If You're Strong, Climb 10,000 Meters

"This game is too damn hardcore..."

As a ray of morning light fell from the balcony onto Ren Suo's dejected face, he realized he had stayed up all night.

After buying If You're Strong, Climb 10,000 Meters yesterday, he had been playing this game non-stop, except for eating and sleeping.

Unlike its name, which sounded like a mini-game, upon entering, he found the realism was almost on par with Assassin, and he could even create a character.

Moreover, he could create a female character.

Ren Suo was instantly captivated by the default female character in the game – a radiant face that was so pure it made one yearn for it, a flowing blonde hair tied into a single ponytail, and wearing only a full-body black training suit, which still couldn't hide her devilish figure...

Beasts! Why can't I take off the clothes and adjust the figure!

Naturally, Ren Suo directly chose this female character. After all, if there was a choice, who the hell would want to see a big guy moving around on the screen...

Do you think that those who play female characters in online games but are actually rough guys in reality are all malicious little crybabies? No, they just hope their character looks a bit more pleasing to the eye when they play.

Furthermore, in this game, male and female characters each had their own advantages.

"Male: Faster stamina recovery."

"Female: Can react quickly in times of crisis."

Based on these reasons, Ren Suo felt perfectly justified in choosing this female character. As someone with clumsy hands and laziness, he also had no interest in making micro-adjustments to this perfect face.

He definitely wasn't trying to lick, he just wanted to look at her every day... well, actually, he did want to lick.

However, this game skipped the naming process, and the character's name was automatically set to 'Seeker of the Way'.

But after the game started, it was different from the game Ren Suo imagined, which involved watching a beautiful girl perform exciting, stimulating, and charming actions.

The realistic game screen turned into textures, the ground turned brown, and the sky turned blue – that's right, this game directly used colors to distinguish between heaven and earth!

Most importantly, even the beautiful girl turned into a stick figure.

It was very subtle; the graphics style actually dropped from the level of Assassin to the level of Tetris. If this were on Earth, suing for consumer fraud would be a sure thing.

On the screen, the stick figure Seeker of the Way stood at the bottom, and there were many platforms above. When Ren Suo controlled the Seeker of the Way to jump, she would jump onto the platform above.

This game was very simple. The bottom left had an altitude bar, showing the current altitude as 0 meters. At the top of the altitude bar was a green marker, showing 10000 meters – that was the goal to clear the game.

The top left had a green bar, which decreased when the Seeker of the Way jumped, but it recovered quickly, acting as a stamina bar.

Besides these, there was nothing else. It was that simple, just letting Ren Suo control the Seeker of the Way to keep jumping upwards.

At first, it could be said to be very simple, almost to the point where 'jumping' couldn't even describe it – the entire screen was filled with platform steps, and the Seeker of the Way almost just walked up.

However, after playing for an hour, Ren Suo realized something was wrong, because the altitude bar was rising too slowly.

Ren Suo jumped for an average of 1 minute, and the altitude bar only rose by 2 meters. Although it was simple, it was too slow...

In the first hour, he reached 102 meters.

In the second hour, he reached 240 meters.

By the third hour, just as Ren Suo was finally getting impatient, a prompt suddenly popped up in the game: "Are you willing to consume 5 Merit Points to immediately jump to the first record point?"

In the altitude bar, besides the green marker at the very top, there were many white marker points in the middle. Those were the record points, and if you failed, you could restart directly from a record point.

And the first checkpoint was at 2048 meters. At this rate, he would have to play for at least another 20 hours to reach the first checkpoint...

No wonder this game was only 8 Merit Points even with a 50% discount. It was just too damn hard to play.

To spend only 5 Merit Points to avoid 20 hours of torture, where could you find such a good deal?

Ren Suo, of course, chose—not to!

He had 14 Merit Points, and after buying the game, he only had 6 left. If he spent another 5, he would only have 1 left!

Ren Suo really couldn't bear to. The main reason was that he now knew the Little World Game Console was likely something beyond his imagination. He didn't know if it was a toy of the gods, a gift from aliens, or a present from future humans... In any case, being cautious was the right approach.

If his Merit Points became 0, would the game console disappear?

If his Merit Points were deducted to a negative number, would he be erased or something?

Compared to these potential threats, a mere 20 hours was insignificant. The least valuable thing for a young person was time...

Ren Suo looked at the in-game purchases for this game:

"Reach the 5896-meter checkpoint, 10 Merit Points"; "Reach the 6853-meter checkpoint, 12 Merit Points"; "Oxygen Tank, 1 Merit Point"; "Survival Rope, 1 Merit Point"...

He could only reach the checkpoints at 5896 meters or 6853 meters at most; he had to walk the rest of the way himself. On the other hand, the item section left Ren Suo confused—Seekers of the Way shouldn't need these things.

Anyway, Ren Suo wouldn't spend a single cent!

So, under the morning sun of the second day, Ren Suo finally stubbornly played to the first checkpoint and finally couldn't stand it anymore and went to sleep—this game wasn't impossible to pause, but when he played it, he would get immersed in it because the force used for each jump by the Seeker of the Way was controlled by Ren Suo.

For a long distance, he had to press harder; for a short distance, he had to press lighter. And there were many forks in the road. Choosing a fork and going up would reveal a new path. It was a game that required a lot of concentration. Unless it was the pressure from his bladder, Ren Suo simply couldn't stop.

Ignoring the frustrating setting, this game was actually quite good.

He slept for 8 hours straight. By the time Ren Suo woke up, it was almost 2 PM. The entire morning and noon were directly skipped, and then an unprecedented sense of hunger quickly attacked his pituitary gland...

"Two large bowls of Braised Beef Brisket Noodles with Fried Sauce! Super hungry!"

"Coming right up!"

Not many people were eating noodles at this time, so Ren Suo easily found an empty seat. As he anxiously waited for his noodles to arrive, his gaze was suddenly captured by a girl across the street.

A red puffy skirt, double ponytails, white stockings, exquisite features, milky white skin, carrying several bags in her hands, looking like she had just returned from shopping, with a sweet, fresh smile on her face. Even Ren Suo, who had been "racing" online for many years, had to admit that this girl ranked among the top five girls he had seen in person.

Even Ren Suo, who was called the "Master of Following His Heart" in college, felt a little impulse to go over and ask for her WeChat or something.

However, the reason Ren Suo suddenly paid attention to her was not her beauty, but because Ren Suo suddenly felt a surge of emotion when he looked at her!

That surge of emotion was the same as the saliva that automatically secreted when his tongue saw delicious food, like when he saw the black-vested Li Dan and Mo Zhaolong!

"Your noodles."

Ren Suo turned his head and looked at the steaming, fragrant noodles in front of him, his appetite immediately piqued.

For some reason, while he was eating the noodles, he was thinking about Li Dan, Mo Zhaolong, and the girl who had appeared like a fleeting glimpse just now