Leaning lazily against the back of the computer chair, Gu Mo pondered seriously.

In the current situation, if he hadn't traveled through time, it would probably be due to that Silver Achievement Badge affecting the world line fluctuation rate... Of course, it's not to say there aren't other possibilities, but at least for now, the information he has doesn't point to anything else.

Shaking his head, he continued searching online and found that the game corresponding to the last instance still existed, with no apparent changes.

And tracing back further, even the earlier instances that were involved hadn't disappeared, seeming unchanged... So, does that mean the world line fluctuation rate is referenced by the records he uploaded? If records aren't uploaded, they won't be overwritten?

Emmmmm... Maybe not necessarily.

Gu Mo sighed with a bit of confusion. The current information isn't enough to make a judgment, so he can only guess for now. He'll need to conduct an experiment later.

Finally, after browsing the comments on those latest records, his eyebrows twitched, revealing a very subtle expression. The Achievement Badge concerning "Legendary Level," having changed from Copper Quality to Silver Quality, seems to influence the world line fluctuation rate with a very small value.

But... as it manifests in the corresponding changes, it becomes quite a peculiar matter,

"Update! Why no updates? Damn! Why not more!"

"It's been almost a month. Where's the third episode? Without Miss Witch, I'm going to die..."

"Stop being obsessed with your third episode. The previous series' Warring States journey hasn't made a peep until now! Probably the independent studio ran into some trouble..."

"How could that be the same? At least that one wrapped up at the end of the first quarter, right? This series has only two episodes and then nothing! Won't it be cut short, please no..."

In the latest comment section, there was heated discussion urging for more updates, leading to a string of conversations, with over seven hundred posts. The latest reply was just four minutes ago, making Gu Mo slightly embarrassed after browsing through it.

Come to think of it, it seems only the instance records of the Nioh World were uploaded relatively completely, but that's just what he considered "complete"—

From the Purple Nether Cherry Blossoms in Thirteen Sakura Village, first encountered under the moon...

All the way to the Mino Heron Mountain Castle, the journey to the Viper Divine Domain...

It conveniently ended right before he left, after painstakingly cutting ten episodes from over a month of records, barely wrapping up one season. The next Warring States journey only had two episodes released, as he had a lot to deal with at the time, plus his mindset became somewhat casual...

So he didn't think much about it, directly having Hiri open the door to explore the next instance afterwards, only returning now. Originally, this didn't matter much because, in the original world line, this was lukewarm fan creation, already out of its peak.

But now, it's entirely different...

Now it seems to have somewhat gone viral, becoming a trend of being hailed as the industry's beacon in this era of overall deterioration. He noticed many people were even using it to diss the current industry, mocking its downward spiral...

Although that's one interpretation, Gu Mo's account isn't run by a dream-chasing independent studio, nor are the releases dream-seeking works, but rather real experience records, at most through clever editing.

Special effects aren't special effects...

Location shots aren't location shots...

And sincerity is naturally not sincerity either... Uh, or perhaps instead it's the most sincere? After all, personally traveling to another real ancient world to film the local customs and present real stories experienced—could there be anything more sincere than this?

Quickly spinning such thoughts in his mind, Gu Mo chuckled, closing the web page on his computer, an idea forming roughly in his head.

But it'll have to wait to be put into practice later, before that he needs to make preparations... He has to see if it's indeed his uploaded records causing changes in the world line, at least observable macro changes in the real world.

Speaking of which, it feels like he forgot something, suspecting this return feels somewhat off...

Remembering, he opened the system panel at hand, browsing the refreshed store page, which is quite important, not to miss any opportunity.

First of course is the sign-in reward, usually a consolation prize of two thousand Game Coins, an insignificant amount. But today, there seemed to be a critical hit, a dazzling silver light bursting at the click, making Gu Mo squint involuntarily.

Did he just win something?

Hopefully, it'll be something useful.

After the light faded, the pattern within the grid box turned out to be a blueprint-like item, with a note below explaining—

"Orbital Residential Station Technology... Hmm, what kind of thing is this, is it encouraging me to head for outer space?"

When reading out this name, Gu Mo tilted his head, extended his slender index finger to scratch his cheek, and it seemed he had drawn another strange reward.

Instead of directly receiving a corresponding physical reward, it was a piece of knowledge design. According to the description, it was related to the technology of building orbital space stations, but it was obviously not technology from the current stage—upon closer inspection of its annotations, he found this thing to be quite advanced, definitely a product of a true interstellar civilization era.

Not just a manned space station with limited capacity to carry some astronauts and complete equally limited scientific research, but a grand-scale, basically self-sufficient residential station, like building a small city in orbit, an epitome of artificial ecological architecture.

"Seems like it could be very interesting..."

Gu Mo pinched his chin and gave such an evaluation. However, though it was interesting, turning this design into a physical object was obviously very difficult. Even if he threw it out without considering the consequences, the power in the real world couldn't recreate it in a short amount of time.

Even if major countries pooled all their efforts and resources... because even if they thoroughly understood this valuable design, they couldn't immediately solve practical problems, such as production capacity and space transportation restraints.

Since even the state machinery of the real world struggled with this, naturally, he as an individual would also...

—emmmmm, seems like I'm thinking this might work?

Gu Mo, with a pensive expression, put away this unusual check-in reward.

Then there was the refreshed daily special, the first item was a robot with a rather pleasing appearance, making him feel slightly familiar. The main part was an oval-shaped torso, without a head or the torso was the head. It had three mechanical arms distributed on the front side, left side, and right side of the main body.

—Mr. Skillful.

A domestic servant robot designed by General Atomics International Corporation, with a Calpower certified 238B nuclear power core and self-maintenance module built-in. The personality matrix is designed to adapt to a family environment with high precision, capable of efficiently understanding verbal commands from users and executing various complex tasks.

However, because it was a domestic model of Mr. Skillful and not a combat model, its combat efficiency was relatively poor.

Gu Mo suddenly recalled why it seemed familiar, and with slight interest, he carefully examined it, then checked the price. It was priced at one Bronze Key plus two million Game Coins... an oddly peculiar pricing, so you could mix premium currency with general currency?

Decisively bought it!

Quite interesting, though it was a household service robot, in Gu Mo's view, it was still very valuable, at least judging by its performance.

As the system deducted the funds for settlement, a brand-new Mr. Skillful with a polished steel shell covered in silver white appeared in his item bar without any prelude. He didn't rush to take it out to boot and verify but looked at the second item instead.

That was a strange device, with a core being a helmet connected to various cables...

Game capsule?

Gu Mo's first reaction was this, but then he realized he was overthinking. It was actually a learning device. Once the helmet was placed on the subject's head, it could utilize the biological Spirit principle to transmit electrical signals simulating all five senses to the brain, conveying a large amount of information.

Thus, it could input preset information such as language, logic, movement, even personality and emotions, in a short amount of time.

To put it simply, it's a device for quickly installing an operating system on the brain, this computer, along with various drivers and applications, thereby bypassing the long-term life's honing. And because personality and emotion information could be inputted, in a certain sense, it's also a brainwashing device.

Gu Mo hesitated slightly, but after a moment of hesitation, he still chose to purchase it, even if just to research its working principles, probably it could help in applying his Mind Power.

The style of the last item was finally not all sci-fi, or else he would probably think that the space-time signals recently searched by the system were all from the technological world.

That was a simple stone box filled with gold coins, seemingly all engraved with skull designs, showing a strong sense of doom...

Aztec Cursed Gold Coins, anyone who takes the gold coins without permission will be cursed by the coins. Their senses will gradually fade away, and under the moonlight, they will turn into skeletons... probably a magical item from "Pirates of the Caribbean"?

But what significance did it hold for him?

Gu Mo casually looked at the price, surprisingly discovering that this box of gold required two Silver Keys. It's known that price often indicates Quality, this curse which he subconsciously underestimated, seemed to have some unique nuances indeed.

Now he was interested in researching it, simply went ahead and purchased it as well.

Having bought all three refreshed items today, he was left with only one Bronze Key and one Silver Key, mildly regretting not refreshing a Legendary Level item, even though he now had a Legendary Key.

So despite the gains, Gu Mo still felt a bit uninterested.

Standing up, he walked to the window and stood still, quietly looking at the neighborhood and city view outside, feeling that by now, he seemed to have enough confidence in the real world...

To make some small moves, stir things up a little?