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

"What's the big deal? Didn't you see enough cockroaches in the South when you were a freshman?"

Zhao Lei cursed and rolled out of bed, picking up the flashlight from the floor.

"How big could it be? At most, only about the size of a thumb..."

Before he could finish speaking, the flashlight beam was aimed back at the balcony door.

Zhao Lei's voice stopped abruptly, as if a rag was stuck in his throat, making a strange gurgling sound.

Su Hao and Chen Fei also looked in the direction of the light.

A huge insect was seen crawling outside the glass door of the balcony.

It has a glossy reddish-brown carapace, and two long tentacles that wave wildly in the air.

But the problem is...

This thing is as big as a washbasin!!!

Its barbed legs were digging into the glass, making a nauseating scraping sound.

A pair of fist-sized compound eyes reflected an extremely bloodthirsty and insane crimson light under the strong beam of the flashlight.

This isn't a cockroach from the South anymore, this is an alien!

Holy crap!!!

The dormitory erupted in a cacophony of voices reciting traditional Chinese opera.

In that instant when the four male college students felt their scalps tingle and their minds went blank,

The hour hand of the wall clock had just silently pointed to exactly 12 o'clock.

"Buzz—"

An invisible wave swept across the entire dormitory in an instant.

Followed by.

A blinding blue screen flashed across the retinas of all four people without warning!

[System loading...]

The fundamental laws of the world have been rewritten.

Welcome to Blue Star Online V0.1 (Beta)!

Four semi-transparent, cyberpunk-style light blue screens, like holographic projections, appeared simultaneously in front of each of them.

Above the giant cockroach, the size of a washbasin, outside the glass door, a line of bold, blood-red text slowly appeared:

[Lv.1 Mutated Blade-Footed Cockroach (Normal Monster)]

HP: 50/50

Seeing this extremely bizarre scene before him, Su Hao opened his mouth, his usually proud materialistic worldview shattering into pieces at this moment.

"What the hell is this thing?!"

Su Hao looked at the translucent panel emitting a pale blue glow in front of him, and then at the giant monster with a health bar outside the glass door. He felt like his CPU was about to explode.

"Third brother, third brother, pinch me."

Fatty Wang was still slumped on the ground, his legs weak. He reached out and grabbed at the air, trying to close the Blue Star Online interface in front of him.

"Close! Exit! Where's the cross in the upper right corner? Damn, why isn't there a cross?!"

Fatty Wang was about to cry; his voice trembled like a leaf.

Chen Fei leaned half his body out from the upper bunk. He usually loved reading online novels, but now his eyes were wide open like saucers, and his breathing was as rapid as a broken bellows.

"Fatty, stop looking for the X!"

Chen Fei swallowed hard, his voice becoming shrill with extreme excitement and fear.

"This is the system! This is the control panel! Holy crap, have we transmigrated? Or has spiritual energy revived? Is the apocalypse upon us? The Fourth Calamity?!"

"Screw your transgressions! Screw your resurrection!"

Zhao Lei, the eldest, was the dormitory head after all. Although he was so scared that his calves cramped, he still managed to maintain a shred of rationality.

He slapped his thigh suddenly and pointed around.

"Look at this wall plaster, these unwashed socks, these empty Nongfu Spring bottles all over the floor! We're still in dormitory 404! Where did you wear them? Did you wear them to the lower bunk?!"

"But how do you explain this thing?!"

Fatty Wang pointed outside the glass door.

The mutated cockroach seemed to be attracted by the lights and sounds in the dormitory.

Its two tentacles, each half a meter long, swept wildly across the glass door, making a hissing, piercing sound.

Immediately afterwards, it suddenly raised its two front legs, which were covered with dark brown barbs, and slammed them hard against the sliding glass door of the balcony.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud.

The entire glass door shook violently; although it didn't shatter, the terrifying impact was clearly visible.

"Oh my god!"

Fatty Wang crawled backward on all fours, only daring to stop when he was under Su Hao's bed.

"If it bites me, I'll be going to see my great-grandmother right now!"

"Don't panic! Don't panic!"

Su Hao took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his wildly beating heart, and stared intently at the light blue panel in mid-air.

He discovered that as long as his gaze was focused on the cockroach outside the door, the panel would automatically display detailed information.

[Target: Mutant Blastode Cockroach]

[Rank: Lv.1]

[Status: Berserk/Hungry]

[HP: 50/50]

Weaknesses: Abdomen; fear of bright light and fire.

"This is...is this really a game setting?"

Su Hao found it utterly absurd; how could something like a health bar possibly exist in the real world?

Who's playing a prank? A holographic projection? Glasses-free 3D?

Who can make cockroach leg hairs look so realistic with naked-eye 3D technology?!

Even through the glass, he could smell a foul, fermenting stench from the sewer!

……

Just as dormitory 404 was in complete chaos.

The distant higher-dimensional galaxy.

In the abandoned divine realm, Lin Xian was comfortably leaning back on a half-throne, with a huge virtual screen floating in front of him.

The screen was showing a live broadcast from dormitory 404.

Seeing the four male college students terrified and running away in a panic, Lin Xian laughed out loud, completely lacking any sense of decency.

"Yes, yes, that's the expression! Tremble, be terrified, mortals! Unleash your negative emotions!"

Lin Xian stared at the control panel.

In the upper right corner of the system, the data in the [Source Energy Collection Slot], which was originally stagnant, was now pulsating wildly like an electrocardiogram.

[Received a message of shock from 'Su Hao', Source Power +0.5!]

[Received extreme fear from 'Wang Qiang (Fatty)', Source Power +1.2!]

[Received a mixture of excitement and shock from 'Chen Fei', Source Power +0.8!]

[Received a message of panic from 'Zhao Lei', Source Power +0.6!]

"Awesome! That's so awesome!"

Lin Xian watched as the source energy gradually increased, and she was almost moved to tears.

This is what you call sustainable development! The source energy contributed by these four people in just one minute is equivalent to the amount he collected in those wasteland worlds by standing in the cold wind for a month!

"System, how did my low-cost modification go?"

Lin Xian crossed his legs smugly.

The system's cold electronic voice sounded.

[My lord, while digitizing and berserking an ordinary insect consumes very little (only 0.001 divine power), the monster's strength is too low and may not create a sustained sense of oppression.]

"You don't know anything."

Lin Xian rolled her eyes and pointed at the cockroach on the screen.

"You think I don't want to give them a zombie, a Licker, or Cerberus? The problem is, I'm broke right now!"

"Creating a zombie requires at least 0.5 divine power, and I only have 0.1 left. I need to save that to keep the 'Earth Online' servers running!"

"Besides, you don't understand Earthlings at all."