At the end of the day's work, Lu Yao dragged his tired body back to the rental house.

In a small company with more than a dozen people, more than half of them are related households, and excluding the boss and partners, there are only three people who really do things. has only been in the company for three months, and Lu Yao is already a little like a year.

However, he did not dare to resign until he found his next home. Now that the economy is in a recession, I have to save and think about the next step in life.

At this time of the day, Lu Yao will have a little space to relax. He changed his mood and put all the unhappiness of the day behind him for the time being.

Now, it's playtime!

He turned on his old computer, his mouse moving slowly across the screen.

Let me see, which one to play today.

Kick off a rank?

A knife?

Or Three Kingdoms 9?

……

An inconspicuous icon caught Lu Yao's attention.

The icon is in the bottom right corner of the screen, and the logo is a green pixel-style island, which blends in with the green grass of the computer background image, which is very inconspicuous.

"God Simulator"?

What game is this?

Lu Yao didn't remember downloading or buying it at all.

He clicked on the file properties to view. The source file is 20M, which is a small game. At this capacity, it looks like it should have been a game a while ago.

Lu Yao's computer configuration is low, he has used this machine since he was in college, he is reluctant to replace it, he has to open the lowest picture quality to play lol and Dota, and the game masterpiece can only rely on the cloud to play and watch other people's game videos. Most of the time, Lu Yao is playing all kinds of classic old games.

He tried to open the God Simulator.

The screen slowly goes black.

Accompanied by melodious old-fashioned 8-bit electronic music, white Chinese characters are displayed one by one on a black screen, a very classical pixel game style.

[On this day, the world finally welcomed back the great gods. 】

Your arrival has brought meaning to the world. Your power will create a new civilization. 】

Then the curtain faded away, replaced by a group of villains building buildings, others cultivating farmland, and others cheering with their arms raised. The pixel art picture looks fresh and nostalgic, and Lu Yao is relaxed for a while.

Three white options appear on the background.

【New Game】

【Continue playing】

【Exit】

Lu Yao clicked [New Game].

The screen is pitch black again, with patches of uniform green pixels emerging on it, like blocks of paint applied to a chalkboard.

【World Capture......

After about five seconds, green pixels covered the screen.

[The world positioning is complete, welcome, great god.] 】

The pixel background changes again.

A flat green field appears on the screen, surrounded by forests, rivers, mountains, and deserts. In the center of the picture is a white-domed building that looks like a temple.

A line of text appears in the center: This is your temple, and you named it the Temple of ___.

Lu Yao thought about it for a while, and then typed it casually.

Yao Temple.

The handwriting of [Yao Temple] appeared in the sky above the temple.

Then the picture falls into a strange state of stillness.

Lu Yao clicked on the temple, and there was no option.

What's going on?

Which company made an old game that didn't even have a basic tutorial and guide?

Just as he was wondering, two shirtless barefoot figures appeared in the corner of the screen, and the two little figures moved all the way around, walking around the temple.

An exclamation point pops up on one of the villains' heads, and then a dialog box pops up on their heads.

"What a delicate and magnificent house, it must have been made by God."

The other villain raised his hands in the air.

"Gods, gods!"

"This must be a revelation from the gods, this is a lucky place, we want more people to settle here!"

"The Land of the Promised Gods! The Promised Land! ”

Smiley faces appear above the heads of both villains. They ran all the way out of the screen, and within seconds, they came here with five more villains.

A total of seven villains began to worship around the temple. They built a small thatched hut next to the temple, transplanted some berries-like bushes from off-screen, and began living next to the temple.

A prompt appears on the screen.

[You have obtained the first believers in this world, and the power of faith is your means to show miracles, please collect more faith.] 】

Lu Yao noticed that there was a small human head in the upper right corner, showing a population, and a palace icon next to it, showing faith. Both the population and faith values are 7.

It seems that 1 believer will provide 1 faith point.

He clicked on the population with the mouse, but there was no response. Click on faith again, and this time an icon that looks like a fog will appear.

【Miracle】

Below there is a row of options, each with a corresponding stick figure. All miracles are grayed out, indicating that none of them are currently needed.

Each miracle is performed at a cost of Faith. Even the Rain, which requires the least amount of Faith, costs 10 Faith.

In other words, it takes 10 believers to be satisfied to perform a miracle.

Increasing the population became the primary concern.

Unlike other business simulation games, the God Simulator cannot directly build houses or produce inhabitants, but can only wait for the pixel villains to reproduce or gather on their own. At present, there is only one option that can be operated, [Miracle].

Lu Yao watched the pixel villain farming, the mouse kept trying to grope on the screen, and his stomach began to growl.

He went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of noodles and came back with a few cloves of garlic.

When he returned to the computer, Lu Yao noticed that the villains around the temple were showing an abnormal state. A sad expression appeared on their heads, and they all worshipped around the temple.

Overhead dialogs keep popping up over the villains.

"Great God, I beg your apparition!"

"Bless us! Great God! ”

"The forest tribe thinks that we believe in demons and want to tear down the temple, please show a miracle!"

Lu Yao took a bite of noodles and thought to himself, it seems that this is the first crisis.

However, at the moment, the faith value is only 7 points, and it can't even rain, and the miracle column is not available yet.

Lu Yao continued to explore, and finally clicked on a new interface on the temple.

In the center of the picture is a stone bonfire, in front of which is a sitting gray humanoid statue. The face of the portrait is blurred, and it is impossible to see men and women, and it seems to be the imaginary image of a god in the pixel figure.

There is a long table in front of the idol with two slots of different shapes.

The large placement slot on the left is labeled "Sacrifice".

The small one on the right reads "Gift".

At the moment, none of these slots are empty.

The sacrifice is easy to understand, and it is naturally something that these believers and villains offer to the gods.

According to the correspondence, then the gift should be the power or prop that the temple bestows on these believers.

Is this the miracle they want?

Lu Yao searched and searched, but he didn't find any movable and towable items. He was a little confused for a while, and then he got stuck in the first question.

Suddenly, he noticed something strange.

The long table in front of the statue of the god feels a little familiar.

Wrong......

Why is that desk exactly the same as my own computer desk?

Two placement slots, the sacrificial slot is completely rectangular in shape like a keyboard, the boon slot is oval, and the mouse?

If you look closely, the statue of the god you worship shows that you are sitting at a long table, isn't it yourself playing on the computer?

This thought startled Lu Yao.

No way......

It's certainly a coincidence.

Then, a bold idea came to my head.

He carefully placed the garlic clove next to the instant noodles on the mouse.

Lu Yao looked at the mouse expectantly.

After two seconds, the garlic cloves roll off the mouse.

"It's a coincidence."

Lu Yao laughed at himself, and there was a faint sense of loss in his heart.

At this moment, the tumbling garlic clove suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

Lu Yao subconsciously looked at the computer screen.

In the temple's [Gift] slot, there is an extra pixel icon of garlic.

[Garlic]: A gift from the gods, a special spice, and a medicinal herb.

A line of words is displayed on the screen.

INTERVIEWER Would you like to give garlic to your followers?

[Yes] [No]

Lu Yao's hand holding the mouse trembled.