No One Told Me That This Isn’t a Game

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Critical hit.

On the screen, the last follower of Zuo Chang hit rock bottom in terms of health, and with his defeat, the character began to utter his lines of defeat: “Is this my limit? General Tianwang, I’m sorry, it seems I’m too incompetent to accompany you further…”

Looking at his defeated army, Zuo Chang closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

“Becoming Zero”

It’s the name of the game that he is playing right now. This game with the interesting yet bizarre name is a turn-based strategy game. In this game, the players would take on the role of a grand general, they would collect and nurture their character followers, and in their base, they would be constructing and upgrading buildings.

The goal of the game is to elevate the player base from the “five-digit” community to the “single-digit” community, ultimately defeating the Celestial God and becoming the ultimate “0.”

Starting from the lowest community, the “99999,” Zuo Chang spent the last five years playing the game to raise his character community to “1,” and began the final boss battle three hours ago.

And the result was…

He didn’t win.

Unlike most players, Zuo Chang was a player with absolute advocate for strength.

All his followers were powerful demon creatures with robust values; he didn’t need any flashy female followers, no matter how revealing their attire or how charming their personality are.

For this ultimate showdown, he spent half a year preparing, from July of last year to March of this year.

He refined his weapons and equipment to perfection, recasting if the stats were even slightly off, discarding if the attributes weren’t suitable, striving for flawlessness.

To secure enough auxiliary potions, he ordered all the farmlands in the community to be converted into herb fields, disregarding the life and death of in-game subjects, taking militarism to the extreme.

His lineup was the strongest, his equipment was perfect, his potions were abundant – Zuo Chang believed that no player could surpass him; he was the ceiling.

But even so—

He didn’t achieve victory!

The Celestial God probably had about 10% of her health left, a slight gap from being defeated.

“Is it a problem with my tactics? I feel like I’ve done my best.”

Zuo Chang clicked on the battle log, wanting to review his actions each turn, but what appeared on the log wasn’t the combat records.

【A Worthy Opponent! A Talented Encounter! The Celestial God acknowledges your skill. She hasn’t enjoyed such an exhilarating battle in a long time. Now, she invites you to the game world of “Becoming Zero” for a true life-and-death fight. Will you accept?】

This is…

What?

A bizarre invitation that no normal person would accept.

Without thinking too much about it, he pressed the ‘No’ button, his mind still thinking if there is any flaw that he could fix in his tactic.

【The opinion of a loser is worthless. The Celestial God naturally disregards your thoughts and still intends to take you to the game world, with or without your agreement.】

“Oh? What is this?.”

Zuo Chang looked at the information on the screen and laughed: “Interesting, is this an Easter egg that the developer came up with to console the losers? How kind of them.”

【First Option: Survive for a full twenty years in the game world, and when the time is up, you can choose to return back to your world.】

【Second Option: Defeat the Celestial God, and when you able to achieve that, you can choose to return back to your world.】

【Third Option: No matter how long you’ve lived in the game world, it’s just a snap of the fingers on Earth. More precisely, twenty years in the game world is equivalent to a blink of your eye now.】

【Fourth Option: Death remains cruel. If you die in the game world, everything turns to ashes, and your real-world self will also die.】

【Fifth Option: Transmigration is underway, an irreversible and unchangeable process. Please, enjoy.】

Looking at the ‘Options’ that are laid bare before him, Zuo Chang blinked his eyes in confusion, before he let out a smirk.

This developer, do they really think anyone would fall for this kind of troll at this day and age? Not even a kid would fall for it.

After checking the clock, Zuo Chan’s hand left the keyboard, and at that time he began to notice something wrong.

His widened eyes trembled slightly, his face showing an expression of disbelief as the room he was in began to shake.

He closed his eyes in fright, and after three seconds had passed, the shake began to dim. Zuo Chang looked around and found that he was still in his own room, the keyboard was still a keyboard, the screen was still a screen, nothing had changed.

He pretended to be at ease and laughed, “What the fuck am I scare of? There is no way It’s real, the shaking is probably just from an earthquake or something. Transferring into a game world is scientifically impossible—”

Just as his body relaxed, he noticed that everything before him suddenly changed!