Chapter 92

Speaking of 'Nightmare'... it doesn't seem like a bad term...

This heavenly disaster... whatever, seems also a term that's a mix of good and bad.

Zhang Jie thought for a moment, then chose these two terms.

Then there's 'Supernatural Dream Builder' and 'Electronic Sorcery'; since it's related to the Dream Realm and games... isn't a Dream Builder just like a construction worker?

Zhang Jie increasingly felt that the construction-worker description fit 'Supernatural Dream Builder'; this looks like a very impressive term, but isn't it just an alternative construction term?

Moreover, you'll probably end up working for others... looking at it this way, it's actually not much different from the 'Programmer' term...

What 'Supernatural Dream Builder', I think it should be called 'Innate Construction Holy Body'...

After venting a few remarks, Zhang Jie still chose 'Electronic Sorcery'; this simulation seems likely to be an entertainment-focused world, so this Electronic Sorcery probably possesses incredible support.

OK, that's it!

Next are the negative terms.

'Weak and sickly' and 'Confused mind'?

Instant! Directly choose 'Weak and sickly'.

After all, choosing 'Confused mind' definitely leads to no good outcome; compared to that, 'Weak and sickly' is already much better.

OK, that's it!

Selection complete, you selected 'Nightmare', '%&*#% heavenly disaster', 'Electronic Sorcery', and the negative term 'Weak and sickly'.

Selection complete, now drawing random terms from the previous simulation.

Draw successful! You drew the past achievement term (S) limited achievement 'Immortal Legend'.

The term has been automatically adapted for you to a usable effect in the current simulation world: (S) Born Legendary: You are born destined for your future; the world's changes will arise because of you; everything will change because of you; you are a born legend.

In the simulator, you will lose all memories and start a new life; if you have considered everything, please select to start.

May I ask if you want to start the simulation?

Wow! This time it's really a three-S start.

Start!

The fourth simulation has started, codename: Illusory World, a fleeting dream.

A familiar feeling surged; Zhang Jie felt a suction from the simulator, slowly drawing his consciousness in...

0 years old: You were born! As a man destined to become a legend in the future, you once again face a calamitous start.

However, this time it's not some college toilet opening; this time you have no parents, you are a human born from a mechanical incubation chamber.

Life entry—Weak and sickly—has been activated.

Naturally legendary you for some reason appear somewhat thin and small; compared to a normal infant, your limbs are more slender; you were taken out of the incubation chamber by a machine automatically working and placed on the conveyor belt.

Here, this is a factory producing humans; you are one of their members.

However, you don't know what happened; as for why it's said to be another heaven‑collapsing opening, it's actually quite obvious.

On the assembly line, you were scanned by a mechanical arm and then marked for elimination; your body so frail that you never met the qualified exit settings.

Thus, you, eliminated by the assembly line, were sent by another mechanical arm to another conveyor belt beside it, and that conveyor belt leads to a crusher.

Naturally legendary you, before you could even begin your legendary life, were about to perish; just as you were about to die before achieving anything, a hand grabbed you.

Huff... caught up!

A man wearing a strange uniform grabbed the infant in swaddling clothes.

Hmm.. the number is correct... it should be you.

The man looked satisfied at the infant in his arms, yet looking at the other infants continually being thrown into the crusher, he showed a hint of reluctance.

Sorry, I only have this much ability.

He tied the infant with a strap, hung it on his chest, and a grappling shot fired from his wrist; the whole person swung down like an agile ape...

One year old: just like that, you inexplicably survived; you, parentless, inexplicably gained a couple who treat you quite well.

Your frail body, under their meticulous care, grew healthily, even hardly ever getting sick.

Your new parents seem to pity you especially; they discussed your name for a long time.

They said many things you couldn't understand; they said your future path is destined to be extremely lonely, destined to be alone, and finally decided to name you Zhang Jie.

Thus, your name was once again set as Zhang Jie, possibly a coincidence, but perhaps also heavenly will.

Your parents also have jobs; they work at the biggest game company here, as grassroots Dream Builders.

Their way of working is quite peculiar: they don't go out to work; instead they lie in a nutrition chamber resembling a coffin, and go to work via the Dream Realm.

During the day, they rest at home to take care of you; at night, they fall asleep and go into the dream to work.

Two years old: due to your frailty and sickness, you barely get by; life seems dull to you, but as an infant you don't understand much— as long as you have food and drink, that's good.

This world is a nation where entertainment reigns supreme; reality is dull and boring, but in the Dream Realm, people can discard their bodily disadvantages and normally perceive this world.

Here, there is a large-scale Dream Realm game for all humanity: Dream Online, a world created by linking everyone's dreams through dream synesthesia, an incredibly fantastical world, and also a world where countless people truly exist in the Dream Realm.

But although called a game, it is actually a living, savage world of the weak preyed upon by the strong.

Dream Online, as the foundation of the entire Dream Realm, has gradually evolved from an initial game into humanity's second world; even the Dream Realm world is not completely safe.

In the Dream Realm world, whether jumping from a building, drinking bleach, or being killed by others, these do not cause real death; but if killed by a creature called a Nightmare, the person directly enters brain‑death state, becomes a vegetable, and in the Dream Realm game they become a 'blank'.

But this creature is not invincible; within the Dream Realm there are countless games created by other game companies, and becoming a 'Player' to slay Nightmares is the basis of the whole world.

But not all games made by companies can let one become a 'Player', and not just anyone can become a 'Player'.

'Players' will possess extremely powerful authority in the Dream World; only those with extraordinary talent can successfully wield it and have their own 'account'.

(Holy crap, did I break heavenly law? The readership dropped from 1.3w straight to four thousand, nearly ten thousand!)

(It's over, I feel like I'm going to...)