Strange Rules of the Game: Starting with Playing Little Grey Wolf!

A cunning and cruel glint flashed in Grey Wolf's cloudy, yellowish-brown eyes. He lowered his voice, as if sharing some earth-shattering secret, and said:

"And I've noticed that these two-legged sheep don't seem to be very bright. They're actually trying to reason with Pleasant Goat and his gang of freaks. Hehehe, isn't that just suicide?"

Upon hearing this, Su Mu's heart stirred.

Compared to other players, his biggest advantage is that, being an insider, he can grasp the enemy's movements in real time.

Just then, the cold system voice that only Su Mu could hear sounded again.

[Ding! The National Fortune instance has officially begun. All Chosen Ones from other nations are now in position.]

[Triggering the main quest advancement: The Wolf King's Majesty.]

[Mission Description: The Green Green Grassland is the wolf clan's hunting ground; any outsider species is merely prey. As the future heir of the wolf clan, you cannot tolerate any prey escaping.]

[Mission Objective: Prevent all Chosen Ones from clearing the game! Leave no one alive!]

[Mission Rewards: Depends on the number of eliminated players. For each eliminated Chosen One, the host receives +10 to all attributes and 100 million tons of freshwater resources from the Dragon Kingdom. Achieving the "Total Annihilation" achievement will grant a special reward: one random blueprint for Grey Wolf's Crazy Invention.]

[Punishment for failure: Red Wolf deems him lacking in wolfish nature and forcibly sends him to practice swimming with a group of mutated piranhas.]

After looking at the task panel, Su Mu's mouth almost stretched to his ears in a wide grin.

Total wipeout?

Preventing passage?

This mission... is just what he wants!

He originally thought that as long as he survived for seven days, he would win, but the system directly made him a cleaner.

Imagine, while athletes from other countries are desperately begging the Sheep Village to open its gates, or shivering in the wild, he's thinking about how to cook these people into braised or steamed dishes. The thrill of this kind of overwhelming victory is simply addictive.

"dad!"

Su Mu jumped down from Red Wolf's arms. Although he stumbled slightly upon landing, he quickly regained his balance and looked at Grey Wolf with his large, inquisitive eyes:

"I want to catch a sheep too! I want to help my parents with the housework! I want to be a real wolf!"

These words were spoken with such righteous indignation and such filial piety that they moved Heaven.

Upon hearing this, Red Wolf was so moved she almost threw the frying pan away again, clutching her chest and exclaiming:

"Listen to this! Listen to this! This is my good son, Red Wolf! He's so young and already knows how to catch sheep for the family!"

Grey Wolf also looked pleased, but he hesitated for a moment, glancing at the darkening sky outside the window:

"But honey, it's getting dark outside. You know how those things are at night on the grasslands... Our son is still so young, what if..."

"What's there to be afraid of!"

Red Wolf raised her eyebrows, pulled out a gleaming spiked club from somewhere behind her back, and shoved it directly into Su Mu's hand:

"With you here, who would dare touch my son? Besides, my son has ambition! Do you want him to be a spineless coward like you, unable to catch sheep for the rest of his life?"

"Yes, yes, yes! My wife is right!"

Grey Wolf dared not refute, and hurriedly nodded and bowed. He turned around, scooped Su Mu up, and placed him on his broad and rough shoulder.

"Hold on tight, son! Today, Daddy's going to show you what the true overlord of the Green Green Grassland is!"

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Meanwhile, in the real world, in the Dragon Kingdom's live streaming room.

Since Su Mu entered the dungeon, the screen has remained black.

Two billion viewers in China waited anxiously in front of their dark screens.

"What's going on? Half an hour has passed, why is it still dark?"

"John from the neighboring Lighthouse Country has already reached the entrance of Sheep Village, and Mei Chuan Kuzi from the Sakura Country is analyzing the material of the Sheep Village gate. What about our Su Mu? Is he really dead?"

"Where's the official response? Come out and explain! Is the equipment broken?"

Just then, a blood-red system notification suddenly popped up on the live stream screen:

[Warning: Su Mu, the Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom, has left the initial safe zone.]

[Connection in progress... Connection failed.]

[Unknown magnetic field interference detected... Live broadcast signal interrupted.]

[Current Chosen One's vital signs: ??? Unable to read]

The moment these few lines were posted, the entire Chinese internet exploded.

Vital signs cannot be read?

In the history of the game "National Fortune", there is usually only one situation: when a person is gone, leaving not even ashes, so the system cannot detect vital signs.

"It's over...it's really over."

"Unable to detect vital signs? Doesn't that mean he's completely dead?"

"I knew it! What could a shut-in, unemployed guy like him do inside? He'd probably be swallowed whole by a monster as soon as he stepped out of that safe zone!"

"Heaven has forsaken our Dragon Kingdom! We are doomed to extinction!"

Despair spread like a plague. Countless people collapsed to the ground, awaiting the familiar, despairing punishment of their nation's fate.

According to past practice, the country would suffer a natural disaster within five minutes of the athlete's death.

Some people hugged their children tightly, some closed their eyes, and some began frantically eating the last bite of their stored food.

A minute passed.

Three minutes have passed.

Five minutes passed.

Ten minutes have passed...

Outside the window, the sickly gray-yellow sky remained calm, without torrential acid rain, earthquakes, or even a materialized monster.

The entire Dragon Kingdom was quiet.

"Wait, something's not right?"

Finally, someone discovered the blind spot.

"Why is there no movement? I remember when that elite soldier died last time, we had an earthquake less than three minutes later."

"Yeah, I'm just waiting to die too. Why isn't this lightning striking?"

"Could it be... that Su Mu isn't dead?"

"If he's not dead, why are his vital signs a question mark? Why is the live stream black?"

"Is it possible... I mean, just maybe, that the system has a bug?"

"Stop dreaming. The national destiny system has been running for three years. When has it ever had a bug? I think this is worse than death. This is the calm before the storm!"

Although no punishment came, the fear of the unknown was even more tormenting.

Since the live streams from China were inaccessible, anxious Chinese viewers began to bypass the Great Firewall en masse and flood into live streams from other countries, trying to find Su Mu's body or even the slightest clue about him.

In an instant, the number of viewers in the live streams from the United States, Japan, and Russia surged.

The barrage of comments from various countries turned into a chaotic melee.

"Hey, aren't you from China? What's wrong? Your house collapsed, so you're here to mooch off our heating?"

"Hahaha, the Dragon Kingdom contestants are probably already fertilizer! Just wait for your country to be destroyed!"

"Shut your dog mouths! As long as the punishment notice hasn't been issued, we haven't lost!"