The Simulator Chapter 69

The mournful cry of the wildcat outside the window woke up Lu Yao, who was dozing off.
He rubbed his forehead and rubbed his face.
At a glance at the time, it was half past two in the middle of the night.
It’s better to go to sleep first.
With this thought in his mind, Lu Yao reflexively glanced at the computer screen.
There were a few lines on the game interface.
[Mu Ke invented Tribal Wargames.]
[The Garlic Tribe learnt to make and use Tribal Wargames.]
[The Garlic Tribe has its first speciality, and everyone’s intelligence has increased slightly.]
[The Gift is completely finished, and the dice are integrated into the world.]
–Great God, there is a believer who has performed a feat far beyond his peers, is it necessary to transform him into a hero?
[Yes] [No]
Unlike before, this prompt brought a brand new resource icon.
There was an additional [Speciality] in the long bar at the top left corner of the screen.
Lu Yao moved his mouse and found that there was only one in the speciality details, which was Tribal Wargames.
Originally, he wanted to add some vigour to the Tribal Villain to have some entertainment life, but he didn’t expect to tinker with something new.
He focused on the inventor.
Mu Ke.
Isn …… t it the kid who was rejected before?
Lu Yao clicked on the shrine.
There was an additional small person in the pantheon, with his head showing [Mu Ke], 13 years old.
Lu Yao then converted him into a hero.
In his personal sketch, Mu Ke was a half-grown teenager sitting under the setting sun. On the sand, he was marking out crossed paths and boards, and Mu Ke was rolling dice and playing a game by himself.
Underneath the standup is a quote from him.
–Only Tribal Wargames will always be with me.
……
Hero Lv1] Mukhor
Attack 0 Defence 1 Knowledge 3 Mana 0 Luck 0 Morale 0
[Abilities
Wisdom Lv1: Wisdom is the key to an Apostle’s ability to listen to the will of the gods. The higher the level of Wisdom, the easier it is to improve and comprehend the abilities.
Gamer Lv1: Good at games, with a certain probability of being able to invent new games.
……
The Tribal Wargame was born and quickly spread to the whole tribe.
In the past, the life of the little people was quite monotonous as their daily routine consisted of eating and reproducing in addition to labouring. Nowadays, they would take out their war flags in their free time and have a game with people anytime, anywhere.
There are more and more smiling faces on the heads of the little people.
Tribal Wargames has improved the atmosphere of the Garlic Tribe, providing recreation and entertainment for the hard-working little people. Especially in the cold winter, the people gathered around to play War Flag, and even the fights that were often seen before became less frequent.
Lu Yao also felt a wave of relief when he saw that he had achieved his goal.
Playing workers isn’t hard for workers.
Buddy is working hard to give you guys benefits.
Just play for fun, but at critical moments, you have to support me up.
Winter turns to spring in the pixel world.
A lot of wildlings left the forest this winter and joined the Garlic Tribe. In the spring, there was another tribe of cave monsters in the mountains that also took the initiative to come down to the mountains to join them.
The Garlic Tribe’s population rose by hundreds at once.
During the same period, there were also significant results on the Ghost City Saniro’s side. Commander Yaris found a stretch of coral reefs in the west of the sea, where there were quite a few shipwrecks and dead souls from the sea.
He brought back nearly three hundred ghosts at once.
With this, Lu Yao’s believer population officially exceeded twenty thousand.
The upper right corner of the simulator showed.
Population: 20, 018 Beliefs: 3, 935
With this, Lu Yao’s body produced a series of marvellous changes.
He felt that a burning fluid had appeared in his body.
It was as if a brand new circulatory system had been added to the body, and they spread all over the skin and muscles, encircling the bones and nerves further inside.
These ineffable flows of heat seemed to be some sort of collection of products on a more microscopic level. They were constantly running around the bones, muscles and nerves, opening up certain hidden passages and restrictions in the flesh and blood body, making Lu Yao’s body feel soothed.
In a trance, he saw an additional squatting creature on the originally messy bed.
The animal was covered in pitch black, like paint mixed with molasses to concoct it. It was as if the surface of its body was constantly secreting black crude oil, maintaining a wet smoothness to the point that it was impossible to see its exact form.
Beneath it was not a bed either, but a dry riverbed covered in debris.
The creature was squatting on a rock like a feline or canine, touching the ground with its hips and supporting its upper body as if it was looking into the distance.
Lu Yao froze slightly, and the black creature disappeared without a trace.
The bed inside the house still only has the lifted quilt and the crumpled sheets.
Is this …… seeing other realm dimensions?
Lu Yao was a little surprised in his heart.
But fortunately, that monster did not find himself. Or rather, the other party was unable to gaze at himself.
This change made Lu Yao a little uncertain.
He concentrated, his eyes focusing on the bed.
That oil monster appeared again.
It didn’t realise that it was being spied on in the slightest, it just turned around and moved across the riverbed as if it was flowing, gradually losing sight of it.
Lu Yao made some attempts and gradually grasped the knock of it.
This almost inner-world vision could be actively turned off and on, but only a very small area could be seen, which would soon be deflated and blurred.
The key was the heat currents in the body, as long as they were stimulated and allowed to accelerate in the body, one could see scenes and creatures that didn’t belong to the real world.
But it was just seeing, maintained for an extremely short period of time, unable to touch, and the two sides could not produce any substantial intersection. It was more like a localised mirage.
Just as Song Shiyi had said, the safe zone was still safe.
Lu Yao moved his ten fingers and remembered the saying.
Population is the shell.
This was the qualitative change that the population breakthrough to 20,000 brought to the body.
Lu Yao focused his attention on his body. This time, he could feel that the heat currents seemed to converge outside of his body, forming some sort of extracorporeal closed loop.
He twisted his head to look.
A haloed ring-shaped band of light had coalesced behind himself, like a star ring around a planet. It was keeping some sort of synchronisation with Lu Yao’s body, rotating slowly.
Lu Yao could clearly appreciate that this astral ring was not some external projection or illumination. It was a special substance or energy that existed as a matter of fact, the product of a large amount of heat flow converging outside the body to form a stable cycle.
When Song Shiyi had revealed her identity to Isabel, she had also displayed the astral ring behind her, which was basically the same as this one of her own.
It seemed that after the Simulator’s population reached a certain level, the bodies of godly players were able to generate this astral ring.
Then, what was its use?
Lu Yao began to try carefully.
The hand was touchable, and one could feel the feedback of the fingers and the heat flow to each other.
The astral ring was like an extended part of the body.
Would it take damage?
He used his fingers and fists to strike it, and tried to use the clothesline pole to knock and stab it, all without any pain. The fingers and clothesline pole went straight through it.
Lu Yao was dazed.
It turned out that the ring formed by the heat flow would only react to the same heat flow, and anything else that touched it was like air, and it was as if the two sides were not in the same space at all.
The somatosensory feedback from the fingers did not come from the skin nerves, but from the heat flow in the fingers.
Lu Yao tried to bring a pen close to the astral ring.
The pen fell straight to the ground.
There was no gravitational force or field-like effect.
But in front of mirrors and lenses, its image existed.
What exactly was the purpose of this thing?
It merely looked bluffing, making it look like the Buddha’s light after his manifestation ……
Lu Yao finally made a discovery after a series of patient experiments.
In addition to reacting to the heat flow that created it, the Star Ring would also have an effect on the props in the simulator.
Props like the [Energetic Cane] could float on the astral ring and slowly rotate along with it.
It was more than that.
Lu Yao only needed to concentrate and slightly accelerate the Star Ring, and it would engulf the [Energetic Cane] and enter a special space. When needed, the Accelerated Star Ring would be able to spit out the designated one.
That subtle faculty experience is hard to describe accurately.
The space within the Star Ring was a darkness, like pure nothingness, and could not be perceived except by removing the Simulator Props that were put in.
Lu Yao had always had a doubt in the past.
As the props continued to increase, how was an old player like Prayer God, who had entered the Temple of Gods, going to keep the props in his hands?
Liza had retained three props even after falling from the Temple of Gods, and there would only be more for a God of Gods like Prayer.
Now he figured it out.
Old players who entered the Hall of Gods, or stepped into the Creeping Zone, should have deposited their props into the Star Ring, to be retrieved and used at any time. This Star Ring was the space bag of the Godly players.
When Song Shiyi indicated her identity, a silver shield with a bonfire on it floated out of the star ring. That should be some sort of prop as well, perhaps a work permit for the committee?
Lu Yao stuffed a bunch of the props he had left in his hand.
There was no need to worry about being stolen from home!
He lay down on the bed and slept like never before.