He knows what mental institutions are like in the 1950s and orphanages in the 1910s. And then in the membership test he suddenly has all the nursery rhymes memorized and knows some Latin words. Coming from a man supposedly a hacker, he has a lot of random European facts memorized. It makes me wonder if he grew up there instead of China.

MC was the world's top hacker that caused an incident so big his hacker name is still well known 10 (?) years later

The clues given for the game is "Good kids don't break rules. Good kids get to play games." He got a paper with an empty gallows drawing and the words "find me" on it. When he found a body (not sure if that was a coincidence on location or what) the gallows in his paper had a person hanging and the words changed to "my turn". So he thinks it might be hide and seek. But he doesn't relate it to the clue at all!! Even later when he found out what the first part of the clue was pointing to, that they can't break the orphanage's rules, he still doesn't relate the paper to the game in the clue. And later on at night, a ghost kid came to find him, put something in his hand, and told him "come and find me" (I think?) he still doesn't relate it to the second clue!!!! Wouldn't a reasonable connection be that the hide and seek is the second clue and it needed to be played and is relatively safe? Arghhhhh

1. 1. Why players don't use the in-game shop: Bc the game itself does not want players to. The debuffs from using props are not random, there is a cooldown on props for 24 hrs, the prop shop always refreshes and unless you are a member, the description of props is not written so it's a gamble when using, and you can only buy one prop if you are not a member. The ending explains that the game makes the membership system and shitty in-game shop to lure players to give higher quality negative emotions.
   2. Veteran players getting angry at side quest being opened: The novel already explained that there are 3 types of veteran players. The veteran players who got angry at the side quest being opened were not actually angry, they wanted to scam points and piggyback off Mo Yi's work to avoid risk. Every veteran player does want points but most want to freeload like a group project. It's explained in the Old House arc?? Mo Yi only lets other players share his hard work after they have proven their value.
   3. Mo Yi is a top hacker but doesn't hack, and is easy to find: ??? Jiang Yuanrou used a prop to find locate him? The gym trainer you speak of is one of Jiang Yuanrou's ppl???? Tearlesereph didn't even retain some of the most basic info here, like its so mind-boggling to me why someone who didn't even read the novel would make a review disrespecting the author and translator's hard work? Plus Jiang Yuanrou is from a military background. The next chapters after c130 is when Mo Yi analyses the code he saw in the sky. Anyway, he has been retired for 10 years, and his thoughts throughout the novel do contain hacker thinking, and the latter part of the novel addresses this concern.

Side character relationships/stories: The game has a very high death rate. I think the victims in each instance are interesting side character stories. I believe that Mo Yi's relationship with the siblings Jiang Yuanrou and Jiang Yuanbai is enough when you consider his character settings and personality. He does not feel love at all and is very distrustful of people. However, there is character development, when he goes into the mental asylum with Jiang Yuanrou to save her brother. He becomes soft-hearted and trusting of the siblings later. I felt that when Jiang Yuanrou had made the videotape.

The Jiang Yunrou's dead brother was Jiang Yuanbai? I didn't understand, how this IA could revive him?

1. This novel starts badly (Arc 1), novels usually start with interesting things that make the reader want to continue, but I personally didn't feel that in this novel. Arc 1 has an unclear mystery, whether from the author, or the translator, or maybe myself, but I don't understand how the problem in Arc 1 is resolved, it's too obscure to understand.
2. Chapter 101 is the beginning of Arc 4, but from the beginning until now, I think the way the author describes the story is like a child exaggerating the story, like a teenager trying to make the story look very good, even though it's not. MC is too MC, too OP. I look at it like the instances they went through wouldn't have been possible to complete without him.
3. Too many repetitive descriptions about the MC while in the instance, for example "he felt a cold sensation running down his back", "his blood was running cold", "his heart was pounding", etc. It's okay if it's only mentioned occasionally, but no, this description appears continuously, or should I say almost in every chapter. Hello, I don't read novels just to get repetitive descriptions like this.
4. MC's character is somewhat contradictory. One moment he is not afraid of death, another moment he shows signs of fear (as in point 3). And as far as I read, there is no change in his character, except for his relationship with ML. Maybe there's an explanation later, but I can't stand it anymore

Time skip to chapter 130–and suddenly they're kissing??? The author didn't even try to hide how they forced the romance to be honest.