Game of the Emperor Chapter 1

"Tick, tick, tick..." the sound of keyboard tapping.

Locations, scenes, characters, actions and lines.

On the notebook screen, the number of words in the document continued to increase until the last punctuation mark was typed. The black-haired young man sitting in front of the computer withdrew his left hand from the keyboard and yawned.

"Hmm..." Looking at the first draft he had just completed, Ethan King slowly raised his hand and rubbed the corners of his eyes where some physiological tears were oozing out.

Ethan King is a well-known screenwriter in the industry. Since he entered the industry, he has won many trophies of various awards. Although each of the trophies in the room represents honor, these valuable honorary objects were once disliked by their owners because they took up space.

It is now 2037, and the film and television adaptation of online novels is progressing in full swing. The novel that Ethan King has just completed the first draft of adaptation is a big hit on Jinjiang Literature City.

Completing the first draft is just the beginning, there are many things that need to be refined and revised. Having said that, the young man's head on the seat continued to lower and lower, and before long it was completely resting on his arms.

The next second after the young man put down his pillow, a mechanical synthesized voice suddenly sounded in the room.

"Du---Sir, excuse me for being blunt, but you can't take a break yet. There are only five days left until the deadline, and you have already used up all the available delays you set for yourself this year." An intelligent robot made with advanced technology entered the room carrying a cup of hot coffee, and it moved towards the young man with a clear goal.

The year 2037 is also the era when artificial intelligence has become relatively popular.

... The rich aroma of coffee wafted over, and Ethan King's right eyelid twitched. He had set an irrevocable reminder function for his robot butler, and now he couldn't tell whether he regretted it or not.

"Okay, got it." The black-haired young man sighed and sat up again. His eyelids were still drooping as usual, revealing a bit of laziness.

The robot butler moved to his side, and Ethan King stretched out his hand to take the coffee that the other party specially brought to him, but at this moment, an unscientific magical event happened - the eyes of the intelligent robot, which were originally glowing blue, suddenly dimmed, as if it had lost power. The mechanical arm drooped, and the mug in its hand fell straight to the ground.

The unscientific thing is that the cup did not fall to the ground and break into pieces, but just hovered in the air.

"Welcome to the King's Game."

The tone was as monotonous as if someone was repeatedly pressing the same bass key with the same force. This low voice suddenly appeared in Ethan King's mind.

The difference between human voice and machine synthesized sound is obvious.

Ethan King's movement to pick up the cup of water suddenly stopped. The next second, a virtual screen suddenly appeared in front of him, making Gu Bianbian blink.

Without asking the person concerned whether he was willing to play the game, the voice started explaining the rules of the game after the opening remarks, and it seemed that it didn't care whether the person concerned listened or not.

Taking advantage of the time standstill to save his water cup, Ethan King listened silently to what the other party said. The only movement he made was to move his index finger to gently stroke the handle of the cup.

He was thinking that this matter probably wouldn't end well.

As a professional screenwriter, one needs to have calm thinking, rich imagination and logical reasoning ability. Knowing that what was happening to him at this time was an unscientific but real event, Ethan King made a rough summary of the other party's statements in his mind.

To put it simply, he was chosen by the other party to participate in this "King's Game". The key point is that if he refuses to play the game, he will die.

According to the game requirements, the chosen one must travel through various planes of the world. Each plane of the world is equivalent to a level of the game. Just like level-breaking games, he must reach 100% of the clearance value in the level before he can go to the next world.

Two failures are allowed. The other party did not tell us what the consequences would be if the number of failures exceeds two. However, Ethan King guessed that it would be the same as refusing to play the game.

Having lived only to the age of 23, Gu doesn’t want to become the protagonist in a tragedy script yet.

"What's the reward for winning?" He peeled off the wrapper of a candy and put the candy into his mouth. As the sweetness spread, the black-haired young man narrowed his eyes.

"Become the King and get everything you want."

This plot is really comparable to the sum of all the fantasy adventure movie scripts he had written before. Gu Bianbian touched the candy in his mouth with the tip of his tongue and stopped talking.

"You can think of me as a system, like in novels."

"Hmm." Ethan King responded vaguely while eating candy.

System: "Before starting the game, you need to select a world."

"Are the levels of difficulty in clearing different worlds different?" Ethan King raised his hand and poked the virtual screen that appeared in front of him early in the morning. A row of cards were spread out on it. Of course, he could only see the back of the cards now. If nothing unexpected happened, he would draw cards in the selected world.

The complex dark gold pattern outlines the back of the card, adding a touch of mysterious beauty.

"Luck is also part of strength."

Ethan King agreed with this point. As a European big shot who was banned from speaking in several gaming groups, Gu was not at all afraid of drawing cards.

Ethan King reached out to the second card from the left. It was clearly just a virtual screen, but the moment he touched it, he felt something real. He turned the card over, "Ace of Diamonds, represents..."

Having said this, the young man's voice suddenly stopped, his body lost consciousness and he fell back on the chair.

He closed his eyes and opened them again. Although the scene before him was only darkness, Ethan King knew that he had been through.

"System, I want a piece of clothing." After traveling through time, he was lying on his side in a curled-up position. In the unknown darkness surrounding him, Ethan King maintained this position for the time being and did not move immediately.

His body was naked, and his skin felt stained with an unknown sticky liquid. This made Gu Bianbian doubt his luck in drawing cards for the first time.

In fact, he had no expectation that the system would respond to his request, but as soon as Ethan King finished slowly saying this to the system, the feeling of his body being normally covered by clothes made him slightly stunned.

"The plane transfer is complete. This is the world of Block A that you selected. The current clearance value is 0."

After getting the clothes, Ethan King also sorted out his current situation. He found that the place he was in was very famous, narrow, without light and sound, probably a completely enclosed space.

And now he is locked in.

"System, if I can't get out, do you think I will be suffocated to death here?" The black-haired young man's voice seemed to have a hint of laughter, and his narrow and beautiful eyes were slightly raised, which was very beautiful. He raised his hand and touched the top of this narrow space.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." The system replied coldly.

After all, he would not really joke about his life, so Ethan King restrained his smile and knocked on the top of the space with his hand. The "barrier" on the top was not very hard, and might even be a little brittle, so it was feasible to forcibly destroy it from the inside.

"Click."

The sound of cracking was heard in the dark and hidden cave. The sound appeared very suddenly, neither light nor heavy, but it made the cave, which was originally as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, seem to have reached a boiling point in an instant. Countless pairs of cold and ferocious scarlet vertical pupils, which were devoid of humanity and human emotions, opened and lit up in the darkness.

Countless unknown creatures hiding in the darkness now fixed their sights on the same place, the source of the sound.

"Crack, crack---" With another strong hammer strike, Ethan King created a hole of moderate size at the top of the narrow space that trapped him.

There was almost no light outside, and Ethan King immediately realized this.

It was a bit unexpected, but Ethan King did not stop his actions. He continued to work hard to destroy this small space. When the hole he created was almost enlarged, he sat up swiftly, and his upper body was outside.

After this exploration, even Editor Gu, who has watched all kinds of horror movies, couldn't help but hold his breath reflexively.

Countless pairs of eyes were locked on him and were ready to move towards him. In the extremely dim environment, Ethan King could barely make out what kind of creatures the owners of these cold vertical pupils were.

Every part of these inhuman creatures' body structures seemed to be tailor-made for combat. Their cold and shiny shells made them look extremely defensive. Their forearms were like sharp blades with built-in serrations. As for their sharp teeth... probably no one would doubt the bite force of this part.

Each one is at least several times the size of an adult human, and these terrifying creatures undoubtedly have the ability to easily pierce and tear apart the bodies of their prey.

"The current world is set in an interstellar future. The creatures in front of you are the Zerg. You should be familiar with this race."

Haha. If the current situation wasn't wrong, Gu Bianbian would really like to laugh for his system to hear. After all, he likes writing scripts with interstellar future backgrounds the most.

"It's okay, quite familiar." Ethan King replied.

Being a European tycoon who is always full of luck, he capsized today.

While talking to the system, Ethan King had completely broken free from that small space.

The moment he broke free completely, the already restless swarm of insects became even more agitated. However, Ethan King certainly had no time to care about the reactions of these insects at this time. The important thing was to seize the opportunity to escape.

There are not many gaps in the encirclement and he only has one chance. If he can't escape, he can only accept his fate and become a snack for the Zerg in the cave.

Finding the right opportunity, Ethan King ran towards the target location without hesitation.

The hissing sound of the Zerg rang out in the dark cave the moment the black-haired young man began to move. They went from being restless to swarming forward, and the sound of their collective high-speed movement was enough to make one's scalp tingle.

Even the elite troops of the Earth Federation who have received professional military training would be terrified when faced with such a large number of Zerg.

"Stop running." Not long after the black-haired young man started running, the system said these three words concisely. The cold voice seemed to be mixed with some other emotions at this time.

The light was dark and the young man had no night vision.

The dark cave was like an intricate maze. Ethan King was distracted by the system's words and accidentally tripped over something. After staggering a few steps, he felt a little pain in his ankle.

"Hiss..." The young man gasped very slightly, but it was obvious that it represented pain.

Almost at the same time as this slight sound was made, the Zerg chasing behind seemed to all enter a state of frenzy in an instant, and their pairs of contracted vertical pupils were filled with bloodthirstiness and killing.

"I can't run anymore even if I want to." Ethan King responded to his system.

"No need to run."

Ethan King: "...?"

Ethan King gained a considerable amount of information from these four words, and he used this to make a vague guess and came to an incredible conclusion that even he himself could hardly believe.

"You are not human now, and they are not trying to attack you."

As if to confirm what the system said, the Zerg that had surrounded the young man again did not make any attacking moves.

They were quiet yet extremely alert at this moment. From their eyes, one could tell that any living creature that dared to break into this encirclement would be torn to pieces in an instant by this group of brutal and ferocious Zerg.

This is certainly not a siege, but a guard.

Driven by instinct, these Zerg are protecting something that is a thousand times more important to them than their own lives...

"You are their new king."