The King of Black Fog

[Nickname: Drinking and Singing]

[Name: Wang Donghua]

"Little Wang."

"I'm here."

"Play 'Laughter in the Dust'."

"Okay."

"Drinking and Singing, all I wish is joy till old age~ Hum hum hum~" A man in his forties hummed a tune as he entered the workshop.

He took off his coat to hang it on the coat rack and began to roll up his shirt sleeves while eyeing the equipment in the workshop with an ambitious gaze.

The scene changed, and the bearded Wang Donghua, with pursed lips and a concentrated expression, was engraving on the back of a white Identity Card.

Another scene shift, and Wang Donghua gazed obsessively at the white Identity Card inside the glass cabinet. The card, once smooth and flat as jade, was now etched with intricate lines.

"It's finally complete!"

"Little Wang, play 'Laughter in the Dust'."

(The mortal world is so ludicrous, infatuation the most pointless, to regard all as nothing is good.)

Amidst the song, Wang Donghua took the Identity Card out of the glass cabinet and slowly inserted it into the center of his forehead.

Whir!

Pages upon pages of windows popped up frantically; camera after camera aimed in the direction Wang Donghua wanted it to.

In a certain room, a computer's camera on standby awoke, adjusted its angle; a little girl showed her father the dance she learned in kindergarten, as the mother, crouching, laughed and filmed with her phone.

Suddenly, the father lifted the girl, laughed heartily, and kissed her cheek vehemently. Both father and daughter smiled towards the camera held by the mother.

The camera returned to its original angle and dozed off again, as Wang Donghua opened his eyes.

"Success!" he excitedly paced back and forth in the workshop, occasionally punching the air with his fists.

He stopped and shouted, "Little Wang! Play....."

The screen went dark, and when the picture resumed, Wang Donghua was lying in a hospital.

A female doctor in a white coat stood beside the bed.

"Your brain has aged due to the acceleration of your abilities," said the female doctor, whose voice was not particularly melodious, but calm and steady.

"Aged?" Wang Donghua in the bed, his eyes no longer had the focus and brilliance, now lifeless and rigid.

"Hmm." Only the doctor's legs in dark blue surgical garb were visible; the hem of her white coat was clear, "Three more months."

The camera went silent.

In the next scene, Wang Donghua was looking at an electronic brain connected to him with innumerable data cables. He was preserving his own memories, and the background music was 'Laughter in the Dust'.

Soon, a surgery took place. The female doctor opened Wang Donghua's head, and replaced his dying brain with an electronic one holding all his memories.

The surgery was over.

"How does it feel?"

Wang Donghua closed his eyes.

The screen turned black, the operating room lit up, the hospital lit up, streets lit up, district computers, a whole city lit up...

Wang Donghua passed out, no, he would no longer faint, it was an overload shut down.

The female doctor's voice came from off-camera: "Now you can control a city's interconnected electronic devices at most, and you'll need to keep drinking cooling fluid to lower your temperature, with heavy eating to supply your organic matter electricity system."

"That's enough, thank you," said Wang Donghua, drinking his cooling fluid.

After a moment of silence, the female doctor asked, "Not listening to music?"

"No need," Wang Donghua smiled towards the camera (the female doctor).

The video ended, and it was back to the PPT.

"Prague just happens to be a city," said Xiao Yue with a mischievous stroke of her chin, "Looking forward to Brother Wang Donghua's performance!"

In the Special Warfare Bureau conference room, a player opened their eyes, projecting the images in their brain as a holographic image into the air.

The conference room was silent.

After a while, Xia Commander, sitting at the head with his back to the map of Xia Country, put out his cigarette and ordered, "Find this Wang Donghua."

"Yes!"

Around the world, in different countries, offices with different names but similar authority to the Special Warfare Bureau issued the same command.

"It seems everyone is scared, this is not good, hmm—" Xiao Yue tapped her chin thoughtfully.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she excitedly said to Li Qianxia:

"Mosquito, let's not look at the first place, okay? This way, we can check out a skill and an item; they're both great stuff from this full moon event."

Li Qianxia had already been frightened by the third and second place.

She never imagined why there would be such shameless instincts?

Her brother's white card instincts were tough, but he had to painstakingly plunder and collect on his own.

"I want to see the first place," she said.

The shock and helplessness brought by the first place might be greater, but the unknown was even scarier.

"No, no," Xiao Yue shook her head vigorously, "If we do that, everyone will lose their spirit, and Xiao Yue doesn't want to see that. I want everyone to be excited! And... the first place is a kind of bug, and its abilities are better not known to everyone, Xiao Yue really is thinking of your best interests."

Regardless of Li Qianxia's opinion, Xiao Yue declared on her own:

"Okay, let's skip the first place and take a look at the item first!"

On the giant screen, the password-like item column scrolled rapidly, then stopped quickly on a certain spot—only that cell was clear, the others above and below blurry.

[Name: Honey Pot Ant's Honey Pot World]

[Type: Tool]

[Quality: S]

[Special Effect: Create a personal small world]

[Minimum Use Conditions: Life form]

[Introduction: The stronger the life force, the larger the world—up to twenty times the life force; one cannot enter or exit the small world within the instance]

[Remark: S rank ah, it's a one-of-a-kind thing (Event: Destroy all of Prague!)]

Li Qianxia's breath heated up, and her heart thumped wildly a few times as if she had just seen a guy even more handsome than her brother.

Incredible, something that couldn't possibly happen in the real world, a complete miracle.

A small world of her own?

"Mhm mhm mhm mhm!" Xiao Yue nodded in satisfaction, "Very good, everyone's going strong again!"

"Strike while the iron is hot, let's take a look at the skill!"

The password bar rolled again and stopped as if it hit the brakes.

[Name: Ginkgo Style Resurrection]

[Type: Skill]

[Quality: A]

[Special Effect: Awaken the life force of a life form, healing injuries]

[Minimum Use Conditions: Intelligence 7, Charm 7, Perception 5]

[Introduction: An extremely powerful healing power that can even cause a complete corpse that hasn't been dead for more than three hours, to come back to life after a year of continuous use of the skill]

[Remark: On August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, a ginkgo tree, only left with a root as thin as a wheat straw after being bombed, managed to survive until the next spring, sprouts new branches, and in the third year, it budded anew, revitalizing itself... How magnificent life is. (Destroy all of Prague!)]

"Wow, isn't that exciting? Even Xiao Yue wants to join!"

"Just kidding." The previously excited Xiao Yue suddenly smiled sweetly and calmly, "The menace of humanity, the special abilities of plants, animals, and insects, even I, Xiao Yue, cannot guarantee to get enough points."

"Alright, today's program is coming to an end, and finally, Xiao Yue has some heartfelt words to say to all the players."

"Every race, every individual, new life will always break through the darkness and take over this planet; this is a natural law that has been verified many times."

"The Ancestor Bird broke free from gravity and flew towards the sky. Think about it, how miraculous that was. However, before that, insects had already dominated the skies for 150 million years.

"The earliest insects appeared about 479 million years ago, which seemingly didn't mean much. Maybe it's easier for everyone to understand it this way—Insects watched from a distance as dinosaurs appeared on Earth and also watched them vanish from afar.

"Humans—Homo sapiens—a species that has existed only for a brief two or three hundred thousand years on Earth.

"If Earth's history were condensed into one year, on December 31st, the last day at 23:58:51, humans just learned agriculture, and after another 10 seconds, humans entered the Bronze Age.

"Players, the biological gene is a treasure trove, and anyone can become the master of this treasure.

"Unlike the past, once you take the throne in this game, you will become the eternal protagonist of the world. I, Xiao Yue, am here looking forward to everyone's performance.

"The full moon event will begin immediately after the end of the program."

"Finally, thank you Mosquito for coming to the scene for my interview. Mosquito, let's say goodbye to everyone together."

Li Qianxia forced a smile and waved at the camera.

"Bye-bye, everyone, love you guys forever!" Xiao Yue blew a kiss.

As the camera was about to go off, one could vaguely see her pouting and lunging at Li Qianxia, who kicked her away with one foot.