You'll become a god, you'll create Earth ONLINE

Lin Xian stroked his chin, recalling the young man from Earth who had just been smashing a keyboard.

"Got it."

Lin Xian snapped his fingers, a wicked smile creeping onto his lips.

"Aren't these Earthlings the people who love playing games and causing trouble the most? Then I'll create a game tailor-made for them!"

"There's no need to actually release monsters, no need to tear the sky apart in a grand manner."

"All I need to do is expend this last bit of divine power to write some low-level code and put a game UI shell over the real world."

Lin Xian became more and more excited as he thought about it. He pounced on the control panel and began to use the laws of higher dimensions to write the initial version of the underlying logic of Blue Star Online.

"All real-world items are given data-driven attributes... a kitchen knife is just a blank item with +1 attack power."

"Every daily activity has been turned into a task... Going to the company to clock in is like checking in for your faction."

"I'll define all those bosses who exploit their employees, relatives who pressure me to get married, and even the daily mortgage payments as dungeon bosses and debuffs that constantly drain my health!"

"Once this system goes live, even if a Blue Star citizen steps in dog poop on the street, the system will pop up a notification that they've encountered a trap and their sanity has decreased by 1. I refuse to believe they won't provide me with the source energy to go mad!"

A few hours later.

Lin Xian rubbed his aching wrist and looked at the compiled gold code package on the screen.

[Bluestar Online V0.1 internal beta version, compilation complete.]

[Current Divine Power Balance: 0.1 points.]

The system mercilessly prompted

[Warning: Remaining divine power is extremely scarce and insufficient to cover the global population of 80 billion. Forcing a public beta test will lead to the immediate collapse of the divine kingdom.]

"I know, only the rich can afford to do global open beta. We poor folks are only fit for small-scale closed beta tests."

Lin Xian rubbed his hands together and turned his gaze to the coordinates of Blue Star.

"You have to choose a place with a dense population, lots of young people, where emotions are most likely to fluctuate wildly, and where people are easily fooled."

The viewing distance has been reduced again.

Crossing the Pacific Ocean, targeting the great Eastern power.

Target a provincial capital city.

The focus is on a large complex of buildings on the outskirts of the city: Jiangcheng University.

"College students, great! They're so innocent yet foolish, with an incredible ability to accept new things, and they're always full of resentment, making them perfect as the first batch of guinea pigs."

Lin Xian chuckled and precisely located the coordinates to the corner room on the fourth floor of the No. 7 male dormitory building at Jiangcheng University.

House number: 404.

"You're the lucky ones! Are you ready to receive the love of your planning dad?"

Without hesitation, Lin Xian pressed the Enter key and slammed the golden code package down through the dimensional portal.

……

At the same time.

Lanxing, Jiangcheng University, Building 7, Room 404 (Male Dormitory).

It was 11:55 p.m.

The lights in the dormitory had long been off, but at a time like this, it was impossible to expect the male college students to be asleep. All four beds were illuminated by the dim blue glow of cell phone screens.

"Damn it! Charge! The enemy marksman's out of Flash! Let's take him down!"

On bed number two, near the balcony, a slightly chubby boy wearing only a pair of brightly colored floral shorts was wearing headphones and screaming wildly.

His thumb was practically sparking from rubbing it so hard on the phone screen. This is Wang Pangzi, the second oldest in the dorm.

"Hey Fatty, keep your voice down, the dorm supervisor's coming up to knock on the door again soon."

A slow, leisurely voice came from the bed opposite. It was Zhao Lei, the eldest in the dormitory. He was wearing blue light blocking glasses and reading a thick book of postgraduate entrance exam materials by the light of his phone.

"Let them knock, so what? They can just shut down the power. Anyway, I'm getting to Diamond rank tonight! That idiot jungler is infuriating! He can't even steal a dragon, what's the point of playing!"

Wang the Fatty kept cursing under his breath, but his finger movements didn't slow down at all.

"Hey, don't you guys feel a bit bored tonight?"

A head popped out from bed number three near the door. It was Chen Fei, the thinnest guy in the dorm, who was usually a novel enthusiast.

He complained while scratching the mosquito bites on his arm.

"This broken fan is spinning like it's about to stop breathing; I'm covered in a cold sweat."

"A calm mind brings coolness."

On the last bed, Su Hao rolled over and dimmed his phone screen a little. He had just finished watching a funny video and was about to close his eyes and drift off to sleep.

There's another advanced mathematics class with Abbess Miejue tomorrow morning. If I dare to be late, all my participation points will be deducted, which is a disaster.

"Calm down my ass! Third brother, do you still have any mosquito repellent? Lend me some, these mosquitoes are too vicious."

During a break after a game ended, Fatty Wang peeked out and asked.

"Take it from the table yourself."

Chen Fei didn't even look up.

Wang Pangzi reluctantly put down his phone and groped his way down the ladder from the bed in the dark.

He walked barefoot on the cluttered floor and precisely found his slippers among a pile of unwashed instant noodle containers and smelly socks.

"Plop, plop."

Fatty Wang dragged his feet to the communal table in the middle of the dormitory and reached out to touch the floral water.

Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a dark shadow flash past the sliding door to the balcony.

"Huh? What's that?"

Fatty Wang paused for a moment, then squinted and looked out onto the balcony in the dim light of the streetlamp outside the window.

In the corner of the balcony, where waste cardboard boxes are usually piled up, there seemed to be a dark, lumpy thing wriggling around.

"Holy crap, did a stray cat get in?"

Fatty Wang muttered something.

"What stray cat? We're on the fourth floor here," Chen Fei, the third brother, replied from his bed.

"It's probably a big rat."

"That wretched rat in the South is bigger than a cat."

Fatty Wang didn't take it seriously, grabbed the floral water, and was about to head back.

Suddenly, a sickening "crackling" sound came from the balcony.

The sound was like two rusty pieces of iron rubbing against each other violently, giving people goosebumps all over.

"What's that noise?"

The eldest brother, Zhao Lei, put down his postgraduate entrance exam book, took off his glasses, and looked out onto the balcony.

The dormitory fell silent instantly.

Only that "clattering" sound was exceptionally clear in the quiet midnight, and... the sound was getting closer and closer to the sliding door.

Su Hao also sat up, his brows slightly furrowed.

"Fatty, go turn on the flashlight and shine it."

"Damn, this is kind of weird..."

Fatty Wang swallowed hard. He fumbled around on the table for a bit, grabbed the small flashlight he usually used during power outages, and turned it on.

A beam of pale light instantly struck the glass door of the balcony.

A beam of light shone through the glass, illuminating a corner outside the door.

next second.

"Aaaaaaaahh ...

A bloodcurdling scream, like a pig being slaughtered, shattered the tranquility of dormitory 404. Wang Pangzi's flashlight fell to the ground with a thud.

He tumbled backward as if he'd been electrocuted, landing hard on his bottom amidst a pile of empty water bottles.

"Fuck your grandpa! What are you yelling about?! Are you a zombie?!"

The three people on the bed were all startled by the scream, and Chen Fei almost fell off the top bunk.

"Cockroach... cockroach..."

Fatty Wang pointed at the balcony door, his voice trembling, his face ashen, as if covered in a layer of plaster.

"Wow...what a huge cockroach!!!"