Chapter 1 (1/2)

Year 21XX, on a summer afternoon On the 24th floor of a normal condo clank clank clank sounds were resounding On a quiet afternoon such as today's, the sounds were

Roo A black-haired youth had a ha a metal frame with the other The youth constantly haet it to fit into a slot However, due to the size of the fra suitable for the slot, the youth had to work really hard to forcibly beat the frame in

With a ”clank!”, the frame finally fit into the slot which it really shouldn't be in under the youth's merciless hammer Now, the product was finished for the most part On first look, the coer by a little However, the chair had a helmet which was semicircular in shape at the head part If one had to say what it looked like, it would look like those hair per machines you see in hair salons The top of this heled into it They were so randolance that it was self-made In the 22nd Century, a product with this type of unbundled wiring would never be able to pass even the most lenient quality control check of a factory

Beside the 'e chair' was a normal horated the CPU and display screen, so now the desktop only had a display On the display of the desktop, rows upon rows of english alphabet and Arabic nuround These codes were so complicated that even a professional computer expert would not necessarily be able to understand it

”Finished!”

The youth wiped his shen the frame was fixed into place, and revealed an evil smile, ”As expected of myself, my capability is such a cheat! I only took three days to finish ht that I would not be able to play this gaame device by myself in just three days Let's see how you stop me now! Let's adjust the code a bit and see if I can connect to Sky Universe's server…”

The youth had just wanted to take his wireless keyboard to finish the final configuration when his door was knocked At the same time, a woman shouted loudly, ”Open up! Li Hualin, you better open the door now!”

”Urk!…”

Li Huailin who heard the woman's shout and scratched his nose helplessly However, he still went to open the door in the end

”Sister Juan, you don't have to shout so loudly, right? People !” Li Huailin opened the door, revealing a rily Though this wo face approaching perfection and devilish body made the woman beco at Li Huailin angrily But, other than anger, there was fatigue on her face too

The beauty looked at Li Hualin and immediately asked, ”Do you knohat time it is now?”

Li Hualin looked at his digital watch, ”Yeah, it’s 2:14 Sister Juan, I don't think there's anything wrong with ht?”

”Don't tell me you don't knohat time I work! You know that I sleep at noon!” Sister Juan becanorant ”It has been three days already! What are those hitting sounds for? The sound of sa, the sound of ha later, how do you expect ht?!”

The beauty was called Chen Juan, and lived in Room 2401 in this condohbour Her so called 'work' was actually just her going to souy If she is lucky, the expenses for a few months or even a year was settled She didn't have a stable job, and relied on her looks to live If she had ti and cat walking Her work started fro the noon period

Three days ago, Li Huailin started haht in theher to be sleep deprived for three days already She also coht

Talking about his neighbour, though he knew of her existence, due to their differing active period, they didn't talkthese past three days were even more than since when Li Huailin first moved in

”This is really the last day, I've really finished already…” Li Huailin gave a helpless sh the sounds heand didn't disturb anyone at night But facing a night owl like Chen Yuan, as also a sleep deprived girl, how could you talk reason with her?

”I haven't slept well for three days already! Look at er Her anger was not appeased ”How can I work like that? If no guys want me because of you, then you have to take care of me!”

”Don't joke around! The pay any one of your clients give you canexpenses, so how do you expect me to take care of you?” Li Huailin s care of me instead!”

”En?” Hearing this, she suddenly stopped being angry She then sized Li Huailin up, before suddenly revealing an evil smile ”That's fine too, handsome! Why not let me take care of you from now on~?”

”Haha…” Li Huailin shook his head ”I still believe in ht hand more Sister Juan, I think it's 'late' already, so you should go hoht? I really, definitely won't make any more noise this time”

”Don't be so fast to reject ood too!” While Sister Juan said that, she also ht hand At the sa aura to come from her

”The humble me only sell nity, and will remain uncorrupted by money!” Li Huailin puffed up his chest and said with a face filled with justice

”Hmph!” Chen Juan turned her face to one side ”You better not disturbyour cherry, little virgin boy!”

”What you are suggesting is not ‘help’, but blatant rape…” Li Huailin corrected her

”That's right! What can you do about it?” Chen Yuan said with an evil smile

”Oh, my fair lady! Please let me off the hook…” Li Huailin was rendered speechless from her blatant admission

”Hmph! Be more careful next tiain!” Chen Yuan puffed out her chest which couldn't be held even by her clothes and said in a tone like she was a villain whose evil plan had coo to sleep now You promised already, so don't bother me anymore”

”Thank you for your nanimity, fair lady” Li Huailin cupped his fist and made a polite bow like in the olden times

”Hehe~” This action aze to look at Li Huailin, before leaving

After sending Chen Yuan away, Li Huailin can finally return to his work With keyboard in hand, Li Huailin's expression changed He fanatically pressed the buttons on the keyboard, and any normal person who sees his actions would think that he was just rando buttons It was just too fast Not even the fastest typer could compare to his current speed, what's

”There should be no proble at the white words on the display, Li Huailin said to hi about this, Sky Universe is really cruel! A single game device costs 599,998, but yet I only used 20,000 dollars to make my own device Only the processor cost a little more, but the rest was literally free!”

Thinking about his encounter three days ago, Li Huailin was still livid That day Li Huailin saw an advertiseaalory=””>, and was a virtual reality game with up to 98 realism Not only in China, other countries also had their own respective game servers The advertisement also said that in future updates, there would be inter-server battles, that is battle between different countries

Before <heart of=”” glory=””> was even launched, advertisements about it filled up the whole world Posters, on TV, forums, newspapers… it was even a has become an acceptable job in the 22nd century and was quite a coaet to support this <heart of=”” glory=””>, even encouraging jobless people to play As long as one was online for at least 90 hours per overnment

In the 22nd century, after technology had developed at the speed of light, there was lesser and lesser dee-scale autoe-scale autoy replaced most of the work humans did Companies which needed over ten thousand people to operate smoothly then only needed a few hundred to operate now This, co world population which broke past ten billion a decade ago, has caused unemployment rate to skyrocket ide

The government didn't lack money to feed these people, but so many unemployed only meant more people ould create trouble just because they were bored To reduce the pressure the governovernment decided to try and cooperate with Sky Heaven Thus calory=””>

To be able to getLi Huailin also wanted to play after seeing the advertisements However, when he went to make a purchase, he faced soh the device Li Huailin wanted cost 599,998, there were still cheaper models available for the poor It only cost 19,998, not expensive at all The proble allowed to buy

”I' to the records, you have a criame device” This hat a service clerk said to Li Huailin with a smile

”There was such a thing? Your advertise about people with crih! I came from so far away and you tell me I can't buy?!”

Li Huailin had queued for almost half a day only to be told that he couldn't iven

”But… this is the rule…” The service clerk explained calht-hand corner of the poster It is actually written there”

Li Huailin looked at the poster once again, and really found a line saying that in tiny print on the bottoht-hand corner (T/N: The attack of the tiny print still strong in 22nd Century, huh?)

Thus, Li Huailin had no choice but to return empty handed

Li Huailin who gotpath ”The device is onlydevice Why not make one of my own? Such a simple(?) device should be within ram to link up the device with the server, then I can play already!”

Thus, the three days of haah it looked horrible appearance-wise compared to the official, its basic functions were all there

”Let's quickly try if it can connect to the server!” After Li Huailin finished rea of aa a button, the device quickly booted up

Li Huailin's vision turned black after the device booted up After waiting for ten seconds, he thought his devicehas happened yet At that o of Sky Universe suddenly popped up in front of hiain, before a video was played ten seconds later

This video had already been seen by Li Huailin on the gae, so he didn't particularly care about it But just after the video was played for two seconds, the video suddenly lagged Then, the video played i no hting on the battlefield suddenly stood on a sea; the cities not far ahich were on fire suddenly turned into a sea of trees, on the sea…

”Are are~? What's the situation? Bug?” Li Huailin could notdisplayed in front of hi, the video ended Li Huailin then felt his body getting lighter, before a white palace appeared in front of his eyes (T/N: Author so them in bold to indicate they are of japanese pronunciation)

”Is this the character creation page? At least this looks normal… What ith that video just now? Could it be that my device is faulty?” Li Huailin was clueless, but didn't care much anymore

”<heart of=”” glory=””> welcomes you Please create your character” A hoarse voice was suddenly transmitted froe Putting aside the fact that it was hoarse, it felt like the voice was conal