The Age of Global Simulation

[The Life Lamp's energy is sufficient. You may initiate one more simulation.]

[Please note, no matter how many years are experienced in each simulated life, only one day will pass in the main world.]

[The higher the score in your simulated life, the more abundant the rewards.]

[By breaking the limits of your simulated life, you can obtain all rewards: rare treasures, cultivation methods, even immortality.]

[Would you like to ignite the Life Lamp and illuminate your second simulated life?]

Liquor City.

Qingyun First High School.

On the Anchor Square.

Three thousand sixteen-year-old youths sat densely packed on the Simulation Platform.

The Simulation Platform rose just over a meter high, its pitch-black surface refracting a spectrum of colors, radiating mysterious ripples of time and space.

Students participating in the simulated life could use the platform to anchor their souls and ignite the Life Lamp, thus entering the world of simulation, to experience a brilliant, dazzling alternate existence.

Amid the noise.

Lin Qiye let out a long, heavy breath. His handsome, chiseled features appeared especially cold and steady, exuding an innate calm and sense of security.

Yet the faint tremor at the corner of his eye, and the way his right thumb pressed hard against his index finger's knuckle, betrayed the tension within.

Beside him.

Chen Fan, his classmate of four years, wore his anxiety plainly on his sweat-dappled face.

"Brother Ye, we've already failed once. We