No One Told Me That This Isn’t a Game - Chapter 1.2: My Start Are Quite Different From The Rest

Zuo Chang was taken aback, suddenly smelling the scent of dust. In the next instant, intense sunlight and a surging crowd came rushing at him. He realized he was standing in the center of a bustling street!

“Welcome to 96511!”

“Dear immigrant! If you need help, please come inside the shop! Whether it’s renting a house or finding a job, we can provide anything that would be of use to you!”

The language that he was hearing from the other party was Mandarin.

From the look of it, even the people in the game world speak Mandarin.

Zuo Chang closed his eyes, his breathing trembling.

His mind was dizzy, a mix of emotions flooding his heart.

“Sir! Do you need to rent a place? Shared rooms, partitioned spaces, or single apartments, we can introduce them all to you.”

“Hiring laborers! Two hundred a day, daily wages, meals included!”

People kept brushing against Zuo Chang’s shoulder and moving forward, like a river flowing irreversibly.

The brokers were enthusiastically hawking their services, trying to squeeze benefits from the newcomers who had just arrived in “96511.”

Amid this vexing environment, Zuo Chang opened his eyes and his gaze was surprisingly calm.

Well, since I’m already here…

According to his experience that he had gained from years of playing games, he should now be in the position of a “new immigrant” arriving in the community 96511—a five-digit community, still in the nine-thousands.

The place where he started is that of the weaker one.

The fewer digits in a community number, the stronger its power.

The combat prowess of a single-digit community is extremely exaggerated. Even a newborn baby from that community has at least a cultivation level of Five Realms. And the community resources are various, abundant, and excellent.

Citizens of a five-digit community can’t earn the recognition of the Celestial God. No matter how talented they are, they can only reach the “Seventh Realm” at most.

Only when a community reaches the three-digit level can one break through the limitations and achieve the full cultivation of the “Fifteenth Realm.”

In “Becoming Zero,” class differences are plainly visible. Citizens of lower-level communities can’t ascend to godhood.

If the five-digit communities are so undesirable, why would anyone immigrate here?

Going directly to a single-digit community means that children are born as experts with Five Realms’ cultivation, and there’s hope to become a top-tier individual. Isn’t that good?

Indeed, it’s good.

However, the single-digit lords won’t accept that—bothering to see what this place is like, begging at my doorstep, huh?

Most people can only choose “parallel immigration,” selecting a same-level community with potential and waiting for it to level up to become a lord.

Every time Zuo Chang tries to increase his population by absorbing immigrants from “lower-level communities,” his subjects inevitably erupt in large-scale protests.

Of course.

Zuo Chang couldn’t care less about protests.

Population is the most important resource, and who cares about the feelings of the masses in a game?

Becoming stronger comes first.

After forcibly implementing the immigration decree, the population skyrockets, but the stability of the community plummets, national discontent increases dramatically, and he must prepare his followers to suppress riots, or else there’s a risk of being overthrown.

Under Zuo Chang’s command is a captivating, enchanting female follower with curves in all the right places, her beauty unparalleled. Her name is “Xue Qiangwei.”

Her stats aren’t strong enough to make it into the main lineup.

However, her talents are quite interesting, something Zuo Chang values greatly and likes the most among his followers, and due to that, her favorability rating is already maxed out:

“Gestapo”: Xue Qiangwei excels at fabricating evidence and manufacturing false accusations, able to frame anyone as a reactionary. Once this skill is activated successfully, you can choose to use the skill “Public Execution.”

“Public Execution”: Xue Qiangwei publicly tortures and kills the target, instilling fear in all citizens. This skill has a chance to fail (depending on the situation, the failure rate fluctuates between 0% to 50%).

“Public Execution (Success)”: The stability of your community rises, the obedience of ministers increases, and citizen dissatisfaction decreases. You receive a “Tyrant” marker.

“Public Execution (Failure)”: You will face impeachment.