Chapter 2: Real Frost North Snow (1)
Lin Nan thought she was just passively participating in the game’s opening scene. Before the invention of VR, many games used cinematic segments to set the stage. And this game, “The Way of Inquiry,” thrust her into the role of a stunning beauty—what a bold design! It was bound to drive countless otaku crazy with excitement.
Just as she was waiting for the intro to finish, she tentatively wiggled her fingers. To her shock, she found she could perfectly control this curvy woman’s body!
Holy moly! This… this is too unbelievable!
Aren’t they worried about getting censored?
She was ready to shout praises to the game developers!
But the very next second, she suddenly realized she was floating in mid-air, with endless torrents of rushing water beneath her.
Panic gripped her; her body began to tremble uncontrollably.
It was like crossing a rickety bridge over a river full of man-eating crocodiles at night—ignorance is bliss, right? But once you know the river is home to chomping monsters, your calm vanishes, replaced by sheer terror.
Lin Nan had no idea why she was floating in the air. In a chaotic flail of arms and legs, she felt like a stone dropping straight down.
Accompanied by her instinctive, ear-piercing scream, a figure suddenly shot up from below and grabbed her tightly.
“Don’t be scared, Sis, I’ve got you!”
Lin Nan instinctively clutched his muscular arm, heart racing like a drum. Sweat and smeared bl**d dripped down her face.
At that very moment, Silly Shiyuan managed to catch her, while Evil Shiyuan and Good Shiyuan stood in front of them, glaring at the Broad-eyed Heavenly King.
Broad-eyed waved his umbrella, a mocking tone emerging from the depths of his voice.
“Do you remember who you are?”
Lin Nan looked up, confused. There stood a young man in light golden armor, holding a treasure umbrella.
Wait, he’s asking me who I am?
Who else could I be?
I’m Lin Nan! Just some gaming aficionado who recently graduated and started working!
She opened her mouth to answer, but everything happening around her rendered her mute.
Right! As long as she could find the game interface, she would prove all of this was fake, just a flashy intro made by the game company to attract players.
Game interface?
Gone?
Wait, that’s not right!
She clearly remembered lying down in the game pod and hitting the start button. But just as her consciousness slipped into a haze, she opened her eyes to find herself high above the ground, witnessing a chaotic melee below.
Where was the game interface?
Or maybe, at that moment of sleep, she had inexplicably crossed over into this world, and worse, become a woman!
The Broad-eyed Heavenly King looked at her coldly.
Lin Nan’s dazed expression and her sudden plunge from the sky clearly demonstrated that all her memories had been wiped clean, along with any associated skills and magical powers—gone in an instant.
Now, she was like a blank slate, with d*ath as the only path ahead.
Just moments ago, Black Snow had lost all traces of magic, and the enormous umbrella began to move again.
The Broad-eyed Heavenly King hardly needed to do anything; he could just watch as that steel fortress crumbled into a pile of wreckage under the umbrella’s pressure.
Meanwhile, the battling Celestial Soldiers and the Three Races warriors, after leaving behind a heap of corpses, temporarily parted ways.
“The Majesty has lost?”
“No way! That’s impossible!”
“Our Majesty is our last hope; if she falls, then we…”
The voices of the Mage legion and the Harpist legion faltered, suddenly aware that the previously abundant targets for their buffs had vanished in the blink of an eye.
In other words, the Empress seems to have lost all her powers.
How… how could this happen?
Their fears became reality.
Terrified, the people looked up and saw the powerful Empress, who had once held her own against deities with the Black Wind Sword, now lying limply in the arms of a stone guard like a broken doll.
It seemed she had truly lost the strength to fight back against the divine!
The enormous umbrella continued its relentless descent on the steel fortress.
Though the ice cap had been utterly destroyed, thankfully the surrounding ice walls were thick enough to keep the roiling waters at bay. Otherwise, the citizens of the Great Dao Empire would have been washed away in an instant by the flood.
Creak crack!
The fortress began to disintegrate from above.
The steel walls crumbled like they were bitten by giant shark teeth, breaking into countless shards in the air.
Driven by the instinct to survive, people scurried down from the upper levels.
During this chaotic escape, some tried desperately to slow the umbrella’s descent.
But even with their best effort, they couldn’t replicate the Empress’s earlier power. Even if they managed to momentarily hinder it, there was no stopping the umbrella.
Despair washed over them.
It felt like the only instinctual choice was to keep fleeing down the Sky Tower, as if that was their only hope of survival.
Those who had been hiding underground were now on their knees, fervently praying for the Empress to return to her former glory.
This was their only hope.
“O Goddess of Destiny above, O Goddess of Destiny above! We beg you to see our yearning and prayers!”
“Our Queen will surely vanquish monsters and protect the citizens!”
“Cold Moon Great King, you are our savior! The guiding light of all monsters! Without you, there would be no monster race! Heaven wouldn’t abandon us; as long as you’re here, disaster shall be avoided!”
The three races prayed in their own ways.
Even the players joined the bandwagon of prayers.
“Frost North Snow, Monster Queen, Cold Moon Great King, Princess Witch, Glorious Empress! Please let us survive this calamity!”
Indeed, in the face of the enemies’ overwhelming advantage, all resistance was utterly futile.
The Broad-eyed Heavenly King seemed to bask in the moment, temporarily overlooking Lin Nan, who was still in shock and trembling with fear.
Yes, even though she had lost her memory, he wanted her to witness the gradual destruction of those she’d once protected, piecing by bloody piece.
What a delightful scene to behold!
Without memories, even a godlike powerhouse was just a mere shell—completely insignificant.
Creak crack!
The steel fortress had already broken apart by nearly half under the rotating umbrella’s pressure.
Those who didn’t escape in time became nothing more than a splatter of flesh.
“Ah, tasty.”
The Broad-eyed Heavenly King half-closed his eyes, savoring the moment.
But just then, a distant, earth-shattering roar reached his ears.
This was beyond the Broad-eyed Heavenly King’s control. He looked towards the source of the sound, momentarily stunned.
