At the end of the day’s work, Lu Yao dragged his tired body back to the rental house.
In a small company of about ten people, more than half of them are related people, and excluding the boss and the partners, there are only three people who really do something. It’s only been three months since he joined the company, but it’s already been a bit like a year for him.
But he doesn’t dare to quit until he finds a new job. Now that the economy is in the doldrums, he has to survive before he can think about his next step in life.
This is the only time of the day when Lu Yao has a little space to relax. He switched moods and put all the daytime discomforts behind him for the time being.
It was now, game time!
He turned on his old computer and slowly moved the mouse over the screen.
Let’s see, which one to play today.
Jerk a rank?
Knife one?
Or Three Kingdoms 9?
……
An inconspicuous icon caught Lu Yao’s attention.
The icon was in the lower right corner of the screen, and the logo was a green pixelated island, blending in with the green grass in the background of the computer, which was very inconspicuous.
“God Simulator”?
What kind of game is that?
Lu Yao didn’t remember downloading or buying it at all.
He clicked on the file properties to check it out. The source file was 20M, which was a small game. With this capacity, it looked like it should be a game from a long time ago.
Lu Yao’s computer configuration is low, this machine from the university he has been used to the present, can not afford to change the new, play lol and tower of daggers have to open the lowest quality, the game masterpiece can only rely on the cloud to play and watch other people’s game video. Most of the time, Lu Yao is playing a variety of classic old games.
He tried to click on “God Simulator”.
The screen slowly turned black.
Accompanied by a melodious old 8-bit electronic music, a white Chinese text was displayed one by one on the black screen, in a very classical pixel game style.
[On this day, the world has finally welcomed back the great gods.]
[Your arrival has given the world back its meaning. Your greatness will create a brand new civilisation.]]
Then the black screen faded away, and was replaced by a group of villains constructing various buildings, some villains ploughing farmland, and others raising their arms in the air and cheering. The pixelated graphics looked fresh and nostalgic, watching Lu Yao relax for a while.
Three white options surfaced on the background.
[New Game]
[Continue Game]
[Exit]
Lu Yao clicks [New Game].
The screen reverted to pitch black once again, with a patchwork of uniform green pixels floating on it, like blocks of paint on a blackboard.
[World in Capture ……]
After about five seconds, green pixels spread across the screen.
[World positioning complete, welcome, great god.]
The pixel background changed once again.
A flat green field appeared on the screen, surrounded by forests, rivers, mountains, and deserts. In the centre of the screen was a white domed building that looked like a shrine.
A line of text appeared in the centre: This is your temple, which you have named the Temple of ____.
Lu Yao thought a little and typed it casually.
Yao Divine Hall.
The words [Yao Divine Hall] then floated above the divine hall.
Then the screen fell into a strange state of stasis.
Lu Yao clicked on the divine temple and there were no options.
What was this situation?
What kind of company made an old game that didn’t even have a basic tutorial or guide?
Just as he was wondering, two topless, barefooted villains appeared in the corner of the screen, which moved all the way over and around the temple.
An exclamation mark popped up on one of the villain’s head, followed by a dialogue box popping up on his head.
“What an exquisite and magnificent house, this must have been made by a god.”
The other little man held his hands up high.
“Gods, gods!”
“This place must be a revelation from the gods, this is a lucky place, we need to get more people to come and settle here!”
“Land of God’s Promise! God’s Promised Land!”
Smiley symbols appeared above the heads of both villains. They ran all the way off-screen, and within seconds, brought five more villains with them.
In total, seven villains began to worship around the shrine. They built a small thatched hut next to the shrine, transplanted some bushes that looked like berries from off-screen, and began living next to the shrine.
That’s when the prompt surfaced on the screen.
[You have gained the first batch of believers in this world, the power of faith is the means for you to show your miracles, please gather more faith.]
Lu Yao noticed that there was a small human avatar in the upper right corner, displayed as Population, and next to it was a Palace icon, displayed as Faith. The Population and Faith values were both 7.
It looked like 1 believer would provide 1 point of faith value.
He clicks on Population with the mouse, no response. Clicking on Faith again, this time an icon that looked like a cloud of fog popped up.
[Miracle]
There was a row of options below, each with a corresponding sketch. All miracles appear grey, indicating that none of them can be used at the moment.
Every miracle cast required the consumption of Faith Value. Even [Rainfall], which required the least amount of Faith Value, required 10 points of Faith Value to be consumed.
That is, one had to have 10 believers to be satisfied with casting a miracle.
Increasing the population became the primary issue.
Unlike other simulation games, God Simulator can’t directly build houses or produce residents, it can only wait for the pixelated villains to multiply or gather by themselves. Currently, the only option that can be operated is [Miracle].
As Lu Yao watched the pixelated villain planting the land, the mouse kept trying to fumble around on the screen, and his stomach began to rumble.
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 people around the temple were displaying an abnormal state. Sad expressions surfaced on their heads, and one by one, they were worshipping around the temple.
Dialogue boxes kept surfacing above the heads of the little people.
“Great God, request your manifestation!”
“Please bless us! Great God!”
“The forest tribes think we believe in demons and want to bring down the temple, please show your miracles!”
Lu Yao took a bite of the noodles and thought to himself, “Looks like this is the first crisis.
However, with only 7 points of Faith Value at the moment, he couldn’t even make it rain, and the Miracles column wasn’t available yet.
Lu Yao continued to fumble around, and finally moused over the shrine to point out a brand new interface.
In the middle of the screen was a stone bonfire, and in front of the bonfire was a grey humanoid statue in a sitting position. The face of the statue was blurred, and it was impossible to tell if it was male or female, so it seemed to be the image of a god in the pixel villain’s imagination.
In front of the statue is a long table with two differently shaped placement slots.
The large slot on the left is labelled [Offering].
The smaller one on the right is written [Gifts].
These placement slots are currently empty.
Sacrifices are well understood and are naturally what these believer villains offer to the gods.
According to the correspondence, then the gifts should be the powers or props that the temple bestows on these believers.
Could this be the miracle they wanted?
Lu Yao searched and searched, but he couldn’t find any movable drag items. He was in a bit of a dilemma for a while, this was only the first question he got himself stuck on.
Suddenly, he noticed something strange.
The long table in front of that idol, why did it feel a bit familiar.
It’s not right ……
How come that table is exactly the same as my own computer desk?
Two placement slots, the offering slot was the exact rectangular shape of a keyboard, the boon slot was oval, and the mouse?
Looking more closely, wasn’t the statue of the enshrined deity shown sitting at a long table the same as himself who was playing with the computer?
This thought startled Lu Yao.
It can’t be ……
This must be a coincidence.
With that, a bold idea popped into his head.
He carefully placed the garlic clove next to the bubbling noodles on the mouse.
Lu Yao looked at the mouse with anticipation.
Two seconds later, the garlic clove rolled off the mouse.
“It really is a coincidence.”
Lu Yao laughed to himself, and there was another faint wave of loss in his heart.
Just then, the rolling garlic cloves suddenly disappeared without a trace in thin air.
Lu Yao subconsciously looked at the computer screen.
There was an additional pixelated icon of garlic in the [Enchantment] slot of the shrine.
[Garlic]: a gift from the gods, a special spice, and a medicinal herb.
A line is displayed on the screen.
–May I ask if you would like to bestow [Garlic] on your believer?
[Yes] [No]
Lu Yao’s hand holding the mouse shook.
