After experiencing the pleasure of killing the author, Rengatsu did not target any other newcomers.

The association, knowing that there had been a newcomer's death, would strengthen its security. It would be too risky for her to act again and expose herself.

Rengatsu spent a day and a night reading all the works on Horror Novel Web, familiarizing herself with the plots of each.

To test if the association truly had control over her location, Rengatsu left the city on a night bus and arrived at a small town near Kyoto, where she found a secluded apartment on the second floor to stay in.

Rengatsu knew all the modern surveillance methods. If she truly wanted to hide, no one would be able to find her in a short period of time.

However, as if anticipating Rengatsu's movements, Kana found her that same night.

"How did you manage to find me?" Rengatsu asked Kana with a hint of confusion. Kana only smiled and replied, "I don't know where you went, but I knew that when I came at this time, you would be here too."

Could the association predict the future?

Rengatsu had such a ridiculous thought at the time, but she quickly dismissed it.

Kana didn't know the true cause of Tsai Yanzhen's death. If the association had the ability to predict the future, they would have stopped Rengatsu before she made a move.

Rengatsu had considered killing Kana to obtain her memories, but it was clearly too risky. The association had excellent tracking abilities, and even if she succeeded, she would not be able to escape.

It seemed necessary to follow Kana to the association's base.

Next, armed with the fake passport Kana had given her, Rengatsu traveled to different countries, meeting and assisting various newcomers, including Neon Game Nerd Jin Tai Chen from Japan, Ban Ya from Thailand, Nagi from Malaysia, and Ma Youcai and Zhang Xinyuan from China.

It was contradictory... Kana had implied that there were many association members, so why was she the only one handling the reception of newcomers? Wouldn't it be more efficient for each member to be responsible for one newcomer? This could only mean one thing: the association had very few members, and they rarely interacted with ordinary people. If they wanted to establish influence among ordinary people, they could assign the task of receiving newcomers to ordinary individuals while the authors manipulated things behind the scenes. If they were still concerned, they could send two author supervisors.

Rengatsu had a special communication skill. She could discern various attributes of a person through mere words.

She had met geniuses like herself before, and their speech, expressions, and ways of thinking were distinct from ordinary people.

However, in Rengatsu's eyes, Kana seemed like an ordinary person with no notable qualities.

Kana liked spicy food, had a bad sense of direction, average memory, and appeared to have a carefree personality, but she was actually timid and sensitive. Because she was not good at lying, Kana often spoke halfway and then made excuses to evade important topics.

Someone like her, unexpectedly fluent in thirty languages and able to converse with newcomers from different countries, even in obscure languages.

Up until now, Rengatsu had mastered fifteen languages, relying on her almost photographic memory. Although she couldn't compare to the geniuses in the Guinness records, there was no one around her who could surpass her.

Rengatsu speculated that Kana's linguistic knowledge was an exclusive privilege from Horror Novel Web. Perhaps the customer service center could answer her questions.

However, the entrance fee to the customer service center was 20 points, and Rengatsu only had 200 points, including the points from Tsai Yanzhen's death. She had no intention of wasting points on such a trivial matter.

Rengatsu would exhaust all her resources, use all the knowledge she had learned over the years, and her innate intelligence to plot the overthrow of the association.

Everyone has weaknesses, and the association is no exception. As long as she seizes the association's weakness, she can establish a deterrent.

As the first step of her plan, Rengatsu invaded Kana's computer under the pretext of organizing internal materials for the novel submission website, and stole information from it. Although the data was encrypted, cracking it was a piece of cake for Rengatsu.The second character is Zhang Xinyuan.

Zhang Xinyuan is a special existence. He is the only author who wrote himself into the novel. The association has a ambiguous attitude towards Zhang Xinyuan, vaguely showing some fear and contempt.

He seems to be a "defective product," as Zhang Xinyuan is the rookie who is placed at the very end.

Before meeting Zhang Xinyuan, Rengatsu had already gathered all the information about him. In short, Zhang Xinyuan is an ordinary man who has failed in both his personal and professional life. He has ideals but is not mentally flexible, indecisive in character, and has been worn down by society without any achievements.

This person reflects the image of countless others in the world, but Zhang Xinyuan is just a bit more miserable. From birth to death, he cannot escape from the "poverty" disease. He lost his parents due to poverty, he himself fell into poverty, and he cannot find a partner, leaving him with only a lonely and desperate shell.

For Rengatsu, Zhang Xinyuan has a high value of use.

First of all, Zhang Xinyuan is certainly a rookie.

Rengatsu noticed a detail that Kana is very concerned about the safety of rookies, as if she wants to keep an eye on them. But sometimes she neglects their education and often leaves people like Kintaro and Nagi aside.

Others may think that Kana is a cheerful and lively big sister and would not find it strange. But Rengatsu knows that Kana is actually a person with delicate thoughts, and she wouldn't make such small mistakes.

So why does Kana do this?

Perhaps there are people in the association who have the same position as Kana and are secretly monitoring the rookies?

Rengatsu doesn't have concrete evidence, so she can only be secretly vigilant. Therefore, Zhang Xinyuan, who is certainly a rookie, can help her a lot.

She needs to gain Zhang Xinyuan's trust in a short period of time and make him willingly devote himself to her.

Even though men are creatures who think with their lower bodies, wanting him to devote himself to a woman? Unless it's his mother or wife or other important individuals, no one would do that.

To capture Zhang Xinyuan's heart with love? Not to mention the sentimental emotions induced by hormones like dopamine and phenylethylamine, it's just too inefficient.

Miss Rengatsu is very confident in her charm, but she doesn't have the time or interest to engage in a romantic relationship with an older man. She's afraid that she won't even get a chance to finish the conversation before the person is gone.

Therefore, Rengatsu plans to control Zhang Xinyuan through more violent means.

There is a psychological phenomenon of despair called "learned helplessness," which refers to the psychological state and behavior of a person who becomes powerless when facing problems after experiencing failures and setbacks. Those who have learned helplessness often have cognitive deficiencies, lower self-esteem, depressed moods, lack of initiative, and are very easy to manipulate.

Zhang Xinyuan has experienced too many setbacks in his life, and he has lost confidence in this world. If he suddenly finds out that his life is about to end, he will inevitably lose all motivation to move forward and be at the mercy of others. A forged terminal illness notification will become the last straw that crushes the camel.

Rengatsu needs a doctor to cooperate with her work, and that's where the customer service center comes in.

The customer service center is like a library at the end of the river of time, and Rengatsu only spent a small amount of points to dig out incriminating evidence of an authoritative doctor from it. This doctor had conducted experiments on patients to publish papers, adding color to his academic career. And that unfortunate patient died due to complications of the illness.

The doctor managed to keep this matter quiet by paying money, and it remained buried in his heart. Except for a few interested parties, no one else knows about it.

Rengatsu has done plenty of blackmail in the past, but she usually collected information on the internet. This is the first time she's using the Horror Novel Web, which is efficient, convenient, and... terrifying.

In the face of the Horror Novel Web, does anyone in the world have privacy? What exactly is this website?

After finally entering the counseling center, in order to make the entry fee worth it, Rengatsu asked more questions.

First, she wanted to know if the novel website would tell her how to eliminate the association. The customer service refused Rengatsu, using "no authorization" as the reason.

This is reasonable because the novel website won't disclose authors' information in order to protect their rights. This actually works in favor of Rengatsu because the association cannot obtain her layout through the novel website.Next, Rengatsu needed to gather information on the US military and high-ranking government officials, searching for military figures with compromising information that could be used for control - these would be the pawns in Rengatsu's plan. The military's secrets couldn't be found on the internet, but they were all known to the horror novel website.

Lastly, Rengatsu tested the limits of the horror novel website.

Rengatsu posed the following three questions to the Horror Novel Web:

1. The cause of the formation of the universe.

2. The meaning of life.

3. The perfect proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.

The first question was a way to gauge the knowledge limits of the Horror Novel Web. If the website couldn't even answer the question of how the universe was formed, then it had its limitations and couldn't claim to know everything.

The second question examined the philosophy and reasoning of the Horror Novel Web based on its response, allowing Rengatsu to trace its influences on human culture.

The third question directly assessed the originality of knowledge within the website. If it could solve a problem that had plagued humanity for over a hundred years, then the website could potentially influence and even dominate scientific thought. If it failed, then Rengatsu had reason to suspect that the website was just a "plagiarist" selling other people's work, similar to Maipian Brother.

To Rengatsu's dissatisfaction, the Horror Novel Web didn't give a direct answer to these three questions and simply dismissed them with the phrase "no permission."

Rengatsu strongly condemned this "charlatan" behavior.

Well, surely other authors had asked similar questions to the horror novel website. If the answers were so easily obtained, the academic sphere would have exploded long ago.

After leaving the customer service center, Rengatsu had precisely expended one hundred points. She did this intentionally, preventing other authors from judging whether she had entered the customer service center based on her remaining points.

Next came the crucial step. She and the new recruits arrived at the Twisted Covenant and met the president in advance.

Upon their first meeting, Rengatsu felt that something was amiss, though she couldn't pinpoint what exactly it was.

From Kana's respectful attitude, Rengatsu could tell that the president held an extremely high position in the association, even possessing the sole authority to make decisions.

Rengatsu also met the other members of the association, all of whom held the president in awe. This wasn't due to fear of a powerful individual, but rather genuine admiration from all aspects.

This was bad news; the association members were very united, and any attempts to create discord among them would be futile.

In fact, Rengatsu had hoped for a situation where the "president had complete control over the life and death of association members, and others had to compromise to stay alive." Only then would she have more space to manipulate.

Rengatsu had a vague idea of the purpose behind the association accepting new recruits. In principle, the association guided the new recruits in their writing, but in reality, they aimed to control and exploit the creative value of the newcomers, profiting more than by simply killing them.

Rengatsu didn't want to casually modify her own work; she wanted to break free from the status of a newcomer. She demonstrated her talent in the conference room and hinted to the president that she hoped to join the association as a formal member.

But the president merely replied dismissively, "Aren't you already a member of the association?"

The implication was clear - she could only be considered a newcomer.

Having reached this point, Rengatsu had nothing else to say. She took the opportunity of Zhang Xinyuan's medical visit to leave the association's base, deciphering Kana's information and discovering the God Descending Plan and the existence of the God of Destruction.

Just as Rengatsu was thinking of using this information to establish her dominance, she realized that she and Zhang Xinyuan had been cursed with "Silence Curse." They were not affected by this when they arrived at the NY.

Newcomers marked like them couldn't leak information about the association or hide their tracks. It was no wonder the association allowed newcomers their freedom.

The association believed they had sealed off all exits for the newcomers, but they could never have imagined that the horror novel website had left authors with one final way out.

In order to temporarily break free from the controller's restraints, Rengatsu entered the bizarre event. The path to survival lay within.