God Simulator

 Chapter 1 A strange mini-game

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

 In a small company of about ten people, more than half are related people who are just dawdling around. After excluding the boss and partners, there are only three people who really do the work. It has only been three months since he joined the company, and Lu Yao is already living like a year.

However, he did not dare to resign until he found another job. Now that the economy is in recession, you have to survive first and then think about the next step in life.

At this time every day, Lu Yao would have some room to relax. He changed his mood and temporarily put all the unhappiness of the day behind him.

 It’s game time!

 He turned on his old computer and moved the mouse slowly on the screen.

 Let me see which one to play today.

  Get a ranking?

A knife?

 Or Romance of the Three Kingdoms 9?

 …

 An inconspicuous icon caught Lu Yao’s attention.

The icon is in the lower right corner of the screen. The logo is a green pixel-style island that blends into the green grassland of the computer background image, making it very inconspicuous.

 “God Simulator”?

what game is this?

Lu Yao doesn’t remember downloading or purchasing it at all.

 He clicked on the file properties to view it. The source file is 20M, which is a small game. This capacity seems to be from a long time ago game.

 Lu Yao’s computer configuration is low. He has been using this machine since he was in college and is reluctant to replace it. To play LoL and Dota, he has to turn on the lowest image quality. He can only rely on cloud play and watching other people’s game videos to play masterpieces. Most of the time, Lu Yao plays various classic and old games.

 He tried to open "God Simulator".

The screen slowly fades to black.

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

　　【On this day, the world finally welcomed back the great god. 】

　　【Your arrival has given the world its meaning again. Your great power will create a new civilization. 】

Then the black screen gradually disappeared, replaced by a group of villains building various buildings, some cultivating farmland, and others cheering with their arms raised high. The pixel style picture looked fresh and nostalgic, which made Lu Yao relax for a while.

Three white options appear on the background.

【new game】

【Continue the game】

【quit】

Lu Yao clicks [New Game].

 The screen returned to pitch black again, with uniform patches of green pixels appearing on it, like patches of paint smeared on a blackboard.

　　【World Capture...】

 After about five seconds, green pixels filled the screen.

  【World positioning completed, welcome to you, great god. 】

 The pixel background changes again.

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

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

Lu Yao thought for a moment and typed a word casually.

 Yao Temple.

 The words "Yao Temple" appeared in the sky above the temple.

Then the scene falls into a strange state of stillness.

Lu Yao clicked on the temple, but there were no options.

What's happening here?

 Which company made this old game without even a basic tutorial or guide?

Just when he was wondering, two bare-chested little men appeared in the corner of the screen. The two little men moved over and walked around the temple.

 An exclamation mark popped up on one of the villain's heads, and then a dialog box popped up on his head.

 “What an exquisite and magnificent house, it must have been made by God.”

 The other little man raised his hands.

 “God, God!”

“This must be a revelation from the gods. This is a lucky place. We want more people to settle here!”

 “The land promised by God! The land promised by God!”

  Smiley face symbols appear above the heads of the two little figures. They ran all the way out of the screen, and within a few seconds, they came here with five more villains.

 A total of seven little people began to worship around the temple. They built a small thatched house next to the temple, transplanted some berry-like bushes from outside the screen, and started living next to the temple.

 At this time, a prompt appears on the screen.

　　【You have obtained the first batch of believers in this world. The power of faith is your means of showing miracles. Please collect more faith. 】

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

It seems that 1 believer will provide 1 point of faith value.

 He clicked on the population with the mouse, but there was no response. Click Faith again, and this time an icon that looks like a cloud of fog will pop up.

【Miracle】

There is a row of options below, each with a corresponding sketch. All miracles are gray, indicating that none of them are currently available.

Each miracle you cast requires faith points. Even [Rainfall], which requires the least faith value, also requires 10 faith points.

 In other words, 10 believers are needed to perform a miracle.

 Increasing population became the primary issue.

  Different from other simulation business games, God Simulator cannot directly build houses or produce residents. It can only wait for the pixel villains to reproduce or gather on their own. Currently, the only option available is [Miracle].

Lu Yao watched the little pixel people farming around, his mouse kept groping around 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 little people around the temple showed an abnormal state. Sad expressions appeared on their heads, and they all worshiped around the temple.

 The dialog boxes above the little people’s heads keep appearing.

 “Great God, please show me your spirit!”

 “Please bless us! Great God!”

“The forest tribe thinks that what we believe in is the devil and wants to tear down the temple. Please show a miracle!”

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

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

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

In the center of the painting is a stone bonfire, with a gray humanoid statue in a sitting position in front of the bonfire. The faces of the figures are blurred, and no male or female can be seen. They seem to be the imaginary image of gods created by pixelated figures.

 There is a long table in front of the statue, with two placement slots of different shapes on the table.

 The large placement slot on the left is marked [Sacrifice].

 The smaller one on the right says [gift].

 These placement slots are currently empty.

Sacrifice is easy to understand. It is naturally something that these believers offer to the gods.

 According to the corresponding relationship, the gifts should be the powers or props given by the temple to these believers.

 Is this the miracle they want?

Lu Yao searched around but couldn't find any movable and towable items. He was a little confused for a moment, and then he got stuck on the first question.

 Suddenly, he noticed something strange.

The long table in front of the statue looks familiar.

 Wrong…

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

Two placement slots, the shape of the sacrifice slot is exactly the rectangular shape of the keyboard, the gift slot is oval, the mouse?

Looking carefully, the statue of the **** being worshiped appears to be sitting at a long table. Isn’t it me who is playing on the computer?

This idea shocked Lu Yao.

impossible…

 This must be a coincidence.

 Suddenly, a bold idea came to mind.

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

Lu Yao looked at the mouse expectantly.

 Two seconds later, the garlic clove rolled off the mouse.

 “It’s really a coincidence.”

Lu Yao laughed at himself, feeling a little disappointed in his heart.

At this moment, the rolling garlic cloves suddenly disappeared into thin air.

Lu Yao subconsciously looked at the computer screen.

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

  【Garlic】: A gift from the gods, a special spice and a medicinal herb.

 A line of text is displayed on the screen.

  —Do you want to give [garlic] to your believers?

【whether】

Lu Yao’s hand holding the mouse shook.

A new book has been published. Readers, please save it and read it~

 (End of this chapter)