportation Gate was clearly a super item that let him run a dungeon right from his own home.

The fact that it was unusable instantly agitated Zhao Li. He wanted to consult Brother Chongtian, who in his mind was omnipotent. Besides, he had three Secret Realm Teleportation Gates. His own city only needed one, and he was thinking of trading away the other two, or maybe giving one to Brother Chongtian.

Unfortunately, to Zhao Li’s surprise, his call request went unanswered.

Speechless, Zhao Li then tried contacting Huang Yi at the Divine Capital Tourism Management Office headquarters. They had gotten to know each other fairly well during the New Olympic Games in Country F and had established a preliminary friendship. Of course, the reason they were willing to be friends was that they both knew the secret of Brother Chongtian’s invincibility.

As Zhao Li and Huang Yi talked, they discovered that both of them had tried to contact Brother Chongtian, and Shen Fei hadn’t answered either call.

"You were seventh place?"

"You were second?"

Through their conversation and a comparison of the new items in their inventories, they figured out each other’s rankings in the individual competition.

"We’re pretty strong!"

After exchanging information, they both concluded that they had earned their rankings through their own combat prowess.

However, a minute later, as they continued talking, they both froze. They discovered that two deputy directors from the Divine Capital Tourism Management Office headquarters and two Vice Gang Leaders from the Immortal Court organization were also in the top ten for the individual competition. This stunned them both.

This doesn’t make sense! One of those deputy directors and one of the Vice Gang Leaders are management-type, non-combat players. How could they get into the top ten? Something’s not right! What in the world happened in that Secret Realm?

As they gathered more information, Zhao Li and Huang Yi were utterly bewildered. The situation, it seemed, was not what they had imagined.

Unfortunately, no one could answer their questions, as everyone’s memories of the Secret Realm were gone. The information they gathered from the Forum also failed to resolve their confusion. Helpless, all they could do was wait until they could contact Shen Fei. They hoped they could deduce something from the reward items in his possession. Yes, they didn’t know much else, but they were absolutely certain about one thing: Shen Fei had received a reward. They were in complete agreement about Shen Fei’s overwhelming strength.

...

"Fuck!"

"Holy shit!"

"Damn it, what do I do!"

"What do I do!!!"

In a special area, a young man holding a giant hammer was anxiously scratching his head.

Having transformed directly from a game NPC into a sapient human, Divine King Tang San’s way of speaking was closer to that of a player. After all, when he first inherited his game abilities, the game was still playable. As a Super NPC in the game *Douluo Continent*, he had heard and seen how countless players communicated. Consequently, after manifesting from the game, he had involuntarily adopted some of the speech habits of human players, including their slang and intonations.

The moment he emerged from the Great Chaos Secret Realm, Divine King Tang San became like a cat on a hot tin roof, completely frantic.

His memories... they hadn’t been erased!

He was the only one on the side of the NPCs and Super Bosses—chosen at random—whose memory hadn’t been deleted.

Earlier, back in the Great Chaos Secret Realm, when the rules stated that one special individual would be chosen to retain their memories, Tang San had actually felt a flicker of anticipation. This Tang San, who had inherited his being from the *Douluo* game, possessed a personality different from his original character.

He never expected his wish would come true. He really had become the one person whose memories weren’t erased. Then, he was dumbfounded.

I was just saying! I didn’t say I actually wanted it! Ever hear of Lord Ye who loved dragons?! That’s me! I’m Lord Ye!

Just before leaving the Secret Realm, Tang San had been quite smug about his special status. When facing the "Shen Fei" who was wreaking havoc everywhere, he had even shot him a subtle, provocative glance. But after leaving the Secret Realm, he was completely stunned.

He was the only one whose memory hadn’t been deleted, but he couldn’t say it out loud. The slightest thought of revealing it gave him a splitting headache, and his entire being felt as if his head was about to be torn apart.

After just half an hour of this torture, Tang San couldn’t take it anymore.

He knew the secret. He knew that a human player possessed the power to instantly kill all of them—all the NPCs and Super Bosses.