Not a god

Chapter 16: "The Man of Destiny" (Please read it again on Tuesday)
"Ah, it's almost daybreak, and I've made it through again."

Zhao Xiaoyan is a student at Tianfu University.

I was originally wondering if I had any gaming friends online, but unexpectedly I saw a game I had never seen before on the mall’s homepage.

There was no publicity or marketing before, the price was free, the size was 2M, a large-scale open world adventure game - "Destiny 1.0"

"A two-terabyte large open world? Are you kidding me? How did I get on the homepage?"

"Not even a sticker? What the hell is this?"

This game was launched very recently, just fifteen minutes ago, but it appeared on the homepage of the largest gaming platform in the country after all, and there are many night owls at this point.

He clicked into the forum and there were already dozens of comments
Sword Oregano: What is that? Is it a virus? Spark is hacked?

Du Shang Xi Lou: [Tian Ting Entertainment Co., Ltd.]? Which company? I haven’t heard of it.

Stealing takeout biss: Is there any brother who wants to try it out?
Don’t eat coriander: What the hell is this! ?

Unlike the previous ones, this 'Don't Eat Coriander' has a game duration of 10 minutes.

Someone in the comments asked him what was going on, but he didn't reply. Ten minutes after his first comment, he posted another comment.

Don’t Eat Coriander: You guys try it out yourself, aliens are coming to attack

Zhao Xiaoyan refreshed the page several times, and there were several more comments. Those who had not played the game were asking what it was, and those who had played the game seemed to be mentally disturbed, some were talking nonsense, and many were saying that it was impossible to play the game at all, that it could not be installed, and that it was restricted to certain regions.

No matter what, it's only two megabytes, so just deal with it. All the games on the Spark platform are genuine, so there's no need to worry about viruses.

Click to download and install in seconds.

enter the game.

A very long disclaimer page appeared, but Zhao Xiaoyan didn't even read it and just scrolled to the bottom and checked the box.

"Confirm that you agree to grant this game the authority to mobilize the Celestial Soul."

Something unfamiliar appeared again, and he kept clicking the mouse.

Anyway, I don't understand it, so I'll just confirm it directly. The game is in a fierce competition now. If you want to stand out, you either have to become the ultimate patchwork monster or come up with something new. This has created a group of manufacturers who like to play tricks.

There were several more confirmations to follow, and just when he was about to get impatient, the computer screen went black.

"It can't really be a virus?" he couldn't help but mutter.

But soon, a line of white subtitles appeared.

"Please select the immersion level for this game. The minimum immersion level for players who have not awakened their destiny is 15%."

"Immersion? What is that?"

Zhao Xiaoyan pulled it to the maximum directly.

"Calculating your age, gender, name, family composition, education level, childhood experiences..."

A lot of things flashed by, were generated quickly and then were swiped away. Zhao Xiaoyan couldn't see clearly what was written on them.

"Creating a character. The cost of creating this character will be paid by [Zheng Yintian]."

Subtitles continued to appear on the screen.

"It is detected that the player is entering the game for the first time. There are currently four ways to obtain destiny:

1、累计生存五十年，正在为你倒计时：49年11个月30天23:59。

2. Every time you are killed by evil corpses, dragon corpses, evil creatures, evil things, etc. in the dreamland, there is a probability of awakening (average probability calculation formula: immersion degree × 3%).

3. Killing the evil corpse has a chance to obtain the evil fruit (probability unknown)
4. The Lord [Heaven of Life and Death] who controls the cycle of life and death can awaken the destiny of mortals. Perhaps you can ask that Lord to awaken your spirit for you. "

"Do you want to ask [Heaven of Life and Death] to awaken your spirit?"

Zhao Xiaoyan blinked and pondered.

The first one is to survive for 50 years, and the countdown seems to be 1:1 with reality. What a cleverly designed option.

There is a probability that the second death can be passed, but probabilities are deceptive. Even if his immersion level is at its highest, the probability is only 3%.

The third one with unknown probability is also difficult to deal with, and it is clear that the evil corpse is not easy to deal with.

So in the end I can only choose the fourth option.

Just select yes.

"The gentleman took one look at you, rejected your request, and felt that you were a lowly person."

Is this game crazy? Why was it rejected? You listed four conditions, but none of them can be met, right? And the NPC favorability, which seems to be very important, was inexplicably reduced.

"It is said that the lady is waiting for the soul of her deceased husband to reincarnate... Zizi Zi... If you obtain 30 evil souls in Dreamland, perhaps she will make some deals with you."

Zhao Xiaoyan nodded in understanding.

It turns out there is a prerequisite here, so the fourth path requires you to enter the game first, obtain the props, and then awaken your destiny.

At this moment, the picture changed again, and a line of white words appeared on the screen.

"The air is filled with their stench. Old humans? Evil skeletons? Ancient gods? Boring names."

"Just aphids in a dream."

"The Great Goddess of Love, who killed mountains of corpses and seas of blood, slept in the Cretaceous period. The broken limbs and debris all over the mountains were begging, begging for mercy, and crying. The noise of their wailing polluted her beautiful dreams and weaved a corrupt country in her dreams." "But they were not satisfied with this. On December 2024, 12, the evil wind from the dreamland brought the coldest winter to the mortal world. They were rampant, treacherous, and tyrannical. They stretched their dirty claws towards the pure land of mankind."

"Our people were born and buried here for generations. We are the people who bear the will of the world. The blood in our bodies, which comes from our ancestors, has been flowing with the two rivers for thousands and thousands of years."

"Go, man of destiny, use your courage and passion to complete your mission and tear down their beautiful dreams!"

"Click to confirm and enter dreamland."

Zhao Xiaoyan's emotions were really aroused, and he pressed the confirm button.

"Connecting to Dreamland."

"Reading player data."

"Data loading complete, you have logged in, Dreamland——"

After the last line of words appeared, the computer screen suddenly went black.

It wasn't just the computer screen that was black, but there was a power outage, and the room was suddenly plunged into darkness.

"Why is there no electricity suddenly?"

He checked his phone, but nothing came out:

"No more phone credits again? This King Card is getting more and more outrageous. Fifty dollars only lasted half a month."

There was dim morning light outside the window, and the sun was rising slowly over the mountains in the east. Zhao Xiaoyan stood up and stretched.

"Let's go have breakfast and use the boss's hotspot to refill our phone credit before coming back to sleep."

He just pushed the door open.

But he froze in place.

He thought he had stayed up too late, so he rubbed his eyes and looked again, only to find that it was not dazzled, but his brain could not process the scene in front of him.

Only the cold wind blowing in his face kept stinging his nerves.

He opened his mouth and said "Wow, wow, wow..." for a long time, but he was so shocked that he couldn't utter the last sound.

The big fuck was silent.

The outline of the city was still the river city where he had lived for the past few years, but it was dilapidated and desolate everywhere, like the scene many years after the apocalypse.

Mosses and ferns grew wildly, and suddenly there was a sound of flying birds, and hundreds or even thousands of large black birds covered the sky.

But what’s important is not this apocalyptic doomsday scene, but the various strange creatures in the city.

A giant tumor with hundreds of mouths was crawling on the rooftop, fleshy human faces were growing on the walls of the building, and the sun rising in the east was a woman's eye, which was darting around.

"Boom-!!"

Suddenly, there was a shocking vibration not far away, which scared the hundreds of mouths of the tumor and caused them to spit out black birds continuously.

As the tumor continued to shrink, the flock of blackbirds fell to the ground and turned into a group of strange people wearing hoods and straw raincoats, walking through the streets and alleys. When they disappeared at the corner in the distance, a big hand was seen pressing on the roof of the corner, and then a huge stone Buddha slowly walked out from the corner.

The huge stone Buddha was holding up the buildings on both sides. The human face on the wall kept cursing him, but the Buddha turned a deaf ear to it and walked silently on the main road in the city which was too narrow for him, as if he was looking for something everywhere.

"Boom-"

When he raised his foot and put it down, he could even feel the vibration. It turned out that the loud noise that startled the black bird was just the movement of his foot.

Zhao Xiaoyan suddenly lost his composure.

"Where did I get to?"

"Squeak-"

Just now those were all noises from far away, but this time it was an unusual noise nearby. He only heard a "squeaking" sound coming from the corridor. Zhao Xiaoyan looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was a mouse that came from nowhere.

A rat bigger than a dog.

Zhao Xiaoyan saw it.

It also saw Zhao Xiaoyan.

"..."

"..."

"..."

Zhao Xiaoyan opened his eyes again and found himself sitting in front of a computer desk with dull eyes and facial muscles twitching uncontrollably.

I'm alive?

Where is this?
Is he dead?
A second ago, I heard the terrifying squeaking of a mouse, his shouting, the excruciating pain of his flesh being torn, the blood gushing out uncontrollably and how hot it was, and the feeling of suffocation as his throat was blocked by blood.

He didn't know whether he was alive or dead. He touched his neck with trembling hands, but there was no blood or wound there, as if everything that had just happened was a dream.

There was only a line of white subtitles on the computer screen, reminding him of what had just happened.

"You are dead. Cause of death: your neck was bitten by a black rat."

(End of this chapter)