Blue Star.
Dragon Nation, December 21.
Binhai City, CBD district.
In a Michelin-starred Western restaurant, a sudden commotion abruptly shattered the peaceful atmosphere.
"Wah—"
A man sitting by the window gripped the table, bowed his head, and vomited violently. His handsome face flushed red and purple, as if he was extremely nauseated!
Across the table, a young girl eating with him was startled. "Cousin, what's wrong with you?! Food poisoning?!"
The four words "food poisoning" immediately drew everyone's attention in the restaurant. Customers and the manager alike all turned to look as if they saw a ghost.
"I'm fine, it's not food poisoning."
Su Hang was drenched in sweat, his pupils trembling intensely as he forced himself to calm down.
"I'll drive home now."
Su Hang stood up, but accidentally glanced again at the foie gras on the table, which made his stomach churn and spit out gastric juice.
The restaurant manager's face turned completely green.
I'm really going to die!
...
Ignoring his cousin's attempts to stop him, Su Hang drove home alone.
Am I not dead?
Just moments ago, he clearly died in the mouth of that zombie lord, dissolved into mush by the strong acidic digestive fluid!
"How did... I come back?!"
Su Hang looked around at his surroundings.
It was mealtime in Binhai City, with heavy traffic on the roads and lights shining in the tall buildings.
No ruined walls, no overwhelming zombie hordes, no atmospheric holes covering half the sky...
It was still called Binhai City, not Binhai Ruins.
Sitting quietly in the car, Su Hang quickly recalled the scene from ten years ago.
Binhai City was Su Hang's hometown!
He had lived here for more than twenty years!
Until the mobile game "Global Doomsday" underwent a mutation!
The players' gene levels and the zombie hordes in the game began to reflect into reality!
Overnight,
Countless "superhumans" appeared worldwide,
Throwing everything into chaos!
Not only in Dragon Nation, but other countries had similar "Global Doomsday" games that also reflected reality at the same time!
Besides gene levels, all kinds of apocalypse vehicles, gene serums, supernatural powers, mechas, and Gundams
All descended on Blue Star, reflecting into reality!
The craziest thing was that, over time, even NPC characters and boss villains from the game appeared!
Keep in mind, "Global Doomsday" was a zombie-themed survival game.
Its zombie hordes were comparable to "World War Z," numbering in the billions!
There were even zombie lords tens of thousands of meters tall — city-sized creatures
Whose terrifying regenerative and mutation abilities could even withstand nuclear bombs!
At the brink of extinction, players who had played "Global Doomsday" fought these boss zombies, but the bosses were too strong, and humanity on Blue Star ultimately lost!
Su Hang died in the mouth of one of those supreme zombie lords.
So,
Su Hang had just been reborn, which explained his loss of composure.
The feeling of being dissolved by gastric acid… that despair was truly agonizing.
"Wait."
Su Hang hurriedly lit up his phone and unlocked the screen!
"December 21, 2123!"
"As expected, I've returned to before the reality feedback of 'Global Doomsday' started!"
Su Hang was instantly overjoyed!
He clearly remembered that on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2123, "Global Doomsday" suddenly announced the closure of its recharge channels.
Then, at midnight on the 31st,
The game began reflecting reality!
At this moment, there were still 10 days left before the game started feeding back into the real world!
Su Hang frowned.
"Although I'm a rich second generation, before this I had only spent tens of thousands here and there, and my gene level was barely in the top 1,000 server-wide."
Non-gamers might not understand, but players of "Global Doomsday" were always complaining.
The reason was,
This game
Was way too expensive!
The troop upgrade routes in "Global Doomsday" were long and complex, consuming massive resources, and full of pay-to-win mechanics.
By late game,
If you didn't pay, upgrading your troops was almost impossible, requiring endless grinding.
Su Hang's tens of thousands spent were just a drop in the bucket in late game.
Back in his villa, Su Hang quickly opened his phone.
Flipping through pages, he found a familiar app icon!
"Global Doomsday"! Su Hang's eyes lit up as he tapped to open it.
The screen darkened instantly, a crazed crimson blood moon slowly appeared,
Majestic and grand music played, and on the screen appeared a base standing in ruins.
The outer walls were made of alloy, looking like a gray iron mountain from afar.
The base was packed with large-caliber automatic machine guns, which automatically aimed for headshots whenever zombies approached.
There were also high-voltage electromagnetic coils and automatic grenade launchers hidden in the walls to handle higher-level mutated zombie elites.
Inside the base was a full research center, ecological recycling system, small nuclear fission reactor,
And the most important thing in the apocalypse —
Enough food, ammo, and medicine to last everyone in the base for ten years!
In the apocalypse, these things were life itself!
The Iron Mountain base was Su Hang's ace base that cost him tens of thousands, but even so, it only ranked around the top 1,000 server-wide.
The pay-to-win intensity of this game was clear.
Upon entering the game, a pop-up window appeared:
[Honored VIP5 player 'Demon God', you have not logged in for one hour. "Global Doomsday" offers you a veteran player return gift pack for only 648 yuan, worth 1688 yuan!]
Su Hang saw the familiar "money trap" sales pitch and chuckled.
Offline only one hour, and they push a 648-yuan return pack? Why not rush to buy?
Forcing money, huh?
Damn developers, get a life.
However,
At this moment, Su Hang felt no irritation at all.
Instead, the prompt felt strangely familiar!
Because the recharge options for "Global Doomsday" hadn't been closed yet!
Others might not know, but Su Hang clearly remembered —
In ten days, the recharge option for "Global Doomsday" would suddenly close, and no more money could be spent!
When the apocalypse arrived, countless people regretted it bitterly.
Increasing gene and base levels in the game was incredibly difficult!
But now, reborn ten days before the apocalypse reflection,
This was a golden opportunity that he couldn't miss!
Without hesitation, Su Hang clicked the purchase button.
[Ding-dong —]
[Congratulations player 'Demon God', you have received the veteran return gift pack!]
[Warehouse received: Nano titanium alloy x10000, antivirus serum x5000, beginner gene lock serum x88!]
After paying, nano titanium alloy and other items suddenly appeared in Su Hang's backpack.
"Only 88 beginner gene lock serums? That's stingy," Su Hang shook his head and then continued to examine his game panel.
Unlike ordinary mobile games, "Global Doomsday" did not use a standard LV level system, but used [Gene Awakening Rate] to measure a player's power.
A player's [Gene Awakening Rate] started at 0% (normal person), divided into 5 gene grades:
[0–4%] (Wolf Grade), [4–16%] (Tiger Grade), [16–32%] (Ghost Grade), [32–64%] (Dragon Grade), [64–100%] (God Grade),
Each gene grade upgrade required astronomical resources.
Correspondingly, the higher the gene grade, the stronger the player's virus and supernatural power limits!
Su Hang had spent 50,000 yuan and played for years, but had only reached 31% [Gene Awakening Rate], the peak of Ghost Grade.
Currently, the highest gene awakening rate on the leaderboard was Dragon Grade, at 45%!
Su Hang guessed that person had spent over one million yuan buying gene serums!
Their VIP level was naturally the highest, VIP10!
"I spent 50,000 yuan and only reached VIP5."
Su Hang frowned slightly — VIP level was very important!
What others didn't know was that VIP level affected the apocalypse feedback ratio!
The higher the VIP level, the higher the gene level feedback ratio!
For example, Su Hang's VIP5 meant that in ten days, when the apocalypse reflected in reality, his gene level would be reflected at 50%.
Last life, Su Hang's 31% gene level only reflected 16%, losing half!
Su Hang's VIP level was low because he had only casually played before.
Who would have thought the game would reflect into reality!
"This time… I won't miss the chance."
Su Hang clicked the recharge button, and a dazzling array of options filled the screen:
[Daily First Recharge], [Weekly Special], [Heartbeat Gift], [Apocalypse Artifact Treasure], [Blacklight Virus Wish], [Resource Pack], [Level Boost Fund], [Research AI Training Pack], [Elite Hero Pack], [Advanced Gene Serum Pack], [Special Gene Serum Pack]...
Wow, four to five pages!
All pay-to-win items,
Covering every aspect of the "Dominate" game.
And each gift pack had multiple price tiers,
For example, the [Daily First Recharge] pack
Had 366 yuan, 666 yuan, and 1866 yuan versions.
All three could be purchased repeatedly, completely ignoring the "first recharge" value.
A regular player seeing these myriad recharge options would be speechless.
But Su Hang felt no surprise, even wanted to laugh.
The more recharge options the better!
I'm reborn just to spend money on mobile games! No pay, no play!
Su Hang's fingers moved quickly, buying the 6 yuan, 66 yuan, and 186 yuan daily first recharge packs in sequence.
[Ding-dong —]
[Congratulations honored VIP5 player 'Demon God', gift pack purchase successful!]
[Your VIP experience increased by 258 points, current VIP experience 54,377 points, 45,623 points away from VIP6, keep it up on the road to ruling the star sea!]
VIP experience could be converted 1:1 to money spent; how much money spent, how much VIP experience.
Su Hang had spent over 50,000 yuan before, only reaching VIP5.
To reach VIP6, he needed to recharge 100,000 yuan total!
After buying daily first recharge packs, a new window popped up with three more packs:
[Daily Advanced First Recharge Pack]
Also three tiers: 386 yuan [Silver Pack], 648 yuan [Gold Pack], and 1888 yuan [Diamond Pack].
Su Hang bought them all without hesitation.
After that, a new pop-up showed even more dazzling packs:
[Elite Dominate Pack]
Priced at 1,288 yuan, 3,888 yuan, and 5,888 yuan.
After buying [Elite Dominate Pack], yet another window appeared.
Su Hang glanced and saw
Ten packs called [Apocalypse Arrival Pack], each priced at 16,888 yuan!
Totaling 160,000 yuan!
"This really treats me like a cash cow!"
Su Hang laughed but decisively purchased them.
[Congratulations player 'Demon God', your VIP level has increased to 6! You have VIP privileges: unlimited daily stamina purchases! Unlimited daily dungeon entries!]
[More exclusive VIP privileges await your unlocking!]
After just five minutes in the game,
Su Hang had spent 180,000 yuan without batting an eye.
[Ding ding ding ding ding... (Gift pack acquisition sounds)]
Looking at the large pile of supplies in his inventory, Su Hang didn't know where to start.
"First, raise gene level and get familiar with the game again."
Su Hang first looked at the over a thousand gene serums of different grades he had just received.
His eyes burned with excitement!
In "Global Doomsday," gene levels could be raised by fighting monsters, killing enemies, or absorbing mutation cores to strengthen cells.
But the simplest and most expensive method was by consuming gene serums.
Besides paying money, gene serums were produced in very limited quantities, only high-level research institutes with rare materials could produce them in small batches.
In the previous apocalypse era, Dragon Nation's gene serum output was under 1,000 bottles per year.
Now, Su Hang just tapped a few buttons and had a year's worth of gene serum production for the entire Dragon Nation in his backpack!
In the apocalypse era, just these supplies alone could have tens of thousands of men and women working for Su Hang as beasts of burden!
"Calm down, this is only the beginning."
Su Hang took a deep breath and used a beginner gene lock serum from his backpack.
On screen, his character's body emitted a faint blue glow, every cell rejuvenating.
[System notification: You used a beginner gene lock serum, gene level increased by 0.01%]
[System notification: You used a beginner gene lock serum, gene level increased by 0.01%]
[System notification: You used an intermediate gene lock serum, gene level increased by 0.05%]
[Ding—]
[System notification: Your gene level has broken through Dragon Grade! Keep it up.]
...
When Su Hang's character's gene level rose to Dragon Grade,
His ranking on the leaderboard also rose rapidly!
From outside the top 1,000,
He jumped directly to the top 100!
"Global Doomsday," like other mobile games,
Had many leaderboards. The top 1,000 on each received different rewards, the higher the rank, the better the prize.
But since "Global Doomsday" had been running for years,
Players who could be milked had already been milked repeatedly.
Most players now were casual retirees like Su Hang,
So leaderboard fluctuations were small.
While checking his other gifted resources,
A small red dot lit up on the game mailbox icon.
Opening it revealed an invitation letter.
"Respected Demon God, your tremendous strength is well known. Our guild leader wishes to meet you. The 'World Overlord' guild sincerely invites you to join."
Besides the official invitation, a note said:
"Every member of the World Overlord guild is in the top 100 leaderboard. Joining will grant you the best resource platform. Don't miss this opportunity."
The sender was a guild officer named Jiangdong Fierce Tiger.
Su Hang frowned as he read it.
His gaze suddenly turned cold.
The World Overlord guild?!
Its leader was the top leaderboard player "Overlord Blade,"
Who, after the apocalypse and boss appearances, had led the entire guild to collude with the bosses!
If not for these surrender factions,
Human civilization would not have fallen so fast!
Su Hang did not accept the invitation.
The email instead reminded him:
"I can't be too flashy with my spending. If my top-up causes others to spend too, that would only help them."
"I should stay low-key, and then at the last moment, spend all my money to push my power to the extreme!"
After deciding,
Su Hang didn't hesitate.
He dialed a number in his contacts.
"Second brother, liquidate all my shares."
"Include all shares of the Su Group, leave nothing behind!"
"Convert all my real estate and fixed assets into cash."
"Transfer all cash to my account, the more the better!"