Chapter 392: Chapter 48: Ascender, Sinful God?

Cheng Hua offered a perfunctory compliment and made small talk with Zane for a while.

Finally, the Guard escort vehicle stopped in front of the tallest building in the metropolitan area—a hundred-story skyscraper made entirely of glass curtain walls.

A receptionist was already waiting for him.

She was a young woman in professional attire.

They exchanged brief pleasantries before the receptionist led Cheng Hua inside the Giant Company.

They took the elevator.

At last, the elevator stopped on the thirty-seventh floor.

The moment the elevator doors opened, an HR specialist was already waiting for them.

For the procedures that followed, Cheng Hua felt like he was just going through the motions.

From signing his exclusive Ascender contract with Giant Technology to being escorted into the operating room for the Brain-Computer Interface installation.

In the end,

less than five hours later, as Cheng Hua stood before a mirror, staring at the painless, itch-free interface port at the back of his head,

he finally, numbly, accepted his new reality.

"Congratulations, Mr. Cheng Hua. You are now a corporate Ascender in the truest sense."

"Currently, your clearance is E Level."

"You will enjoy all the benefits granted by the corporation under this clearance."

"However, you must also participate in the Cosmic Game once per month."

"So, what’s next? Would you like to take a month off to rest, Mr. Cheng Hua? Or would you prefer to start the game right away?"

Cheng Hua’s exclusive assistant specialist said, her face plastered with a smile.

Cheng Hua frowned and turned to the elegant woman beside him.

"Aini, shouldn’t you be telling me the details about Ascenders and the content of the Cosmic Game first?"

In response to Cheng Hua’s question,

Aini maintained her professional smile. "Mr. Cheng Hua, you don’t need me to explain anything. Once you play the game for the first time, you will understand everything."

"Both the truth about Ascenders and the nature of the Cosmic Game."

"So, Mr. Cheng Hua, would you like to play the game now? Or would you rather enjoy this precious month off first?"

Cheng Hua stared directly at the woman before him.

He watched her professional smile, completely unfazed by his attitude, and finally, his own frustration subsided.

"In that case, let’s start the game."

The woman looked slightly surprised. She reminded him, "Are you sure you don’t want to rest for a month, Mr. Cheng Hua? After all, this is an Eco-City..."

"Arrange a nutrition pod for me. I assume you don’t want me to file a complaint, do you, Specialist?"

Cheng Hua didn’t want to waste any more words on her.

He could see the class-based discrimination in her eyes. It was a look he knew all too well—the way so-called city elites looked down on so-called country folk.

It was a tired trope, overdone in all the movies and shows back on Blue Star.

Seeing his resolve, the woman’s expression froze for a moment. Then, as if putting on a mask, her professional smile returned.

"I understand."

"In that case, Mr. Cheng Hua, please follow me to Zone C. There are vacant game nutrition pods available there."

"..."

Submerged in the viscous nutrient fluid, Cheng Hua took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

Just then, the specialist standing beside him slowly inserted the prepared connector into the port on the nape of his neck.

At last, the true nature of this world began to slowly unveil itself to Cheng Hua.

In the darkness, a mechanical voice sounded in his ears.

[Ascender ID Confirmed: 121953]

[Game Access Permit Confirmed. Connecting to the Cosmic World.]

[Rationality Save Calculation Initiated. Flesh Construct schematics in progress...]

[Peak Rationality Save Threshold Met. Congratulations! You are the 163rd Player to successfully obtain a Divine Tier Flesh Construct. You have acquired the ’Sinful God’ Divine Body.]

[...]

The mechanical voice continued its report,

but Cheng Hua had already fallen into a deep stupor and could no longer hear it.

But at that very moment, high in orbit above the corresponding Cangxing,

a mass of pitch-black flesh abruptly materialized out of Subspace and into the physical world.

Upon its appearance, the mass of flesh began to act like a siphoning Black Hole, endlessly drawing up vast quantities of the black and gray mist from the planet below.

The flesh began to pulse and swell rapidly, like a gigantic, throbbing heart.

Finally, a piercing alarm began to sound inside the Giant Technology Building.

At that same moment, countless managers shot up from their desks in shock and astonishment.

High in the orbit of Cangxing, a new ’Sinful God’ was born.

「At the same time.」

In another world, a storm inexplicably began to brew in the skies of Blue Star as winds howled and clouds gathered.

[Anomalous soul phenomena detected within the native ecosphere. Invasion by unknown principles detected. Activating anti-anchoring protocol.]

[Commencing Energy transfer. Significantly increasing the Spirit resistance of the native anchor individual.]

[Energy transfer in progress...]

[Anti-anchor interception complete. Due to powerful external interference, the lost ecological Spiritual coordinates cannot be detected at this time. Searching for a solution...]