Chapter 1 Strange Little Games

After finishing a day's work, Lu Yao dragged his tired body back to the rental house.

In a small company of about ten people, more than half of them are just connections, and apart from the boss and partners, there are only three people who really do the work. Lu Yao has only been working for three months, but he feels like the days are passing by like years.

But he didn't dare to resign before he found another job. The economy is bad now, and he has to survive first before thinking about the next step in life.

It is at this time every day that Lu Yao has a little time to relax. He changes his mood and temporarily puts aside all the unpleasantness of the day.

Now it's game time!

He turned on his old computer and moved the mouse slowly across the screen.

Let me see which one to play today.

Want to rank up?

A knife? Or Three Kingdoms 9?

…

An inconspicuous icon caught Lu Yao's attention.

The icon is in the lower right corner of the screen. The logo is a green pixelated island that blends in with the green grass of the computer background image and is very inconspicuous.

"God Simulator"? What kind of game is this? Lu Yao has no recollection of downloading or purchasing it.

He clicked on the file properties to check. The source file was 20MB, which was a small game. With this capacity, it looked like it was a game from a long time ago.

Lu Yao's computer configuration is low. He has been using this machine since college and is reluctant to replace it. He has to use the lowest picture quality to play League of Legends and Dota. He can only play major games through cloud play or watching other people's game videos. Most of the time, Lu Yao plays various classic old games.

He tried to open "God Simulator".

The screen slowly fades to black.

Accompanied by melodious old-fashioned 8-bit electronic music, white Chinese characters are displayed one by one on the black screen, in a very classic pixel game style.

[On this day, the world finally welcomed back the great god. ]

[Your arrival has given the world new meaning. Your great power will create a brand new civilization.]

Then the black screen gradually disappeared, replaced by a group of little people building various buildings, some little people cultivating farmland, and others raising their arms and cheering. The pixel-style picture looked fresh and nostalgic, and Lu Yao felt relaxed.

Three white options appear on the background.

【New Game】

【Continue the game】

【quit】

Lu Yao clicked [New Game].

The screen returned to black again, with even patches of green pixels appearing on it, like paint smeared on a blackboard.

[Capturing the world...]

After about five seconds, green pixels filled the screen.

[World positioning completed, welcome, great god. ]

The pixel background changed again.

A flat green area appeared on the screen, surrounded by forests, rivers, mountains and deserts. In the center of the screen was a white dome-shaped building that looked like a temple.

A line of text appeared in the center: This is your temple, you named it ___Temple.

Lu Yao thought about it for a moment and then typed a word.

Temple of Yao.

The words "Yao Temple" appeared above the temple.

Then the picture fell into a strange state of stillness.

Lu Yao clicked on the temple, but there were no options.

What is going on? Which company made this old game that doesn't even have a basic tutorial or guide?

Just as he was wondering, two barefoot and shirtless little men appeared in the corner of the screen. The two little men moved over and walked around the temple.

An exclamation mark popped up on one of the little men's heads, followed by a dialog box.

"What an exquisite and magnificent house. It must have been built by God."

Another little man raised his hands.

“God, God!”

"This must be a revelation from the gods. This is a lucky place. We need to let more people settle here!"

"The Promised Land! The Promised Land!"

Smiley faces appeared above the two little men's heads. They ran out of the screen, and within a few seconds, they brought five more little men here.

A total of seven people began to worship around the temple. They built a small thatched house next to the temple, transplanted some berry-like bushes from outside the screen, and began to live next to the temple.

At this time, a prompt appears on the screen.

[You have obtained the first batch of believers in this world. The power of faith is the means for you to perform miracles. Please collect more faith. ]

Lu Yao noticed that there was a small human head in the upper right corner, indicating population, and there was a palace icon next to it, indicating faith. Both population and faith values ​​were 7.

It seems that 1 believer will provide 1 point of faith.

He clicked on Population with his mouse, but nothing happened. He then clicked on Faith, and this time an icon that looked like a ball of fog appeared.

【Miracle】

There is a row of options below, each with a corresponding stick figure. All wonders are grayed out, indicating that none of them can be used at the moment.

Each miracle requires a certain amount of Faith points to perform. Even the one that requires the least amount of Faith points, [Rain], requires 10 points of Faith points to perform.

That is, there must be 10 believers to perform a miracle.

Increasing population became the primary issue.

Unlike other business simulation games, God Simulator cannot directly build houses or produce residents. You can only wait for the pixel people to reproduce or gather. Currently, the only option that can be operated is [Miracle].

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Lu Yao watched the pixelated people farming, his mouse kept trying to explore on the screen, and his stomach began to growl.

He went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of noodles and came back with a few cloves of garlic.

When Lu Yao returned to the computer, he noticed that the little people around the temple were in an abnormal state. Sad expressions appeared on their heads, and they were worshipping around the temple one by one.

Dialog boxes kept appearing above the little people's heads.

"Great God, please show me your presence!"

"Please bless us, great God!"

"The forest tribe thinks we worship the devil and wants to tear down the temple. Please show us a miracle!"

Lu Yao took a mouthful of noodles and thought, it looks like this is the first crisis.

However, the current faith value is only 7 points, which can't even make it rain, and the miracle column cannot be used.

Lu Yao continued to explore, and finally the mouse clicked on a new interface on the temple.

In the center of the picture is a stone bonfire, and in front of the bonfire is a sitting gray human-shaped statue. The face of the statue is blurred, and it is hard to tell whether it is a man or a woman. It seems to be the image of a god imagined by the pixel man.

There is a long table in front of the statue, with two slots of different shapes on it.

The large slot on the left is labeled [Sacrifice].

The smaller one on the right says "Gift".

Currently, these slots are empty.

Sacrifices are easy to understand. They are naturally things that these believers offer to the gods.

According to the corresponding relationship, the gift should be the power or prop bestowed by the temple on these believers.

Could this be the miracle they were looking for? Lu Yao searched everywhere but couldn't find any movable or dragging objects. He was a little confused for a moment, and he was already stuck on the first question.

Suddenly, he noticed something strange.

Why does the long table in front of the statue look familiar?

wrong……

How come that table is exactly the same as my computer desk? There are two slots, the shape of the offering slot is exactly the rectangular shape of the keyboard, and the gift slot is oval. Mouse? Looking more closely, the statue of the god being worshipped is sitting in front of the long table. Isn't it me who is playing on the computer? This thought shocked Lu Yao.

impossible……

This must be a coincidence.

Then, a bold idea popped up in my mind.

He carefully placed the garlic cloves next to the instant noodles on the mouse.

Lu Yao looked at the mouse with anticipation.

Two seconds later, the garlic clove rolled off the mouse.

"It's really a coincidence."

Lu Yao laughed at himself, feeling a little disappointed.

At this moment, the falling garlic cloves suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Lu Yao subconsciously looked at the computer screen.

There is a new pixel icon of garlic in the [Gift] slot of the temple.

[Garlic]: A gift from God, a special spice and also a medicinal herb.

A line of text is displayed on the screen.

——Would you like to bestow [Garlic] upon your believers?

【whether】

Lu Yao's hand holding the mouse trembled.

A new book has been published. Please collect and read it~

(End of this chapter)