Chapter 001 The Coming of the Gods (I)

It was night.

Under the dim light, Dong Jin stood in front of the French window on the top floor, staring at his own reflection with his eyes downcast.

His gaze passed over his black hair that had grown to his tailbone, over his pale and smooth body under his shirt, over his face that was so beautiful that it was almost inhuman, and finally fell on his own eyes for a long time.

Those were a pair of eyes that were cold to the core.

As the night deepened and the lights in the house gradually brightened, these eyes also gradually transitioned from black and light gray to a unique dark blue tone. To put it a little more romantically, it was as if the night sky, dawn and the universe all favored one person at the same time.

But in fact, this is just a rare case of heterochromia iridum.

——This is also the only thing that can prove that he is from Earth.

Yes, Dong Jin is a time traveler, and he is the original one that has shrunk into a baby.

What does this mean? It means that he has to face the living environment of the cosmic era with the physical qualities of a carbon-based creature. At the same time, he carries various pathogens that have never appeared in this era or have been extinct, which is very likely to threaten the safety of the entire universe.

If the universe he traveled through was not a high-dimensional universe with a cosmic will, and this will gave all intelligent creatures in this universe the ability of "equivalent exchange", he would most likely become the first time traveler to die as soon as he landed. Dong Jin,

who had just traveled through for a few seconds, was naturally penniless, but he himself was the most precious miracle.

It was a miracle to be able to travel through a black hole while traveling. It was a miracle among miracles to be able to return to the infant stage and be so weak that he could barely breathe, but still have a glimmer of hope.

So he exchanged this miraculous luck, which was not even one in a billion, with the will of the universe for a chance to survive.

The result of this transaction was that he awakened a talent that prevented him from dying suddenly, and thus had a simple game panel and a health bar that was still slowly decreasing but could be restored by eating and other methods. The introduction of

this talent on the game panel was as follows:

Talent name: Fourth Disaster

Talent level: S level

Talent introduction: The world is a game, and you are the only player.

Talent evaluation: What kind of lunatic can single-handedly reject the entire world in the first place?

Dear, are you an unprecedented genius or a unique madman?

Dong Jin does not consider himself a genius, but he is definitely not a madman.

If I really want to explain, for a traverser who is born as the "fourth natural disaster", it may be normal to regard the world as a game.

Although Dong Jin has since barely solved his own life and death problem, his body is still a time bomb for the entire universe.

So ten minutes after he awakened his talent, he was sent to the sterile room of the first prison for "threatening the public safety of the universe".

In the next 18 years, he survived in the sterile room by relying on his health bar, while accumulating experience through continuous learning and further developing his abilities.

After 18 years of hard work, the game panel, which originally had only six columns of "level", "health bar", "experience", "achievement", "skill" and "talent", finally added a "copy" option.

The night when the "copy" option appeared, Dong Jin clicked it without hesitation.

Because the limited experience points in the prison had already been harvested by him, the result can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.

It is known that it took nearly 3 million years for ancient apes on Earth to evolve into humans, a process that can be called a miracle. And how many years will it take for his carbon-based biological body to evolve to the minimum level that can move normally in the universe, and accumulate experience at this speed?

Moreover, as a short-lived species, what he needs is not only experience, but also a miracle beyond human imagination, just like the final evolution 3 million years ago.

Now that his miraculous luck is gone, if he wants to achieve a second miracle with a human body, all he can do is to gamble his life.

If it doesn't work once, then try a hundred times. If it doesn't work a hundred times, then try a thousand times.

As long as he doesn't die, he can always reach the end of the evolutionary chain.

With this realization, Dong Jin began to dream of the same god who was about to destroy everything from that night.

Although it is unclear why the "copy" appears in the form of a dream, every time he successfully stops the god from destroying the universe in a dream, he will gain a huge amount of experience given by the universe he saved.

So for three consecutive years, in a thousand midnights and a thousand dreams, he has completed the miraculous evolution from a weak human to above the universe average.

Not only that, the series of achievement points he obtained in the copy can also be used to improve skills.

Dong Jin has no idea of ​​​​being fair. Whether it is music, cooking or anything else that can be learned by himself, he did not add half an achievement point.

He chose to add all the achievement points he has obtained so far to the "Eye of Truth" skill that appeared with the talent at the beginning.

This skill originally only allowed him to see the length of other people's health bars, but after he used up all his achievement points, it evolved.

Skill name: Eye of Truth

Skill introduction: Only special eyes can see special information.

Skill effect: You can see through some information about the people and things in front of you. And when you pay enough, you can see through everything. Skill evaluation

: You have a pair of eyes that are worthy of artists to write about and even go crazy about, but you choose to use it to see through the weaknesses of the world. Baby, did I tell you that now there may be another me who will go crazy for you?

These eyes really helped Dong do a lot - he used them to see through the professions, abilities, and personalities of NPCs in his dreams, and he even used them to see through the weaknesses of others when they attacked.

Dong Jin paid too much for this pair of eyes - how could it be so easy to play against the gods? As the price of using it to break through the deadlock in a thousand midnights, Dong Jin, who sacrificed his life, was already close to death.

Obviously, he won and lost in this thousand gambles.

- Now he only has 37 days left to live.

As for this, Dong Jin had already calmly accepted this fact when he used the skill.

He even planned a travel route for the next 37 days. Anyway, before the time travel, he was suffering from a terminal illness and was about to die of a serious illness. It was a good thing for him to live for more than 20 years.

But just when Dong Jin was taking the newly-released medical report to go through the procedures for getting out of prison, the same scene suddenly appeared in the sky above all the planets in this universe - it was the projection of two distant thrones facing each other.

Behind these two dark thrones with different patterns, large reflections of gods and demons stood silently.

They eventually formed a semicircle and shaded the entire sky day and night.

Along with these unnatural elements, there was also a cold mechanical sound.

Its emotionless voice resounded in the ears of all intelligent creatures at the same time, and all it said was:

"The 'God's Choice' ceremony is about to begin, and the countdown is 30 natural days."

After staying in this universe for so long, Dong Jin certainly knew what the God's Choice ceremony was.

Simply put, the highest universe, together with the first and second level universes, organized a trial similar to the infinite flow, and randomly selected seven third level universes every hundred years to participate.

This trial with no chance of survival has always been hosted, judged and explained by the gods and demons of the highest universe, with the people of the first and second level universes as spectators, and all the people of the third level universe as trialists.

It sounds unfriendly to the third level universe, but from ancient times to the present, no third level universe has ever refused to be selected.

Because it means evolution.

Not only the evolution of the universe, but also the evolution of the contestant himself.

There are a total of seven known trials.

After each trial, the surviving participants and their universes will gain a lot.

After all seven games are over, the universe with the best performance will not only receive a significant civilization upgrade, but also those who died in the trial will be resurrected. The MVP player in the best universe will definitely receive an olive branch from the highest universe.

Even those who perform slightly worse are likely to be favored by higher-dimensional universes, thus having more choices.

Therefore, this process is gradually called "God's Choice" by the world.

Because as long as you pass the "God's Choice", you can expect to become a god in the true sense.

There is no doubt that this is the way to heaven for the ambitious people, and it is also the last chance of life that those who are about to die can hold.

But is this really a chance of life?

As the countdown draws near, the originally pitch-black projection gradually becomes clearer from the outside to the inside at midnight every day, like mist fading away, revealing partial faces of gods and demons in half-light and half-darkness. On

the 30th day, which is today, only the two empty thrones facing each other in the middle of the projection are still completely hidden in the shadows.

It was not until midnight that the patterns engraved on them slowly emerged.

Dong Jin, who was standing in front of the French window at the moment, could not help but glance at the clock behind him.

It is now 23:55 according to the standard time of the universe, five minutes before the "God's Choice" ceremony begins.

At this rate, it is estimated that in less than two minutes, the patterns on these thrones will be completely revealed.

The fact is just as Dong Jin expected.

But what he didn't expect was that three minutes later, what he waited for was not only the dissipation of the thick fog, but also the arrival of the gods.

23:58, standard cosmic time.

In the dark night without stars and moon, the sky cracked inch by inch without warning, and a group of real people who looked like gods and demons replaced the originally silent projections, looming in the void. And the one on the left of the two thrones...

When Dong Jin looked up and saw the smiling crescent pattern engraved on the back of the left throne, and the half-closed eye pattern wrapped on the crescent pattern, cold sweat quietly climbed up his back.

As early as 30 days ago, when the projections of the gods appeared, Dong Jin had a vague foreboding.

After 30 days, this premonition finally came true.

——Because that is the throne of the god of night and drama.

——Because that is the throne of Lei Ming who has been playing games with him for a thousand midnights.

It's over... it's all over.

How can this "God's Choice" ceremony be his lifeline? It's clearly his death warrant!

Dong Jin recalled the last midnight, when after he unilaterally said "goodbye", Lei Ming's golden eyes could no longer suppress the monstrous murderous desire. He only felt that his eyes were dark and his future was bleak.

No, discovering that the chief referee of his universe is his former mortal enemy is not the worst.

Worse is still to come.

Dong Jin watched in silence as the throne of darkness and drama in the night sky turned from an illusion into reality. He also watched the man wearing a strange half-black and half-white mask and a suit for the first time who appeared on the empty throne. He just stared at the man expressionlessly.

His window was installed with special glass, and people outside the window should not be able to see the scene inside the window clearly.

Moreover, at this moment when the whole planet was looking up at the sky, it was impossible for Lei Ming to tell which line of sight came from him.

But he forgot that Lei Ming never made sense.

Dong Jin stared at the gray-haired god who was originally half-leaning on the throne, casually resting his forearm on the armrest with the same pattern. But the moment he cast his eyes over, the other party immediately caught something sharp.

Then, his sturdy and powerful body leaned forward slightly like a cheetah gathering strength. After confirming the source of his sight, the lower half of his face, which was not covered by the mask, smiled very slowly and low towards the French window.

Then, one second before the countdown of the "God's Choice" ceremony completely returned to zero, he said something silently. He

said: "Ti ho trovato (I found you)."

Perhaps it was too familiar. Obviously, the other party just made a lip shape, but after meeting his dark golden eyes that were so calm that it was creepy, Dong Jin still felt the slow and leisurely breath of Lei Ming when he said this, as if he wanted to swallow people into his stomach inch by inch.

It is worthy of Lei Ming.

The extreme of the extreme, crazy and crazy.

Just one look, just one word, and he dreamed back to the countless midnights when he was almost dead.

Is there anything worse than having your former enemy be the chief referee?

Dong Jin's answer is: What's worse than having your former enemy be the chief referee is that your enemy recognized you.

--Tonight, the god who symbolizes the night finally descended here.