CHAPTER 585: CHAPTER 352: NO. 4 GAME CHARACTER CREATION (DOUBLE-LENGTH CHAPTER)

The fiery red hair spread out like seaweed, and bubbles gurgled up from the bottom of the sea.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Just when Ji Minghuan thought she was about to drown, she suddenly popped her head out of the water with a playful smile, revealing her little tiger teeth.

"What are you afraid of? If we drown, the Somersault Cloud will save us," she shouted, "You guys come play too!"

Filio’s eyes lit up, and he also started to run on the beach using all fours, but he seemed to be afraid of water, so unlike Sun Changkong, he dared not go into the sea, only running up and down the beach at full speed, leaving behind rows of footprints.

"Wow... This place is so realistic, though still a bit lacking compared to the game scenes I created with Celestial Driver," Mario muttered, looking around.

After all, you could even come up with Jurassic World, Ji Minghuan thought to himself.

Shang Xiaoqi was the last to come back to her senses, she blankly said, "Traitor, is this really the ocean?"

Ji Minghuan paused for a moment, shook his head, "Not quite, we can’t surrender to the Mentor, we agreed to see the real big..." Before he finished speaking, someone suddenly splashed a handful of seawater at him, and Ji Minghuan closed his eyes silently.

With a "splat," his forehead was soaked, and the seawater trickled down his chin into his hospital gown.

When he reopened his eyes, under his wet bangs was a helpless look.

"Penguin monster, you’re done for," he grabbed a handful of sand as he got up, looked at the white-haired girl, and ran into the sea.

"Don’t bully little Ling!" Sun Changkong shouted, the Somersault Cloud charging headfirst, causing Ji Minghuan to topple into the water.

Shang Xiaoqi hesitated for a moment, then slowly got up and carefully stepped into the water too.

She lowered her eyes, blankly watching as the water gradually submerged her trousers, not knowing why her eyes suddenly turned red.

"It’s the sea..." she murmured.

The children in hospital gowns splashed around playfully in the water, while Mario sat cautiously on the beach alone, guarding his game console.

After twenty minutes, the surroundings suddenly faded away like an old photo, returning to the empty silvery-white space. Sand was left in their palms and on their hospital gowns.

"Is it over already?" Sun Changkong looked disappointed, his eyes wide open.

"Woof woof woof." Filio lowered his face and let out a few low, sad dog barks.

"Hurry up and finish, I can’t take it anymore." Mario said listlessly, patting his game console and pouring water out of it.

The metal door opened. The experimenters came in and took the children out of the room one by one.

Ji Minghuan was the last to leave.

He waved goodbye to them all.

"Goodbye, traitor," Shang Xiaoqi said.

"Goodbye."

"Ji Minghuan, next time let’s play in the snow!" Sun Changkong said.

"It’s not real snow, just something generated with superpowers to fool people."

"Goodbye." Kong Youling wrote in her notebook.

"No writing."

"Goo goo ga ga," Kong Youling raised her eyes from behind the notebook and whispered.

"Goodbye," Ji Minghuan smiled.

After speaking, he winked at Kong Youling, then followed the experimenter back to his confinement chamber. After taking a bath, changing into a new hospital gown, and blow-drying his hair, he lay back on the bed, placing his hands under his head.

In the darkness, he stared at the ceiling in a daze, his mind filled with thoughts.

"So what was that strange feeling just now? Could it be... my unseen brother?"

After thinking for a while, he decided to probe about his brother the next time he met with the Mentor, and slowly closed his eyes.

In the darkness, he summoned the gear panel in the lower right corner of his vision.

"Well, here’s hoping to draw a good card this time,"

Ji Minghuan prayed inwardly, then switched to the last page of the panel and found the conspicuous option marked in red and black text — [Create Game Character].

[The current Split Points you possess: 22.]

[Do you want to immediately consume 16 ’Split Points’ to create a brand-new game character in the Real World?]

[Note: Because you chose ’delay generating body’ in the last option, the probability of a ’Perfect-level Body’ appearing in this character creation session will be greatly increased.]

Ji Minghuan glanced at the Split Point requirement and then directly clicked on the option below the question.

[Yes.]

Immediately, everything went black, and both his physical and in-game perspectives vanished without a trace, as if abandoned by the whole world.

Loneliness surged in.

[You are about to enter the ’Game Character Creation’ session.]

This was the last sound he heard, like a cold steel needle piercing his brain.

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[You have entered the "Character Creation Space". During character creation, your consciousness will not be able to link to your body or game character. If you need to log out urgently, click the exclamation mark in the upper right corner of your vision.]

When Ji Minghuan opened his eyes again, he was reunited with his long-lost "index finger mouse".

Next, emerging from the darkness was a panel interwoven with red and black as the background, looking like a UI from an RPG game.

This was also Ji Minghuan’s old friend.

And at this moment, in the center of the panel was a line of text composed of blurry pixels:

[Would you like to start creating the ’Fourth Game Character’ (Unit Four) immediately?]