Resurrection Empire

In short, this game focuses on relaxation and wellness.

Compared to the top-tier game "Wilderness Era," it practically screams low-quality and takes pay-to-win to the extreme.

Yet it is immensely popular, topping the game rankings above titles like "Wilderness Era," "Starry Sky Battlefield," "Millennium Crisis," "Schlon Battle," "Immortal Realm," and many others.

The reason is simple: the game is both provocative and private.

The unscrupulous developers have invested ninety-nine percent of their effort into holographic realism, studying the five senses perception, hormone secretion, and other factors during certain unmentionable interactions to such an extent that player experience here almost matches virtual reality training.

Moreover, the developers publicly claim that the game uses the most advanced encryption algorithms from the Source Star Mainframe.

Unless you have the key, even the Business Association cannot view any interactions within the game.

The game developers have further publicly declared that they have physically destroyed the data disk storing the key.

If I can't peep into the privacy, what are you worried about?

Come on!

Make a mess!

Go wild!

Whether others believe it or not, in the years since the game went live, no one has ever been caught doing anything immoral in the game and had it backfire in real life.

This place is a perfect sanctuary for affairs and letting oneself go.

Indeed, LSP is the true driving force of civilizational progress.

Five seconds later, the game finished loading, and Ren Zhong's figure appeared in his "Inn Villa."

He first glanced at the guest list.

Number of visitors: 0.

The Dream Inn not only attracts tenants but also functions for rental.

If other players have someone in mind, they can choose an inn and invite their opponent for a duel here, simply by paying the landlord the accommodation fee.

Many top-ranking players even manage to earn money without spending any.

But Ren Zhong's uniquely Syrian-style shack naturally attracts no interest.

He pushed the door open and turned to the back of his shed.

According to the game settings, other players can damage houses.

If another player has purchased the universal key, they can even enter the house and cause a ruckus.

If a player employs a cleaner, the higher the cleaner's level, the faster the repair speed and the better the repair result.

Legend has it that top-tier Level Nine cleaners can even turn others' random graffiti into murals that increase the house's Art Value.

If there is no cleaner, scenes destroyed by other players will repair themselves after 72 hours, but the integrity, Art Value, Charm Value, and other parameters of the house will decline.

At this moment, in front of Ren Zhong, there was a line of graffiti-like lettering carved with a knife on the outer wall of his house.

Ren Zhong squinted his eyes to make out what it said after a long time.

The content was "Your dad was here, what a crappy house! Burn it down sooner!"

The phrase was plain and unremarkable, exuding a sense of cultured calmness.

The handwriting was wild and free, with a flair that even pigs rooting through dung can't muster.

Even without a signature, Ren Zhong could instantly recognize it as the handiwork of the contemporary calligraphy artist Master Sun Miao.

About half an hour ago, during a battle with Shi Xuan, his wrist watch received notice.

The notice read: "Your Dream Inn has suffered inhumane damage, integrity -1, charm value -100, Art Value +1."

At the time, Ren Zhong knew that Sun Miao must have left a mark.

Ren Zhong saw the report and thought Sun was tearing down his wall, only to find he'd just left a line of text.

In the previous timeline, Ren Zhong waited to his death and never received news of Sun Miao's safety.

There were various reasons.

First, the agreed time between him and Sun Miao was one month.

Second, at the time Sun Miao left, Ren Zhong had no plans on how to obtain Citizen status, and he was actively avoiding Virtual Life.

The two discussed for a long time but couldn't come up with a way to circumvent surveillance.

This time Ren Zhong decided early to secure the Citizen path and slightly loosen his self-restrictions to enter Virtual Life.

Thus, an actionable plan smoothly emerged.

Additionally, Ren Zhong changed the time requirement. He never expected Sun Miao would send news of safety like a faraway wife only eight days after leaving, which was quite nice.

Since he had no cleaner, Ren Zhong picked up a stone beside and began grinding it fiercely.

"Your Dream Inn has been violently repaired, integrity -1, charm value +1, Art Value -1."

Ren Zhong's vision darkened.

Other issues were manageable, but this change in Art Value from +1 to -1 was baffling.