The God's Domain Game's Trick, the Real Blue Star Instance

Zhang Mingzhen carefully examined the attributes of the "Flying Wings" (feathers):

"Collect ninety-nine feathers to synthesize Flying Wings."

Very well, more fragments.

"This device does not occupy an equipment slot and grants the player the ability to fly when worn; it is usually dropped by flying Warcraft."

The brief explanation made Zhang Mingzhen's gaze sharpen—this was the first time wing-type items had appeared in the world of the God's Domain, meaning that players would also have the opportunity to soar through the skies.

Although he had ridden the Azure-Scaled Dragon Python and experienced the thrill of soaring through the air, it was ultimately completely different from flying on his own.

The former is no different from taking an airplane.

The latter is the one that flies on its own.

The system announced again, "Congratulations to player 'Chongxing' for successfully defeating the Hell-level boss Windstone Bat at the Monster Altar for the first time. Achievement Points increased by 100, experience points increased, and five Gold Coin added."

Player "Chongxing" has obtained the Flying Wings component Feather, officially unlocking the Aerial Flight System.

"Am I seeing things? The flight module is unlocked! We can finally take to the skies!"

"The experts are too strong! I need to hurry up and reach level 30 to challenge the altar. I want to soar to the heavens too!"

"Stop dreaming. Even if you reach level 30, you might not be able to clear the dungeon."

"Even if we can beat the easy difficulty, these wings probably won't drop until the hell difficulty. We're still a long way from being able to fly freely."

"If it's really limited to Hell level, it'll be too torturous. I can't even get past the Hell Divine Ruins, so I'm afraid even if I reach level 60, I still won't be able to fly."

"Damn it, you can't play the game without cheating!"

Some players who were already thinking ahead quietly sent private messages to Zhang Mingzhen.

"Master, can the Flying Wings only be obtained in Hell difficulty?" "Utterly Empty" asked first.

"I'm not sure if it's limited to Hell difficulty, but crafting a complete wing requires ninety-nine feathers, which can't be collected by running a few dungeons."

"Holy crap... this is something Tencent does!"

After replying "Utterly Empty," Zhang Mingzhen ignored her other friends' inquiries and headed straight for the last Secret Room.

Since leading the team last time, he has learned that many people cannot keep secrets. Telling one person is equivalent to making it public, so there is no need to answer others one by one.

The system displayed a prompt:

"You will face the Hell Demon King — Golden Tier leader."

"Please be prepared."

Zhang Mingzhen was not surprised but delighted upon hearing this: If a monster of this rank did not drop gold equipment, it would be a disgrace to its status.

It seems my first Golden Tier treasure is about to appear.

[Hell Demon King]

[Level: 35]

[Attack Power:???]

[Skill:???]

System notification: "To help players better defeat this monster, the game will teleport players into a realistic simulation instance. Completing this instance's challenges will yield some information about the Hell Demon King."

Upon seeing this, Zhang Mingzhen shocked.

As a Golden Tier boss, the Hell Demon King's damage output is absolutely astonishing, far surpassing that of the previous bosses in the dungeon.

Even games need to provide players with information and prompts.

He had no idea that this was a scheme orchestrated by the mastermind behind the scenes, who had added something to his agenda.

In fact, everyone who is the first to arrive in front of the new BOSS will receive this treatment.

The next moment, Zhang Mingzhen's consciousness disappeared, and he was teleported into the Blue Star world.

On an endless highway.

Fog surrounded both sides and the rear.

There is a bus stop sign by the roadside.

A group of college students were standing there, trembling as they watched.

They are all college students from Blue Star Cat City.

They were all enjoying their youth, spending their days reading novels and watching videos, playing sports, engaging in mindless romances, and a few even studying for postgraduate entrance exams...

Suddenly, they became the protagonists of the story.

They were dragged into this Illusion Realm by a strange creature.

At this moment, they were all panicked and didn't know what to do.

Don't be fooled by how they acted so confidently and talked so much when watching others enter the bizarre Illusion Realm on live stream; when it was their turn, they started to panic.

Because people really can die from this!

"We're doomed! Why were we chosen?!"

"I don't want to die!"

These strange beings that have managed to invade the Blue Star world and survive are basically all fused with humans, possessing high intelligence and being extremely shrewd.

Like this one, it cleverly utilizes novel tropes.

Take someone else's path and leave them with nowhere to go.

It copied the Tomato Highway style.

They gave everyone a vehicle and forced them to flee on the highway.

It has been proven that the fear people experience when on the run is immense.

Everyone has dreamt of being on the run.

Its goal is actually quite simple: to stimulate the fear of these survivors, to absorb their fear, and to grow from that fear.

However, this tactic is not very effective in the world of the Skyfall Game.

Because there are too many strange things in the Skyfall World.

There have been countless methods and forms of abuse.

Moreover, ordinary people also have ancestral halls for protection.

Most of the indigenous people have already developed a high level of fear tolerance.

Because strange things happen every day, the competition is fierce.

It's fair to say that most of the people who survived were quite numb to fear.

And here, it is still a vast expanse of blue ocean.

Most Blue Star, although they have seen strange invasions, have not yet experienced them firsthand.

At this very moment.

Zhang Mingzhen suddenly appeared at the bus stop.

He looked around and immediately became alert.

There, a dozen or so young people were complaining to each other.

"Damn it, where am I?"

"What highway survival? I don't need it, let us go back!"

"I'm still in university, and I still need to prepare for graduate school!"

Zhang Mingzhen frowned immediately, and then a string of information was poured into his mind.

It turns out this was a setup.

People must keep walking forward on the road, as fog will follow them and monsters will appear.

If you stop, you will die.

Just then, a dilapidated bus suddenly appeared in the mist in the distance.

At this point, a new notification appeared:

"Please board the bus and become the bus owner. The owner has many privileges."

"You need to use the bus as a base for survival."

"Survive on this endless highway."

The dozen or so college students had obviously heard it and immediately fell silent.

They were so engrossed in arguing that few noticed Zhang Mingzhen's sudden appearance.

It's not surprising that the few college students who noticed him.

They just saw him as another unlucky guy.

Naturally, no one could have imagined that he was from another world.

But Zhang Mingzhen understood.

He must have entered a new instance setting.

He knew for himself that this was definitely not Earth.

After the bus stopped, these people had no choice but to hurriedly board it.

Staying means waiting to die.

They're not that stupid.

Zhang Mingzhen also got into the car.

After boarding, there was another notice:

"The voting process begins; those who receive more than half the votes will automatically become the car owners."

Only then did they begin to notice Zhang Mingzhen.

Someone immediately asked, "Hey bro, which university are you from?"

Because the other person looked very young, they subconsciously assumed that the other person was also a college student, just like themselves.

Zhang Mingzhen smiled slightly, showing a greater degree of friendliness towards these young people.

He thought to himself, "I've finished the college entrance exam, but I've never been to university."

However, he knew he couldn't show weakness at this moment.

So he casually said, "I'm from Mao City University."

"Never heard of it."

"Forget it, there are so many universities, and there are many we don't know about."

No one else was in the mood to care about it.

At this moment, a college student with the ID "Zhang Wu" above his head spoke up:

"Alright, everyone, it's time to accept reality."

"Now, state your talents. To survive, we must unite and divide the work."

He adapts quite well.

After all, at this point, failing to adapt quickly would be a dead end.

This is something many content creators have said.

"My talent is to cut in two with a single stroke; a single cut will inevitably split a monster in two."

"Everyone should choose me as the car owner!"

"Get lost! My talent is providing a box of instant noodles every day. Everyone should choose me as the car owner, otherwise I won't give you any instant noodles." Another boy competed.

Finally, the group started arguing again about the car owner.

One by one, they claimed their talents were suited for the job.

As Zhang Mingzhen listened, his head began to spin.

He went straight up to the person with the loudest voice, grabbed him by the neck, and lifted him into the air.

Everyone was stunned.

Ordinary people definitely don't have that kind of strength.

After all, the one with the loudest voice was the biggest among them.

It weighs a full 200 pounds!

"I said I'd like to become the car owner now. Who agrees? Who disagrees?"

Everyone fell silent.

For Zhang Mingzhen himself, this was just a game instance.

Therefore, he doesn't care about the lives of these intelligent NPCs at all right now.

Although their performance was very lifelike.

But he had encountered the NPCs in the "God's Domain" game far too many times.

Those guys, they're just like real people.

He naturally didn't know that this time, they weren't NPCs, but living, breathing people.

At this point, everyone had no choice but to choose him as the car owner.

They then realized that the so-called car owners were not determined by the number of votes, but by force.

Zhang Mingzhen then went to the front of the bus and realized a problem: he didn't know how to drive this kind of bus.

He had no choice but to ask, "Who among you knows how to drive this bus?"

If this bus were a new energy automatic transmission vehicle, that would be fine.

The question is, is this a manual transmission vehicle, or Great Chariot with a large crank handle?

It requires pressing the clutch on the left and the brake and accelerator on the right, and you also need to use a large crank to shift gears, which is very troublesome.

If it's an automatic transmission, then it's very simple.

Simply turn the key to start the engine, step on the gas, shift into drive, and it will move automatically.

After a short while, a college student finally raised his hand and said:

"I learned to drive when I was a junior in college, so I can give it a try."

"Very good." Zhang Mingzhen nodded in satisfaction. "In that case, you can come and drive now."

Then he sat down next to him and watched as the other person began to figure out how to drive.

Fortunately, the college student wasn't just bragging; after some trial and error, he actually got it working.

At this moment, everyone fell silent, unsure of what to say.

After all, none of them could figure out this powerful person's temperament.

According to the usual novel tropes, the best course of action at this point is to play dead.

They won't act like mindless villains and rush in to cause trouble.

Knowing full well that the opponent was very strong, he still went to his death.

After the college student started the car, he finally spoke.

"Oh no, boss, this panel shows that there's only 1/10 of the oil left."

"It'll only last for about 100 kilometers at most."

"We need to get some gasoline."

Zhang Mingzhen nodded. "Obviously, we need to fight some monsters."

"As expected, this game won't let us just lie low."

After he finished speaking, he looked out the window.

Soon, some monsters appeared from the mist.

There are tigers, wolves, leopards, and bears—all real wild animals that ordinary people have actually seen in videos.

The students saw it too.

They were all so frightened that they held their breath.

Especially the tiger; when it ran, it was just like a giant worm, and its speed seemed like a video on fast-forward to everyone.

But Zhang Mingzhen naturally didn't care.

He didn't bother arguing with the college students, so he simply rolled down the car window and jumped out.

He unleashed a series of Spirit Strike, killing the pursuing beasts one by one.

Sure enough, a notification appeared:

"You have received 1 unit of fuel."

You have received one loaf of bread and one bottle of mineral water.

Only then did the college students truly accept the verdict.

Although the other party is arrogant, they are truly capable.

However, Zhang Mingzhen soon exposed his fatal weakness.

That means he's too lazy to talk and has poor social skills.

After all, he had been living alone at home as a disabled person for a long time, so how could his social skills suddenly become stronger?

He's not a reincarnated person.

Although he has lived two lives, he spent far too long at home in his second life.

A person's social skills will rapidly deteriorate if they are not used.

Soon, these college students realized that there was nothing wrong with letting the other person be the car owner.

Because the other side just kept attacking the monster relentlessly.

Moreover, the gasoline and food were all leaked by the other side.

Zhang Mingzhen lazy to give them any specific tasks; he just had them do odd jobs.

This mindset is clearly the fatal flaw.

Because this survival game involves these people, it means the supernatural entity intends to extract enough fear from them.

This is the biggest difference between it and the Main God Space.

The main God Space is mostly about screening; it needs elites, not the emotions derived from them.

Therefore, those who lack manners die immediately.

Here, those low-class individuals won't die too quickly.

On the contrary, it's about extracting a lot of emotional value.

And at this time...

As the bus continued forward, Zhang Mingzhen received a game hint:

"Ding! Congratulations, player, you have successfully advanced the dungeon and learned some information about the BOSS."

"The Hell Demon King excels at single-target attacks."

"Its power changes inversely with distance."

"The closer you are, the less damage you will take, but you will encounter a more concentrated barrage of skills; if you stay away, the blows you suffer will be much heavier."

"If it's a team-based attack, there needs to be a sufficiently resilient guard in front to absorb the impact before the other attackers can unleash their full power."

Seeing this, Zhang Mingzhen satisfied.

Little did he know, this was nothing more than a trick by the God's Domain Game.

Gao Linzhi's AI strategy was to deceive these pawns into believing that the Blue Star world was just a game instance.