January 8, University Town by the Sea.

These are the last two ideological and political classes of this semester, and since the class has already been finished, the teacher has finished marking the key points for the students, directly announcing self-study, sitting behind the podium and playing with mobile phones to watch videos.

The teacher himself is like this, and the college students below are naturally more unrestrained, playing games and scolding their mothers, taking out pillows and starting to sleep, writing poems on the desks, and highlighting a group of demons dancing.

There is a huge classroom, but there is no serious self-study person, just kidding, serious people who study in person, they are all hiding in the quilt and secretly learning all night.

Seeing that the students were so wasteful, sleeping, forgetting, eating, and it was impossible to be idle in the night, he directly took out a book of high mathematics for the postgraduate entrance examination, began to brush the questions, and single-handedly killed the university waste house of the whole class.

However, before he could start writing, Bai Ye was surprised to see that his arm was emitting fluorescenities.

"What's so bright? The unicorn arm has mutated? ”

Bai Ye's eyes widened, but he found that the classmates next to him were still dancing wildly, and none of them noticed the strangeness of his arms.

"Others can't see this white fluorescence?" Bai Ye looked intently and found that there was a white "V" mark on his right arm, which was the light it emitted just now.

Bai Ye thought in his heart, and pulled a classmate in the same class to ask:

"What do you think I've got on my arm?"

"I have my brother's muscles, my brother is so strong and handsome!"

"Grass!"

Bai Ye's heart was shocked, and he kicked away the burning classmate and returned to his seat.

"So, it's a mark that only I can see? What does it stand for? ”

Questions poured in, and Bai Ye couldn't figure it out for a while, but he knew very well that the mysterious "V" mark was anything but ordinary.

Bai Ye tried to stretch out his left hand and press it on the "V" mark, and suddenly a translucent virtual screen appeared in his field of vision:

"Ding--"

[Closed beta player qualification detected]

[Current number of closed beta players: 100,000]

[Night City Early Access has been released]

[Version 0.10: The Death Knell Sings for the Gods and Kings, and the Dream Chaser Sleeps in the Heavens]

【Please tap the screen to start the game】

"Games?" Bai Ye was stunned, feeling extremely ridiculous.

This mysterious symbol that suddenly appeared is actually a game being tested?

Bai Ye frowned, reaching out and gently touching the screen.

The screen suddenly changed, transforming into a deep black background.

Just at first glance, White Night noticed that this game was very different from the games on the market.

There is no delicate animated CG like a movie, and there is no BGM music that vibrates the cranial cavity.

Yes, it's just lines of bright red font that convey to the player everything that happens in the game.

"Is this a play on words?" The white night stared, line by line.

[On a rainy night, you were awakened by the gunfire of the terror squad and looked out the window]

[I saw that in the beautiful night rendered by neon, the iron warrior-like terrorist mobile team was fully armed, the guns in their hands spewed out a metal storm, and the kinetic energy bullets at three times the speed of sound whistled towards the cyberpsychotic and hostages, and their bodies suddenly exploded, like blooming red flowers, and blood flowed like rivers]

[In order to prevent the corpse fragments from being weirdly distorted, the terror team immediately threw white phosphorus incendiary bombs, and the surging heat wave hit your face, burrowing into your nose with the smell of rotten meat]

[There seems to be a terrible cry in the wind and rain]

[It's an ordinary night again]

[That's what you think]

[Looking out the window at the neon city, this dream-like night city, the city of dreams, the memories of the past come to my heart like waves]

[Night City, a fantasy city built on the scorched earth of war, was once the brightest star of Southern California, but now times have changed,]

[Under the double destruction of the Fourth Corporate War and strange disasters, all the order of the old world has been broken, chaos and brutality have dominated every corner of the city, and everyone who can see it has been devoured alive]

[In 2077, the city you live in is ranked as the worst area in the United States, violent crime is endless, and the number of people below the poverty line is the largest in the United States, but people are still flocking,]

[This city will always give you a glimmer of hope, whether it is a lie or an illusion, but it is so close, it seems to be within reach, making people desperate, this place is full of dreams, and you are the one who chases dreams. 】

[Click "Hack System" to officially create a character]

"Cyberpunk? ”

Bai Ye was a little surprised, the science fiction concept of "cyberpunk" can be described as thunderous, and it is a popular science fiction category in recent years.

In the cyberpunk genre, high-tech cities are filled with light-polluted neon lights, everyone is dressed in fancy clothes, with mechanical metal arms and prosthetic eyes, and big corporations are like gods who control everything in the world.

At present, wordplay gives little information, but it constructs the framework of a "Night City", like a dark disco with the smell of rust and blood, playing in the ears of the white night.

The city is full of evil, but it is also full of opportunities, and nobodies and fame are all in the table.

"Hack into the system." White Night clicks the button to enter the character creation page.

On the dark black screen, the crimson font spreads out like a queue:

[Hacking into the Night City Resident Database ......]

[Hack successful, please select the player's initial identity]

[1. Street Kid]

[2.Wanderer]

[3.Employees of the company]

[Please note that most events and dialogue triggers in the game will vary depending on your choices]

"Choose one of the three initial identities?" Bai Ye thought about it, the street boy and the homeless, one is poorer than the other, only the company employees are still like people.

But if you choose the company's employees, you will undoubtedly be a lackey of the company, staining your hands for a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan, and colluding with the capitalists.

Of course, I can bear it, and Bai Ye did not hesitate to click [3. Company Employees].

However......

[Dear dreamers, choose the company's employee background, you need to pay 100,000 US dollars]

[Detected that you currently hold cash: $30]

【Your balance is insufficient, do you want to top up?】 】

Looking at the prompts on the screen, Bai Ye's eyes widened:

"And krypton?!"

"A million dollars, why don't you grab it?"

Bai Ye really didn't expect that this "Night City" game actually won the essence of a certain goose and a pig, and the krypton gold degree was full, and it would cost one million dollars to choose an identity.

This is also called "Night City", directly called "Krypton City".

Bai Ye had no choice but to choose the [Street Kid] opening, literally, it felt at least better than the "Wanderer".

[Dream Chaser, you have chosen the identity of the street boy]

[People say that if you want to understand the suffering on the streets, you have to live there.] Vortex gangs, voodoo gangs, terrorist squads, middlemen, sex dolls, artisans, unscrupulous drug dealers...... You grew up eating 100 family meals. Here, the law of the jungle has the final say. It's the only rule in Night City that you haven't broken yet. 】

[The biomonitoring panel is being activated...... Startup Complete】

[Name: White Night]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 18]

[Character background: Street Kid]

[Street Reputation Level: LV0]

[Personal Level: LV0]

[Modification level: 0/300]

[Flesh: 4]

[Intelligence: 3]

[reaction: 3]

[Technical Ability: 1]

[Calm: 2]

[Individual level LV0 - LV1: $1,000,000 is required]

[If you increase your personal level, you can get 1 allocable attribute point]

[Detected that you currently hold cash: $30]

【Your balance is insufficient, do you want to top up?】 】

"Charge your sister! One level to one million? ”

Bai Ye shouted directly in the classroom, attracting sympathetic glances from the surrounding students, and another person who was crazy about playing with his hands.

Seeing the information on the screen, although Bai Ye had already prepared in his heart, the corners of his mouth twitched.

Who is this game for? Is there a mine or a sea at home?

After that, players will meet offline, and the car they drive is either a Bentley or a Lincoln, a private jet and a luxury yacht, and he is a poor man riding a shared bicycle?

Thinking about that picture, it's just outrageous!

Although he cursed inwardly, Bai Ye still clicked [Start Game] with anticipation.

Bai Ye had a hunch in his heart that "Night City" would definitely bring him more than just a game!

This sense of mystery that affects reality alone is enough for him to keep playing.

[Dream Chaser, you wake up from a dream and are located in your apartment in Watson District]

[You came to Night City for your dream and became a new street mercenary]

[Unfortunately, the task you took on was repeatedly accidental, either blowing up the stolen car, attracting a large number of arrests from the NCPD, or burning the customer's mechanical mole to ashes]

[You feel that the people in the middle are gradually becoming more and more cold to you, you are receiving fewer and fewer tasks, and the debts and bills are piling up]

[Today, your account balance has finally bottomed out, but you have not received any entrustment from any middleman]

[The consequences of not being able to pay the rent are very serious, and the landlord will definitely hold his shotgun and let you roll up and leave]

[You can go to Taiping Continent or the Badlands to find opportunities, where chaos and danger, but full of opportunities]

[Or continue to wait in the apartment, pray to God, maybe there will be a middleman to distribute the task, pity you weak little chick]

[No matter what choice you make, this is your life, and all your results are your own choice]

At this moment, the options pop up:

[Keep Waiting] and [Go Out and Explore]

Seeing these two options, Bai Ye fell into thought.

At the beginning, he became a "loser", and sure enough, the "Zero Krypton" player was not even as good as a dog, but fortunately, he was mentally prepared in the white night.

Judging from the plot, if you continue to wait, the possibility of getting a middleman task commission is very small, and there are still some opportunities to go out and explore.

After some consideration, Bai Ye chose [Go Out to Explore].

[Every dreamer is full of enthusiasm and grows up listening to the legends of Night City, and the legendary characters have always taken the initiative to trample their fate under their feet]

[You choose to go out and explore, and you want to make a career in a place outside the law]

[As soon as you walked out of the apartment, you met a group of scavenger bandits passing by]

[They took a fancy to your delicious organs and knocked you unconscious and took you away]

[You wake up and find that your waist is gone]

You're Dead.

Is this a violent death? Bai Ye looked confused.

He had just left the apartment, and he was slammed in the waist before he took two steps?!

What kind of night city is this? More Hazakh than northern Myanmar?!

Is it because you didn't top up your money?!

Zero-Krypton players don't deserve to live, do they?!

Gan! Trash game!

Bai Ye scolded while continuing to play.

But the next moment,

The pop-up prompt on the screen shocked him!

[At the moment when you are about to die, the memories of the past are like thousands of swords, piercing through the resentment in your heart]

[The beauty of the past is re-reflected in front of you, praying for your rest]

[But you are in pain]

[You want to roar]

[You want to kill the world]

[Unprecedented anger ignites from the bottom of your heart, and in every dying cell, the bound genes are like rage, savagely breaking free from all shackles]

[At the moment of approaching death, you are reborn, like a new life]

[You have awakened S-Rank Talent: Reincarnation]

[Reincarnation (S-Class): A fanatic who is infinitely close to death, incinerating eternity with the fire of life]

[Congratulations on getting rid of the death of nothingness, every time you die, you will touch the cycle of reincarnation and be reborn twenty-four hours ago]

[Your death triggered the reincarnation talent, and due to some kind of constraint, you were not able to travel through time and space in Night City, but were reborn in your apartment]

[You are a little frightened for the rest of your life after the catastrophe, the moment of reincarnation and rebirth is like torture, and you rested for a long time before you recovered]

[Awakening talent, the dream chaser who is in charge of reincarnation, this is both a kind of luck and a misfortune, every gift in fate has already marked its own price in secret]

[Dream Chaser who has been reborn from reincarnation, now you are facing a choice again]

At this moment, the options pop up again:

Keep Waiting, Explore, and Revenge: Sneak Attack on the Scavenger

"S-class talent reincarnation?!" Looking at the game prompts, Bai Ye's eyes suddenly widened.

I thought that I suddenly died and became a game experience of a "local tyrant player", but I actually hit it by mistake and triggered a god-level reward?!

What kind of protagonist template is this?! , okay?!

The strength of this reincarnation ability is terrifyingly high, almost equal to the immortal body, and it is worthy of an S-level talent.

Reincarnation and rebirth, immortal and immortal!

The white night is surging, the sky is endless, my life is up to me!

S-class talent in hand, this game is not just a casual game?

For the new option, Bai Ye decisively chose [Revenge], the revenge of the waist of the Ka waist, and did not repay the non-gentleman!

However......

[The passionate dreamer has just been reincarnated, and he chooses to take revenge on the scavenger]

[Unfortunately, your incompetence is one of the best in the entire Night City, and the sneak attack was unsuccessful, and the scavengers saw your appearance, cursed the "reincarnation", and opened fire on you, and you were shot into a sieve]

You're Dead.

[The power of reincarnation is still cooling, you fall into a deep sleep, and you can only be reborn after twenty-four hours]

【23：59:58】

Damn, he died violently again.

It's so special to have a people's mentality, Bai Ye is so angry that his teeth are itching, and it hasn't been 10 minutes, and he died twice, playing with you a hammer.

Looking at the countdown in the game prompt, Bai Ye guessed that he would not be able to act again until 24 hours.

It's a bit like the rhythm of most mobile games, where you run out of stamina and then you can continue to explore and farm dungeons the next day.

It is worth noting...... This time, instead of slapping him in the waist, the scavenger called himself a "reincarnation" and shot himself to death like a rat crossing the street......

Bai Ye connected with the sentence "Every gift in fate has already secretly marked its own price", and faintly felt that something was wrong.

The reputation of the "reincarnators" is so bad that even bandits like scavengers are distorted?

Isn't it going to be a public enemy of Night City? Everyone shouts and beats?

With these questions, Bai Ye calmed down, there is too little information at the moment, and there is no need to think so much.

Although Night City is dangerous, the S-class talent reincarnation is his greatest reliance, providing plenty of room for trial and error, and White Night can explore slowly.

Just then, the game prompt pops up again:

【Emergency Player Event】

【Bounty Boss: Adam Hammer】

[Bounty Level: S and above]

[Bounty: Talent Enhancement Potion (Unlimited Level Increases of Single Talent Ability Level)]

【Rewarder: Anonymous】

"Bounty boss? Who is Adam Hammer? Seeing the prompt pop up, Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, and then felt a little moved.

Can this potion strengthen one's [Reincarnation] talent above the S rank?

But he is still LV0 now, and he can't even beat the scavenger with a waist of Karma, and he has to think long term to hunt Adam's hammer.

"Jingle Bell Ring—"

The bell rings for the end of class.

Bai Ye pressed the V-shaped mark, closed the game panel, and followed the wolf-like army of classmates, planning to go to the cafeteria to cook.

As a result, he didn't take two steps, and Bai Ye directly bumped into the classmate in front of him.

"What are you stopping for?"

"I don't know, something seems to have happened."

Bai Ye looked up, but saw that the classmates outside the corridor were all staring blankly at the sky, their eyes were extremely shocked, as if they had seen a miracle.

Bai Ye suddenly felt something was wrong in his heart, so he pushed aside the classmates around him and rushed out of the corridor, his pupils contracted instantly.

For a while, a huge shock shocked Bai Ye's mind, and he almost thought that he was hallucinating.

I saw that above the sky dome of Binhai City, like a mirage, an upside-down large metropolis emerged.

Huge neon pillars connect to the sky, and high-rise buildings are dreamlike in the rain and fog......

A cyber city with a sense of futuristic technology appears in everyone's field of vision in a form of great visual impact.

Although Bai Ye has not seen the city with his own eyes, the words "Night City" are almost blurted out!

At this moment, his heart was beating violently, and he was almost overwhelmed by the upside-down cyber city hanging in the sky!

"Mirage!"

"It's a mirage! See you for the first time! ”

"No, how can there be such a city near the coast?"

Seeing the grand spectacle in the sky, the college students crowded together took out their mobile phones to take videos and concentrate on missing a second of detail.

The mirage above the sky dome lasted only about a minute before it gradually dissipated into nothingness.

But the classmates around Bai Ye were noisy, enthusiastically analyzing and discussing the strange scene just now, guessing whether it was an advertising projection from a high-tech company.

In the noisy crowd, only Bai Ye, who is a "player", knows the truth of the matter.

The 100,000 beta players started the game, but it was just a foreshadowing of the arrival of Night City.

Bai Ye looked at the flow of people around him, and secretly put the "V" mark on his arm into his sleeve.

He understands that I am afraid that this world is really going to change.