Let's play a standalone game to kill time.
Zhang Zhang opened the app on his phone and found an interesting standalone game called "Five Hundred Years of Time Halt".
Zhang Zhang looked at the description: "Cheating if you can't beat me in the game? Pay to play? Check guides? This game allows you to cheat from the start, giving you a lead of five hundred years.
Create a character and choose what you want to do and how long you want to do it. You can mine, do research, or train. After five hundred years, control your character and start the game. Let's see how long your character can live. "
Zhang Zhang was curious. What game? Let's try it next.
The game was not big, only 50 megabytes. The download was completed quickly. After installing it, a simple game screen appeared. Zhang Zhang clicked to start the game, and a character creation screen appeared.
There were only three options: "Name", "Gender", "Age".
Zhang Zhang thought for a while and came up with a name, "This ID is super cool!"
Just as he was about to confirm, the system prompted, "The name exceeds the maximum character limit. It's best not to exceed four characters."
Zhang Zhang: "…"
He changed his name to "Bragging Situ". Gender: Male, age: 16 years old.
Following that, a new interface appeared. On it was written, "You have five hundred years left, please choose."
The first option was to train, followed by the time in years. The second was to research, the third was to travel, the fourth was to search for secret manuals, and the fifth was to cultivate. The cultivation option was written in red. Only after adding at least ten years to the search for secret manuals could one choose to cultivate. The sixth option was to daydream.
Zhang Zhang was confused. What did daydreaming mean? Was it for five hundred years?
What was the use of daydreaming for five hundred years? Could one become a philosopher?
There were more than ten options. Zhang Zhang chose the time one by one. He chose to search for secret manuals for three hundred years, train for a hundred years, research for thirty years, and the rest.
But Zhang Zhang did not choose to cultivate.
"I'll find enough secret manuals and cultivate after I recover my time!"
Then, Zhang Zhang clicked "Start Game".
Accompanied by a string of strange background music, the game started. A pixelated person appeared on the game screen, standing on a podium. Soon, four words appeared on the screen:
"Time Halt!"
After a while, a few lines appeared on the screen:
"God stopped time, intending to change the world into a game. As your character's name is very special, God did not ignore it, so your time has been stopped."
Zhang Zhang:???
Was there such a thing?
Soon, a rapidly spinning clock appeared on the screen, and a few lines of words appeared on the screen again.
"Time has stopped for 100 years. God intends to find someone to test the game. God has chosen you. God has restored your time. Congratulations, you still have 400 years left!"
Another notification appeared: [Because you only have 400 years, the duration of the things you choose will be reduced by 20%.]
Zhang Zhang was a little depressed. So this name couldn't be randomly given! Fine, so be it.
A new line of words appeared:
"You started training. After 20 years, you were afraid that you would die of old age, so you chose to search for secret manuals. You searched for secret manuals for 52 years and found a total of three secret manuals. However, because you were too lazy to cultivate them, you used up all your lifespan."
"You're dying of old age!"
Zhang Zhang: "…"
What game is this? Would he still die in these five hundred years? Didn't time stop?
Zhang Zhang was a little depressed, so he restarted the game. This time, he chose a very ordinary name, Zhou Huang. He set his age to be the youngest, 12 years old, male.
However, this time, Zhang Zhang had learned his lesson. He only used 20 years to search for secret manuals, but his cultivation time was 300 years. The remaining time was spent on training.
Soon, the game began.
"God has stopped time and plans to transform the world into a game. Because your game character's name is very ordinary, you are too young, and God is a shota complex, so you were not ignored by God. Your time has been stopped."
Zhang Zhang was depressed again. What was the meaning of a shota complex? Was this God actually a woman?
"Time has been stopped for 50 years. God intends to find someone to test the game. God has chosen you and restored your time. Congratulations, you still have 450 years left!"
"Because you only have 450 years, the duration of the things you choose will be reduced by 10%."
The adventure of 450 years had begun.
"You started training. After three years, you were afraid that you would die, so you chose to search for secret manuals. After 20 years, you found a secret manual and started cultivating it."
Zhang Zhang heaved a sigh of relief. He should be able to live past 500 years now, right?
Soon, a new notification appeared. "You cultivated for 50 years and obtained 500 years of lifespan. Because the strength of your soul is not high, you did not gain new insights, so you were unable to level up. However, you did not believe it. After cultivating for another 50 years, your level still did not increase. You started to doubt it, but you persevered. You cultivated for another 100 years, but your level still did not increase."
Zhang Zhang: "What game is this? I still have to gain insights. Did I not choose to travel? "
New text appeared.
"You finally stopped cultivating and started training. After 60 years, you were tired of this life and finally chose to commit suicide."
Zhang Zhang: "…"
Staying in the same place for a long time would indeed cause one to collapse. It had been a few hundred years, so suicide was not strange.
Would this game end after living for 500 years? After all, it was only 50 MB.
Zhang Zhang restarted the game. This time, he chose a female called Zhang Xiaolu, age 20.
In order to prevent his character from staying in the same place, Zhang Zhang chose various events evenly. Searching for secret manuals for 30 years, cultivating for 100 years, training for 70 years, researching for 30 years, mining for 10 years, traveling for 70 years, and daydreaming for 5 years. After dividing the time, Zhang Zhang restarted the game.
"God stopped time, planning to change the world into a game. Because your character's name is very interesting, and because you are a female, God is not interested in you. Therefore, you were ignored by God, and your time was not stopped."
Zhang Zhang was a little surprised. "It was not stopped, which means that I have 500 years of time. Furthermore, my settings are so normal, so there shouldn't be any problems, right?"
The 500 years finally began.
Twenty years later, you found your first secret manual. You started to cultivate. After cultivating for fifty years, you gained a lifespan of three hundred years. You planned to travel. After traveling for thirty years, you found a pet. You started to daydream, but daydreaming prevented you from breaking down. You started to travel again. After traveling for forty years, your pet died. You were in a bad mood, so you started to daydream. After daydreaming, you started to mine. You dug up an iron mine. You started to research. You started … "
You dug up an iron ore, and you started researching. You started … "Zhang Zhang watched as Zhang Xiaolu steadily walked through 500 years. Although her strength did not increase by much, she had at least lived through 500 years peacefully.
At this moment, text appeared on the screen.
"Time restores!"
Zhang Zhang rubbed his hands. He could finally start the game!
PS: This is just an imagination and has nothing to do with the main text.
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