Chapter 133: Big News

Chapter 133: Big News

How could Kevin be here?

Just as this question arose in Arthur's mind, he immediately took two more steps forward and found the answer himself.

In front of Kevin, a decently dressed middle-aged man was currently slumped on the ground.

The man's face was bluish-purple, his breathing as faint as a thread; he was clearly deeply poisoned and most likely beyond saving.

Arthur had a slight impression of this man's face, remembering him as seeming to be the leader of the Yharnam Gang.

Arthur hadn't expected that a competitive youth he had casually encountered on the street during the day would actually have such a significant-looking relationship with the leader of the Yharnam Gang.

At this moment, Kevin hadn't yet discovered that he had come upstairs. He was just kneeling in front of the dying middle-aged man, his back to Arthur.

Seeing this scene, Arthur also chose not to rashly go up and disturb them.

The middle-aged man grasped Kevin's hand, using all his remaining strength, and intermittently instructed him.

"I'm sorry, Kevin... In the future, forget what Dad has said in the past, okay..."

"If you want to become a trainer in the future, then go. If you want to play professionally, then go play. Don't come back to mix in this line of work. Once you're out here mixing, sooner or later, you have to pay it all back..."

"You're not suited for this line, you're not suited..."

Muttering and repeating "you're not suited," the man gradually let his head droop, and his breathing completely ceased.

In that instant, Arthur saw Kevin's shoulders heaving silently.

Arthur didn't know what this man had done previously, but at least in the final moment before his death, he allowed people to see his radiance as a father.

There were no ugly displays of complaining about injustice, nor any impotent rage forcing hatred onto his son.

That phrase, "once you're out here mixing, sooner or later, you have to pay it all back," could also be considered a thorough realization.

Unfortunately, this epiphany ultimately came too late.

The Yharnam Gang, from this night onwards, was destined to become history.

After crying for a full minute or more, Kevin finally discovered Arthur behind him.

"It's you? How did you get here?"

"I actually came looking for clues about the Stitched Shadow Army. I'm sorry I lied to you during the day."

"Is that so..."

Kevin didn't ask much, seeming to believe him quite simply.

Having suddenly encountered such a great change, he perhaps no longer had the mental strength to discern such irrelevant, trivial matters.

"Let's call the police."

Arthur reminded him.

Liam and his group had already cleared the field and left by now. Carrying the goods looted on this trip, they were destined not to move too quickly.

Arthur had originally wanted to report it to the police, thinking perhaps they could get the local police to intercept them halfway and cause them some trouble as well.

Unfortunately, he had severely overestimated the dispatch efficiency of the local police in the Star Brilliance Alliance...

Of course, it was also possible it was related to the location they reported being in the slums; if trouble had occurred in the city center or the wealthy district, they might have arrived quickly.

With trouble in the slums, the operator merely said lazily, "We'll be there immediately."

This "immediately" then had Arthur and Kevin waiting for over four hours...

By the time they heard movement outside the abandoned warehouse again, the sky had already brightened.

Upon coming out, the first people to greet Arthur were not the local police, but David and the embassy consul.

Having been out all night, Arthur had at least managed to report to them by phone earlier, informing them of his whereabouts.

Of course, in order to avoid unnecessary questioning and to conceal his act of stealing the loot, he had only said that he had gone out shopping and had accidentally encountered a local gang fight, getting trapped and thus unable to return.

However, at this moment, David and the others had all followed the police car through the entire slum, driving for over an hour to get here. Every one of them looked at Arthur with a gaze that held a hint of weirdness.

"You came out shopping in the middle of the night... and managed to wander all the way here?"

As David asked this, one of his eyebrows unconsciously rose high.

Arthur's face didn't redden, his heart didn't pound; he answered with a deadpan seriousness, "The alleys here are deep. I accidentally got lost."

"..."

Everyone was speechless.

"This 'getting lost' of yours... you were just one step away from almost leaving the city and entering the woods..."

Just as David and the others were marveling at the terror of Arthur's directionally challenged attribute, suddenly, a group from the local media team over there changed their route and came over.

The reporter leading them, holding a microphone, arrived in front of Arthur with a face full of pleasant surprise.

"Hello, excuse me, are you Mr. Arthur?"

Everyone was left completely baffled.

Seeing this, the person quickly explained, "Don't misunderstand, I'm a reporter from Kubfu Alliance International Channel. We're all fellow countrymen."

"What happened here this time is a super large-scale event. According to incomplete statistics, over a hundred people died. It's not strange for international media to come over."

"Oh!"

Everyone, while making amazed sounds, couldn't help but once again cast strange gazes towards Arthur.

To go out shopping, get lost, and just so happen to stumble upon such a major event... your luck is really something else.

Only Arthur remained mentally firm, consistently pretending to be as steady as an old tree trunk, and calmly asked the reporter, "Do you know me?"

"Of course!" the reporter said excitedly. "Mr. Arthur, don't you know you're incredibly popular in the Alliance right now? Although you haven't been streaming recently, you are the undisputed top-tier streamer! Few people don't know you."

Arthur, completely unaware, looked confusedly at David in front of him.

David also looked back at him with a simple-minded expression.

So, Arthur had a reference. He pointed his hand and said, "They don't know me."

"Ah, this..."

The reporter couldn't help but feel as if his flattery had backfired spectacularly...

"These few gentlemen are?"

"We are rangers from the Viridian Forest. Due to some matters of judicial fairness, we are temporarily stranded here in Star Brilliance."

"Is that so? Rangers, then it's no wonder. You guys usually aren't online much, right?"

The reporter seemed to have finally found a new breakthrough point for himself.

Subsequently, he enthusiastically began to explain to David and the others.

"It's no wonder, perhaps you still don't know, right? Some time ago, the large-scale cruise ship hijacking incident planned by the Stitched Shadow Army in the Kubfu South Sea... it was precisely this Mr. Arthur here who stumbled upon it during his live stream, ultimately successfully foiling the Stitched Shadow Army's scheme!"

"Over nine hundred people died in that incident!"

"And this time, Mr. Arthur has once again personally experienced a large-scale massacre event suspected to be related to the Stitched Shadow Army, with the death toll once again breaking a hundred!"

"It's hard not to make the association that Mr. Arthur perhaps played some important role in it again!"

Hiss!

Everyone sucked in a cold breath.

Only Arthur almost couldn't maintain his expression, his cheeks twitching slightly.

He wished he could immediately rush up and sew this reporter's mouth shut.

It wasn't me, I didn't do it, don't talk nonsense!

This time, the deaths really have nothing to do with me!

I really was just passing by, that's all.

Even if I was intentionally passing by, it's still just passing by!

However, this reporter seemed to have already self-absorbedly decided that he had caught a big news story, and insisted on conducting an exclusive interview with Arthur.

It gave Arthur a splitting headache.

After a good while of wrangling, the exclusive interview was finally changed to a normal on-site interview.

But even so, Arthur had completely underestimated the spread and influence of this event.

That evening, far away in the Kubfu Alliance.

Eleanor Vance routinely logged onto Starbo. Looking at the completely un-updated interface, she grabbed a pillow in annoyance.

"Damn it! He's played the disappearing act again! Still no Starbo update! That stinky kid, does he even remember he's a contracted internet celebrity?! Doesn't he know the importance of maintaining popularity?! This is pissing me off!"

However, just as she finished venting and casually turned on the TV, the international channel in front of her was broadcasting news about a tragic massacre in the neighboring Star Brilliance Alliance where over a hundred people had died.

The next second, right in the center of the camera shot, Eleanor Vance was incomparably astonished to see that very same stinky kid she had just been cursing!

In that instant, she stared blankly, her mouth wide open.

Unlike other internet celebrities who constantly try to stir up hype and create big news...

Arthur... he always managed to perfectly appear at the scene of major news events!

This wave of operation made Eleanor Vance suddenly feel that perhaps... her own level was too low...

(End of Chapter)

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