Chapter 1

As the hour hand jumped to one o'clock in the morning,

Li Ang, fully armed and silently waiting in the living room, exchanged a glance with Chai Chai, who was staring at his appearance while sitting on the sofa and playing with her phone.

"I'm leaving."

"Okay."

Chai Chai nodded, pushed up the glasses on her nose, and said in a low voice with a disguised male voice, "Don't worry, I will protect this home."

"You're being silly again."

Li Ang flicked Chai Chai on the forehead, took a deep breath, clicked on the player panel, and used his mind to press the newly launched game plaza button.

Nothing unusual happened.

When he opened his eyes again, Li Ang was already in a vast plaza.

The ground of the plaza was paved with square white tiles with sides of ten meters, and the specific material could not be seen.

The top of the plaza was very strange. It was not a hemispherical dome or a square ceiling.

Looking up, one could see a large pile of black, white, and gray geometric shapes above the plaza.

These geometric shapes approached, separated, pieced together, and disintegrated at a cloud-like slow speed,

forming various shapes.

Sometimes they looked like futuristic cities, and sometimes they looked like some kind of giant mechanical weapon, without any rules.

Looking at them for a long time could even cause a trance-like disorientation.

The plaza was very bright, but no light source could be found.

Looking around, all that could be seen were demons and monsters.

Based on the principle of "simple is perfect," Li Ang dressed himself as a pickled cucumber wearing a white coat.

His whole body was hidden in the green pickled cucumber, leaving only his eyes and hands and feet exposed.

Great minds think alike, and many players in the plaza were also wearing strange costumes.

Since the system notification stated that players were prohibited from harming each other in the game plaza, many players who logged into the plaza wore the clothes that could cover the most of their bodies—anyway, no one could harm anyone else, so to keep their identities secret, of course they had to dress conservatively.

The more normal ones wrapped themselves in several layers of airtight white blankets.

The more abnormal ones wore the head of BoJack Horseman and put on a Tyrannosaurus rex cosplay costume.

Even more, a few players who seemed to be online as a team dressed up as The Flash, Batman, and Aquaman riding a seahorse—these brothers had good ideas,

but unfortunately, their otaku bodies couldn't support the superhero cosplay costumes, and they looked not only uninspiring but also very decadent.

In the bustling plaza, there was only a very small sound of whispers. Most people stayed in place, cautiously examining other players, without moving.

Ding-dong—

The system prompt sounded again. Opening it, it was a notification about the full opening of the physical store and personal space.

Almost all players clicked on their personal panels.

At the same time, a deafening roar came from below the floor in all directions of the plaza.

Brand-new high-rise buildings rose from the ground, the most conspicuous of which was the shopping mall building.

The shopping mall was seventy stories high, covering a very large area. The overall shape was triangular, similar to a modern large shopping mall. The outer sides of the three walls were covered with colorful neon light tube advertisements,

which looked quite ostentatious.

As for the buildings next to the shopping mall that had newly risen from the ground, they were equally towering and futuristic.

The difference was that most of these buildings were in black and white tones, without other colors, and seemed to be not yet activated.

Seeing the shopping mall erected, the players in the plaza showed excited expressions and formed a tide of people, walking towards the shopping mall.

Li Ang did not join them. He was far away from the shopping mall, so he simply stood in place, opened the player panel, and explored other functions.

"Let me see, the player's personal space is in..."

As soon as Li Ang clicked on the personal space option, his whole person disappeared from the spot and appeared in a not-so-spacious, pale room.

At the same time, some information about the personal space automatically flooded into his mind.

For example, players can use this room as a warehouse.

The doors and windows in the room are all fake. Opening them will directly teleport you to a random location in the middle of the plaza.

Friends can visit each other's rooms, provided that the owner of the house agrees.

Spending money can increase the room area, and you can also buy a wide variety of furniture from the online store—custom furniture will appear directly in the room.

The room beautification function is obviously prepared for those players who want to play "Killing Field Warmth,"

Simple refrigerators, microwave ovens, air conditioners, chairs, benches, etc. are very cheap,

but there are also large furniture with ridiculously high prices, with special effects, which are completely comparable to auxiliary logistics equipment if used well.

For example, a massage chair that can increase the speed of physical recovery after use,

a bar counter that increases the sense of pleasure,

and even some very suspicious double ceramic gold-inlaid flushing toilets that can allow two people to shit side by side, and apply a buff of telepathy to both parties after shitting.

"What a freak show."

Li Ang shook his head. "I have to say, the design of this private space is really good, and it can be used as a home.

It's a pity that players can't stay in the game plaza all the time. After staying for a certain period of time, they will be forcibly logged out of the plaza.

This setting is probably to prevent some players from shrinking in private space and refusing to contact the outside world—after all, the Killing Field game is for selecting transcendents and raising Gu, not for cultivating rice worms."

Li Ang briefly browsed the online furniture store and logged out of the private space, teleporting to the plaza.

At this time, a large number of players had entered the shopping mall.

A small number of players stayed in the plaza, gathering around several activated buildings.

"That's... the arena, the plaza housing sales office, the guild registration office?"

Li Ang looked at the newly launched map function in the player panel. Obviously, major organizations had already begun to layout at this time.

According to the game plaza rules, players can spend a certain amount of money

to be randomly assigned a piece of land from the system, for players to form guilds and open shops.

Although the land is randomly assigned,

the more money you spend, the closer the location of the land is to the center of the plaza, and the larger the initial area of the building given to the player.

Since it is an official organization, it must show off its status.

In just a few minutes, a long queue formed in front of the plaza housing sales office, with countless strangely dressed people waiting to buy houses.

Among them were spokespersons for major organizations (members of large organizations moved out in groups, taking advantage of their numerical advantage to queue up first),

and some small forces' leaders, or lone wolf players.

"Is it necessary to be so fanatical... buying land as soon as you come up."

Li Ang clicked his tongue, "It is excusable for large organizations to buy land in order to occupy favorable geographical locations,

others, well, are likely to be speculating on real estate.

If they are assigned a good location, they will sell the land immediately, and they may be able to make a quick buck back and forth.

Damn it! It's all you real estate speculators' fault that I can't afford a house!"

Li Ang cursed the real estate speculation group, but his feet honestly walked towards the housing sales office.

It's rare to see so many players, so I'll go up and see the world.