Thirty years after the spiritual qi revival, people across the world have awakened. Some cultivate immortality, some practice magic, and others develop superpowers. Beneath the harmonious chaos, the arrival of a global game run by the main god is just one more dish on the table.
For ordinary people like Bai Xing, who have awakened no abilities at all, it only means life is getting harder and harder.
The global awakening rate is over 50 percent. Most of those who have not awakened are middle-aged or elderly people born before the spiritual qi revival. Ordinary people born afterward have mostly ended up at the bottom of the pecking order, like Bai Xing.
After the main god's game arrived, any player who fails brings disaster upon their country. Ordinary people, already at the bottom when it comes to self-defense, have seen their status plummet even further, nearly through the Earth's core. Even dishwashing jobs won't hire anyone who hasn't awakened.
She sent out ten resumes and got eleven rejections. The extra one was for a job she'd applied to a year ago.
Grinding her teeth, Bai Xing packed up her belongings and went to work at an illegal factory. But the day before payday, she was chosen for the main god's game.
Amid a chorus of jeers, Bai Xing silently picked up the Holy Sword of Physics, silently turned poverty into power and smashed the monsters' heads, and silently cleared the game.
At the same time, every corner of Blue Star received a global broadcast:
[This is an emergency notice from the Farstar race. Attention, lifeforms on planet 3-8-8, the third planet in the Sol System of the Milky Way. Safely return our youngling within three cosmic days. Failure to comply will result in penalties as detailed in the Youngling Protection Regulations, published by the Cosmic Shadow Council in 3978. We reserve the right to impose technological blockades, civilizational rollback, genetic resets, or even the erasure of your minds. Govern yourselves accordingly.]
All of Blue Star: ???
What youngling? What are they talking about? Wasn't that story about aliens experimenting on people in America decades ago just old news? Was it real after all?
America: It wasn't us! We didn't do it! That really was a satirical article!
The game world and the real world were both in an uproar, while Bai Xing crouched beside a stream, gloomily touching the small, glossy, pointed bit of horn showing on her forehead.
Sigh. It cost a fortune to have that bony growth removed when I was little. Why has it grown back?
Fine. I'll do it myself and make do.
The top brass in Huaguo, who had just found Bai Xing's footage, shrieked: "Stop! Right! There!"
Bonus scene:
[Dear residents of Blue Star, we regret to inform you that the four-dimensional expressway recently planned by the Supreme Cosmic Council will pass through the planet you inhabit, with construction beginning in three days. In accordance with regulations, this is your final notice. Please proceed to the designated evacuation planet as soon as possible.]
People of Blue Star: Wait, who decided this? When was it decided? When were we notified? Why don't I know anything about it???
The Farstar race: Given your level of technological development, you should have received the notice at least twenty years ago. Let me check... Oh, you went off to cultivate immortality and practice magic, so you never developed your technology tree.
People of Blue Star: ...I want to file a complaint!
The Farstar race: That's a tough one. This project is probably being run by the Tucker Star. Guess how long it took from proposal to construction?
People of Blue Star: How long?
The Farstar race: By your calendar, about sixty million years. I think someone secretly altered the meteor's trajectory back then, trying to make Blue Star disappear and bypass the approval process. Hahaha!
People of Blue Star: ...Could that be why the dinosaurs went extinct? What kind of sick joke is this!!!
1. The bonus scene references The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the Cosmic Shadow Council references Doctor Who's Shadow Proclamation.
2. A lighthearted, sarcastic story. The heroine is the strongest character throughout and leads Blue Star out into the stars.
3. The male lead has not been decided yet. There probably won't be much romance.
Theme: Development is the only way forward.
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