Ding! Dong!
Suddenly, her brick phone received a message.
"Hmm? Is someone texting me?"
Pyon blinked at the message from the unfamiliar number.
Then she looked over with some curiosity.
[Do you want to join the chat room, read short stories and leave reviews, and win exquisite gifts?]
She read it word by word aloud.
Mainly because the brick phone's screen wasn't as large as later models, the information was not displayed all at once.
"Is this an advertisement?"
Pyon was a little surprised.
"Chat room? That sounds like a place to chat..."
"Read short stories and leave reviews? So advanced?!!"
She couldn't deny it. Pyon admitted that she had begun to be interested, and her appetite had been whetted.
"Phones these days can even develop to the point of reading stories and leaving reviews…"
"As for these exquisite gifts..."
Pyon paused slightly at this point.
Why does this look like a scam?!!
Although scam text messages haven't been invented yet, Pyon's nose is already quite sharp.
"Is it a scam?"
Her ears twitched while her eyes spun around.
"It seems I don't have anything worth being scammed."
"Of course, maybe it's trying to steal my personal information, or take the chance to plant some dangerous program into my phone, to monitor and detect me..."
As a very outstanding professional hunter, being able to, with such a small body, receive a strength evaluation of 77 points from Hisoka, that alone was enough to show how impressive Pyon was.
Thus, faced with such a situation, Pyon made a simple choice and judgment. "Of course I'll decline!"
Pyon's face lit up with a pure, adorable, cute smile.
"Since the person who sent this message was able to send it directly to my phone, then maybe other people working in the Hunter Association also received this message."
"In that case, all I need to do is go check other people's phones, right?"
"If they press the accept button, then I can still see the interface that pops up afterward and satisfy my curiosity!"
"Hmm, I'm really clever!"
Pyon gave herself a thumbs-up, brimming with pride at her own cleverness.
This way, she could avoid the risk of being observed.
She could also see what the scene looked like after clicking on the accept button.
As for what would happen to the others after they clicked the accept button, whether or not they would be caught up in risks, that wasn't Pyon's problem at all.
She herself could stay clean, untouched, completely unaffected!!
"Trying to play tricks on me? You're far too naive!"
With the smug superiority of someone convinced of her own high intelligence, she tapped the decline button.
"You guys are still a little naive. Even if you're smart, you'll still have to drink my foot water!"
But the next second, the triumphant smile on Pyon's face froze.
"How is this possible?!!"
Pyon was filled with disbelief, glancing at the message that began to appear on her phone screen: [You have agreed to join the chat room. You will be redirected to the chat room interface shortly. Please wait a moment.]
Pyon: "...?"
She clearly clicked the decline button!
A look of astonishment still lingered on her face, but her mind was clear, and she quickly reacted.
Then, very quickly, she frantically pressed the back button on her phone.
"Get me out of this!!"
Pyon practically bared her teeth and yelled.
Well, she hadn't expected it.
After a day of hunting geese, she was finally pecked by a goose.
Pyon had always prided herself on being a brilliant and beautiful girl, and just now she was gloating over her wisdom.
Yet now she capsized in the gutter, falling right into the trap herself!!
"This is unforgivable!!"
Her cheeks puffed with anger as she raged: "How dare you plot against such an excellent, lovely, and beautiful... girl like me!"
Well, Pyon felt like she was being deliberately plotted against.
Otherwise, how could pressing the decline button end up being treated as agreeing and forcefully jumping to the next screen?!!
But while she was angry, she couldn't help but wonder: "How did I get tricked?"
"Could it be that the real way to decline was to not touch anything at all, that the moment you click, you're already caught?"
Pyon slipped into hunter mode, analyzing the situation behind the message.
"That shouldn't be the case. A message like this, sent suddenly to my phone, must be the result of some kind of Nen ability, right?!"
"It can't be that they didn't provide a decline option, because otherwise the Nen ability shouldn't be able to form properly."
"But then why would clicking the decline button lead straight to the acceptance screen..."
"Where exactly is the problem?!"
She rubbed her round, plump little cheeks, replaying the scene she'd just witnessed in her mind.
But no matter how much she recalled it, she was certain there hadn't been any other option on the screen to represent refusal.
And just as she was lost in thought, the brick phone she had been hammering the back button on finally responded.
The original display of [You have agreed to receive this message. You will be redirected to the chat room interface shortly. Please wait.] switched to a new message: [You may still choose to exit now. Please select Yes/No. Warning: if you choose yes...]
"Of course I'll choose yes!!"
Before the rest of the text appeared, Pyon was furiously complaining.
"From the very fact that this message popped up, I can tell this is absolutely nothing good!!"
"All this chat room talk, all this leave reviews, and win exquisite gifts, it's all a scam!!"
"There's definitely someone behind this message, secretly plotting something ulterior, definitely some conspiracy!"
Pyon thought maliciously, spinning conspiracy theories in her head.
Well, everything she considered was from a hunter's perspective, for the sake of public safety and the well-being of the world.
It was absolutely not because she was embarrassed at having been fooled and tricked.
Absolutely not!!!
"This person behind this is definitely a master at deceiving people!!"
Having been tricked once, Pyon had learned her lesson.
As soon as the information on this screen appeared, she would carefully examine it, examining every word and even every punctuation mark to identify any issues.
She wouldn't give up until she found something!!
"I'll even find friends who can trace the source. With their Nen ability, I'll track down the one behind this message!!"
She ranted furiously: "I'm going to show them that hiding behind text messages is incredibly vile and disgusting!!"
"They will eventually be exposed to the light of day and face justice!!"
Pyon roared inwardly.
Well, this wasn't some petty revenge, absolutely not!!
She, Pyon, was the most generous girl in the world... So generous that, during the future Hunter Association Chairman election, she, as the host, called Leorio's name twice.
When she didn't get a reply, she immediately turned into a fanged, white-eyed beast and roared at Leorio.
"I want to see what kind of tricks you're going to play on me this time!!"
Pyon cracked her knuckles, looking as if she couldn't wait to tear someone apart.
She just had to drag that guy behind the scenes out and throw him in front of Mizaistom Nana to be properly judged in court!!
However, ideals are beautiful, but reality is harsh.
Just as Pyon was fully energized, ready to explode at any moment, she saw the following message:
[You can still choose to exit now. Please select Yes/No. Note: if you choose Yes...]
[Once the initial message has been sent to your device, do not press the back key too many times, otherwise you will automatically enter.]
Pyon: "...?"
Her figure suddenly froze.
The initial message... Do not press the back button too many times…
If she remembers correctly… she seemed to be pressing the back button frantically just now.
So…
Pyon stared at the interface message on her phone, which updated again: [Detected excessive use of the back key. Now automatically entering the chat room interface...]
Pyon: "..."
She couldn't help but stare at the message on her phone, her eyes gradually turning red, like a real rabbit.
After a moment's silence.
"Asshole!!!"
Then a voice, filled with repressed anger and grief, echoed through the room.
If you listened closely, you could even hear a faint sob.
She, Pyon, the most beautiful and cute girl, had been tricked again!!
And not just once, but twice, twice!!!
"That bastard who sent the message... I'll never let you go!!!"
And just as Pyon was overcome with grief and indignation…
Elsewhere, in the network world…
Originally, this room was completely white, but now the scene was completely different from usual.
[It really worked?!!!]
Three exclamation marks appeared on the cardboard in Ickshonpe's hand, revealing his shock.
Even his scribbled face was etched with an exclamation mark.
He was practically dumbfounded.
Before him, the once pristine network world flickered with lines of users entering the chat room due to his message!
[How could this happen? So many people were being tricked?!]
"Look at what you're saying…"
Luke, who had been admiring his masterpiece, became displeased upon hearing this. "What do you mean by being tricked?"
He argued confidently: "Couldn't someone actually enter the chat room because they want to read stories, leave a review, receive exquisite gifts, or simply be curious?!"
Ickshonpe: [...]
Well, that was possible.
In fact, honestly, Ickshonpe felt that if such a message were sent to normal people's phones, out of ten, at least nine would click to see what it was.
The remaining one might have clicked the wrong way and been forced in.
Well, as mentioned before, this is sent to an ordinary person.
But Luke, this guy's experiment targets the hunters in the Hunter Association!!
They are certainly not ordinary people!!!
Expecting such cautious people to fall for this and click through, Ickshonpe thought the number should be very small, almost none.
Most of these must have been tricked by Luke's clever design.
"Isn't it because the chat room was just recently established, and there's a limit on the number of people who can be online at once?"
Luke reasoned: "Besides, in this day and age, few ordinary people can afford a mobile phone."
"Only professional hunters can afford one."
"And…"
Luke's face also broke into a fox-like grin.
"If even professional hunters fail to notice, doesn't that prove the method is incredibly successful and effective, isn't it?"
Ickshonpe: [...]
Once again, he couldn't argue.
Because this time, Luke was right.
He hadn't expected so many tricks to be possible on a single options screen.
The interface that tricked even Pyon was actually quite simple.
[Do you want to join the chat room, read short stories and leave reviews, and win exquisite prizes? Accept/Decline]
Most professional hunters chose to decline.
But to the far left of this decline button, there was actually a small inverted triangle.
Clicking it opened a dropdown menu.
The first line: [I'll think about it, and enter after three seconds.]
The second line: [I really reject.]
And by default, if you just clicked decline, it would take the first option, meaning after three seconds, you would still enter.
When Ickshonpe realized this, he was utterly floored.
This is truly an eye-opening operation.
Is it really possible to do this?!
And what really amazed Ickshonpe was this: Most mobile phone users have a white background screen and generally don't think about changing it.
But Luke designed the small inverted triangle dropdown icon... to be pure white, and borderless.
This means that even though the dropdown icon is to the far left of the decline button, it's essentially invisible.
This is a visual difference.
The inspiration for this design came from a university student's graduation thesis.
The requirement was 4,000 words, and they simply couldn't finish it, so they just typed a line of text, then turned it white.
This way, it's completely invisible on a white background.
Or, if they typed a bunch of periods and minimized them all, they would still be completely invisible.
In other words, people had already developed plenty of successful experiences in this area.
Luke had just borrowed the idea for himself.
Of course, what he did was a bit of a trick, but he also gave those who fell for it a chance to back out.
"... As long as they didn't frantically press that back key, they actually could've exited smoothly…"
Luke spread his hands. "But they seemed too anxious."
"I wonder what they're so impatient about?"
The way Luke said it carried a tone of mockery.