Weird, my gaming life

Wang Weiguo had been looking at the planning blueprint for a full ten minutes.

As a senior administrator in the Dragon Kingdom, he had reviewed quite a few urban planning blueprints.

But he couldn't understand the blueprint in front of him at all.

The eerily entrenched old industrial area was marked in dark red, while the shantytowns where the poor lived were marked in bright yellow.

The core area, which had already been cleared by the Demon Suppression Division, was marked with the words "City of the Abyss" in striking red.

If he hadn't known that these were drawings sent by Mr. Lin Yuan, he almost would have torn them to shreds. Was he playing around?

The surrounding blocks are even more outrageous: "Beginner Trial Grounds".

The area marked as "Advanced Trial Grounds" happens to be the streets and alleys where strange activities have been most frequent in the past;

The city's layout is extremely simple.

Aside from martial arts schools, medicine shops, weapon shops, taverns, and teahouses, there were only a few tens of thousands of simple residential buildings.

Such arbitrary planning leaves the residents of the Lower District in a difficult position. According to their statistics, the Lower District has a population of 500,000.

Wang Weiguo looked up in confusion at Amu, who had brought him the blueprints.

"Commander Amu, what does this mean?"

Amu sat in the chair opposite, his black uniform collar buttoned up tightly, his face expressionless, as if he hadn't brought the blueprints himself.

"This is the teacher's arrangement, and I don't quite understand it either."

Wang Weiguo's brows furrowed even more.

"Didn't Mr. Lin Yuan give us any hints? If this plan is followed, how are the 500,000 residents of the lower city supposed to live?"

"Don't worry, Chief Wang, although the teacher didn't say why he did it."

However, all residents of the lower city will be evacuated to the middle city.

In the future, except for the city walls between the middle and lower city, the city walls of the middle and upper levels will be completely demolished.

The area of ​​Midtown can easily accommodate the entire South District.

Wang Weiguo's brow relaxed slightly. "If that's the case, then there's no problem. But won't suddenly having residents from different social classes living together cause some issues?"

Amu grinned and said, "What problems could there be? They're all human. Those who don't obey should be arrested or killed."

Before absolute power, even the most disobedient rats will obediently submit. With the power of the Demon Suppression Division, very few can challenge us now.

Wang Weiguo remained noncommittal regarding Amu's theory of absolute power.

He comes from the Dragon Kingdom, a country with a sound system, and he believes more in the power of the collective than in the power of an individual.

However, this wasn't his home turf, so he couldn't say anything, since the Dragon Kingdom still needed to rely on the Demon Suppression Division.

"Since Mr. Lin Yuan has already made arrangements, I will immediately arrange for people to begin construction!"

After saying that, he didn't say anything more, picked up the communicator next to him and issued the relevant orders.

Instantly, the soldiers and engineers who were not yet fully prepared began to take action.

Outside the window, the roar of military transport planes rose and fell, and a massive project that defied all urban construction logic was about to begin.

The residents of the southern part of the city were awakened by knocking on their doors in the early morning.

The soldiers from the Dragon Kingdom, dressed in neat uniforms, handed over the relocation notice with a gentle demeanor.

They not only promised to provide temporary accommodation, but also distributed enough food and money to cover three months' expenses.

This left the civilians, who were used to being ordered around by the city guards, looking bewildered and suspicious—these strange soldiers were being far too polite.

The prolonged oppression made them afraid to resist, so they could only carry simple bags and follow the soldiers toward the central city.

Even after they had fully entered the central district, settled into a clean temporary encampment, and received food, water, and several changes of clothes, they still could hardly believe it was real.

Those dilapidated shacks and narrow streets where they had lived for decades seemed to have completely disappeared from their lives at this moment.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

With the superhuman physiques of the Demon Suppression Division personnel, coupled with the tireless construction efforts of the Dragon Kingdom's engineering corps, the originally dilapidated lower city was transforming at an incredible speed.

When the last black stone was laid on the city wall, a city that blended classical and cyberpunk elements, combining the bizarre with the orderly, rose from the ground in the lower city.

And on this very day, in the real world, inside a rented room.

Wang Hao took a deep breath of the aroma of instant noodles and refreshed the game forum one last time. It was still filled with the crazy flame war between the official team.

He pursed his lips, grabbed the gaming helmet from the table, and put it on.

[Chosen Countdown: 00:00:01]

【00:00:00】

"Buzz—"

A strong sense of weightlessness suddenly overwhelmed him, more real than any virtual game he had ever played.

Wang Hao felt his consciousness being pulled out of his body by an irresistible force and stuffed into a cold, high-speed rotating tunnel.

The darkness lasted for less than a second.

The feeling of being grounded came over me.

Wang Hao suddenly opened his eyes.

A smell mixed with rust, dust, and a faint stench of blood filled my nostrils.

He was stunned.

He was standing on a wide, black street.

The sky above was a deep, dark purple. There was no sun, only a huge, silvery-gray moon emitting a cold light.

The buildings on both sides have a bizarre architectural style, full of contradictory beauty.

In the distance, the metal structure atop a tall tower is slowly opening and closing, as if breathing.

"What the...fuck?"

Wang Hao subconsciously swore, and his voice echoed faintly in the empty street.

He looked down at his hands, then pinched his face hard.

pain.

Real pain.

This is so damn real!

While he was still in a daze, the air around him began to distort like ripples on water.

One figure after another appeared out of thin air, staggering and falling to the ground.

"What the hell? I came in?"

"This is 'Thriller Game'? The graphics... my god, amazing!"

"I feel like... the air is real, it's just that it smells a bit fishy and foul."

As more and more players appeared, after the initial astonishment, the crowd erupted into a huge uproar.

They were like a group of country bumpkins visiting the city for the first time, curiously looking around and excitedly shouting.

Wang Hao instinctively tried to bring up the game menu, but found it completely empty. There was no health bar, no map, and no UI.

"Hey buddy, did your taskbar pop up?" A young man with a green afro patted him on the shoulder.

"No, nothing at all." Wang Hao shook his head.

"That's weird." The green-haired youth frowned. "This game is way too hardcore! There's not even a tutorial?"

"Who cares! Let's look around first!"

The crowd began to disperse in all directions.

Like a group of monkeys released from their cages, they were filled with destructive curiosity about everything in this new world.