Chapter 1: Online Game: World
"Aurélien, the game helmet has arrived, wake up!"
Aurélien slowly opened his eyes to see his brother Valentin's excited face.
"Look, it's the 'World' game helmet!"
In front of him were two game helmets.
Valentin couldn’t contain his excitement and started dancing: "I can't believe it! We just casually filled out the questionnaire, and they actually sent us two helmets!"
"The game just launched, and I heard one helmet has already been resold for 80,000 yuan. If we sell them, we’ll have money to pay for Mom’s treatment!"
Mom? Treatment? 'World' has launched?
Aurélien's face showed shock: "Have I gone back to five years ago?"
"What five years ago? You must be too excited. Get up, let’s sell the helmets! I’ve already contacted a buyer!"
Aurélien snapped back to reality and grabbed Valentin: "We can’t sell them!"
Valentin looked at Aurélien in confusion: "Not sell?! Then what?"
"We play ourselves!"
"What? Are you crazy? This is 80,000 yuan! Are you joking?"
Valentin looked at Aurélien as if he were mad.
Aurélien shook his head, his eyes filled with determination: "Trust me, we can’t sell them, at least not one!"
Back then, they sold the game helmets to pay for their mother's hospitalization, but she still passed away because they didn’t have enough money for surgery.
After their mother’s death, Aurélien entered the game 'World'.
He became a merchant in 'World' and made quite a bit of money.
It was enough for their mother’s surgery, but their mother couldn’t wait.
This was the thing Aurélien regretted the most.
However, something happened later, and he was killed.
Since he’s been reborn, Aurélien will not let such a thing happen again.
Valentin stared at Aurélien, shook off his hand, and said angrily: "You’re crazy. I think you must be crazy. Do you really want to play games that much?"
"This is for Mom’s hospitalization!"
If it weren’t for his memories, Aurélien would also think he was crazy.
"The game helmet is our only way to change our destiny. Give me a week, and I will get the money for Mom’s surgery! Trust me, let me try!"
A week later is the best time for Mom’s surgery.
Valentin looked at Aurélien blankly: "A week?"
"You must be crazy!! That’s 500,000 yuan!! And there’s follow-up treatment. Can you get it by playing games?"
Aurélien’s gaze was firm: "Trust me! Let me try!"
He wasn’t sure, but how could he know without trying?
Valentin’s emotions gradually calmed down.
The two grew up together, and Valentin knew Aurélien very well.
Valentin gritted his teeth and said while holding the game helmet: "You will regret it!!"
After that, he stormed out with one helmet.
Aurélien picked up the other helmet.
Taking a deep breath: "I won’t regret it, nor will I leave any regrets!"
Holding the helmet in both hands, he slowly put it on, and the helmet was pitch black.
Suddenly, light shone.
[Scanning Iris]
[Iris Scan Successful]
[Note: Once the helmet is bound, the binding target cannot be changed!]
[Would you like to bind the helmet?]
"Bind!"
[Ding, binding helmet...]
[Helmet binding successful]
[Welcome to 'World']
Aurélien’s eyes suddenly brightened.
A magnificent scene appeared in front of him, with dragons soaring in the sky, magma pouring into the earth, and flames swallowing everything.
Humans and countless monsters, beasts, and tribes fought for it.
This is the opening animation of 'World'.
[Warrior, you will enter 'World' and become a member of 'World'. Please don't be nervous, the system will start scanning the player's body!]
A game character wearing cloth clothes appeared in front of Aurélien.
The game character looked very similar to Aurélien.
It was a character created by the helmet after scanning Aurélien’s appearance.
[Would you like to enter the game with this image?]
Aurélien: "No, random!"
[Yes, random!]
The character in front of Aurélien began to change randomly.
In the end, Aurélien chose a thin and small man image.
"Confirm!"
[Character creation successful, please name your character!]
A dialog box appeared in front of Aurélien again.
"Empereur des affaires!"
[Would you like to name it Empereur des affaires?]
"Confirm!"
Aurélien used this name in his previous life.
Since he decided to enter the game as a businessman.
"Empereur des affaires" has business elements and is both domineering and easy to remember, just right.
[Ding, congratulations to player Empereur des affaires for successful creation, welcome to 'World', I wish you great achievements in the world of 'World'!]
The system’s inspiring narration just finished, and Aurélien’s vision went black.
A few seconds later.
The surrounding noise sounded, surrounding Aurélien’s ears.
Slowly opening his eyes, he stood in the middle of a small village.
There were all cloth-clothed people around him, men and women, their eyes were confused and shocked.
'World' uses the most professional neural imaging function, which is no different from the real world.
"It feels so real! Just like the real world!"
"This 80,000 yuan was worth it!"
In the simple village, there were people everywhere.
At the entrance of the village, there was a chicken as big as half a person, patting the ball, crying and running past.
Behind it, a group of novices in cloth clothes were following and hacking it.
In the fields further away, rabbits and pigs were beaten to death by a group of people as soon as they respawned.
The brilliant and short life lasted less than two seconds.
The village square was very lively.
"The team is recruiting players, log in on time for eight hours a day!"
"Looking for a rich boyfriend, the requirement is to be rich in reality and can recharge for me! I’m 150 cm tall, 150 jin, a slightly plump fairy."
"Small bottle of blood medicine, 1 gold coin, a lot of quantity and full!"
Aurélien glanced at the time, and it had been half an hour since the game started.
Every player who enters the game will automatically receive a novice guidance task.
[Novice guidance task: Kill five 'ball-playing chickens' at the entrance of the village and find the guard to hand in the task!]
[Task reward: A new player weapon, 5 small bottles of blood medicine, and 100 experience points.]
Newcomers to 'World', after the initial shock and confusion, joined the chicken-killing army.
Aurélien didn’t do the task, opened the task bar, selected the novice guidance task.
"Give up the task!"
[Ding, are you sure you want to give up the task?]
[Note: The novice guidance task cannot be taken after giving up!]
"Sure!"
[Task abandonment successful, automatically deleted from the task page!]
After completing everything, Aurélien turned and walked deeper into the village.
"I remember it’s in this position!"
At the deepest part of the village, there was a tavern and a wood house, which looked out of place in the novice village.
Other players were desperately doing tasks, and in the tavern, there were only a few players.
The tavern owner was a fox-humanoid demon with exposed shoulders.
Holding a pipe, leaning on a pillar, showing two long legs, swinging a fox tail, and smoking.
Several players were standing on the table, looking down and peeping at the boss.
From their position, they could see some indescribable things.
"Hehe, I told you 'World' is fun, but you didn’t believe it!"
"It’s so much fun."
These few were exploiting a bug.
We’re all men, we understand.
Aurélien smiled and walked towards the fox boss.
A few novice players hurriedly said.
"Bro, don’t go, she won’t pay attention to you!"
"Look at his sneaky look, is he going to make a move on the NPC?"
"You’re thinking too much. I just wanted to touch it, and I almost got kicked off the line by the system!"
Under everyone’s teasing eyes, Aurélien approached the tavern boss.
"Hello!"
The scene he had imagined, where he would be chased away, did not happen.
The boss looked him up and down, blew out a smoke ring, and lightly parted her red lips: "Young man, a newcomer to the divine continent. I see you have a sly look, very suitable to be a businessman! Do you want to be a cunning businessman?"