Chapter 28 Rejecting the Spectacle

Lu Yao leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs, drank iced cola, and looked down at the pixel world on the computer screen.

From the Salt Pond Tribe in the western mountains to the East River Tribe on the eastern river, from the most dangerous depths of the forest in the north to the ghost town of Sanilo in the south, his reputation was known to everyone.

He is also a well-known local god.

With the control of Saniro, Lu Yao suddenly upgraded his weapons and the number of believers increased explosively.

He is already thinking about his next opponent.

Should we annex the Donghe tribe first?

Or directly impose sustainable lightning and earthquake sanctions on the Salt Pond Tribe? He touched his chin.

While I was thinking, a new prompt appeared on the screen.

【Population is the body, faith is the power. 】

[You already have a considerable number of believers and have gained a lot of faith in this area. Your power is spread all around, and your miracles are further manifested. ]

[Please build your own wonder, which will be the stepping stone for you to leave the trainee god and enter the temple of the gods. ]

Spectacle?

Lu Yao was not unfamiliar with this word.

She also said this when Isabel subdued Lisa.

"I also went up to the crawl zone, but some jerk ruined the spectacle, so I went back down to the safe zone."

In other words, the place where he was now was called the safe zone. Only after building wonders could he enter the next stage and ascend to the so-called crawling zone.

Just like the prompts describe, get out of the trainee god.

Lu Yao opened the temple and made a new discovery in the [Miracle] column.

There is a new wonder available [Wonder].

The new wonder icon is a blurry building, and [Wonder] consumes 5,000 faith.

Like [Lightning] and [Earthquake], there is no detailed description after [Wonder].

Lu Yao thought, no wonder Lisa was so anxious.

5,000 faiths is a huge expense. If we develop step by step, we need a tribe of at least a thousand people to have this reserve. Considering that we need to deal with some emergencies and adverse environments, it will take a long time to accumulate it.

Lisa doesn't have that kind of patience, so she goes around robbing the faith of god players just to create wonders and return to the crawling zone.

Now Lu Yao needs to consider whether to open the [Wonder] directly? After thinking for a while, he made a decision.

【Spectacle】Slowdown.

Currently, I am in the God Safe Zone, which should be similar to the Novice Village, so it is relatively safe. But once the [Wonder] is opened, I may face a war with other God players like Lisa, and then I may be under great pressure.

Players who have played old games know that before leaving the Novice Village, they must level up and kill monsters as much as possible to loot all the equipment in the Novice Village.

Stability is Lu Yao’s gaming style.

I will never leave the Novice Village until I am sure of my success! I have decided! My first goal is to dominate the nearby safe zone!

After making the key decision, Lu Yao felt relieved.

"Small fire. Cook me a bowl of noodles, two cloves of garlic, and a fried egg."

"Yes, sir."

The cactus got up from the pot, shook off the mud on its thorns, jumped off the table, and went outside to cook noodles.

Lu Yao stood up and stretched.

Suddenly there was a scream from outside.

"Holy crap! The cactus has become a spirit! What the hell is going on!"

Lu Yao thought something was wrong. He pushed the door open and saw a young man with a flat head and dark circles under his eyes standing at the door. The cigarette in the young man's mouth was stuck to his lower lip, and he looked at the ground in astonishment.

On the floor, the cactus follower had turned back into a cactus, motionless.

"Why are you here, Lao Zhou?"

Lu Yao greeted him with a smile.

"No, Lu Yao, the cactus on the ground had hands and feet before, and it has become a spirit! Damn, it's outrageous!" Zhou Qiang still stared at the cactus on the ground.

"You must be dazzled. This rolled out of the flowerpot in my room." Lu Yao picked up the small fire on the ground and handed it to the other party: "If you don't believe me, look. It's just an ordinary cactus."

Zhou Qiang carefully observed the cactus, then touched it with his fingers, with a puzzled expression on his face.

"I clearly saw that this thing had hands and feet, like matchsticks... Maybe I've been too tired recently."

Zhou Qiang rubbed his face with his hands.

"By the way, why did you come here tonight?" Lu Yao changed the subject: "And didn't I lock the door? How did you get in?"

"Locked? No."

Zhou Qiang and Lu Yao checked the door and found that there was a problem with the lock core of this old-fashioned anti-theft door. Whether it was locked or not, the lock inside would not pop out. It was just for decoration.

"These are the troubles with old houses. I'll report this to the landlord later, but I don't think he'll fix it. Let's just use it as is."

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

Zhou Qiang put out his cigarette and said, "I came here to see you today."

"I couldn't keep my online store going any longer, so I closed it."

Lu Yao was stunned: "You've opened this five-year-old store since college, and you're closing it just like that? What a pity."

"It's getting harder and harder to run a small business."

Zhou Qiang gave a bitter smile and pointed to his forehead: "See? My hairline is moving higher and higher, and I lose a lot of hair every day."

"When I was in college, I was still a worker named Oguri Shun, but now I have become Pan Changjiang, an online store owner."

From Zhou Qiang's dark circles and haggard appearance, Lu Yao could tell that he was indeed under a lot of pressure.

When he just graduated, Zhou Qiang was full of energy and ambition. During dinner parties, he was still dreaming of becoming bigger and stronger and creating brilliance... Now he has been beaten by life and become dark and thin. He always smokes and frowns.

"I'm going to close the store and work as a temporary worker in the community."

Zhou Qiang put out his cigarette and said with a smile, "Two thousand eight hundred a month, the money is small but there is not that much pressure. I plan to take a break first and then think about the next step."

"Brother, I'm moving in today, but I'm not alone."

Zhou Qiang shouted outside: "Come up, why are you hiding?"

A woman then walked in from outside the door.

She looked to be in her early twenties, with delicate features, and was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and black straight pants. The woman's hair was tied casually behind her head, and her eyes were a little vague, as if she was thinking about something, or a little absent-minded.

Lu Yao noticed that her shoulders and waist were well-defined, with almost no extra fat and signs of exercise.

"My girlfriend, Yu Yao." Zhou Qiang introduced them to each other, "This is my college roommate, Lu Yao."

Lu Yao smiled politely and nodded. Yu Yao was a little restrained, but also nodded.

"We will live here for about a month at most," Zhou Qiang explained. "We will move when we find a suitable house."

Lu Yao nodded.

He also felt a little relieved.

If you don't move, I'll have to move.

Because of the simulator, it is not suitable for other people to be in this house.

Now that Zhou Qiang and Yu Yao have moved next door, he must be more careful not to let the small fire be exposed to them.

…

That night, Lu Yao kept hearing someone humming next door. At first he thought it was just a couple's nighttime interaction, but the sound became more and more strange.

Someone was... humming? But Lu Yao couldn't be sure whether the sound came from next door or upstairs.

In the middle of the night, he was awakened again by the trembling sound of cutting vegetables.

Who would cook in the kitchen in the middle of the night?

(End of this chapter)