Chapter 463: Chapter 463: Website

Song Jian opened a website that was quite straightforward in content. On the homepage, there was an article on the “Apocalyptic Theory”, detailing the existence of the game “Doomsday City”, followed by a series of videos.

The content of these videos was quite startling, akin to supernatural phenomena. For instance, there was a teenager walking down a dark alley, accompanied by a skeletal arm that seemed to follow him like a servant. After a few steps, the teenager seemed to sense someone watching him; he turned around, his crimson eyes causing the camera to shake violently.

There was another video of a female student vanishing in the middle of a street while carrying her backpack, only to reappear in a spot ten meters away after some time, an occurrence that was quite eerie.

Yet another set of videos took place overseas, with two sides armed with guns, engaged in a shootout on the street. Suddenly, a soldier stood up from a cove, raised his hands, and a huge fireball appeared above his palms. He then launched the fireball towards the adversaries, turning an armored vehicle into pieces, although the soldier was soon riddled with bullets from multiple submachine guns.

“It appears as if all these are skills obtained from the game!” After viewing a few more videos, Song Jian put his phone away.

This game was beginning to impact the real world. Although Song Jian has always been prepared for this, upon the actual arrival of the day, he felt rather complicated.

There were people from the military appearing in the game, and the police were conducting door-to-door investigations in the real world. The number of new players entering the game every day probably exceeded ten thousand and a good deal of players died within the game. Though these numbers were minuscule in comparison with the total population of over seven billion, traces would still be left behind, which could attract attention from the observant.

Currently, the power of players in the real world, without the bonus of game equipment, was still incapable of resisting powerful weaponry. Intelligent players would try their utmost to conceal their player identities and not exhibit any abnormalities before the might of the government.

Song Jian did not know what would happen to those who revealed their player identities, but losing some freedom was inevitable. There might even be the establishment of a unique department specifically for recruiting players in the future.

However, for many players, absolute freedom was still more important.

Players yearning for actual freedom would, at least, need to have the capability to face powerful weaponry head-on even when stripped of their game equipment bonuses.

However, with the continuous upgrade of player levels and the increasing obtainment of treasures within the game, such circumstance should seem inevitable. Eventually, the real world might be thrown into chaos.

“Whatever, as long as I’m living well.” Song Jian murmured to himself, looking out of the window at the bright moonlight. He then sat cross-legged on his bed, absorbing the moon’s essence to enhance his physical body.

With Song Jian’s current physical quality, he could ignore small-caliber handguns even without the equipment bonuses. However, for more powerful weapons, he was still apprehensive.

The next day, early in the morning, Song Jian left his rented house and walked to a real estate agency. Through the agency, Song Jian selected a villa in a scenic area. After paying the deposit, he also reserved a car that cost more than three hundred thousand. He then headed back to his rental.

He now had several million cash in hand and, at most, another twenty million incoming in three months. It was almost like a dream, getting rich overnight and suddenly becoming a millionaire. After settling the house and car issues, Song Jian felt a sense of loss – he didn’t know what to do next.

When Song Jian returned to his rented apartment community, he noticed two police cars were parked at the entrance.

Song Jian immediately went on high alert. Instead of entering his community, he walked to a nearby store across the street. After purchasing a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes, he took one out and offered it to the shop owner. Nodding towards the police cars at the entrance of the community, he asked, “Hey, buddy, what’s the situation over there? Why are there cops?”

“Well, who knows? Maybe they are here because of that superpowered person from yesterday,” the retailer replied nonchalantly, accepting the cigarette with obvious pleasure.

“The superpowered person from yesterday? Haven’t they caught him yet?” Song Jian raised an eyebrow and asked.

“Is it that easy to catch him? The guy can run on walls, how could anyone catch him?” The shop owner looked around and whispered, “Those two police cars have been there since the morning, and haven’t left. I reckon they are conducting door-to-door investigations. I don’t know what’s going on these days; it feels like all manner of bizarre things are happening…”

After smoking a cigarette with the store owner, Song Jian took one glance at the two police cars at the entrance of the community and left for a narrow path nearby.

Whether these cops were here for him or not, Song Jian did not want to interact with them this early. Although he knew that it was inevitable that they would find him, given his strength was not strong and his player identity could be possibly exposed extremely late in the game, it would be better.

By the evening, Song Jian arrived at the scenic villa he bought earlier in the day. It was a fully furnished terraced house covering more than three hundred square meters, with two floors. In Coastal City, it would only be considered mediocre at best. Yet, this house almost exhausted all the cash Song Jian had, leaving him with only around ten thousand yuan in his account.

As for the car that cost more than three hundred thousand, it would take about ten days before he could pick it up, as there was no existing stock in the 4S shop.

After arriving back at the villa, Song Jian tried to open the link released last night on his phone, but found the site to be inaccessible – it seemed to be blocked. The game also seemed to be in maintenance.

Song Jian waited until midnight when the game icon on his phone finally turned from gray to color.

“Phew, it’s finally ok again. I thought I won’t be able to enter the game today.” Song Jian let out a sigh of relief, his anxiety finally eased.

He constantly felt like a giant net was closing in on him. Even without the game equipment, Song Jian’s actual strength was less than a third of what it was in the game, but his keen intuition for danger made him feel incredibly insecure. It seemed that he would only feel safe when he was inside the game.

Upon clicking the icon, a huge skeletal arm emerged from the phone screen, grabbing hold of Song Jian and pulling him inside the game.

“Damn, it’s like this every time…”