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  Yang Qing suddenly let out a soft "hmm", remained silent for a moment, then turned back and said: "I've cracked the encrypted email account used by Officer Bo in the military network. There's an email received two weeks ago that I think you two might be interested in. I tracked down the IP address of the sender, and it's from the headquarters of the North American Mercenary Military Alliance!"

  North American Mercenary Military Alliance?

  Why did Bo Xilai establish contact with this organization, and how did the mercenary alliance infiltrate China's military network to deliver this email to her?

  I swiftly pounced over and roughly pushed Yang Qing away, as I grabbed the mouse to click on the email, my right hand was trembling non-stop. If Bu Shana really had connections with this organization for whatever reason, she would have to face being suspended from duty and undergoing a thorough investigation. Once any unfavorable evidence was found, she would be subject to the military's most severe sanctions.

  This is a Chinese invitation letter, and its content is as follows.

  Dear Lieutenant Colonel Bu Shanna: You are an outstanding commander and also one of the best warriors. Although you have not participated in as many wars as we require, your performance in war has made us look at you with new eyes. Your command in anti-terrorism operations is even more classic, some of which have become our actual combat examples for training mercenaries. Therefore, we have reason to believe that you have enough strength to become a member of our party.

  If you have enough confidence in your own war, politics and strategy, and hope to exchange with more experienced professional mercenaries, then please join our code-named DONGQUN's war confrontation, to carry out a virtual world war through the internet!

  The winner will receive the Mercenary Alliance's A to D level mercenary honor medals and a reward of up to 10 million US dollars!

  Please log in to our website with ID 854683338p453s699n22. Zhang Sun Ting snapped his fingers and praised, "Indeed formidable!" It's unknown whether he was praising Bu Shanna for being a lieutenant colonel who could get such high praise in the international mercenary world, or if he was praising the North American Mercenary Military Alliance's espionage capabilities as strong enough.

  I turned my head and looked at Yang Qing, asking: "Can I log in to this website?"

  As I saw Yang Qing nod slightly, I moved the mouse to the website address. As soon as the website opened, I let out a curse of hatred. Before my eyes was a blonde beauty's picture, with a command prompt input box at the bottom left corner of the screen and an English note next to it that translated to: "If you want to appreciate more wonderful pictures, download beauties and handsome guys' passionate performances, please immediately enter your mobile phone number or international bank account number, and you will get a member password."

  It's actually a trashy yellow website, the previous content was really able to deceive a lot of people, it scared me so much that I was covered in cold sweat!

  As I slid the mouse to close the webpage, Yang Qing said in a low voice behind me: "What an idiot! Can ordinary yellow website SMS be sent to the military network protected by the Dragon Shield system? Isn't there a website identity recognition password? Why not enter it?"

  That's just a cover-up! I glanced sideways at the fat guy behind me and muttered a few words under my breath.

  I input the twenty-digit ID into the command prompt, and after pressing Enter on my keyboard, the blonde girl's image slowly faded away. A few lines of text floated onto the screen: "War is a game for the brave, only cowards choose to escape! We can't force every contestant to go all the way in this party, but remember that each of you represents your own country in this competition, and every comrade beside you is a true elite of the nation you serve. Remember that this is a virtual real war! Are you sure you won't escape from failure and bravely endure everything?"

  Under these few lines, there are two options "YES" and "NO". Walking to this step, I couldn't help but hesitate. Originally, I just logged in to this website with a curious attitude. If I really click on "YES", then this game will no longer represent only me. Once I enter the virtual battlefield, I will represent Bo Shanna, representing China's new generation of excellent soldiers!

  A large hand gently pressed on my shoulder, and Chang Sun-ting whispered in my ear: "Fu Yinxue, aren't you always wanting to be the most outstanding soldier, to become a hero of the ages? This challenge is your best touchstone. As they say, war is a game for the brave, only cowards choose to escape. You and I, two brothers known as the 'Devil Bulls', what can we not dare to do, what can we not bear to do?! Believe in yourself, believe in me, this brother of yours, even if we're standing on the rooftop of the world, I'll always be tightly by your side!"

  Yang Qing's chubby hands also tightly grasped my shoulders, "I'm not good at military warfare, but when it comes to strategy and logical thinking, I, Yang Qing, have never lost to anyone. With my intelligence plus your knowledge and bravery, we may not be unable to create our own sky!"

  I nodded vigorously and finally moved the mouse over the "YES" key, then pressed it down with force.

  The screen changed again, and a row of dozens of character images appeared in front of me in 3D. At the bottom of the screen was a note: "In consideration of protecting the identity of participants, we have absorbed some functions from online games. You can choose a suitable role image here, and you can also change your voice with different sound wave plugins. From now on, whether you are commanding battles or participating in internal network meetings, you will communicate with other participants through video and audio connections using the chosen image and voice, conducting negotiations, surrendering, allying, and other diplomatic activities."

  At this time, I can only silently curse the designer of this program: "I copy!"

  Because I'm using Busena's ID, I surprisingly can't choose the character's gender. Tens of characters with different images and expressions, either majestic or charming or cold as ice or passionate like fire, but without exception, all are red female warriors. To participate in this war competition, I unexpectedly have to become a network beauty!

  In the midst of Long Sun Ting and Yang Qing's stifled giggles, I gritted my teeth and chose a female character that looked the most neutral, with a hint of elegance. In the character image fine-tuning program, I adjusted her muscles to be more toned, her hair to be slightly shorter, and her skin to be darker, finally giving me a bit of my own style.

  Chang Sun Ting quietly said a sentence that almost made me explode immediately: "No matter how you adjust it, it's still human and demon!"

  The system prompted: "Please enter your name in this competition."

  Anyway, I'll just go all out and write four words: "Dancing Fairy Maiden!"

  I'm a shemale, who the hell am I afraid of?!

  Yang Qing and Chang Sun Ting covered their stomachs with strange expressions, squatting on the ground, looking at their bodies shaking like a 9-level earthquake. I could guess what expression they had on their faces even with my toes. I suppressed the urge to squeeze them to death, put on the headphones as prompted by the system, picked up the microphone and cleared my throat: "Hello, I'm Whirlwind Witch!"

  "Hmph......" The two guys were already rolling all over the ground.

  Three seconds later, a pleasant female voice came from the headphones: "Hello, I'm Whirlwind Witch!"

  I furrowed my brow and directly selected the voice thickening option in the voice plugin. Hmm? The system prompted me that since the voice wave frequency conversion plugin still needs to be fine-tuned, the personal voice wave transformation function is temporarily not open, and can only make the system randomly assign a voice transformation frequency for me... No way?!

  That enchanting voice, no matter how you listen to it, sounds like a sexy beauty coquettishly flirting with her beloved lover. Thinking that I'll have to use this sweet and sensual voice to command troops in military competition games in the future makes my eyes wide with excitement. If not for the sense of responsibility as a soldier, I'd really want to shut down the computer and flee right now.

  Just then, a slightly low and magnetic female voice came from my headphones. She spoke in fluent Mandarin: "Hello, Whirlwind Witch. I am Main, the monitoring commissioner of the third competition zone. My job is to monitor and serve the military competition. Welcome to participate in our military competition. Now there are some questions that need you to answer. We have three psychological doctors online analyzing your personality tendencies and characteristics to try to truly reflect your abilities in the competition. Are you ready to answer the questions now?"

  "Wait a minute!" I exclaimed urgently: "I have a bit of a problem here, my voice and character image..."

  "Are you referring to the voice frequency issue?" Main apologized, "Currently, over 5,000 people worldwide have signed up for this competition. Due to using different networks, we must resolve various connection issues. It can be foreseen that voice transmission will become the biggest burden on our central processor. If we also add the main processor's load of 5,000 people simultaneously online with voice frequency modulation, it may cause network congestion! I'm deeply sorry for the trouble this has caused you!"

  "However, please be assured that considering many mercenaries or professional soldiers are unwilling to expose their true abilities, at their request, once a participant confirms joining the competition, the main processor will automatically clear all data of that participant and set up an IP anti-tracking system to ensure the participant's identity is not leaked. You can log in to our Mercenary Union portal website, where six A-level mercenary groups have formed a joint monitoring group to ensure the implementation of this work without error, and every three hours there will be written reports from inspectors published on the homepage."

  "Even I can only accept the voice automatically assigned by the system, so you absolutely don't need to feel uncomfortable about this overly sweet and seductive voice. On the battlefield, soldiers value their own strength more! The system will only retain your gender information, we need you to show your true abilities in the competition, and your gender and personality will reflect various competitive values, so if you want to become a male soldier in this competition, it is not allowed."

  I let out a long sigh and slammed my hand on the table, shouting: "High, it's really high, damn it, it's as high as Mount Everest!"