BXBX NOVEL Chapter 80 - There's Too Many Of Them
Once Albion was dried and changed into black sleeping wear, he picked up his smartphone, punched in his home address with a few key instructions before sending the text to Ah Zhen, Reagan Declan, and Meng Yan.
Shortly after, he hopped in bed and surfed the net on his phone.
Naturally, the first thing he did was checked the news. He was two years and three months behind on the Apocalypse.
It was strange that the world could still operate normally amidst the ongoing invasion of interdimensional beasts.
"This can\'t be all there is to the Apocalypse. An Apocalypse that can\'t end the world can\'t possibly be considered an Apocalypse… The true terror of the Apocalypse has yet to be seen… or perhaps the most crucial information is being hidden from the public?" Albion mused.
The government was definitely keeping secrets. There was no doubt about that. Withholding critical information to prevent potential panic was a prevalent governmental decision.
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9th February 2023, 12:15AM
Silvercove\'s top 3 trending topics of the day;
[The Hero of Silvercove; Captain Wudi.]
[Silvercove Branch Wipeout: Is this the end of the Bloodmoon Gang\'s tyranny?]
[Police Station Demolition Tactic; Big Brain or Foolishness?]
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Albion wrinkled his brows with surprise, "Isn\'t this about what happened earlier tonight? Someone already claimed my credit for the deed? That person is now being hailed a hero? Damn, I don\'t know whether to say if this person has amazing good luck or extreme bad luck…"
Not a trace of displeasure was seen on Albion\'s face. He was not upset in the slightest that someone had taken credit for his deed.
"Since Captain Wudi has taken my credit, he will also have to shoulder my aggro, I suppose…" Albion chuckled before he suddenly thought, "Should I turn him into someone like King? Ah, forget it."
Albion quickly shelved the thought and continued surfing trending topics worldwide.
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Global Top Trending Topics;
[Hot Candidate to Become the World\'s 8th Hunter King: Leo Graham, Level 39 Hunter.]
[Emperor Thanatos Becomes the First of the Four Emperors to Reach Level 51 Hunter.]
[Dimensional Rifts: Can They be Found in the Earth\'s Crust and Ocean floor?]
[Celestial Innovation\'s New Discovery in Outer Space.]
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Looking at the list of topics, a few immediately caught Albion\'s eyes. But when he tried to click on the second topic on the list…
Ding!
[You need to be logged into a verified social media account to view this page.]
"Dafuq? Since when was this needed to view anything on the main search page of Googl—Oh, wait. The main search engine in this world is called IKnowEverything…" Albion furrowed his brows slightly with wry amusement.
It was also known as IKE for short.
Nevertheless, Albion did not dwell on the matter and moved his finger to tap the next few topics on the list.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
[You need to be logged into a verified social media account to view this page.]
[You need to be logged into a verified social media account to view this page.]
[You need to be logged into a verified social media account to view this page.]
"…Seriously?" Albion\'s lips twitched.
Shortly after, he noticed all the top links were occupied under the same name, Hunter World.
If he wanted to view their sources, he just had to make a social account under them and not necessarily become a Hunter.
As such, everyone in the world had one.
"The force of monopoly is strong here… Whatever. Might as well download their social app, HW Chat too, I suppose," Albion muttered nonchalantly.
He needed a social account anyway.
Shortly after, the app was downloaded, and most of the registration questions were filled before leading Albion back to the most puzzling question.
[Please enter a username.]
Albion stared deeply at the question in silence for many minutes before he gave up, "F*ck it, let\'s just go with my normal name."
[AlbionBlack]
Once he entered his name, which disallowed space, he hit the enter key.
Ding!
[This name has already been taken.]
"…"
[AlbionBlack1]
Ding!
"…"
Albion stared at the message silently for a moment before he drew in a deep breath and exhaled to calm his nerves, "Fuuuuu…"
Shortly after, he worked up his spirits to punch in a series of names.
[AlbionBlack01]…
[AlbionBlack32]…
[TheStrongestManOnEarth51]…
[SuperGangLord07]…
[TheStrongestManAlive03]…
[IAmStrong91]…
[DragonSlayer69]…
[FireEmperor96]…
[Superman777]…
[LordOfDarkness333]…
Ding! Ding! Ding…!
[This name has already been taken.]
[This name has already been taken.]
[This name has already been taken.]
…
Albion\'s eyes became red at the repeated message of failures.
"Never in my life had it been so difficult to come up with a user ID. Why the f*ck is there so many with the same name as me?" Albion spat indignantly.
He nearly puked blood from reaching 30 failed attempts to his name—with numbers, no less!
After that, he had tried hundreds of other names before he finally arrived at a single truth with a darkened expression, "There\'s too many f*cking weebs like me."
It became apparent to Albion that after the Apocalypse arrived, the number of weebs in the world spiked to terrifying numbers.
With a leveling game-like system and an endless army of interdimensional beasts that could evolve into their favorite-looking cat girl, fox girl, elf princess, handsome vampire, charming prince, etc, the situation seemed to be expected.
"Haiz… too much anger is bad for one\'s health—not that it will have an effect on me..." Albion sighed before attempting one last time.
[TheStrongestWizard]
[TheStrongestWizard is available.]
[Would you like to confirm this name? Y / N]
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Looking at this string of texts on his phone, Albion did not know whether to be happy or just sad.
Everyone was happy choosing very weeb-like names while avoiding the one that might doom them to a life of virgins?
Albion did not know how to feel about this.
Shortly after completing his registration and validating with a confirmation code sent to his phone number, he could finally view trending topics on the Hunter World site.
"All this effort better be worth it…" Albion mused before checking the time; 5:21AM
Needless to say, he can say goodbye to sleep—not that he really needs it… like, what is sleep?