Chapter 2 - Reborn?

Yan Duo answered the phone: "Hello."

 There was background music coming from the other side, and then an electronic voice came from the receiver: "Hello, do you have any wishes..."

 Snapped! Yan Duo hung up the phone.

 It sounds like a scam.

 But the other end didn't seem to give up. Half a minute later, the phone rang again, and it was the same number.

 Yan Duo hung up the phone angrily and added this number to the blacklist.

 However, in less than ten seconds, the phone rang for the third time, with the same number as before, and the speed was almost life-threatening...

 The ringtones were quick and short, as if urging her to answer the phone quickly.

 Yan Duo stared at the phone blankly for a while, and finally answered the call.

 "Hello, do you have any wishes... Do you want power? Wealth? Or beauty? Or a peaceful life? Sincere feelings? A healthy body? I can fulfill any of your wishes, as long as you give that thing I."

 Yan Duo, who looked confused, asked stupidly: "What?" Then she laughed self-deprecatingly, how could the electronic sound answer her.

 Unexpectedly, the electronic voice really answered: "It's that thing. You know, it's that thing."

 The voice was stiff and rigid, without any fluctuation in tone, as if it came from outer space.

 "Bah!" Yan Duo hung up the phone again.

 She held the phone tightly, and after a while, she felt her heart beating rapidly.

 After waiting for a while, the call finally didn't come back.

 These days, even scam calls are suspenseful and horror-style?

 "You're crazy!" She couldn't help but cursed when her heartbeat returned to normal.

 Suddenly there was a "beep--" and her eyes lit up. Yan Duo, who was still in shock, was startled again. She didn't know when she had pressed the power button of the game console.

 Looking at the time in the lower right corner of the computer, it was still an hour before the end of the lunch break. Yan Duo decided to "observe" the game console and relax.

 The startup screen flashed away, and then a box popped up: Connected to the network.

 It's actually an online game console.

 Yan Duo was confused for less than a second, and the screen automatically jumped to the game selection interface.

 This interface is really much simpler than Yan Duo imagined. There is nothing but white characters on a black background, and the font is also the most popular "Song Ti". However, the simple interface actually only has three lines of text:

 Please select a game:

 1. Game 1 (internal beta)

 2. Under development, please stay tuned...

 Sorry, it turns out it's still a beta test machine under development... The interface of the test machine shouldn't be so perfunctory.

 With no other choice, Yan Duo chose Game 1 option.

 As the brisk game music played, the interface suddenly lit up, and another option popped up.

 System: Please select the input mode: voice/manual input

 Of course it's voice mode.

 The system immediately prompts: The input method selection is completed.

 Then another line of words popped up on the screen.

 System: Hello, dear player, welcome to the world of "XX's Diary". Please enter your character name _________.

 "From XX?" What kind of weird name is this? Yan Duo couldn't help but read out loud.

 The system immediately pops up an option: Do players decide to use "Chacha" as the name of your game?

 Yan Duo was so embarrassed that he couldn't help but cursed: "No! You're the only one doing it, your whole family is doing it."

 System: Have the players decided to use "You are the only one who is cross-eyed and your whole family is cross-crossed" as the name of your game?

 This time the game is much more responsive, and as soon as I finish speaking, new options pop up.

 Yan Duo was furious: "Fuck."

 System: Wrong selection. Did the player decide to use "You are the one who makes the difference and your whole family is the one who makes the difference" as your game name?

 Yan Duo: "No! Meet Nanshan leisurely."

 System: Have players decided to use "You Ran Bian Lazy" as the name of your game?

 Yan Duo can no longer complain about this voice system. Could it be that such voice recognition is because it is still in internal testing? ?

 She had no choice but to return to the input mode selection interface, choose manual input, and re-enter the new game nickname "A New Sunny". As for "Youran, cheap and lazy", she didn't want to see these five words again for a long time.

 There are many input methods to choose from for manual input, and most of them contain text that Yan Duo cannot understand at all. To her surprise, one of the input methods actually includes the most popular "Wandering" input method this year, which is also the most commonly used by Yan Duo. Input.

 System: Have players decided to use "A New Sunny" as the name of your game?

 Yan Duo: Yes.

 System: Please select your gender: male/female/other

 Yan Duo: ...Female

 System: Please enter your birthday: ______year______month______day"

 Yan Duo entered his real birthday: "September 9, 19XX."

 System: The input is completed. Welcome to "A New Sunny's Diary". Would you like to choose whether to skip the novice guidance?

 Yan Duo: Yes

 The habit of game masters is never to read the novice guide.

 A brisk soundtrack immediately sounded, and the screen lit up with a "swish". A simple notebook gradually unfolded in the center of the screen. The beige-pink cover of the notebook was dotted with many lines, some circular, some radial, with the words " One line: "The Diary of a New Sunny Flower".

 On the right side of the cover is a row of bookmarks arranged in the shape of a nebula. Only the first page of bookmarks is lit, with the text "Basic Information" on it, and the rest of the bookmarks are still gray.

 Yan Duo clicked on the only lit bookmark, "Wow——", accompanied by the sound effects and light and shadow effects of turning the book, the cover of the notebook slowly opened.

 Ding——System: To open the skill tree, you need to have at least one occupation. You can now choose "occupation". Do you want to choose it?

 whether.

 Do you still need to consider this? Of course, choose yes.

 After selecting, the system pops up options:

 Please choose your main occupation: 1. Martial artist 2. Artist 3. Scholar 4. Gourmet 5. Craftsman 6. Businessman... 12. Wanderer 13. Leader

 After staring at the word "wanderer" for a moment, the embarrassed Yan Duo happily chose a seemingly mediocre profession: scholar.

 System: You have chosen a profession: Scholar

 System: You have received the professional title: Ignorant

 System: You have learned a new professional skill: Concentration

 System: You have learned a new special skill: Identification

 The "Map" on the second page of the game, the "Skill Tree" on the third page, and the "Mission" on the fourth page light up instantly, and the fifth page prompts the player to start the game at level 8.

 At this time, the basic information on the home page becomes:

 Name: Yiduo Xinqing

 Title: Ignorant (required study time for next level: 20 hours)

 Birthday: September 9, 19XX

 Gender: Female

 Level: 1 (0/20 next level experience)

 Vitality: 100/100

 Energy: 160/160

 Satiety: 75/100

 Fatigue: 48/100

 Occupation: Scholar

 First secondary occupation: none

 Secondary occupation: None

 …

 Number of gold coins: 0

 Basic information description: "The basic information of the game character cannot be modified, but it will change as the game progresses. Moving the cursor to the information name will display detailed instructions."

 "Ignorant"! Yan Duo was shocked by this new title.

 There is a "Bug Feedback" button at the bottom of the page, but there is nothing else on this page. Yan Duo thought for a while and reported the problem of low voice recognition. The system prompted "Feedback Successful." , I don't know where it was sent.

 The sound effect of "Wow——" sounded, and Yan Duo turned to the second page: "Map".

 The map has always been the most important interactive place in the game.

 A system prompt message suddenly pops up:

 System: The map "Shopping Street" has been opened.

 A gray, flattened building stood up abruptly, as if it were alive, with color and shape. Behind them, an irregular curved track connects many gray buildings together. Except for the shopping street in the front, the other buildings are still gray.

 These gray buildings should need to meet certain conditions before they can be opened. Currently, only shopping streets can be used.

 Yan Duo clicked on the shopping street, and the screen quickly jumped to a lively block. There was more than one store in the block, but only one store was currently open, and the rest of the stores had "not yet open" signs.

 Yan Duo clicked on the door of the only store, the "grocery store". The door opened with a creak, and the screen switched to the grocery store. This is a somewhat shabby-looking store, with goods scattered randomly on the counter and the floor. There is only one NPC in the store, called "Grocery Clerk Pammy".

 At this time, Pammy's smiling avatar automatically popped up, and three options appeared below: "Talk", "Shopping", and "Leave".

 Yan Duo chose "talk" first.

 A dialogue popped up under Pammy's avatar: "We are finally open, welcome. Eh! You look so strange!"

 After clicking several times, the same sentence came out, and Yan Duo chose the second option "shopping".

 The moment the shopping interface opened, the system prompt sounded again in a timely manner...

 System: The system will give you an initial capital of 100 gold coins!

 System: Please try to use gold coins to shop!

 Then a hand appeared on the screen, resting on the first item in the product list, and all the other buttons were inoperable. It seemed that if you don't buy it, I won't let you continue playing.

 This product should be purchased by the system for novices to learn, and the price only costs 1 gold coin. Yan Duo knew that the game would not be able to continue without buying it, so he had no choice but to buy it.

 Weirdly colored potatoes:

 quantity: 1

 Item description: Potatoes that are green in color have sprouted and look inedible.

 Price: 1 gold coin

 The name of the product left Yan Duo speechless.

 System: Purchase successful.

 System: Gold coins are deducted by 1.

 Yan Duo suddenly felt a heavy weight on her right hand, and a green potato appeared in her hand without warning. There were many bud tips growing on the potato, and it was very tender...

 "Wow--"

 Yan Duo screamed and threw the potato that appeared inexplicably in his hand. The potato rolled several times on the desk and fell to the floor.

 At this time, Yan Duo, who was still in shock, discovered something even more strange. The desk he was using at the moment was not the white desk in his office at all.

 She suddenly jumped up from her chair, looked around, and was suddenly confused. The place where I am now is no longer my office. If I take a closer look, I see that this is the old house where I have lived since I was a child.

 This is really... bloody hell.