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Ch1 - The Confused Demon King

Where am I?

What am I doing? 

With a dazed expression on his face, Shang Yinhe somehow found that he was standing on a green grassland, looking into a scene like a 2D hand-drawn animation.

The flowers are like being painted on the ground. The trees have no delicate branches and leaves. The mountain peak is a green arc. Even the sun in the sky is a perfunctory orange circle with two dots and a line. Making a smiling face.

Right in front of Shang Yinhe, a small road winds its way into the distance.

What’s even more strange is that he doesn’t know where the peculiar music sounds are coming from far away, all around him. 

Shang Yinhe was full of question marks: ???

He was clearly staying in his room, why did he suddenly come to this place?

Is it a dream?

He tried pinching himself.

No pain.

Is it true that I am dreaming?

His Intuition is beating faintly, as if to remind him of something.

Shang Yinhe tentatively touched the ground, it was smooth, so smooth that he didn’t seem to be in the real world. 

In this silence, a narration voice came from a long distance: “You are a demon.”

With this voice, Shang Yinhe was like being instantly re-dressed by one button, and replaced with a dark, tattered set of a beggar cloak outfit.

emmmmm…

Shang Yinhe looked at himself up and down, and couldn’t help feeling deeply puzzled: The devil wears this kind of thing, who is this lying to? 

Isn’t it so unprepared?

Ignoring Shang Yinhe’s small movements, the narrator was still talking slowly:

“The devil has a towering castle!”

“The devil has erected his banner, and monsters are about to swarm!” 

The voice of the narrator became agitated, showing a hundred thousand passion:

“Let the monsters be your subordinates and live in your castle!”

“Let the monsters pay rent and resist the brave!”

“Let the monsters be born and raised and become the strongest demon king army!” 

The narrator paused, and ended his introduction in the most arrogant voice:

“Tremble! Our goal is ——Conquer the world!”

Shang Yinhe waited in place for a long time, without waiting for the next words. He was sure that the voice had finished speaking.

However, this amount of information is too small, right? 

Shang Yinhe almost wanted to give himself a black question mark face.

What the hell happened to him?

What is this place?

Why is he here? 

What kind of devil and monsters is the narrator’s talking about?

And why does this world look so strange?

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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This is not a dream.

Shang Yinhe made sure that he was sober and thinking clearly.

He has had so-called lucid dreams, and he knows what it feels like to be lucid dreaming. 

This is not a lucid dream.

This is a real world with strange rules.

Although I don’t know why he is in this place, he still has to live well.

He decided to be more careful and explore the world, first to ensure that he could survive, and then to explore those “whys”. 

He touched the grass growing on the ground, and the little grass stood still.

He touched the towering trees, and the trees stood upright, ignoring him.

It seems that everything is fixed on the ground, no matter how you touch it, you can’t get feedback.

Shang Yinhe looked at the small road winding to the distance under his feet, and there was only one clue left to explore. 

He was determined to walk along the path and see what he could meet.

As he was walking, he suddenly stopped.

As if it was a scene switching, a house suddenly appeared in front of him.

To be precise, there was a dilapidated, patched house in front of him. A pitiful flag floated on the filthy tent with a word “Demon” written in Q version trembling weakly. 

And behind it are hills and woods as rough as children’s stick figures.

It looks very suspicious.

Shang Yinhe hesitated for a while, and decided to walk in and take a look.

He tentatively walked into the house. This dilapidated building currently has two floors, and there are four rooms on the first floor. He pushed in the doors one by one and found that the layout of the room was exactly the same: tattered wallpaper, tattered refrigerator, tattered sink, and tattered bed. 

There is no living thing in the room.

In this unmanned world, he is accompanied by only the sound of music that seems to be everywhere around him.

The strange thing is that no matter how he walks, there is no change in the volume of the music. It felt like the music came from him……..

Shang Yinhe considered himself a bold and careful person, and even the fact that he came to this space inexplicably didn’t make him too panicked. But this kind of unpopular atmosphere is really oozing. 

He decided to take a look on the second floor.

The second floor is more rudimentary than the first floor, with only one tent that is also tattered on the roof.

Shang Yinhe walked cautiously into the tent.

The voice of the narration suddenly popped out: 

“The devil has entered his towering castle, and the legendary story unfolds!”

Shang Yinhe’s face has (imaginary)black lines. 

According to the narration, he, who is dressed in a tattered beggar’s cloak, is a demon, and the tattered building complex in front of him is a “towering castle.”

——Wrong version, bad review!

Regardless of the nonsense narrator, Shang Yinhe found something unusual in the tent, a book and a shining ball.

He tentatively touched the light ball, and in an instant, a translucent system interface unfolded in front of him, with three options written on it: game achievement, game status, archive, and file reading. 

Shang Yinhe suddenly realized.

Oh!

This turned out to be a game!

It seems that this ubiquitous music is the BGM of the game. 

And the devil, recruiting monsters, resisting brave men, and conquering the world that Mr Narrator said at the beginning should be the way the game is played.

After finally figuring out that he was probably in a game world, Shang Yinhe’s uneasy heart was somewhat settled. He settled down and clicked the first button on the system interface to enter the game achievement interface.

The system interface changed instantly, and densely packed items were listed on the interface:

[The Demon King who climbed to the top: Complete the main mission- 40 points] 

[The Demon King with a broad mind: With 7 different monster tenants- 5 points]

[The Wealthy Demon King: Money reaches 1 million- 5 points]

[Many monsters under his hand: The total number of monsters staying in reaches 100- 5 points]

[The boring monster: Complete all side tasks-20 points] 

…… It seems that after you satisfy the achievement conditions, you can get points. But what is the use of points?

Shang Yinhe tried the next game situation options again, the system interface changed, and a line of bare text was displayed:

[Current Money: 1000]

The remaining interface was a large area of ​​blank space. 

Shang Yinhe then clicked the archive option, he succeeded in storing the current moment in the first position, and the system automatically identified it as “Archive 0”.

He walked a few steps aside and tried to read the files again. As if only in a trance, he returned to the position where he stood a few seconds ago.

This feeling was very strange, as if he didn’t exist at all for the first few seconds, and his consciousness staggered between two long periods of time. This sense of time and space inversion almost made his scalp numb and trembling.

Shang Yinhe stayed in place for a while and then recovered. 

Immediately afterwards, he tentatively opened the book in the tent, but the book was blank and there was nothing.

There is nothing else in the tent.

Shang Yinhe stopped rummaging around, and he began to sort out all the current clues: what is certain is that he is indeed in a game world. Currently, I don’t know who created this game world, why he was in this game world, or how to leave this game world.

Perhaps, just like “Truman's World“, the unknown creator of this world is in a distant place, watching his every move for fun. Thinking about it this way, it seemed that the music around him had become stern.

However, this kind of unfounded imagination does not help him in his current situation. There is only one life. Even if someone is peeping, it has nothing to do with him who cannot resist now. His first goal should be to live hard, not to explore the secrets behind it now.

It is useless to think more, Shang Yinhe decisively gave up thinking about the first two issues. 

His thoughts shifted around the last question “How to leave this game world” and then paused.

How to leave this game world?

In fact, he still has a little clue on this issue.

Most of the games can be completed, and the achievement system clearly mentions the “main task” and “side task”, and the completion of the main task is generally a sign of customs clearance. 

Since the game has main missions, can you guess that the moment the main missions are completed is when you leave the game world?

Shang Yinhe sorted out his thoughts and found that this speculation was indeed likely to become a reality.

So, the next goal is to try to complete the main task first.

But where are the main missions and side missions recorded? 

Shang Yinhe went around in the tent again, digging through every corner, but found nothing.

If it is not in the tent, will it be elsewhere?

He pondered for a while, decisively left the tent, and began to look for more clues in the entire building.

As he thought, the clues came to the door soon. 

When he walked out of the building, he saw a little chicken standing in front of a bulletin board not far away.

Yes, a little chicken.

A tender yellow, cute, chibi-figure chicken.

It looks extremely harmless. 

Shang Yinhe cautiously stepped forward and tentatively said hello: “Hello?”

The very cute little chicken waved his wings to him politely, and said, “Hello, Lord Demon King, I’m Iida, a chick who is looking for a place to live. Excuse me, can I live in your house?”

Shang Yinhe was quite speechless.

There are too many places to complain, I don't know where to start.

He didn’t know whether he should complain that the chick is so cute, or that the chick can talk, or that the harmless chick might be his subordinate to conquer the world, or he should complain about his self-proclaimed “Poyo Chick Iida”.

Or, in fact, it’s all strange, no matter what happens in the game world, he should just take it for granted?

Shang Yinhe nodded silently. 

Poyo Iida, the little chicken, looked very happy. It cheered: “There is a place to live!”

The voice of the narrator sounded at this moment:

“The devil has regained his first subordinate, let us start to conquer the world now!”

The background music also turned into a very earthy festive trumpet sound, which kept blowing. 

Shang Yinhe: “…”

He turned his head in disbelief and looked at the little chick next to him. It looked pitiful, weak, and helpless. Maybe its cuteness points were full.

——Your Demon King tis gonna take a harmless chibi chick to conquer the world?

-Funny, isn’t it?