Casually browsing through other posts, although there were many, most were just speculation, and truly useful information was extremely rare. It seems that the secrecy work for "Yueheng" has been done exceptionally well.

After enduring until eleven o'clock, Hannah Cooper came right on time to call me for a late-night snack. Judging by her expression, she clearly hadn't just woken up—she hadn't even removed her light makeup.

With less than an hour left before the game started, the few beauties had all forgotten what it meant to be reserved. After wolfing down their food, they each rushed back to their own rooms. Only the always quiet Ryan Miller stayed with me to finish the egg soup.

Ryan Miller is a very delicate-looking woman. I've always wondered why she chose this line of work, but never dared to ask her. She just gave me a polite smile and then went back to her room.

Shaking my head, I looked at the mess on the table and decided to clean everything up and take it to the kitchen before returning to my room. By the time I finished, it was already 11:50—just ten minutes left until the game opened!

I put on the helmet and skipped the cutscene. The only thing left on the screen was the background of "Yueheng" and a huge countdown in the center.

Time ticked by, second by second, as I stared wide-eyed at the screen. I knew that right now, at least tens of millions of people around the world were probably watching the countdown just like me. In online game novels, the first XX players to enter the game always get rewards—sometimes even divine artifacts. Who knows if I might get that lucky?

"Ten!"

"Nine!"

"Eight!"

"......"

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

The screen flickered, and I was taken straight to the game interface. System prompt: "Please create your character!"

Without hesitation, I chose the Human race. The Elf race was too delicate, lacking masculinity. Orcs... forget it!

"Please enter your game nickname!" the system continued.

I quickly said, "Qingcai Doufu!" (Vegetable Tofu)

"Sorry, that name is already taken!"

"Qingcai Baiyu Tang!" (Vegetable Jade Soup)

"Nickname accepted. Now scanning facial contours. Would you like to make any changes?"

I looked at the young man across from me who looked exactly like me. This way, acquaintances would definitely recognize me, so I simply tweaked my appearance a bit. That should do it!

"Congratulations, your account has been created. Would you like to enter the game now?"

I immediately clicked to enter. The screen shifted, and I found myself in a dilapidated village.

"Ding~!" System prompt:

"You are the 1,250,003rd player to enter the game!"

"Congratulations, you have received the talent 'Stealth'!"

Stealth? What the heck is that?

I immediately opened the character skill and attribute panel, and sure enough, at the bottom under Talents was "Stealth"!

I clicked to check, and was instantly dumbfounded!

Talent—Stealth: Hide in the darkness. Monsters and players whose level is no more than 5 levels higher than your own cannot detect you beyond a range of four yards. Stealth effect disappears after moving. Cooldown: 5 minutes.

What is this? Am I supposed to play dead or wait for prey to come to me?

Aren't talents supposed to be really important for players? Did I just get stuck with a useless one? Does this mean this account is basically trash?

Whatever, I'll just see how it goes!

I opened the map. The village I was in was called Wild Dog Village. You could often hear the barking of wild dogs. The name was a bit crude, but actually quite fitting.

Players were streaming out from the center of the village. It looked like this was the time when a huge wave of players was flooding in—burly orcs, elf girls wearing only underwear and bras...

I checked my character's equipment, which was pitifully bad:

Tattered Outerwear

Defense: +2

Tattered Leggings

Defense: +1

Tattered Short Sword

Attack: 1-2

The character's attributes were also the most basic, plus the equipment bonuses. Even with a weapon, the human's pitiful attack power was only 2-3. I really had no idea what I could do with that.

In the distance, a soldier was wandering around the village. I went over to strike up a conversation and discovered there was a quest!

"Recently, a pack of wild dogs has surrounded the village. The villagers are too scared to go outside. Are you willing to help the village get rid of these ignorant beasts?"

I immediately clicked yes, and the quest continued: "Kill twenty wild dogs and hand their pelts over to the village defense soldier Mark!"

Chapter 7: Quest

After accepting the quest, I strode to the outskirts of the village and found that quite a few people were already killing monsters. However, their chosen targets for leveling up were the chickens raised by the villagers—low attack power, but the experience gained was pitifully low as well.

Shaking my head, I continued deeper into the woods outside the village. After just a few steps, I saw a group of wild dogs wandering around in small packs among the trees.

Drawing the battered sword from my back, I picked the nearest wild dog and slashed at it!

"6!"

A bright red number popped up above the wild dog's head. Looks like I landed a critical hit this time. Otherwise, with my maximum attack of 3, there's no way I could have done that much damage!

Sure enough, my subsequent attacks all hovered between 2 and 3. Fortunately, the wild dogs were only level 2 monsters, each with 30 HP, so it wasn't too hard for me to take them down.

"Clang!"