January 8, Binhai University Town.

These are the last two ideological and political classes of this semester. Since the class has finished early, the teacher has marked the key points for the students, directly announced the self-study, and sat behind the podium to play with his mobile phone and watch videos.

The teacher himself is like this, and the college students below are naturally more unrestrained. They play black and white games and scold their mothers, take out pillows and start sleeping, and write poems on their desks, which is like a group of demons dancing wildly.

In such a big classroom, there is no serious person who studies by himself. Just kidding, whoever studies by himself in front of a serious person will hide under the quilt and study secretly all night long.

Seeing that the students were so wasteful, sleeping, forgetting, and eating, they couldn't be idle during the day, so they took out a book of advanced mathematics for the postgraduate entrance examination and started to answer the questions, and single-handedly defeated the whole class's college waste house.

However, before he started writing, Bai Ye was surprised to see that his arm was emitting fluorescent light.

"What's so bright? Has the unicorn arm mutated?"

Bai Ye's eyes widened, but he found that the classmates next to him were still dancing around like monsters, and no one noticed the strangeness in his arm.

"Can't other people 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 was thinking in his mind and pulled a classmate to ask:

"Look what I have on my arm?"

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

"Grass!"

Bai Ye was deeply shocked. He kicked Kai Ling's classmate and returned to his seat.

"So, this is a mark that only I can see? What does it mean?"

Questions flooded 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 pressed it on the "v" mark. Suddenly a translucent virtual screen appeared in his field of vision:

"Ding--"

[Internal beta player qualification detected]

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

["Night City" early access trial version has been released]

[Version 0.10: The death knell tolls for the gods and kings, and the dream chaser sleeps in the sky]

[Please click on the screen to start the game]

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

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

Bai Ye frowned and reached out to touch the screen gently.

The screen suddenly changed and turned into a dark black background.

At first glance, Bai Ye realized that this game was very different from other games on the market.

There is no animation CG that is as exquisite as a movie, and there is no BGM music that shakes the skull.

Some are just lines of bright red fonts that express to players everything that happens in the game.

"Is this actually a word game?" Bai Ye stared at it, looking line by line.

[On a rainy night, you are awakened by the gunfire of the Terrorist Mobile Team and look out the window]

[I saw that in the gorgeous neon night, the steel warrior-like violent terrorist mobile team was fully armed, the guns in their hands spit out metal storms, and kinetic energy bullets with three times the speed of sound whizzed towards the cyber psychosis and the hostages, and their bodies suddenly exploded

, like a blooming red flower, with blood flowing into a river]

[In order to prevent the strange distortion of the corpse fragments, the violent terrorist mobile team immediately threw white phosphorus incendiary bombs, a raging heat wave rushed towards your face, and the burning smell of rotten meat penetrated into your nasal cavity]

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

【Another ordinary night】

【You think so】

[Looking at the neon city outside the window, this dreamlike night city, the city of dreams, memories of the past come to my mind like waves]

[Night City, this is a dream city built on the scorched soil of war. It was once the most dazzling star in Southern California, but now times have changed,]

[Under the double devastation of the fourth corporate war and strange disasters, all order in the old world was broken. Chaos and brutality dominated every corner of the city, eating everyone in sight alive]

[In 2077, the city you live in is rated as the worst area in the United States, with endless violent crimes and the largest number of people below the poverty line in the United States, but people still flock to it]

[This city will always give you a glimmer of hope, whether it’s a lie or an illusion, but it’s so close, as if it’s within reach, making people desperate. This city is full of dreams, and you are the one chasing the dream.]

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

"Cyberpunk? "

Bai Ye was a little surprised. The science fiction concept of "cyberpunk" is so popular that it has become a popular science fiction category in recent years.

In cyberpunk-style works, high-tech cities are filled with light-polluting neon lights. Everyone wears strange clothes and has mechanical metal arms and prosthetic eyes. Big companies are like gods, controlling everything in the world.

At present, the word game gives very little information, but it builds a framework of "Night City", like a dark disco with the smell of rust and blood, playing in the ears of Bai Ye.

This city is full of sin, but it is also full of opportunities. From being unknown to being famous all over the world, it all depends on a thought.

"Hacking the system." Bai Ye clicked the button to enter the character creation page.

On the deep black screen, bright red fonts spread out like a queue:

[Hacking the Night City resident database...]

[Hacking successful, please select the player’s initial identity]

【1.Street boy】

【2.Wanderer】

【3.Company employees】

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

"Choose one of the three initial identities?" Bai Ye thought for a while. Street boys and homeless people were each poorer than the other. Only company employees looked like human beings.

But if you choose to be a company employee, you will undoubtedly become the company's lackey. For the sake of a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan, you will get your hands dirty and collude with the capitalists. Can you tolerate this kind of thing?

Of course I can bear it, Bai Ye clicks [3. Company employees] without hesitation.

However......

[Dear dream chasers, if you choose to be a company employee, you need to pay 100,000 US dollars]

[It is detected that the cash you currently hold is: 30 US dollars]

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

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

“You want krypton gold?!”

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

Bai Ye really didn't expect that this "Night City" game would actually capture the essence of a certain goose and a certain pig. The krypton gold level was so high that it would cost one million US dollars to choose an identity.

Why is this called "Night City"? Let's just call it "Krypton City".

Bai Ye had no choice but to choose [Street Boy] to start. On paper, it felt at least better than "Wanderer".

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

[People say that if you want to understand the suffering on the streets, you have to live there. The Vortex Gang, the Voodoo Gang, the Terrorist Mobile Team, the middlemen, the sex dolls, the craftsmen, the low-life drug dealers...you

I grew up eating food from hundreds of families. Here, the jungle prevails, and the law of the jungle has the final say. It is the only law in Night City that has not been broken by you.】

[The biomonitoring panel is starting...Startup completed]

[Name: Bai Ye]

【Sex: Male】

【Age:18】

[Character background: Street boy]

[Street reputation level: lv0]

[Personal level: lv0]

[Transformation level: 0/300]

【Body:4】

[Intelligence: 3]

[Reaction: 3]

[Technical ability: 1]

【Calm down: 2】

[Personal level lv0 - lv1: 1,000,000 US dollars required]

[As your personal level increases, you can obtain 1 assignable attribute point]
To be continued...