The vacation cabin is situated halfway up the snowy mountain.

A burly green-skinned orc in ski wear, lounging in a pinewood armchair with his legs crossed, holds a cup of Geisha coffee from western Ethiopia.

The good thing about the Home World game is that even someone living in a trailer park can enjoy the same luxury as a real-world billionaire just by investing time and effort to earn Game Coins.

To be precise, that’s ex-billionaires—the degree of realism in the game world is so high that all social classes are addicted, almost treating the game as reality,

coupled with the depletion of real-world resources and environmental pollution, the United Government is also intentionally or unintentionally encouraging everyone to go online to save societal operating costs...

Boom!

A thunderous sound interrupts the green-skinned orc’s thoughts as he instinctively stands up from his chair, looking toward the source of the noise.

It’s a snow-capped mountain; tens of thousands of tons of snow, nearly forming a mountain body, rushes down the steep slope, obliterating shrubs along the way.

"Such a large-scale avalanche..."

The blonde elf opposite also instinctively stands up, removes her Bluetooth headset, and murmurs with a clear voice, "Has a top-tier guild arrived?"

While a mini-game, Ski Safari is actually integrated into the multiplayer open-world extreme sports game Extreme Country,

where players can choose to compete with others or play extreme sports alone.

Without particular settings, the game defaults to dynamic difficulty; the stronger and more experienced the player, the higher the difficulty.

A beginner might manage to climb Chief Rock, while a Level 10 would face challenges akin to Ozaki Eight, and a Level 20 might tackle marathon-style running across the Sahara Desert.

The far-off, earth-shattering avalanche has a difficulty range between ice diving on Titan’s Titan or making a fast descent into the Eye of Jupiter.

In the worldviews of two passerby players, only a top guild could trigger such a commotion.

"The avalanche... stopped?"

The green-skinned orc takes out a telescope from his virtual backpack, observes from afar, and is shocked to see the avalanche suddenly freeze mid-air, as if paused.

Step.

Li Cheng halts abruptly, planting his feet firmly in the snow.

He now has a Spiritual Power Value of 1,100 points, spending half to Light Speed Elbow Strike over a thousand kilometers.

Such a long distance compressed into an extremely short time exceeded the map generation threshold, almost crashing the game.

Behind him, the normally cyclically generated terrain is in disarray.

Snowflakes, rocks, mountain bodies, and shrubs shake and tremble violently, sometimes overlapping, sometimes spreading far apart. These are signs of data collapse.

Shortly after, the avalanche falls silent, its speed dropping from near supersonic to zero, restoring calm.

Before Li Cheng, a golden coin appears out of thin air, which he steadily catches, holding it in his hand.

The front of the coin depicts a large artificial satellite hovering in near-Earth orbit,

while the back features meaningless horizontal and vertical lines like a manhole cover, with a "中" character in the center.

[Item Name: Home Fantasy]

[Type: Consumable]

[Quality: Epic]

[Special Effect: Wish-fulfillment coin. Transforms a virtual object into reality. Limited to use in the Home World]

[Note: As an entry ticket for the Super Grand Prix finals, a batch of golden coins is produced each year, themed after the previous champion]

[Note: The previous holder of this coin was a Huaguo Yu Province high school girl with Electromagnetic Manipulation abilities, known as the "Ace of Changpan Platform" and "The Unbeatable Electric Shock Princess," codenamed "Super Electromagnetic Cannon," with a penchant for launching manhole covers]

"Not bad."

Li Cheng’s eyelids twitch; this Super Grand Prix seems quite authentic, even crafting champion skins annually.

Since there’s Yu Meiqin, other provinces’ Ye Shenyue, Jiliang Jiyin, Vortex Minren, Ganwu Mei Xiaomai, and Kudo Shin-ichi should exist too...

"Hey, hey? Pifu, did you get the coin?"

From the bag on his back comes Wanli Sealed Blade’s shout.

The stomach acid inside the bag continually irritates his skin; though it doesn’t penetrate the dermis, it’s pretty itchy.

"Got it, now we need to figure out how to get out of here."

Li Cheng said casually; when they fled the venue, they blew up the Teleportation Gate device, effectively trapping them in a single-player game.

If they want to leave, it’s best to use the local world’s passerby players.

He turns his head to look far toward the snowy mountains, locking eyes remotely with the telescope-holding green-skinned orc.

"?!"

Under the eaves of the vacation cabin, the green-skinned orc’s heart skips a beat. Despite both being in human form, he instinctively senses that the other’s appearance is merely a skin,

and beneath the human form lies an indescribable terrifying essence.

Before he can react, Li Cheng adjusts his large bag, aiming above the vacation cabin, and performs another Light Speed Elbow Strike.

Boom!

The shockwave from spatial compression transforms into a loud roar, resonating across the vast snowy mountains, causing a chain reaction of snow sheet collapses.

"Hmm?"

Li Cheng raises an eyebrow; he’s only leaped forward two kilometers, far less efficient than when going downhill.

It must be a problem with the game map’s underlying code. Single-player mode players don’t like being disturbed; everyone’s in their separate zones, so despite appearing connected, the snowy mountains are on different layers.

If that’s the case...

Li Cheng opens the Three-dimensional Warehouse, browses the shelves, and finds a stack of comic storyboard drafts.

[Item Name: Collapse Storyboard Draft of the Cartoonist]

[Type: Consumable (limited to three uses)]

[Quality: Rare]

[Special Effect: Storyboard Rule. Transforms the surrounding environment into comics, allowing oneself to pass through numerous normally impassable obstacles like walls, doors, ice layers, etc.]

[Consumption: 80 points of Spiritual Power Value]

[Cooling Time: None]

[Note: A pen, a pack of cigarettes, one page of comics takes a day to draw]

After upgrading the Toy Factory’s Reforging Room and Design Room to Second Level, operational efficiency greatly improved. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

In line with the belief that even fly legs are meat, many low-quality concepts are utilized and reforged into items, like this [Collapse Storyboard Draft]

Comic storyboards are akin to movie shot languages; the history of comics features many Divine Level storyboards like Dragon Ball, Sub-human, Hunter,

and many comedic storyboards that amuse readers,

such as the famous Eye and Mouth storyboard in Sea Tiger and Martial God series (one frame is an eye, the next frame is a mouth, making it look like a one-eyed giant speaking without a nose),

Blade Teeth’s nine-panel storyboard (repeat-pasting a portrait nine times theoretically conveys deep thought, but actually resembles a photo booth).

[Collapse Storyboard Draft], although a cheap Rare Quality item, cannot be afforded by newcomers who need it—a few hundred Game Coins at least,

while those who can afford it don’t need it—it’s more convenient and effective to blow up walls or armored doors with explosives,

but when placed into the Eight Diagrams Demon Cannon...

Whoosh!

Li Cheng extracts one-third of the comic paper, tosses it into the Alchemy Furnace.

As the paper burns to ash, centered on the Magic Cannon, the surrounding snowy mountains’ colors rapidly fade; the brown of shrubs, green of moss, and blue of rocks, all transform into comic black, white, and gray.

Snow-capped mountains are rendered visible, divided into different comic panels, stretching thousands of meters.

Li Cheng holds up the Magic Cannon, fires a projectile at the vacation cabin, and the next second, a white rainbow pierces through the panels, connecting two comic grids.

Swoosh—

Li Cheng takes a step forward, instantly blinking to above the vacation cabin, landing steadily, and from behind, resting his hand on the shoulders of the escaping orc and elf,

"Gentlemen, please stay."