Lu Yao first ran around the rental house and then went to wash his face in cold water. After completing the alternating hot and cold sobriety, he returned to the computer desk.
On the computer screen, there was indeed garlic in the shrine’s [Enchantment] slot.
This meant that the garlic in his hand was indeed sent into the shrine through the mouse position.
–May I ask if you would like to bestow [Garlic] to your believers?
Although Lu Yao didn’t know what this game was all about and why it was able to do this kind of dimensional wall-breaking. But since it was already an established fact, he was curious to see what kind of results would result from the interaction between the real world and the game world.
Lu Yao tapped [Yes].
Outside the shrine, exclamation marks popped up above the heads of the little people worshipping around the shrine.
“The gods have manifested!”
“The gods have sent down miracles!”
“Long live the miracles, long live the gods!”
“Great God, thank you for your gifts!”
“Garlic! Garlic!”
“Garlic from the gods! A gift from the gods!”
The little man ran around after kneeling and praying, and his head emoticon turned into a smile.
Then they got busy and worked together to reclaim a farmland, which grew tiny shoots that slowly turned into green seedlings again.
A message appeared on the screen.
[Your gift has allowed the believers to learn to grow and use garlic, and their faith has been boosted.]
Lu Yao looked to the upper right corner.
The original 7 points of Faith value had turned into 22 points at this point.
It seemed that Enchantment could harvest Faith quickly.
Lu Yao looked around and found a pencil on the table.
A tool like a pen should be useful to a tribal civilisation.
But when he clicked on the page, he found that the garlic was still there in the [Enchantment] slot. When the mouse clicked on it, a line of hints surfaced.
[Garlic is being integrated into the world, please be patient.]
Lu Yao could only stop.
He had only just started with this game, and many of the mechanics and gameplay were still being worked out, so he could only take it one step at a time.
He ate the already cold instant noodles, his eyes still firmly fixed on the screen.
About half an hour later, a group of villains came running from outside the screen. This group of villains were all wearing waistcoats made of leather, and the leader was a villain wearing a bullhorn helmet and holding a wooden spear.
The alien villains held torches and surrounded the temple.
“Devil’s hut! Devil’s Hut!”
“It must be destroyed! You followers of the devil!”
“Burn it! Burn!”
Lu Yao read it.
This was the forest tribe that the little people around the temple had talked about, believing that demons were enshrined in the temple.
At the same time, exclamation marks appeared above the heads of all seven believers in the shrine.
“This is the Palace of the Gods, it’s the Yao God’s Temple!”
“The gods have sent down a miracle!”
“Miracle Garlic!”
“How dare you blaspheme!”
The forest tribes didn’t even listen to the explanation, they just shouted to burn it down. Armed with torches, these little people were about to set fire to the side of the shrine.
Lu Yao clicked on [Miracle] and moused over the first item, [Rainfall].
If a rain fell, according to the perceptions of this group of tribal civilised villains, they should think that it was the gods who were angry, and most likely they would know what to do.
Just as his finger was about to click down, Lu Yao suddenly had a second thought.
Not right.
Since he was going to do it, it had to be a big job.
Lu Yao gazed towards the next few options.
[Miracles] From top to bottom, in order of faith consumption from least to most, they were [Rainfall] 10, [Lightning] 20, [Blazing Sun] 25, [Hurricane] 30, [Earthquake] 40.
Lu Yao’s gaze fell on [Lightning].
[Lightning]: consumes 20 points of faith to create lightning to fall on a designated area.
You’re it.
Lu Yao tapped out the lightning and his mouse turned into a range icon that allowed him to select the area and drag it. He compressed the range and locked it on the head of the Forest Tribe’s leader.
As the saying goes, the more you can do, the more responsibility you have, so eat my lightning first.
The mouse flicked.
A lightning bolt fell from the sky of the pixel world, hitting the bullhorn helmet villain below, blowing him into flying dust along with the two surrounding villains.
The other Forest Tribe villains holding torches had exclamation marks popping out of their heads one by one, instantly scattering in all directions.
The only ones that were left were the seven followers of the shrine, and at this time, angry expressions emerged from their heads.
“Divine Punishment! Divine Punishment!”
“You have angered the gods!”
“Don’t provoke the gods! This is what happens to blasphemers!”
Lu Yao looked satisfied. The Forest Tribe shouldn’t be looking for trouble anytime soon, unless they had someone else who wanted to try the electric shock again.
He relaxed and felt a slight soreness in his neck.
The game didn’t have many operations, but it had a strange magical quality to it, and Lu Yao unknowingly played until 12:30pm.
Although he was a little reluctant, he still switched off the computer and shuffled to bed. After all, he still has to go to work tomorrow.
Lying in bed, Lu Yao thought in a daze.
If one could create natural disasters, and also continuously bestow things from the real world to the humans in the game world. Then in the eyes of the pixel villain, one was indeed no different from a god.
……
The next day Lu Yao left work relatively early. Today, the boss went out to talk about clients, and the relations slipped away quickly, so he followed suit and left work early.
Returning home, he couldn’t wait to open up Divine Simulator.
As he clicked [Continue Game], the familiar pixelated screen slowly unfolded once again.
He breathed a slight sigh of relief, it was okay if the archive wasn’t broken.
When he noticed the scene on the screen, Lu Yao was a bit surprised.
There were now 5 huts next to the shrine, and in front of each of them was a square piece of farmland. Mousing over the farmland showed that garlic was planted inside.
The population in the upper right corner had changed from 7 in the past to 30, and the Faith Value had changed to 25 points.
Lu Yao did some calculations.
After consuming a round of [Lightning] yesterday, the Faith Value was only 2 points, but now it had become 25 points, totalling an increase of 23 points and an increase in population by 23 people.
This proved that his previous guess was right, routinely, 1 additional population would bring 1 point of faith.
What’s more, this game would continue to run even if it wasn’t opened on the computer.
That’s when a new prompt came on the screen.
–You have enough followers to create a tribe, which you name the ___ Tribe.
Lu Yao typed the word “garlic”.
According to the simple way of naming in ancient times, the speciality of this group of followers was their own gift of garlic, so it made sense to call it the Garlic Tribe.
Your miracles and gifts have allowed the Garlic Tribe to be formally established, and the Yao Divine Hall to be known by more and more people from far away.
That is to say, it’s helpful in attracting foreigners?
Lu Yao focused his attention on those newly arrived populations.
He noticed that those 23 new Pixel Villains that joined last night were all wearing waistcoats made of leather, completely different from the 7 barefoot and bare-shouldered local villains from before.
They were from the Forest Tribe.
It looked like a portion of the Forest Tribe’s pixel villains had joined the Temple’s camp and settled here.
Lu Yao was happy in his heart.
Last night’s lightning tactic had immediate results.
Whether they were fearful or worshipful, they were indeed attracted anyway.
With a larger population came a simple division of labour. No longer limited to planting garlic and tending berries, two of the tribal minions began to go into the forests to hunt, while another attempted to catch fish with his bare hands along the rivers.
Overall, the Garlic Tribe is still in a primitive stage, and all of its members are still struggling for food.
Lu Yao tapped on the temple interface and found that Garlic was still there in the [Enchantment] slot.
He slightly regretted it.
The Enchantment’s CD period didn’t look short.
If he had known that he could put something from the real world into the pixel world, he would have chosen wheat, so that the initial shortage of food for the pixel miniatures could be made up for. Or send a bow and arrow over, the little people mastered the bow and arrow technology, hunting would be much easier, and once again encountered the forest tribe also have the ability to resist.
Lu Yao’s gaze moved down and suddenly saw something that wasn’t there before.
There was an additional red item in the [Offerings] slot.
