Ding!
"Descended successfully!"
"Hello, Player 17861123."
"The Shanghai area you are in will be protected as a newbie city for three months."
"The countdown has begun. Please get stronger as soon as possible…"
"This is the Beast Taming World. Your initial Tamed Beast is being randomly selected…"
"Downloading… 1%… 2%…"
"Tamed Beasts are divided into five ranks: Ordinary, Elite, Overlord, Legendary, and Mythical…"
"Beast Tamers are similarly divided into five ranks: Ordinary, Elite, Overlord, Legendary, and Mythical…"
In his half-asleep state, Li Song felt as if he had heard a clamor. The sound was emotionless, as if it was an electronic voice.
He did not think too much about it. He just subconsciously felt that he could not stay up late to play games anymore.
Recently, he obtained a single player game from a small private forum. There was only one selectable class that was similar to a Summoner, but also similar to the Druid class in Western games. There were many monsters that could be tamed, and they could even grow into various types according to the players' methods of taming, allowing them to have various abilities.
Li Song had never been able to resist this kind of nurturing game, but it would take too long to clear it.
He was also an impatient person. So on the second day after he obtained the game, he made a cheat.
This was why Li Song liked to be a programmer. Although he could not cheat in life, it was not overbearing for him to cheat in a single player game, right?
He had a great time playing it these few days!
After a long night, Li Song finally collected most of the mythical beasts in the game. He then lay down and slept contentedly. Those who liked to play collection-based games definitely had collecting habits in real life. However, Li Song's habits were more serious, he collected beer bottle caps.
It was common knowledge that one's mind would become clearer when thinking.
Just like now, Li Song had woken up. Of course, it was likely due to the increasing clamor of the screams—this was even likely the main reason.
Not only did he hear the strange electronic voice, but he also heard a series of beastly roars. Those roars seemed to be coming from far away, so he could not hear them clearly. However, the ferocious and bloodthirsty intent within the roars was shocking.
The screams from the next-door neighbors were the last straw that broke Li Song.
Li Song remembered that the person living next door was working in the administrative office. She had fair skin, a beautiful face, a tall figure, and was swift and decisive. She was usually very heroic and had the temperament of a heroine. This was the first time he heard her scream like this—she sounded just like a woman.
He opened his eyes.
It was pitch black outside the window, and there were only a few lights. After waking up, the clamor became even clearer. It seemed that not only were his neighbors not asleep at this time, they were even crying out because of something.
Vaguely, there seemed to be the sound of thunder and the chirping of birds. The sound was continuous, but it was a sound that he had never heard before—it sounded like the sharp sound of a pair of giant hands tearing through steel.
"Is it going to rain?" Li Song had this thought.
When he woke up, there seemed to be a string of words before his eyes:
[Initial Tamed Beast, downloading… 71%]
[Basic System for the Player loaded successfully, synchronizing globally…]
[Cheat—Li Song's self-made version (Pirating Games is Illegal) is being added…]
Li Song thought that he was still dreaming. He shook his head and looked out of the window.
The place he lived in was not very prosperous, but the rent was very affordable. However, even so, it was hard to find a place in this city that was not lively at night. Shanghai was one of the most prosperous cities in China. Just this huge city alone had more than 20 million people living here.
Looking down from the window, the people on the street were very strange. Most of them were standing still with some doubt and horror on their faces.
The others pointed to the sky and let out cries of alarm. The cries were filled with fear, as if they had seen something shocking and terrifying.
Li Song stuck his head out and also looked towards the sky.
Lightning flickered in the pitch-black sky as thunderclouds gathered. Within the flickering lightning, numerous massive figures appeared. They were densely packed, as if they could cover the sky and block out the moonlight.
With a rough glance, there were at least several thousand of them!
"These are… birds?!"
Li Song woke up instantly. All his sleepiness was gone.
"How can there be so many birds? Is there going to be an earthquake?!"
"No!"
"Those aren't birds, no bird can be that huge!"
Li Song suddenly realized something.
He was at least a thousand meters away from the ground. However, even at that distance, he was still able to see everything clearly.
When these "birds" spread their wings, they were at least seven to eight meters long!
This was already comparable to some small-sized jets!
What the heck!
At the same time, the lights above the city quickly moved into the darkness.
The huge pillar of light swept across the thunderclouds and the bodies of the beasts behind it. Finally, it stopped at the largest body.
As the light shone, everyone saw a frightening scene.
The sharp eagle beaks shone with a metallic radiance. Blue electric arcs flickered on their pitch-black feathers from time to time, and their entire bodies took on a streamlined shape. Their wingspan was almost twenty meters long, and they were more than twice the size of the other eagles. They did not flap their wings, but remained motionless in midair like silent specters.
The pair of sharp eyes flashed with human-like intellect. There was even a hint of mockery in them as they looked at the city below as if they were looking at their prey.
It was the look of a predator.
It was how existences at the top of the food chain looked at the bottom of the pyramid.
Everyone who saw this scene let out a cry of surprise. Soon after, they were like ducks whose necks were being squeezed, unable to make a sound. A huge wave of panic engulfed everyone.
Li Song stared blankly at the sky, feeling that the figure looked somewhat familiar.
"Shriek!!" A loud cry rang out. It was as if a boulder had been cracked open, causing Li Song's eardrums to hurt. The glass window beside him rustled as if it would shatter at any moment.
Bang! Numerous bolts of lightning suddenly descended like a lightning storm, and they obliterated everything while the sky transformed into day time in the blink of an eye!
If the lightning struck the city, the entire Shanghai would be turned into ruins!
The crowd exclaimed.
However, in the next moment, the lightning stopped in mid-air and disappeared without a trace. It was as if there was a transparent barrier blocking the sky above the city. The sky was as bright as day, but the city was completely unharmed.
It was a false alarm.
Li Song suddenly remembered that in his half-awake state, he had heard of the phrase 'protected as a newbie city'.
Was this the so-called protection of the newbie city?
However, before he could think any further, he was able to clearly see what the birds looked like. He could not help but cry out shrilly, "Thunder Falcon?!"
Thunder Falcon!
Wasn't this an elite monster in [Beast Taming World]?!
The largest one was the Overlord-rank Thunder Falcon King!
Li Song frowned and was a little stunned. Was he still dreaming?
However, the screams and shouting around him made him realize the truth—he was not dreaming.
[Beast Taming World] was the game that he had downloaded while surfing the small forum. He had been playing this game day and night recently… The problem was, did this game appear in reality?
With a shift in thought, Li Song could not care less about the chaos in the outside world. He quickly walked to the computer and the screen lit up.
Li Song's gaze quickly swept across, but he frowned again and muttered to himself, "…It's gone?"
The Beast Taming World icon, which had always been in the eye-catching position on the table, had disappeared. It was as if it had vanished for no reason.
After thinking for a while, he opened the browser again and tapped on the website address before pressing the return button.
[Error 404]
[The website you are looking for does not exist.]
"Even the forum can't be opened?"
"What's going on?"
Li Song let out a deep sigh. His good mental fortitude allowed him to remain calm at this moment. He began to sort out some information in his mind.
[Beast Taming World] was a game from the private forum that he had found when he was bored. There were not many posts in it. This game was uploaded by the unknown original poster and was free to download.
However, it was ridiculously huge. It was close to 700GB. If it was a normal person, they would probably just quit. However, Li Song was obviously not a normal person. As a world-class programmer, he was not afraid of viruses. With thoughts such as, 'Since I'm already here, and I have nothing else to do', 'this little thing can hack me?', 'if you have the ability to hack me, try it', he downloaded it.
He even got addicted to it.
However, this game was very difficult. The beast taming cycle was too long. If he played it normally, the game experience would not be very good. Therefore, he decided to add some spice to it and hacked into the source code to create a cheat.
However, he could never imagine that it would become more than a game. It was as if the game had broken through the boundaries of reality and arrived before his eyes.
At this moment, a cold voice sounded in Li Song's mind.
Ding!
"Initial Tamed Beast, download completed…"
"Distributing now…"
"Please receive it with care…"