I might have been playing a fake cultivation game.

Chapter 011: You only have one life, and only one chance.

So quickly you're already in the mid-stage of the day after tomorrow?

This cultivation is really as simple as eating and drinking.

Zhou Yunshen was very excited.

If this continues, he will be able to cultivate to the peak of the acquired realm in just a few days.

On the other hand, the information he had gathered about Captain Chen in the village was that although he had practiced martial arts since childhood and was now in his thirties, he was still only at the late stage of the Acquired Realm.

In other words, he only needs to cultivate for a few days to surpass Captain Chen.

Keep practicing!

On the phone screen, Zhou Yunshen's character, Zhou Erzhu, continued practicing the "Spirit Ape Body Forging Technique".

Then you see lines of 'Proficiency +1' floating on the screen.

Suddenly, a line of red text appeared on the phone screen: Your character has entered a state of fatigue due to prolonged practice, and the efficiency of cultivation has begun to decrease.

Zhou Yunshen paused for a moment, then tore open a packet of spicy strips and started eating.

So be it if the training efficiency decreases, since the proficiency is still increasing little by little.

As a result, an hour later, another line of red text appeared on the phone screen: Your character has entered a state of extreme fatigue due to prolonged practice, resulting in a significant decrease in cultivation efficiency and a greatly increased possibility of injury during cultivation.

Upon seeing this line of text, Zhou Yunshen's expression turned somewhat serious.

He opened the character's attribute panel and found that the character's status had changed to: extremely tired, moderately hungry.

Humans are not machines for self-cultivation.

Under these circumstances, Zhou Yunshen had no choice but to stop the character's training and control the character to go home and rest.

After letting his character go home to rest, Zhou Yunshen had nothing to do.

He simply quit the game and started searching online for information about the game "Xuan Yuan Invasion".

At this time, more information about the game "Xuan Yuan Invasion" appeared online.

Zhou Yunshen ate potato chips while browsing this information with great interest.

At that moment, a message on Weibo caught his attention.

A blogger wrote: "Strange, why has this game called Xuan Yuan Invasion on my phone disappeared?"

The accompanying images are two pictures of a phone's home screen. One of the home screen images features a swirling, dark blue icon with the words "Mysterious Invasion" written below it. The other home screen image shows the same spot empty; the dark blue game icon has disappeared.

Someone commented below: Me too. I've been playing this game recently, and my character died by accident. Then I couldn't log into the game anymore, and not long after, the game icon disappeared.

The blogger replied: Yes, yes, yes, the game also mysteriously disappeared after my character died.

Commenter: That's outrageous! I was planning to get revenge on that bastard who killed me after my character respawned, but the game is over.

Blogger: Me too. That person ambushed me, stole my natal spirit treasure, and even killed me. I can't swallow this insult.

Commenter: Me too! My natal spirit treasure was stolen, and then I was killed. It's outrageous.

Zhou Yunshen watched these things from underwater, his expression somewhat solemn, muttering to himself, "If a game character dies, the game also disappears...?"

What does this mean?

This means that players like him only have one life when venturing into the game world. Once they die, the game ends immediately, and there is no chance to restart.

Also, in the game world, it is possible to be killed and have your treasure stolen.

For these players, wielding their natal spirit treasures and flaunting them when they lack real strength is an extremely dangerous thing.

There's a saying that goes: "A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime."

Zhou Yunshen logged back into the game and saw his character resting peacefully in bed, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

This is his capital for turning his life around, so it absolutely cannot go wrong.

"I'll go to the phone store and buy a new phone later. One phone for gaming, and the other for research. That will be more convenient, and it will keep the game online so I can react immediately if anything happens," Zhou Yun thought to himself.

He is a frugal person who rarely attends gatherings with friends, and he neither smokes nor drinks. Over the past two years of work, he has managed to save more than 80,000 yuan.

That amount of money is definitely not enough for a down payment on a house, but buying a new phone shouldn't be a problem.

In the game world, as dusk falls, wisps of smoke rise from chimneys, indicating that Zhou Xiaoya is preparing dinner.

Zhou Xiaoya was still very obedient. She made a thick porridge for dinner, and the portion was more than twice as much as before.

In this situation, Zhou Yunshen's character was able to eat his fill, but Zhou Xiaoya herself only ate a small bowl. No matter how Zhou Yunshen tried to persuade her, Zhou Xiaoya stubbornly refused to eat more, saying that she had a small appetite and would be full after eating just a little.

Zhou Yunshen felt somewhat helpless about this.

He was controlling the character with his phone, but it wasn't a face-to-face interaction with a real person. In that situation, even if he wanted to give Zhou Xiaoya more food, he couldn't.

"Controlling the character with a mobile phone is still a bit inconvenient. If only it were like those game novels, where you could wear a gaming headset and immerse yourself in the game world, that would be great," Zhou Yun thought to himself.

By the time the characters finished dinner, it was already dark.

Zhou Yunshen controlled his character to go inside, get into bed, and then exited the game, taking the key and leaving.

At this moment, in the real world, it was only a little past one o'clock in the afternoon.

After adjusting his sleep schedule, Zhou Yunshen is now in pretty good spirits.

Today's lunch was, as always, an affordable pork trotter rice dish.

After finishing his meal, Zhou Yunshen went to a nearby mobile phone store and bought a phone with a large battery and a large screen, which cost him more than two thousand yuan. Then he went to a snack store and bought a bunch of snacks before carrying his bags back to his rented room.

After returning to his rented apartment, Zhou Yunshen transferred his SIM card and other equipment to his new phone, then logged into the game while charging his old phone.

From then on, his old cell phone became his dedicated gaming device.

As Zhou Yunshen was installing various commonly used apps on his new phone, a phone call came in.

Zhou Yunshen glanced at the phone and saw that it was his colleague Li Wang calling, so he answered it.

"Feed," Zhou Yunshen said.

Li Wang's voice came through the new phone: "Yun Shen, why haven't you come to work these past two days?"

Li Wang's voice carried a hint of concern.

Zhou Yunshen said, "Something came up at home, so I took leave. What do you need me for?"

Li Wang's voice said, "It's nothing, I just noticed you weren't at work, so I called to check on you."

Zhou Yunshen: "Okay, Li Wang, have you downloaded that game yet? If you have, let's play together."

Li Wang: "No, this crappy game is impossible to download."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yunshen sighed and said, "Then there's nothing we can do."

He felt sorry for Li Wang.

That's how the world is. Some opportunities are seized once they're seized, and if you don't seize them at the time, there's no use regretting it later.

Clearly, Li Wang failed to seize this opportunity that could have turned his life around.

The moment he chose to uninstall the game, the opportunity slipped through his fingers.