March 1, 2133.
This was a special point in time.
Amid the eager anticipation of countless people, Metaphysics Hong Huang, hailed as the first Full Simulation Virtual Game, was finally officially released!
For a time, the scene could only be described as one where ten thousand people emptied the streets.
Many cash-strapped gaming fanatics and thrill-seeking hecklers even went so far as to sell their own kidneys or make filthy, primitive deals for it!
Countless scalpers, meanwhile, were overjoyed and immediately began their journey of begging every god and grandmother they could find, all in hopes of getting more stock!
Seeing this situation,
countless professionals in the gaming industry were deeply moved on the spot.
One after another, they declared that they, too, would definitely make a game like this someday!
And restore the gaming world's former glory!
Some professional game critics even gave it a perfect score of 10.0, then solemnly declared:
Its appearance had changed the gaming industry!
Without the slightest exaggeration, Metaphysics Hong Huang meant to the entire gaming world what Jerusalem, which the Western world could not afford to lose, meant to them!
Amid the fervor outside,
inside a somewhat shabby little apartment building,
Xiao Jun had smashed pots and sold iron, on top of taking out a high-interest loan, before finally managing to obtain Metaphysics Hong Huang's gaming equipment as one of the first batch of players.
And it was the most expensive and valuable model among them—the gaming pod!
Its total price was roughly equivalent to a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in an ordinary second-tier city!
In his previous life, that had been utterly unimaginable to him.
Back then,
he had only used part of his savings to buy a gaming helmet.
In fact, it was precisely because of that
that he had directly