DADH Chapter 9

After a familiar dizziness, everything around him froze into a semi-transparent world of data.

[Please register player information: ____]

Staring at the player registration box in front of him, Jing Nian didn’t hesitate to think about what the delayed activation interface meant after all these days. He was so excited that tears almost welled up in his eyes.

A single exhilarating thought occupied his mind: He could finally go home!

He decided that once he got out of here, he would never touch a holographic game again!

With this determined decision, Jing Nian took a deep breath. He looked down at the suspended little dragon cub by his feet. However, his resolution wavered once more.

The semi-transparent world of light and shadows he currently saw was frozen at the moment he activated his player card.

Right now, the little dragon cub was also frozen.

When the egg hit the bottom, due to the eggshell’s crisp sound, the little dragon cub subconsciously displayed a surprised expression and instinctively looked up at Jing Nian.

—It was an expression of trust and dependence on him.

Suddenly, Jing Nian remembered the adorable image of the little dragon cub crying and climbing into his arms for comfort.

He crouched down beside the silhouette of the little dragon cub, his watery light blue eyes revealing a trace of reluctance. He raised his hand and subconsciously wanted to touch the little dragon cub as a farewell gesture, but found that his fingers went through the virtual body of the cub, touching nothing.

Withdrawing his hand, Jing Nian smiled faintly, thinking that if his situation allowed it, he would come back to see the little dragon cub.

Then, he pressed the logout button, closed his eyes, and waited to go home.

However, the next second, he heard a piercing alert sound.

[Logout failed!]

Jing Nian’s expression changed, he opened his eyes and looked at the red alert window in disbelief.

He was stunned for two seconds, raised his hand again, and frantically clicked the logout button, only to get repeated logout failure reminders in his ears.

As a hardcore net addict, Jing Nian was well-versed in the workings of major holographic games. The login interface for this game was a small space of about one meter. Upon realizing the failed logout, he didn’t panic. He steadied his mind and looked around for the usually more discreet game help button and customer service window.

However, after searching around, Jing Nian gave up. Dejected, he sat down in the middle of the small cubic space, hugging his knees.

He had been on the verge of checking the corners of this cubic space earlier, but unfortunately, he found nothing there. Apart from the logout button, there was only a registration window flashing constantly before his eyes.

Jing Nian sat quietly in this small cubic space, staring blankly at the frozen game world outside.

He is not a fragile person, but after finally accepting the reality of transmigrating into another world, he got the hope of returning home. But the hope was broken again in the next second.

Under this kind of repeated torture, everyone will be hit.

Depressed for a while, Jing Nian raised his hands to pat his cheeks, murmuring to himself to boost his morale, “It’s already certain that you’re still in the game, not transported to another world. There must be a way to go home!”

At least the current situation was better than before, right?

After reigniting his hope, Jing Nian stood up again, exuding a renewed sense of vitality.

He pointed his finger at the registration window, pondered for a moment, and entered the two characters, [Jing Nian].

After all, if his guess was correct, he was likely trapped in the online game that his friend had given him an internal testing card for. From the looks of it now, after registration, he might not be able to leave either.

So now, all that can be hoped for is that the name [Jing Nian] can be recognized by someone he knows in reality. He doesn’t even know how his body is in the real world. It would be best if he could meet someone familiar who can convey a message to his family.

Jing Nian looked at the three characters in the registration field with melancholy.

A few seconds later.

[Ding—Player “Jin Nian” registration successful!]

[Ding—Special title “Dragon Speaker” activated.]

[Ding—Congratulations, player. Dragon Bloodline activated!]

After the successful registration, the player interface popped up, and Jing Nian widened his eyes.

The player interface lifted, and the golden letters spelling [Jin Nian] shone brilliantly. He didn’t even notice the other information displayed below.

Jing Nian confirmed beyond doubt that he had indeed typed in “Jing Nian”!

But why did his name become “Jin Nian”?

It’s absurd!

Jing Nian’s usually attractive eyebrows furrowed, and he lowered his gaze to find the button for changing his name. However, he realized that the two golden letters seemed to be imprinted on the player interface, making it impossible for him to modify them.

Sigh~

Forget it. Jing Nian remembered the few remaining pieces of information about the game in his mind. Firstly, his internal testing card was precisely that—an internal testing card. That meant even the closed beta testing for players hadn’t been launched, let alone the official release.

Hoping to meet someone he knew might still be a long way off.

Maybe a year, perhaps two.

In other words, if he was lucky and his body was still alive, he would probably need one or two years to have a chance of meeting someone he recognized from reality.

So in fact, the current name is not so important.

Moreover, the game was his most familiar domain. Once the game opened, he was confident he could capture the attention of the entire server!

After all, he was at least the first Interstellar Grand Slam champion of the holographic online game!

With this thought, Jing Nian’s confidence in going back home soared.

He displayed a relaxed smile and opened up his detailed player interface.

–

Player: [Jin Nian]

Title: [Dragon Speaker]

Special Title: [Dragon Bloodline Bearer]

Intelligence: ***

Abilities: Under Development…

Magic Initial: Under Development…

Skills Initial: Under Development…

…

Except for the first three lines, the rest of the interface is either invisible or marked as “under development.”

Seeing such a peculiar player interface for the first time, Jing Nian couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

But considering his current situation, this minor difference in the player interface didn’t seem all that strange.

Just as Jing Nian was wondering why there was no voice system, he finally heard a slightly cute electronic voice.

[Player “Jin Nian,” I’m your voice assistant, Xiao A. Do you need to rename yourself?]

Jing Nian raised his gaze: “No, thank you.”

[Then, would you like to activate the game?]

Jing Nian thought for a moment: “Can I log out of the game?”

The voice system paused for a moment and then slowly responded: [Logout malfunction detected.]

“Can I contact the game’s customer service then?”

When he asked this question, Jing Nian didn’t hold much hope.

Sure enough, after a while.

[Contact channel malfunction.]

“…”

Well, Jingnian took another look around. The world outside the egg was a battlefield scene with collapsing rocks flying everywhere.

Several giant dragons were ferociously flapping their wings as they maneuvered among the boulders. In the distance, two individuals who appeared to be mages were held in the palms of two dragons.

Recalling his earlier sensations inside the egg, Jing Nian guessed that those two mages were probably the egg thieves.

Mages and dragons—the game seemed to follow the typical Western fantasy settings.

After a quick assessment of the objective aspects of this game world, Jing Nian began to speak slowly.

“Activate, then…”

Having assumed a player identity, Jing Nian’s fear of being discovered by the dragons decreased slightly. Moreover, as he watched the dragons fighting to protect the dragon egg with a clear view, he still had some fear of the dragons, but alongside that fear, he felt a growing sense of familiarity.

After a familiar bout of dizziness.

When Jing Nian opened his eyes again, the translucent world reappeared. He saw the opaque, milky-white eggshell once more.

Realizing that the eggshell was significantly larger than before, he momentarily forgot about the dragon cub.

Suddenly, the eggshell made a “clatter” sound, and the next moment, fine cracks spread rapidly from the bottom of the eggshell, resembling a spiderweb. Before Jing Nian could even sense the inexplicable sensation on his body, he was engulfed in an instant by a blood-red liquid.

Jing Nian instinctively covered his mouth and nose, reaching out with one hand to grab the dragon cub. However, he not only grabbed nothing but also didn’t experience the expected sensation of water choking him.

The blood-red liquid, with a tinge of bloodiness, had already submerged his head, yet he realized that he wasn’t choked by the liquid. In fact, he could breathe freely as if nothing had happened.

As Jing Nian regained his senses and was about to search for the little dragon cub, he suddenly felt that something was off with his body. Due to a genetic defect, he had a relatively weak constitution and was quite skinny, especially his bone structure, which was on the delicate side for a boy.

But when he subconsciously covered his mouth and nose earlier, he sensed a soft squeezing sensation. His throat, arms, and even wrists seemed to have swollen up as if his entire body had puffed up!

Jing Nian quickly touched his own body and, when his palm came into contact with the soft flesh on his abdomen, he froze completely.

At that moment, he also sensed two unusual areas – his tailbone and his back seemed to have two extra parts that didn’t belong to his body?!

Jing Nian was stunned.

The familiar yet bizarre sensation left him somewhat bewildered. Before he could activate the voice system, a squeezing sensation arrived, and a familiar childish voice sounded in his mind – the voice of the little dragon cub.

After the little dragon cub let out a “ya” sound.

Jing Nian felt as if his soul suddenly became weightless.

The next moment, he found himself in a strange place, as if sitting in place and watching a 4D movie.

He could see, hear, smell, and even feel the blood rushing madly through his body, yet he had no control over his body.

The blood infusion was swift, and he saw the contrast between the size of the blood pool and the dragon egg within the player registration cube space. The blood pool was massive, about the size of a giant dragon on the outside.

But after roughly half a minute, the level of the blood pool lowered, revealing his head.

As his vision emerged from the surface of the blood pool, countless pairs of immense and terrifying eyes peered through the chaotic debris and boulders, fixing their gaze on him one after another.

Jing Nian was instantly frightened, like a quail caught off guard.

 

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