Chapter 1 The player wanted to refuse
1.
You received an unknown package.
The package is made of square paper, well sealed, with no shipping information attached. The package is the same size as a household rice cooker. You stand two meters away and carefully poke the package with a telescopic clothes drying rack.
The package swayed slightly.
Excluding liquids, gases and other toxic substances, this volume and weight can also boldly rule out the possibility of bombs and living organisms.
You breathed a sigh of relief, quickly dragging the package into the room and closing the door.
*
I don't blame you for being cautious.
Since you moved from your hometown to Beika Town two months ago due to the accidental death of your parents, you have encountered bizarre murders every time you go out. You are almost going crazy and have to try to study metaphysics.
Later you realize that this is normal. The police in Beihua Town are on duty 25 hours a day, and it is considered very lucky to encounter only one murder case a day. When Beihua people go out, they just pray that they don’t encounter the local specialties that are fried once every three days, fried once every five days, and fried extra-large on weekends.
With the recommendation of your good neighbor, you joined the Beika Town Forum. Seniors who had learned lessons through blood and tears compiled their Beika Town survival experiences into a post and pinned it to the top of the forum.
You clicked in and took a look. Wow, it's almost becoming a regular horror story.
In addition to the survival experience, the other two pinned posts are "Please believe in the only true God of Beika, the God of Survival Rate, Mr. Kidd" and "When will the transfer window for Beika Town be opened?"
Haha, it turns out that it’s not that everyone loves Popcorn so deeply, but that they simply can’t escape.
You regret it.
You stand up and walk around the room, changing from playing with your phone to playing with it anxiously.
Forget it. As long as you have internet and takeout, you can survive anywhere.
*
The package that suddenly appears at your doorstep instantly reminds you of the Rice Krispie Survival Rules.
In just three seconds, your mind races, and you frantically recall whether you have had any life disputes, emotional disputes, or interest disputes with the locals in the past two months.
Very good, none of them.
You breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, you are a socially anxious otaku, it's so funny, you never go out.
The box contained a new model of holographic helmet from Noah, a game cartridge with a safety certificate, and a piece of paper that looked like it had been casually stuffed in.
You vaguely remembered that you seemed to have won a prize by forwarding the message before, and after receiving the official notification, you casually filled in your address.
But did you participate in the game-type lottery? How come you remember that you participated in the daily necessities lottery? The winners were given two boxes of tissue paper or something like that...
"Sincerely invite you, the lucky player, to participate in this game's internal test..." You read out the content on the piece of paper word by word, "stand-alone, high degree of freedom, open world, and multiple game copies to choose from..."
I looked at the cassette information again, wow, it's a three-no product, probably a rubbish work from some unknown workshop.
You toss the cassette into the trash can with a lack of interest, preparing to continue lying in bed playing your own pixel farming game.
At this moment, you caught a glimpse of the words at the end of the paper: The racial and occupational settings of this game are all designed under the authorization of "The Ultimate Fantasy", and all cutscene music is composed by Zu Jianqing.
Oh my god! Zu Jian!
You quickly pick up the cassette that was thrown into the bucket.
It doesn't matter whether the game is bad or not, or whether it is in closed beta or not. This is Zu Jian's music. Even if the game is as bad as "Magic World", you will put up with it.
Because Zu Jian is the eternal God!
You notice that there is also writing on the back of the paper. It is handwritten, unlike the printed text on the front:
Hi, dear players, for your better gaming experience, we have prepared auxiliary system elves for you~ Please complete the tasks issued by the elves carefully to expand the game content~
Signed: Magical Girl Merry.
It’s pretty good. The operation team seems to be very girly.
After inserting the cassette and putting on the helmet, you adjusted your sleeping position to the most comfortable level and started the game.
[Locking...]
My consciousness slowly began to sink.
You struggle in discomfort at the strange pulling sensation.
You open your eyes and find yourself suspended in completely white space.
【Welcome to the game world】
*
【Please select your initial race】
【Grain of fat (dwarf) race】
【Please select your race or gender】
【mother】
[Every time you clear a dungeon, you will have a chance to create a new character]
【Wish you a happy game】
After choosing your race, you come to the character creation interface and look at the bald egg head in front of you with a sad face.
As a person who is not good at character design, you want to skip the character design stage. What's more, the initial models provided by the game are too ugly. I don't know which aesthetically pleasing artist made them.
You look away in disgust, and finally choose to import your facial data with one click.
I walked around my game character. Although my childish self looked cute, black hair and black eyes were too common in the game.
You excitedly adjusted the color palette, changed your eyes to white, took two steps back, looked around, and looked a bit like a blind person... a small problem, the main point is the contrast that you thought I was blind, but in fact I have a naked vision of 5.0.
As for the hair…
You've been wanting to dye this thing green for a long time!
For your initial outfit, choose the contrasting fluorescent purple. Believe that when you go out, you will be the best fat guy.
Fluorescent small fat eggplant, like!
You have to accomplish everything in the game that you can't do in reality!
You click [Next] with satisfaction.
The system seemed to be stuck for a moment, and it took three seconds to respond.
[Your character rating is: Amazing]
[Are you sure you want to create this role?]
【yes】
【Please enter your nickname】
【AAA food stall plumber】
【Please select your initial occupation】
【warrior】
[Every time you enter a new instance, you will get a new profession]
[You can switch all the obtained professions in the completed dungeon]
[Please choose your deputy (up to 3)]
【Cook, Blacksmith, Tailor】
【Please choose your initial copy】
[Note: The initial copy cannot read files, please choose carefully]
[A. Illustrated Collection: Sword○Ranbu]
[B. Adventure and mystery: Wild Dog]
【C. Food Management: Curse Return】
Unable to read the file... So you can only choose the collection category? You click option A in frustration. Is this a mandatory choice? Bad review!
[You have selected the copy: Sword○Random Dance]
[The game is loading...]
【Wish you a happy game】
[The sword dance has begun.]
*
The feeling of weightlessness from falling from a high altitude makes you close your eyes subconsciously.
I don’t know how long it has been, the air begins to flow slowly, you are sensitive to the wind blowing across your cheek, the scent of grass and trees wafts in, and the originally quiet world is filled with all kinds of sounds.
You opened your eyes and shed tears because of the glaring sun.
Is this the world of the game? Isn't it a little too real? Are you actually reborn in a new world? Or is it that the current technological power has quietly evolved in a place you don't know about, and you are the old human who is unaware...
You gave up thinking, jumped on the spot, and then your eyes lit up.
Just the feeling of jumping two meters high, awesome!
Five-star General McDonald once said: A life that plays games but does not choose to jump forward is incomplete.
What's more, you just made a comparison and found that jumping and walking is a little faster than pure walking... What kind of genius design is this?
You skip away from your spawn point, trying to find your new guide.
You don't even know how long you've been jumping.
Who on earth put the player's spawn point in a desolate mountain with no birds? If it weren't for the non-stop BGM, you would have wanted to give up the game.
Ah, Zu Jian's music, you don't allow anyone to disobey and forget after insulting and scolding, anyway it is correct and perfect.
In addition, if the manufacturers have money, they can optimize the player experience instead of making the map of an illustrated game so large, okay?
If it were in reality, you wouldn't dare to imagine how many times this amount of exercise could allow you to be reborn.
But in reality, you don’t have the chance to go to the mountains and hills so close to nature. The survival rules of Beika Town say that you must never go to remote areas, otherwise you might be reborn without knowing why.
Your poor, enthusiastic neighbor did not follow Rule 182 and made eye contact with the suspect on the street for a second longer. Now it has been a month since then.
By the tenth time the BGM loops, you've become addicted to it, but you don't see any guides. All around you are still rows of trees and underdeveloped yellow soil, without even a single small animal.
When I opened the system interface, the task bar was still gray and there was no response no matter how I refreshed it. The so-called system elves did respond, but they only said one sentence over and over again: May your adventure be filled with blessings.
This game is so boring... You frustratingly open the system settings, preparing for a splendid exit, when something extremely familiar to you suddenly comes into view.
A cat will never mistake a cat mint, and a player will never mistake a health bar monster.
Over there! There! Is a monster with a bright health bar!!!
Your eyes suddenly light up.
*
In front of you are two unfamiliar but good-looking NPCs who are fighting hard against a health bar monster with blue eyes. On the left, there is a collection point that suddenly appears within the detection range, but you don’t have the initial collection tool in your hand yet.
As a player, your choice is -
Picking with bare hands!
As for the NPC, well, you know what it is, right? This must be part of the novice orientation plot, where the NPC is fighting a monster and is about to be defeated and killed, and then the player descends from the sky to save the NPC and thus begins the first step of the brave adventure...
Anyway, according to the plot, it won't matter if you go to the NPC earlier or later. But it's different for gathering. If you run into a time limit for gathering, you won't be able to find a missing illustration if you don't work hard this time.
The tree that serves as the collection point emits a soft glow. You stand under the tree and measure the distance between Xiao Fei's height and the material at the top of the tree...
You silently took out your initial weapon, the knife, and launched an attack on the collection point.
How come letting the materials fall doesn't count as gathering?
[You got sour dates*20]
[You got sour dates*20]
[Sour dates: wild dates with a sour taste, not fully ripe, taste astringent, but are very juicy. After consumption, they can increase a slight sense of fullness and a slight amount of life value]
The happy time of collecting is over, and you just remember that your system backpack is not open.
You angrily stuff the dates into your original outfit.
What! This is forcing players to go through the beginner process, this is hegemony! Abominable game!
You put the last sour date into your mouth, took a bite, and couldn't help but spit it out. Then you threw the bitten sour date on the ground as if nothing had happened.
Well, it's decided. I will give the sour dates to the NPCs as a meeting gift. The gift may be small but the thought is great. I believe the NPCs who receive it will be so moved that they will cry.
You carry a bag of sour dates and continue to jump forward.
Guide the NPCs, the players are coming!