God Simulator

Chapter 1: A Weird Little Game

After a long day at work, Lu Yao came back to the apartment he rents where he called home, dragging along his tired body.

Lu Yao works in a small company with only ten or so people in it, and over half of those people got the job through cronyism and favoritism.
So, it is to be expected that those cronies of the higher-ups will not do much work.
In the end, if you leave out the Director and the Partners of the company, the only people left that are actually doing their work and making the company function is just Lu Yao and his two other colleagues.
A puny 3 employees working their ass off for the 10 others that are constantly lazing off, Lu Yao has only started working for 3 months and he’s already hating every second of it.

Still, this will stay to be his daily routine as he couldn’t quit yet, not until he finds another job to replace this one.
Unfortunately, the economy is not looking good at the moment with recession undergoing, so he’ll have to think about bringing the bread home first, before considering his next step in life.

Nonetheless, this hour every day when he gets back home, is when he gets to have some room to relax.
Throwing all the stress to the back of his head, he switched up his gears with a mood change for the better.

It’s gamer time now.
Time to play some video games!

He opened up his old desktop computer, his mouse moving around the screen slowly.

Let’s see, which one should I play today?

Maybe some ranked matches?

Or maybe I can try out my Naga?

Or perhaps Romance of the Three Kingdoms 9 could be good too?

……

He was still pondering over all the options before an inconspicuous little icon caught his attention.

It was sitting right at the corner of the screen, directly above his right hand.
The logo with a pixel art style green island on it seems to blend in easily with the green grassland of his default background image, making it almost unnoticeable.

He looked over at its name…

God Simulator?

What kind of game is this?

He has no recollection whatsoever as to how this game ever ended up being downloaded or even purchased by him. 

He went and clicked on File Properties to check it out.
The source file was only 20 M, it was a pretty small game.
Seeing how it’s only accessing such a small amount of storage, there’s a high chance that it might be one of those games from ages ago.

The spec of Lu Yao’s PC is on the lower end.
It can’t be helped since this machine has been with him since college till now, and he couldn’t bear the thought of switching it with another one.
So, when he plays LOL and Dota 2, he would have to change the settings to the lowest resolution.
In the end, when it comes to device specific gaming, he ends up becoming more of a second-hand gamer relying on watching streamer’s play throughs or their livestream videos.
Hence, most of the time, he enjoys playing all sorts of classic video games instead.

He moved his mouse onto the logo and tried to click on God Simulator.

The computer screen gradually got painted in black.

In the background, an old-school 8-bit Electro soundtrack started playing.
One by one, white Chinese characters started to emerge on the black screen, just like any retro pixel game interface but with a classy tone behind it.

【 Today, the World finally gets to welcomed back its Almighty God.
】

【 Your presence gave the World another chance to grasp the meaning of its existence.
Your Almighty Power, will definitely bring into reality a brand new civilization.
】

The black screen gradually disappeared, quickly replaced by a group of tiny humans that were immersed in the construction of various buildings, another group of them busy plowing their farmlands, while the last group of tiny humans were raising their hands up high like they were cheering for something.
The pixelated art style was fresh and nostalgic, a soothing combination that caused Lu Yao to feel at ease.

Three white options started to float on the background.

【 New Game 】

【 Continue Game 】

【 Exit 】

Lu Yao clicked on【 New Game 】.

The black hue came hovering back, but this time, the top of the screen bit by bit gets filled up with uniform green pixels, like paint blocks being smeared on a blackboard.

【 World Capturing in Progress…】

  Within five seconds, the green pixels had already covered up the entire screen.

【 World Positioning Completed.
Welcome, The Almighty God.
】

The pixel background changed yet again.

The screen was now filled with a flat green plain, surrounded by jungles, rivers, mountains and deserts.
In the middle of the screen, there stood a white domed building that looks like a temple.

A line of text appeared in the center: This is your temple, you will name it ___ Temple.

Lu Yao thought about it for a second and then proceeded to type out the word in his mind nonchalantly.

Yao Temple.

On top of the temple, the name,【 Yao Temple 】is now in the line of sight.

The screen falls into an odd state of stillness, like an animated TV-show being forcefully commanded to froze under the pause button.

He tried clicking on the temple, since there’s no other options on the screen anyway.

Nothing happened.
What is going on?

What kind of gaming company came up with this old piece of tool? There’s not even a single tutorial or guide in sight.

Just when he’s getting more and more confused, two shirtless tiny humans showed up at the corner of his screen, both of them were not wearing any shoes either.
These two went all the way up to the temple, and started pacing around it.

An exclamation mark popped out on top of one of the pixel human’s head, then a conversation bubble appeared. 

“Such a sophisticated and magnificent house, this must have been built by the Gods.”

The other pixel human then raised his arms high up in the air.

“The Gods, it’s the Gods!”

“This must be a revelation from the Gods that this is a place that’ll bring us good fortune, we have to bring more people to settle down here!”

“God’s Promised Land! Yes, this is God’s Promised Land!”

Smiley symbols popped up above the heads of the two tiny humans.
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