"Ding~ Congratulations on killing the [Dark Dragon Emperor Iguno] (Level 255, 255-star Super Divine Rank BOSS) with players [Mu Chen] and [Ruo Xi], earning 280 billion EXP!"
As the system notification sounded in his ears, the massive body of the Dark Dragon Emperor Iguno crashed down from the sky, unwillingly falling before Zhang Yi.
Bending down to pick up a golden scroll fragnt from the mountain of loot dropped beside the BOSS's corpse, Zhang Yi exclaid excitedly, "The last piece, finally complete!"
Saying this, he opened his inventory and took out the other eight identical scroll fragnts. Zhang Yi combined the nine fragnts, forming a complete golden scroll in his hands!
"Ding~ Congratulations on obtaining the 255-star Super Divine Artifact [Dragon Blood Scroll]!"
Gazing excitedly at the scroll he had painstakingly acquired, Zhang Yi had just turned around when suddenly, "pfft," a sharp sword pierced through his chest.
His smile froze instantly as Zhang Yi looked at Mu Chen, who held the sword that ran through his body, with disbelief all over his face: "Mu Chen, you..."
"Sorry, brother, I'll take care of the Dragon Blood Scroll and Ruo Ruo for you." With that, Mu Chen pulled the blood-stained sword from Zhang Yi's body, and alongside him, a girl in a white mage robe, Ruo Xi, calmly watched as Zhang Yi collapsed to the ground with a thud.
"Ding~ You have been attacked by player [Mu Chen]'s [Critical Slash] skill, losing 32.68 million HP. The system detects you have no remaining revival chances, you are dead!"
With the final system notification, Zhang Yi, lying in a pool of blood, gradually closed his eyes.
Mu Chen crouched down, intending to pick up the Dragon Blood Scroll clutched in Zhang Yi's hand, only to see the scroll, soaked in Zhang Yi's blood, transform into golden light and rge into Zhang Yi's body. Then, Zhang Yi's body turned into a white light and disappeared!
"How could this happen!"
Mu Chen stared in shock at the bloodstain left on the ground, utterly dumbfounded...
***
In a rented room in Linhai City, a young man suddenly sat up in bed.
"Mu Chen, Ruo Ruo, why did you betray !"
Zhang Yi let out a roar of unwillingness and anger, then noticed the surroundings seed a bit off.
"Where... is this?"
Zhang Yi paused, quickly getting out of bed, and looked around the familiar yet strange small rented room.
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Wasn't this the place he rented after graduating and starting work?!
Realizing sothing, he turned to the calendar on the bedside table, which showed the date: August 28, 2025!
Zhang Yi was stunned: he... had been reborn!
Still in disbelief, Zhang Yi rushed to the living room to turn on the TV, and sure enough, every channel was broadcasting the sa news—
"The world gate of [Apocalypse] will open in 2 hours and 12 minutes. Players from around the world, are you ready..."
He ran to the window, opened it, and saw countless promotional vehicles with [Apocalypse] posters slowly driving by, broadcasting announcents. Passersby were chatting and laughing, all discussing [Apocalypse], and the buildings were adorned with [Apocalypse] posters.
Only at this mont did Zhang Yi dare to believe: he had indeed been reborn, back from the post-apocalyptic world of [Apocalypse] eight years later, in 2033, to 2025, precisely on the day [Apocalypse] began!
In 2025, a large-scale online ga [Apocalypse], developed by the renowned dostic ga company [Tianyun Group] in collaboration with over a hundred listed ga companies worldwide, involving thousands of top ga designers and costing 30 billion RMB over five years, officially announced its open beta.
Breaking traditional gaming norms, [Apocalypse] reportedly allowed players to enter the ga world with special equipnt, experiencing 100% virtual reality and thrilling ga scenes!
Moreover, [Tianyun Group] announced that in-ga currency could be exchanged for RMB!
With these features, since the announcent of the open beta in May 2025, [Tianyun Group] had ignited a global frenzy.
However, what no one expected was that the ga they dread of, about to undergo a global simultaneous open beta, would bring a global apocalyptic disaster!
Zhang Yi recalled his previous life.
On August 28, 2025, today, after the open beta of [Apocalypse], all players who entered the ga encountered a common issue: they couldn't log out and could only stay in the ga forever.
No one knew how this happened, only that dying in the ga ant real death.
Humanity faced doomsday.
Don't think avoiding the ga would spare you from this disaster; those who didn't enter the ga were the first to perish.
The first to discover this was a player who, while completing a task in the ga, found an NPC identical to a friend in reality. Not only that, almost all NPCs in the ga were modeled after real people who hadn't entered the ga, aning those people might have been erased by the [Apocalypse] system in reality and then set as NPCs in the ga!
In his previous life, Zhang Yi, as a player in the ga, survived the post-apocalyptic world of [Apocalypse] for eight years, only to die at the hands of his best friend and the woman he loved most.
Reborn, Zhang Yi vowed to make that treacherous couple pay for their actions in his previous life!
Checking the ti: 6 PM, only two hours left until [Apocalypse] opened at 8 PM!
Suddenly rembering sothing, Zhang Yi, in shorts and slippers, left his room and sprinted to a nearby convenience store: Old Li's Convenience Store!
In his previous life, before the ga opened, several news stories went viral online. Zhang Yi rembered one about a chubby guy in Linhai City who found a Divine Talent Card, one of only ten worldwide issued by [Tianyun Group], inside a cup of instant noodles at an unremarkable Old Li's Convenience Store!
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