"Wait..." Just as Luo Tian was about to say something else, the spacetime turbulence had already struck him.
"Whoosh!" Luo Tian suddenly woke up on a wooden bed.
"Luo Tian, you're awake?"
The person before him was chubby and stout. He was Luo Tian's best friend, Lu Han.
"You are?"
"Luo Tian, you may have fallen off a cliff, but you can't forget your good brother, Lu Han!"
"Lu Han?" A sudden headache struck Luo Tian.
"Hey, are you okay? Forget it. If you've forgotten me, then so be it. The sect master said that once you woke up, you were to go see him."
"The sect master?"
"Don't tell me you've forgotten who the sect master is?"
"Where is this? Where are Yi Tong and Xi Yan?"
"What are you talking about? This is the Tang Sect, and I've never even heard of any of the people you mentioned."
"Could it be that everything was a dream? It all felt so real. Does the Douluo Continent not exist? Did I imagine everything?! Was it all just something I dreamed?!"
Like a walking corpse, Luo Tian went to find the sect master.
Luo Tian dropped to one knee and said,
"Greetings, Sect Master!"
"Good. Luo Tian, in order to prevent our Tang Sect from losing another genius, while searching for you, we found Tang San's remains!"
Upon hearing this news, not even the slightest ripple stirred in Luo Tian's heart. His mental state was extremely unstable now.
While the sect master was still saying something, Luo Tian suddenly spoke.
"No! Tang San is in another world! His spirit still exists! I will search for Tang San!"
With that, Luo Tian ran toward the cliff where he had fallen at incredible speed. Yet he found it unbelievable—his body was clearly covered in injuries, but he ran swiftly without feeling any pain.
When he reached the edge of the cliff, the sect master appeared before Luo Tian as if he had teleported.
And this time, the words he spoke were exactly the same as when Luo Tian had first jumped off the cliff!
Luo Tian seemed to realize something, then burst into laughter. "Hahaha, so that's how it is! Someone in the Douluo Continent stronger than me must have controlled my mind, which is why this happened!"
With that, Luo Tian leaped down.
Luo Tian jumped straight off the cliff!
Bzzzt—
The moment Luo Tian jumped from the cliff, green light appeared around him, along with countless white ones and zeroes within that light.
Luo Tian woke up in a chair, wearing a helmet on his head.
"What happened to me?"
"Congratulations on completing the mission. I've already transferred the money to your account. You can leave now."
"Wait? Where is this? Is this the Tang Sect or the Douluo Continent?"
When Luo Tian asked that question, the person who had just told him he could leave seemed to become interested in him again.
"Did this game make you unable to distinguish reality from the game? Or did you lose your memory?"
"Tell me where this is already?!"
"Hello, my name is Lu Binghan, though my coworkers all call me Xiao Han. I'm the game's chief planner, and I research the latest games."
"???" Luo Tian was completely bewildered.
"Ah, right. You probably don't know your own identity yet, do you? Your name is Luo Tian, and you're an ordinary construction worker. Also, it's currently the year 3030."
"Oh, and whether it was your experiences in the Tang Sect or your experiences in the Douluo Continent, they were all plotlines I wrote."
"Plotlines?"
"Ah, right. Let me show you the game's story and the process of you playing it."
Thus, Luo Tian carefully read through the game's story that Lu Binghan showed him. It turned out that the angel had been an NPC that assigned missions, while the system existed because he had administrator privileges as a beta tester.
He kept reading, but the plot Lu Binghan gave him was over a hundred thousand words long!
Yet it seemed that he had played through it by skipping parts.
So Luo Tian told Lu Binghan that he seemed to have skipped through the game.
"Ah, so that's what happened?! This must be a game bug! I really don't want to grind through the code! I wish I could have artificial intelligence write it for me!"
"Um, I wanted to ask, what kind of game is this?"
"Interested?"
"Mhm, very interested!"
"This game is called Douluo Continent. This Douluo Continent is pretty much like what you experienced. Everyone awakens their martial soul at the age of six, and every martial soul is different. Of course, you can choose whether or not to play through the plot in this world, though playing through it lets you level up faster!"
"Of course, martial souls also need Soul Rings attached to them, and adding Soul Rings depends on your spiritual power."
"Also, our game is a VRMMO virtual reality game! The in-game currency has the same value as real-world currency!"
"So everything I went through was fake?"
"That's right."
Lu Binghan's answer plunged Luo Tian into complete despair.
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