The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

Welcome to Wasteland Era.

A clear voice came from the side.

Startled, Wang Banxian turned his head sharply.

There was a young man sitting on a dilapidated chair, playing with a dagger in his hand.

Black hair, black eyes.

A faint smile graced his face.

It was Lin Mo.

Master Wang opened his mouth wide.

He reached out and touched the counter in front of him.

Rough wood grain, sharp splinters.

He pinched his thigh again.

pain!

That fucking hurts!

"this......"

Wang Banxian's eyes widened, and after a long while, he finally managed to utter a sentence:

"Is this really a game?"

"Isn't this all too real!"

He instinctively wanted to bring up the system panel.

Just then.

A pale blue, semi-transparent light curtain appeared out of thin air before his eyes.

[Mission Released: The Oath of Allegiance]

Objective: Kill one zombie and take its body back to the general store for recycling.

[Requirement: The more complete the corpse, the higher the reward.]

[Note: This task is quite difficult for novice players; it is recommended to go in a team.]

Wang Banxian looked at the task panel, then glanced at the desolate, abandoned street outside the window.

In the distance, several mournful roars could be faintly heard.

"Hey, feed me? Family, can you hear me?"

Wang Banxian tentatively called out twice.

He swiped his finger haphazardly in the air until he finally found the red "Live" button.

Without any external devices, a semi-transparent bullet screen window pops up directly in the upper right corner of the view.

Holy crap! It actually connected!

[This picture quality? This lighting? Are you showing a movie?]

[Where are you, Half-Immortal? Why aren't you showing your face? This first-person perspective is making me dizzy.]

Where's that handsome young man? Let me see him one more time!

The live stream was instantly flooded with over 100,000 viewers.

The popularity is still skyrocketing exponentially, and the number of viewers in the live stream has reached unprecedented heights.

"Cough cough."

Wang Banxian cleared his throat, forcibly suppressing the turmoil in his heart.

"Brothers, stop spamming the chat."

His original intention was to come in and embarrass him, but...

"This game..." He paused, reached out and wiped his hand hard on the dusty wooden counter, then held up his grime-covered palm to his eyes: "This game is really impossible to criticize."

The rough texture of grit came through my fingertips.

You can even smell the earthy, musty smell of old ash in your nostrils.

That's so true.

It was so real that it gave him goosebumps.

"See that? The particle effect of the dust, the Tyndall effect of the light."

Wang Banxian brought his face close to the counter, almost touching his nose: "Even the mold spots in the cracks of this wood are done so meticulously, my graphics card is burning hot, guys!"

He turned around and looked at the boy in black sitting in the corner.

Lin Mo remained seated in the broken chair, the dagger in his hand flashing between his fingers, its cold light gleaming.

"This shopkeeper seems to be an NPC?"

Mustering his courage, Wang Banxian approached and looked Lin Mo up and down with the gaze one would give a rare animal: "Hey buddy, give us a smile?"

Lin Mo raised his head.

Those dark eyes stared at him silently.

He had no expression whatsoever.

There has been no response.

The next second, the dagger in his hand suddenly stabbed out, the tip pointing directly at Wang Banxian's brow.

chill.

A chill that penetrated to the bone instantly shot from the tailbone to the top of the head.

Wang Banxian instinctively took two steps back, bumping into the shelf behind him and knocking over a pile of empty cans.

Holy crap!

His heart was pounding.

This sense of oppression is incredible!

For a brief moment, he really thought he was going to be stabbed to death.

[Haha, the fortune teller chickened out!]

[This NPC is so aloof, I love it!]

Stop messing with the NPCs, hurry up and go check out the game content!

Wang Banxian chuckled twice and quickly changed the subject: "Well, the shop manager is a bit introverted, let's not bother him, let's go out and do our task first."

[What an introvert!]

He just received a mission called "The Warlords".

Kill zombies.

It sounds cliché, but with this 100% pain setting, it completely changes the nature of the story.

Push open the rickety glass door of the grocery store.

A wave of heat mixed with the stench of decay hit us.

Wang Banxian almost vomited.

This smell is even more pungent than a pair of smelly socks that've been sitting out for a month.

He covered his nose and squinted to adjust to the bright light outside.

When he saw the scene before him, he froze.

The live stream chat experienced a brief pause at this moment.

desolate.

Dead silence.

The once bustling streets are now nothing but ruins, with abandoned cars parked haphazardly on the road, long since rusted into piles of scrap metal.

The asphalt road surface was cracked, and weeds grew wildly from the cracks, reaching a height of half a person.

Most of the tall buildings on both sides are now just frames, their dark windows like blind eyes staring intently at the intruders below.

In the distance, a landmark building was broken in half, its upper half leaning precariously into the adjacent podium.

"Wow, this modeling..."

Wang Bansian swallowed hard: "How much money will this cost?"

He controlled his perspective and looked around.

Suddenly, someone in the live chat exclaimed.

Wait a minute! This building... looks so familiar?

【Isn't this the World Trade Center in downtown Jiangcheng? Even the spire at the top looks exactly the same!】

Holy crap! It really is!

Look at that GG sign on the left. Even though it's half rotten, you can still make out the words "plastic surgery." That's a famous, trendy plastic surgery hospital in Jiangcheng!

[I live nearby! This terrain is 100% accurate!]

[Has this game company gone mad? Creating a 1:1 replica of a real city—aren't they afraid of being investigated?]

Even Wang Banxian was surprised by the comments.

He looked closely at the building that had been broken in two, and sure enough, he saw some familiar words among the ruins.

A real-view map?

What's the background of this game company?

They actually moved the entire Jiangcheng city into the game and turned it into a wasteland version?

"That's interesting."

Wang Banxian's fear dissipated considerably, replaced by a strange excitement.

Fighting zombies in a city you know well.

This experience is absolutely amazing!

"Brothers, since this is Jiangcheng, then this is my home turf."

Wang Banxian shrugged, striking a pose of a master: "Mere zombies are nothing to worry about."

He searched through the ruins by the roadside for a while.

There were no guns.

They didn't even have a decent knife.

In the end, they only managed to pull out a threaded steel bar about the thickness of a thumb from under a pile of rubble.

It was about a meter long, with sharp stubs at both ends, and covered in red rust.

I weighed it in my hand; it felt quite heavy.

"That's it!"

Wang Banxian swung the steel bar twice, creating a whooshing sound.

"With the Ruyi Jingu Bang here, demons and monsters, flee at once!"

[Don't be reckless, streamer. The mission description says it's very difficult; teaming up is recommended.]

[Exactly, I just saw several other streamers who qualified are recruiting members, preparing to team up.]

[Half-Immortal, with your frail body, don't give away first blood.]