Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
The teleporter at Level 1 Homeland was really simple and crude, being just a grey, round slab of stone. When Chen Bing first entered Homeland, he thought that this was some random piece of stone, and it took him a long time to find the teleporter.
As he stood on the teleporter, the teleporter’s interface appeared in front of Chen Bing’s eyes.
Here, he could choose the game he wanted to enter.
“Your tutorial has been completed, and you can finally enter a long-term game. However, some series are in their middle to late phase, and it will be difficult to succeed in a short period of time… The only game that can be entered tomorrow will be the indie game ‘Evolution Island’?”
As Chen Bing looked at the few games located in the interface, he gave it some thought.
The games in Homeland could be separated according to the actual time required to commit, being “Long-term games”, “Series Games”, “Indie Games”, and “Story-based Games.”
Time in long-term games was synced with time in real life. As long as the time in the game was not being frozen, one could enter and leave at any time.
The time taken in series games would be about 7 to 15 days in real life, indie games about 1 to 2 days, and story-based games about 1 to 3 days.
After completing a series game, independent game or story-based game, there would be a one day of cooldown period.
After upgrading the Homeland teleporter to Level 3, the number of games that could be entered would be increased by a huge amount. Chen Bing’s Homeland teleporter was only Level 1 at that moment, and the number of games he could enter was severely limited. Tomorrow the cooldown for the games would be over, and he could only enter different types of long-term games and the indie game “Evolution Island.”
Long-term games were categorized based on the type of games they were, such as sci-fi, magic, Wuxia, Xianxia, and many others. There would only be one of each type of long-term game at the same time just to incentivize game exploration. When a long-term game had been discovered 100%, the old long-term game would end and the new long-term game would be released.
There were several types of long-term games that had been released for more than one year. Even though Chen Bing had Warrior Slime and the skill Rewind Time, it would be hard to gain within one or two months. Spending time on long-term games was not an option.
Compared to long-term games, the indie game “Evolution Island,” which only needed one to two days, was more suitable for him.
After completing “Evolution Island”, there would be a series of “series games” that will be unlocked after a day.
With Warrior Slime, it would not be a problem to make some equipment to sell for money within a month’s time.
Chen Bing searched for information regarding “Evolution Island.”
“Game: ‘Evolution Island'”
“Type: Indie Game”
“Entry Requirements: None. However, rewards will decrease when more than 10 games have been completed”
“Number of props allowed: 1”
“Number of skills allowed: 1”
“Number of equipment allowed: 1”
“Number of pets allowed: 1”
“Note 1: While in “Evolution Island”,pets require twice the amount of experience to level up compared to players. When the game ends, if the pet level and player level difference is more than five levels, the game ratings will be decreased.”
“Note 2: Whenever Homeland level increases by 1, the props, equipment, skills that are allowed increases by one”
…
The explanation for “Evolution Island” was fairly simple. There was not anything too important, just simple reminders. However, from the notes, it was known that it was not recommended by the game to bring pets into “Evolution Island.”
“If I remember correctly, in a normal game, the amount of experience acquired by pets is three times the amount acquired by players. “Evolution Island” would times it by two again, resulting in the amount of experience acquired by pets being six times compared to the player. With such a huge amount of upgrading experience, it looks like pets’ growth in “Evolution Island” will be lethal to the balance of the game.
Chen Bing looked at the Warrior Slime at his feet.
The game would have such a requirement probably because of pets giving the players a huge increase in battle strength in “Evolution Island.” It made the players wonder whether to bring in pets or not.
Pets would greatly help the player, but they also severely decreased the speed of leveling up of players.
If one’s level differed too much from the other players, they would be no match with others even with the help of their pets.
Roar! Roar!
Warrior Slime was jumping around Chen Bing’s feet excitedly. As it saw Chen Bing look its way, he immediately raised the silver sword on his hand and roared loudly.
It was a pity that it had small hands, and it could not even reach its head when raised. It looked stupid and cute at the same time when it raised its sword.
Chen Bing closed the interfaces. As he saw the Warrior Slime looking stupid, he could not resist kicking it with its feet.
The slime had a short pair of hands but no feet, and it had to jump around while moving.
Roar! Roar!
As the Warrior Slime was kicked by Chen Bing, it could not keep its balance and rolled around the ground. It shouted roars of protest towards Chen Bing.
“Fine, I’ll stop. You better give it your all tomorrow!”
As he saw the Warrior Slime start to protest, Chen Bing stopped fooling around with it.
The stats of the pets had a hidden attribute, being the friendliness of pets. Warrior Slime looked like it was quite friendly towards Chen Bing. It would be a disaster if it were to lose its friendliness towards Chen Bing.
After patting the Warrior Slime, Chen Bing disconnected and left Homeland.
As Chen Bing disappeared, the Warrior Slime was confused and looked around its surroundings. After failing to find Chen Bing, it started to jump around in Homeland by itself.
As he returned back to reality, Chen Bing was not in a hurry to rest.
He opened a few game forums with his computer and searched for information regarding “Evolution Island.”
After searching for a few forums, Chen Bing started to have a basic understanding about “Evolution Island.”
As the alarm clock rang, Chen Bing looked at the time and changed into light sportswear and went downstairs and went to the park at Old Town to jog.
It had been a habit of his for a few years. He would feel uncomfortable even if he skipped jogging for just a day.
…
The afternoon on the following day, 10 minutes to 12 at noon, Chen Bing entered Homeland again.
He had been searching for information regarding “Evolution Island” for the entire pervious night and that morning. He had found practically everything that could be found.
However, he did not know how much this information could help him.
“Homeland Servant: Select ‘Evolution Island’!”
“Homeland Servant: Please confirm the items, skills, equipment, and pets to bring into ‘Evolution Island’!”
“Homeland Servant: Confirmation finished… You will be entering ‘Evolution Island’ after 10 seconds”
“10…9…8…”
…
As the time reached 12 noon, “Evolution Island” was activated. After confirming the message, Chen Bing was teleported by the teleporter at Homeland.
“..1″
The countdown timer beeped, and a great light shone from Homeland, and Chen Bing’s figure disappeared from Homeland.
‘System: Welcome to ‘Evolution Island’!”
“You opened your eyes, and there were trees everywhere.”
“‘Who am I? Why am I here?'”
“As you patted your injured head and tried your best to recall your memories…you recalled something. You accepted a mission. It was said that on the archipelago in the south, large amounts of monsters suddenly mutated and became dangerously strong. You had been sent to investigate.”
“However, as you came to investigate, your ship was attacked by monsters, and the guide that was with you was nowhere to be found. You were injured too, and the items on the ship were almost washed away by the sea, and there was not much left. Your memory became foggy as a result of the injury.”
“You checked your bodily conditions, and realized that you had an extraordinary power!”
“System: Received skill ‘Devouring Evolution.'”
“‘What happened? What kind of strange things happened to my body? I can devour life energy to evolve now?'”
“You panicked, but being an experienced person, you calmed down shortly after.”
“‘It looks dangerous here. However, I will have to live on no matter what, and continue my mission.'”
“Core Mission: Find ‘Evolution Island’, and live till the end”
After a short period of blindness, Chen Bing opened his eyes, and a string of characters appeared in front of him.
He had entered “Evolution Island”, and a whole new game was waiting for him!