I might have been playing a fake cultivation game.

Chapter 006 Playing Games Seriously

Chou hour (1-3 AM)...

Zhou Yunshen didn't know what the hour of Chou was, but he knew that two hours were equivalent to about four hours.

In other words, there are still about four hours until dawn in the game world.

"Second Brother, you were sleepwalking when night fell. You stood in front of the house with your eyes closed and didn't move at all. It scared me to death. Do you...do you remember?" Zhou Xiaoya's voice rang out again, asking tentatively.

Sleepwalking?

Zhou Yunshen was taken aback.

This was the second time he had heard the word "sleepwalking".

Zhou Yunshen held his phone and quickly began to think.

When he first entered the game, it was a little after midnight in the real world, while the game time was around dawn, about six o'clock.

At this moment, it is 7:30 pm in the real world, while it is about 4 hours before dawn in the game world, which is about 1:30 am to 2 am.

If a day in both the real world and the game world is 24 hours, then the time difference between the two should be about six hours.

Nightfall in the game world corresponds to around one or two o'clock in the afternoon in the real world...

Thinking of this, Zhou Yunshen's eyes widened.

It was lunchtime, and he logged into the game in front of two colleagues, showing them his game character.

At that moment, he seemed to have controlled his character to walk out of the cabin, showed the game screen to his two colleagues by the moonlight, and then ignored the character and quit the game.

Could this be what Zhou Xiaoya was talking about—sleepwalking?

Thinking of this, Zhou Yunshen felt somewhat embarrassed.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "I don't remember. Okay, little girl, it's so late, you should go to sleep."

"Okay, Second Brother, you should rest well too." Zhou Xiaoya said, limping towards the wooden house next door.

Seeing this, Zhou Yunshen was about to ask: Little girl, what happened to your leg?

But he held back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

He knows nothing about this game world. If Zhou Xiaoya's leg injury was recent, there's nothing wrong with him asking this question. But if Zhou Xiaoya's leg injury is old or she has a congenital disability, then it's a bit out of character for him, as her older brother, to ask this question.

After learning that this game world was a real world, Zhou Yunshen became noticeably more cautious and was no longer as carefree and indifferent as before.

After Zhou Xiaoya returned to her room, Zhou Yunshen looked at the character on the screen and thought to himself, "Should we go out for a walk?"

He had just taken a few steps towards the outside with his character when he hesitated.

For most games, exploring the game world at night is definitely not a problem.

But this is a real game world, and it seems that there are monsters and spirits. In this case, is it really okay to wander around outside in the middle of the night?

Could we be in some kind of danger?

What if someone dies or gets injured?

Zhou Yunshen had a premonition that if his character died in this realistic game world, something bad might happen.

"Forget it, let's just bear with it and act after dawn."

In the end, Zhou Yunshen gave up the idea of ​​going out late at night, controlled the character to go back to the house, climbed into bed, and covered the character with a blanket.

Zhou Yunshen quit the game and set an alarm for midnight on his phone.

Then he sat on the bed, propped his head up with his hand, and began to think.

Based on the intelligence he has gathered so far, his character is a poor village boy with a lame sister. He makes a living by gathering herbs in the deep mountains, but he doesn't know if he has any other means of making a living.

His starting point was rather low...

Zhou Yunshen couldn't help but think of the five newbie gift packs the system gave him at the start of the game.

These five beginner gift packs included beautiful maids, illustrious family backgrounds, natal spiritual treasures, special bloodline inheritances, and heaven-rank cultivation techniques. In the end, he completely missed all of these things.

Of the five beginner gift packs, he chose to focus on cultivating aptitude.

Now things are different. He was born in a remote mountain village and had nothing.

How should this immortal cultivate?

Zhou Yunshen could only console himself: "When I created my character, I chose cultivation aptitude for everything. This way, while my lower limit is lower, my upper limit is higher! Once I embark on the path of cultivation, I'll surely soar to great heights, and my future will be limitless!"

Having read countless fantasy novels, he deeply understood the importance of aptitude for cultivation.

Good cultivation aptitude can not only increase a cultivator's cultivation speed, but also reduce the probability of encountering bottlenecks, making it an absolutely valuable asset.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yunshen immediately felt much more at ease.

"Tomorrow I'll wander around the village and inquire about the channels and methods of cultivating immortality. With my cultivation aptitude increased by five points, my cultivation potential is definitely not bad. As long as I can make contact with the cultivation sects in this world, the probability of me joining a sect should be very high." Zhou Yunshen pondered to himself.

In this realistic game world, he would definitely be cultivating immortality.

Without cultivating immortality, how could he defy fate?

How can he turn his life around without cultivating immortality?

After deciding what he needed to do tomorrow, Zhou Yunshen opened his phone and started searching for the game "Xuan Yuan Invasion".

As far as he knows, the game had a large-scale promotion a few days ago, which allowed many people to access the game.

In this scenario, even if only a small number of people are attracted to the game and download it, and even if most people uninstall it for various reasons, like Li Wang, the number of players who remain will still be enormous given the vast population of the Earth.

He is definitely not the only player of this game.

He wasn't the only player who noticed something unusual about the game by observing various subtle clues.

But why can't I find anything online?

Is it that all information about the game "Xuan Yuan Invasion" has been blocked by some mysterious force?

Or are all gamers just playing it safe and developing their characters stealthily?

Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Zhou Yunshen stopped wasting time searching.

He took his keys, went out, and bought a large bag of snacks from the convenience store downstairs from his rented apartment before returning home.

He's planning to play games all night tonight.

Before staying up all night, it's better to get some sleep to feel more refreshed.

But when Zhou Yunshen took a shower and lay in bed with his eyes closed, he couldn't fall asleep, tossing and turning, his mind filled with thoughts of the game and various fantasies about the future.

He finally drifted off to sleep around 10 p.m.

In the early hours of the morning, my phone alarm went off right on time.

Zhou Yunshen was awakened by the ringing of the alarm clock, and his consciousness slowly returned.

He picked up his phone and glanced at the time: 0:03.

He yawned, clicked the vortex-shaped icon of the Xuan Yuan Invasion, and successfully logged into the game.

A few seconds later, his character appeared on the phone screen.

The environment in the game isn't very bright, but you can tell that it's already daytime.