Chapter 2 - 1 Breakout
The interface that appeared before Lin Wu was very tidy, and the first step was the tutorial description for beginners. Since the game employed Dark Matter Harassment (a term for dark matter that can be simply understood as an enhanced version of quantum entanglement force), most of the tutorial was meaningless, as it was consistent with the daily experiences of encountering zombies.
Then, the system explained the Home Convention. The first rule was: As the game simulates real pain, deliberate infliction of harm on other players' characters (including but not limited to kidnapping, impalement, etc.) might result in severe punishment and might not exclude legal trials in the real world...
In summary, killing was allowed, but torture was not.
Next was character creation, using one's real name. Lin Wu's surname was not Lin; like 95% of the individuals born on Blue Star, he had been transferred to an orphanage by his parents soon after birth. This all stemmed from a breakthrough in genetic technology. After each person was born, their parents would receive a genetic screening report for the baby, detailing the child's physical characteristics. Hence, these 95% of people were also known as ordinary people.
Ordinary people wouldn't inherit poverty or disease, nor would they face discrimination or feel inferior for being brought up in an orphanage, the only complaint they had against Dawn was the lack of imagination in the naming.
Besides using one's real name, height, weight, and appearance were all replicas of the real person, with no choice even in hairstyle. What could be chosen were attributes: strength, agility, intelligence, constitution, and will. Players could pick one as their main attribute and another as their secondary attribute.
Did he need to deliberate? Lin Wu unhesitatingly chose agility as his main attribute. The longer you lived, the higher the score. If you couldn't outrun zombies, at least you should outrun humans, right? The year was 2044— the age of firearms, how much strength did it take to pull a trigger? As for intelligence, if improving intelligence in the game could enhance IQ, wouldn't everyone be an Einstein?
The higher the will, the more pain you could endure. Lin Wu didn't know if others liked it, but he certainly did not. Constitution was basically stamina. Agility plus constitution meant not only running quickly but also for a long distance, so naturally, he picked constitution as his secondary attribute.
After creating his attributes, Lin Wu acquired two system tags: Easy Personality and Marathon Runner. As a Blue Star Butler, the AI Dawn knew everyone like the back of its hand.