At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

Meanwhile, nearly forty kilometers away on the seventeenth floor of a tall building.

This was the new apartment Yu Xiaochuan had rented, comprising two bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom, and a spacious storage room.

The storage room had been transformed by Yu Xiaochuan into a private video editing suite.

At the moment, he was leaning back in the suite, editing videos.

Having slept all day, he was now in his element working, the epitome of a night owl's habits.

Despite being in his home country, he lived like he was in another time zone.

He sat in his newly bought ergonomic massage chair, munching on an apple when his Feixin messenger suddenly chimed with a notification.

Picking up his phone, Yu Xiaochuan's face lit up with joy.

[Summoning God Dragon Offline Test Version Demo.zip 300M]

He hurriedly switched on his computer, logged into the desktop version of Feixin, and downloaded the file to his computer.

In less than two minutes, the entire zip file had been downloaded and extracted.

After keeping the game instructions and testing documents on his computer, he transferred the installation package to his phone.

The game wasn't particularly large; it was only about 120MB, similar in size to the Life Restart Simulator from before.

In comparison to the games that were easily several gigabytes nowadays, this was indeed quite small.

Just by looking at the size of the installation package, it wasn't hard to guess that this was indeed still a casual game.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Because the game hadn't been through the market's safety audits, the installation took a little longer, requiring thorough checks and consent agreements on the phone before it could be installed normally.

But none of that was an issue.

Soon, an app icon of a tadpole made its appearance on his phone.

Looking at the icon, Yu Xiaochuan actually felt somewhat baffled.

What happened to Summoning God Dragon?

What's with this tadpole icon?

Could it be that Ideal Paradise had switched games last minute? Was the game they now intended to promote actually "Tadpoles Looking for Mom"?

Harboring a sense of curiosity, Yu Xiaochuan launched the game.

The development of this new game was evidently more painstaking than that of the Life Restart Simulator.

It started with an opening animation CG.

The CG, though just a brief dozen seconds or so, managed to create a thrilling sensation.

After all, if you were a tadpole being chased by a God Dragon dozens or even hundreds of times bigger than you, you too would feel the excitement.

"Seems kind of interesting..."

Having watched the CG, Yu Xiaochuan's interest was piqued.

After the CG, the game's start screen resembled that of a typical match-three game, with different levels of difficulty to choose from, ranging from casual to hellish SSS.

Without giving it much thought, Yu Xiaochuan went for the casual mode first.

Entering the game, his character was a small black tadpole. With the guidance of an introductory animation, it ate plankton, consumed decaying algae, and gradually grew in size.

The game featured two bars, a blue skill bar and a red energy bar.

Each instance of consuming plankton and algae resulted in an increase in energy.

Eventually, when his energy level accrued from 10 to 100, a burst of green light flickered.

He had transformed into a frog!

The bars at the top changed, adding a new oxygen bar.

On the right-hand side, a new skill appeared—tongue flick.

Frogs can't stay submerged indefinitely and must surface for air now and then.

Moreover, with insects like mosquitoes and dragonflies flitting above the water, he could opt to use the tongue flick skill to catch these bugs.

The energy gained from eating these insects was significantly more than from feeding on plankton and algae.

Thus, the frog frequently needed to rise to the surface to feed on insects.

Yu Xiaochuan couldn't help but yawn. Wasn't this game all about eat, eat, eat, and evolve?

There weren't even any natural predators, which was quite disappointing for him.

The next second, a big net suddenly descended from the sky and scooped up his frog!

[Regrettably, you have been captured by a human Frog Catcher! Game over!]

Facing the game over prompt, Yu Xiaochuan was dumbfounded.

He had just mentioned the lack of predators when a Frog Catcher suddenly appeared. Talk about speaking too soon!

He restarted the game, beginning slowly by leveling up to a frog and then catching insects.

But this time, it didn't take long before he was caught by a Frog Catcher again.

After several restarts, he finally noticed that there were signs of the Frog Catcher's arrival: the light in the water would suddenly dim a bit, and the shadow of a net would slowly grow larger.

As long as he escaped the shadow's range, he could avoid being caught by the Frog Catcher.

Avoiding the Frog Catcher's attack also increased his energy bar, and when his energy went from 100 to 500, he evolved again.

He turned into a goldfish.

The Frog Catcher consequently turned into a Fish Catcher, and the net's area became larger and harder to escape from.

But with the frog's experience as a warning, he managed to narrowly escape each time.

He also discovered a ridiculous aspect of the game: frogs could eat tadpoles, and goldfish could eat frogs!

Furthermore, there were other robotic goldfish in the pond preying on others.

These robotic goldfish had no discernible patterns of movement; they simply ate whatever they came across.

Sometimes, when two goldfish met, they would even attack each other, as goldfish had the skill "Goldfish Slap Water," which could not only stun frogs and tadpoles within range but also attack their own kind.

After killing their own kind, they could also feed on the corpse to gain energy...

That's exactly what Yu Xiaochuan did.

Only he was a bit more cunning; he would lurk near two robotic goldfish fighting each other, and as soon as one died and the other was weakened and ready to feed, he would rush over to reap the rewards.

It was this kind of tactical approach that allowed his energy to climb from 500 to 990; he only needed to eat one more tadpole to level up.

Then, out of nowhere, an electric eel that had been hiding rushed over at high speed, stunned him with an electric shock, and then ate him!

"Damn it! An electric eel two levels higher than me!"

Yu Xiaochuan's spirit shattered. Above the goldfish was the turtle, above the turtle the electric eel, above the eel the piranha, above the piranha the Jiao Dragon, and only above the Jiao Dragon was the dragon.

He had been playing so long to reach the goldfish level, only to be taken out by an overleveled computer-controlled electric eel!

His blood pressure shot up.

This was only casual mode; he didn't even want to think about that hellish SSS difficulty.

But he still clicked into it like he was asking for trouble.

He didn't last ten seconds before dying. It might have been bad luck, but it was also absurd.

Because a Jiao Dragon eating a tadpole isn't a very normal plot.

With no other choice, he had to keep playing from casual mode.

He at least had to beat the game from start to finish, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to edit the video!!!

Yu Xiaochuan felt like crying; it looked like he was destined for a sleepless night!

He then shared the game installer with his good brother Cai Hui.

"There's no way I'm the only one not getting sleep, heh-heh."

...

At 4:30 in the morning, with the sky just beginning to lighten,

a chubby man sat up abruptly in bed, his phone still glowing in his hand, illuminating the dark circles under his eyes.

"Shit, I summoned the Divine Dragon!"

"Damn Yu Xiaochuan, you wait. I'll turn you into a warty toad!"

On the other side, Yu Xiaochuan, who was editing a video, sneezed and silently changed the newly finished video's title to "Summoning the Divine Dragon? No! Summoning High Blood Pressure!"

After clicking publish, he finally slumped over on his chair and fell asleep.