Online Game: Super Beast Tamer

Chapter 1: Vegetative Su Ming

Xiang City First People's Hospital.

The boy on the hospital bed was wearing a transparent helmet, and a smartphone-sized card reader was flashing a yellow light at the head of the bed.

The girl in the supermarket uniform took out a golden magnetic card from her bag and inserted it into the card reader, and the yellow light turned green.

"Doctor, can my brother really create a character in 'Fate' and move around freely?" the girl asked.

The doctor next to him nodded and said:
"There has been a successful case in the capital. Although your brother has been a vegetable for three years, his brain wave state has remained good. He has great hope of entering 'Destiny'. Moreover, being active in 'Destiny' can also increase the probability of him waking up."

As he spoke, the transparent helmet the boy was wearing turned blue like the sky.

The doctor quickly wrote down the data from the instruments beside him in his notebook and said with a smile:

"It looks like it has worked. You'll have another chance to talk to your brother."

The girl shook her head and said bitterly:

"I still have to work to earn money, so I probably won't have the chance to meet my brother in the game. But..."

She held the boy's hand, smiled, tears welled up in her eyes, and said:

"As long as my brother can still feel the joy of being alive, it's great... Nothing would make me happier than this."

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"The information card has been confirmed. Name: Su Ming, ID number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, adult."

"Welcome to the world of destiny. Please name your game character."

Su Ming opened his eyes and saw a magical scene.

Clouds were rolling all around, and in the clouds there were white marble buildings. Although these buildings have collapsed, one can still feel their exquisiteness.

A little elf with two pairs of transparent wings was flying around Su Ming. It was this little guy who spoke just now.

"Is this the 'fate' my sister talked about? It's so real." Su Ming walked in the clouds, touching the ruins in the mist, and his thoughts went back to three years ago.

That year, he was going to take the high school entrance examination. When he was crossing the road, he saw a car speeding towards a girl. He ran over with all his strength and pushed the girl away, but he was hit and turned into a vegetable.

After that, his consciousness remained hazy and he could only hear his sister's mumbling occasionally.

"Destiny" is a virtual game, and it is also something that my sister has been talking about frequently in the past month. She has long wanted to let Su Ming try it, but Su Ming was a minor at the time, and there were a lot of restrictions on entering the game. The child's guardian was required to take the child to register, so that minors could enter the game within the time specified by their parents.

Su Ming is a vegetative state and naturally cannot operate on site. However, yesterday, Children's Day, he celebrated his 18th birthday and officially became an adult legally.

Su Ming probably knew that this was a newly launched virtual game that could be played by a vegetative person like him.

When Su Qiaoqiao was muttering by the bed before, she was worried that Su Ming would not be able to enter the game. Now it seems that the effect is very good and he can play normally.

The joy of new life surged in his heart.

"This is 'destiny', my second life."

"Please name your game character." The elf had been following Su Ming, and she reminded him again.

Su Ming thought: Since I am a vegetable, I might as well give myself a name related to plants.

He thought for a while and said:

"spore."

"Name confirmed, Spore #4432 character created."

In front of Su Ming, there appeared an oval full-length mirror. In the mirror, he was wearing cloth clothes, his face was green and clean, and he still looked childish.

After becoming a vegetable, his growth became very slow, so that his appearance now is almost the same as it was three years ago.

"I've become a vegetable in the past few years, and it seems like I haven't grown any taller..."

Su Ming in the mirror is at most 1 meters tall.

"Please adjust the character image."

Su Ming gestured with his fingers, making himself look a little more mature, looking like a high school student instead of a junior high school student.

After the character image was determined, the elf waved his magic wand and Su Ming arrived at the Novice Village No. 777.

Su Ming stood in the Novice Village, looking around blankly.

The Novice Village in "Fate" is a map completely independent of the main world. There are tens of thousands of them. In addition, the server has been open for a month, so the number of players in Novice Village No. 777 is very small.

If it was during the early days of the server launch, if Su Ming was sitting there in a daze, he would definitely be pushed to the ground.

Su Ming had never played this kind of game before, and now he didn’t know what to do.

Fortunately, "Fate" has a guide for beginners.

How to open the panel, how to accept tasks, how to exit the game, the background story of the game, the identity of the character played by the player...

A lot of content in the novice guide is not important and can be skipped directly to start the adventure. However, Su Ming spent a full hour reading all the content.

When he saw that “game coins can be exchanged for real money”, his eyes lit up.

Su Ming's parents died early, and he depended on his sister for support. His life was already very poor. After he became a vegetable, his sister Su Qiaoqiao dropped out of school and worked to pay for his expensive care costs.

If a person becomes a vegetable for more than three months, the hope of waking up is very slim, but Su Qiaoqiao has persisted for three years and is still persisting.

Su Ming knew that Su Qiaoqiao had given up a lot for him.

If she could make money, my sister wouldn't have to work so hard. She would have time to watch a movie, eat her favorite food, and do what she likes.

Su Ming was motivated.

There are three ways to make money in the game.

The first is to kill monsters to make money, the second is to make money by completing tasks, and the third is to make money by trading with other players.

There is no one else in the Novice Village, so Su Ming can only do the first and second options.

Following the final system instructions (a random task), Su Ming came to the pharmacy in the Novice Village.

The shelves in the store were filled with neat rows of primary life recovery potions. The owner of the store was sitting behind the counter, dozing off on the table.

Su Ming walked over and knocked on the table, waking up the boss. He asked:

"Mr. Parsons, is there anything I can help you with?"

Pai Sen's name was displayed above his head, so Su Ming could call out his name.

Python woke up, rubbed his eyes, yawned and said:

"Are you the adventurer the village chief introduced? A group of goblins came to the woods east of the village. They destroyed all the 'hemostatic grass'. If you can help me clean up the goblins and bring me ten 'hemostatic grass' from them, that would be great."

In this way, Su Ming received a collection task. After completing the task, he could get experience, 5 bottles of primary life potion, and a silver coin.

"One silver coin can be exchanged for one yuan. Tasks outside the Novice Village will give more money. We must level up quickly and leave the Novice Village." Su Ming came to the eastern forest excitedly.

Soon I saw the goblin mentioned in the quest.

It was a short creature with pointy ears, only about 1 meters tall, with very thin arms and thighs. It only wore a simple animal skin skirt. Its ribs could be clearly seen, and it made a harsh sound.

(End of this chapter)