But right now, he really had no mind to deal with the shrew. Cold sweat broke out all over Robert Walker's face and body. He looked at his colleagues in disbelief and anxiously asked, "You can't see it? Impossible, this thing is floating right here, you really can't see it?!"

The surrounding employees no longer laughed at him. From Robert Walker's expression, they could tell he wasn't joking, pretending to be stupid, or mocking the shrew. He had truly seen something terrifying, because Robert Walker's current expression and gaze were genuinely, seriously intense.

But there was clearly nothing there, so someone said in panic, "Damn, could Old Walker have gone crazy?"

Someone else said anxiously, "It's really possible. Hasn't someone died from overwork recently? Could Old Walker have gone mad from overwork? Maybe he can't handle the stress anymore. He's been working overtime a lot lately, and last night he seemed to be the last one to leave the office..."

The employees started arguing noisily. Hearing their words, the shrew also got a little flustered. She didn't bother to clock in, grabbed her handbag, and quickly walked into the office, slamming the door shut with a "bang."

Robert Walker knew there was nothing wrong with his mind, but what was up with this exquisite green crystal sand table in front of him? Was he hallucinating? How did this thing appear? How could it disappear?

The moment he had the thought of making the sand table disappear, the white crystal sand table began to ripple and change again. Then, in complete reverse of how it had appeared, the sand table shrank, its color shifted, and it finally turned into a green heart-shaped crystal, which then burrowed into his chest!

Chapter 3: Go Take a Look at the Territory

The office that morning was shrouded in a strange, eerie atmosphere.

Robert Walker ignored his colleagues' stares and discussions. He sat at his desk and experimented a few times, figuring out what this so-called "Heart of the Lord" was all about: to his surprise, this thing was quite intelligent. When he wanted it to appear, a white heart-shaped crystal would emerge from his chest and then turn into a crystal sand table. When he wanted it to go back, it would disappear into his chest.

After figuring out the pattern of the Heart of the Lord's appearance and disappearance, Robert Walker tried to calm himself down and sort out the information about this Heart of the Lord.

Through these experiments, he was already certain this wasn't a hallucination—the Heart of the Lord truly existed, but only he could see it; no one else could.

By coincidence, he also discovered that the crystal sand table could expand. As long as he wanted it to get bigger, it would scale up proportionally, just like zooming in on a map on a computer with a mouse scroll. However, it couldn't shrink; the smallest the sand table could get was about one square meter in area.

The question was, where did this thing come from?

Instinctively, he first thought of the game development department, but after asking around, the employees there firmly said they hadn't developed any similar game.

They had no reason to lie about this. Robert Walker returned to his seat and continued to sort out this bizarre game.

The game development department said they hadn't developed this game, but he had actually played it, and the game was still on his phone. So he took a leave of absence, went home to get the test device, and tried to find the culprit.

On the subway, Robert Walker sat down and suddenly remembered something: when he registered for the game yesterday, the pop-up dialog box said the lord's population was "1," with a note explaining that this one person was the lord, Robert Walker.

The problem was here. At the time, he felt something was off, but couldn't pinpoint what. In fact, the issue was obvious—he hadn't entered his own name, so how did the game know the registrant's name was "Robert Walker"?!

Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Robert Walker again. He felt like he was experiencing a supernatural event...

It really was a supernatural event. After returning to his rented apartment, he looked for that black test device. He clearly remembered putting it on the table, but after turning the table upside down—even finding a needle in a knot in the wood—he still couldn't find that palm-sized phone!

After confirming the phone had disappeared, Robert Walker keenly realized that to solve this supernatural event, he had to go check out that so-called territory. He still remembered that when registering for the game, he had chosen a place called the "Land of the Never-Setting Sun" in the Otago region of New Zealand.

The reason he made this decision was because he knew nothing about New Zealand, let alone the Otago region or the Land of the Never-Setting Sun. But when registering last night, he glanced at the name, and it became deeply imprinted in his mind, the memory crystal clear, as if he had remembered it tens of thousands of times!

This clearly defied common sense!

And there were even more things that defied common sense!

After obtaining the Heart of the Lord, Old Walker found that his physical fitness had suddenly improved a lot—he could run faster, jump higher, was stronger, had more endurance. Recently, he could climb stairs without getting out of breath or turning red, and when practicing wrist strength while watching Japanese adult videos, his stamina was even more impressive...

Back when he read the game guide, it said that as long as you obtained the Heart of the Lord, even a weakling could become a T-Rex. Now he was starting to feel a bit like a humanoid T-Rex.

No sooner said than done, Robert Walker was a man of action. For the rest of the day, he went online to check the procedures and flights needed to go to New Zealand. At night, when he slept, it was again birds singing, flowers blooming, high mountains and ancient castles—a familiar yet strange dream...