Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Li Yan’s words stunned everyone. Everyone subconsciously looked at the man sitting on the display and felt a chill down their spines.

Mongla finally reacted and whispered to Chu Luo in a joking tone, “Chu, is your CEO boyfriend jealous?”

Chu Luo glanced at Li Yan and her lips subconsciously curled up. “So Professor Mongla, you’d better not hug me.”

“Oh my god! So CEO Li is like this. Chu, he must be very strict with you usually. Did CEO Li ask you not to have physical contact with any guy other than him?”

Chu Luo smiled and said calmly, “Isn’t that normal? Just like how I don’t like him having physical contact with any woman.”

“Haha, that’s true. Most people in your empire have very traditional thoughts.”

Chu Luo smiled and didn’t reply. She turned to look at the experimental subject standing there.

The experimental subject was a strong-looking man who looked to be in his thirties. He was wearing a leather coat, and it was probably too hot after he entered. At this moment, he had even taken off his leather coat, and he was only wearing a very thin long-sleeved t-shirt inside. His muscles were bulging, and he looked extremely fit.

The moment the man realized that Chu Luo was looking at him, he walked towards her. “Hello, I’m your experimental subject, Wu Gang. May I know what preparations I need to make now?”

Chu Luo didn’t answer him immediately. Instead, she asked, “Do you know how to play the Battle of Lightyears?”

“Yes,” Wu Gang replied. “I’m a semi-professional player.”

“Very good. When your consciousness enters the game, you might experience a momentary dizziness. However, this is a normal phenomenon. Remember, don’t panic. This phenomenon will disappear in at most ten seconds.”

“Okay.”

“What you need to do now is to maintain a relaxed state.”

“Okay.”

“Also… the experiment time today should be a little long. When you hear my voice in the game, don’t be nervous. I’ll guide you in what to do and how you feel. You can also start answering truthfully. Your answers will appear above your head through the dialog box.”

The man looked a little excited. “Okay.”

After Chu Luo finished speaking, she said to Professor Wu and Professor Mongla, “I’ll give Wu Gang a physical examination first. Get ready. We’ll start the experiment in half an hour.

Professor Wu and Professor Mongla nodded at the same time.

Chu Luo brought Wu Gang to the prepared physical examination table and asked him to lie down.

She had just picked up the stethoscope and was about to check Wu Gang’s heart rate when a young technician walked over.

“Hi, Chu, my name is Richards. Is there anything I can help with?” As the man spoke, his gaze landed on her medical equipment. He asked suspiciously, “Can you operate these medical equipment? Why don’t you find a professor from a medical school at Imperial University?”

Chu Luo glanced at him and saw doubt in his eyes. Displeasure flashed across her eyes as she said coldly, “My teacher is a professor in the medical school. Do you think I don’t know how to do such a simple physical examination?”

“Don’t misunderstand. I didn’t mean that.”

“Since you’re not, don’t block my path. You’ll disturb me.”

After saying that, Chu Luo quickly checked on Wu Gang.

Richards hadn’t expected Chu Luo to be so cold. He was about to continue finding conversation when he suddenly felt something pierce his back. He felt an inexplicable fear.

At this moment, a technician strode over and said to Richards, “Richards, come over quickly and help check the data. The CEO of the Blazing Glory Corporation is watching. You’ve been standing here. It won’t be good if he mistook you for slacking off.”

After that person finished speaking, he even whispered, “Don’t forget that she’s CEO Li’s girlfriend. Some people aren’t people you can flirt with.”

Richards thought to himself, “I’m just chatting with Chu casually. I didn’t do anything overboard. What can CEO Li do to me?”

However, he truly felt a chilliness on his back. He didn’t dare to really flirt with his woman in front of Li Yan. He thought that he would talk about it in private and left with that person.

Half an hour later, Chu Luo brought Wu Gang to the gaming capsule.

Professor Wu said, “All the data is normal. Wu Gang can lie in the gaming capsule directly.”

Chu Luo nodded and said to Wu Gang, “Go lie in there. Remember, don’t be nervous. Just treat it as if you’re sleeping.”

Wu Gang nodded at her and walked over.

Chu Luo gestured an OK sign to Professor Wu, who pressed a button on the console. The glass cover beside the gaming capsule slowly rose up until it reached the middle.

Wu Gang sat down then lay down.

The glass cover descended.

All the technicians got into position.

Chu Luo also walked to the program panel that she was about to control.

Then, all the technicians started reporting the data one by one.

After the data was reported, everyone stopped.

They waited for Li Yan to speak.

Li Yan: “You may begin.”

Chu Luo pressed the start button of the gaming capsule.

The monitor in front of everyone displayed the image of Wu Gang’s brainwaves being connected to the gaming capsule. The gaming capsule rolled with the start-up code.

The atmosphere became unusually serious. Everyone subconsciously held their breaths, and their hearts raced as the code rolled at an increasing speed.

At this moment, the rolling code seemed to have stopped at a certain section and the brainwave connection was interrupted.

Half a minute passed.

A minute passed.

Two minutes later, everyone’s hearts had risen to their throats.

“What’s going on?”

“Could there be a problem?”

“Is Wu Gang alright?”

Everyone subconsciously looked at Chu Luo.

At this moment, Chu Luo had put on a special earpiece and was typing rapidly on the keyboard.

After a few seconds, she said, “Wu Gang, can you hear me? If you can, struggle a little.”

As soon as Chu Luo finished speaking, a faint sound came from the gaming capsule.

This sound was like a bolt of lightning in everyone’s ears.

Chu Luo continued, “Imagine the scene of Battle of Lightyears starting up.”

The brainwaves on the monitor started showing images of connecting to the gaming capsule again.

After nearly two minutes, just as many people were breaking out in cold sweat, the page for entering the game appeared on all the monitors. The NPCs appeared, and the sweet voice of the NPCs introducing the rules of the game and asking the player to enter their username could be heard from the hall.

Chu Luo said, “Wu Gang, imagine your username and your own ID number in the Battle of Lightyears.”

Then, the NPC lady: Congratulations to the first user for entering the upgraded version of the gaming capsule of the Battle of Lightyears. This is a big present for you. Please accept it.

Chu Luo said, “Wu Gang, use your consciousness to imagine where your inventory is. Pull it out… Very good. You can open the gift bag and see what’s inside.”

The huge gift bag opened, and many top-grade herbs, a few good weapons, and a set of intermediate equipment appeared.

Chu Luo said, “Very good, you can put away your inventory. Then, the system will teleport you to the novice village. When you get there, you will enter a brand new world. What you see and feel in that world is very real.

“However, don’t worry. Those are all ideologies. As long as you find a button to turn off your senses in your status column, you won’t feel anything inside. You can also choose not to turn it off. This way, your experience will be very similar to reality.

“Don’t worry, even if you’re killed, you’ll at most return to the novice village.

“If you’re ready, click to enter the game.”

A button to enter the game appeared on the screen.

The button moved a few seconds later.

The scene changed and a village that looked like a utopia appeared.

There were mountains, rivers, flowers, and trees in the village, giving people a feeling that they were in that very place.

Wu Gang’s figure appeared on the screen.

All the technicians and upper echelons’ breathing quickened, and their hearts skipped a beat.

Chu Luo said, “Wu Gang, you can look around first. Just like in reality, use your consciousness to mobilize your body.”

Everyone saw Wu Gang tentatively sticking out one leg. Then, as if he had discovered a new land, he quickly ran. After running for a while, he ran into a peach blossom forest outside the village.

Many people couldn’t help but wonder: ‘Could his running so fast pose a problem?’

At that moment, a few monsters suddenly appeared in the beautiful peach blossom forest.

The moment the monsters saw Wu Gang, they chased after him.

Then came a thunderous strike.

“Ouch~~”

Looking at Wu Gang, who had lost most of his health bar, everyone: “Tsk…”

They actually felt Wu Gang’s pain.

Chu Luo was stunned for a moment before saying, “There’s a blood recovery medicine in your inventory. Also… such monsters can be killed easily.”

Wu Gang’s body seemed to freeze for a moment. Then, he pulled out his inventory and took out the health bar to drink. The health bar above his head instantly returned to 100%.

Then, everyone’s mood fluctuated with Wu Gang’s fight. Looking at the things that fell from the monsters that were killed, everyone was like a rookie who had just entered the game. They were so excited that they cheered from time to time. Some people couldn’t help but remind loudly, “Aiya, you missed a treasure.”

An hour later, Chu Luo said to Wu Gang, “Wu Gang, you can go to the village to look for the village chief to accept a mission… However, you can throw away all the rubbish in your inventory.”

Only then did everyone remember that the items dropped by monsters in the Novice Village were usually rubbish.