Before I came to this internet café, those two teenagers probably had already installed keyloggers on every single PC.
Good thing I was just watching music videos.
I grinned that wicked smile again and took a drag from my cigarette.
*"Seriously? ...Just a keylogger? ...Hahah."* I thought to myself.
The way they were doing it was so old-school. If they really wanted to steal someone's account, why not use **phishing**?
I quickly deleted and disabled the keylogger.
The two teenagers seemed disappointed and decided to quit playing.
With their heads down, they left the internet café and went home.
The internet café was now empty except for me and Godex, the operator, who was still sound asleep in front of his computer screen, as usual.
The café was quiet and silent, as it normally was. The only sound was the clicking of my mouse.
I continued to play, and I was so engrossed that I didn't realize how many browser tabs I had opened.
I clicked on one of them, and a website popped up: **E991**. Yep, E991 was a website for downloading illegal programs or cheats for online games back in the day.
My mouse cursor moved downward, and my heart suddenly skipped a beat.
*"That son of a bitch! ...How could I forget about this game..."* I thought to myself, frustrated.
Yes, **"NEVER LOST."** A 3D casual fighting game that allowed players to design their own characters.
In this game, players were free to do whatever they wanted, from selling items they got from quests/missions to fighting other players.
I was so mad at myself for forgetting something I shouldn't have.
My friends and I had fought so hard for this game to prove that winners aren't determined by how much money you spend on the game.
Yeah, back then, the game was all about money. You could say that whoever had money was king. **Pay-to-win.**
The more expensive cash items you bought in the game, the stronger your character became.
I was totally against the **game masters** of Never Lost because they sold extremely expensive items. You could say one **rare** item was worth the price of a car.
Items in the game were divided into four classes: the most common, "**ordinary,**" then **rare**, **unique**, and the most expensive and powerful, "**special**."
If a rare item was the price of a car, what about a special item? Yep, maybe the price of an apartment building. That's why I hated those game masters.
It would be fine if all the Never Lost players were rich, but what if they were only living paycheck to paycheck? They'd probably do anything to get money for the game.
On the E991 website, I found "**Never Lost Cheat VVIP Full Features**." I didn't waste any time and immediately downloaded the cheat.
It was very rare for a cheat website to provide a cheat for free, especially a full-featured one.
Downloading premium cheats back in the day wasn't free; the price depended on the features the cheat provided.
And the price for each cheat was different, depending on the website owner.
I logged in to play Never Lost again. It had been more than five years since my guildmates and I decided to quit the game.
Back then, I was a legendary cheater in that game.
And that's why I knew the code for the kid's game at the rental place and knew that the two teenagers had installed a keylogger.
My friends and I created a guild specifically for cheaters called **"BRUTAL HEROES."**
Yep, that guild was exclusively for cheaters. "Brutal Heroes" wasn't the only one; I knew of several other cheater guilds, namely the **"1FAMILY"** guild and the **"SJ"** guild.
Without further ado, I entered my game account ID and password. It turned out my account was still safe and hadn't been banned. I quickly activated all the cheat features, from **Unlimited Money and Cash** to **Hack Shop**.
**Unlimited money and cash** was a cheat that made our money and cash endless. With endless money, I could buy all the items sold by players in the **market**, and with cash, I could buy all the items sold by the game officials in the **shop**.
The difference between the market and the shop was the seller. In the market, all players could sell the items they got from their missions, like items they no longer used.
As for the shop, only items sold by the game officials were available.
Most importantly, in the shop, you couldn't haggle like you could in the market. And sometimes, the items sold in the shop had a certain time limit.
Unlike the market, if a player felt an item was no longer useful, they were free to sell it, even if the item was very rare.
For the **Hack Shop** cheat, all the items available in the shop were sold for a nominal price. Yep, just a blank number appeared for every item I bought.
And Hack Shop not only made the items you bought free, but it also made all the items that had long been gone from the shop reappear, like **Special** items.
For example, items that had not been sold by the game officials for a long time or very rare items that were only sold for a limited time.
With Hack Shop, we could buy all the items or goods that had ever existed in the game.
Feeling impatient, I immediately bought all the items in the shop and the market.
And I upgraded all my game items to the maximum level. Before I retired from the game, my items were only **rare** and **unique** class. With this cheat, all my items were now **special** class.
And most importantly, I first upgraded all my character's skills in the game to the maximum level.
Because every character in the Never Lost game had different skills, depending on their item class and stats.
*"All my items are god-tier... and all my skills have been upgraded to max level... what else should I do?..."* I thought to myself, confused.