Chapter 1 Strange Little Games
After a day's work, Lu Yao dragged his tired body back to the rental house.
In a small company of more than ten people, more than half of them are relatives who just want to get by. Excluding the boss and partners, there are only three people who really do the work. Lu Yao has been working for only three months, but he feels like he is living a year in a day.
However, he dare not resign before finding a new job. The economy is in recession now, and he must survive first, and then consider the next step of life.
Every day at this time, Lu Yao will have a little space to relax. He changes his mood and temporarily puts aside all the unpleasantness of the day.
Now is game time!
He turned on his old computer and the mouse moved slowly on the screen.
Let me see which one to play today.
Ranking?
A knife?
Or Three Kingdoms 9?
...
An inconspicuous icon caught Lu Yao's attention.
The icon is in the lower right corner of the screen. The logo is a green pixel-style island, which blends into the green grass of the computer background picture and is very inconspicuous.
"God Simulator"?
What game is this?
Lu Yao had no recollection of downloading or purchasing it.
He clicked on the file properties to check. The source file was 20M, which was a small game. With this capacity, it looked like a game from a long time ago.
Lu Yao's computer configuration was low. He had been using this machine since college and was reluctant to replace it. He had to use the lowest picture quality when playing lol and Dota. He could only rely on cloud play and watching other people's game videos to play big games. Most of the time, Lu Yao was playing all kinds of classic old games.
He tried to open "God Simulator".
The screen slowly turned black.
Accompanied by the melodious old 8-bit electronic music, white Chinese characters were displayed one by one on the black screen, in a very classic pixel game style.
[On this day, the world finally welcomed back the great gods. ]
[Your arrival has given the world new meaning. Your great power will create a brand new civilization. ]
Then the black screen gradually disappeared, replaced by a group of little people building various buildings, some little people cultivating farmland, and others raising their arms and cheering. The pixel-style picture looks fresh and nostalgic, which makes Lu Yao relax.
Three white options appear on the background.
[New Game]
[Continue Game]
[Exit]
Lu Yao clicks [New Game].
The screen returns to black again, and uniform green pixels appear on it, like paint blocks on a blackboard.
[Capturing the world...]
About five seconds later, the green pixels cover the entire screen.
[World positioning completed, welcome, great god. ]
The pixel background changes again.
A flat green area appears on the screen, surrounded by forests, rivers, mountains and deserts. In the center of the screen is a white dome-shaped building that looks like a temple.
A line of text appears in the center: This is your temple, you name it ___ Temple.
Lu Yao thought for a moment and typed a word.
Yao Temple.
The words [Yao Temple] appear above the temple.
Then the screen falls into a strange state of stillness.
Lu Yao clicks on the temple, but there is no option.
What's going on?
Which company made this old game? There's not even a basic tutorial or guide?
Just as he was wondering, two barefoot men with naked upper bodies appeared in the corner of the screen. They moved all the way over and walked around the temple.
An exclamation mark popped up on one of the men's heads, and then a dialog box popped up on his head.
"What a delicate and magnificent house. It must have been built by God."
Another man raised his hands.
"God, God!"
"This must be a revelation from God. This is a lucky place. We want more people to settle here!"
"The promised land! The promised land!"
Smiley faces appeared on the heads of both men. They ran out of the screen, and within a few seconds, they brought five more men here.
A total of seven men began to worship around the temple. They built a small thatched house next to the temple, transplanted some berry-like bushes from outside the screen, and began to live next to the temple.
At this time, a prompt appeared on the screen.
[You have obtained the first batch of believers in this world. The power of faith is your means of performing miracles. Please collect more faith. ]
Lu Yao noticed that there was a small human head in the upper right corner, showing population, and there was a palace icon next to it, showing faith. The population and faith values were both 7.
It seems that 1 believer will provide 1 point of faith.
He clicked the population with the mouse, but there was no response. Clicked faith again, and this time an icon like a cloud of fog appeared.
[Miracle]
There is a row of options below, each with a corresponding stick figure. All miracles are gray, indicating that none of them can be used at present.
Each miracle requires the consumption of faith points. Even [Rainfall], which requires the least faith points, consumes 10 points of faith points.
In other words, 10 believers are required to satisfy the need to perform a miracle.
Increasing the population has become the primary issue.
Unlike other simulation business games, God Simulator cannot directly build houses or produce residents, and can only wait for the pixel people to reproduce or gather themselves. Currently, the only option that can be operated is [Miracle].
Lu Yao watched the pixel men working the land, and his mouse kept trying to explore on the screen, and his stomach began to growl.
He went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of noodles and brought back a few cloves of garlic.
When he returned to the computer, Lu Yao noticed that the little men around the temple were in an abnormal state. Sad expressions appeared on their heads, and they were worshiping around the temple one by one.
Dialog boxes kept appearing above the little men's heads.
"Great God, please show your spirit!"
"Please bless us! Great God!"
"The forest tribe thinks we believe in demons and want to tear down the temple. Please show your miracles!"
Lu Yao took a bite of noodles and thought, it seems that this is the first crisis.
However, the current faith value is only 7 points, and it can't even rain, and the miracle column cannot be used.
Lu Yao continued to explore, and finally the mouse clicked on a new interface on the temple.
In the center of the screen is a stone bonfire, and in front of the bonfire is a sitting gray human statue. The face of the figure is blurred, and it is impossible to tell whether it is a man or a woman. It seems to be the image of the god imagined by the pixel men.
There is a long table in front of the statue, with two slots of different shapes on it.
The large slot on the left is marked as [Sacrifices].
The small one on the right is written as [Gifts].
Currently, these slots are empty.
Sacrifices are easy to understand, naturally they are things that these believers offer to the gods.
According to the corresponding relationship, then the gift should be the power or props given to these believers by the temple.
Is this the miracle they want?
Lu Yao searched and searched, but couldn't find any movable and draggable items. He was a little confused for a while, and he got stuck on the first question.
Suddenly, he noticed something strange.
Why does the long table in front of the statue look a little familiar?
No...
Why is that table exactly the same as my computer desk?
Two slots, the shape of the sacrifice slot is exactly the rectangular shape of the keyboard, and the gift slot is oval, mouse?
Take a closer look, the statue of the enshrined god appears to be sitting in front of the long table, isn't it me who is playing on the computer?
This idea shocked Lu Yao.
Impossible...
This must be a coincidence.
Then, a bold idea popped up in his mind.
He carefully placed the garlic clove next to the instant noodles on the mouse.
Lu Yao looked at the mouse expectantly.
Two seconds later, the garlic clove rolled off the mouse.
"It's a coincidence."
Lu Yao laughed at himself, and felt a little disappointed.
At this moment, the rolling garlic clove suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Lu Yao subconsciously looked at the computer screen.
In the [Gift] slot of the temple, a pixel icon of garlic appeared.
[Garlic]: A gift from God, a special spice, and also a medicinal herb.
A line of words appeared on the screen.
——Would you like to give [Garlic] to your believers?
[Yes] [No]
Lu Yao's hand holding the mouse shook.
A new book has been opened, please collect and read it~