Arrival

  "What a hassle, disected again."

  As the dim vision gradually faded, Li Zi sighed while rubbing his forehead subsciously, muttering pints:

  "I should have go and used the dedicated lih the studio for live streaming. The 1,000 Mbps broadband in this rented apartment is really unstable. Every time the viewer t exceeds 100,000, it fluctuates frequently."

  Being a full-time streamer is not an easy job. Even as a streamer for the hottest all-system game "Abyss of Stars," with massive traffic, there are very few who truly make money from streaming.

  "I still need 200 more hours of streaming this month. Sigh, reeg after dise took two hours, and I have to restart the streaming plugins. Looks like I'll be w overtime and staying up te again."

  The game "Abyss of Stars" is great in every aspect except for the stant inpatibility with various newly updated streaming plugins.

  Whether it's QuickSound, Handshake, TigerFish, or BillyBilly, all streaming plugins are treated the same by the game's system, awork crashes are onpce.

  Li Zi has been streaming for a long time, iing all his assets into building his current work enviro before achieving any success.

  The game should be interfag with his nerves right now, syng his sciousness and data. This is a very lengthy process. Normally, it wouldn't matter, but for Li Zi, it's prime time for streaming. Missing this time slot would greatly reduce his traffic.

  The initial passion for the game, apanied by professionalization, gradually waned. Li Zi sometimes thinks back to a few summers ago, pying carefree with friends.

  With the increasing pressure of life, many people gradually stopped pying games and turo novels and short videos. Even Li Zi isn't sure if he would still love "Abyss of Stars" as much if it weren't for the streaming ine.

  "Linking limb nerves, activating tactile tempte."

  As the neural link started, Li Zi stopped thinking about irrelevant things.

  The immersive "Abyss of Stars" rarely shows game interfaces or simir visual effects. During the loading process, there are no prompts. Instead, it gradually releases sensory input, tinuously stimuting the pyer and adapting to the game entry process.

  This is why work fluctuations causing game dises take so long to reect.

  Li Zi was anxious but could only follow the game's progress at this moment.

  As a seasoned pyer of "Abyss of Stars" and a master of the [Starfall Master] profession, he quickly adjusted his mi, calming himself and precisely following the official tips for speeding up the neural link.

  "Empty your mind, gradually sensing your body."

  "Start with your fingers, tinuously trying to move them."

  "Remember the feeling of the airflow brushing your skin, tinuously thinking about and strengthening your awareness of it."

  This teique has always been effective. From the boundless void, his senses became increasingly sharp and real.

  The warmth of the sunlight, the disfort of the clothes, the stinging pain of the wound on his forehead, the blood gushing out from the ruptured vessel...

  "Hmm? What's going on? Sunlight? A wound? Clothes that don't fit?"

  Li Zi was a bit surprised. He clearly remembered that before diseg, he was expl and pi in the high-risk map [Dark Depths Garden], which was entirely dark and had no sunlight.

  However, it ossible that the system's dise prote had transported him to a nearby human y star. Sihere was sunlight, it was likely the [Valkyrie Fortress]'s artificial sun.

  The wound was also uandable. It robably other pyers attag him. After all, he was a somewhat famous streamer. It's normal for fans to want to i when passing by.

  What truly puzzled Li Zi was the ill-fitting clothes on his body.

  This was absolutely impossible.

  His [Silver Dream] robe was ade from Void Dragon skin, and it would never fit poorly like a mage wearing a warrior's armor.

  Moreover, the texture of the clothes felt pletely different from the soft and fortable robe he remembered. It felt more like the low-quality syic materials worn in the early newbie vilge days.

  'This is strange. Is it a prank by my stream viewers?'

  As his body and sciousness gradually synized, Li Zi, though his vision was still blurry, basically regained trol over his body. He immediately noticed that he seemed to be slumped on the ground, with something heavy pressing on him, vaguely resembling a human shape.

  Without much thought, Li Zi instinctively tried to push it away. As a level 300 [Starfall Master], even though strength wasn't his main attribute, the absolute level suppression was enough to push away a 'Mageln' css starship.

  However, when his hand touched the humanoid object, the slight exertion caused a bit of pain, and the heavy obstruade his face stiffen.

  "What's going on? Did I get the 'Weakness' debuff after being killed six times in a row?"

  Li Zi frowned. His chest and abdomen were just being pressed by the humanoid object, making breathing urgent and difficult. If this tinued, he would fall into a 'Suffocation' state.

  He had to shake his body vigorously, and after a long time, he finally pushed the humanoid object off him.

  Thud.

  The humanoid object fell on its back. Li Zi sat up and g it. The neural link had perfectly pleted synization, his pupils focused, and he quickly captured the other's appearance.

  A white man, tall and sturdy, wearing a light blue security uniform, with no signs of life. The ag read "Lanny Johns."

  "In this day and age, still wearing traditional woven clothes. These are things from the pre-ielr era. This stuff isn't even ia version anymore."

  Li Zi muttered. A corpse alone didn't cause him any psychological pressure.

  Back when he farmed materials, he crawled in and out of the corpse-filled [Demon Academy] not a thousand times, but at least nine hundred and y-imes.

  He looked down at his own outfit: the same blue security uniform, equipped with a fshlight at the waist. Meanwhile, there were still bloodstains on his forehead and cheeks—he touched it, it seemed to be a bruise on his forehead, just a minor bleed, nothing serious.

  "Not only did I get the 'Weakness' debuff, but I was also thrown onto some unknown newbie p. Who's pying this prank?"

  Li Zi unceremoniously tore off the clothes from the security guard to bandage his wound, and casually took the rubber baton from the other's waist to use as a on.

  "Who knows whiet I've been thrown onto. I o find a mirror and activate the system."

  Li Zi muttered, quickly moving. However, as soon as he started, he realized something was wrong.

  He turned his head, squinting iernoon sunlight, and carefully examihe security guard's corpse, fog on the ag.

  "Lanny Johns, no wo seems familiar. It's in the nguage of Azure Star."

  Li Zi paused, then his pupils shrank:

  "This is the 1.0 to 2.0 version, the newbie p for Yanxia try pyers—Azure Star's nguage."

  "What a joke, wasn't Azure Star bombed by the Gactic Civilization in version 2.5?!"

  "Five years ago, I saw Azure Star explode with my own eyes. More than 50,000 people in the live broadcast room withat shog se together. The p shattered, the sky colpsed, and uhe main on of the 'Dals' starship, it slowly melted into magma. The civilization perished in fmes and radiation. Finally, the whole p disied into broken stones, swallowed and merged by a giaial body..."

  "The most crucial point is, I TMD blew up Azure Star myself!"