Chapter 2

Along with the promotional text, there was also a promotional illustration.

The illustration depicted a grand city nestled among the mountains, with jade pavilions and black-tiled, flying eaves, exuding the ancient style of the Xia people. The vast sky was painted with a blood-red sunset, and a man with fluttering robes rode a crane, soaring through the nine heavens, a perfect representation of a fantasy world.

"Do you want to understand the true meaning of life? Do you want to live a colorful life?" Xiao Zhi muttered these words, but his heart remained calm.

Besides being an author, he was also a veteran reader with over ten years of experience. Wasn't this line of promotional text borrowed from the founder of the infinite stream novels?

I do want to understand the true meaning of life, and I do want to live a colorful life. Show me, don't let me down.

As he thought this, Xiao Zhi extended a finger and casually tapped the screen.

Xiao Zhi was quite interested in fantasy games.

Every man who has read fantasy novels has a fantasy dream, dreaming of slaying demons, flying through the heavens, capturing stars and moons, achieving immortality, and laughing at the world.

However, this was ultimately just a dream that could be seen but not reached.

Most fantasy mobile games on the market had rough graphics and almost identical game modes, lacking innovation. The recharge button was placed in the most prominent position on the phone screen, shimmering with a dazzling light!

The message was clear: Want to become powerful? Recharge!

As long as you recharge enough, VIP15 is not a dream. Equipment, wings, mounts, and gems are all within reach! You can definitely blind the titanium alloy eyes of those peasant players!

Xiao Zhi had seen too many of these fantasy-themed mobile games.

Therefore, although he was quite interested in fantasy games, he didn't have much expectation for this game called "World of All Beings."

He just desperately wanted to change his current situation and find something to pass the time.

As Xiao Zhi's finger tapped the screen,

Do you want to download this game? Yes.

The download interface appeared, downloading the game at a speed of 5MB/s.

Xiao Zhi checked the size of the game, which was a full 3.15GB!

Most fantasy mobile games were only 200-300MB in size. This was the first time Xiao Zhi had seen such a large fantasy mobile game.

A 3.15GB game was more common in PC games, but in mobile games, this was already a major production. This made Xiao Zhi secretly look forward to "World of All Beings."

After waiting patiently for a moment, the game finally finished downloading.

Game download complete.

Game installation complete.

Do you want to start the game immediately? Yes, No.

Xiao Zhi tapped the "Yes" option.

The game started, and the screen went dark for 3 seconds before a line of golden text appeared on the black screen.

"World of All Beings" will officially open at 9 PM. Please wait patiently.

Below was a countdown, 11 minutes and 39 seconds.

It's only 11 minutes, not 11 days, so let's wait.

Switching to the browser and searching for "World of All Beings," the search results were a novel that had been on hiatus for a long time, with only 7 chapters.

As an author, Xiao Zhi deeply detested such authors and novels on hiatus.

Bro, do you even know how hard it is to come up with a good title for a new book now? If you write a few hundred thousand words and take a good title, that's fine. But if you get a hot head and write just one or a few chapters, taking a title, that's just squatting in the toilet without pooping.

Besides this novel on hiatus, Xiao Zhi also found some random stuff, but there was no information about the game "World of All Beings."

This shouldn't be the case, right? After all, it's a game that occupies the homepage recommendation slot of the app. It shouldn't have so little popularity.

The 11 minutes passed quickly.

The countdown on the black screen finally reached zero.

A line of golden text appeared: "Welcome to World of All Beings!"

The screen darkened, but soon a bit of light appeared.

What he could see was very dim, only able to vaguely make out the nearby scenery.

A prompt appeared: "Please align your face with the front camera of your phone."

Xiao Zhi followed the instructions and aligned his face with the phone's camera.

He was curious. He had played so many games, but none of them required this during the "initialization" phase.

Prompt: "Character information collection complete. In the future, you can log into 'World of All Beings' without a username and password."

Before Xiao Zhi could be surprised, another prompt appeared: "Please enter your game name."

"Xiao Zhi."

Xiao Zhi smoothly entered his game name. "Xiao Zhi" was very similar to his real name, and he always used this game name when playing games.

After confirming, no other prompts appeared.

The world in the game was somewhat dim. Xiao Zhi tried swiping his finger on the screen, and as his finger moved, the night scene on the screen smoothly changed.

This was actually a first-person 3D game!

If you looked closely, you would find that the graphics on the screen were realistic, very detailed, and three-dimensional, with no roughness. In terms of graphics, it was definitely at the top level among the mobile games Xiao Zhi had played!

Regardless of anything else, the game's graphics were quite satisfying.

At least Xiao Zhi was very satisfied.

Xiao Zhi immediately became excited and started to adapt to the game.

For a veteran gamer like Xiao Zhi, adapting to a new game didn't take long.

Soon, Xiao Zhi mastered the basic operations of the game.

This was indeed a first-person 3D game.

At this moment, the environment in the game, like in reality, was at night.

A full moon hung high in the sky, casting bright moonlight onto the earth.

The surrounding vegetation was lush, and you could hear clear insect chirping and the rustling of leaves in the evening breeze.

In front of him was a winding country path, leading into the distance.

In the distance, faint lights could be seen, the lights of many homes.

Clearly, in that direction, there was a small human settlement, probably a village.

Following this forest path, you should be able to reach that distant village, Xiao Zhi thought to himself.

Under his control, his character began to walk along the narrow forest path, step by step.

The screen began to shake, and at the same time, Xiao Zhi heard the clear footsteps of his character, everything felt so real.

As his character walked, lifting his feet and swinging his arms, Xiao Zhi saw that his character was unarmed and barefoot.

Following this path for about 20 minutes, Xiao Zhi finally approached the place with the faint lights.

This was indeed a village, and at the entrance of the village, there was an old stone tablet.

The stone tablet was inscribed in red paint with three characters: "Peace Village."

The moonlight in the game was very bright, so Xiao Zhi could clearly see the three characters on the old stone tablet.

Peace Village, Xiao Zhi's previous guess was correct; this was indeed a village.

Xiao Zhi controlled his character to continue walking forward.

A line of text floated across the screen:

Prompt: "Successfully entered Peace Village. Character attribute interface opened."

After this text floated by, Xiao Zhi noticed that in the lower right corner of his phone screen, where there was originally nothing, a small icon appeared—character attributes.

Xiao Zhi casually tapped this small icon, and immediately, a semi-transparent interface popped up.

On the left side of the interface was a 3D character model that could be rotated left and right. The character model looked very lifelike and had a good texture.

This was a young man with bare hands and feet, wearing only a gray pair of shorts. The young man was generally slender, and his face was almost identical to Xiao Zhi's!

Xiao Zhi was startled. He rubbed his eyes and leaned forward to look at the phone screen again.

This was not an illusion; the face was indeed identical to his!

Why is this happening?

Xiao Zhi was first shocked, but soon he was relieved.

He remembered that before entering the game, the game had asked him to align his face with the front camera of his phone, and there was a prompt saying "Character information collection complete."

Clearly, his appearance had been collected by the game.

When creating the character, the game had created the character based on his real appearance.

Understanding this, Xiao Zhi's shock turned into amazement.

This is incredible...

Is this black technology?

This is much more interesting than just customizing a face.

Has game development reached this level now?

On the left was the 3D character model that looked exactly like Xiao Zhi, and on the right were some basic data of the character:

Name: Xiao Zhi

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Title: None

Strength: Ordinary person

Attributes: Constitution 67, Strength 68, Agility 74.

Skills: None

Bloodline: None

Note: Constitution affects physical fitness, endurance, and resistance to negative states. Strength affects destructive power, explosive power, and instantaneous explosive power. Agility affects speed and reaction speed.

These data were quite ordinary and didn't stand out compared to similar games.

Xiao Zhi didn't rush to enter Peace Village but instead exited the game and opened the app store on his phone.

He was very curious about which game company had designed this game.

A game with such exquisite graphics and the use of black technology must be from a major company, not some unknown small company.

Unfortunately, the interface of "World of All Beings" was too simple, and even during the startup, no information or logo of the game company appeared.

So, Xiao Zhi tried to find some information about "World of All Beings" in the app store.

After opening the app store, "World of All Beings" was still prominently featured on the homepage.

Xiao Zhi tried to click on the promotional image of "World of All Beings."

A prompt appeared: "You have already downloaded this game. No need to download again."

No matter how Xiao Zhi tried, he couldn't enter the game's dedicated section.

For the other games featured on the homepage, Xiao Zhi tried and could enter their dedicated sections through the promotional images. In the dedicated sections, he could see the size, version information, game company name, game screenshots, game packages, game reviews, and other information.

However, "World of All Beings" couldn't do this.

Xiao Zhi tried another method, searching for "World of All Beings" in the app store. To his surprise, he couldn't find "World of All Beings" at all!

A game prominently featured on the homepage couldn't be found in the app store. What's going on? Is it a bug?

It must be a bug.

Although this situation was rare, it wasn't unusual if it happened, and there was no need to be overly surprised.

Xiao Zhi regretfully exited the app store and opened the browser on his phone to search for information about "World of All Beings" online.

Previously, he couldn't find any information about "World of All Beings" because it hadn't opened yet.

Now, perhaps he could find some information about it online.

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