In the dark sky, lightning shuttled among the dark clouds, and bursts of thunder were heard from time to time. Gradually, large drops of raindrops fell, and in an instant it turned into a downpour.
Some people say that when it rains, the sky is crying, but this afternoon - obviously, it was a little too sad.
In a university dormitory, Li Xiao opened a brand new laptop. Rubbing his hands, he carefully pressed the start button. Within four or five seconds, the computer entered the main interface.
"The newly bought computer is indeed different." He muttered in a low voice, controlled the mouse, and clicked on a game on the desktop——
"Ark: Survival Journey"
"There are no classes in the afternoon?" There was also a roommate of Li Xiao in the dormitory. At this time, he was talking to Li Xiao and picked up his umbrella, apparently about to go out.
"Uh-" Li Xiao frowned, "There is a section that I really don't want to go to."
"You are great! You are not afraid of failing the exam." The roommates said to Li Xiao, while holding the textbooks for class under their arms.
"I just don't go to one class, so I won't fail, right?" Li Xiao's brows furrowed even deeper at his roommate's words, and he said to himself, "But what if the teacher happens to call the roll?"
However, his eyes turned to the game on the screen, and Li Xiao slapped himself hard in his heart!
"You're playing games, what are you thinking about? Studying, you're just studying!"
The roommate has left, but on Li Xiao's side - with the click of the mouse and keyboard, he has already sunk into "The Ark"...
"Ark: Survival Journey" is a sandbox game with a high degree of freedom: on a vast island, there is a complex natural climate and ancient beasts that have long been extinct. Players must survive on this dangerous island.
A place where people struggle to survive.
Obtain the necessities of life, explore unknown areas, find legendary ancient artifacts, summon huge and dangerous bosses, and uncover the secrets hidden in the three giant obelisks above the island!
Hunting, planting, crafting...this game contains a lot of fun to play.
One of the special features is that players can tame the ancient beasts on the island and make them their own pet mounts, whether they are the brutal and dangerous Tyrannosaurus Rex or the cute and harmless Dodo...
Create a character, set game parameters... This series of operations only takes about ten seconds, and the game will enter the loading page.
As for why he is so proficient, the reason is the same. He has played this game several times, and he can be considered a master-level player in this game.
Every time he plays "Ark: Survival Journey", Li Xiao will find a different sense of freshness in this familiar game, which is why he keeps replaying the game.
"Click!"
A bolt of lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, illuminating the sky and at the same time a deafening sound was heard. The loud boom startled Li Xiao who was waiting for the game to enter.
"What a horrible weather!" Li Xiao couldn't help but think of his childhood in the countryside. During thunderstorms, all electrical appliances in the house must be disconnected. Otherwise, once lightning strikes, the electrical appliances may short-circuit and catch fire, causing safety hazards.
But that was because the wiring didn’t work in the past, and now electrical appliances have overload protection...
"Click!"
Before he finished speaking, another bolt of lightning exploded. What was different from before was that the lightning was so powerful that the strong sound waves shook the glass of the entire building!
Li Xiao's ears were instantly deafened, and there was a constant buzzing in his head...
For a moment, thunder and lightning roared, the glass trembled, and the ground shook, as if the end of the world was coming!
After this bolt of lightning exploded over the dormitory building, the noise in the entire building lasted for more than ten seconds before it stopped.
"Holy crap! No! My new computer!" Li Xiao's howling came from the dormitory.
His ears hurt from the loud noise, but his focus was entirely on the computer in front of him, because after the thunder and lightning, his beloved computer screen suddenly became blurry and covered with snowflakes.
Apparently, it wasn't just his ears that were affected by the lightning!
His eyes glanced at the socket on the side, and he hurriedly bent down to unplug the computer power cord, trying to save his beloved one that he spent a lot of money to buy——
As soon as my hand touched the power cord, numbness hit me and spread from my fingers to my whole body!
How fast was the current? Li Xiao didn't know. He only knew that he would be paralyzed in the next moment and couldn't help himself!
The electric shock caused Li Xiao's muscles to contract and spasm, and his whole body began to twitch, and his hand tightened its hold on the socket.
At this moment, there was no one in the dormitory except Li Xiao, so after he twitched for a while, this idiot who didn't pay attention to the safety of electricity completely stopped.
At the last moment of consciousness, Li Xiao saw a white light shining on him from the computer screen covered with snowflakes...
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On the endless blue sea, there is a huge island.
Warm and bright sunshine, blue and clear sea water, delicate and soft sand...
This is definitely a holiday destination!
"Gugu...Gugu..."
On the edge of the beach, a "big bird" with a chubby body, a round head and a huge beak was looking curiously at the strange creature lying on the ground.
In its memory, it had never seen such a hairless orangutan, and judging from its motionless appearance, it seemed to be dead.
This curious bird circled around the creature several times before stopping. It usually only has one way to deal with curious objects - peck it!
Body, limbs, hands and feet... The big bird pecked this strange creature on the ground all over...
Finally, its beak pecked the creature on the head!
"Boom!"
The beak was in close contact with the head, making a low sound!
The big bird suddenly froze, it seemed to have discovered something amazing! After standing still for a moment, it tried again——
"Boom!" Its strength increased and its voice became louder!
Its eyes sparkled with fun!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The low sound kept coming, once, again, and again... This stupid bird seemed to have discovered an interesting activity.
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"Sleepy! Quite sleepy!" This strong sense of sleepiness made Li Xiao feel that a long sleep without consciousness was his final destination.
Best, never wake up!
However, the pain in his head greatly affected Li Xiao's plan to sleep forever.
The pain was like someone constantly hitting his forehead with a mallet. Although it was not very painful, it affected Li Xiao's rest and made him very irritable. However, the incomparable sleepiness made Li Xiao too lazy to move.
The gavel will stop eventually! This is what he thought in his heart.
However, things backfired as the person who hit him on the head with a mallet seemed to be determined not to stop until Li Xiao woke up.
The irritability gradually accumulated, and when Li Xiao couldn't bear it anymore, he moved.
Too sleepy to open his eyes, he stretched out his hand and pulled the damn "gavel" aside.
However, before waiting for a moment, the "gavel" began to hit his head again. Li Xiao once again pulled it away and gave the person holding the mallet a hard push. He felt that this time it was time to stop.
There was a slightly longer pause this time, but the mallet hit his forehead again!
"It's never over!"
Unable to bear it, Li Xiao suddenly grabbed the handle of the gavel and opened his eyes to teach this bastard who kept disturbing his sleep!
What caught his eye was not a person holding a mallet, but a strange bird about the same size as a chicken! And he was pinching its neck.
Its body feathers are blue, its head is purple, and its abdomen is lighter in color; its huge, vulture-shaped beak is entirely black; its wings are short and seemingly unable to fly; its legs are thick and thick, similar to chicken legs.
The most conspicuous thing is the cluster of curled feathers on its butt. These green feathers are very different from the color of the body feathers and look out of place.
This bird is both familiar and strange...
He said it was familiar because the bird looked like it was obviously a dodo. This kind of harmless creature can be seen everywhere in the Ark game. I was chasing it here just now in the game.
And the strange thing is, how can the common creatures in this game appear in reality?
You know, the dodo, a large, slow, flightless creature, has long been extinct due to human activities.
"That's not right!" After seeing the surrounding scene clearly, Li Xiao's sleepiness receded and he woke up completely. Only then did he realize that he was no longer in the dormitory and had arrived in a strange place!
Looking around, the shock in Li Xiao's heart couldn't be calmed down!
I am on the beach under the cliff. In the distance is the blue water. I can see chest-high ferns and tall palm trees everywhere. There is also a harmless-looking herbivore wandering in the distance. Look.
It looks like a dinosaur!
What is even more eye-catching is the huge, glowing green obelisk hanging in the sky in the distance!
The obelisk that glows green seems to be made of metal. It is in the shape of a vertical strip with a sharp top and a wide bottom. You can feel its hugeness from a distance.
The appearance of the obelisk is like a futuristic science fiction. It looks like it is made of many metals, with a hollow in the center. A green light beam passes through the hollow in the center from top to bottom, penetrating the entire obelisk down to the ground.
Up to the void.
It was as if the entire obelisk was suspended between heaven and earth by this green light.
"This place! This place!" A surprising thought came to Li Xiao's mind!
"This is Ark Island! Have I time-traveled into a game?!"
His face was full of confusion and shock, and he stood up suddenly as he spoke.
Rubbing his head and thinking back, Li Xiao remembered that he seemed to have been electrocuted! Surprisingly! After being electrocuted, he actually traveled to the game world?!
Li Xiao, who had suffered a huge change in his heart, stared blankly at the world in front of him, completely forgetting that he still had a dodo in his hand. He did not let go of the hand holding his neck, and lifted it up as he stood up.
This dodo was probably still underage, and was much smaller than a mature dodo. Li Xiao grabbed his neck and lifted him up into the air, without any resistance...
The neck being held was unable to breathe, and the fate of suffocation was about to befall this dodo!
The instinct of survival made it struggle wildly, and it struggled to escape from the hands of Li Xiao, who was already sluggish.
"Cuckoo...Cuckoo..." After landing, the dodo's cry added a lot of panic.
The little guy finally tasted the pain and flapped his two little wings to escape from Li Xiao. While running, he kept looking back at the "weird creature that had been resurrected from the dead".
With such actions, combined with its honest and cute image, many girls will be impressed by this adorable creature.
Li Xiao didn't pay attention to the weak dodo. He still looked around blankly, immersed in his own thoughts...
"How...how did I get into the game world...what happened? Can I go back?"
Discouraged, he sat down again.
He is not the kind of novel protagonist who has no father or mother, no worries, and no matter how he travels through time.
Li Xiao's parents are still alive and his family is harmonious. Although he doesn't have a girlfriend yet, he is only a sophomore in college and has a lot of youth to squander.
What will happen to my parents during this time travel? What will happen to my relatives and friends?
When he thought that his mother would shed tears every night from now on, Li Xiao felt even more upset.
After sitting in silence for nearly an hour, Li Xiao suppressed the confusion in his heart, rubbed his face vigorously, and finally paid attention to the current situation.
Since it is the Arkworld, then——
Li Xiao looked at his left arm fiercely!
Sure enough, a diamond-shaped, half-finger-sized, metal artifact was embedded on the inside of the forearm, connected to his own flesh and blood.
Li Xiao touched the implant, and the dull implant instantly lit up with a glimmer of light, projecting a light screen the size of a book in front of Li Xiao. At the same time, a cold mechanical prompt sounded in Li Xiao's eyes.
It sounded in my mind:
“Welcome player ‘Li Xiao’ to Ark!”
"Who are you? Why did I come here?" Li Xiao asked eagerly, but got no response. Helplessly, he had no choice but to look at the light screen again.
Several large characters occupying the entire light screen gradually disappeared, revealing a personal menu with a total of four items:
[Item] is the inventory, commonly known as "backpack". Like many RPG games, it is full of square white boxes, each box is a storage box. Count carefully, 10x2, a total of twenty boxes.
The boxes inside are all empty, and there seems to be no initial novice equipment.
[Production] To put it bluntly, it is a portable workbench. Each upgrade in Ark will unlock several drawings. Players can use these drawings to make tools, equipment and other items. And there is no ready-made equipment in the Ark game.
Equipment requires players to make use of existing blueprints.
The production column is not empty, there are already three blueprints unlocked - stone pickaxe (original), stone ax (original), and torch (original).
[Name: Stone Pickaxe (Original)]
[Damage: extremely low]
[Durability: Low]
[Making requirements: Stone x1, Wood x1, Fiber x3]
[Note: Don’t have flint or stone? Then you need a handy stone pickaxe! 】
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[Name: Stone Ax (Original)]
[Damage: extremely low]
[Durability: Low]
[Making requirements: flint x1 wood x1 fiber x3]
[Note: Don’t have wood or thatch? Then you need a handy stone ax! 】
[Remarks: Flame distinguishes humans from beasts, bakes food, and lights up the night... Its function does not need to be explained in detail, but you must pay attention to it! Forest fire prevention is everyone's responsibility! 】
A feeling of familiarity arises spontaneously. This is the three-piece novice set of the Ark game. Judging from the appearance shown on the drawing, it is exactly the same as the one in the Ark game.
Of course, this ridiculous note is not available in the Ark game.
