Chapter 1 : C1
TL: IDevK11
Editor: Capitano
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Critical hit.
On the screen, the last subordinate of Zuo Chang reached critical low health, uttering the lines of defeat, “Is this… my limit? General Tian Wang (Heavenly King), it’s my incompetence…”
【Becoming Zero】
This game with such a name is quite interesting.
Players take on the role of a grand general, collecting and training subordinates, and constructing and upgrading buildings.
The goal is to raise from the “Five-digit” community to the “Single-digit” community, ultimately defeating the Celestial God and becoming the supreme “Zero.”
Zuo Chang started from “99999” and took five years of gameplay to raise the community to “1”. Just three hours ago, he started the final boss battle.
And the result…
He failed.
Unlike most players, Zuo Chang is a hardcore power player.
All his subordinates are powerful monsters and demons, and he doesn’t need any flashy female subordinates, no matter how revealing their outfits are.
For this final battle, he spent half a year preparing from July last year to March this year.
He refined his weapons and equipment to perfection. If the stats were a little low, he would reforge them. If the attributes were inappropriate, he would destroy them. He pursued perfection.
In order to have enough auxiliary potions, he ordered all the farmlands in the community to be converted into medicinal fields, regardless of the lives of the in-game subjects. He took warmongering to the extreme.
His lineup was the strongest, his equipment was perfect, and his supply of potions was abundant. Zuo Chang believed that no player was stronger than him. He was the ceiling.
But even so…
He couldn’t achieve victory!
The Celestial God still had about 10% of her health, the remaining, a small gap from killing her.
“Is there something wrong with my gameplay? I feel like I did my best.”
Zuo Chang opened the combat log to review his actions in each round, but what appeared in the log was not the battle records.
【Meeting a worthy opponent! Recognizing your talent, the Celestial God invites you to the game world “Becoming Zero” for a true life-or-death battle. Will you accept?】
What is this…
Strange?
It’s an invitation that a normal person would never accept.
-No!
【The opinion of the defeated holds no value. The Celestial God naturally ignores your thoughts and still intends to bring you to the game world.】
“Ha.”
Zuo Chang looked at the message on the screen and laughed, “Interesting, a Prank?”
【Option 1: Survive for a full 20 years in the game world, and you can choose to return.】
【Option 2: Defeat the Celestial God, and you can choose to return.】
【Option 3: No matter how long you live in the game world, it’s just a blink of an eye on Earth. To be more precise—20 years in the game world is equivalent to a blink of an eye for you right now.】
【Option 4: Death is still cruel. Dying in the game world turns everything to ashes, and your real self will also die.】
【Option 5: The transference is already in progress, and the process is irreversible and unchangeable. Please, enjoy.】
What the heck!
Nonsense, do they really think I would believe this?
Zuo Chang felt disdainful in his heart, but his hands involuntarily moved away from the keyboard.
His widened eyes trembled slightly, and his face was filled with an incredulous expression.
Gulp…
Accepted!
No change has occurred.
Three seconds later, Zuo Chang looked around and realized he was still in his own room.
The keyboard was still a keyboard. The screen was still a screen. Nothing had changed.
He pretended to be relaxed and chuckled, “I told you! It’s just an Prank from the development team. From a scientific perspective, it’s impossible to transfer into a game world—”
Everything before his eyes suddenly changed!
Zuo Chang was startled, and he suddenly smelled the scent of dust. In the next moment, intense sunlight and a surging crowd rushed towards him. He found himself standing in the center of a bustling street!
“Welcome to 96511!”
“Dear immigrant friends! If you need help, please come to the store and take a look! Whether it’s renting a house or finding a job, we can provide convenience for you!”
It is in Chinese.
Even the people in the game world speak Chinese.
Zuo Chang closed his eyes, his breathing rough.
His brain was dizzy, and he felt a mix of emotions.
“Sir! Do you need a place to rent? Shared apartment, partitioned room, or a studio for singles, we can introduce them to you.”
“Hiring laborers! Two hundred a day, daily wages, and a meal included!”
People kept brushing past Zuo Chang’s shoulder and moving forward, like a rushing river that would never return.
The intermediaries were shouting loudly, trying to squeeze benefits out of the newly arrived people in “96511”.
In this chaotic and annoying environment, Zuo Chang opened his eyes, and surprisingly, his gaze was calm.
Since he’s here now.
According to his gaming experience, he should have arrived in Community 96511 as a “new immigrant” – a community with five digits, starting with a nine.
Too weak!
The fewer digits in the community, the stronger it is.
The power of individuals in a single-digit community is extremely exaggerated. Even a newborn baby has at least a cultivation level of five realms, and all kinds of resources are abundant and excellent.
The citizens of a five-digit community cannot gain the recognition of the Celestial God. No matter how talented they are, they can only reach the “Seventh Realm” at most.
Only when the community reaches a three-digit number can they break through the restrictions and reach the full cultivation level of the “Fifteenth Realm”.
In “Becoming Zero,” class differences are boldly displayed. Citizens of lower-level communities cannot ascend to the heavens or seize the moon.
Since the five-digit communities are so unbearable, why would anyone choose to immigrate here?
They could directly go to a single-digit community, where their child would be born as a talented expert with a cultivation level of five realms. They themselves would also have a chance to become the strongest. Isn’t that better?
It may sound good.
But the gentlemen of single-digit communities don’t agree—just take a look at what kind of place this is. Are they begging right at my doorstep?
Most people can only choose to “parallel immigrate,” selecting a potential community of the same level and waiting for it to upgrade before they can rise and become the masters.
Every time Zuo Chang tried to increase the population and absorb immigrants from “lower-level communities,” his subjects would inevitably erupt in large-scale protests.
Of course.
Zuo Chang couldn’t care less about the protests.
Population is the most important resource. Who cares about the feelings of the common people when playing a game?
Becoming stronger is the top priority.
After forcibly implementing the immigration order, the population surged, but the stability value of the community plummeted, and the dissatisfaction of the citizens increased dramatically.
He had to prepare a retinue team to suppress the riots. Otherwise, there was a risk of being overthrown.
Zuo Chang had a female retainer with a protruding figure and unmatched beauty. Her title was “Blood Rose.”
Her stats were not strong enough to enter the main team.
But her talent was quite interesting, which Zuo Chang valued the most and liked the most. The favorability was already maxed out:
【Gestapo】: Blood Rose is skilled at forging evidence and creating false cases, being able to frame anyone as a reactionary. After successfully activating this skill, you can choose to use the skill “Public Execution.”
【Public Execution】: Blood Rose publicly tortures and kills the target, causing terror to all citizens. This skill has a chance of failure (depending on the situation, the failure rate fluctuates between 0% to 50%).
【Public Execution – Success】: The stability of your community increases. The obedience of ministers improves, and the dissatisfaction of citizens decreases. You gain the title of ‘Tyrant.’
【Public Execution – Failure】: You will face impeachment.
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