Hundreds of eerie screens hung overhead, and a livestreaming prodigy died horribly in a Rule Horror scenario.
While the Chosen Ones of other countries knelt and begged the gods, Chen Yan, a student from China, connected to his homeland’s direct line:
“I want to contact my country.”
And so
Scientists turned Nurturing the Nervous System into Scientific Breathing Technique 1.0.
Engineers built psychic exoskeletons that let ordinary people slay gods.
And the nightly collective cultivation of 1.4 billion people gathered into a “flame of civilization” to fight the Old Gods.
When the final dungeon, “The Scales of Good and Evil,” forced him to choose between two options:
Save 1,000 strangers, or preserve the memories of his loved ones?
Chen Yan fell silent for ten seconds, then looked up and said:
“I refuse to choose.
I’ll take a third path: save everyone.”
Some called him a hero.
He said he was merely a conduit for the warmth of 1.4 billion people.
And beyond the depths of space, a new signal was coming through:
“Help... civilization... harvest...”
This time, all of human civilization stood ready for battle, bearing its flame.
