In his memory, the login entrance for Deep Sea Game was a swimming pool.
It was a very strange way to log in. Players had to strip off all their clothes and jump into the Deep Sea Fish Tank. When the water rose over their heads, they would be able to enter the world of Deep Sea Game.
Pushing open the door, Chen Lai found no one at home. The original owner’s mother had already gone to work. The cramped little apartment was filled with all sorts of miscellaneous things, even scrap she had picked up to sell for money.
In the very center of the living room, there was no coffee table—only a blue square pool of about five square meters. This was the login entrance for Deep Sea Game.
Without agonizing over it, Chen Lai took off his clothes and leapt into the pool.
Splash!
His body fell into the water, but the glowing blue water did not spill out of the pool. Instead, like a rewinding tape, it smoothed over the gap Chen Lai had smashed open.
However, Chen Lai could not see any of this. Right now, all he felt was cold.
Cold! So cold!
Ice water covered his pupils. The extreme chill felt as though it would freeze his very soul. When the water surface rose over his head, everything in the mortal world receded into the distance.
【Welcome to Deep Sea Game】
A vast and grand voice rang out ahead of him. The iceberg and the sea before his eyes grew increasingly clear.
“This game is way too realistic, isn’t it?”
Chen Lai was somewhat unused to it. Even when he had played VR games in his previous life, he had never felt this kind of immersive realism.
A floe drifted beneath his feet. Ice crystals formed at zero degrees refracted transparent light beneath the sun. It had come to receive him.
“This ray tracing is sick!”
Chen Lai stepped onto the floe. The ice immediately began moving, carrying him toward the back of the iceberg.
Behind the iceberg was the true global player community—a… uh, penguin island.
Pure white snow covered the land. Countless penguins waddled about, making all sorts of anthropomorphic gestures. They laughed and played, drank and smoked, and there were even penguins eating boxed lunches.
“Hey, bro, wanna head to the dock and grab some fries?”
A penguin spotted Chen Lai and came over, patting him on the back with its flipper.
Chen Lai’s expression was indescribable. Had the game company’s producer eaten some mushrooms or something? Otherwise, how could they have come up with the idea of turning all the players into penguins?
“Hey, buddy! Can you hear me?”
Dissatisfied with Chen Lai’s reaction, the penguin gave him another heavy pat.
“I can hear you, I can hear you. And you are?”
Chen Lai twisted his fat penguin body around and turned toward the penguin behind him.
The penguin greeting Chen Lai was an emperor penguin, with a goose-yellow neck. Seeing Chen Lai’s indescribable expression, he laughed.
“Aiyo, friend, one look and I can tell you haven’t logged in for ages. Every season has different player skins. In spring it was a cyberpunk theme—back then, the neon lights could blind your eyes. Now it’s winter, so of course they’ve gotta do something winter-themed.”
“Forget all that useless stuff. Have you seen the new dungeon? Want to go in with me and scoop up some fries?”
As he spoke, McDonald’s fries really appeared in the emperor penguin’s hand. He elegantly picked one up in his beak and swallowed it.
Chen Lai was speechless. If not for the original owner’s memories, he really would have thought the “scooping up fries” the emperor penguin was talking about was literal.
“Scooping fries” was game slang among gold farmers. It meant veterans messing with rookies. Every winter and summer vacation, Deep Sea Game would be flooded with a huge batch of “fries,” and in game dungeons, players could kill other players, seize their equipment, and sell it for money.
“No thanks. I just want to go in, search for some stuff, and extract. If I can come out intact, that counts as a win.”
Chen Lai refused the emperor penguin’s proposal. Right now, he only wanted to rake in the big money from the original plot. He had no interest in messing with other players for small change.
The emperor penguin was a little disappointed, but he soon found a new target, so he waved his flipper and said goodbye to Chen Lai.
“Buddy, wishing you gold and red in one run, and overnight riches!”
“I’ll take your blessing.” Chen Lai nodded his beak.
Getting gold and red meant looting precious items worth millions or even tens of millions in a single run of Deep Sea Game. Basically, one item would declare financial freedom.
“Okay, so I’m playing a real-life Delta Force in another world. Time to knife-run!”
After bidding farewell to the emperor penguin, Chen Lai could not help roasting the situation.
At that moment, a seagull flew over from afar with a letter in its beak and dropped it onto Chen Lai’s head.
【Press 1 to Become a Femboy: Inside information on the Shibuya Incident. Cursed spirits are far stronger than jujutsu sorcerers. You can choose to exchange for cursed spirit abilities and go in to loot. The major event should begin in December.】
【Bonus little tip: whatever you do, don’t exchange for that 150,000 main weapon, Heavenly Restriction. The last person who exchanged for it lost so badly even his own blood horse wouldn’t recognize him!】
So this was the inside information the original owner had spent twenty thousand yuan to buy. It really was too “inside.”
Chen Lai was speechless. Jujutsu Kaisen was a hot-blooded shonen manga. The protagonist, Yuji Itadori… Yeah right. The real protagonists were actually Satoru Gojo and the most evil cursed spirit, Sukuna!
In the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, there was a mysterious power known as cursed energy. Humanity’s fear of certain things would form cursed spirits. These cursed spirits were completely inhuman and could easily cause crises in human society.
To fight cursed spirits, jujutsu sorcerers came into being. The Jujutsu High that trained jujutsu sorcerers was the school Yuji Itadori attended.
Satoru Gojo was Yuji’s teacher. He possessed the Six Eyes and was known as the strongest jujutsu sorcerer in history.
Although the manga’s later development turned rotten, the pressure Gojo exerted in the early stages was indeed overwhelming, to the point that the manga author had no choice but to write him to death in order for the plot to continue.
As for the inside information given by 【Press 1 to Become a Femboy】, it could not exactly be called wrong. It could only be called a complete mess.
Not a single one of these pieces of information was true.
First, if Chen Lai exchanged for cursed spirit abilities and entered, then he would be standing on humanity’s opposing side. He would absolutely be exorcised by the jujutsu sorcerers.
Second, the Shibuya Incident happened at the end of October and lasted only one night. Based on the game and reality having a one-to-one flow of time, if he entered the game in December, the plot would have long since ended.
Third, Heavenly Restriction. In the original manga, this thing was indeed a type of curse. It would cause the cursed person to lose cursed energy and become an ordinary person.
However, it would greatly strengthen a person’s physical abilities. In the manga, the “Heavenly Tyrant” Toji Fushiguro could even beat up special-grade cursed spirits. And you’re calling this cheat useless?
Chen Lai tore the letter delivered by the seagull to pieces. The scraps fell onto the snow and were immediately dissolved.
“If you don’t know how to play, then don’t play. Just watch your bro operate!”
Chen Lai patted his belly and brought up the Deep Sea Game panel.
【ID: Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon】
【Total Assets: 150,000】
【World Time: XX Year, October 30th, 17:30】
【Deep Sea Rankings】
【Deep Sea Game Merchandise】
……
The game information was very simple. The only thing worth paying attention to was probably the 【World Time】.
The time in each game dungeon would only synchronize with reality in terms of month, day, and hour. The years were all different. This made it convenient for players to understand the date on which a 【Major Event】 would occur.
So far, Deep Sea Company had opened over a hundred dungeons, but there were not many that could be called major events… Every day, game streamers shouted, “A big one is coming,” but big ones really did not come often.
This time, the big one was truly coming!
The classified dungeon 【Shibuya Incident】 would be the first dungeon to produce a major event less than a month after opening!