"I heard that in our city's Jiangbei District, a security guard at the Tingyue Community registered a three-star Sky Abyss game account yesterday and was immediately recruited by the Dream Chasing Team with a high salary of fifty thousand a month! Is that true?"
"Damn it! Don't even mention it! My house is right there! That kid dropped out of high school and became a security guard in our community. Just two months in, he hit the jackpot and quit to join Dream Chasing. Everyone in our community is green with envy!"
"What can you do? That's how the world is. I had a friend who was a total simp, always bumming cigarettes off me. On his 18th birthday, he miraculously registered a four-star account. Now he's driving a Ferrari with one hand and changing model-level girlfriends every day!"
"Ugh, when will we one-star account holders ever see hope?"
"I'm thinking of going to a factory to screw bolts. The money isn't as good as in Sky Abyss, but at least I won't be dancing with death every day!"
...
As evening fell.
At a small eatery downstairs in the community.
Lu Ming was quietly eating his stir-fried pork with green peppers over rice, listening to the conversation of a few young men at the next table.
After finishing his meal, Lu Ming headed straight to a nearby internet café, Ant Café, and booted up a computer.
He went directly to a corner seat, silently turned on the machine, and opened a game app called [Sky Abyss].
[Please enter your game account]
Staring at the prompt on the computer screen, Lu Ming swiped his ID card, and the ID number automatically appeared in the account input field.
Just as he was about to click login, Lu Ming seemed to suddenly remember something.
He hesitated for a moment, pressed enter to cancel the account, and then manually entered a new ID number that didn't match the one on his ID card.
Tentatively, he clicked login.
Unexpectedly, the next second.
Whoosh!
A black vortex appeared on the computer screen, sucking Lu Ming right in!
In the blink of an eye, Lu Ming found himself in a tranquil town.
[Ding~ Esteemed Ten-Star account player, Nether, welcome back to the world of Sky Abyss!]
With the system's voice ringing in his ears, Lu Ming was stunned.
"I can actually log into my past life's account!!!"
That's right, Lu Ming was a reborn individual! As memories in his mind began to rewind...
A hundred years ago, a game called [Sky Abyss] appeared out of nowhere and became a global sensation overnight.
Everyone over the age of 18 had a lifetime opportunity to register an account, and logging in allowed them to enter this game.
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Initially, people thought it was just a game. Until a player was killed by a monster in Sky Abyss, resulting in brain death in the real world.
Moreover, more and more monsters began crossing dimensions, gradually invading the real world from Sky Abyss, slaughtering humans and destroying cities.
Only then did humanity realize: disaster had struck!
To protect their loved ones, friends, and the sanctity of humanity, people bravely registered accounts to enter Sky Abyss, fighting against powerful monsters to prevent them from invading the real world.
Thus, humanity entered an era of universal gaming.
Sky Abyss game accounts were graded from One-Star to Ten-Star. In his past life, Lu Ming had bad luck, registering only a one-star account, the lowest grade. Yet, he was extremely fortunate to be the 99,999,999,999th registered player globally, receiving a unique special reward task from Sky Abyss:
If Lu Ming could level up his character to 200 within five years, he would complete the task and receive the only reward that could upgrade any account to the highest ten-star grade—the Scroll of Deification!
So, Lu Ming embarked on a frenzied leveling journey.
However, for someone with no money, no power, no influence, and only a one-star account, the task was unimaginably difficult.
To get this reward, Lu Ming became a gaming fanatic, staying online for over 18 hours a day! He tirelessly completed tasks, farmed monsters, and leveled up, even humbling himself to be a simp, countless times begging high-level players to take him through dungeons. After 1,809 days, just last night, Lu Ming finally reached level 200 and successfully obtained the [Scroll of Deification] reward!
But unexpectedly, at that moment, he was stabbed through the heart from behind by his beloved girlfriend of three years, Ye Ling'er! That scene was forever etched in Lu Ming's memory.
Ye Ling'er cried as she spoke, "I'm sorry, Lu Ming, I'm sorry... I really had no choice. He promised me that only if I killed you and got the Scroll of Deification for him, he would release my parents and my brother.
We can't fight him. His power is overwhelming, killing us would be as easy as squashing a few ants...
That's my only brother, and my parents raised me with such difficulty. I can't just watch them die..."
Lu Ming didn't know who this "he" Ye Ling'er referred to was. He only knew: he had been with Ye Ling'er for three years. During those three years. Though poor, he treated Ye Ling'er with utmost care.
"Remember that night when you messaged me saying your stomach hurt from your period? Without a second thought, I abandoned a task I had been working on for three days and nights, braved a torrential downpour to buy brown sugar, and rode my electric scooter to your house to make brown sugar water for you, staying by your side to take care of you!
And another time, when your father fell ill and owed tens of thousands in debt. I worked overtime, extending my Sky Abyss online time from 18 to 20 hours a day, grinding for two whole months! Finally, I managed to gather enough money by selling equipment and materials to help your family pay off the debt!
"You said you didn't like takeout, so I logged off at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. every day to ride to your house and cook for you, then rode back home to log back into Sky Abyss, rain or shine for three years!"
Recalling all these memories, Lu Ming's eyes filled with bloodshot rage. All along, Lu Ming had treated Ye Ling'er like a precious gem, wholeheartedly devoted to her. But in the end, he got in return: "I know you're good to me, but besides being good to me, you're just a useless loser..."
Lu Ming clenched his fists, his heart burning with anger.
"I was always planning our future with all my might, And you, you betrayed me so easily! Whether you were forced or not, Ye Ling'er, I will make you pay!"
As for the current situation.
The good news: After being backstabbed by Ye Ling'er, at the moment of his death, Lu Ming used the Scroll of Deification, preventing "him" from succeeding, and first obtained the power of the Scroll of Deification himself, upgrading his account from one-star to a full ten-star!
The bad news: Lu Ming didn't even get to enjoy that ten-star account before he died.
Another piece of good news: Fate didn't abandon Lu Ming. After his death, he was unexpectedly reborn into the same timeline, in the body of someone with the same name!
Another piece of bad news: The original owner of this body was a penniless, powerless, orphan who had just turned 18 today and registered a common one-star Sky Abyss account.
Alone, living in a small third-tier city in Great Xia, unable to even pay next month's rent. Unable to see hope for the future and unable to bear the pressure, he overdosed on sleeping pills to commit suicide.
As a result, when Lu Ming's soul crossed over, his stomach churned violently, and he clung to the toilet, vomiting for half an hour. After emptying his stomach, the first thing he did was run downstairs to eat, leading to the scene at the beginning.
The originally disastrous start was completely reversed the moment Lu Ming successfully logged into his past life's account!
Could it be that the Sky Abyss account is directly bound to the player's soul, meaning the soul is the only login password for the account?
Lu Ming eagerly opened the account interface to check.
[Account: 330200***97]
[Account Qualification: ★★★★★★★★★★ (Full)]
[Talent ①: Soul Slash Lv1 (Each time the player kills an enemy, they can refine its corpse to gain corresponding soul power. Consuming soul power can summon an Undead Warrior, who will protect the master to the death, never betraying. The maximum number of refinements is player level * 10)]
[Talent ②: Comprehensive Amplification Lv1 (All player skills' effects are increased tenfold)]
[Talent ③: Rebirth from Ashes Lv1 (When the player dies, sacrifice the weakest Undead Warrior to resurrect the player)]
Looking at the ten-star account before him and its three top-tier talents, Lu Ming's heart raced, his body trembling with excitement.
You must know: In the hundred years since Sky Abyss descended, the highest player account qualification worldwide was only six-star!
Moreover, in the Sky Abyss world, even a summoner class at level 100 could only summon ten creatures at most.
Yet, the first talent, Soul Slash, allows summoning ten at level 1! At level 100, it can summon a thousand!
The second talent, Comprehensive Amplification, with a Lv1 effect of tenfold skill strength, is unimaginable at higher levels!
The third talent, Rebirth from Ashes, is even more outrageous.
Sky Abyss seems like a game, but in reality, if a player dies in it, they experience real brain death in the real world.
Combining Rebirth from Ashes with Soul Slash, imagine: in the later stages, when Lu Ming commands an army of tens of thousands of Undead Warriors, it's almost as if he possesses an immortal body!
Suddenly, Lu Ming burst into uncontrollable laughter. So much so that passersby and players around him thought Lu Ming had gone mad.
"Five years! Do you know how I survived these five years?"
I'M FINALLY GOING TO RISE!!!