In the Game Space, Qi Si opened his eyes in a high-backed chair built of marble. Blood-red garbled text exploded across his retinas and fell like torrential rain.
[Caution Rabbits Rating Level... Error! Error!]
[Abnormal data detected... Player level exceeds the limits of the Eerie Game... Preparing deletion]
[Deletion impossible... Intruder possesses permissions higher than the game system... Error!]
The error messages flickered one after another before abruptly freezing. The next second, all images and sounds vanished, along with the system interface, including the inventory and Identity Card.
Objects, scenes, and people he had seen in the past flickered through the darkness deep within the Mind Palace. Fine threads, some dense and some faint, linked them together, as though they had merged with his soul and become part of him as a "god"—extensions of that abstract, indescribable great power.
Qi Si tilted his head and leaned slightly forward, looking as bewildered and curious as an evil ghost suddenly awakened after a thousand-year seal. Slowly and patiently, he acclimated himself to his newly born abilities and his body, which no longer suited him.
After a long silence, he abruptly raised his eyes and met the scarlet gaze in the ceiling mural. Multicolored radiance burst from the dim temple in an instant.
Scattered stones on the floor slowly rose into the air, gathering beneath the divine throne into the shape of tables and chairs. The rust on the long bronze table was washed away, its gleaming surface reflecting a cold, ghostly green light. Exquisitely carved bronze candelabras gradually materialized on either side of the seats, their wavering candles spreading all the way to the bronze doors.
Within the continuous orange-red glow, a vermilion shrine, a pitch-black Ark of the Covenant, and a pure white Altar sometimes separated and sometimes overlapped. Their colors