Chapter 1
**Title: Waking Up to Find My Game Has Come True**
**Author: Meng Man Zhi**
Ye Bai froze her body ten thousand years ago, and when she awoke, Blue Star had already entered the interstellar age.
As an ancient human, merely surviving required exorbitant costs to filter out various viruses and radiation.
In a moment of desperation, she looked up and saw a massive game advertisement spanning half the sky—
In her time, Ye Bai was a well-known game developer.
Now, on that giant screen, was the game she had created before her freezing, titled "Wan Jie" ( "The Myriad Realms").
Since its launch three years ago, "Wan Jie" had stirred up a storm across the universe.
It was said to enhance the mental capabilities of players in reality, leading interstellar scholars to believe it might contain secrets of a higher civilization.
However, the game was notoriously difficult to start; players had spent countless hours trying to complete their first class change without success.
Until Ye Bai decided to enter the game herself to make money from its information...
Not long after, interstellar players received a server-wide announcement that had never been seen in three years since the game launched:
**[Congratulations to the Galactic Zone Blue Star player 'Bai Ye' for becoming the first lord in the entire server!]**
The entire interstellar community erupted!
Who was this hidden powerhouse on Blue Star? How had they managed to become a lord? After all, players had been wandering and adventuring in the game for three years, only to be deemed vagrants by NPCs!
Ye Bai, the person in question, thought: … Why was everyone in the universe playing as tourists before?!
**Consumption Guide**
1. Alternate world, Western fantasy game, soft sci-fi! (Highlight this)
2. Game settings draw inspiration from a wide range of classic MMORPGs, single-player games, and strategy management games the author has played.
3. Main storyline includes a couple, but no spoilers for now.
4. Some bugs may be foreshadowing.
Current collection count: 63,564
Nutritional liquid count: 115,172
**Chapter 1**
68.951.34, Solar System, Blue Star
“Ye Bai, have you decided to go to Makur Star?”
As the communication connected, an alien figure sitting in a spaceship suddenly popped into Ye Bai's mind.
It wasn’t the first time she had used communication methods from ten thousand years later, but Ye Bai still felt a bit unaccustomed. The essential tool for interstellar citizens, the **Personal Terminal**, functioned like a ‘system’ imagined in ancient web novels, with all operations done through thought.
“Yes.” Taking a deep breath, Ye Bai replied, “I’ve sent out thousands of resumes over the past two weeks, and this is the only invitation I received.”
The Makur Star mentioned by the other party was an entertainment planet primarily focused on species exhibitions. The job offered to Ye Bai was to be displayed as a ‘rare species’ for aliens to observe, much like humans viewing animals in a zoo.
“Isn’t there any other option? Didn’t the Blue Star Council contact you?”
“Uh… no.”
Upon hearing this, Aurora, with hair that floated like jellyfish tentacles, began to sway—a sign of agitation for the Huanshai people.
Although Ye Bai’s work in the lab was under Aurora’s research, over the three years, this alien scholar had come to see Ye Bai as a friend.
“I really can’t understand it. You’re the only survivor of Blue Star in ten thousand years, essentially an ancestor in their genes. Why haven’t they protected you or offered any assistance?”
Ye Bai, the person involved, remained calm: “Because there are many Blue Star survivors scattered throughout the universe. I just happened to stay on Blue Star, and I hold little research value for them.”
Ten thousand years ago, Ye Bai chose to freeze her body due to a terminal illness. Years later, a massive meteorite struck Blue Star, and in the face of civilization's destruction, humanity developed interstellar travel technology and left Blue Star, never to return.
It wasn’t until three years ago, when a new wormhole appeared in the solar system, that Blue Star attracted the attention of the Star Alliance for development, and Ye Bai, this ‘ice cube,’ was discovered and cured.
After ten thousand years, the new humans who had taken root and evolved on other planets viewed ancient humans like Ye Bai as merely another species with some genetic similarities, even older than the scattered Blue Star survivors. Being too ancient meant she didn’t even qualify as ‘human.’
“In their eyes, I’m probably not much different from a monkey,” Ye Bai paused, “And considering the dispute I had with the Blue Star Council when I first woke up three years ago, they’re even less likely to help me now.”
Aurora recalled what the dispute was about: “You mean the issue with selling the rights?”
“Ding—!”
Before Ye Bai could respond, the lab issued a notification that her rent was due, and she was suddenly jolted outside uncontrollably.
The moment she stepped into the outside environment, her throat and nose began to itch violently.
“Cough, cough, cough…”
**[Activating Purification Module]**
With a thought, the discomfort vanished, but Ye Bai noticed her account balance rapidly dwindling.
This was why, after Aurora’s lab closed, Ye Bai had no choice but to work at the interstellar zoo.
Just like how a modern person suddenly transported to ancient times would face catastrophic consequences from viruses they had adapted to, the viruses and radiation that the new humans had immunity to were a deadly threat to ‘ancient’ Ye Bai.
A minute outside would trigger a full-body allergic reaction, and within three minutes, it could lead to fatal shock.
Ye Bai certainly didn’t want to die; after all, she had just lived for twenty-eight… well, ten thousand and twenty-eight years.
But without the lab’s professional equipment, if she had to pay for environmental purification herself, her savings from three years would only last her three days on Blue Star. That’s why she had lingered in the lab until the very last second before it closed.
Aurora noticed Ye Bai’s situation, but her project funds had run out, leaving her unable to help. She could only suggest, “Now that you have interstellar citizenship, why not sell the rights to Antarctica? That should be enough for you to find a habitable planet in another star cluster…”
Before she could finish, Aurora noticed Ye Bai’s expression suddenly change: “What’s wrong?”
Standing outside the lab on an empty street, Ye Bai abruptly tilted her head back, her gaze fixed on a certain point, as if she had been turned into a statue, frozen in place.
“Ye Bai?”
Aurora called out again, and only then did Ye Bai seem to awaken from a dream, her face reflecting a dazed, incredulous expression as she asked, “Up in the sky… what is that?”
This was the first time Aurora had seen Ye Bai display such an expression. The starship hadn’t started yet, so she pressed a button, and the sealed wall of the ship transformed into a panoramic window.
“Oh… that’s a newly set up giant advertisement for a planet.”
This type of advertisement could be said to occupy the most significant and influential position on a planet. Through visual transmission technology, people on the planet could see the advertisement content no matter where they were, simply by looking up at the sky.
At that moment, Ye Bai felt as if she couldn’t breathe; her heart seemed to leap into her throat, and she could only ask Aurora dryly:
“What’s on it…”
“That’s the recently popular star-net game ‘Wan Jie.’ Current samples indicate it has the ability to enhance players’ mental capabilities regardless of race. It’s predicted to be the first game to reach ‘interstellar universal’ status since the star-net was established. I must return to my home planet early to join the research project for ‘Wan Jie,’” Aurora explained.
Interstellar universal, indiscriminately enhancing players’ mental capabilities…
Ye Bai’s mind buzzed, and she could only sluggishly ask about the two words that mattered most to her: “...It’s called ‘Wan Jie’?”
“Exactly.” Aurora thought Ye Bai was simply experiencing the novelty of stepping out of the lab for the first time in three years.
But in reality, what shocked Ye Bai far exceeded her imagination.
The massive advertisement in the sky displayed the image of a peculiar plant.
This image resembled a tree but grew symmetrically in three directions from the center, as if the roots of three trees had merged, sprouting different trunks and branches that intertwined as they grew.
Many interstellar scholars had speculated about this image, which players would see first upon entering the game, but no one could accurately say, as Ye Bai could, that this image represented three different technological development paths in the game world of "Wan Jie," commonly referred to as a ‘tech tree’ in construction games.
Because this image was designed by Ye Bai herself, stroke by stroke!
The games of the interstellar age, ten thousand years later, were entirely different concepts from those of her time.
Thus, no one cared that Ye Bai had once been a well-known game developer, nor did they know that her latest project, which had never been released for public testing, was called "Wan Jie."
...
“I’ve decided not to go to Makur Star anymore…”
The loneliness and confusion that had shrouded Ye Bai for three years began to dissipate like fog, revealing a glimmer of something different.
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