142: Chapter 142: Starting in a penthouse apartment, downstairs a maid in white stockings, and the goddess CEO asking for a kiss.

The starting scene was fixed in a penthouse duplex apartment of over three hundred square meters.

Outside the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows was the bustling night view of heavy traffic.

The reflection of every streetlamp shimmered in the puddles left by the rain.

This level of lighting and shadow rendering directly exceeded the combined computing power of all graphics cards on Blue Star.

Lu Li stood by the window, holding Su Qingxue's hand.

A crisp notification sound rang out.

A gorgeously packaged beginner's gift pack landed at their feet.

Lu Li turned to face the camera, broadcasting to billions of viewers worldwide.

"perfect life, as the name implies, is a world that allows you to live out another possibility."

"This penthouse is a beginner's shelter gifted by the system to every player."

"Here, you have ten thousand ways of life."

He casually opened the gift pack.

A thick projection of banknotes and a sleek supercar key appeared.

"Initial capital of one hundred thousand game coins."

"Here, you can buy high-end custom clothing, drive limited-edition supercars from the underground garage, and taste top-tier Wagyu beef at Michelin three-star restaurants."

Lu Li snapped his fingers.

Space rippled like water.

The two were instantly seated inside a luxurious café named "Xingqi Ke".

He ordered a cup of coffee using game coins.

An NPC with an exquisitely beautiful face, dressed in a white-stockinged maid outfit, walked over carrying a tray.

She gently set down the coffee cup.

The porcelain made a crisp, realistic sound as it collided with the tabletop.

"Sir, this is your Blue Mountain coffee, please enjoy."

The maid blinked, her gaze quickly darting away when it met Lu Li's.

Her eyes were filled with vivid shyness.

A thin layer of blush even appeared on her fair cheeks.

There were no stiff clipping animations, no mechanically repeated, stereotypical voice lines.

Perfect physical collision volume, coupled with the ultimate AI algorithm personally endowed by Lu Li.

Made her look exactly like a living, breathing person.

Lu Li picked up the cup and took a sip, not even sparing the maid a second glance.

The mellow, bitter aroma of the coffee instantly filled his mouth.

"This is not a lifeless single-player game."

"Every NPC in this city is equipped with an independent emotional calculation matrix."

"You can pursue a newly debuted starlet girl group, discuss business with a cold, aloof female CEO, or even encounter a pure female college student on the street."

"They have their own life trajectories; they will get angry, act coquettishly, and get jealous."

"One city server accommodates ten thousand people."

"You can even have an encounter with other real players here, transcending the network cable."

As he finished speaking.

The main servers of all major live streaming platforms across the internet simultaneously issued alarms, unable to bear the load.

The chat comments completely fell into a state of crazy avalanche.

Countless corporate slaves struggling in reality, the working cattle rushing to deliver food every day, had their defenses completely collapse at this moment.

"Did I hear that right?! You get a downtown penthouse right at the start?!"

"Who the hell would still go to work?! I'll just put on my helmet and enter the game as soon as I get home; this is my real world!"

"That white-stockinged maid's gaze is amazing! She actually blushes and avoids eye contact! I've been single for thirty years; I'm going to marry her in the game!"

Sharp analytical posts quickly appeared on major forums.

"This is definitely an unprecedented business opportunity!"

"Game coins must be obtainable through completing tasks or working; if ordinary people go in to become gold-farming peasants and resell them to rich second-generation kids in reality..."

"Not only can you make money! It's also complete spiritual freedom!"

Reality is endless overtime, mortgage payments that empty your pockets, and the goddess you can never pursue.

But under the rules set by Lu Li.

As long as you put on the helmet.

Luxury cars, mansions, financial freedom, and even countless perfect partners are all within reach.

This is naked class equalization!

This is the ultimate dominion over the spiritual dimension!

While other tech giants were still frantically calculating how to develop applications on this new platform.

Lu Li directly overturned the table of the old world they relied on to survive.

He was going to take over the spiritual home of all mankind.

Lu Li set down the empty coffee cup, wrapped his arm around Su Qingxue's waist, and with a thought, a map opened.

The screen flickered again.

The two were instantly teleported by him to the edge of the roof of a skyscraper.

This was a virtual building modeled after the Ping An Financial Center in Mingzhu City.

Of course, it was also authorized by the other party; after all, Lu Li was still a member of the Provincial Committee of the CPPCC.

This building reached a terrifying height of 610 meters, 11 meters taller than in reality.

The high-altitude gale roared like a wild beast, frantically tugging at their clothes.

The freezing sensation of the temperature dropping suddenly enveloped their entire bodies.

Su Qingxue looked down.

The dense traffic became moving ants, and the city's neon lights turned into an abyss-like ocean of light.

That extreme, realistic physical feedback made her legs go weak.

She instinctively clung tightly to Lu Li's arm, her knuckles turning white from the force.

"Husband..."

Su Qingxue's voice carried a distinct tremor; the usually decisive and resolute female CEO was now left only with the panic of a little woman.

She gently tugged at the corner of Lu Li's clothes with her right hand, revealing a side of vulnerability not usually seen.

After all, everything was too real.

Even the imperceptible swaying of the building in the wind was 100% restored to the brain through the neural interface.

Lu Li looked at the camera.

"In the virtual world, there are countless extreme sports that ordinary people cannot experience in reality, or dare not experience."

"For example, right now."

He waved his right hand.

The phantom of the helicopter on the helipad dissipated.

Replacing it were two extremely professional parachute backpacks that automatically buckled onto their backs.

"Husband, you... you want to jump down?"

Su Qingxue looked up at Lu Li's perfect jawline, her beautiful eyes filled with shock.

"Don't be afraid."

"In this world, I am the only rule."

Lu Li backhanded her slender, supple waist, pulling her tightly against his chest.

Without even looking at the terrifying six-hundred-meter-deep void, he held Su Qingxue and leapt off the edge of the building.

"Ah——!"

The sensation of weightlessness struck suddenly.

The violent gale swept past their ears like knives.

The adrenaline from the rapid descent secreted explosively, and his heart felt like it was going to burst through his chest.

Su Qingxue screamed with her eyes closed.

But after the initial extreme fear, what she felt was Lu Li's solid and powerful embrace.

In the gale, she could even clearly hear Lu Li's steady and powerful heartbeat.

That absolute sense of security instantly swallowed all her fear of heights.

She opened her eyes.

Looking at the calm and composed face of the man in front of her.

It was this husband, whom she once thought was living off a woman, who was now not only holding the future of all mankind in his hands to play with.

But was also taking her on a free fall from six hundred meters in the air.

At this moment, Su Qingxue felt her eyes burning.

She completely cast aside all her reservations, wrapped her arms around Lu Li's neck, and actively kissed his lips against the gale.

In this world created by his own hands.

She was willing to be his most devout believer.

"Bang!"

The parachute suddenly bloomed at a height of two hundred meters from the ground.

The rapidly falling bodies were pulled up by the powerful drag.

Lu Li controlled the parachute cords with one hand, holding his wife, and glided leisurely over the neon-flashing cyber city.

Hundreds of millions of viewers across the internet watched this incredibly beautiful scene transmitted back from the main perspective.

The live stream room fell into a dead silence that lasted for half a minute.

Then it erupted into an earth-shattering frenzy.

"Damn it! This isn't a game public beta, this is clearly the century's greatest show-off and romantic blockbuster!"

"I want to go skydiving too! I want to go bungee jumping off a cliff!"

"I get it! Yacht parties, villa parties, those sports that only top billionaires can afford in reality are all free here!"

"??? The guy above, is this sport you're talking about decent?"

The wheels of the era, at this moment, completely crushed the old business order and rumbled towards a glorious new epoch.