Ten Merit Points could only fetch this much information from the tavern owner, but it was enough.

In the past, Ren Suo's selection of games nearly always boiled down to "try first and see," since he couldn't judge the true content of a game from its name or description alone.

Take "Inverted World," for instance; what relationship does that name have with a martial arts game? There isn't even an "inverted world" in the game.

Now that there was the tavern owner, a character suspiciously resembling a gaming console 'navy', Ren Suo could consult him for free game selections in the future, directly picking the game with the best value for money.

Even without choices, if Ren Suo could reach the conclusion from the tavern owner's mouth that "you wouldn't suffer a loss or be duped by playing this game," he could rest easy.

Ren Suo was a firm believer in third-party evaluations; he always read game reviews before buying games and customer reviews before purchasing products.

Although the tavern owner might not count as a third party (he seemed too much like a 'navy'), his words were like the final straw that broke Ren Suo's last bit of hesitation. If Ren Suo found the game unenjoyable in the future, he could simply blame the tavern owner—it was all because this a**hole tricked me into wasting my life on a rubbish game!

The thought of having somebody to shift blame to at any time put Ren Suo at ease, and he decided to play "Night of the Hunt."

In less than a minute, "Night of the Hunt" had downloaded to the Mini-World Game Console, its icon depicting a pitch-black background, a high-suspended full moon, city lights, and deserted streets; while there was no fire or blood, an aura of murder lingered.

Upon entering the game, the icon suddenly filled the entire screen; the full moon carried a tinge of blood lust, city lights went out, silhouettes appeared in the streets, and eventually, the city was completely engulfed by the blood-colored moonlight, leaving only a lone figure bathing in the supreme Blood Light.

In the light of the Blood Moon, four options emerged silently:

"Waxing Moon," "Waning Moon," "Miracle Full Moon," "Waning New Moon."

Ren Suo glanced over them and discovered that "Waning New Moon" was to exit the game, while "Miracle Full Moon" led to a page similar to a library of information.

The "Miracle Full Moon" page was divided into two parts, with "Miracle" as the title of the upper half and "Cost" as the title of the lower half.

Whereas "Waxing Moon" was to start a new game, "Waning Moon" was for loading a saved game.

Ren Suo consulted the internet and found that in Moon Phase changes, the Full Moon represented seeing a complete moon, while the New Moon meant the moon was completely invisible; it made sense that one represented the information library and the other the game exit.

Selecting "Waxing Moon," the camera shifted from the Blood Moon to the city, where the darkened city rekindled with light, and twenty-eight streams of Moonlight, almost tangible, poured into the city.

Suddenly, the screen froze, and the camera fixated on an ordinary beam of Moonlight, within which seemed to be the silhouette of a woman.

"Do you want to use the default character? Or create a custom character?"

"Default characters come with character tags, social connections, credit wealth, and partners of the opposite sex."

"Custom characters have no character tags, no social connections, you can set credit wealth, and they come with no opposite-sex partners."

"Creating a custom character requires at least ten Merit Points."

Hmm?

Ren Suo narrowed his eyes. Default characters have everything: connections, money, and even companions. Custom characters don't have anything; they're all alone, super pitiful, plus you have to spend extra money to create one. I don't have any special requirements for character appearances; I don't mind even if they look as ugly as Patrick Star. If possible, I'll try to make my game character look a bit more pleasing to the eye, but if it's not possible or necessary, I can completely ignore the game character's appearance—I've played QQ for so many years and have never paid for a Red Diamond subscription; my QQ Show avatar is barer than Cloning. Therefore, no matter how you look at it, I should choose a default character. In similar choices, like in "Jedi Priest," I also directly used the random character Zhao Zili instead of creating one myself. If I didn't disdain Fatty back then, what's there to disdain now?

However, after brief contemplation, Ren Suo boldly chose to create a custom character!

It wasn't because he got carried away with the abundance of Merit Points, but when the tavern owner reminded him he could create a custom character, he immediately thought of "My Life is Not Your Game."

That was just over two months ago, and Ren Suo hadn't forgotten it yet!

In order to avoid becoming a Rebel again, Ren Suo would of course use every possible method—and creating a custom character would undoubtedly completely eradicate the chance of the game console playing dirty tricks.

"Wait." Ren Suo carefully looked at the silhouette in the Moonlight. "Is the default character a woman this time?"

In other words, the protagonist is a woman... then it should be fine if I don't create a character, right? After all, I'm not a woman; it's genetically impossible for me to be the protagonist. But... just because the protagonist is a woman, does that mean I'm definitely safe?

After much deliberation, Ren Suo decided to still create a custom character. I'd better spend some Merit Points to buy some peace of mind. Otherwise, I wouldn't dare be ruthless toward the game character.

When he reached the character creation interface, Ren Suo naturally chose a female game character this time. Although he tried hard, the number of male characters in his account was still increasing: Fairy Palace Assassin, Devouring the Spirit of the World, Magician, Ren Han, Zhao Zili, adventurer... and a new Black Coffin Demon King, again a male.

Then came setting the appearance. Ren Suo thought about it and decided to make a stunning Western beauty with sky-blue hair and dark-green eyes—Disaster Girl is an Eastern beauty, Collector is an Eastern kitchen girl; now it's definitely the turn of a Western beauty.

In no time, a girl appeared on the screen with hair like the sky-blue heavens, tied in a high ponytail, fair skin, determined eyes, and a figure that was sure to turn heads.

"The name... Let's use the name of the ancient Roman moon goddess, Luna." Ren Suo searched online and casually picked a name. It wasn't an online game anyway; even if I named her 'Your Dad,' it wouldn't psychologically impact the enemies.

Having set the appearance and name, it was time to set the credit and wealth.

It seemed that the game wasn't just about fighting; money seemed to play a significant role here—but it had to be the currency of this place. A custom character starts with 10 Wealth Points, and there was a note next to it, stating that about 10 Wealth Points could allow a person to live in this city for one day.

Ren Suo could directly convert Merit Points into Wealth Points at a rate of 1 Merit Point = 1 Wealth Point. However, there was a limit to this exchange, and Ren Suo could only exchange a maximum of 90 Wealth Points.

The crafty Ren Suo quickly discovered that one could perform the exchange of Wealth Points one by one.

Top Player's Privilege "Plucking Feathers from a Flying Goose," activate!

This Player's Privilege allowed Ren Suo to almost obtain everything in the game without spending a single Merit Point in this kind of frequent low-cost consumption, as its lowest effect was to reduce the necessary Merit Points by 1 during consumption.

And when Ren Suo was exchanging for the 47th Wealth Point, he suddenly triggered the 'Swindler' effect!

'Swindler': The next consumption will definitely not require any Merit Points to be spent; this effect has a 1% chance of triggering (After triggering, the number of Merit Points saved by the Swindler effect determines how many days the effect will be on cooldown).

Finally triggered this special effect while playing the game!

Ren Suo had almost forgotten about this special effect; the last time he triggered it, it happened in "Midnight Walker" which was reflected in reality, when he turned into a beautiful kitchen girl.

Now that I can finally trigger the Swindler effect at home, I must seize the chance to freeload a game!

Just as Ren Suo eagerly opened the "World Store," he was suddenly dumbfounded.

I forgot, the "search" function... also costs 10 Merit Points.

In the "World Store," unless it's a holiday promotion, there are no games available for purchase. Ren Suo had to spend money to search for games first, and then spend money to buy them...

However, spending money would mean losing the 'Swindler' effect.

After facing off with the screen for five minutes, staring so intently his eyes almost crossed, Ren Suo dejectedly returned to the "Night of the Hunt" game and directly used the 'Swindler' effect to buy the remaining Wealth Points, his face etched with the vicissitudes of life and desolation.

"The great freeload plan is a big flop..." Ren Suo sighed. Unless I trigger the 'Swindler' effect and don't spend anything, waiting for a holiday sale, I have no chance of using the 'Swindler' effect to buy games. This is like finally winning a 'clear your shopping cart' jackpot, but it's restricted to either specified items or items totaling less than 10 yuan...

Ren Suo turned his head to look at the Cloning passing by, sighed, and said, "Well, you just don't get it, do you?"

The apron-clad Cloning glanced at him and energetically began wiping the balcony windows with a rag.

After topping up for Luna, Ren Suo found that he hadn't finished setting up his custom character yet; he could give Luna a... boyfriend!

"Opposite-Sex Companion: You can expend 100 hours of 'Rippling Spring Sounds' summoning time to let a game character accompany the Messenger of the Moon in the Night of the Hunt."

Ren Suo rubbed his eyes. He hadn't misread; it indeed said 100 hours of summoning time.

If I had 100 hours of summoning time, I could just rely on game characters to blast through this game! And I could vary it up too — use Ren Han on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the Devouring the Spirit of the World on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and let the Black Coffin Demon King out for some fresh air on Sundays! But, 100 hours of summoning time... Does that mean the real-time duration of this game (not game time) exceeds five days?

Ren Suo gave it some thought and then dismissed this detail. I'll know once I play.

After creating the custom character, Ren Suo watched as what was supposed to be Moonlight flying towards the house suddenly plummeted vertically to the ground, fell into a gloomy alley, silently transformed into a human shape, and gradually weaved into Luna's beautiful figure.

"Welcome to The Dark Side of the Moon."

An androgynous voice, as gentle as a breeze, suddenly sounded, "This is the dream of the world, the dream of all beings, your dream."

"Silver Moon is the only Truth, please pray to the Silver Moon."

"Miracles are happening all the time, long for the Silver Moon."

"Everything will be as you wish and think, ask of the Silver Moon."

"Twenty-eight Apostles of the Moon God, please collect the Silver Moon Crystals, become the sole master of Miracles, the sole singer of Moonlight."

"When an Apostle has enough Silver Moon Crystals to please the Moon God, then that Apostle will become... the new Moon God!"

The main quest popped up in the upper left corner of the screen:

"Collect Silver Moon Crystals"

At this moment, Luna had completely descended into this Sleepless City. She made her appearance donned in fluffy cotton clothing, deer leather boots, full-finger gloves on her hands, white earmuffs over her ears, and her face rosy from the cold.

Ren Suo quickly got the hang of the controls. Just then, a beam of light from the Silver Moon shot down, casting upon the city. The projection was not far from Luna; with a slight tilt of the camera, Ren Suo could see that thick column of light!

The map also marked out the path, stating that the quest item, 'Silver Moon Crystal,' was right inside that beam of light!

Ren Suo immediately controlled Luna to run towards it. As Luna dashed out into the street, Ren Suo noticed quite a few people around, dressed in wildly varied garments—some dressed like people from the future with nano-clothing, others like medieval mercenaries—but no one turned to look at the light column.

In that instant, the Moon Phase in the night sky changed — from Full Moon to Third Quarter Moon, as though a little piece of the moon had suddenly been bitten off by a dog.

The lost Moonlight seemed to fall to the earth, from the incorporeal to the corporeal, and in front of Luna, it twisted and flickered into two lines of text that finally settled:

"Your Miracle can replicate others' cast Miracles."

"But your price is to repeat others' words."

According to the control guide in the bottom right corner of the screen, Ren Suo could press the 'R1' button to activate a Miracle.

Ren Suo blinked, not yet understanding what this ability meant, but by then, Luna was already near the light column.

The light column seemed to fall on the rooftop of a five-story building. Ren Suo glanced up, immediately equipped Luna with "Ghostly Rapid Step," "Mysterious Sovereign's Secret Record - Mortal Shedding," and "Mage's Death-Defying Feather," allowing her to effortlessly leap over the building to reach the rooftop.

However, besides Luna, there were four people standing on the rooftop, two men and two women. At the center of the rooftop was a crystal suspended in air, shimmering like a teardrop, the size of a fist.

This crystal emitted a silver-white halo of about a 5-meter radius, and standing within this halo, Luna gained a Status:

"Affected by the Silver Moon Crystal, all Supernatural Ability power increased by 5%."

Luna's arrival seemed to break the standoff, and the four people immediately made their move, attacking one another!

A young man suddenly shouted, "Miracle Nullification Field!"

Ren Suo instinctively pressed the 'R1' button, activating his newly acquired Miracle ability, and Luna immediately echoed with a shout, "Miracle Nullification Field!"

At the same time, another Black woman loudly declared, "Rebounding Miracle Shield!"

After the three of them shouted out, all five froze.

Among the five, three were Apostles of the Moon God, and the three Apostles' Miracle abilities were respectively: nullify others' Miracles, replicate others' Miracles, and rebound others' Miracles...

Ren Suo silently switched Luna's ability to "Flame Overlord." Clearly, this is a situation that could be solved with murder and arson; why complicate it?

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