the gods descend

Chapter 2 System's first mandatory mission

Existence of the Chapter 2 system
Location: On the parallel plane of the earth, City C, a small three-story building near the suburbs.It is hard to imagine that this small building worth tens of millions is the residence of a young man who was born in 2097 and is less than 24 years old this year.

The owner's name is Chu Nan.

The origin of the name is very simple, his father's name is Chu Yun, and his mother's name is Fang Nan.

It's just that after Chu Nan understood a little bit, the homonym of the name gave him a lot of trouble.

It is a trivial matter to become a "stalk" that will never be erased, and Chu Nan has gotten used to it over the years.

The point is, after living for 23 years, Chu Nan has never had a womanizer!

It's not that Chu Nan can't be tough, nor is it that girls don't like him, on the contrary, with his comfortable appearance, careful treatment of others, extremely independent judgment and meticulous and wonderful thinking, Chu Nan beats the girl. favored by women.

Especially since he was in high school and started to flourish in the game industry.

But Chu Nan has never met the so-called "her in my heart", and Chu Nan is not a person who is willing to "spend money for fun", so some things have been delayed until now.

Chu Nan was not very willing to change his name. After all, it was a proof of his parents' love for each other.

At this time, he was in his own special game entertainment room.

Just after exiting the game, Chu Nan was holding the game helmet, staring at the words "Continent of the Gods" printed on the helmet, exhaled softly, put the helmet on the table, and looked up at the pendulum hanging on the wall .

The time recorded above is very detailed:

2120年4月1日，20点31分。

According to Western customs, today is April Fool's Day.

To be honest, it's quite a coincidence that Gods Continent chose to end the closed beta today, so the last words left to the players are like an April Fool's joke for the occasion.

Chu Nan: "April [-]st, there are three days left, and it's time to visit the graves of Dad and Mom."

Chu Nan was an orphan. Her mother had a congenital heart disease. When she gave birth to him, she suffered from dystocia and failed to survive in the end.

Chu Nan didn't even have the chance to call "Mom" face to face. All that was left to Chu Nan was a ring made by her mother herself, photos she had taken, and a video that her mother had recorded long ago.

As for Chu Nan's father, he was a soldier. After his mother's death, Chu Nan's father cared for Chu Nan more carefully, but when Chu Nan was two years old, he participated in a large-scale earthquake relief.

Natural disasters are so terrible that people are helpless. The continuous aftershocks have caused many lives to stop breathing. His father, unfortunately, is one of them.

Chu Nan has already forgotten whether he complained about being ignorant when he was a child. In short, now he can see clearly that he feels more guilty about his parents.

If it wasn't for Chu Nan, maybe his mother wouldn't have had a dystocia or a heart attack, and maybe his father wouldn't have been half an hour late for sending him to kindergarten and just caught up with the aftershock .

If it wasn't for Chu Nan, his parents should have been a model couple who have loved each other for many years.

Therefore, although Chu Nan suffered countless blank stares and ridicules during his growth, he didn't complain much.

Both parents died, and other relatives who are related by blood seem to have no desire to raise and take care of Chu Nan. Thanks to the small fortune left by his parents and good education benefits, Chu Nan can be as successful as a normal child. Because of these experiences, Chu Nan matured much earlier than his peers. As early as ten years old, Chu Nan could judge a person's character by careful observation and thinking.

Fortunately, these encounters did not make Chu Nan withdrawn or mentally abnormal. After all, there are still many good people in this world. During school, there were quite a few people who ridiculed Chu Nan, but there were more teachers and classmates who cared about Chu Nan.

When he was in high school, since the money left by his parents was almost used up, Chu Nan had to find ways to earn money.

For an underage child, the greatest possibility of earning money may be from games.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the game industry has been booming, which has spawned a huge industrial chain and ways to make money.

In the early 22nd century, games have already become the "ninth art". This field has exaggerated vitality and crazy opportunities.

As early as many years ago, the so-called evening self-study in high school has become a student's own choice, and therefore, Chu Nan has not been to evening self-study since high school, but went to the cheapest area among Internet cafes to earn money from games .

There is a saying in the West that goes, "When God closes a door for you, he will open a window for you."

Chu Nan's experience seems to be compensated in the game. He has an amazing talent for the game, or to be more precise... called the game idea!

The traditional cognitive game talent is the reaction and operation of playing games.

And Chu Nan's game talent is the way of thinking and routines in playing games!
No.5 in CSF (Gunfight) WCG Global Finals, No.4 in Doomsday Survival (Survival) World Elite Competition, runner-up substitute in the Global Finals of League of Gods and Demons (moba), holder of multiple purgatory dungeon single brush record holders in Lost Line City and Warriors , Tiandao OL (Xianxia game) title is Shushan Qingfengjian, the creator of the violent arcanist style of Magic Origin OL (fantasy game)...

These jaw-dropping titles are the achievements of Chu Nan in the seven years from high school to university graduation.

Although strictly speaking, Chu Nan's reaction and operation in playing games are inferior to those of champion-level characters, but his understanding of the rules of the game, the use of game characters, unique thinking, the development of routines and unique tactical strategies, It allowed Chu Nan to compete with these top players in the game.

Over the past seven years, relying on competition prize money and game item transactions, Chu Nan has accumulated a large amount of wealth. Although to a real rich man, the net worth of 3000 million yuan is not worth mentioning, but for a 23-year-old self-made young man For him, it was enough for him to live a comfortable life.

The last time Chu Nan appeared in the game circle was in the global finals of the League of Gods and Demons. As an all-around substitute, he replaced all five positions in the team from top laner to support. His outfits and rhythmic thinking brought a team that should have stopped in the quarterfinals to the finals.

Although in the end he was easily taken away by five masters who were also from China and whose reactions and hand speed were insanely fast, Chu Nan's versatility and strategy still left a deep impression on the players of the League of Gods and Demons.

But since then, Chu Nan has lost all news, until today.

In this era of information explosion, after more than a year of disappearance, Chu Nan has gradually been forgotten by the players. After all, although Chu Nan is well-known in the game industry, he is not the most famous one.

Those who are more famous than Chu Nan are of course those champions or No.1s who have reached the pinnacle in various game fields. Chu Nan.

The reason why Chu Nanwan disappeared was simple, he had earned enough money and was tired of it.

The current game market seems to be stuck in a bottleneck. The graphics of VR and AR are not as rough as they were in the last century, enough to be called real ones. However, the in-game imbalance modification and gameplay that are more and more compromised for money Chu Nan felt a little bored because of his stagnation.

Of course, the most important point is the sense of substitution.

Nowadays, VR and AR games on the market occupy the mainstream, but the sense of substitution only stays on the screen and the most basic physical phenomena.

For example, wearing a game helmet and entering a dedicated game equipment area, when you jump up in the game, there will be a rope tied around your waist to pull you up, creating the feeling of flying.

However, the sense of disobedience that cannot fully follow the real physical phenomenon is somewhat uncomfortable.

What you see in the game is a world of ice and snow, but in reality you are wearing short-sleeved clothes, and you are clearly being attacked by the enemy, but in reality it is a feeling of soft plastic colliding with your body, like being hit by cotton.

The big players in the game industry have been yelling at neurosensory research for more than ten years, and now they can't come up with anything except the most basic concepts.

However, Gods Continent is an exception.

That is to say, even after the closed beta is over, Chu Nan is still a game that is "at the bottom of the ranking list".

Gods Continent!

The prosaicness of the name is completely inversely proportional to the quality of the game.

After entering the game, you will know what it means to be on the scene. All the senses and reality are completely indistinguishable. Standing in the sun will feel hot and dry, and drinking water will feel cold and moist from the mouth to the throat, sliding all the way to the Stomach feeling, going to the forest to breathe the air will feel refreshed, and even in the early stage, some players were beaten by monsters and their arms were torn off by monsters, and they collapsed on the ground and wailed for a full four hours!

The most exaggerated thing is that when players use magic energy to cast skills, they can clearly feel the interaction with the elements, a feeling that is so wonderful that it cannot be described in words.

There's also the damn fighting skills to guide charge and magical spells, as well as the wisdom of NPCs and monsters.

It's just like the real thing!
The most intuitive feeling of all players in the internal test is——

This is not playing a game, but playing time travel!

In Chu Nan's eyes, this game is so perfect.

If it weren't for the game company's very thoughtful delivery of the game helmet two months ago and exempting all fees, Chu Nan might really have missed this game that can be said to have crossed the century.

However, the publicity of the Gods Continent doesn't seem to be very good. Whether it's in reality or on the Internet, there is no publicity about this game. The only information about the Gods Continent that can be found is their official website.

But when you open the webpage, there is only a dark background board and words written side by side in multiple languages, which probably means "stay tuned".

Such a game that can be ranked at the top of the market, but in terms of promotion, it looks like a game that has been abandoned, which makes Chu Nan puzzled.

But to be honest, there are more weird and incomprehensible things in the game. For example, the images in the game are all generated one-to-one according to the player's real appearance and modification is prohibited, and all real people's names are used as IDs, which is also prohibited. Change.

Although Chu Nan used the internal test to study a lot of things, and even caused his character level to become the lowest in the internal test, but the more he knew, the more doubts Chu Nan had.

After all, the internal test period is only two months, which is not enough for Chu Nan to understand everything thoroughly.

"All the news and content of the internal test must not be leaked to the outside world? Violators will be deprived of the game rights?"

Chu Nan muttered the words given by the system to himself, and walked up the stairs to the kitchen on the first floor.

It's almost nine o'clock in the evening, looking up information in the library in the game made him forget to eat dinner, and now his stomach is already protesting seriously.

Chu Nan skillfully added water to the pot, took out the eggs, seasoning and a handful of noodles, ready to make a bowl of egg noodles.

It's not that Chu Nan's family doesn't have other ingredients, or that he's lazy and unwilling to cook, but that his stomach is too hungry to eat big fish and meat. Does a multi-millionaire's family have any good ingredients?

Chu Nan turned the switch several times in a row, but there was no flame on the stove.

"Could it be that the stove's ignition system is broken again? Really, it's the third time this month it's broken down. The cheating salesman will definitely not buy this brand next time!"

The ignition system is broken, so you can only find a lighter to ignite it.

Lighter, on the third floor.

Sometimes taking something is equivalent to a small back and forth run, which is the disadvantage of a too big house.

"If I were in the Continent of the Gods, I would just snap my fingers..."

While talking, Chu Nan imitated the B-style routine commonly used by fire magicians in the game, "smacking the finger and lighting the smoke", but he didn't expect that a bunch of flames really came out with the friction between his fingers, and the stove was still leaking out After being stirred by the flames, the gas in the room ignited with a buzz.

"Just, ignite..."

As a top player, Chu Nan's reaction ability is definitely top-notch, but the reflex arc seems to be a bit slow at this time, staring at the burning flame on the stove for three full seconds before saying what he didn't finish .

Chu Nan couldn't help frowning: "Tsk, amnesia is so severe because I'm only 23 years old? I don't remember learning magic tricks!"

As one of the rewards for closed beta players, you will experience a small part of the game's functions in advance after leaving the Gods Continent.

Chu Nan suddenly remembered what the Gods Continental system had told him, and his heart beat faster for no reason. He subconsciously rolled his Adam's apple, only to find that his mouth was dry after drinking water not long ago.

Chu Nan stretched out his right hand, fixed his eyes on the palm of his hand, and put his middle finger and thumb together.

Boom!
A snap of fingers followed by another cluster of flickering flames.

And when the flames appear, the special feeling of communicating with the fire element is the same as in the game!
"This system master, are you kidding yourself?"

Chu Nan wiped his forehead, but in this April spring weather, Chu Nan's forehead was covered with sweat as if he had been exposed to the sun for half an hour in August!
"Open, character panel!"

Chu Nan almost gritted his teeth and said these six words.

In fact, in the game, players only need to recite silently in their hearts.

In front of Chu Nan's eyes, a series of information appeared like a stereoscopic projection.

Name: Chu Nan

Level: Level 1 at the beginning of the first level

Occupation: None
Talent: Fire -70%
Dark -70%
Undead - 70%
Unknown - 100% (to be opened)
Mana Cap: 9
Mana Specificity: None

Strength (Growth 9): 9
Spirit (Growth 9): 9
Dexterity (Growth 9): 9
Equipment: none
"This is so..."

The first mandatory mission for the Chapter 3 system

April 2120, 4 is the second day after the closed beta of the Gods Continent ends.

Chu Nan drove his BMW i8 out early in the morning.

As a "successful person" with a net worth of tens of millions, it is normal to have a 200 million sports car.

Of course, no matter how this world develops, rich people are still a minority.

The stylish BMW i8 can still turn heads on the road.

It took Chu Nan a whole night to accept the fact that "The Continent of the Gods is real".

After having a bad night's sleep, Chu Nan originally planned to use the massive amount of data he collected during the internal test to fit himself in order to develop his own development after the public test.

After all, the only thing that can be confirmed at present is that no matter what kind of existence the Gods Continent is, the abilities obtained in the Gods Continent can be brought back to reality!

Perhaps because of the deletion of files during the internal test, Chunan's current panel is the initial panel when entering the game.

But simply gathering some elements can still be done. Chu Nan guessed that this is just the "early experience" mentioned by the end of the internal test of the system. If you really want to get more power, you have to enter the public test after entering the land of the gods.

During the closed beta, Chu Nan always wondered why there is no difference between all senses and reality in Gods Continent, even the pain is the same, and the pain of serious injury and even the death of the character made every player curse.

But everyone knows that this game will definitely become the number one in the world after the public beta, so we can only endure the pain and continue to explore, hoping to experience more functions and gain experience for better development during the public beta.

Who knows, this is not a virtual game at all.

How did the Continent of the Gods come about, and how did the system come about?

Who is the manipulator behind it, God?

What is the significance of making such a game rule?
Chu Nan knew that he would find the answers to these questions one day, but the most important thing right now was to choose someone.

That was a mandatory task given to Chunan by the system early in the morning the next day.

"Ding, players please pay attention. Since the player ranked last in the internal test, as a punishment and encouragement, a mandatory task is hereby issued."

"The player needs to find a companion on the earth. The companion will be placed in the same place as the player after the public beta begins. If the companion successfully reaches the fifth level, the player will receive a heavyweight compensation package. If the companion dies early, the player experience gain will be permanently reduced by 20%."

"Players please note that for any human being within five meters, the player can use the system detection function to obtain part of the human's panel. After confirming the companion, the player cannot disclose this mission, nor disclose game-related information before the public beta."

God knows why the system gave such a strange task to him, who was the last one in the internal test, but since it was mandatory, Chu Nan had no choice but to accept his fate, no, he went out early in the morning.

"If I hadn't laid the foundation for the public beta to study the Continent of the Gods, I would have broken into the top [-] a long time ago!"

Of course, the system would not care about Chu Nan's complaints.

And what Chu Nan said was not an exaggeration.

A top player who has been in the game industry for seven years and has gained various honors, in the continent of the gods, he can only dare to say that he is in the top two hundred!

And this time when he went out to find his "companion", Chu Nan visited almost all the lively places in C City.

But he got a data that made him unbelievable.

From 08:30 in the morning to [-]:[-] in the evening, a total of eleven hours.

Countless character panels passed before Chu Nan's eyes.

However, the highest proportion of elemental talents generally given does not exceed 40%.

However, the growth of innate measurements attributes is uneven, and the highest value of a single attribute rarely exceeds 7 points.

Chu Nan seriously doubted whether the system had drawn the 1000 most talented people in the world into the closed beta.

The upper limit of elemental talent is 100%. Like Chu Nan, the proportion of a single talent reaches 70%, which is almost the lowest during the internal test.

Although many people in the internal test do not have three-element talents like Chu Nan, the proportion of single-element talents basically exceeds 80%, and there are even many people who have 100%.

The ratio of element talent determines the power of the element released.

With a limit of 50%, with 50% element talent, you can exert 100% of the element's power, and if the talent reaches the highest 100%, you can exert 200% of the element's power.

Vice versa, if there is only 40% talent, then the power of the skill that casts that element is only 80%.

The growth of innate attributes determines the strength that a person can improve after leveling up in the Gods Continent, with a maximum value of 10 points.

Chu Nan's 9-point growth of the three attributes is indeed outstanding in the internal test.

However, among the closed beta players, almost all of them have one attribute with full growth value, and there are even quite a few people with full growth value of both attributes!
The growth of elemental talents and innate attributes can also be said to be a sign of a person's growth potential in the continent of the gods.

Although successful people are not necessarily the best talents, good talents can win at the starting line.

Chu Nan originally thought that the elemental talents of most people on the earth should exceed 60%, and the average innate attribute growth should also exceed 7 points, and the highest value of 8:9 points should be the norm. After all, since the Gods Continent adopts the game mode, Then there must be the most basic game balance.

The result was quite the opposite.

Compared with the masses that Chu Nan saw, the talent attributes of the beta players seemed to have been modified by cheating devices!
This also caused great trouble to Chu Nan.

Because, it is still a question of whether it is possible to bring a person with a mediocre talent into the Continent of the Gods to grow to the fifth level. After all, during the internal test of Chu Nan, it was only the late stage of the third level.

Although I don't know how the system formulates the rules for death, it is certainly impossible to give the player unlimited resurrection power like the closed beta, otherwise, the system would not tell Chu Nan that "the companion died early".

In other words, the Continent of the Gods, if one is not careful, one will really die!
Chu Nan, who had some guesses in his mind, had even higher requirements for the growth of his companion's attributes.

Finally, at 9 o'clock in the evening, Chu Nan saw a dance floor girl in a nightclub.

【Xu Shuangshuang】

Age: 24
Highest Talent: Wind -85%
Strength Growth: 5
Agility Growth: 8
Spiritual Growth: 7
Since he could only see part of the information, Chu Nan could only see Xu Shuangshuang's highest talent, but not all of Xu Shuangshuang's talents.

In fact, in Chu Nan's "scanning" that day, people with multiple attributes accounted for the majority, but many attributes were only below 20%, even if they learned the magic of this department, it would be useless.

Xu Shuangshuang's panel also told Chu Nan that although the 1000 people in the internal test had extremely high quality talent attributes, it didn't mean that only these 1000 people had the best data in the world.

Xu Shuangshuang's attributes are not too far behind those of the internal beta players.

After Chu Nan invited Xu Shuangshuang to drink the most expensive cocktail in the nightclub, he "accidentally" let Xu Shuangshuang discover his BMW i8 car keys.

In this way, Chu Nan easily obtained Xu Shuangshuang's contact information, and even Xu Shuangshuang secretly hinted that he could go with him tonight, but Chu Nan politely declined.

The special experience since childhood allowed Chu Nan to get a rough idea of ​​Xu Shuangshuang's character in less than an hour of being together.

More open, more frivolous, more obsessed with money.

Chu Nan listed Xu Shuangshuang as a candidate, and he wanted to try to find out if there was a better choice.

While driving the BMW i8 on the road, Chu Nan kept staring at his surroundings.

At night in the city, the lights are feasting, and some people have been busy with work all day and returned home.

Some people are worrying about money, some are still working hard, and some are having fun.

I don't know how long this kind of life can last.

Chu Nan suddenly felt a little dry and stopped by the side of the road.

Here, it is no longer a downtown area. Apart from street lights, there are only scattered storefronts on the street.

Chu Nan saw a roadside stall selling milk tea, parked his car and walked over.

"Boss, have a cup of milk tea."

"Okay, what flavor do the guests want?"

The gentle voice made Chu Nan raise his head involuntarily.

With the light from the lamp hanging on the pole, Chu Nan could see the boss clearly.

It was a girl who looked only about 20 years old.

The light was dim, but it couldn't hide her fair skin. It wasn't the "net celebrity oval face" made like an assembly line, but it was a little more playful and cute, and her shining pure eyes were particularly attractive.

She looked up at Chu Nan, and found that Chu Nan was staring at her, like a curious kitten who had been caught and lowered her head:
"Well, what flavor do you want, guest?"

Hearing the girl's voice suddenly lowered, Chu Nan realized that it was impolite to stare at a girl for so long.

"Sorry, I was thinking about something, um, let's have a cup of vanilla."

"Do you want something hot?"

"Not too hot."

"Okay, wait a minute."

The girl skillfully mixed the milk tea, and the girl's message also appeared in front of Chu Nan.

【An Ruoxuan】

Age: 20
Talent: Water -56%, Earth -55%, Lightning -54%
Strength Growth: 3
Agility Growth: 2
Spiritual Growth: 10
Special status: congenital heart disease (sixth stage can be cured)

"Guest, your milk tea, sir? Sir?"

An Ruoxuan handed over the milk tea, but found that Chu Nan was like a wooden man, without even moving his eyeballs.

"Huh? Oh, how much?"

Chu Nan came back to his senses and took the milk tea, but in his heart, he felt a little more curiosity and pity for this girl named An Ruoxuan.

Curious, because An Ruoxuan's spiritual growth is actually at full value, and she has the elemental talent of three attributes.

Although Chu Nan saw a lot of multi-attribute talents along the way, most of them were too low to be tasteless. Few of them, like An Ruoxuan, had more than 50% of the three attributes.

As for pity, it is naturally a congenital heart disease!
This reminded Chu Nan of his mother.

"A medium cup, eight yuan."

"Ok."

Wang Wang Wang...

Chu Nan was taking out money, but saw a snow-white Samoyed dog running out of the shop behind the roadside stall.

"Ah, Xiaobai! You ran out again! Really, you are the most mischievous among so many friends!"

An Ruoxuan didn't accept the money that Chu Nan handed over, but put down her work and squatted down, putting her arms around the Samoyed dog.

Chu Nan looked along the shop where the Samoyed came out, and the door sign read:
Shelter for stray animals.

"Xiaobai, go back quickly."

Under An Ruoxuan's order, the Samoyed dog barked twice and ran back to the shop.

An Ruoxuan turned her head, only to find that Chu Nan was holding a ten-yuan RMB with her hand raised.

"Sorry about that."

An Ruoxuan took the money in a hurry, then took out a small bag containing the money, searched for a long time, and said in distress:

"Well, there's no change."

An Ruoxuan's troubled look was so cute, Chu Nan couldn't help laughing:

"It's okay, just buy dog ​​food for Xiaobai."

"I'm sorry, guest, I'm here..."

An Ruoxuan wanted to explain something, but Chu Nan asked, "You run that stray animal shelter?"

"Yes."

Speaking of the shelter, An Ruoxuan's face was full of smiles.

"I think you are only 20 years old, you should be a student, how can you open a shelter?"

"You have a lot of time in college, and they are very obedient."

Chu Nan: "So, you set up a stall to earn money to maintain this store?"

The shelter is different from the general pet store. Many of the animals are abandoned or lost by the owner. Although some kind people will give the store a sum of money after adoption, it is not too much. If the animals in the shelter have a certain Quantity, overhead is huge.

An Ruoxuan: "That's right, fortunately, the relevant departments have introduced a new welfare policy to support shelters, otherwise they really wouldn't be able to support them."

Chu Nan: "Then there are a lot of animals in the shelter?"

An Ruoxuan: "Yes, there are 67 of them. The Xiaobai you saw just now was two months ago. I met it in a garbage dump. I really don't know who its owner is. It is so beautiful that I am willing to throw it away. It's a bit naughty. '

Chu Nan gave a thumbs up: "67, that's amazing. If it were me, I would definitely be devastated. Unexpectedly, I would meet a little angel who saves the lives of homeless people."

Chu Nan didn't continue the chat. At present, he and An Ruoxuan met by chance, so it's not good to talk too much. "

"I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first. Next time I have a chance, I want to visit your shelter. I'm also very interested in those small animals."

An Ruoxuan smiled and said, "Okay, welcome anytime, see you again."

Chu Nan took a deep look at An Ruoxuan: "See you again."

　Readers with obsessive-compulsive disorder, please don’t worry about why there is a BMW i22 in the 8nd century, parallel planes, if you have to write i22 or something, it’s not necessary, right? When you write i8, you can still think of the car, right? , which is more visually appealing.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)