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Chapter 135 - Scam Message...?

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!!

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